Rev McBrayer Suspended by Methodists in Atlanta
Atlanta June 18 Rev H M Brayer preacher at Lakewood Heights suspended for gross imprudence and unministerial conduct after a two hour ministerial jury verdict. The charge of immorality over his anti prohibition campaign was not sustained. He may resign and will hold services in a suburban temple pending future.
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Atlanta
H. &. McBrayer
Clerty
MeBrayer
Georgia City
North Georgia
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
McBrayer
Lakewood Heights
Georgia
W. H. LaPrade, Jr
Augusta
W. N. Ainsworth
R. C. Cleckler
Calhoun
Augustus Ernest
Forsyth
H. E. Emory
J. T. Robbins
East Point
E. W. Jones
Fairburn
D. Cherry
G F, Venable
Decatur
W. H
New Deal Backed By Rail Body of Georgia
Manchester Ga July 2 Unqualified support of President Roosevelt and the New Deal is voiced in a resolution by the Railway Employees Cooperative Association of Georgia. The group praises Roosevelt as a humanitarian and backs relief for the unemployed, agricultural rehabilitation, and other New Deal programs, while condemning critics. James Gerow leads the organization with more than 800 members across Georgia.
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Manchester
Roosevelt
Railway Employes Co-operative Association of Georgia
NRA
AAA
James Gerow
Georgia School Head Named State Director of NEA
Dr. M. D. Collins, Georgia state superintendent, was elected Georgia director of the National Education Association at Denver. Five other Georgians were named to NEA posts: Willis A. Sutton, S. V. Sanford, Miss Maude Rhodes, M. E. Thompson, and Kyle T. Alfriend. Detroit and St. Paul vie for the 1936 convention.
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Denver
Col
M. D. Collins
Georgia
National Education Association
Willis A. Sutton
Atlanta
NEA
S. V. Sanford
University System of Georgia
Resolutions Committee
Georgia Wins W P A Funds For Relief Programs
Atlanta reports Georgia receives 10,256,608 dollars from the Works Progress Administration to start the general relief program. Advisory committee in Washington recommends the allotment and Roosevelt approval will permit release. Most project types will be funded with the money and 200,000 dollars may cover administrative expenses. Georgia also to gain about 870,778 dollars for cooperative agricultural extension work under state farm population basis.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Miks Gay
Shepperson
Miss Shepperson
New Orleans
Works Progress Administration
Washington
Advisory
Works ‘Progress Administration
Roosevelt
National Emergency Council
Bishops urged anti wet fight claim by McBrayer
Atlanta June 28 Rev H E McBrayer charged church leaders urged ministers to enter the prohibition campaign and says he faced suspension for taking part. A jury of peers found him guilty of imprudence and unministerial conduct and he faces suspension until the North Georgia conference meets. He plans likely resignation from the ministry. Repeal lost by 243 votes.
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Atlanta
H. E.mcbrayer
Georgia
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
McBrayer
North Georgia Conference
Methodist
Atlanta Officer Hitch-Hikes Way From Sea To Land
Patrolman George Cole was crowned world champion hitchhiker after riding from a point at sea to Savannah with a fishing party. When the boat rocked he swam toward shore and thumbed a ride on a shrimping boat back to land. He later planned to fish from a private pond near Norcross.
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Atlanta
George Cole
Cole
Savannah
WEDDED FRIDAY, FOUND DEAD FOLLOWING DAY
Melvin Bowes a 23 year old farmer was found dead six miles south of Moultrie less than 124 hours after his marriage to Miss Liza May Norman. A pistol lay near his stretched hand and a bullet was in his head. A coroner field inquiry found death from a bullet wound just above the right ear with powder burns.
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Moultrie
T. W. Beard
Melvin Bowes
Beard
Bowes
Liza May Norman
Colquitt County
J. ‘I. Coyle
Lightning Kills Man in Shade of Tree in Georgia
Lonnie Hester 22 of Norman Park was killed instantly by lightning while resting on a table under a chinaberry tree in Moultrie Georgia. Companion A R Gunn was knocked unconscious but revived minutes later. A clothes wire stretched from the tree to a nearby post, suspected as the lightning path, with the storm appearing nearly cloudless.
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Moultrie
Lonnie Hester
Norman Park
Talmadge to Address Georgians on July Fourth
Governor Eugene Talmadge will speak in Canton on Independence Day to rally Georgians behind states rights and oppose Franklin D. Roosevelt. The event, a bridge dedication in a Joe Brown Park, aims to draw at least 26 000 listeners amid election talk for next year's presidential primary.
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Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Roosevelt
Georgia
Canton
Pine Mountain
Warm Springs
Washington
Joe Brown
Weltner Leaves Georgia. Chancellor Term Ends
Atlanta report notes Dr. Philip Weltner officially ends his term as chancellor of the University System when his regents term expires. Dr. S. V. Sanford to serve as both chancellor and UGA president until September 1. Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell to become UGA head on September 1. regents to elect a new dean for the Lumpkin School of Law on July 15.
