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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
1
Georgia crop conditions show cotton growth stunted by unusually cool nights and heavy rains. Officials warn a lower cotton acreage due to rising grain production, with northern wheat and oats yields up 40 to 75 percent. South Georgia remains somewhat better but grain expansion still impacts cotton prospects.
In Columbus Georgia the League of Georgia Municipalities held its closing session aboard the Three States steamer along the Chattahoochee. Savannah was chosen as the 1910 meeting site with the executive committee to set the date. Officers elected were W. F B. Dorsey president Rhodes Browne vice president J. D. Edmundson second vice president A. W. Evans fourth vice president J. L. Fincher secretary treasurer F. y Sommerkamp. Sommerkamp is an alderman. others are mayors. The group adopted resolutions on license requirements for Confederate veterans selling beer, endorsed the good roads movement, and urged more railroad construction in Georgia. A constitutional amendment allowing municipal issuance of bonds for public utilities and higher indebtedness limits was endorsed. The trip included a banquet. a key outcome was the officers’ selection.
Government contract for extending Jekyl Creek Jetty uses oyster shells as core material. Engineers report a permanent, durable extension costing far less than traditional methods.
Comptroller General Wright sent three fi fas aggregating 85 000 to Attorney General Hart for collection. Two are against former lessees of state convicts and one against the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad. Foy Manufacturing Co of Effingham county owes 2690 06 for last quarter's convict rental, and Durham Coal and Coke Co of Dade county owes 1290 for the same period. Floyd cotton mills in Rome reopened after eight months, part of Rome’s industrial recovery post financial slump. A state sanitation inquiry heard Dr Arrowood describe a crushed skull found on Edgar Turner and suggested the injuries were not self-inflicted. Next committee meeting likely in Milledgeville. Judge Gray Lewis’s seat remains vacant.
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company workers voted to accept a 22 cent per hour wage with a ten hour day after negotiations led by State Senator James P. McNichol. The agreement ends intense citywide unrest as elevated staff gain one cent more per hour and a grievance committee will handle future disputes.
In Chicago the Hull House area mothers attended a Mary Crane nursery class where a nurse demonstrated baby care. Props labeled pacifier and nursery bottle were used to warn against bottle feeding and its alleged harms. The event, first in a health department series, involved club women and promoted proper infant care.
L. T. LeBeaume of St. Louis was unanimously elected secretary and treasurer of the Travelers' Protective association. P. J. O'Meara of Indianapolis defeated Carey J. King of Rome, Georgia, for the presidency on the first ballot. New officers include assistants, vice presidents from several states, and a national board of directors. Chattanooga was chosen as the next meeting place and the convention adjourned sine die.
In Asbury Park New Jersey Elwood Wolfe and Russel Youmans two men well known there were charged before the grand jury with administering a severe beating to Charles M Jackson at his home near Asbury Park Police heard cries for help in the middle of the night and on breaking into the house arrested Wolfe and Youmans who were attired in women’s dresses Jackson showed signs of a brutal whipping and said his assailants beat him in disguise
Washington D C announces comprehensive directives to strengthen ties between the regular army and state organized militias. On state authority requests, commissioned and noncommissioned officers will visit state armories to lecture on military subjects and provide theoretical instruction with expenses borne by the state. Militia personnel will be invited to army posts to observe maneuvers and target practice, and militia may use military reservations ranges and properties for instruction.
Eastern and western brewers unite to curb sales to outlets under ban by rivals. United States Brewers association leader H B Scharmann argues brewers shoulder 28 percent of drink ills while whiskey dealers bear 72 percent. Officers named include Carl Hoster Columbus president Jacob Ruppert New York first VP M Hann Cleveland second VP Howard A Schmidt Philadelphia treasurer Anton C Hupfel New York secretary Hugh Fox New York.
A Commerce Department statistics report notes sharp increases in American cotton cloth exports to China. After 1907 and 1908 declines, April exports reached 16 million yards versus 7 million a year earlier. For ten months ending April 1909, total exports stood at 100 million yards, up from 30 million in 1908.
John Patterson found a note from a homeless young woman and discovered $65 missing from his room while his landlady was robbed of $200 and items. Patterson encountered the woman on a doorstep near Erie Street after helping her with meals and shelter.
The passage of a sweeping inheritance tax measure is expected to add over $1,000,000 to Illinois inheritance tax income. The increase will largely stem from estates of Marshall Field Otto Young and other wealthy Chicagoans who have died recently.
A fierce cyclone swept through the lower Screven county area near Sylvania Georgia injuring about six men and possibly more as houses collapsed around them. No fatalities were reported though many escaped by what witnesses called miracles as the storm wrecked structures and caused extensive damage.
Montgomery Alan Sheriff Frank Cazalas of Mobile County was impeached by the supreme court for failure to take precautions to prevent the lynching of Richard Robertson. Robertson, a Black man, was taken from the jail and hanged.
The itinerary spans New England, New York, the Middle Atlantic States, the National Capital, Virginia and the Carolinas. It includes a segment of forty hours aboard the Atlantic Ocean.
Seaboard invites you to a two week guided journey to Norfolk Portsmouth Virginia Beach Providence Narragansett Pier Boston New York and Washington by Pullman rail and ocean steamers. Includes hotel meals except New York, auto rides, trolley ferry side trips and all expenses. Full itinerary and rates available from the undersigned Morrah Whitner.
The party will depart Atlanta at 11 25 a m on July 2 with stops in Georgia and South Carolina. A representative will assist passengers and arrange comfort. Contact C D Wayne Assistant General Passenger Agent Atlanta Ga for full information.
Senator Money presents figures on tariff impact showing total wages affected at 2,277,848,537 dollars and products involved summing to 13,270,192,088 dollars. He also estimates indirect taxation cost to the public, noting sugar price differentials in 1906 and 1907 and a duty of 1.95 dollars per hundred pounds on 2,998,979 tons of sugar, with 80,186,181 dollars collected and a net cost to the people of 70,641,821 dollars after revenue.
United States holds 370 million dollars in gold at the Denver mint after a shipment of seven and a half million dollars in gold coin from San Francisco. The mint becomes the nation’s treasure vault, housing the largest gold stock ever seen there and reflecting the depletion of San Francisco’s reserve dating from May 15.
Booker T. Washington reveals H H Rogers aided southern schools with secret alms. Hague court favors France in a Casablanca dispute with Germany over deserters. French workman Nauin tests a new wireless device for the fleet. Strutt argues thoranite age supports geology. Miller claims a method to photograph sound. Food fish regulations signed. Taft backs merit system. Indian tribes seek extended federal care. Liberian mission ends. postmaster salary changes listed. Inflationary tax proposal adds 2 percent on over 5,000. Oklahoma governor accuses press conspiracy. Weeks proposes eight submarines. torpedo boat destroyer bids opened. Atlantic coast likely build.
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