County Directory of Officials and Road Revenues
County directory lists officers including B. Lewis as Ordinary and J. W. Graham as Clerk, with duties assigned to Sheriff Brown and Tax Reedyvey. J.W. Ward appears as Tax Collector, A. Brown as Treasurer, R. I. Bennett as Surveyor, and G. LB Walker as Coroner. COMT'S Roads and Revenues notes 5. B. Lewis as Chairman with J. Lewis and J. W. Adams also named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Lewis
J. W. Graham
B. Brown
Mason Simpson
J.W. Ward
A. Brown
R. I. Bennett
G. LB
Walker
Qoroner
Lewis J. W. Adams
Church notices list on church meeting schedule
Baptist-2nd and 4th Sunday conference 4th Saturday led by Pastor W A Johnson with Clerk N R Beadles. Methodist-wW 1st and 8rd Sundays led by Pastor Speer, Clerk W J Stell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.A. Johnson
N. R. Beadles
Speer
W. J. Stell
Trustees School Leadership and Board of Education Roster
A school board listing names of trustees and education leaders including W I Glover as chairman and J B Posey as board chairman. Additional members include B A Burks J McCollum J M Jackson Dayetteville Institute J D Pettis A B Principal W O Graves M M Collier J Q Landrum W N D Dixon and C B S G.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. I. Glover
A. Burks
B. Lewie
W. T. Pmilb
J. McCollum
J. M. Jackson
Dayetteville Institute
J. D. Pettis
A.B
J. B. Posey
W. O. Graves M. M. Collier
J. Q. Landrum
J. T. McCollum
W. N. D. Dixon
City Officials Listing with Mayor and Aldermen
The record lists city officers including Mayor W. I. Stell Aldermen S. A. Burks B Thornton W W Redwine W J Camp and Chief of Police Belton Moore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. I. Stell
S. A. Burks
B, Thornton
W. W. Redwine
W. J. Camp
W. J. Smith
Belton Moore
Masonic and civic lodges schedule for Fayetteville area
The record lists Fayetteville Chapter No. 58 of the Masons meeting the first Tuesday at 2 PM with J. W. Kitchens and P. O. L. Dickson noted, Mt Mariah Lodge No. 130 meets first and third Friday nights, plus Fayetteville Council Royal Arcanum meets the first two Tuesdays at 1 PM, and Fayetteville Lodge No. 226 F O meets the first and third Monday nights with J. W. Culpepper and L. T. Roberts named.
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Fayetteville
A. M
J. W. Kitchens
Mt Mariah Lodge
O. J. Dickson
W. M
Court calendar details for Fayetteville city and superior court
The Fayetteville court schedule lists the Superior Court sessions on the 8d Monday in March and September with EJ Reagan as judge and O N Bloodworth as solicitor general. The City Court of Fayetteville holds sessions on the 1st Monday of each month with jury terms on the 1st Monday in January, April, August and October, under Judge W B Hollingsworth and Sol Gen A O Blalock.
Exposed by Brother Reveals Bank Defaulter Case
Milwaukee dispatch reports First National Bank vice president William Bigelow exposed his brother Frank C Bigelow as a major defaulter. Frank confessed to theft over 1 million with total liabilities around 3.28 million including 1.795 million secured. Involuntary bankruptcy petition filed as details unfold.
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Milwaukee Dispatch
William Bigelow
First National Bank
Frank C. Bigelow
Frank
New York House
New York
Great college for teachers established in Tennessee
Dr Wycliffe Rose of Peabody college reports that the Peabody educational fund voted 1,000,000 for a Tennessee teachers college in Nashville, contingent on 800,000 raised locally. Tennessee legislature acts 200,000 bond funding, Davidson County may add 50,000, and a potential 250,000 gift from a Morgan trustee pending matching funds.
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Nashville
Peabody Fund
Wycliffe Rose
Peabody College
Tenn
Columbia
D. C
Peabody Educational Fund
Washington
Teachers’ College
Tennessee
Teachers’ College At
Davidson
Rose
J. Pilerpont Morgan
Reduction of Cotton Acreage Declared Assured
Reports from Southern Cotton Association headquarters confirm farmers across the south have reduced cotton acreage. Fertilizer use this year is smaller than in many prior years, and the remaining task is to hold existing cotton on hand to complete the victory.
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South
Southern Cotton Association
Harvie Jordan
Final Cotton Crop Figures of 1904 Revealed by Census
The Census Bureau reports 1904 cotton crop at 13,584,457 bales of 500 pounds, grown by ginners including linters. This exceeds 1903 by 8,491,386 bales or 85.4 percent, and surpasses the previous peak of 1898 by over 2.3 million bales.
