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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
2
A collage of wartime notes from Georgia covers debt, sugar seizures, sugar and liquor concerns, enlistment calls, road funding, price controls, and local economy. It notes the Marie of a newspaper in France, sugar shipments, a hog weigh in Chicago, and public policy shifts amid World War I pressures.
War tax affects a package of playing cards and other home front items. Ship builders receive war service exemption while reports note American soldiers arriving in France and treasury auditors sent to audit army accounts. Headlines mention meat substitutes, salt preserving corn, and local legal and social vignettes from Georgia.
Provost Marshal General Crowder urges all men registered June 5 to note that new draft rules restore those not yet drafted to their original states before examinations. He warns registrants to know and follow the draft law or face imprisonment up to one year and possible loss of rights and immediate induction.
The list shows first to eighth grade students named as honor roll members at Dahlonega Graded School for November. Included are Willett Beck Francisco Beartfield Helen Head Fannie Lee Lance Annie Pearl Walker Oma Anderson and others across grades one through eight with several spelling errors in names. An unrelated news brief notes local police and medical observations, a bottle of catarrh cure advertisement, and an election notice for school trustees on December 22, 1917 with officials H F Hickens and C S.
Claud McGuire offers piano tuning and repair services in Dahlonega Georgia with guaranteed satisfaction and reasonable prices. He notes three years of specialized training at the Academy for the Blind in Macon Georgia.
In Dahlonega Lumpkin County Mrs. Borror proposes Col. Baker as a suitable mayoral candidate for the upcoming election pending mass meeting action. He is described as fully competent and up on the law. Orrizen. Georgia.
Sheriff J M Devries announces sale before the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in January 1918 within legal hours. Property includes a six horsepower gasoline engine and belt a portable wood saw a one horse wagon a buckboard and about one hundred bushels of corn. Levied under an execution from Lumpkin County Superior Court in favor of Bank of Lumpkin County against H C McGuire. November 28 1917.
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