Campaign backs Flint River bridge linking Peach and Taylor
Fort Valley Kawanis Club dinner attendees back a bridge over Flint River to connect Peach and Taylor counties. A joint committee from Fort Valley and Taylor plans a survey location and cost, urging State Highway Board support in the 1926 appropriation and outlining a 40 mile route with shared funding.
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Butler and Reynolds
Fort Valley
Peach County Court Room
Kawanis Club
W. B. Steed
John H. Jones
Col. C. L. Sheppard
Taylor and
Peach Counties
Tor
State Highway Board
Sheppard
Kawanis
Flint River
Reynolds
Taylor County
Macon
Columbus
Central of Georgia
Geneva
Junction City
Howard
Butler
Kawanias Club
Ft.t Valley
Jin
Flint River Bridge Association
State Highway Department
Talbot County
Peach County
Talbot
Taylor
Talbotton
Grand Theatre Reynolds Ga Program For The Week
Picture on Screen at 8 15 Admission 15¢ 35¢. Grand Theatre Reynolds Georgia presents a weekly program with showtimes and ticket prices for patrons.
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Grand Theatre
Reynolds, Ga
Georgia Melon Crop May Reach 10000 Car Loads
Moultrie Georgia May 380 growers estimate the Georgia watermelon crop will total about 10000 car lots this year down from 16000 in 1924. Acreage is 20 to 30 percent smaller and weather has been less favorable but melon men expect to profit this season after a disastrous prior year. Another item notes a Ford one ton truck for sale due to sickness with cash or credit.
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Moultrie
Senega Melon Growers’ Association
Georgia
Macon
Columbus Bistict Defeats Unification At Lumpkin
At the Columbus district Methodist conference in Lumpkin on Wednesday antiunification opponents won delegates to the South Georgia conference by wide margins. Ninety votes were cast with antiunification delegates receiving 80 to 82 each. several union supporters also earned scattered votes. Names of antiunification delegates included A C Buchanan Frank J Dudley J E Frizzell J B Maund J H McGehee Frank Phillips J L Weathers and W C Wooten.
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Columbus
Lumpkin
South Georgia
A. C.buchanan
Frank J. Dudley
J E Frizzell
Fire destroys Culloden plant and depot in Georgia loss
A Sunday fire leveled the Venus Means planing mill and lumber yard in Culloden Georgia with about 400000 damage to machinery and lumber. The body of 75 year old Crum Dannelly was found in the boiler room hours after firefighting began. The blaze also destroyed the old Macon and Birmingham Railway depot and five Southern Railway freight cars.
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Culloden
Venus Means
Crum Dannelly
Macon and
Birmingham
Southern Railway
Rev G W Matthews Dies in Macon
Rev G W Matthews pastor of Ashburn Georgia Methodist church and former secretary of the centenary movement of the South Georgia conference died in Macon after treatment for a fractured limb. He was once on the board of missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and was brother to Judge H A Mathews. Survived by his wife and two sons. Funeral held at Fort Valley Wednesday at 3 30 p m.
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Macon
G. W. Matthews
Ashburn Georgia Methodist Church
Centenary Movement of the South Georgia Conference
Board of Missions
The
Methodist Episcopal Church South
H. A. Mathews
Fort Valley
Fort Gaines closes city guardhouse for peace
Fort Gaines Georgia ends jail use as no prisoners have been confined for months. The guardhouse attached to the old city hall will be sold and the city may dispense with a marshal to save costs. Once famed as a rowdy cockfighting hub the town now reports peace and lawfulness along the Chattahoochee river.
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Ft, Gaines
Fort Gaines
Pilgrim's Road to Heaven advertised by Rev Cornett
The notice promotes a book titled The Pilgrim's Road to Heaven described as the wonder of the age and unique in the world. It invites readers to order by money order and promises immediate mailing to Rev. T. L. Cornett, 628 Chestnut Street, Atlanta, Georgia, at a price of 50 cents.
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T. L. Cornett
Chestnut Street
Atlanta
Steed Withdraws From Jones Bloodworth Case
Col umbus Ga June 3 Walter E Steed appointed lawyer for Willie Jones and Gervis Bloodworth has withdrawn from the case by letter to the superior court clerk He says he has discharged his duty and asks his name be struck from the docket He notes there are three other competent counsel and his withdrawal is without prejudice to further legal rights The two boys are sentenced to die June 26 A new trial motion is set for June 12 in Carrollton with Beeland Foy and Madden Hatcher expected to represent them
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Columbus
Walter E.steed
Willie Jones
Gervis Bloodworth
BE. H. Johnson
Superior Court
Steed
Mr. Steed
Jones and Bloodworth
Homer Beeland
Taylor County
Beeland
Foy
Madden Hatcher
Brown leaves Manchester for College Park superintendent post
AN Shaw Professor Charles Reid Brown, who has led Manchester Ga. schools for three years, is elected superintendent of College Park schools for the coming year. A Kentuckian by birth, he has been a long time Georgia educator, with prior roles in Butler, Buena Vista, Nashville, and Manchester. Mrs Brown, formerly Aurelia Childs of Butler, is prominent in Atlanta society. The family will move to College Park by July 1.
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Charles Reid Brown
Manchester Ga
College Park
Tennessee
Georgia
Butler
Buena Vista
Nashville
Manchester
Brown
Aurelia Childs
Atlanta
Walker Could Abolish State Tax Commissioners
Governor Walker announced the legislature may abolish the state tax commissioner office and move inheritance tax collection to the state revenue department. He said no appointment has been offered and the tax office may be unnecessary after creating the revenue department. For Rent: Three desirable rooms available at the Herald office.
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State Revenue Department
Walker
Henry Fullbright
Fullbright
Revenue Department
Progress This Century Habit Clings
The old timer who worked his way through college now forges a path as he guides his son through the same transitions. A feature from the Minneapolis Star highlights multi generation effort and enduring work ethic.
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Minneapolia
Reynolds High School concludes with graduation and exhibits
A large crowd attended Reynolds High School graduation as fifteen students received diplomas. Judge A W Cozart delivered the address, with music by the Reynolds High School orchestra and a program featuring senior awards, a class song, the valedictory The T s of Success and diplomas presented by President Boal of Education Supt Joiner announced awards and attendance certificates while Palmer Penmanship progress was noted The school year under Prof E H Joiner ends on a high note with strong prospects for next year.
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Reynolds High School
A. W. Cozart
Columbus
Herald
E. H. Joiner
Choyce Barrow
Mattie Crawford
Dudley Goodwin
Camilla Hill
Frances Hodges
Louise Lewis
Ethel Marshall
Carol Smith
Mattie Musslewhite
Holcomb Newsee
Edith Newsom
Hugh Neisler
Minnie Lee Saunders
Clara Mae Parks
William Seay
Cozart
Joiner
Louise Barrow
Janet Barrow
Susie Emma Newsom
Lydia Goddar
Frances Honges
Jeanette Barrow
Blanche Marshall
Wilma Poole
Palmer
Georgia Wife Slayer Consents to Return
Weyman Vaughan, an escaped life term prisoner from Georgia, was captured at Schoolfield near Roanoke Virginia and consented to return to Georgia without requisition. Vaughan was convicted of killing his wife at Lavonia Georgia in 1918.
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Roanoke
Weyman Vaughan
Georgia
Schoolfield
Vaughan
Lavonia
Lost crepe dress found near Baptist intersection
A crepe dress is missing and last seen near the Baptist intersection on Wednesday. Return to the Herald office to claim a reward.
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Baptist
Herald
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