Cuthbert Appeal and Local Notices Amid Tight Times
The Cuthbert Appeal reports a subscription offer for five or more clubs to receive the Appeal until year end for 100 dollars, urges neighbor pooling, notes social plans including a picnic in Debuifton, and mentions local events. It also carries obituaries and notices of tax returns, a new doctor settlement, thefts near town, and ongoing Randolph County political campaigns.
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Times
William
Sam
James
John
Porutaniy
Goon Work and Public Service Reflections
Forty volunteers armed with shovels and picks labored early Monday under Marshal Kurksy to repair and beautify city streets, a project praised for its taste and judgment. A local citizen notes many solicitations to run for county office, yet declines, awaiting clear popular support.
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Kurksey
Meeting of the George town Bar
Members of the Georgetown Bar gathered for a term meeting in Quitman County with Col Herbert Fielder as chair and Jas H Guerry as secretary. They adopted resolutions thanking Judge Geo Bartlett for his fair service and directed publication of the thanks in local papers.
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Superior Court
Quitman County
Herbert Fielder
Jas. H. Guerry
J. T. Flewellen
Geo
Bartlett
Quitman Superior Court
Dawson Town Tales of Court and Candidates
A Dawson visit describes a slow business scene as merchants complain of tight money while planters cut bills. Court sessions fill with a heavy civil docket and many criminal cases. Capt. Weston looms as a busy, aging figure with many roles and ambitions for county offices. Famine fears in the Southwest and Georgia cotton trouble follow, along with freight through Chattanooga and a tax sale in Fairfield county, South Carolina.
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Dawson
Brother Combs
Journal
Weston
Okefenokee
Senate
Cox Fiscarion
Fairfield County
South Carolina
Brownlow on the War Path in Tennessee Speech
Brownlow condemns a Nashville Negro convention for denouncing a Parson Senator as a Radical traitor over civil rights. He warns the bill threatens public schools and a state system of public instruction, arguing only white Tennesseans should fund education. If mixed schools remain, he says Tennessee’s school fabric will collapse and costs shift to white citizens.
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Nshville
Radical Party
Brownlow
Tennessee
Refunding of the Cotton Tax Meant to Return Burden to Payees
A committee from cotton growing states has drafted a bill to refund the cotton tax. It proposes a three member Washington commission, appointed by the President with Senate confirmation, to hear evidence and grant refunds to those who bore the tax. Claims paid after three months require notice by newspapers, with unclaimed funds reallocated to educational use after three years. Washington correspondence notes a cotton tie invention by Earnest Grant praised by judges.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Treasury
Washington Cor
Baltimore Sun
Earnest Grant
Local Masonic Lodges Schedule Meetings
Local notes show Cuthbert Chapter No. 31 meets on the 2d Tuesday night at 7 3 o'clock and the 4th Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. Washington Lodge No. 19 meets on the Friday at 10 o'clock A M and the 3d Saturday at 7 4 o'clock P M each month. Officers listed: C C Burke H P M C Parkerson Secy J J Hantern W M A F Haus Sec'y.
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C. C. Burke
H. P. M. C. Parkerson
Washington Lodge
J. J. Hantern
W. M
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Atkins
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Anthony
Americus
Adams
A. Smith
J. M. Redding
T Lt
Tray
KA. Quartermtan
Randolph
of the
Georgetown Bar
Georgerows
Qurruax Co
Hill
Stephens
Hampton Roads Commission
Columbus Law and Enquirer
Southwestern
Dexter Park
Chicago
Non
King
Minneapolis
Canada
Geo. Robbins
England
Bull
Duke of Hillhurst
Arkansas
Johnson
State House
Brooks
General Newton
Lee Thompson
New Orleans
The
Corp and
the Cross
Augusta Chronicle
Middle Georgia
Chattanooga
Texas
A. F. Hall
Sec’y
Nasonic
Simmons
B. J. Jackson
Muro
Wards Station
Baldwitt
Mangham & Pittman
Thomas
Burke
Washington, Jefferson
Baldwin, Jones
Monroe
Upson
Harris
AL L. Long
Leesburg
Lee County
Powell
Jacob Mathews
A.J. Surles
Georgetown
Georgia
W. B. Tackerrt
Lumpkin Street
Oppo- Gillespie's Corner
District Court of the
U. S
Southern District of
K. A. Quarterman
District Court
West Harris
Azsiguee
Perrycriox
Brown Cotton Gen CO
New London
Conn
E. McDonald & CO
Cuthbert, Ga
Miy
Nansook
Bishop Lawn
Victoria Lawn
Jaconet Maslin
New York
J. McKunn
Las. Jacot
Aving
Appeal
College Street
T. S Powell
Blakely Street
L. C. McMichael & Sons
Hoyt
Ben
T. S. Powell
Oxford
T.S. Powell
A. W. Gillespie
Cuthbert Bakery
Cordell
Ta Cuthbert
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