Making Best Use of Every Acre Motto Of Taylor Farmers
The piece urges farm pond conservation in Taylor County with blue gill bream and trout stocking during February and May. It highlights the role of pond design and watershed protection, praising Walter Wainwright for erosion control and silting prevention on his land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor County
J. W. Dupree
Middle Western
Ocmulgee River
C. B. Shine
E. A. Hollis
Monroe Layfield
Walter Wainwright
Dairy Co operative Formed in Upson
Thomaston Ga June 2 Upson Co operative Dairies newly organized agriculture co operative has bought the old Share Store building for a milk processing plant at an estimated 6500 dollars. Board includes Felton Hoyle president James Butts vice president J D Hoyle secretary treasurer Everett McNeely Ferrell McKinley. Group to take over Fairview Dairy equipment and operate it as a retail outlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomaston
Upson Co-operative
Dairies
Agriculture Co-Operative
Felton Hoyle
James Butts
J. D. Hoyle
Everett McNeely
Ferrell McKinley
Fairview Dairy Equipment
Gospel Quotations Across Faiths and Virtues
A compilation of religious citations from Jesus, Daniel Webster, Cyler, Mary Baker Eddy, and Beattie. The quotes discuss the gospel’s divine reality, steadfast truth, love commanded among followers, and its comprehensive moral reach across religions and virtues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Webster
Warren
Georgia Constitutional Reforms Highlight Postwar Revisions
A 23 member Georgia commission edited the 1945 constitution, removing dead amendments and modernizing rules. Notable changes include elimination of poll tax and grandfather clause, literacy safeguards, local notice publication, zoning rights, eminent domain protections, and new constitutional officers in agriculture and labor plus veteran and prison reforms. The document preserves Bill of Rights and outlines 50 changes across topics.
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Georgia
General Assembly
House
Senate
Assembly
Veterans Service Office
Commissioner of Agriculture
Commissioner of Labor
Public Service Commissioners
Labor
Department of Corrections
Department of Veterans Service
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Court of Ordinary
More Passenger Car Tires Allocated For B and C Drivers
The War Production Board announced an additional 500000 passenger car tires for June, raising the monthly total to 2500000 and half year replacement tires to 10000000. Distribution follows the prior June pattern and remains limited to B and C ration holders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
Tax Office Mailing 20 Million Refunds
Washington June 3 The Treasury is mailing an estimated 20 million in 1944 income tax refunds. Officials said the job should finish sooner than last year and taxpayers may have refunds by the end of September.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Georgia constitutional amendments summarize state finance and governance
The excerpt outlines a series of proposed or enacted constitutional amendments in Georgia covering public employee retirement funds and reserves for public works, abolition of the state tax allocation system, intergovernmental service contracts, bonded indebtedness rules, temporary cash loans, revenue bonds for utilities, continuance of acts, merit and retirement systems, home rule, senatorial districts, compensation standards, and court and jurisdiction updates. It also sets forth local amendment procedures, districting for water and sanitation, and officer salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
County Board of Education
Assembly
Secretary of State
General Assembly
Justices of the Peace
Wives Take Note The Court Says Husband Boss At Home
Georgia Supreme Court rules a wife must follow husband when he moves residence. Mrs. Lillian Carver sues for alimony after he moves into a cabin near work. court dismisses the suit stating the husband heads the family and the wife must accompany his residence change.
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High Court
Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Court
Lillian Viola Carver
Waycross
L. J. Carver
Noted Atlanta Cotton Broker James J. Williamson Dies
James Joseph Williamson 70 senior partner of Williamson Inman and company died after a brief illness. A Pike County Georgia native, he belonged to the New York Cotton Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, New Orleans Cotton Exchange and Liverpool Cotton Association. He headed J J Williamson Co New Orleans and was president of Williamson Products Co Brazil.
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Atlanta
James Joseph Williamson
Williamson, Inman and Company
South
Pike County
Georgia
New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago, Board of Trade
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Liverpool Cotton Association
Williamson
New Orleans
J. J. Williamson & Co
Myrick Re Sentenced to Electric Chair in 1944 Milledgeville Killing
Willie Myrick Jr is resentenced by Judge Geo Carpenter to die in the electric chair for the February 13 1944 fatal shooting of Charles R Grimes in Milledgeville Wilkinson county. The sentence date is set for June 15 following prior conviction and appeals. Grimes was the son of Mr and Mrs L L Grimes and Myrick confessed to firing at squirrels during arrest.
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Milledgeville
Willie Myrick Jr
Wilkinson County
Geo. Carpenter
Chas. R. Grimes
Ocmulgee
Myrick
Carpenter
Georgia Supreme Court
Grimes
L. L. Grimes
U. S. Plans to Drop 250 000 Federal Workers
Budget Bureau plans to prune 20 000 workers a month from the federal payroll over the next year. F J Lawton, administrative assistant, told the House Civil Service Committee that if the war continues to progress, about 250 000 federal workers would be dropped during the coming year.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
Congress
F. J. Lawton
House Civil Service Committee
No Bills Passed During Georgia Extra Session
Atlanta June 5 The four day extra session cost Georgia taxpayers about $17 000 Auditor Thrasher said Tuesday Travel expenses for 257 legislators totaled 7 593 per diem pay 8 per day 8 324 and attacke s salaries 1 250 No bills were passed during the self convened session.
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Atlanta
Georgia General Assembly
Georgia
Thrasher
Seven Floor Fall Fatal to Atlanta Physician
Dr. E. G. Ballenger, 63, president of the Southern Medical association and noted urologist, died after falling seven floors to the mezzanine of his hotel. He complained of dizziness at breakfast, then reportedly suffered another attack in the hall, leaned on a banister, and plunged to the floor. City detectives identified the fatal fall in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
E. G. Ballenger
The
Southern Medical Association
Ballenger
J. E. Helms
W. M. Holland
Columbus Firm to Ship Lumber for War Program
Columbus Terminal and Forwarding Company in Columbus Georgia has accepted a contract to handle more than 10,000,000 feet of lumber for overseas shipment. The project is part of War and Navy Departments new experiment in procuring storing and redistributing lumber. Modern handling cuts loading time for a 40 000 feet carload to about 55 minutes from several hours.
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Columbus
Columbus Terminal and Forwarding Company
War and Navy Departments
God the Only Cause and Creator Lesson Sermon
The Lesson Sermon titled God the Only Cause and Creator will be read in Churches of Christ Scientist worldwide next Sunday. The Golden Text asserts God’s sole authority and creation, with Isa 44 6 and Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy stressing there is one primal cause and no reality beyond it.
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God
Churches of Christ Scientist
Israel
Mary Baker Eddy
FBI Joins Inquiry Into Swamp Slaying in Waycross
The FBI joined the probe Tuesday into the killings of two U S fish and wildlife patrolmen Andrews Crews aged 36 and Joe Martin aged 40. They were slain late Saturday while investigating poaching in the Okefenokee swamp and no suspects or clues had been found.
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Waycross
Federal Bureau of Investigation
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Okefenokee Swamp
Andrews Crews
Joe Martin
Big Swamp
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Galilee
Cuyler
Beattie
E. Gordon Street
Thomaston, Ga
Willie Myrick
U. S
FBI
Inquiry
Wile Georgia Power Company
Attanta
Magers
Michal
Ben Franklin
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Franklin
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