Georgia Legislatures Visit Athens and County News Tangle
The Georgia legislature visited Athens last Saturday in a body. The senate confirmed Mrs. Ham as Gainesville postmaster. A Tallulah Falls visit drew nearly a thousand from Athens. Remarks note debt, state aid debates, and local ordinances in Commerce. The item on women voting hints at political tensions and social change.
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How to Live Cheaply from Simple Living Guide
Advice urges substituting comfort for show and simplicity over fashion. Emphasizes thrift, neatness, and prudence in a modest home, teaching self restraint from luxury items. Encourages happiness in inexpensive surroundings and avoiding costly adornments while valuing dignity and kindness.
Tax Equalizers Urged After Census Valuation Gap
The Macon Telegraph reports Georgia counties pay more to census enumerators than to tax receivers. Hart county lists lands undervalued at under one sixth of census value, Camden over three times census value. Lumpkin shows $2.86 per acre to receiver vs $4.49 to enumerator, with other counties like Union Dawson White Hall also showing nearly doubles. The piece argues for tax equalizers to fix the disparity.
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Camden
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White
Hall
Tom Bell Critiques Postoffice Fight and Legislation
Hon. Thomas M. Bell a Ninth District congressman criticizes alleged hidden influence at the capitol and defends A. S. Hardy who opposed Wilson. He notes sixteen of his eighteen recommended applicants supported Wilson and calls for lawmaking on tax equality, tadpole and game laws, amid a stalled legislature and lack of relief.
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J. O. Adams
Hall County
Hardy
Wilson
Baltimore
Underwood
Bell
Political miscellany and local affairs in Macon era
The piece cites resistance to resignations by a Macon postmaster, fishing rules favoring year round hook and line use, and calls for adjournment to settle debts. It notes planned law school funding debates, a delayed funeral due to a lost corpse, tax revision talk, a courtroom clash between Harris and the solicitor general, and broad partisan shifts benefiting Republicans amid slow office changes.
Local race draws only 82 votes in county
In the U. S. Senatorial election last Tuesday only 82 votes were polled in the county’s sole district. Senator Bacon faced no opposition, yielding a minimal tally and a quiet canvass overall.
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Bacon
For Sale By BF A Cane and Local Notices
BF A Cane offers a yoke of cattle six years old weighing about 1000 pounds each on Route No 8. Two cows with calves at Auraria area priced 30 dollars each. Also a mule for sale. A black silk coat lost by Mae Pry and Mrs Huff near Auraria. contact Pry. J M Brooksurr & Sons advertise discounted shoes with new stock.
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BF. A. Cane
Auraria
M. Lester
Walden 1915 12 months support citation Lumpkin Court
Lumpkin County Court of Ordinary July Term 1915 cites all persons concerned to show cause on the first Monday in August 1913 why Nancy Walden widow of S T P Walden should not be granted 12 months support. H B Serre Ordinary.
City Property For Sale In Dahlon Ega
House and lot near public square with two story dwelling plus basement and ten rooms. Includes additional building and outbuildings, good well water with pump. Price 1000 dollars with half cash and balance due in 12 months. Contact D. M. Griazun.
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Dahlonega
D. M. Griazun
For Sale by the Owner in Georgia Farm Listing
A 360 acre farm nine miles east of Dahlonega Georgia nine miles from Cleveland seven miles from the Gainesville to Robertstown railroad. The property includes a six room house two halls eight porches two pantries and closets three tenant houses fruit trees apples grapes a large two story barn with sheds cribs four stables barn shop storehouse and a good well. Stables for tenant houses and plenty of pasture for cattle and hogs. Land is well timbered though some is uncleared and could be cleared. Sold cheap if taken within thirty days. W G Spencer Murrayville Ga Route 2.
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Cleveland
Gainesville
Robertstown
W. G. Spencer
Murrayville
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