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Bureau of the Census
Washington
United States
Rich bachelor murdered near Fruithurst
Andrew Sundberg a 60 year old bachelor was found dead in his Fruithurst Alabama home on Friday with a bullet wound. Jewelry and money were missing from the house and Sundberg was reputed to be worth about 50000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Sundberg
Fruithurst
Ala
Mr. Sundberg
Georgia News Highlights From Ellijay To Macon
A long search ends with the recovery of Rev. J. L. Anderson’s body near Ellijay. Montezuma suffers a cotton fire destroying two hundred bales at Patrick and Meadows, fully insured. A Georgia murder trial ends in not guilty for J. B. Barrow after a 15 hour jury deliberation. Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera House fails financially in Atlanta amid high prices. Albany to St Andrews railroad planned with stops at Newton Colquitt Donaldsonville. Central of Georgia and a Pensacola line extension projected. Negroes held for murder in Morgan county, with white suspects potential accessories. An aged goose from near Tifton yields feather wealth. Fertilizer tag tactics questioned by Southern Cotton chief Harvie Jordan. Georgia tops Mississippi in cotton, Texas remains first. Georgia gains 612,380 bales over 1903. Georgia railroad taxes cut despite net income, electric interurban survey from Atlanta to Macon advances. Big tax cases loom as Western Alabama stock taxed with Central of Georgia. Henderson acquitted in Macon embezzlement case. Lane to face new charges.
Tarbell to leave Equitable to start own insurance firm
Rumor says Vice President Cage Be Tarbell may retire from the Equitable to launch a new insurance company. Backing is reported, with plans to offer the presidency to James W. Alexander of Equitable Life if he agrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable
New York
Cage
Japs Doubt French Faith On Neutrality Policy
Tokio suspects neutrality is not enforced as Admiral Rojestvensky may still use Indo China ports for coal and supplies and for keeping contact with St. Petersburg. Japanese press questions French motives while the government remains silent.
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Tokio
Rojestvensky
Indo-China
St. Petersburg
Russian General Linevitch Reports Victory Near Tungbusiang
General Linevitch reports that on the night of April 29 two Russian forces attacked the Japanese near Tungbusiang, driving them from five positions and occupying Tunghusiang. Emperor Nicholas is informed of the victory.
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Linevitch
Emperor Nicholas
Tungbusiang
Tunghusiang
Carnegie Foundation to Aid Teachers With $11 Million Bonds
Andrew Carnegie announced a gift of 10 million in United States Steel first mortgage bonds to form The Carnegie Foundation. Frank A. Vanderlip will organize the corporation and select trustees, with a board meeting set for November 15. Annual income of 500 thousand, to aid professors in US Canada Newfoundland, without regard to race, sex or color, excluding sectarian and state run schools. Trustees include Edwin B. Craighead and George H. Denny.
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Andrew Carnegie
Frank A. Vanderlip
National City Bank of New York
United States
Canada
New Foundland
United States Steel Corporation
Pritchett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vanderlip
Carnegie
Board of Trustees
Carnegie Foundation
Vanderlipe
New York City
Edwin B. Craighead
Tulane
George H. Denny
Washington and Lee
Too Much Cotton Being Sold Warned By Cotton Leader
President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association warns that current large sales push cotton to the market. He says dealers and mills are buying, risking a price drop next fall when the new crop arrives. He questions selling now at 7 cents when 10 cents may come later.
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Cotton Association
Harvie Jordan
The
Southern Cotton Association
Prominent Men Freed in Morrison Lynching Case
Magistrate Caskey at Lancaster discharged Burrell Truesdale W R Belk S Frank Hough S W Heath John T Stevens H J Gardner Dock Belk Steve L Gardner Jr John Holden Steve W Welch on charges of complicity in the October lynching of a white man named Morrison at Kershaw. The preliminary examination drew large crowds from the area.
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Morrison
Caskey
Lancaster
Burrell Truesdale
W. R. Belk
S. Frank Hough
W. Heath
John T. Stevens
H. J. Gardner
Dock Belk
Steve L. Gardner, Jr
John Holden
Steve W. Welch
Kershaw
Roosevelt to break camp May eighth and return to Washington
A Glenwood Springs dispatch reports President Roosevelt will break camp on May eighth, one week earlier than planned, and depart for Washington immediately. He will only stop in Denver and Chicago where Als reception dates are moved to fit the updated arrangement.
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Washington
Glenwood Springs
Col
Roosevelt
Denver
Chicago
Fitzhugh Lee Dies After Stroke on Train to Washington
United States Army veteran General Fitzhugh Lee, 65, a prominent Virginia figure and nephew of Robert E. Lee, died after an apoplexy attack on a Boston to Washington train. He was moved to Providence Hospital and passed away Friday night, leaving a widow and five children.
