Georgia Legislature Opens In First Session After Deaths
Proceedings describe organizing the house and senate for the new session. Deaths of five members since last session observed. Swearing in of new members, appointments, and committee assignments follow amid memorials for John W. Akin and ex president Cleveland. Senate votes on salary bills, adjourns, and plans visits to Chattanooga. New officers and district representatives listed.
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Barrett
Stepians
Grover Cleveland
New Jersey
Hall
Bible
Slaton
William H. Jultan W. A. Parks
House
Nev. M. F. Bakes
Morgan County
House of Representatives
Senate
John W. Akin
Candler
Ye Kath
Lf Pope
Brooks
Georgia Woman's Suffrage Association
James J. Flynt
Griffin
FE. T. Breal
Thirty-Seventh
J. W. G. Watkins
Paul W. Akin
Forty Second
Smith
Josiah Carter
W. C. Martin
Fortythird
Cleveland
Akin
T. 8. Felder
Twenty-Second
Supreme Court
Messrs
Stephens
Walker
Knight
Wilkes
Committee On
General Judiciary
Felder
Camp
Flynt
Felts
Nineteenty
Williford
Twenty-eight
Thirty-first
Railroad Commission
Hayes
Thirteenth
Messrs. Felts
Dean
Martin
Overstreet
Hawes of
Elbert
Mr. Flynt
Western and Atlantic Committee
Paul Akin
Candler Re-elected President of Georgia Educational Society
Asa G. Cane is named President with FhOOBA Tr as Treasurer. The society’s annual meeting will be held in Atlanta on November 12 to 14, with Edy C selected as Winter ss and a slate of vice presidents listed for the session.
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G. Candler
Eorgia
Cat
Asa G. Can
Fitzgerald voters approve bonds and mill projects in district
In Fitzgerald the bonds vote passed 365 for sewer bonds 369 for water bonds and 366 for school bonds amid 484 registered voters. Sewer lines will be expanded and a water main extended while a new high school building is planned. Foundations for Cherokee mill's Griffin seventh mill have begun with machinery ordered. A farmers institute at Cortdele hosted by the Georgia State College of Agriculture featured Prof M P Jarnigan and Prof B L Worsham as main speakers.
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Sivarricu
Itugerald
Ga —Fitzgerald
Griffin
Farmers Institute
Cortdele
Georgi State College of Agriculture
M. P. Jarnigan
B. L. Worsham
Southern Cultivator
Carrier and Patron Moves Office to Atlanta from Cumming
The Carrier and Patron, a monthly rural delivery paper edited in Cumming by J B Patterson, shifts its business office to Atlanta with J A Rosbury acquiring a stake and becoming business manager in the Brown Randolph building. Patterson remains editor in Cumming as circulation expands nationwide.
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Carrier
Patron
Cumming
Atlanta
Southern Trade Press of Atlanta
Ice
Brown-Randolph
J. B. Patterson
United States
South
Rosbury
Legislature Deals With Georgia Agricultural Schools Plan
Agriculture College in Athens and eleven congressional district schools face closure without state funding. The measure would fund maintenance and operation, open September first, and support soil testing, year round cattle experiments, and small dairies. Dr. Soule advocates cotton seed meal as fertilizer filler and praises hay as a superior cattle feed for dairying and work stock.
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Atlanta
General Assembly
Congressional District Agricultural Schools
Agricultural College
Athens
Legistate
Soule
Georgia
Pear Crop Very Valuable in South Georgia
Albany reports pears remain highly valuable as orchards were thinned in the 1920s. The fruit faces strong demand with scarce supply, prompting harvest of two thirds grown pears to meet booming markets and prevent a market glut.
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Albany
South Georgia
Tie Placed On Trask Car Attempted Wreck on Bellevue
A Bellevue line car carrying young men and women toward the Log Cabin club nearly toppled into a ditch after a crosstie was placed on the tracks. The motor man stopped the car a few feet from the obstruction, injuring no one. Two Long Belt line cars derailed due to bricks and door knobs on the track. City detectives and police investigate the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Bellevue
Log Cabin Club
STATE GLEANINGS. Georgia developments and nominations
President H E Choate addressed the national credit men at their Denver convention on southern trade. Georgia elites advertise bonds for public works from election proceeds. Savannah forms a foreign shipping company planning steamers to European ports. Atlanta to host Hospital Medical College. Cartersville iron mines resume. Governor Smith submits nominations: Maud Barker Cobb librarian, K J Hawkins city court judge, J W White county court judge, John R Philips county solicitor Jefferson county.
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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
Jeffferson
John R. Philips, Esquire
Jefferson County
Come to the Broad Free Lands of the West
Poetic call from The American Magazine inviting readers to leave valleys for the wide leveled lands by shore and sea. It paints vast horizons, cedar sentinels, and fragrant coastal breezes, urging movement toward open spaces, sunshine, and wind driven plains where freedom and nature meet.
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Marge
Heaven
Lightkeeper Stays At His Post In Fierce Ice Night
Alec, keeper at Cole's Point Light, battles a sudden ice jam and raging storm to keep the revolving light turning through a long night. Despite two twisted legs of the foundation, a broken clockwork gear, and a frozen, slanted floor, he uses an ax to free the drum and manually operate the cage. By dawn the light is restored and a lighthouse tender arrives for repairs. a quiet tribute to steadfast youth and duty.
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Abec
Newport
Winton
Cole's Point
Tom
Alec
Littl
Cole
Marine Service
Alee
Cole’s Point
Minhood
Chinese Doctor Prescription Parable About Sel Fish Politician
The Washington Star reports Wu Ting-fang recounting a Shanghai doctor tale. A mandarin seeks sleep and appetite help, but the physician prescribes hard exercise by polishing the doctor's larger floors, implying overwork and control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wu Ting-fang
Mr. Wu
Shanghai
Washington Star
Local Option Puzzle in Litchfield Illinois
The city lies in two townships North and South Litchfield with North voting wet and South dry by 982. Saloons in South Litchfield remain and many from North may move across the railroad to operate in saloon territory, per the Carlinville Democrat.
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Illinois
Litchfield
North Litchfield
South Litchfield
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Proceedings OF the
Georgia Legislature
Alexander
DeKalb
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Iby
Levi
Chattanooga
L. Heard
Dooly
Hib
Porter
Floyd
I. McFarland
McIntosh
Arnold
Walton
Crawford
Bartow
School For the
Mat- Niews
Laurens
General Agricul
Allroada
Cannon
Raben
Pulaski
O. M. Case
Conyrets
Ute Farm
Sparta
W. L. Stauton
Waycross
Luucational Society Oefigers
Fitzgerald
Agriculture College
TRASK
Levin
Sy C. H. Claudy
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