Georgia Week in review reveals deaths and highway progress
Prominent Cornell woman Mrs Joe C Fenn died Sunday. Hallum H Pearson 63 farmer of Crisp County was killed by lightning. State highway contracts worth 1 099 830 announced for eight projects to start July 16. George Ellis in Rome transferred to Gordon. Judge Gardner returns from hospital. Augusta editor Thomas J Hamilton ill then better. Ha]] Hentz named Emory Alumni president. Police say T C Morris Sr killed his son in law and wounded three others. Welfare aid for delinquent rural children to start July 1. Moultrie post office to become first class July 1. J D Stokes 12 drown near Jasper. Roberta voters to decide beer sale July 9. Bud Gilder 16 convict dies after amputations. Georgia unemployment aid numbers given. Savan ah railway plans track relaying in Sylvania. Georgia ion employment 4652 May jobs. Herty speaks at Douglas forestry meeting. Toombs grading road Lyons to Savannah done. Sumter county fair may ban gambling. Charles Weeks Jr injured diving at Americus pool. Georgia death rate rises to 12.2 per 1000 in 1986. Four lane highway bids for Atlanta Marietta region. Roy Hendrickson named to US Military Academy West Point. Lamar Dodd appointed to University of the Arts faculty. 44 000 volt line Haw kinsville Eastman under construction. Blue Book notes Southern progress and Georgia papermaking. Shootings in Augusta and Columbus. Ohio women detained in Atlanta. 10 000+ highway patrol applicants. Gormley tax ruling 1929. State and national education leaders attend Detroit meeting. Georgia officials plan rapid legislature session with Hollywood trip discussions. Gas pipe unearthed in Columbus from 1852.
Fowler Charged in Milledgeville Accident Death
Milledgeville Ga June 26 George Fowler prominent resident was arrested on a murder charge in the death of Miss Iris Atchinson beauty operator killed in an automobile crash near Macon about ten days ago. The warrant by Mrs J S Atchinson mother of the deceased and issued by Justice B C Ward set bond at 1000 signed by friends and relatives.
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Milledgeville, Ga
George Fowler
Milledgeville
Iris Atchinson
Macon
J. S. Atchinson
Justice of Peace
B. C. Ward
Friends Land
Court Upholds Bus and Truck Tax Act in Georgia
Gainesville June 28 Superior Judge B P Gaillard upheld the constitutionality of Georgia s new bus and truck maintenance tax act in a case involving Atlanta transfer companies The ruling faces appeals as farmers and truckers suits remain pending Sam Hewlett Atlanta attorney for the transfer companies said he would appeal directly to the state supreme court
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Gainesville
B. P. Gaillard
Atlanta
Sam Hewlett
Gaillard
Supreme Court
Across the seas Walter Cargill Jr sails for Europe in summer study
Walter Cargill Jr sails from New York June 16 for Germany to attend the University of Jena as an Emory scholar. He will be joined by five Emory students for a six week European tour, then enter Heidelberg mid October. Mrs Schley leaves for Europe and returns in July. Mr and Mrs McGee sail June 26 with Dr Campbell's party for study in Paris and Italy. Mrs McGee will study at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Dr Campbell will lecture. The McGees will tour Italy, then Switzerland, Germany, Holland, and England, with missives from Columbus to Providence before sailing August 13 from Southampton. Other parties cruise, sail for Africa, and tour the Mediterranean.
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Walter Cargill, Jr
New York
Germany
Walter
University of Jena
Jena
Emory
Europe
Heidleburg
Frank Schley
London
Campbell
Mourn School
Paris
Alfred Cortot
Nadia Boulanger
Katherine Colbert
Africa
Algiers
Italy
Switzerland
Holland
Belgium
France
England
Glasgow
Ireland
Scotland
Ann Foley
Bobo Murray
Theorth Cape Country
John Slaughter, Jr
Washington, D. C
Old Governor’s mansion site in Louisville history
The southeast corner of Seventh and Peach hosted the old Governor’s mansion. A market with a French bell once stood at the Indian trail crossing where whites and red men traded. The bell, said to have been shipped from France for a New Orleans convent in 1772, was later tied to pirate loot near Savannah and rung for settlers’ gatherings and independence celebrations. Louisville’s 1788 founding and Philadelphia style street layout are noted, along with markers for the Yazoo fraud papers burning of 1798 and Louisville Academy founded in 1796. The Great Constitutional Convention met in Louisville in 1795, shaping Georgia’s early governance.
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Seventh and
Peach Street
Louisville
France
New Orleans
Francois Gourbillon
Savannah
Jefferson County
Philadelphia
Court House
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Seventh Street
Louisville Academy
Louisville Georgia's storied past and notable residents
The account recalls Louisville as Georgia's early capital with ties to U S history, including its destruction during Sehman's Raiders in 1804 and the old Revolutionary Cemetery on Dixie Highway. It mentions Gen Sloomcum and figures like Mrs M O Williams, Rev M O Williams, and Virginia P Price, editor of Louisville News and Banner, noting local beautician work and missed visits.
