Georgia Chronicles of 1919 Local News Highlights
A roundup of county actions and political chatter includes road bond votes across Georgia totaling 1 250 000 dollars, women’s suffrage advances in Columbus, rail truck service expansions linking Griffin Newnan and Atlanta, and trials in Union county. Reports note a Milledgeville mayor beginning a seventh term and Wilson possibly avoiding a third run. A mobile fire renders hundreds homeless. crime notes include a baby nursing divorce case and a man jailed for minting counterfeit money.
War News and Local Progress Hit by a Patchwork Mosaic
Bonds carried in Banks by good majority Lloyd George plans a visit to the United States A cheese factory is to be established near Cleveland Georgia The family allotment measure has passed the senate One bale of cotton flown north by airplane A destructive army worm appears in Texas Cyclone injures five near Mobile Alabama Seventy thousand American graves in France to be decorated today One American airplane crossed the ocean in 26 hours 41 minutes Fifteen murder cases on Bibb county Superior court docket Trucks donated to Georgia road work valued at 700000 Women registering in Atlanta to vote Move in Congress to repeal daylight saving law Cotton price reaches 32 1 2 Farmers hold for higher prices Uncle Sam seeks fifteen thousand teachers and mail carriers Man jumps from burning airplane with mail and dies Wyoming convicts strike over discharge war debt fears Fulton county judge faces 300 divorce cases in five days Churches and schools burned in Muscogee county for heathen mission appeals Wool clipping from White House sheep raises funds for Red Cross Sale shifts to Salvation Army No country editor would wear breeches made from this wool.
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Texas
Mobile
Ala
France
Georgia
Atlanta
Congress
Union County
Pike County
March
Germany
Wyoming State Penitentiary
Warrdea
Superior Court
Fulton County
Compliments for Solicitor Collins by Gainesville News
A Gainesville News item quotes a Franklin county citizen praising Col. J. G. Collins after Wayman Vaughn was tried and convicted for murder in Stephens county. The letter lauds Collins for masterful argument, force, fairness, and skill, placing him among the best prosecutors and noting the Northeastern circuit’s high regard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayman Vaughn
Stephens County
Franklin County
Col
J. G Collins
Vaughn
Gainesville
Registration Book Closes the Third of June
A letter from Attorney General Crirrorp Walker explains registration for a stock law special election closes five days after the call. Voters may transfer districts with proof to registrars. Sec 71 grants moving voters rights to be listed in the new district. A Federal Judge Moyes rules beer with 2 3 4 percent alcohol is not intoxicating and blocks government action.
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Park
Georgia
Moyes
New York
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