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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1917
Page
3
Local items from Dahlonega include visits by Prof Walter and Jady in Mountain Inn, sermons by Rev Robert Stuard at Concord church, and Deputy Sheriff Mavis buying a car. Reports cover crops, mining, price hikes, local deaths, court notes, a gas-tank explosion injuring John Tolbert, and various visits by townsfolk and officials.
A long list of jurors is drawn for October term including Grand and Traverse juries. Names include W T Grand, J N Pruett, H F Abercrombie, R M Dowdy, J L Sargent, W D McGuire, Geo L Walden, J B Seitz, J L Cain, and J B Edwards among many others. The article records the extensive panel for civic service.
The Lumpkin Superior Court sat for the one day April term with Judge J B Jones. No cases were tried due to absence of the Solicitor. The grand jury considered ex-Ordinary Smith's nine months extra services amounting to 400,000 dollars and allowed it. Foreman J H Moore was elected. Civil cases: G H Moore vs D A Owenby and Wm Rice vs F A Head judgments on note. State vs J C Doss two misdemeanors prosecuted by J F Sargent and T J Smith. cases not pressed after repayment and costs settled.
Georgia Lumpkin County sheriff sale of a one eighth acre Dahlonega town lot identified as Lot Seventeen in the Twelfth District First Section map, bounded by Sargent Hotel public square Hall House and Warwick Street. Property levied from J F Sargent under an Jefferson County Bank of Dabtonggs execution. Sale August first Tuesday 1917. J M Davis Sheriff.
Two car loads of tin cans offered by the Hall County Food Council. No. 2 solder-top cans at 4.50 per hundred and No. 3 solder-top at 5.50 per hundred, cash with order. Extra 0.20 per hundred for crate. wagon orders call at Gainesville free of crating. Mail orders to J. F. Carter, Chairman.
The Lumpkin County grand jury in 1917 recommended paying H. B. Smith $450 for nine months of extra county services from April to December 1916. Judge Jones cites Section 6001 governing compensation for officers with no fixed pay. The court records show Smith, sworn July 7, 1917, and the jury’s recommendation to the county treasurer for payment.
Mr. W. F. Keenan of this county, about forty, says he never used doctors medicines or even pills or salts in his life. He asserts that if everyone were as healthy as he, doctors would have to retire from business.
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