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Louisville
University of Georgia
University
Georgia
Sehman
Slocum
Ogeechee River
Dixie Highway
M. O. Williams
M. 0. Williams
Reynolds Methodist Church
Main Street
Bro. Williams
Reynolds
Butler
Brother Williams
Virginia Polhill Price
Beloved Mrs Fenn of Cordele Dies After Long Illness
Passing of Mrs Fenn formerly Miss Sarah Shine who was born in Worth county and raised in Twiggs and Cordele areas brings sorrow to many. Wife of Joe C Penn, mother of three sons and two daughters, she was a devoted Christian, Baptist member, and active in Missionary Society and U D C. Funeral at First Baptist Church conducted by Rev J L Drake with interment in Sunnyside Cemetery.
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Fenn
Sarah Shine
Robert F
Mary Harris Shine
Twiggs County
Worth County
Comble
Joe C. Penn
Georgia
Tyson
Joseph Russell Fenn
Cordele
L. BE. Fenn
Miami
Clyde Wilson
Meridith Clarke
Atlanta
Frances
Ann Howard Neisler
Reynolds
Joe Fenn
Tampa
D. ™. Clarke
L. P. Griffith
Albany
C. V. Tyson
Savannah
J. L. Drake
J. H. House
First Methodist Church
Lowell Culbertson
M. R. Smith
Edd Jones
Frank B. Calloway
J. L. Strickland
Sunnyside Cemetery
Augusta Firms Pay $300000 Dividends
Augusta Ga June 28 Dividends totaling 300000 will be paid to stock holders in local business firms July 1 Largest payment is 105000 in dividends on stock of the Georgia Railroad Banking Company Frontier I omitted repetitive spaces and ensured entities Georgia Railroad & Banking Company.
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Augusta
Georgia Railroad & Banking Company
Seven Georgia Post Offices to Undergo Repairs
Washington June 28 The treasury's procurement division will spend about $20,000 on repairs to seven Georgia federal buildings within the next several months The post offices to be renovated are in Macon Canton Dalton Westman Fitzgerald Moultrie and Newnan.
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Washington
Treasury
Georgia
Macon
Canton
Dalton
Wastman
Fitzgerald, Moultrie
Newnan
Patrol on Flint River Forecasted for Americus Area
Americus Georgia June 25 motor patrols may be placed on the Flint River as part of the state game department program. John Wagnon district game protector says he has filed for assignment of boats to the area and expects formal approval within a week.
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Americus
Flint River
Georgia State Game Department
John Wagnon
Revival, deaths, and statewide politics in a bygone Georgia issue
The column notes the deaths of Mrs. Peed and Miss Pansy Montfort, mentions the revival at the Methodist church led by Rev. J. G. Harrison, and highlights June news: Gov. Hoke Smith’s inauguration, Central railroad purchase, and Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic railroad telegraphy plans. It also previews a July Herald item on a likely state prohibition law, with Senator Clay and Judge Aiken figures involved. The piece ends with “To Be Continued Next Week.”
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Herald
General Assembly
Judge Aiken
Bartow
Senate
Clay
W. D. Upshaw
NBC to Demonstrate TV for Georgia Students in Washington
No. 5 Page One from City reports the NBC engineering department will stage the first television demonstration for a group of Georgia boys and girls. Chaperons include Elsie Galkin Smerling and Mrs Riden. After meetings with Georgia senators and congressmen in Washington on July 9, the group tours the White House and major federal sites before returning to Atlanta on July 13.
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Georgia
NBC
Elsie Galkin Smerling
Riden
Washington
White House
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Washington Monument
Mt. Vernon
Congressional Library
Smithsonian Institution
Atlanta
Dennis Will Replace Carter In Road Post
Columbus Georgia June 29 That the state highway department contemplates changes in personnel of division offices that would result in the transfer of J M Carter Columbus division engineer and the assignment of Bill Dennis of Macon as engineer at Columbus became known Tuesday. While official confirmation is lacking it is understood that if the contemplated changes are made Mr Carter will go to Atlanta as assistant director of a highway planning survey under the direction of O T Ray a federal state project.
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Columbus
State Highway Department
J. M. Cater
Bill Dennis
Macon
Carter
Atlanta
O. T Ray
Nails Found In Stomach Of Hungry Man In Georgia
Milledgeville Ga June 29 Ninety seven nails of assorted sizes were removed from the stomach of a negro patient at the state hospital for the Insane Monday Surgeons performing the emergency operation said the patient has a good chance no live The negro a dementia praecox patient complained of always being hungry prior to the operation he suffered severe convulsions X rays showed the nails many of large sizes and the operation was performed hurriedly.
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Milledgeville
State Hospital
Americus Baptists Plan $30 000 Annex
Americus Ga June 24 Work will begin in July on a two story educational building to be added to the church plant of the First Baptist congregation at Americus The structure will cost 30000 and will be located on the lot adjoining the church Rev L M Polhill is pastor Charles Lingo is chairman of the building committee
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Americus
First Baptist
L. M. Polhill
Charles Lingo
Man Ends Own Life to Elude Arrest in Georgia
Waycross, June 28. Deputy sheriffs responding to arrest Otis Toole reported he shot himself through the heart with a shotgun rather than be jailed. A coroner's jury ruled death by his own action. Toole was sought for disorderly conduct.
