Georgia State Exposition Plans Revealed in Macon
Plans for the state exposition week in Macon feature 15 departments with cash prizes across Georgia. Exhibits include poultry, livestock, crops, and household arts with county displays and the Georgia Boys and Girls Club exhibits. Special attractions include Wild West Rodeo, a five night fireworks program, a pigeon show, and a floral display by Bibb County. reduced rail fares and excursions are offered to visitors.
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Georgia
America
Metros
Wild West Rodeo
Poul- Ua
Rhode Island
Poultry Department
Georgia Boys’ and Girls’ Club
Bibb County Flower Club
Macon Pigeon Club
Derry
Macon
Hardman Creates Blood Commission in Georgia
Atlanta Sept. 28 Gov. L. G. Hardman named 12 Georgians to the state flood control commission under a late assembly resolution. Appointees include State Senator W. S. Tyson Darien J. M. Pitner Washington Sam M. Mathews Fort Valley Representative L. B. West Cuthbert R. E. Rivers Glenwood J. C. Beasley Glenville H. G. Huey Homerville A. F. Jones Brunswick D. E. Finley Valdosta W. J. Vereen Moultrie T. L. Huston Darien and C. H. Neisler Reynolds Tyson authored the resolution.
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Atlanta
L. G. Hardman
State Flood Control Commission
W. S. Tyson
Darien
J. M. Pitner
Washington
Sam M. Mathews
Fort Valley
L. B. West
Cuthbert
R. E. Rivers
Glenwood
J. C. Beasley
Glenville
H. G. Huey
Homerville
Jones
Brunswick
D. E. Finley
Valdosta
W. J. Vereen
Moultrie
T. L. Huston
C. H. Neisler
Reynolds
Tyson
Poultry Sales Resumed By Talbotton Cooperative
Poultry sales at Talbotton will resume Thursday October 10. Sales will be held on the second Thursday of each month through January 1. Prices and hours will be sent to those requesting details. J. W. Webb, County Agent, Talbotton Georgia.
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Falbotton
J. W. Webb
Talbotton
Prominent Planner Will Give a Party
R E Lee Wilson of Wilson Arkansas plans a farmers Get-Together Barbeque on Thursday October 10 to showcase Wilson Type Hig Boll cotton on 20000 acres in Mississippi County. Last year about 8000 guests from southern states attended with farmers experts and business men. this year about 5000 are expected with reduced rail rates offered. Mr W H Collins conducts the cotton breeding work and will display extensive experiments at Wilson's plantation for visiting growers to observe the methods and seed handling firsthand.
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R. E. Lee Wilson
Wilson, Ark
Misissippi
Arkansas
Alabama
Georgia
Carolinas
Wilson
South
W.H. Collins
Collins
Bride Stricken On Way To Church In Memphis
Miss Mary Nelson Sisson of Vienna Mississippi was stricken seriously ill in Memphis on Friday while en route to a noon wedding. She is the daughter of late T A Sisson a Mississippi congressman and was to wed Theodore Morrison of Atlanta. The ceremony will be held when she recovers, relatives said.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mary Nelson Sisson
Vienna
Miss
T. A. Sisson
Mississippi
Theodore Morrison
Atlanta
Governor Hardman Leads Train to Georgia Yale Game
Special to carry governor's party to Athens for the Georgia Yale football game on October 12. Gov L G Hardman and several governors travel from Atlanta on a Seaboard train leaving 8 40 Saturday morning with a stop at Emory University for executives. Attending officials include Lt Cols Mason and Coach and aides to various governors. High level coordination outlines where officials and family members will join and be accommodated for the event.
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Atlanta
L. G. Hardman
Athens
H. C. Parker
Emory University
North Carolina
Trumbull
Connecticut
Adjt
Parker
J. W. West
Byrd
Virginia
W. M. Camp
Tiffany Wilson
F. T. Kidd
Hardman
H. A. Camthers
Fla Labor Paper Editor Slain by City Employee
In Jacksonville on a Saturday, W P Billy Parker 56 editor of the Blue Shirt labor paper was shot dead in his office while his wife and daughter watched. City employee W H Jackson 40 confessed to the murder and was jailed on a technical charge after the killing tied to alleged derisive editorials about him.
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Jacksonville
Fla
W. P
Billy” Parker
The
Blue Shirt
W. H. Jackson
Inventor Prefers Jail to Disclosing Fuel Formula
Jacksonville inventor John W. Weeks refused to reveal his new motor fuel formula in federal court. Pratt Brothers of Atlanta bought the formula for 88500 at a court sale and Weeks was cited for contempt, remanded to jail until he complies, with Judge Lake Jones setting Tuesday as the deadline.
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Jacksonville
Fla
John W. Weeks
Pratt Brothers
Atlanta
Weeks
Lake Jones
Jones
Hall Wins Suit for Half Share in Paper Deal
In Macon on September 28, Federal Judge B S Deaver ruled Harold Hall and William LaVerre were equal partners in promoting 870000 from a paper trust to buy four newspapers. The decision ends a long U.S. District Court hearing after a federal probe showed the International Paper and Power Co financed publishers nationwide. The court ordered assets of the purchased properties be divided, with specifics set in the decree.
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Macon
Harold Hall
William LaVerre
Southern
Paper Trust
Deaver
United States District Court
Hall
LaVarre
International Paper and Power Company
Public Utilities Trust
American Legion Gathering Opens in Kentucky
Loulaville Kentucky September 80 martial music and the roll of drums greet the 11th annual American Legion convention opening with a morning armory meeting. Veterans cheer commander P V McNutt and leaders urging stronger national defense and greater aid for disabled veterans. Kenesaw Mountain Landis criticizes government neglect of mentally unfit veterans and blames the Republican party for stalled hospital improvements.
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Loulaville
American Legion
Armory
P. V. McNutt
Natonal
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Congress
Eloping Flapper Held in Honduras
Mary Lumpton a 16 year old high school sophomore from St Petersburg Florida eloped with a 23 year old Honduran guitarist. She arrived on a banana boat to Puerto Castilla where authorities placed her in the care of the American consul awaiting her parents. Ordonez the man was jailed and the consul will place the girl with a local family until her parents arrive.
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Ordonez
Puerto Castilla
Child Is Killed By Own Mother
Worcester, Sept. 28. Anna Kandart, 37, told police she killed two children by throwing a sharp bread knife at the desk of Officer Kelliher. Investigators found Kandart’s four year old daughter Eilen dead and Julia Chipulonis, three, neighbor’s child, fatally wounded at the Langdon street home.
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Worcester
Mass
T. J. Kelliher
Anna Kandart
Langdon Street
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National Guard
City Employe
American Legion Gathering
Honduras
Coolik’s
Ched
Oswego
D. Coolie
Amer Brown
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