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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1905
Page
3
Grand jury returns true bills as Dahlonega notes spring activity. Local mail, mining plans, and court reports unfold with updates on road law, tax deadlines, and nearby mining ventures. Dahlonega residents hear updates on dredge work, bore mine plans, and local civic events.
A Lumpkin county grand jury member drafted a resolution demanding editors accept reduced legal advertising fees. The item argues the sheriff controls ads but the jurors deny rights to press their own fee reductions. They note past practices of fee sharing and question motives of those pressing lower pay.
A local ad lists wide range of goods with low prices including ginghams 7 cents, calico 5¢ to 64e, cotton checks 5c, shoes and stockings, suspenders 5c to 50c, clocks 1.98 and 90c, candy, paper and school supplies half price, Quaker oats 12¢, canned corn 10c, oysters 14 lbs sugar 1.00, meat 10c, flour up to 1.00, coffee 15c, coconut 5c, and tobacco 25c for two packs.
Those named previously still awaiting sentence include Walter Anderson fined 10 dollars and costs and Warren Sullins fined 50 dollars and costs. Sullins charge for carrying concealed weapons was not pressed. George Gorn fined 150 dollars. Several cases resulted in not guilty verdicts or settlements, including Cochran and Clements for misdemeanors, Coffee for selling liquor with Wine 75 dollars and costs, Goodlock plea of guilty with fine and costs, and Bonds forfeited in Anderson, Stancel, and Early matters. Ripley v G D Bruce resulted in overruling demurrer and cost judgment against plaintiffs.
Jurors drawn for October term list grand jurors led by A W Peck J N Davis W H Jones and others plus traverse jurors including Galey M Dale Wm Dowdy Geo Barnes John White Josiah White Norrell Walden and many more names filed for the term.
An incident at Crown Mountain last Wednesday saw a fifteen hundred pound pump break free in a shaft. It dropped a considerable distance, narrowly missing Townsend below as he was on a ladder performing work.
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