County Officers to Meet in Valdosta for Annual Convention
The Georgia County Officers association will hold its annual convention in Valdosta in June 1920. Judge James R. George of DeKalb County, president of the association, urges attendance by ordinaries clerks sheriffs treasurers tax collectors receivers coroners surveyors city officials and prosecutors. Lowndes county plans an elaborate program with boating swimming fishing and fish dinners.
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Georgia County Officers’ Association
Valdosta
James R. George
DeKalb County
George
Lowndes County
Ban on Refreshments Ordered by Food Administration
Dr Andrew M Soule federal food administrator says women's societies and social clubs must stop serving ice cream or other refreshments between meals. He stresses a strict three meals per day program and labels any deviation as unpatriotic. He calls ice cream a rich concentrated sugar filled food and a consumer at between meal times a food slacker.
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United States Food Administration
Andrew M. Soule
Soule
Food Administration
Foch the Bullfighter in World War I Metaphor
Timely Topics uses a bullfighting comparison to describe General Foch and the Western Front. The piece argues Germany fights from French soil while the Kaiser and its allies are penned in, predicting victory as war spectators focus on the ring.
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Germany
France
Foch
Europe
State News Of Interest From Across Georgia
Delegates numbering about one hundred gathered at St Marys for the Mississippi gulf and Atlantic canal convention called by Governor Dorsey under the state council of defense. Plans center on inland waterway expansion linking the gulf to the Mississippi through a new barge canal. Yaryan Rasin and Turpentine petitions seek bankruptcy protection in Macon to shield stockholders and creditors. Emory University to move its collegiate department to Atlanta in 1919 affecting Oxford campus. Georgia reports record peach crop through early shipments totaling nearly 1,300 cars. J P Persons elected president of the Georgia Retail Hardware Dealers association in Savannah. Waycross forms plan to organize a two-company home guard with an active and veteran advisory group.
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St. Mary’s
Dorsey
Georgia
St. Mary's
Florida
Gulf
Mississippi
Yargan Company
Macon
Yaryan Rasin and Turpentine Company
United States District Court
Max Isaacs
Brunswick
Theodore Heumelan, Jr
Yargan Naval Stores Company
Emory
Atlanta
Oxford
Emory University
Law
Theology
Druid Hills
America
Warren A. Candler
Waycross
Chamber of Commerce
Furlough Bureau Created in Georgia War Effort
Georgia Governor Dorsey, also chairman of the state council of national defense, creates the bureau of furlough with offices in the capitol and names N. G. Bartlett director. The plan aligns with Dent law allowing furloughs for farm workers not in trench service, if civilian and military authorities cooperate without harming efficiency.
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Dérisy
Atlanta
Georgia
Georgia State Council of National Defense
Bureau of
Capitol
N. G. Bartlett
Dublin
War Department
Patriots Address by Baker to French Veterans at Washington
Secretary Baker bade farewell to the Alpine Chasseurs at the Washington monument base. He noted more than seven hundred thousand American soldiers have overseas to support France, saying the small American force has grown into a mighty nation of fighters. The Chasseurs, led by M. Jesserand, toured the South and Midwest before heading to Baltimore Newark New York and Boston en route home.
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Washington
France
la Fayette
Rochambeau
America
Baker
Washington Monument
South
Middle West
Secretary of War
Baltimore
Newark
New York
Boston
M. Jesserand
French High Commission
Bar Association backs Wilson at Tybee session
The Georgia Bar Association closed its thirty fifth annual session at Tybee unanimously endorsing President Wilson and his policies and pledging support. Secretary Harrison of Atlanta was instructed to wire the resolution to the President. The report urges reform of drug fiend confinement and urges the legislature to provide alternative care.
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Sibley
Savannah
Georgia Bar Association
Tybee
Wilson
Harrison
Atlanna
A Texas Wonder Cure Advertisement
A Texas wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles dissolving gravels diabetes and rheumatism with a two month supply in one small box. It promises bladder regulation in children and a cure in many cases. Address Dr F W Hall 2926 Olive Street St Louis Mo for mail delivery if not available at local druggists.
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Texas Wonder
F. W. Hall
Olive Street
St. Louis
Adv
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Arthur Bribane
Georgia Fruit Exchange
Fort Valley
P. Marshall
82D
William Leslie Rawlins
Third
326Th Infantry
U.S. A
O. Q. Melton
325Th Infantry
Fort McPherson
Technicians
United States
Georgia School of Technology
Thhe
Dorsey Atlanta
R. G. Pleasant
Louisiana
Congress
The
Andrew M. Sonte
Georgia School Book Commission
American Book Co
Ginn & Co
D. PF. Heath & Co
Lippincotts
McMillans
Internal Revenue
A. D. Blalock
American Shipbuilding Company
Fulton
Fulton County
Army
Navy
War Baker
Blue Devils
Scott
Scott & Bowne Bloomfield
N. J
State Prison Commission
Texas
Sam
Samuel P. Colt
United States Rubber Company
Lealer
Ira Chambers
Butler
Hart & Childs
Howard, Ga
B. Marshall
Reynolds, Ga
C. £. Zimmerman Co
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