Local Lumpkin County items urge thrift and road plans
A Dahlonega area page notes court sessions, rising bread and flour prices, seed shortages for velvet beans, and calls to plant corn and beans. It reports on pensions, rail mail disruptions, cane and syrup, veterans, and a proposed Brookton to Pyrites mine railroad with local subscriptions being raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville & Northwestern
Brookton
Dahlonega
Gainesville
Turner Quillian
Messrs. Pratts
Pyrites
Railroad Commission
Tick Eradication in Lumpkin County Provokes Doubt
A Lumpkin county board and Dr. Seright clash over tick control funding and staffing. W B Townsend authorizes one laborer, then delays and adds invoices for chemicals. Andrew Cochran begins work but finds no ticks, triggering public distrust in the county tick department.
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Miss Dowdle
Athens
Newman
Dahlonega
Lumpkin County
State of Georgia
U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry
Andrew Cochran
W. B. Townsend
Mill Creek
Nimblewill
W. H. Seright
Cochran
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