15 Feb 1907
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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1907
Page
1
J.J. Kimsey Judge and W.A. Charters Solicitor General preside across Georgia counties listed with term days. Bore a Ga hall rules set for January and July. Dawson February and August. Rabun February and August. Habersham March and September. Towns March and September. Union April and October. White April and October. Lumpkin April and October. Stephens May and November.
County officers include G. G. Evans as Ordinary and D. L. Cook as Clerk. James M. Davis serves as Sheriff with M. L. Seabolt as Tax Collector. J.M. Calhoun is Tax Receiver, C. J. Jarrard as County Surveyor, and J. A. Hollifield as Treasurer.
City government list names E. B. Vickery as mayor and an aldermanic board including W. B. Gurley Montie Moore B F Anderson Dr Home Head W J Hightower and T Littlefield with Wm J Worley as clerk and W W Crisson as marshal.
Religious notices list Baptist J E Ashmore pastor with Sunday 11 and 1 (or 11) prayer meeting Thursday and Sunday School at 9. Methodist Rev E P Dempsey pastors 1 and 5 pm services with Wednesday prayer meeting and 3 pm Sunday School. Presbyterian preaching on the third Sunday led by Rev J D McPhil. The Cherokee Advance editor jokes about unpaid subscribers and dropping names from the roll of honor while noting Dahlonega visits.
A feature comparing the tongue to a deadly weapon, noting it can ruin reputations more enduringly than guns. It cites quotes on gossip, envy, and malice, and contrasts public outrage with long lasting social harm. It includes anecdotes about ministers and EnglishIrish stereotypes.
A Chicago Chronicle piece recalls extravagant spending by the wealthy. It cites a French marquise with a bed strewn with orchids, a Parisian diner who pays for a costly meal and tips lavishly, and others such as a man with a $25 supper and $8 $4 $2 $1 tips, a widow buried in a $20 000 coffin, and elites buying costly dentures pianos and saddles with immense sums.
A Huntsville Alabama dispatch reports local church members forecasting the millennium begins in 2000 making 92 years 11 months and 5 days until the end of time. The Rev Revelations based reading cites a 1000 year Satan imprisonment ending about 1001 AD prompting this near term time horizon. The Marietta Courier notes skepticism while the Manatee Record jokes about public concern over prosperity. A job-work order is requested.
The couple were fond and engaged but quarreled, refusing reconciliation. He visited the young woman at her home asking to see her father on business, claiming a personal matter. She challenged him asking who was calling, and he left with a final smug stance.
A farmer in trouble with a balking wagon is offered help by a passing youth. For 10 cents the youth applies a mysterious liquid to the horses and they immediately pull the load free. The old man asks what it is and the youth replies “Her life.”
A nervous man hands 85 cents to back a bet on a team urging a quick win, seeking luck as he pleads for a quarter’s wager to stay in the race.
A call to young people to develop self reliance and courage, fighting fear and corruption to defend integrity and public intellect. The piece urges personal sacrifice and steadfast duty, noting Habersham county has 194 persons paid pensions by the state.
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