Gordon Military College to Open with Largest Enrollment
Georgia outlook notes Gordon Military College at Barnesville will open Tuesday with enlarged facilities and the largest enrollment in its history. Other items: Jasper county Confederate veteran J L G Woods dies. Ware county tobacco growers oppose compulsory grading. Albany Circuit Bar Institute set for Oct 6.
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Gordon Military College
Barnesville
Ware County
Judiciary
State Bar
Jegal
Albany Circuit Bar Association
Albany Americal Legion Country Club
Traffic Cops Ticket Speeding on 35 MPH Law
In Atlanta on September 5 Motorcycle Pa Epps was stopped by Traffic Captain Jack Malcom and two patrolmen after they questioned an emergency call. They admitted no emergency and received speeding tickets for violating the 95 mile per hour limit, each fined under the city ordinance.
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Atlanta
T. M. Stribling
T. Pofers
Jack Malcom
Hendry 18 Elected Court Clerk in Guck County
Adel Sept 16 Hendry was elected clerk of the superior court of Guck county in a field of eight candidates. He received 17 votes more than the next highest, Newburn, and will serve out the unexpired term of the late J K Sinclair. He is a well known farmer.
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Adel
Hendry
Superior Court
Guck County
Newburn
J. K. Sinclair
Ellaville Sun Wins Georgian American Trophy at Calhoun
Ellaville Sun in Mavile Georgia received the Georgian American Trophy during the Georgia Press Association meeting. The weekly paper, led by columnist Raymond Duncan known as Schley Slants, recently bought the Schley County News as it marks its two year anniversary.
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Mavile
Ellaville Sun
Raymond Duncan
Schley
Georgia Press Association
Calhoun
Schley County News
Mortgage Papers Burned to Celebrate Debt Retirement
Americus on September 8 reports Lee Street Methodist church burned mortgage papers this morning to mark the retirement of a long standing debt tied to Lee Street paving. Officials received the cancelled note and mortgage papers a few days ago. the debt originated with street paving near the church and parsonage properties.
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Americus
Lee Street
Chmed
Prominent Talbotton Lady Mrs Gideon Tucker Dies at 85
Mrs Gideon T Tucker of Talbotton Ga dies at home aged 85 after a long life in the community. She is survived by one daughter Mrs Ben Adams Talbotton and several grandchildren including Mrs Kate Storey Joe and Pearson Tucker and two great grandchildren Car and Earl Storey. Funeral services were held at the home of her son-in-law B W Adams with Rev J W Womble of the Talbotton Baptist church officiating. Burial followed in a family burying ground near the residence.
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Talbotton
Gideon T. ‘Tucker
Ben Adams
Kate Storey
Joe
Pearson Tucker
Maton
Car
Earl Storey
Tucker
B.W. Adams
J. W. Womble
Talbotton Baptist Church
H. W. Joiner
Opening Dates for State Colleges Announced
Atlanta reports the State Board of Regents set start dates for 14 Georgia University System units. Classes begin between September 15 and 27 at schools including the University of Georgia in Athens on September 27 and Georgia Tech on September 18, with many others starting September 27.
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Board of Regents
Southeastern Construction Company of Atlanta
University of Georgia
Athens
Atlanta
State Board of Regents
Georgia University System
Athena
Georgia Tech
Atlanta Evening College
Atlanta Junior College
University of Georgia School of Medicine
Augusta
Georgia State College For Women
Milledgeville
South Georgia Teacher's College
Statesboro
Georgia State Woman's College
Valdosta
Georgia Southwestern College
Americus
West Georgian College
Carrollton
Middle Georgia College
Cochran
North Georgia College
Dahlonega
South Georgia College
Douglas
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Tifton
Youth hunted in 1936 hit run killing surrenders
Homer Ga Sept 2 Sheriff Farris Brewer said J A Davis Jr about 22 who had been sought for nearly three years in the Homer Cornelia road death of Lewis Turpin gave himself up on Saturday He had waited on jail steps since midnight saying I just got tired of being hunted Indicted for murder in the October 1936 hit run incident.
