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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1917
Page
2
A wide array of wartime items and local notices fill this column. Reports include livestock prices, troop movements, conscription updates, post office issues, and political shifts. The piece mentions Col G B Eytle and Col T F Underwood, bread and fuel concerns, and the ongoing debate over liberty and draft policies in Georgia.
Bro Singleton of the Clayton Tribune argues against creating a Habersham County Board of Commissioners. He cites past abolition of two boards, political self interest, higher taxes, and mismanagement concerns, urging continued businesslike county administration without new offices.
A regional editor discusses the impossibility of pleasing everyone and the plan to omit personal commentary on weddings. An anecdote mocks a Texas editor who published a harsh wedding notice detailing Susie Scruggs and Harris Guflin, describing the bride as ordinary and flirtatious and the groom as a loafer.
Fragmentary remarks mention a marriage home, vague future plans, and a plea for Germany to pursue peace to save lives. Also cited are casualties of war and a report that sixteen cattle dipping vats were dynamited in Lowdues county in one night last week.
N P Pratt and others petition the Georgia Secretary of State for a charter for Chestatee Railway Company. The plan: a 9.75 mile railroad from Clermont in Hall County to the Chestatee mines in Lumpkin County passing White Hall and Lumpkin counties with headquarters in Atlanta. Capital stock set at 150 000 dollars. Petition notes four weeks’ notice via sheriffs’ advertisements in Hall White and Lumpkin counties.
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