Slappey Murder Trial Begins at Sleepy Hollow
Testimony centers on a fatal shooting at Sleepy Hollow near Macon county with overseer Fagan claiming self defense after an alleged confrontation with Slappey over his wife. Coroner rules internal hemorrhage as death cause. witnesses describe a heated argument and a pistol discharge.
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Min
Tagan
R. €. Souder, Jr
Macon
Slappey
Sleepy Hollow
Joe Sturley
C. A. Sturley
Young Louder
Uncle George
D. B. Frederick
Marshallville
Frederick
Freddie Brookins
Mr. Slappey
Joe Struby
Young Souder
Dr. Nelson
Culpepper
Macon County
Peach County
Hays
Jolly
Fagan
Fort Valley
Georgia
Rialto Theater
Fannie Harris
Clara Vischer
Montgomery
J. S. Slappey
Atlanta
R. C. Souder
G. E. Maddox
Sheriff Sale in Taylor County Georgia on 1938 land lot
Public outcry sale in Taylor County Georgia will offer Lot No 241 in the 13th Land District west of the old road near the Corbin place. The 65 acre tract, part of G C Middleton land, is levied on as the property of Mrs L G Clark now Mrs J B Sealey for the Beeland estate. Sale set for the first Tuesday in August 1938 at the courthouse door, conducted by Sheriff R P McGuffin.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Court House
Butler
Macon County
Corbin Place
G. C. Middleton
Sale of Wilder Brothers real estate and livestock in Taylor County
A sale date set for the first Tuesday in August 1934 at Butler Georgia to settle a court judgment. The auction includes five riding animals Pearl Big Ada Little Ada Bill and Dick three Jersey cows a horned Jersey heifer and a horned Holstein milk cow. Property levied from Wilder Brothers to satisfy a Superior Court lien in favor of O R Montgomery. July 10 1934.
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Georgia
Taylor County
Butler
Pearl
Big Ada
Little Ada
Bill
Wilder Brothers
Fi Fe
Superior Court
O. R. Montgomery
R. P. McGuffin
Brief Items From Georgia: Trolleys, Trials, and Turbulent Times
Losses may replace trolleys in Macon saving the city about 4800 dollars yearly and Mason residents 18000 annually. Friends plan a 260000 memorial building for Miss Mildred Rutherford at Luck Cobb Institute for Girls where she served as president. Ellijay’s Gilmer county courthouse in the public square will be torn down for a new building. Savannah port exports rise 41 percent in six months of 1934. Winks the setter puppy died from a brain concussion while playing on the White House lawn. Attorney General Cummings upholds Treasury Department refusal to sell stamps to Atlanta’s only brewery. A severe wind storm traps 36 worshippers and injures a woman near Dublin. Chancellor Philip Ettner will teach social science at Georgia Tech in fall. Over 10000 baby pictures submitted in a department store contest in Atlanta. State capitol to gain first aid in 60 years with steam and sand and FERA labor. June birthday record in weed county hits new peak with 188. Georgia hunters to wear celluloid buttons to prove licenses. Old Savannah street cars find new uses as a waiting room and a lunch stand.
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Georgia Newspaper Alliance
Macon
Mildred Rutherford
Luck Cobb Institute For Girls
Ellijay
Gilmer County
Savannah
Winks
Roosevelt
White House
Cummings
Treasury Department
Atlanta
Dublin
Philip \eltner
University System
Georgia Tech
State Capitol
FERA
Weed County
Georgia
Carvey
Prison land purchase completed for new Reidsville prison
The federal government completed a 950 acre land purchase in Tatnall County to host Georgia's new 1.5 million dollar prison. Deeds were exchanged for 27 000 dollars in treasury checks as bids for construction are expected to follow within 80 days. The facility will sit on federal owned land with the 7 950 acre total farm managed by both federal and state interests.
