Georgia Weekly Roundup Highlights Local Events
Georgia news digest reports Reynolds dies in Millen hospital at 56, several weather related tragedies in Pierce County, new staff at Millden hospital, post office break-in arrests in Savannah, Tri County Fair dates set, Gaberial retires from Postal Telegraph, highway patrol admission drive in Atlanta, Watford nabbed in New York, July pension mailings planned, various court rulings and local honors across Macon, Savannah, and Columbus with updates on schools, libraries, and public notices.
Parking meters removed from Cherry Street Macon
Macon police removed the parking meters from Cherry street Tuesday night ending a nine month dispute raised by Cherry street merchants who fought the installation.
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Macon
Cherry Street
Allen sworn as U S internal revenue collector
Marion H. Allen Milledgeville attorney and banker was sworn in as Georgia’s new collector of internal revenue, succeeding W Eugene Page. United States Circuit Judge Samuel H. Sibley administered the oath in the old Post Office building. Boyce Jr. will remain as assistant collector, with no announced changes.
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Atlanta
Marion H. Allen
Milledgeville
Georgia
Internal Revenue
W. Eugene Page
Columbus
United States
Samuel H. Sibley
Marietta
Allen
Frank B. Boyce, Jr
Page
Talbotton Woman Fractures Hip After Porch Fall
Talbotton Ga July 20 Mrs Jno M Heath a Talbotton woman is in an Atlanta hospital with a fractured hip after slipping and falling on her front porch Monday She was rushed to Canes hospital and then to AG Ama
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Talbotton
Jno, M. Heath
Atlanta
Canes Hospital
AG Ama
A M Park Honored At Reunion In Ideal
Ideal Georgia July 19 A M Park recently returned from the state sanatorium at Alto was surprised Sunday by a Park family reunion. A delicious dinner was spread in the grove near Park's Spring.
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Ideal
Park
Alto
GA firm to build McRae post office
Washington July 19 The Davis Washington Company of Gainesville Ga will begin construction of the new McRae Ga post office within several weeks. The Gainesville firm was awarded the contract Saturday on a bid of 36371 dollars.
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Washington
Davis- Washington Company
Gainesville Ga
McRae (Ga
Geom
Monay
Gainesville
School Bus Driver Dies in Second Collision
Millen Georgia July 19 Kirk Rush ton Jenkins county school bus driver died Monday as the second victim of a head on crash that killed his wife Thursday night. The watermelon truck driver involved in the accident faced trial on related charges.
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Millen
Kirk Rushton
Jenkins County
Woods to Seek U S Senate Seat in Georgia Primary
Swainsboro Ga July 14 H Alonzo Woods young attorney and former legislator announces candidacy in the democratic primary of 1988 for United States senator opposing Sen Walter F George. He says he will announce his platform later.
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Alonzo Woods
George
Swainsboro
H. Alonzo Woods
United States
Walter F. George
Woods
Interest Paid On Long-Lost 25 Cent Coin Finds Return
Baxley Georgia July 17 Mrs W F Harley became $1 75 richer after receiving a check for principal and interest on a 25 cent piece she lost 49 years ago Will D Wade of Tampa Florida explained he found the coin as a child here and had kept it until sending the payment to its owner.
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Baxley
W. F. Harley
Will D. Wade
Tampa
Fla
Harley
Valdosta Child Rescued After Drifting At Sea
Nine year old Martha Paramore of Valdosta Virginia rode a small surf boat off Jacksonville Beach when it drifted a quarter mile from shore. A Red Cross life saving crew reached the craft and towed it safely to shore.
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Valdosta
Jacksonville
Fla
Martha Paramore
Jacksonville Beach
Vienna High School Adds Agriculture Course
Vienna Georgia July 19 A vocational agriculture department will be added to Vienna High School Funds come from the city and federal government The course will run the full year J R Odom a University of Georgia graduate and Girard Georgia native will be in charge
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Vienna
Vienna High School
J. R. Odom
University of Georgia
Girard, Ga
Milledgeville Girls Compile A Guide Book Of Milledgeville
Eighth grade students at Peabody Practice School of the Georgia State College for Women prepared a 253 page typewritten volume titled A Guide Book of Milledgeville in three months. The book covers Georgia's former capital including historical facts quaint legends tales of haunted houses and how a modern city is run and includes 70 photographs.