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Atlanta
Philip Weltner
Board of Regents
University
Weltner
Regents
S. V. Sanford
University of Georgia
Harmon W. Caldwell
Lumpki School of Law
Limpkin School of Law
Caldwell
Two Killed and One Injured in Locomotive Explosion
Braswell Georgia June 29 two Southern Railway trainmen were killed and a third crew member injured when the boiler of a northbound freight locomotive exploded near Braswell. The engineer W O Alexander 59 of Atlanta and brakeman Jasper Parks were killed. Fireman Lucius Chapman was injured. The blast hurled boiler fragments and left the locomotive reduced to its frame and wheels. The wreckage was cleared more than four hours after the accident.
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Braswell
Southern Railway
W. O. Alexander
Atlanta
Jasper Parks
Lucius Chapman
Rockmart
Alexander
God as Topic in Christian Science Lesson Sermon
The Lesson Sermon on God will be read in all branches of The Mother Church on Sunday July 7. It cites Acts 7 48 about heaven as his throne and asks what house can contain the Lord and what is his rest. It also quotes Mary Baker Eddy from Science and Health asserting God as individual incorporeal divine Principle Love the universal cause the only creator filling all space and, hence, omnipresent Mind.
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God
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Mass
Mary Baker Eddy
BREVITIES IN THE NEWS FLASHES FROM GEORGIA
Six bison moved from Montana and Utah threaten to end up in Cherokee and Nantahala forests. Grapes planned near Acworth for eight acres with seventeen varieties. Florida border lakes vanish and refill through subterranean channels. State veterans certificates still incur beer license fees. Thomasville cheese plant buys milk from 150 farmers, producing about 5 000 pounds daily. Former Athens Daily Times editor resigns to join AP. Roosevelt considers Redwine reunion invitation in Gainesville. Georgia gasoline tax up over six months, total 7 417 289.
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Georgia News Service
Montana
Utah
North Georgia
Joseph Kircher
AAA
Acworth
James Chislakes
Atlanta
Florida
Valdosta
R. BE. Mathson
the Revenue Commission
Thomasville
Athens Daily Times
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Redwine Church
Gainesville
Harrison
Macon spends six hundred thousand on housing program
Macon Ga June 29 during five months of operation the Macon better housing program has spent 60000? no the text shows six hundred thousand dollars for remodeling and repair work figures by W T Derry manager over four hundred thousand of this amount spent for labor posted for the city housing drive by local officials and the manager
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Macon
Figners
W.T. Derry
European Tour Planned From Montezuma
Mrs Oscar McKenzie left Montezuma to join Mrs Frank Harold on a European tour. The group sails from New York on July 4, with Mrs McKenzie driving to New York with friends. They will be met in Washington by her son Fred McKenzie and other organizers from Marshallville and nearby communities.
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Montezuma
Oscar McKenzie
Frank Harold
Europe
New York
McKenzie
Washington
Fred McKenzie
T. R. McKenzie
J. P. Walker
Creola Cheves
Hal Fisher
Tom Dykes
Felder Frederick
Marshallville
Hats figure in slaying probe in Gainesville
Gainesville Sheriff I L Lawson said two hats tied to the Whitmire ride and robbery case linked suspects Arthur Thomas of Chicopee and Clyde Gilbert of New Holland. A coroner's inquest adjourned again without a verdict as two witnesses saw a two man taxi leaving the scene. Additional arrests were expected with the two men held without bond.
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Gainesville
Hall County
Oren Whitmire
I. L. Lawson
Whitmire
Athens
Arthur Thomas
Chicopee
Lawson
Clyde Gilbert
New Holland
Seriff Lawson
Thomas
Gilmer
Whitmier
Thomas and
Sheriff Sale Georgia Taylor County Auction Notice
The sheriff will sell two acres in land lot 288, 18th district Taylor County Georgia at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in August 1935 in the legal hours for cash to satisfy tax executions for 1932 1988 and 1934. Property belongs to Jobie McCrary. Levy by C C Cooper. Dated May 7 1935. R P McGuffin Sheriff.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Court House
R. S. West
W. M. Mathews
Jobie McCrary
C. C. Cooper
L. C
R. P. McGuffin
Two Columbus youths given probation after burglary sentence
Louis Randall and John JF Stringfellow, both Columbus youths, received 12 month sentences for burglary but were placed on probation. Governor Talmadge announced clemency recommendations from the Columbus police department and the Muscogee prison camp warden. Service began December 8, 1984.
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Columbus
Louis Randall
John JF. Stringfellow
Talmadge
Muscogee
Atlanta
Petition for Divorce in Taylor Superior Court
Irma Cochran Summerour files for divorce from E. J. Summerour in Taylor County. The defendant is nonresident and service by publication is ordered. He must appear at the next Taylor Superior Court term, first Monday in October 1935, to answer the complaint. Signed by Judge C. F. Mo. Laughlin. May 16, 1936.
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Irma
Cochran Summerour
Summerour
Taylor Superior Court
E. J. Summerguy
Irma Cochran Summerour
E. J. Summerour
C. F. Mo. Laughlin
Superior Court
Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs closes Tallulah Falls Jubilee
The Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs will officially end the Silver Jubilee celebration of Tallulah Falls School at the Club Institute, University of Georgia, Athens, on July 11 and 12, announced by Club officials Sunday.
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Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs
Tallulah Falls School
Club
University of Georgia
Athens
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