Georgia News Bits and Local Notes
Official Organ reports subscription prices, pensioner payments, and clerical notes. It cites Rev. D. B. McCurry baptizing 4 596 persons in Hall county, a Madison county acquittal, and a humorous Gov. Smith misstep in Sparta. It covers cotton profits, a race in the 5th district, railroad labor suspensions, and political campaigning. It mentions temperance, bank embezzlement fallout, Gainesville camp meeting sermons, and pure food law clarifications on drugs and medicines.
Bell Seeks Philippine Sale and Free Delivery Funding
Hon. Thomas M. Bell, representative of the Ninth District, spoke to 700 at Winder's opera house. He favored selling the Philippines if possible, or giving them away to avoid war, and announced plans to seek $20 million yearly for thirty years to improve the U S road system. He opposed immigration and warned against flooding the country with southern European paupers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas M. Bell
Ninth Congressional District
Winder’s
Opera House
Philipine Islands
U. S
United States
Europe
Bell
Congress
Winder Weekly News
Meeting threats and quarrels over a local editor
A reader voices anger at the Signal editor and attacks printed articles while denouncing the anonymous writer Billie. The letter ends with a resignation from the editor, plus disparate local items on crime, weather, and a Confederate veterans reunion.
Georgia Legislators Discuss Roads and Rail Plans
Georgia officials debate cost of convict labor on public roads and urge a dirt road bill to connect counties. Petitioners from Griffin Gainesville Marietta and Cedartown press railroad commission for immediate telegraph service restoration. Campaign remarks touch on Gov Smith U S Senate prospects and a contentious kiss bond in New York. A House committee plans meetings in Athens Mill edgeville and Atlanta to advance state colleges work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Griffin
Gainesville
Marietta
Cedartown
Railroad Commission
House of Representatives
Paul Brown
Athens
J. J. C. McMahan
Clarke
Dahlonega
Milledgeville
Atlanta
Oglethorge Vioho
Gurley's Closing Out Sale Announcement
Advertisement for Gurley's closing out sale offering entire stock of dry goods notions hats clothing at cost and 500 to 600 dollars in shoes at 50 percent off. Text urges merchants to call and select items to save freight and notes fall arrivals and limited stock.
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Dahlonega, Ga
P.O
Georgia
D. 8. McCurry
Hall County
Wm. Graham
Madison County
Kitting William King
Atlanta Journal of the
Gov. Smith
Thos. E. Watson
Sparta
Georgia Railroad Ommission
Jas. L. Mayson
L. F. Livingston
Mayson
Tom Bell
Richardson Bros
Tom
Charles BE. Letten
New Orleans
Loudsville
Arthur Maness
Lumpkin
Hudson
Thos. M. Bell
Winder
Woodward
Signal
Skunk
H. D. Incersort
Fannin County
Thomas Rumsey
Chicago
Samuel C. Dunlip
Cgainesville
North Georgia Electric Company
J. F. Gaynor
Indian Springs
Bibb County
Echo
J. W. Woodward
Capt. Woodward
Billie
Glenn
General Assembly
Lithia
Lakewood
Fifty-second
Georgia Confederate Soldiers of America
Dawsonville
J. B. Thomas
Macon
Fitzgerald
Commerce News
Ayer
B. J.C. Ayer Co
Ayer Os
Lowell
Blue Ridge
Boyd
U. S. Senate
Steve Clay
New York
Uncle John
Gurley
H. D. Gurley
EAND
John Simmons
Cary Monroomeny
Jefferson, Ga
C.S. M
Brogg
W.H. Jansesty
Dahloneg
Reyith
Moore
Shiela
Shield
B. F. Anderson
Tr. J. Smite
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