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Milledgeville
Peabody Practice School
Georgia State College For Women
Georgia
Building Activity Brisk at Ellaville
Ellaville Ga July 16 carpenters hammers heat a new mote of prosperity at Ellaville Monday. Under construction are a canning plant a pastorium for the Ellaville Baptist church and a gin house. The canning plant is being built by the county for the Schley County Marketing Association. Dr Stout Boyett announced he will build a hospital on Oglethorpe street and the board of educators plans a new 11000 school gymnasium.
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Ellaville
Elaville
Sumter liquor sales run to $20 000 weekly eyed by editor
Americus Ga July 16 an accurate survey shows Sumter county liquor sales likely to average at least twenty thousand dollars weekly Lovelace Eye editor of the Tri County News said while reporting on Sumter county commissioners plans to regulate wine and beer sales through licenses to fund liquor problem handling costs
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Americus
Accurac
Sumter County
Lovelace Eye
Tri-County News
Lightning 18 Fatal to Pair of Mules
Montezuma Georgia July 19 lightning has killed two mules for Leon Rodgers a Macon county farmer and another was probably fatally injured One mule died July 7 in a lot during a thunderstorm and the second was killed in the barn Thursday Rodgers lives near the Whitewater power plant
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Montezuma
Leon Rodgers
Macon County
Mr. Rodgers
Whitewater
Injuries Fatal to Homer McLemore in Florida Crash
Columbus July 19 Homer McLemore automobile salesman died in a Columbus hospital from injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Alford Florida. His wife Susie McLemore was also injured and hospitalized with multiple rib fractures and bruises. The couple was brought to Columbus Sunday after their car collided with another vehicle.
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Charlotte Edwards
Savannah
Daytona Beach
Fla
Columbus
Homer McLemore
Saleman
Alford
Susie McLemore
McLemore
Double Black inmates abducted then shot near Tallahassee
Four unidentified white men abducted two Black youths from a county jail near the Florida capitol and opened fire, killing both. Police officer W. F. Kelly, who encountered the youths during questioning, is in serious condition at a local hospital. The youths, about 18, were being held on a sharp-object incident charge.
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Tallahassee
Fla
State Capitol
W. F. Kelly
Kelly
Gone with the Wind suit argued in New York
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind faces a plagiarism challenge in New York as MacMillan & Co. seeks dismissal while Susan Lawrence Davis claims her Authentic History of the Ku Klux Klan inspired the novel. Davis accuses Mitchell of copying passages, but MacMillan argues no similarity or proper legal basis is stated.
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New York
Margaret Mitchell
Atlanta
MacMillan & Co
Susan Lawrence Davis
MacMillan
Miss Davis
Post Job Sought in Milledgeville
Milledgeville Georgia July 16 More than 40 candidates sought the substitute letter carrier post at Milledgeville four of them women taking civil service examinations yesterday at G M C under W B Woods acting secretary of the United States civil service commission Papers will be graded and successful candidates placed on the civil service list from which names will be certified Some took the exam for practice and will not be eligible due to residence requirements.
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Milledgeville
W. B. Woods
United States Civil Service Commission
Washington
Civil Service
Montezuma Boys Join Earhart Rescue Effort
Montezuma Georgia residents focus on Amelia Earhart search as two local navy youths participate. Selwyn Hogg serves on the aircraft carrier Lexington and Percy Hudson serves on the battleship Colorado. Both are Montezuma High School graduates.
