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Newspaper
Dawson County Advertiser
Location
Dawsonville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1936
Page
4
The Advertiser serves as the official organ for Dawson County and is associated with the Georgia Press Association. It presents local notices and community information through its publishing platform.
The Dawson County Grand Jury reports on county finances and condition. They note properly kept books for Justices and Notaries Public, recommend jail roof repairs and repainting, stabilize the county farm chimney and roof, and approve courthouse conditions. They raise pauper relief to 300 per month and set jury per diem at two dollars, with clerk at 250. They appoint notaries public and finance committee, and request publication of presentments for ten dollars. They acknowledge officials including Judge Gaillard and Solicitor General McMillan for counsel. The first section covers presentments and salaries and the second contains a tax collectors report and finance committee expenditures and balances.
Dawson County officers filed grand jury presentments and sheriff cash reports for the August term 1936. Tangible actions include a State Treasury pension payment of 1680 dollars to Dawson County widows and a governor signed warrant for 24 950 dollars to buy free school books, funded by beer tax revenue.
The children and grandchildren of Mrs. R. B. McClure express gratitude for kind expressions of sympathy, offers of service, and floral tributes during the illness and death of their Mother and Grandmother. Your kindness provided comfort in their sorrow.
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