Electric Storms Hit Georgia Causing Injuries and Damage
A severe electric storm with high winds and heavy rain struck central and south Georgia last Thursday and Friday. Multiple injuries occurred including Mrs Ray Lane and her son near Cochran. A Bruns wick Peninsular Company camp at Fen dig Brantley camp suffered unroofed houses and damage. Crops suffered heavy damage across counties, barns burned by lightning near Montezuma, and two mules died. In Atlanta, May 38, the Social Security Board began issuing SS-5 account numbers to workers past 65 to aid states with unemployment compensation laws.
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Central
South Georgia
Georgia
Greston
Cochran
Ray Lane
Lane
Herbert Stratton
Cordele
Stratton
Leonard Sutton
L. P. Avery
Glenwood
Brunswick Peninsular Company
Fendig
Brantley Camp
Brantley
Glynn
Brunswich
St. Simons Island
Montezuma
A. P. Lewis
Worth County
Talbot County
Marshaliville
Crawood
Macon
Atlanta
Social Security Isoard
Social Security Board
Savannah
Rivers Will Speak at Milledgeville
In Milledgeville Georgia on Friday a record crowd is expected on the campus of the Georgia State College for Women for Parents Day. Gov Rivers will be the principal speaker in the college chapel at 11 o clock and will be introduced by Marion Smith chairman of the college board. A barbecue dinner will be served at noon for visitors.
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Milledgeville
Georgia State College For Women
Granddaughters’ Club
Gov. Rivers
Marion Smith
Recents
Smith
City to vote on $27,500 school building fund in Dawson May 28
A city election to raise 27500 for a new Dawson school building has been called to City Council for Friday, May 28.
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Dawson
Sales Probe Is Launched By Solicitor Milledgeville
Milledgeville May 8. Solicitor General C Bald win of the Ocmulgee circuit came to Milledgeville to probe charges that purchases by members of the state hospital board violated the law. He said he would ask the Baldwin grand jury to indict if truth is found, with other institutions possibly examined. Governor Rivers noted a reported inquiry into sales by former Governor Eugene Talmadge to the Milledgeville hospital and hinted at bond claims involving transfers between departments.
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Milledgeville
C. S. Baldwin
Ocmulgee Circuit
State Hospital Board
Board of Control
Grand Jury
Baldwin Superior Court
Indian Springs
Rivers
Ocmulgee Circuit Superior Court
Eugene Talmadge
State Hospital
Baldwin County
Atlanta Constitution
Carter Baldwin
State Law Department
State Auditor
Baldwin
Talmadge
Milledgeville Hospital
Agriculture
Tom Linder
Linder
Rivers Ousts Liberty County Tax Collector Bagley
Atlanta May 1 Governor Rivers declared vacant the office of Liberty county tax collector T H Bagley and ordered a special election. Bagley failed to post the bond required by law to cover moves collected for the sleaze. Eight officials were cited to show cause by April 30. six qualified and J S Jones of Terrell county had time extended to May 4 at 3 p m. An ordinary was told to call a special election and the state auditor ordered to audit Bagley’s accounts.
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Atlanta
Rivers
T. H. Bagley
Liberty County
Bagley
J. S. Jones
Terrell County
Lewiss Ashmore
Prizes for Taylor County Youth From Chilean Nitrate Bureau
The Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau Inc Atlanta announces many prizes for Taylor County youths including trips to Chicago and Kansas City and cash awards. Targets include 4 H cotton corn and garden club members teachers students of vocational agriculture and F I A members growing cotton and corn. Details available from county agricultural agents Smith Hughes teachers and fertilizer dealers.
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Chilean Nitrate Educational Bureau, Inc
Atlanta
Chicago
Kansas City
Smith-Hughes
Week-end auto crashes push deaths past new 1936 high
Weekend automobile accidents raise national fatalities to at least 94, signaling a continued rise beyond the year’s prior record. Officials note the surge adds to mounting crash tallies as the 1936 figure is surpassed.
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Alreay
Millen Woman Killed In Crash Near Alexander
Mrs H B Brazzelle of Sylvania died and her husband and six children were injured after a highway collision near Alexander Burke County on Sunday. The Brazzelles were among six Georgians killed in weekend crashes, part of a national toll of 94. Other fatalities included Mrs Edward Taylor in Florida and John A Corley in Griffin.
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John A. Corley
Pike County
Griffin
John Taylor
Alma
Atkinson
Brantley County
Midway
Leroy —Sellers
Baxley
Benjamin Huston Garrett
Columbus
Macon to Invite G. E. A. to City
Macon Georgia May 2 The convention committee of the chamber of commerce met to prepare an invitation for the 1938 G E A convention A chamber delegation will present Macons bid at the G E A executive committee meeting in Athens Thursday
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Macon
Chamber of Commerce
Dempsey
Chamber
Athens
Miller Pulitzer Prize Wife Wins Divorce Decree in Waycross
Caroline Miller, Pulitzer Prize winner for Lamb in His Bosom, obtained an uncontested final decree of divorce from W D Miller in Ware County Superior Court Waycross. The case cites jealousy over her writing career and book success as key causes of the rift.
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Lamb
Caroline Miller
Waycross
W. D. Miller
Ware County Superior Court
Miller
Lee Miller
Georgia Southwestern May Day fete honored by Physical Education Club
Georgia Southwestern in Americus staged an elaborate May Day program last night sponsored by the Physical Education Club. The event featured student performances and festive activities reflecting campus traditions and spring celebrations.
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Georgia Southwestern
Americus
Physical Education Club
Sheriff Sale Of Henry Shealy Place In Taylor County Georgia
Public outcry sale at the courthouse door in Butler Taylor County Georgia on the first Tuesday in June 1987. The Henry Shealy place consisting of 105 acres in two parcels lies along the Butler Thomaston road with portions on both sides of the highway. The property was levied to satisfy an execution in favor of Edd Youngblood against R S Vann and the levy was made August 7 1937 by former Sheriff R P McGuffin and turned over May 4 1937 to John M Bone Sheriff.
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Court House
Butler
Taylor County
Georgia
Towit
Henry Shealy
McCants’ Mill
Thomaston
Superior Court
Edd Youngblood
R. S. Vann
Fife
R. P. McGuffin
Possum Found In Hill Of Yams With Quintuplets
In Dawson Georgia on May 2 a Lee County garden yields a mother opossum and five young in a potato bank. A negro cook at Leo Mallard's garden, the county agricultural agent, found the possum and its five offspring while gathering potatoes for dinner.
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Dawson
Lee County
Leo Mallard
Mallard
Poison Meal Fatal For Two In Richland Ga
Richland Georgia March 1 65 year old Carlos Duke died and Ed Coker 14 was injured after eating poisoned biscuits made with calcium arsenate laced flour. They shared a farm home four miles from Richland Duke cooked the meal and investigators say the last sack of flour contained the poison. Coker recovered after medical aid while Duke was interred after body transport to Columbus and Buena Vista cemetery.
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Richland
Carlos Duke
Ed Coker
Messrs
Duke
Coker
Mr. Duke
Mr. Coker
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J. R. Daniel
Law Department
Deniel
Hamilton
Military Department
ED Rivers
Millen
H. B. Brazelle
Pulitizer Prize
Best Buy
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Georgia Power Company
Farma Aa
Sheriff's Sale
Home Electric
GA. Power CO
Georgia Power
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