Georgia News Briefs Highlight Local Events
Griffin Chautauqua opened yesterday the 12th. The B Y B U Convention meets in Macon June 17. Georgia Tech celebrates 25th anniversary Tuesday. The Georgia Baptist Assembly to be held Blue Ridge July 27 to August 17. Dr James E Dickey re elected president of Emory College for three years. A Waynesboro couple eloped on a motorcycle to North Augusta S C and married last Thursday. Emory boys threaten to use a pictograph at trustee meeting during intercollegiate athletics discussion. Sycamore reports first cotton bloom from W D Fountain field. Epworth League North Georgia Conference meets in Milledgeville June 1922. County Officers Association meets Millen next Wednesday. Sheriff L M Crawford of
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Milledgeville
Georgia Weather, Rail Meet, and Baseball News
Butts county bears the presidency as the official presiding figure. Spalding county suffered two hail storms last week destroying over 5000 acres of cotton and forcing replanting with seed shortages. Waycross hosts 100 delegates for the Order of Railway Telegraphers meeting starting tomorrow. Ty Cobb leads a Georgian list with a 450 batting average and top status in both major leagues per unofficial figures. Columbus hosts three conventions this month including the Georgia dentists and Georgia Pharmaceutical Association gatherings. The 18th brings the Red Men tribal meeting. At Atlanta Buckhead Baptist church, Dorothy Strickland age 80 rocked a cradle 86 years old on Children s Day during Sunday school.
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Columbus
Georgia Dentists
Georgia Pharmaceutical Association
Atlanta
Buckhead Baptist Church
Dorothy Strickland
Figure Crop Prospects in Thomasville Area This Year
The fig crop in and around Thomasville is expected to be unusually large this year, and owners will have more of this fruit than is usual. The report notes abundant fruit across local orchards and grows optimism for seasonal yields.
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Thomasville
Georgia Undertakers Convene in Griffin for Annual Meeting
Attendees from across the state are invited to the Georgia Funeral Directors Convention in Griffin on June 18 and 19, following a Georgia State Board of Embalmers session on the 17th. Meanwhile Mrs Ethel Smith survived a plunge from a trestle into the Chattahoochee River when her raincoat opened like a parachute and she floated about two hundred feet before being rescued.
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Ethel Smith
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Chattahoochee River
Putnam Farmer Finds Money in Onion Crop
Captain J. M. Boone, a Putnam farmer, discovers money in his Bermuda onion crop while harvesting this year. He reports averaging 400 bushels per acre with a market value of $1 per bushel as doctors travel through the area seeking a healthful location.
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Putnam
J. M. Boone
Bermuda
Insurance ad promotes life protection plan print to Jackson Ga
The Prime of Life is the part to insure the productive yielding valuable part By insurance you guarantee your family your money value if they cant have you National Life Insurance Co of Vermont Mutual Robt T Carmichael Dist Manager Harkness Bldg Jackson Ga
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National Life Insurance Co
Mutual
Robt
T. Carmichael
Harkness Bldg
Jackson, Ga
Local residents visit and travel notes from Jackson area
Whit Russell has been in Jackson for several days. Marvin McCord of Atlanta visits Jackson relatives. Hon. Steve Davis of Stevens Pottery spent Monday here. W F Stroud of England's Chapel was in the city Monday. Walter and Oscar Duke of Orchard Hill were guests Sunday. Paul Carmichael returns to Mart Texas after visiting Jackson relatives. Mate Watts is summer manager at New St Simons Hotel. Ned Furlow of Jackson registers at Tallulah Falls. S M Pope visits Machen to see ill brother E C Pope. McCord Shaver Joel Mallet and Dave Spencer earn BA at Emory College. Smith Settle receives BPhil. Homer Carmichael in Athens with State University Board of Visitors surveying improvements.
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Homer Carmichael
Athens
The
State University
Dodson's Liver Tone advertised by Slaton Drug
Slaton Drug Company promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable remedy replacing calomel for constipation sour stomach and lazy liver. The ad claims guaranteed harmlessness and a money back offer for a large bottle priced at 50 cents and warns of imitators with similar names and packaging.
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Dodson
Deedson
Dad
Adv
Cornfield Boiled Ham Bought from Conner and Crawford
Neighbor notice describes the sale of Cornfield Boiled Ham purchased from Conner and Crawford. No price or date provided. Local ad style item notes the product and seller in a brief consumer prompt.
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Conner & Crawford
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