Judge Searcy Commends Conscientious Jurists
Fayette Superior Court opened with Judge Wm. E. H. Searcy Jr. delivering a concise charge to the grand jury led by R. B. L. Fife as foreman. He urged truth, diligence, and respect for law, noting it is patriotic service to seek truth and to return true bills when warranted. Attending attorneys from Atlanta, Washington, McDonough, Fairburn, Griffin, Fayetteville and Jonesboro were listed among the participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
Grand Jury
A. O. Blalock
Atlanta
B. D. Murphy
Washington
J. B. Mundy
Jonesboro
E. J. Reagan
McDonough
L. 8. Camp
Northwestern Fayette County Tornado Wrecks Homes
A tornado last Sunday night devastated the northwestern Fayette County area starting near Tyrofie by Line Creek. Homes of W M Davis, Columbus Barges, Ed Moore, and W D Farr were destroyed or wrecked, with injuries to Barges's wife and extensive out-building damage. Telegraph lines were down and roads were impassable, delaying full loss estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayette County
Tyrofie
Line Creek
W. M. Davis
Columbus Barges
Ed Moore
W. D. Farr
Yancy Swanson
Favors Mill
Dr. Hopgood
Bill Landrum
Sid Moore
Morning Creek bridge set for immediate construction
County Highway News reports Hon Jno N Holder and B C Milner visited Fayetteville to discuss fast tracking the Morning Creek bridge and road grading toward the county line. A tentative 15 million dollar Federal Aid offer on a fifty fifty basis was promptly accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jno. N. Holder
State Highway Commission
B. C. Milner
Fayetteville
Fayette County
Morning Creek
Jonesboro
Campbell County
Bennett's Mill
Flat Creek
Poll Tax Exemption for Women Voters 1921 Rule Clarified
Attorney General Napier issues opinion to Governor Hardwick stating women may vote in 1922 without paying the 1921 poll tax, though they must register by April 1 and pay $1 poll tax beginning in 1922. Fulton County tax details listed along with notes on tax collection and rate setup. Also reports a Home Missions prayer day marking Fayetteville W M S eighteenth anniversary with Mrs. Johnson lauded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Napier
Hardwick
Col
Napier
Neil
Fulton County
Richardson
T. M. Armisteady
Baptist Missionary Society
L. G. Perry
Fayetteville Baptist Church
Sunbeam Band
L. A. Ingram
Marylu
Loraine Graham
John Millsaps
Perry
Wallis
Miss Perry
Real Americanism Built by Public Schools
A Harper's Magazine Grace Irwin piece argues public schools must be expanded nationwide to fulfill Americanization for all children including the street poor. It urges legislators to support liberal funding, praising schools as the first humane influence shaping citizenship and ideals beyond the affluent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Magazine
Grace Irwin
United States
Grace Irwins
Harper’s
American Public School
America
Origin of Yankee Doodle Air Recalled in Undated Note
An old note discusses the origin of Yankee Doodle saying the words were likely written by Edward Banks between certain years. It notes the tune’s attribution to various verses and mentions the song being known as early as a late period in history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Banks
Vws
VTT
Alice White
London
Henry Jacobi
Lady White
Sir Edward White
London County Council
World Sunday Drives Southern Methodists to Pledges
Southern Methodists fix attention on World Sunday March 26 when every Centenary of Missions pledge payer will be asked to pay. The World Sunday movement aims to boost overdue missionary funds with a church wide appeal across the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church, South. A week of canvassing follows to recover arrears. a $4,000,000 shortfall awaits before the May 1922 General Conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centenary of Missions Movement
Southern Methodism
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
General Conference
Home-Coming Meeting of the Medical Association of Georgia in Columbus
Columbus doctors with the Chamber of Commerce and civic groups prepare for the Home-Coming Meeting of the Medical Association of Georgia on May 4 and 5. The program features a banquet for former presidents, entertainment for ladies, and a Camp Benning trip. Discussions cover living methods, gland deficiencies, gland feeding, and infant mortality prevention, noting over 200,000 US babies die yearly, mostly preventable. Dr J M Anderson, local president, is aided by Dr E G Thrash of Atlanta who will preside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Chamber of Commerce
Medical Association of Georgia
Camp Benning
United States
Georgia
J. M. Anderson
E. G. Thrash
Atlanta
State Association
Baptists Look Forward to July Meeting Led by Garner
Rev G W Garner leads Fayetteville Baptists preparing for a meeting starting the fourth Sunday in July announced January 22 at the Baptist Church. Rev Dutton of Cartersville, recently returned from Panama, is invited to assist. district members hope he can be secured and urge all townspeople to prepare in advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptists of
Fayetteville
G. W. Garner
Baptist Church
Garner
Rev. Dutton
Cartersville
Dutton
Panama
Brooks News Missionary Day At Georgia Sunday School
Georgia State Sunday School Board designates March 26 as missionary day for Brooks Baptist Church. Program at 11 a m features songs recitations and character roles including Reginald Woolsey Hulette Gable Loyd Putnam Abram Steinheimer Ian Keeper Harmon Scott and others. Closing address by Sunday School superintendent. Also notes recent tree plantings memory of Albert Posey Franklin Posey. obituaries and local visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia State Sunday School Board
Baptist Church
Reginald Woolsey
Hulette Gable
Loyd Putnam
Abram Steinheimer
Ian Keeper
Harmon Scott
Len Shannon
John H. Shannon
Wilson Shivers
Charles Woolsey
Eunice Evans
Effie Bell Shannon
Paul Lee
Brooks Womat
Stfmb
Albert Posey
France
Vaughn
Franklin Posey
Camp Gordon
Elizabeth Woods
J. B. Woods
Brooks
The
Christian Church
Luther Stone
Atlanta
County Line
Halston Brothers
I. A. Scott
Fort Valley
Wm. Malone
W. O. Bolton
Little Daughter
Athens
Lee Boykin
J. P. Starr
Bolingbroke
Reverend Garner Preaches On Predestination At Fayetteville
Rev. G. W. Garner of the Fayetteville Baptist Church will preach on the real Bible doctrine of predestination next Sunday at eleven o'clock. Read Romans VIII. Invite all to attend and fill the church for this comforting subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Garner
Fayetteville Baptist Church
St Patrick Party Hosted By Mrs Blalock
On March 12 Mrs D B Blalock hosted a St Patrick party with Irish colors throughout the house. The dining table centerpiece featured a green Irish basket with the handle tied by a widow and Irish shamrocks. Score cards showed tiny Irish harps. After games, refreshments were served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. B. Blalock
St. Patrick
Mrs Culpepper Hosts St Patrick Themed Party
Mrs J W Culpepper entertained twenty friends at a March 9 reception. St Patrick colors adorned the rooms with lace table coverings and green tapers. Baskets of candy and a salad course followed a game of rook, assisted by Mrs Dean Murphy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Culpepper
St. Patrick
Dean Murphy
Coal miners to walk out April first union calls quit
Union leaders in both anthracite and bituminous coal fields urge members to cease work on April 1 in a coordinated industry strike. Details on affected mines and safety arrangements are not disclosed.
