W. W. Croxton Vic Tim of Septicaemia
W. W. Croxton, longtime A B A official and Passenger Traffic Manager, died in Birmingham, Alabama on January 16, 1925 from blood poisoning after a December 28 automobile accident. Born August 25, 1880 in Belmont Virginia, he served in railroad passenger operations across several lines, including the Southern, Norfolk Southern, and A B A, holding top passenger roles and later becoming General Sales Manager for the Guernsey Coal Company in Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner Winston Croxton
A. B. & A. Railway
Birmingham
Ala
Mr. Croxton
South
Bon
Belmont
Virginia
Southern Ry
Norfolk Southern Ry
Atlanta
Croxton
A, Georgia RR
Gernsey Coal Company
Fort Valley Women Start Voters League Officers Named
Fort Valley January 24 a League of Women Voters was organized with Judge A C Riley and Rev D A Howard giving addresses. Mrs Almon A Williams was elected president with William Wright as first vice president Mrs F W Withoft as second vice president Mrs Frank Vance as secretary and Mrs A M Solomon as treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Valley
League of Women Voters
Ft. Valley
A. C. Riley
D. A. Howard
W Withoft
Almon A. Williams
William Wright
F. W. Withoft
Frank Vance
A M. Solomon
Grand Theatre Reynolds Weekly Program
Reynolds Georgia Grand Theatre lists Friday January 30 showing The Law of the Lawless with Dorothy Dalton Theodore Kosloff and Tully Marshall plus added comedy Inead the Sailor. Saturday January 31 features The White Flower with Betty Compson and cast filmed in Hawaii and No 3 Ten Scars Make a Man. Coming February 6-7 The Sea Hawk with Milton Sills Enid Bennett.
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Dorothy Dalton
Theodore Kosloff
Tully Marshall
Charles DeRoache
Mack Sennett
Inead the Sailor
Betty Compson
Rawaii
Isle of Romance
Miss Compson
Sea Hawk
Milton Sills
Enid Bennett
Flood Claims Toll of Swamp's Wild Floods
Ludowici Georgia January 27 amusement. A battered Long County flood scene shows wildlife struggling for existence as the Altamaha spreads. Snakes, cattle, lambs, hogs float amid debris while a log with six rabbits paddles downstream. A rogue tide vessel bears a ragged Moss tail and Molly Cot tontail watches the foam.
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Ludowici
Long County
Altamaha
Engineer Doolitle Dismissed After Train Collision Near Columbus
Engineer H F Doolitle, blamed for a head on crash near Columbus, was dismissed from Central of Georgia Railway. Superintendent Baldwin announced the firing on Friday, citing failure to apply the air brakes on an incline toward the passenger train as the reason.
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Columbus
H. F. Doolitle
Thorsdey
Central of Georgia Railway T
Baldwin
Paal
Georgia Vocational Education Funds Distributed
State Treasurer W. J. Speer as custodian of the federal vocational education fund allocated to Georgia is distributing 88,880.48 dollars to Georgia schools where vocational education is conducted, on a requisition by Fort E. Land, director of the program in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
W. J. Speer
Georgia
Fort E. Land
Try Out Peach Packing Device Demonstrated in Fort Valley
A device claimed to replace skilled peach packers with unskilled laborers is shown in Fort Valley using apples instead of peaches. Proponents say the device will cut peach packing costs by about fifty percent, highlighting labor displacement implications for packing houses.
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Fort Valley
Negro and bank teller arrested in Macon case
Macon January 24 Willia Braswell a negro proprietor of a motion picture show is under arrest on a felony warrant in the alleged embezzlement of twelve thousand eight hundred sixty four dollars from Citizens and Southern Bank by teller Henri W Dorset Dorset who was arrested Saturday had been unable to make bond County officers allege Dorset financed a new motion picture house at Macon for negroes with bank funds taking a retainer title on the property and arranging to share fifty fifty with the proprietor in the profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Willia Braswell
Citizens & Southern Bank
Henri W. Dorset
Dorset
Georgia editors plan April meet and New York trip
Georgia Press association executives met in Atlanta to finalize plans for the mid winter meeting in Savannah on April 25 followed by a steamship voyage to New York. The 1925 convention city is West Point with events in Savannah and a City of Chattanooga sailing to New York, including numerous luncheons dinners and theater parties for about 200 members and guests.
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Savannah
New York
The
Georgia Press Association
H. M. Stanley
Atlanta
West Point
Chattanooga
Waldorf-Astoria
C. D. Rountree
Wrightsville
Associated Railways of America
New York Times
Orange Blossom Train Arrives in Macon on Florida Trip
The Orange Blossom special train bound for Florida arrived in Macon at noon Saturday in two sections. The party, greeted by railway officials, spent a brief stop in Macon before continuing over the Georgia Southern and Florida railway to Hampton, Florida, with later routing over the Seaboard Air Line road.
