Early Morning Lights On Ga Highways
A vivid Georgia road diary from Montezuma to Griffin captures dawn scenes of ginning season in Middle Georgia. Farmers, truckers, crops, and rural life unfold with imagery of cotton fields, peanut work, livestock, and Kudzu as the day begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montezuma
Hicks’ Mill
Middle Georgia
Reynolds
Veal
Roberta
Culloden
Guernsey
Alon
Hopkins
Kudzu
China
V Day Service Planned at Local Methodist Church
Rev C L Glenn announces Victory Day prayer services at the local Methodist church with three time slots to accommodate early surrender news from Germany. Attendance open to city and surrounding communities and schedules adjust to when surrender news is broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev
Glenn
C. L. Glenn
Germany
H L Wingate to Address Taylor County Farmers Friday Night
Hon H L Wingate of Pelham president of the Georgia Farm Bureau will speak at the Taylor County farm bureau meeting Friday at the court house starting 8 p m He will discuss marketing and grading of peanuts and cotton All farmers in the county are invited to hear the talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Wingate
Taylor County
Court House
Pelham
Georgia Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Wingate
War Food Administration to Buy 1944 Cotton at Parity Prices
The War Food Administration will purchase the 1944 cotton crop at parity prices for which a loan schedule is announced and has storage. County AAA chairman H A Sealy said the program aims to assure parity and runs through June 30, 1945 with CCC handling purchases. Parity prices for middling grades are given. Sept 15 parity not yet announced. Farmers will be notified on storage and purchase handling details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Sealy
County Aaa Committee
Taylor County
CCC
Second Sugar Allotment Applications Open on October 13 14
The board approves the second allotment for canning sugar and urges anyone needing it to file only on October 13 and 14. No applications will be accepted later this month. All sugar coupons remain valid until February 1945.
State Officials Issue New Rules to Draft Boards
Col James N Keelin Jr state director of selective service for Georgia sends guidelines to all local boards. He says emphasis shifts from induction to employment and reemployment of returning veterans, with local boards and committees responsible for reinstatement and placement. Georgia has 188 boards with over 1200 personnel to carry out the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. N. Keelin Jr
Selective Service For
Georgia
Col. Keelin
Congress
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Rep Pace Calls Meeting of All Cotton Interests
Washington September 30 A week long national cotton conference was called Saturday by a House agriculture planning group led by Chairman Pace to study the industrys perils. The Dec 4 meeting will gather leaders from producers spinners ginners warehouse men crushers bankers and railroads with Government officials and congressmen to seek remedies before the industry is destroyed. Pace warned that after war end a huge surplus looms and foreign production grows while synthetic fibers threaten cotton. The agenda includes subsidies crop control and parity prices.
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Washington
House Agriculture Planning
Pace
D-Ga
Georgia
Methodist Women to Hold Meeting in Talbot County
The Societies of Christian Service of Methodist churches in Taylor, Talbot and Marion counties meet at Centerville, Talbot County, for a joint Zone Meeting on Wednesday October 11. All ladies invited to attend with sandwiches or a covered dish. Program begins at 10:45 a.m. with visiting speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Societies of Christian Service of the Methodist Churches
Taylor
Talbot
Marion Counties
Centerville
Talbot County
Combat Infantryman Badge Awarded R. F. Wilson For Service in Italy
Pfc. Robert F. Wilson of Howard Georgia and Route 1 has been cited by his 85th Custer Division regiment and awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge for actual combat on the Fifth Army front in Italy. The badge shows a silver rifle against infantry blue within a silver wreath.
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Fifth Army
Italy
Robert F. Wilson
Route 1
Howard
85Th
Custer
War Department
Alfred E Smith Dies at Rockefeller Institute in New York
Alfred E. Smith seventy native of New York City East Side and four time New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential candidate died at the Rockefeller Institute at six this morning after a long illness in New York City.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
New York City
East Side
New York State
Rockefeller Institute
Auction Sale of Willis Estate Furniture Farm Implements Ford
Auction sale scheduled for Saturday October 7 at 10 am at the J. T. Willis Estate Farm near Howard. Items include household and kitchen furniture farm implements and a Model B Ford automobile. All property of the late J. T. Willis deceased. October 5 1944. H. A. Sealy administrator.