Nationwide coal miners strike call shocks industry
Indianapolis announces a unified suspension of work by all bituminous and anthracite union miners at midnight March 31. About six hundred thousand UMWA members, plus roughly six thousand six hundred fifty in western Canada, are mobilized with 14 thousand Nova Scotia miners exempt. The policy committee in Cleveland will decide on partial suspensions and single state wage agreements as the strike unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
United States
Canada
Nova Scotia
Cleveland
Wrecked ship mystery draws cutter from Galveston
A government cutter is likely to be sent from Galveston to investigate a wrecked lumber carrier found near Isle Dernier off the south Louisiana coast. Officials search records to identify the vessel and determine the fate of its crew after a Louisianan conservation boat sighted it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Botton
Isle Dernier
South Louisiana
Claude Blancq
Steamship Division
The
Customs Service
Galveston
Louisianai Conservation Commission
Opelousas
Teyvas Judge Kidnapped By Masked Men
Judge J. A. Pelt, 63, was taken from his Dallas home by masked assailants and has not returned. He formerly served as justice of the peace at Sour Lake for years. Government Sets Up Liquor Blockade With airplanes and fast cars linking wireless, Prohibition bureau plans a ten thousand mile wall to stop rum flow. 100% effective blockade aims to cut off all sources of alcohol for a dry nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teyvas
Dallas
Texas
J. A. Pelt
Sour Lake
Washington
Prohibition Bureau
United States
Prohibition C.et
United States seeks payment for troops in Germany
Senate leaders urge insistence on $241 million bill for keeping American soldiers in Germany. Underwood calls for an American envoy to the reparations commission while Lodge disputes linking the claim to the Berlin or Versailles armistice. Borah warns allies’ stance hinders European recovery and wants troops home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Germany
Senate
Lodge
Massachusetts
Underwood
Idaho
Borah
Poincare
France
America
Hughes
Senator Borah
Europe
Rhine
Poindexter
Reparations Commission
Supreme Council
Senate Passes Post Office Appropriation Bill With 623 Million
The senate approved a post office appropriation of 623,773,000, surpassing the house figure by 63,309,000 and adding 50,000,000 for federal highway aid. Provisions restore News pneumatic mail tubes and authorize New York to San Francisco air mail service. A tube amendment passed 39 to 19 amid Democratic opposition. A separate dispute over postmaster appointments and civil service sparked a Harrison resolution, with a tense two hour debate and a 40 to 21 roll call on an inspector increase from 420 to 520.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office
Senate
House
New York
San Fram
Harrison
Mississippi
Marion
Ohio
All American Troops Ordered From Rhine
Secretary Weeks issued orders directing the return to the United States by July 1 of all American troops now on the Rhine, including the roughly 2,000 men remaining after a prior homeward movement. Coblenz reports twelve hundred troops have already departed for the United States via Antwerp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Rhine
Weeks
Coblenz
Army of Occupation
Antwerp
Hundreds Of Roads Seek Injunction Against ICC Rate Order
Nearly one hundred railroads filed injunctions against the Interstate Commerce Commission arguing an order setting a 15 percent rate cut on inter regional shipments is arbitrary and beyond the commission’s power. Most eastern lines joined the suit, excluding New York Central, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and Ohio, which did not. The rulings shift more weight to New England carriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
New England
Federal Probe Nearing Completion in Price Investigation
Washington observers say the Justice Department price investigation is nearly finished with a few prosecutions expected. Officials claim the program’s benefits are largely psychological though it warned merchants and trade associations and contributed to lower prices. Knoxville miners seek congressional inquiry into evictions of eastern Tennessee and southeastern Kentucky families as wartime agreements run out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Justice
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
Kentucky
Congress
A. Keller
United Mine Workers
Rict
Also Mentioned on This Page
County Highway News
Geo. M. Napier
Methodist
Brooks News
St. Patrick Party
Mrs. Culpepper
U. S
Allied Reparation Commission
Peel
India
Viscount Peel
War and Air Ministry
Duchy of Lancaster
Edwin S. Montagu
United States Department of ‘Tabor
McCumber
Senate Finance Committee
Gotham
Lis
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