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Boston
Washington
Providence Hospital
New Fitzhugh Lee
United States Army
Virginia
J. C. Rhea
Rhea
Fort Oglethorpe
Fitzhugh Lee
Cavalry
Manila
George Mason Lee
Seventh Cavalry
San Francisco
Anne Brown
Brown
Virginia Les
Lee
Harlem River
Kean
Surgeon General
Pennsylvania Station
General Lee
New York
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Norfolk
Lee Long
Robert E. Lee
Pittsburg and Virginia Railroad
Internal Revenue
Lynchburg
Havana
Volunteer Army
Regular Army
Maron
Winchesters in Evidence Riot in Chicago Non-Union Men
A riot in Chicago Monday afternoon left three men hit by bullets. Louis Street, a colored non-union teamster, fired five shots at a crowd as he drove from an alley. Police dispersed the mob with clubs while bystanders aided injured workers and non-union men were allowed to carry Winchester rifles for protection at the Majestic hotel.
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Chicago
Louis Street
Street
Thorny
Street Wasarra
United States
Players' Teaming Company
Majestic
Daniels’ Coal Company
Indicted Labor Leaders Named in Chicago Conspiracy Charges
Grand jury indicted twelve prominent labor leaders, tied to the Teamsters strike in Chicago, on six counts each for conspiracy. Indictments rest on testimony about labor troubles and Montgomery Ward & Co from the past week.
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Grand Jury
Chicago
Teamsters
Montgomery, Ward & Co
French buy timber lands for Mississippi cooperage plant
A deal in Jackson Mississippi closes the sale of 4786 acres of Yazoo County hardwood lands to a French wine firm. The purchase includes rights to establish a large plant to manufacture barrel staves. The arrangement signals a major investment by the French company in Mississippi timber and cooperage capacity.
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Mississippi
Jac'~ N
Miss
Yazco County
Labor War in Chicago as 3100 Teamsters Strike Deepens
Labor war intensifies in Chicago with 3100 teamsters on strike and growing numbers joining. Employers' Association vows to push the open shop and undermine the union, signaling a looming major industrial upheaval. Rioting erupts in several city districts despite heavy police guards.
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Chicago
Employers’ Association
Teamsters
Loomis denies charges on integrity as Caracas envoy
A Washington dispatch reports acting Secretary of State Loomis flatly denying charges affecting his official integrity during his period as American minister to Caracas Venezuela. He states he was not involved in any improper loan arrangement with President Castro totaling 35 million dollars.
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Washington
Caracas
Venezuela
Loomis
Castro
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County Directory
Trustees School
Board OF Education
J.P, N.P, LC
J W Dickson
W Kitchens
J W Simpson
J B Mitchell
J P
W J Carter
Tom West
John Turner
N @ Wallis
J J Frogdon
John M Franklin
Rufe Brogdon
Henry Jackson
G J Edmondson
Wm Burdett
K V Adams
W Walker
F A Webb
B Adams
A Leach
J . Jones
W Sprauilin
M Arnall
J B Carson
G Jones
W F Jones
JE Spurlin
W A Wesley
Formosa
To Keio
Germany
Bigelow
Great College For Teachers
Census Bureau
Alabama
Georgia News
J. L. Anderson
Ellijay
Oke
Montezuma
Patrick & Meadows
Thomasville
J. B. Barrow
Minnie Parish
Barrow
Atlantic Coast Line
Frost
Metropolitan Opera House
Atlanta
Albany
Florida
Albny and Northern Railroad
Secretary of State
Colquitt
Miller County
Albany and
St. Andrews
Fla
Newton
Donaldsonville
Ocean
Columbus
Central of Georgia Railway
Andalusia
Pensacola
Greenville
Newnan
Central
Chattanooga
Ben Slaughter
John Russell
Kelsey Crawford
Morgan County
Madison
Jack Bivin
Ernest Mitchell
W. A. King
Tifton
Mr. King
Georgia
Texas
South Carolina
Georgia Road
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
W.A. Wiright
Georgia Railroad
Macon
Forsyth
Barnesville
Griffin
Hampton
Jonesboro
Hapeville
Ast Point
Superior Court of
Fulton County
Atlanta- Macon Interurban Railway Company
Atlanta Construction and Development Company
Construction and Development Company
Atlanta-Macon Interurban
Indiana
Ohio
Illiois
Michigan
John T. Pendleton
Fulton
Georgia Railroad and Central of Georgia
Western Railway of Alabama
Pendleton
Supreme Court
Henderson
E. R. Henderson
Macon and Birmingham Railway Company
Felton
Birmingham
Julian Lane
Lane
Brunson
Great Steel Combine
W.A. Turk
S. H. Hardwick
Washington, D.C
W.H. Taylor
Atlanta, Ga
Grim Reaper
King
Winchesters
Gage
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