County Agent Board Plans Countywide Agricultural Meetings
Georgia bankers promote county extension groups with a dozen leaders agreeing to another year. Meetings aim to share practices, invite grand jury endorsement, and vary topics to engage farmers across Crowells church and Central schoolhouse with 4-H team activity and fruit crop notes.
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Georgia Bankers Association
Taylor County
ABC
Agricultural Board
Grand Jury
Ach
Crowells Church
Central School House
Pecan Crop Projections Hurt by 1930s Estimates
The September crop forecast from the Department of Agriculture shows the United States pecan yield at about 80.46 million pounds, down from 88 million last year and 60 million in 1998. The western eastern pecan belt, led by Texas and Oklahoma, relies on native varieties amid slower growth of improved cultivated types.
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Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
Georgia
Texas
Oklahoma
Taylor County
Thurman Whatley
J. W. Musslewhite
United States’ Department of Culture
Fulton Grand Jury Denounces County Official Pensions
The Fulton County Grand Jury in Atlanta condemns a 1929 constitutional amendment allowing pensions for county officials and employees. It claims the measure was secretly pushed through, without public input, and fears it sets a precedent for statewide pension burdens while noting current salaries are already high. The resolution urges Georgia voters to reject the amendment at the November General Election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton County
Grand Jury
Fulton
Fultons County
Georgia
Inmate Mary Robertson Attempts Suicide in Macon Jail
A jailed woman identifying as Mary Robertson of Dublin Ga tried to harm herself twice Friday night. She first slashed a wrist vein with wire torn from her cell and then attempted to hang herself using the same improvised ligature.
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Mary Robertson
Dublin
Macon
Just Twixt Us Editor's Note on Old Ways Versus Modern Education
Bridges Smith reflects on changing childrearing and schooling, praising old time methods while noting modern opportunities. He contrasts library access, rapid education, and younger generations with past routines, acknowledging brighter print days yet defending traditional values.
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Bridges Smith
Bob
Straus LeVert Memorial Completes Talbotton Community House
Talbotton Georgia celebrates the completion of the Straus LeVert Memorial Community House formerly LeVert Female College funded by a $3,000 gift from Hubert and Isador Straus and a $2,500 additional contribution by Mr and Mrs Percy Straus. The building features floors, rebuilt walls, kitchen, banquet and club rooms, two rest rooms library and auditorium with heating electricity and running water. Lazarus Straus, talbotton native, inspired the gift as his grandson's interest.
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Talbotton
LeVert Female College
Hubert and
Isador Straus
New York City
Luis
Percy Straus
Talbottons
Messrs Straus
Lazarus Straus
Talbottonians
Straus-LeVert Memorial
Colquitt County Georgia Harvest Showcase Under Bankers Guidance
In Colquitt County Georgia, Moultrie led farmers to a diversified plan after postwar cotton declines. A harvest festival on October 22 invites the state to see how a county cash market and cooperative program sustained prosperity with oats corn peanuts and cotton. Bankers led with a farmer friendly program. The area reports strong banking and mill employment despite some salary cuts.
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Tifton
Vocational Agricultural Teachers of
Georgia Forestry Service
Department of Vocational Agriculture
Moultrie
Georgia
Colquitt
South Georgia
W. C. Vereen
Moultrie Banking Company
Colquitt County
Mio
Cuthbert Man Rescued After Neck Rope Remedy Fails
John Emanuel, a railroad foreman in Cuthbert, tried to cure a neck crick by tying a rope to the ceiling and jumping to stretch his neck. He was left suspended, then rescued by his wife and neighbors, and taken to the hospital. He vows to change his remedy.
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Cuthbert
John Emanuel
Emanuel
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Dan Fountain
A. J. McCrary
Howard McCants
Winston Taunton
Vienna
Te International Livestock Expesition
Chicago
Mugia
Middle Georgia
Benjamin Hills
Alex Stephens
Bob Toombies
Lees
Horace Greely
Macon Academy
Camp
Finish Community House
Butler, Georgia
J. W. Johnson
Optometrist
H. J. Porter
eTeos
Butler, Ga
Butler Bake Shop
Butler
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