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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1926
Page
4
Cecilia Beaux remarks at a New York tea that girls are level headed. A girl rejects marriage as unworthy, while a hopeful suitor asks what wife he should have. She replies a plain practical thrifty partner who can live on a small salary.
Louisiana and Mississippi reports note zebra mules aiding at Jefferson race track in New Orleans with zebra striped yet powerful animals. Jackson zoo touts a zebra prodigy trained to count to ten, select colors and perform dances, once captured by six men, now obedient to keeper’s handkerchief cue.
An old Tennessee fiddler spent a day on the Emory river bank playing to lift a drowned man from the water, a belief still held in some Southern areas. He claims success with 17 bodies but this case failed as the body was not where expected. Dragging and searchlights later found no trace of the body.
A Brooklyn man B C Lockhart at 1074 Bergen Street has read the Bible through 702 times in about 35 years. He spent two years reading aloud to a caregiver eight hours daily, reading only the Bible. The Bible has 1,180 chapters, so 834,678 chapters were read, averaging 66 chapters daily for 35 years.
The passage notes low phone rates for residences and businesses and mentions charges for various services. It then states all creditors of the estate of N. Satterfield, late of Lumpkin County, Georgia, must present demands to the undersigners per law and that all debtors must pay promptly. dated October 6, 1926, Gi. Warpes, Administrator.
Public sale notices list multiple properties in Lumpkin County Georgia to satisfy a 1920 justice court judgment and an estate debt. The auctions name Lewis Brady Jr. and J. N. Satterfield estate as owners, with parcels including lots 471 482 and 472 and other tracts totaling about 140 acres, to be sold on the first Tuesday in November 1926 at the courthouse.
Robert McMillan representing the State of Georgia petitions for court validation of a $35,000 Waterworks and Sewerage Bond Issue for Dahlonega. A hearing is set at the county courthouse at 12 o clock noon on October 19, 1926, before T. F. Onristian, Clerk, Superior Court, and Solicitor General McMinnay.
Notice that the deadline to pay city taxes is extended until the 15th in stant. If unsettled by night, fines will be issued against all delinquents.
Georgia Lumpkin County Mrs Rebecca Lance has filed for year's support from the estate of W R Lance deceased. Appraisers filed their return and all concerned must show cause before the Lumpkin Court of Ordinary on the first Monday in November 1926. Issued by W B Townsend Ordinary on the Sunday of October 1920.
To amend its charter the Water Power and Mining Company of Georgia seeks renewal for twenty years. The court filing notes capital reduced to 70 000 shares at one dollar each and expiring October 19 1926, with authorization by stockholders and corporate action. The special meeting minutes certify the renewal request and appoint officers to file with Lumpkin County Superior Court. Also notice of an annual support petition for John J Couch’s estate appears with the Ordinary’s scheduling for October hearing.
Commissioners Meaders Ash and Moore certify Lumpkin County tax for 1926 on all property except Dahlonega city totals 1.70 per hundred dollars for county and education plus 85 hundredths for other purposes. City of Dahlonega total 1.85. Rates cover general, bond indebtedness, paupers, jail. Signed Sept 18, 1925.
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