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Homer
Farris Brewer
J. A. Davis, Jr
Banks County
Davis
Brewer
Lewis Turpin
Homer-Cornelia Road
Atlanta Society Editor Mrs Mainer Lee Toler Dies in Auto Wreck
Dublin report says Mrs Mainer Lee Toler society editor of The Atlanta Constitution was fatally injured when her sedan left the Savannah highway near Dublin after a tire blow-out and rolled down an embankment. She was en route to Charleston for a Labor Day week-end cruise with friends and had served on the newspaper staff for 16 years.
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Dublin
Mainer
Lee Noler
Atlanta Constitution
Toler
Savannah
Charleston
S. C
Constitution Society
Woman's Department
Rix Stafford
J. T. Toler
Constitution
Bandits Rob Bank in Ashburn Highway 41 Heist
Two white men robbed Citizens Bank of Ashburn during lunch hour and escaped after forcing Vice President K P Baker and customer G P Leggett into a vault. About $1000 in paper and silver taken. A teller attempted to warn and alarm, but bandits halted the effort. Local sheriff reports details, descriptions unclear.
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Ashburn
Alex Story
Citizens Bank
Leggett
Rockmart Bank Robbed by Calm Lone Bandit in Georgia
In Rockmart Georgia a sole bandit neatly dressed and calm robbed the Rockmart Bank Tuesday afternoon taking an undetermined amount of cash estimated in the hundreds of dollars. The culprit fled in a 1982 Chevrolet coach toward Dallas and Atlanta as state police and FBI agents joined the search.
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Rockmart
Bob Sproul
Sproull
Justice Russell Memorial Rites
More than 3800 of Georgia's leading lawyers gathered in the Supreme Court room at the state capitol to pay tribute to the late Chief Justice Richard B. Russell. Judge Arthur Powell read the memorial address prepared by longtime colleagues, noting Russell's service as Judge of the Court of Appeals, chief justice of the appellate court, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1923 to 1938.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Supreme Court Room
State Capitol
Richard B. Russell
Arthur Powell
Russell
Court of Appeals
Appellate Court
Supreme Court
Chas. S. Reid
Judge Powell
Slayer of Two Dies in Florida Electric Chair
Harvey McGraw a 22 year old from Alabama was executed in Florida's electric chair for forcing Montgomery men C D Wilkinson and T Mann to drive him from Georgiana across state lines. Bodies of the two motorists were found tied together near their car after McGraw fled on a train at Pensacola.
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Raiford
Harvey McGraw
Morida
Montgomery
Ala
Florida
Georgiana
Young McGraw
C. D. Wilkinson
T. Mann
McGraw
State Line
Milton
Fla
Pensacola
Commute outcome for Macon County killer of mother
A. B. Allen of Oglethorpe County had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the governor. The commutation followed recommendations from the prison and parole board and broad family support, amid a case in which Allen fatally beat his mother after she refused to give him her old age pension check.
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Atlanta
A. B. Allen
Oglethorpe
Executive Department
Virginia Dare Stone Conference Put Off In Georgia
Gainesville, September 1. New discoveries about the Virginia Dare stones caused the two day conference of historians archaeologists and geologists to be postponed. Dr. H J Pearce Sr Brenau College president said the findings may or may not shed light on the fate of the lost colony and could not be divulged immediately. The conference will be rescheduled for the fall.
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Gainesville
North Carolina
H. J. Pearce Sr
Brenau College
New World
Europe
Pearce
Funeral for Felton Mackey Shotgun Victim in Tazewell
The funeral for Felton B. Mackey a 38 year old Marion County man fatally wounded with a shotgun at his home was held at the Tazewell Methodist church. Sheriff Carl Rigsby said no case was filed against Leo Swearingen who allegedly shot Mackey after an approach with a knife. Mackey died at an Americus hospital early Tuesday and is survived by his parents brothers and sisters resident in Georgia and Florida.
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Tazewell
Felton B. Mackey
Marion Countiun
Tazewell Methodist Church
Carl Rigsby
Schley County
Leo Swearingen
Mackey
Americus Hospital
Georgia tobacco sales rise but prices drop to decade lows
Georgia tobacco sales increased by 8,802,277 pounds this year compared with 1988, totaling 104,886,208 pounds sold by 65 warehouses in 16 towns. Total income fell to 12,981,567 dollars, averaging 12.82 cents per pound, the lowest since 1981.
