Georgia Legislature Opens With Sworn In New Members
The Georgia Legislature convened with six new members sworn in by Chief Justice William H. Fiahner. Speaker Slaton faced a ruling on the anti pass bill, while memorials were read for President John W. Aldin and Senator Akin. Senate officers were elected, and Governor Smith’s message awaited as committees were formed to study Western and Atlantic rail expansion and state inspections in Chattanooga.
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Barrett
Grepnews
Grover Cleveland
New Jersey
Hall
Bible
Slaton
William H. Fiahner
W. A. Parks
M. F. Bakes
Morgan County
Tne
Big Cool Hall
House of Representatives
Senate
John W. Aldn
Candler
IV Kal
Pope
Brooks
Georgia Womans Suffrage Association
John W. Alin
House
Alexander
DeKalb
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Hallon
Desaly
Chattanooga
Heard
Dooly
Mob
Regol
Porter
Floyd
Man Mactures
Railroad and Ways
Ul Means
Crawford
Bartow
Creoer
Sapecial Agricul
Ure
School For the Deaf
Matthews
Laurens
Ae Cannon
Raben
Pulaski
General Agricu
James J. Flynt
Griffin
B. T. Steel
J. W. G. Watkins
Paul W. Akin
John W. Akin
Wilkes
Senator Flynt
Levi P. Reeves
Smith
Josiah Carter
W. C. Martin
Cleveland
Akin
T. 8. Felder
Twenty-Second
Flynt
Felts
Supreme Court
Williford
Twenty-eight
Camp
Thirty-first
Felder
Railroad Commission
Hayes
Thirteenth
Mesers
Dean
Martin
Overstreat
Hawes of
Elbert
Mr. Flynt
Western and Atlantic Committee
Paul Akin
Deats
Georgia
George J. Baldwin
Savannah
J. L. Hand
Pelham
Thomas G. Hudson
Kilaville
F. R. Gordon
Columbus
K. G. Matheson
Atlanta
C. B. Willingham
Macon
W. W. Brooks
Rome
Harry Hodgson
Athens
Jeff Davis
Toccoa
M. L. Duggan
Sparta
V. L. Stanton
Waycross
Georgia Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education Officers
At a Georgia branch meeting, G. Candler was elected president and Thomas Erwin treasurer. The upcoming session of the society will be held in Atlanta on November 12, 18, and 14, with vice presidents announced.
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G. Candler
T. C
Erwin
Georgia
National Society For the Promotion of Industral Education
Aga G. Candler
Ths
Thomas
At- Vil
Noembar
Vice Press
Fitzgerald votes bonds for sewer water and school needs
In Fitzgerald the sewer water and school bond measures carried with 365 votes. A total of 494 registered voters participated. The plan includes a modern high school to meet growing needs and a sewer system with eight sites. Foundations work has begun for Cherokee mills seventh, with machinery ordered and soon to run. A farmers institute at Cordele, by Georgia State College of Agriculture, featured M P Jarnigan and E L Worsham as speakers.
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Serald
Ga—fitzgerald
Gower
Griffith
Cordele
Georgis Plate College of Agriculture
M. P. Jarnigan
E. L. Worsham
Southern Cultivator
Carrier and Patron Moves to Atlanta Headquarters
The Carrier and Patron, a monthly rural free delivery paper from Cumming, moves its business office to Atlanta in the Brown-Randolph building. J. A. Rosbury, president of Southern Trade Press, buys an interest and becomes business manager while J. B. Patterson retains editorial control in Cumming. The relocation aims to extend statewide and national circulation for carriers and farmers.
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Carrier
Patron
Cumming
Atlanta
Southern Trade Press of
Pubishers of Ice
Brown-Randolph
J. B. Patterson
United States
South
Rosbury
Bill to fund eleven agricultural schools and college in Georgia
Atlanta reports a major measure before the general assembly to maintain and support eleven congressional district agricultural schools and the $100,000 agricultural college in Athens. Schools would offer agriculture, cattle raising, dairying and tests year round with experiments in cattle. Dr Soule argues for cotton seed meal as fertilizer and cattle feed, claiming higher nutrition and lower cost.
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Atlanta
Congressional District
Agricultural College
Athens
Legistate
Soule
Georgia
Pear Crop Worthy of Heavy Demand in Georgia
In Albany Georgia reports note pear orchards facing heavy demand with limited supply. Growers regret past trimming of trees in the 1920s and acknowledge no current glut in the market. It is profitable to harvest pears at two thirds growth and ship to markets where demand persists.
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Albany
South Georgia
Car on Bellevue line nearly dumped into ditch
In Macon Georgia a Bellevue line streetcar crowded with young men and women halted near a crosstie placed on the tracks tipping risk of a ditch dump. No injuries were reported as two Long Belt line cars derailed by bricks and door knobs on the rails. Cit detectives and police investigate the incidents.
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Macon
Bellevue
Cit
State Gleanings and Georgia Developments
President H E Choate of the Atlanta Credit Men’s association spoke at the national convention in Denver on southern trade conditions. Georgia cities issue bonds after elections to fund schools streets sewers and other public works. Savannah forms a company to operate foreign steamships to European ports, recalling Savannah’s historic Atlantic crossing. Atlanta plans a new medical college named Hospital Medical College. Iron mines near Cartersville resume operation along with other industries. Governor Smith submits nominations: Maud Barker Cobb state librarian for four years from June 25 1908 K J Hawkins judge city court Dublin two years from December 6 1908 J W White judge Jefferson county four years from June 3 1909 John R Phillips Esquire solicitor Jefferson county four years from June 20 1908.
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H. E. Choate
Atlanta Credit Men's Association
National Association of Credit Men
Denver
South
Georgia
Savannah
England
Atlanta
Hospital Medical College
Cartersville
Smith
Senate
Maud Barker Cobb
K. J. Hawkins
Dublin
J. W. White
Jefferson County
John R. Phillips, Esquire
Come from the fortresses of granite Walling Hall to wide lands
Poetic invitation from The American Magazine asking the reader to leave fortress walls and join vast, open landscapes. The verse extols level plains, fields of corn, cedar sentinels, and horizons where sea and sky meet. It celebrates summer scents, sea breezes, and the earth’s warm breath inviting readers to a broad shoreline realm.
Light Turns On in Fierce Ice Toll of Duty at Sea
Alec, keeper at Cole's Point Light, endures a ferocious ice flood and gale to keep the revolving light alive through a night of crushing cold and danger. With the clockwork failing, he climbs, hacks, and braces the mechanism to preserve the beacon for mariners, earning quiet respect and a small promotion.
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Alec
Newport
Tom
Winton
Cole's Point
Lxe
Cole
Marine Service
Iesai
Chinese Doctor’s Prescription Parable About a Selfish Politician
Chinese Ambassador Wu Tingfang told reporters a Shanghai doctor story to illustrate a selfish politician. A mandarin seeks sleep and appetite but grows fat. the doctor prescribes hard exercise, offering to polish the physician’s floors four times weekly, noting his own larger floors.
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Wu Ting-fang
Mr. Wu
Shanghai
Washington Star
Local Option Puzzle in Litchfield Illinois Wet and Dry Split
Litchfield sits in two townships North and South with North voting wet and South voting dry by 982. Saloons in South Litchfield will remain while North Litchfield saloons may move across the railroad, leaving residents uncertain about the city’s status.
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Illinois
Litchfield
North Litchfield
South Litchfield
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