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J. T. Willis
Howard
H. A. Sealy
Dreizin's Dept Store Opens Thursdays All Fall to Spring
Dreizin's Dept Store in Butler Georgia announces Thursday afternoon hours throughout fall winter and spring with the store closed on Sundays.
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Dreizin's Dept. Store
Butler, Ga
Roberta Police Chief Wounded in Sunday Night Attack
Milton Horne chief of Roberta police was seriously wounded Sunday night after arresting a man at a camp meeting. The assailant stabbed Horne in the left arm and struck him with the pistol in a struggle before fleeing, with Grady Wadsworth aiding in subduing the assailant.
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Roberta
Milton Horne
Macon
Ike Martin
Grady Wadsworth
Horne
Martin
Wadsworth
Col Samuel F Garlington Dies at Augusta After Illness
Augusta Ga Oct 2 Samuel Fleming Garlington 75 prominent attorney and former Georgia state legislator died Sunday after weeks of illness Funeral services were held Tuesday at Westover Memorial Park He was born in Laurens DC son of Elizabeth Fleming Garlington and Creswell Garlington He led Butler Male and Female College for three years studied law admitted to bar in 1893 and practiced in Augusta three terms in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1909 to 1914 Survivors include his wife Mary Cozart Garlington sister Mrs John Wells Todd Sr Laurens and numerous nieces and nephews
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel F. Garlington
Augusta
Samuel Fleming Garlington
Westover Memorial Park
Garlington
Laurens
D. C
Georgia
House of Representatives
Second Presbyterian Church of
Charleston
Mary Cozart Garlington
John Wells Todd Sr
Taunton Receives Bronze Star From CBI Air Service Command
Cpl. Fred Taunton of Route No 1 Butler Georgia has been awarded the Bronze Star on his Asiatic Pacific Ribbon for participation in a major engagement. He serves as armament repairman in the China Burma India Air Service Command under Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Hanley. Taunton has 30 months of service, ten months in the CBI Theater. His mother Mrs Mamie Taunton lives at the same address.
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India
Cpl
Fred Taunton
Butler
Cpl Taunton
China
Burma
Funeral Services for Mrs Butler Held Yesterday
Funeral services for Mrs Estelle Tomlin Butler were conducted yesterday at 3 p.m. in the local hospital chapel, with Rev. W E Hightower and Rev. C L Glenn presiding. The lifelong community resident, wife of Hon Walter J Butler, had been ill over a year and died after weeks of care. She aided the church, Sunday school and Missionary Society and helped fund the new Methodist church dedicated in 1920. Survivors include her husband, two nieces, a nephew, and several great nieces and nephews. Active pallbearers were business associates of the Butler family.
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Estelle Tomlin Butler
Walter J. Butler
Butler
Methodist Church
The
Missionary Society
Parsonage Aid Society
Methodist
Butler Homestead
W E. Hightower
Hightower
Tomlin
Mary Wilkerson Long
Campbell Jones
Macon
Thomas Holt
Jacksonville
Fla
Robert B. Wright
Moultrie
Robert Train
Hariet Wright
Thomas Holt Jr
U. S. Army
Italy
Robert Wright Jr
U. S. Navy
Jerry Wright
Notre Dame
Mrs. Butler
Stessrs
H. H. Riley
J. T. Cochran
Hoodman Parks
R. L. Bell
J. R. Wilson
D. W. Culverhouse
Shepherd to organize university extension class here
Mr. R. E. Shepherd of the University of Georgia Extension service will be in this city Thursday afternoon to organize an extension class. Interested citizens may learn full details at the courthouse at 4 o clock this afternoon.
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R. E. Shepherd
University of Georgia Extension Service
Court House
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Violet Moore
Atlanta Journal
War Food Administration
R. F. Wilson
N. Y. Hospital
Bronze Star
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