Local and regional notes from Dahlonega era bulletin
Redistributed items report a range of local and national snippets including Rev Reed in Canton Ga claims the devil, a New York death by laughter, flood and cyclone tales, Mamie DeCris pardon gossip, civic speeches from Gainesville, veterans’ rail fare to Augusta, a 60-girl mob in New York, cotton crop projections, the death of Dr A H Mitchell, a Georgia lawmaker’s suspension, Buford Ga fire, Georgia legislature costs, ominous tomb insinuations, Ninth district politics, a Blairsville race claim, Savannah News cost warnings, and a cautional editorial on buying local to bolster town growth.
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E. W. Watkins
Blairsville Court
Congress
Georgia
Power progress in Gainesville spur for Lumpkin County
Last Sunday's Athinta Constitution outlines the Chestatee dam project near Gainesville. The 200 foot long 27 foot high dam supplies 1200 horsepower to Gainesville via a rebuilt railway line toward Dahlonega boosting rail, timber, gold belt and mica mine development and regional agriculture including sheep goats cattle and chicken markets.
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Athinta
Chestatee River
Lumpkin County
Gainesville
Chesstatee River
Dahlonega
Chestatee Dam
Chestatee
Queen City
Hall and
Lumpkin Counties
Road Works And Local Happenings In Nimblewill
Road construction progresses as Mr N Fitts moves into a new store. Miss Mamie Fitts recovers from pneumonia fever, while Mrs James Waters and Mrs Walter Waters are ill. Nimblewill school postpones exhibition four weeks. Local candidates for Congress and Gainesville Mayor are named. First southern electric mail service operates between Augusta and Aiken. Tillman murder trial in South Carolina delayed. two lawyers arrested for concealed weapons. Two boys injured by an old shotgun in Crawford County. A lost girl found atop Big Cedar Mountain after hours of search. A Atlanta case reports a negro fined 875 for biting another’s nose.
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N. Fitts
Mamie Fitts
James Waters
Walter Waters
Nimblewill School
CSS
Tillman
South Carolina
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Dahlonega, Ga
P.O
L. T. Reed
the Devil
Canton
New York
Athens
Mamie DeCris
A. H. Perry
First Methodist Church
Augusta
Southern States
South
A. H. Mitchell
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State University
Robert Tooms
Z. B. Moon
Atlanta
Buford
Furlow
Treasury Department
Putman, Conn
Phineas G. Wright
Savannah News
Lumpkin —County
Flovilla
Sam Johnson
Crawfordsville
Miss Battle
Chicago
Howell
Dawsonville
C.H. Jones
Bell
Tate
Watkins
Gol
Howard Thompson
John A. Smith
Jas. A. Gaston
R. D. Mitchell
Aiken
S. C
J. ©. Causey
Crawford County
Big Cedar Mountain
Post Ofice
Cecelia Stowe
Entre Nous Club
Warren Avenue
Cuicano
Inn
Cardus
B. R. Meaders
R. N. Mays
John Mays
Joan Hur
Clarkesville Road
Old Hand
Lizzie Coffee
W. P. Prices
John H. Moore
Grogeries
Simmons Bulding
Bobby Walthour
Frank Weldon
Hareshest & Purest Drugs
G. H. Jones
Alee
J.T. Mueller
Davis
Hightower
Cane Creek
Yahoola
Porter Spring
Frogtown
Crumbys
Shoal Creek
Wahoo
Martin’s Ford
Auraria
Mill Creek
Nimbiewill
Jones’ Creek
K. J. Wacnen
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Mrs. Strickland
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