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Waycross
Otis Toole
Toole
Rivers May Cut State Employes
Atlanta, June 28. Possibility of personnel changes in minor Capitol positions loomed in final prep of a list of all employees for submission to Governor Rivers. The directory will include appointment times, residences, salaries, and work type, aiding the governor's budget actions and a future employee directory across departments.
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Atlanta
D Rivers
State Department
Downing Musgrove
Musgrove
California
Hollywood
Governor’s Hospital
Newdline
Talbotton Plans County Revival at Baptist Church
Talbotton Ga June 27 The County Baptist Revival group met at Talbotton Baptist church to finalize plans for a county wide revival August 15 to 29. The program features county pastors Rev Womble Rev Brown and assistants J W Jordan J T Maxwell D R Olive and others guiding worship services with all county Christians invited as special guests.
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Talbotton
County Baptist Revival
Talbottont Baptist Church
Tabotton Church
Thoe
Womble
Brown
Fitzpatrick Dies From Jail Subdual Injuries
J J Fitzpatrick aged 77 died in Macon after injuries from subduing a prisoner at Jeffersonville jail on June 14. He was struck on the head with a bottle. The assailant was moved to the State Hospital at Milledgeville.
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Macon
J. J. Fitzpatrick
Jeffersonville
Fitzpatrick
Milledgeville
Woodward to Head R. E. Lee School in Thomaston
Wade Woodward Jr of Decatur elected principal of R I Lee Institute High for 1936 37 to succeed Capt R H Taliaferro who resigned to take a Columbus post announced by Mark Smith superintendent of city schools in Thomaston Ga June 26.
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Thomaston
Escaped Convicts From Lakeland Chain Gang
Lakeland Ga June 28 Officers seek lookouts for 15 negro convicts who fled with 22 from a state road camp at Lakeland Saturday night. Seven were captured soon after the escape was detected. The remaining escapees, in prison stripes, are believed to be hiding nearby after prying up part of the stockade floor.
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Lakeland
South Georgia
State Road
Newnan Herald Doubles Publication to Twice Weekly
The Newnan Herald official organ of Newnan and Coweta county now appears twice weekly, published each Tuesday and Friday. Editor and owner is Hanson G. Fois, with Jawrenti Brewster as business manager. The paper has been a leading weekly, now expanding its schedule.
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Newnan
Coweta County
Hanson G. Fo
Jawrenti Brewster
Cedartown Teacher Wins $5,000 Prize in Soap Contest
Athens Ga June 28 Miss Pol line Anderson a Cedartown teacher in the public schools of her home town, winner of a recent contest sponsored by a major soap manufacturer, is to receive a $5,000 prize by check at a luncheon honoring her at 2 p.m. today. She teaches the second grade and is attending summer school at Athens.
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Athens
Polline Anderson
Cedartown
Pl’ Lic
Stending
Athet
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Joe C. Fenn
Cornell
Hallum H. Pearson
Crispi County
George Ellis
Roma
Gordon
W. H. Gardner
Superior Court
Macon County
Thomas J. Hamilton
W. B. Couch
T. C. Morris
Hapeville
State Welfare Department
Wnder
Moultrie
J. D. Stokes
Clyde Stokes
Birmingham
Jasper
J. McCrary
Roberta
Jack Platau
Caracas
Venezuela
C. L. Harris
H. H. Barber
Biowsh River
Rome
Georgia State College For Women
Americas
Bud Gilder
Oronee County
Madson
John Fleetwood
Milton L. Fleetwood
Cartersville
Savanah & Atlanta Railway
Sylvania
Millen- Sylvania
The
Georgia Employment Service
T. ¥. Whitaker
Bureau of Roads
Charles H. Herty
Sass
Coffee County
Douglas
Slash Pine Forestry Association
J. 5. Elkins
Toombs County
Lyons
EF. F. Parker
Sumter
Forfame
Charles Weeks, Jr
Americus Municipal Playground
Bureau of the Census
North Dakota
Arizona
Highway Board
Atlanta-Marietta
Fulton
Cobb
Roy Hendrickson
F. W Hendrickson
United States Military Academy
West Point
Lamar Dodd
Dodd
Ala
Hawkinsville
Eastman
Dublin
Georgia Power Company
Blue Book of Southern Progress
Manufacturers Record Publishing Company of
Baltimore
South
Lena Udell
C. B. Floyd, Jr
Au Frusty
Ohio
Clyde White
Cincinnati
Betty Ramsey
State Highway Patrol
Maj
Department
Maj. Carter
R. E. Gormley
State Superintendent of Banks
City Bank
Ft. Valley
State Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Peach County
Gormley
M. D. Collins
National Education Association
Andrew Avery
B. M. Grier
Georia Education Association
Detroit
John B. Spivey
Roy Harris
House
Calif
E. D. Rivers
Broadway
Twelfth Street
Bay Avenue
Pennsylvania City
Gulf
Appalachicola
Fowler
Porecast
Dennis
Americus Baptists
Talbot
GANG
Newnan Herald
Seorgia
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