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Atlanta
Georgia
State Department of Agriculture
Memorial rites set for editor in Nashville Georgia
Nashville Georgia memorial service for editor Joe Lawrence, who died August 26, will be held September 10 at 3 p m in Nashville Baptist church. Lawrence helped organize the Nashville club after the Clark and Bell revival eight years ago, linking clubs across South and Middle Georgia. Wr Parker of Remerton, superintendent of Strickland Cotton Mills at Valdosta, will preside as talks by friends accompany music during the service.
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Nashville
Nashville Evangelistic Club
Joe Lawrence
Nashville Baptist Church
Lawrence
South
Middle Georgia
Wr. R. Parker
Remerton
Strickland
Valdosta
Atlanta Woman Glad to Return From Europe
Mrs. S. M. Franco, an Atlanta resident, returned from a five week tour via New York and the Normandie after visiting Egypt and France. She described France bracing for war and noted broad respect for the United States. On the Normandie voyage the ship prepared for potential attacks with lights out and prohibited radios at night.
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Atlanta
Europe
M. Franco
New York
Alexandria
Egypt
France
Haye
Rev A W Rountree Dead in Statesboro Crash Toll Rises
Four people died and six were injured in a head on crash at two highways near Statesboro. Rev A W Rountree of Midville died in a Statesboro hospital. Also dead were J B Cross and Edwin and Ronald Cross. Mrs Cross, widow, is in critical condition. Injured include Linwood Cross, James Battle, Howard Lee, J C Malone and T T Molnar. The Rotarians were returning from a Savannah meeting.
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Midville
Statesboro
A. W. Rountree
J. B Cross
Rev. Rountree
Edwin Cross
Londonna Wed to Georgia Girl Gets War Summons
Miss Ger trude Walker of Patterson and Peter Newsom Smith of London wed at Grace Episcopal church Waycross. They were en route to New York to sail to England where the groom will take a commission with territorial gunners for immediate war service. The ceremony followed an advance wedding date due to England declaring war. The groom is son of London’s sheriff. the bride is daughter of Mrs Lester Walker. The couple spent a house party on St Simons Island before news of immediate deployment.
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Waycross, Ga
Gertrude Walker
Patterson
Peter Newsom-Smith
London
Grace Episcopal Church
Waycross
New York
England
Newson-Smith
H. Harper
Lester Walker
Walker
Here
Miss Walker
St. Simons Island
Mr. Newson-Smith
Weekend Death Toll Tops 200 Across Nations
The Associated Press reports over 200 weekend fatalities as of Monday, with 216 dead in the United States from traffic accidents and other causes, Illinois leading with 24 deaths while Georgia records two. Europe reports many deaths in war zones as the long holiday weekend continues.
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Associated Press
United States
Europe
Illinois
Georgia
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Jimmie Lou Hoggard
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Ruth Hightower
Bradenton, Ma
J. J. Killebrew
Glasscock County
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Flint River Baptist Association
Jonesboro Baptist Church
Wm. L. Grayson
Atlantic City
Veterans’ 41St National Convention
Rome
Alabama
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The
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LeRoy Davis
Columbus
Ed Cartwright
Charles L. Howard Jr
Augustan
Augustan Country Club
C. A. Gillespie
Lawrence Camp
U. S
Ardent New Dealer
Democratic Council of Georgia
Jno
T. Perguson
Ohn
Burns
Fife
Charles Daugherty
Aegalthy
Screven County
Planter
Cook
Ford
Mike Benton
John Henderson
Naval Stores
Lakelad
Henderson
E. D. Rivers
John Burns
Scarboro Naval Stores
Charlie Daughtry
Screven
Sidney Lanier
Millen
Cliff Rainey, I
S. C Rainey Jr
Frank Chappell
Macon County
C. B. Stevenson
Montezuma
C. D. Champion
B. C. Cliff
Marshallville
O. M. Spears
Ideal
Near Waycross
Peter Newson-Smith
W. B. Gibbs
Congress
Eighth District Postmaster Association
Jesup
A. G. Williams
Preat
Americas
Frank Morrison
Henry Brown
Morrison
South Georgia
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Gideon
T, Tucker
Atlanta Society
Mainer Lee 'Toler
Ashburn Bank
Rockmart Bank
Justice Russell
Mothe
Virginia Dare Stone
MR. Pelton Mackey
Londonna
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