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Florida
Macon
Georgia, Southern and Florida Railway
Hampton
Fla
Seaboard Air Line Road
Peach Credit Bank Begins Operations in Macon
Macon January 22 The Middle Georgia Agricultural Credit Corporation formed to aid Georgia peach growers began operations in Macon last Thursday J L Benton former president of the Georgia Peach Growers Exchange will be temporarily in charge The bank will accept loan applications immediately but will not start functioning until its charter arrives January 30 It is capitalized at 50000 dollars
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Macon
Middle Georgia Agricultural Credit Corporation
Georgia
L. Benton
Georgia Peach Growers’ Exchange
W H Wright Passes Away At Macon Home
William H Wright dies at 74 in Macon after a long illness. Born in Butler he built mercantile and wholesale ventures in Butler and Jacksonville. Survived by widow Mamma Transier Wright and five children J B Wright M B Wright Walter Wright George Wright Evelyn Wright plus sisters and many friends. Burial in Butler following Methodist and Masonic funeral services.
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Mr. Wright
Butler
Macon
Jackonville
Fla
Wright
Mammie Transier
Messrs
J. B
M.B. Walter
George Wright
Evelyn Wright
Methodist Church
Butle
City
O. F. Cook
Vineville Methodist Church
J. D. McCord
Butler Methodist Church
Fickling Lodge
Thomasville Widow Awarded $26 500 Lustania Damages
Mrs. F A Strobel of Thomasville was awarded 26500 in damages by the fixed claims commission in Washington for the death of her husband T J Silva aboard the Lusitania when torpedoed May 7 1915. The award included 7500 for her son Thomas J Silva Jr 9000 for Bettina Silva and 10000 for Mrs Strobel as guardian. Interest at 5 percent began November 21 1923.
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Thomasville Ga
Fixed Claims Commission
Washington
F. A. Strobel
Thomasville
T. J. Silva
Bettina Silva
Two Hurt In Wreck On Americus Line
Columbus January 22 two persons were injured one painfully when a southbound express freight and a northbound passenger train on the Americus line of the Central of Georgia railway met in a head on collision at Ochille a stop station 12 miles from Columbus Thursday morning.
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Columbus
Americus
Central of Georgia Railway
Ochille
Giant hatchery expansion announced by A E Guinn
The Herald reports Peach Valley Egg Farm proprietor A E Guinn ordered a Buckeye Incubator with 4608 egg capacity to arrive by March 1. The upgrade will double hatchery output, complementing the current two year proven incubator. Guinn specializes in Single Comb White Leghorn chicks and can hatch other stock on liberal terms.
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Herald
A. E. Guinn
Peach Valley
Guinn
Prohibition League Forming in Georgia Over Jones Bloodworth Case
Columbus Jan 26 The Georgia Prohibition Observance League is being organized as a direct result of the Jones Bloodworth murder case and the slaying of Mrs Robert Stewart in North Georgia. Dr Fred M Jenkins of Columbus leads the movement and expects nationwide scope with support from 150 prominent Georgia laymen. Pastors are to lead. the aim is a bone dry Georgia with prohibition law observance meetings in every city and town. Reward offered for returning a Ford tire and rim found between Butler and McCants mill.
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Columbus
Georgia Prohibition Observance League
Jones-Bloodworth
North
Georgia
Robert Stewart
Fred M. Jenkins
Jenkins
Death of E. P. Van Devender in Macon Hospital
Mr. E. P. Van Devender aged 47, a Manchester native long resident of Cordele and Manchester, died at Ogtethorpe Private Infirmary after four months illness. He moved to Manchester three years ago to clerk for the Atlanta Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad and was a Baptist. He leaves wife, two daughters J E Busbee of Birmingham and H D Williams of Macon, a brother Jake Van Devender, and three sisters. Funeral held at Burghard’s Chapel with Rev. Osgood F. Cook officiating, interment Riverside Cemetery.
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E.P. van Devender
Jas. A. Steed
Aliie Steed
Walter 5. Steed
Macon Telegraph
van Devender
E. P. van Devender
Manchester
Ogtethorpe
Mr. van Devender
Mississippi
Georgia
Cordele
Manjheter
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railroad
The
Baptist Church
J. E. Busbee
Birmingham
Ala
H. D. Williams
Macon
Jake van Devender
Jackson
Misa
T J. Forbes
Meridian
Miss
G. E. Sciple
Mobile
C. E. Pierce
Atlanta
Burghard’s Chapel
Osgood F. Cook
Vineville M. E. Church
Riverside Cemetery
Butler Methodist to Hold First Quarterly Conference
The first quarterly conference for Butler Methodist Church will meet tomorrow evening at 6 30 led by Rev J P Dell presiding elder of the Columbus district This is his first Butler visit and locals plan a cordial welcome All church departments should attend to set this year’s work The preacher will also speak next Sunday night inviting all to hear him
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Butler Methodist Church
J. P. Dell
Columbus
Dell
Butler
Methodist Church
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W. W. Croxton
Birming
Voters’ League
Grand Theatre
Reynolds
Brek Rabbbi
Molly
Roundtree
Stanley
Ernest Camp
Pesident
Monroe
Emily Woodward
Vienna
C. E B. Benns
W. T. Shytle
Adel
Trox Bankston
Covington
Peach Credit Bank
Me. W.H. Wright
William H. Wright
Arlington Place
Americus Line
Prohibition League For
State Springs
Jones-Bloodworth Case
Ford Tire
Rim
Mc.Cants’ Mill
Herald Office
Mr. EP. van Devender
Mr. Caméron
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