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NEW SET OF CLAIMANTSTO JIM SMITH MILLIONSMrs. amanpa masseyALLEGES THAT SHE IS A FifcST COUSIN OF DEAD MILLldNAIRE FARMER AND PRAYS FOR A RECEIVER.Declares That Colonel Smith Was the Illegitimate Son of Her Aunt, Sallie Smith—Banks County Claimant Avers That Deceased Millionaire Lived at Her Mother’s Home Following the Death of Sallie Smith. Intervention Filed Through Judge H. H. Perry, and Mr. W. A, Charter, of Gainesville, and Attorneys W. D. Martin, G. P. Martin, W. A. Stevenson, W. W. Stark and E. C. Stark, of Commerce.MEMORIAL DAY WILL BE CELEBRATED ill USAnnouncement has been made to the effect that Memorial Day will ho celebrated tomorrow afternoon at o’clock in the Univer»ity of Georgia chapel. The celebration will be under the direction of. the Ladies Memorial association, and the ptator of the occasion will be Judge liorace M. Holden, who is one of the most prominent lawyers in the state.At the celebration the prizes willbo awarded to the school children for(Special to The Herald.)Macon, Ga., April 25.—The fifth set of claimants to the estate of the late millionaire, James M. Smith, appeared in the United States court here today and filed an intervention to the petition pending and prayed that the court appoint a receiver. Thethp best essays that were ' written some time back. In addition crosses of honor iwiil be given out.Ail of the schools In the city will obperve Memorial Day and will close their sessions for the’entire day.The following is the program that will take place in the chapel at 3 o’clock tomorrow • afternoon. The public is invited to be present:Music by tho S. M. C. band, led byintervention was granted by the court i pr°fo“oc JohnMorrisoncf the evidence will bo heard later. ' Mrs. Amanda Massey, of Banks county, in an affidavit alleges that she is a first cousin of the late James M. Smith, and that Jie was the illegitimate son of her aunt, Sallie Smith, who in turn was the daughter of Jim and Nancy, Smith. She claims that Sallie Smith died about 1848, in a , house which is now standing on the farm of James Chambers, of Binks countq, and’Invocation:—By Re)v. B|J I- Hill* D. D.Song—By quartet of young men.introduction nnd Presentation of Speaker—By a Veteran and member of Cobb-Doloney camp.Oration of the Day—Judge Horace 31. Holden, of Athens.Music by the band.Delivery of Crosses of Miss Mildred Rutherford, general of the U. D. C.Honor— historianv—...w. that following. - ......that date until the year 1852, that Music by the quartet.James M. Smith lived at deponent’s‘ P.e,,v«? ***** l“ tho Sch,0,01mother's home. Prom 1852 until 1858, £tu«tent* for the Best Essays on the she alleges, James M. Smith lived s°ulh • Reconstruction Times with her uncle, Anderson Smith, of —Presentation by Hon. Thomas S. Clarke county............ .........
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Athens Daily Herald
Athens, Georgia, US
Tue, Apr 25, 1916
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