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Montezuma
Amelia Earhart
Navy
Selwyn Hogg
S.F. Hogg
Percy Hudson
P. W. Hudson
Selwyn
Lexington
Percy Jis
Colorado
Loys
Montezuma High School
Preacher Says Small Bootleggers Targeted in Columbus
Rev. Geo. C. Gibson charged in a Rose Hill Baptist sermon that small bootleggers are being arrested while big liquor operators escape. He criticized Augusta’s defiance of state laws and urged right thinking residents to speak out against the system creating legal disrespect.
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Columbus
Geo. C. Gibson
Rose Hill Baptist Church
Augusta
Georgia Rural Carriers Honor Hofell With Clark Howell Memorial Highway
In a Georgia rural carriers convention a resolution lauds Hofell for nurturing rural delivery and aiding the association. The resolution calls for a legislature to name a state highway the Clark Howell memorial highway in his memory.
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Hofell
Georgia
State of
Clark Howell
Tragedy and community notes from Sumter county history
The article recalls a deadly family murder at Davison's Mill in Sumter county, details a Macon excursion for SundaySchool, and lists local events. It mentions a new semi weekly paper, a fire in Montezuma, a smoking ordinance in Butler, and debates at the courthouse. It also notes Augusta windstorm damage, Macon railroad finances, and a portrait of Mrs. Rooks with radio habits.
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W. B. Merritt
L. B.rayne
Macon
Davison's Mill Sumter
John W. Caldwell
Alice
Robert
Leila
Frances Mitchell
Americus Republican
Americus
Butler
J. P. Maze
Maj
J. H. Hosley
Col
W. P. Edwards
Dr. Maye
Sumter
Jack Brown
Washington, D. C
Georgia
Congress
Phil, Cook
Rachel Williams
Augusta
Bullock
Thas
Wilkerson
the Telegraph
Ocmulgee River
Huff
A Georgia Couple Remembers a Life of Simple Homes and Hard Work
Mrs. Mandy Rooks recalls life with her husband Mr. Rooks in Shiloh Sumter County and Schley County. He saved money bought the clock that comforts her. He died in July 1980 after a farming life begun as a child milking cows.
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Shiloh
Sumter County
Schley County
Berta
Mandy
Mommie
Rooks
Recollections Span Printing Life and Georgia Roots
A veteran recalls his early days in Butler Herald and the printing trade. He notes W N Benns fast typesetting, Gospel Messenger distribution to Baptist subscribers abroad, Boer War postings, and later work in Cottonseed Oil Magazine. He salutes Primitive Baptists, praises education, and reflects on careers in journalism, publishing, and farming across Georgia.
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Butler Herald
Constitution
W. N. Benns
Bloemfontein
Pietermaritzburg
South Seas
India
Egypt
Old
Caucasus
Hull
Marsailis
Perilla
Dairen
Gospel Messenger
Georgia
Primitive Baptists
Washington
Wal
Seed
Citions
Paul Redfern
Howth
Coffin
Succes
Gerand-Chili
Tsushima Island Rises as Two Islands at High Tide
Report notes Tsushima, a Japanese island, splits into two separate landmasses during high water. Geographers observe temporary division, with landform rejoining at lower tides and no reported human impact or lasting changes.
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Tsushima
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R. E. Jones
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Jolice
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S’nomas M. Watford
Lamar Murdaugh
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Peter Carellas
Spalding County
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Orchard Hill
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Wilkes County
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Negro Library
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Alberto Evans
Tifton
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Smithville
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Southern Bell
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T. Hoyt Davis
B. S. Deaver
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United Spanish War Veterans
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Rome
John Thomas Toler
The
Atlanta Constitution
International Circulation Managers’ Association
E. D. Rivers
Monroe
R. Vaughan
P. L. Dever
Athens
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Will Frazier
H C. Moore
G. Y. Tigner
Riverside Military Academ
U. S. War Department
D. R. Nimmocks
Ft. McLellan
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McGruder Military Trophy
W. Clifford Poss
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Harry Waynne
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Twiggs County
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Colquit County
New York Herald Tribune
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Highway Department
Columbus City
Division
U. 8
Talbot
A. M. Park
McRae Post Offick
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WSB
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