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Reidsville
Tatnall County
Treasury
Max Elliott
PWA
Hugh Howell
Pistol shot ends life of Macon financier Donnelly
Frank C. Donnelly 48 former vice president of the First National Bank Macon was found dead with a pistol wound beside a lily pool in the rear of his home. His death appears instantaneous and his widow two daughters and a son survive.
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Macon
Frank C. Donnelly
First National Bank
Donnelly
Old Macon National Bank
First National
Mercer Adds Two More Professors to Faculty
Macon Ga July 22 Dr Spright Dowell announces two more of eight new Mercer University faculty members will join at the fall quarter Both instructors hold doctorates and will fill positions made vacant by Professors Josiah Crudup and John D Allen Quarles from Virginia and Stout from North Carolina will serve as acting professors of physics and journalism respectively while Crudup and Allen pursue doctoral research under a General Education Board grant
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Macon
Mercer University
Spright Dowell
Baptist College
Gilford G. Quarles
University of Virginia
Columbus Wins Use of Old Post Office for Agencies
Columbus Georgia officials win permission to use the vacated old post office building for housing federal and local organizations. The list includes the National Re-employment Agency, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, and other services with support from city leaders and lawmakers.
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Columbus
Oits
W. KE. Reynolds
Washington
Marshall Morton
B. T. Castellon
Walter F. George
R. B. Russell
H. C. Smith
National Re-Employment Agency
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Farm Credit Administration
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Opportunity School
Transient Bureau
Family Welfare Bureau
Boy Scouts of Americ American Red Cross
Columbus Chamber of Commerce and Public Health Nurse Association
Taylor County to be presented in farm gathering TT Dawson today
Dawson Ga July 2 Thursday July 26 will be field day for southwest Georgia farmers at Ardelle Smith's farm near Dawson off the Dawson Shellman highway. The event, sponsored by the Chilean Nitrate Education Bureau and N Y Potash Export Company with fertilizer firms, draws growers from Terrell Randolph Early Calhoun Stewart Webster Schley Marion Sumter Lee Dougherty Baker and Taylor counties. About 1500 farmers and dealers are expected for top dresser tests, a noon barbecue, and a cash prize for the nearest yields. Smith, a leading Terrell county farmer, shows one of the best crops in the area.
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Dawson
Georgia
Ardelle Smith
Dawson-Shellman Highway
Chilean Nitrate Education Bureau
T. H. Bonner
Atlanta
N. Y. Pot
Thefts Of Money Order Blanks And Cash
T E Jones of Macon bound over to district court on $1000 bond for stealing money order blanks and $45 cash from the Fitzpatrick post office. He confessed, led officers to a metal box near Rosebud Methodist church, where the blanks and money were recovered.
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Macon
T. E. Jones
Iwiges County
Fitzpatrick
L. S. District Court
W. E. Martin
Jones
Rosebud Methodist Church
T. E. Garrett
Sam Kitchens
Twiggs County
Post Office
H. H. Hudson
C. J. Holland
Macon Man Dies in Eastman Crash
Wiley P. Mc Nair a prominent Macon man was killed in a highway overturn near Eastman while en route to Jacksonville Florida. His son Sidney McNair was injured and his niece Joel Whitlock 18 of Atlanta lightly hurt. Mc Nair died at Colemans sanitarium about two hours after the 7 a.m. crash.
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Macon
Wiley P. McNair
Sidney
Joel Whitlock
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Fla
Eastman
McNair
Bankers’ Health and Life Insurance Company
Coleman
Sidney McNair
T. W. Clifton
Large enrollment expected at Georgia Southwestern College fall term
Americus Ga July 25 A large enrollment is anticipated for the fall session at Georgia Southwestern College according to President Preyton Jacob. Hundreds have inquired and many have applied for admission. officials expect to admit all who wish to come but need several weeks in advance to plan. Native students are urged to send high school records and file formal applications immediately.
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Americus
Georgia Southwestern College
Preyton Jacob
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