Georgia Legislature Adjourns After Hoke Smith Note
The Georgia Legislature adjourns at 8 o clock without action on convict lease. Gov Smith signals an extra session within ten days. Key measures include a Confederate veterans pension bill and Atlanta charter extension adding Edgewood East Atlanta and Druid Hills boosting population to over 140 000 with 11 square miles and $15 16 million taxable value increase.
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Tlanta
Georgia
Hout
Hokeith
France
Orgin
Atlanta
Tecity
Edgewood
Battle Hill
Brookwood
Cook District
East Atlanta
Druid Hills
Georgia Senate Approves Farm School Funding Package
The Georgia Senate debated and approved a $75,000 farm school appropriation for the University of Georgia's State Agricultural College at Athens. The package includes $25,000 for 1908 and $50,000 for 1909 plus $80,000 for expenses through June, with $5,000 for experiment station buildings at Experiment and $5,000 for sugar cane syrup research at Waycross. Senator Flynt urged the station funding.
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Senate
University of Georgia
State Agricultural College
Athens
Experiment
Flynt
Deen
State Branch
Waycross
South Georgia
Local Funeral Services Advertised in Pinehurst
F M Barfield of Pinehurst Georgia offers coffins caskets and burial robes for sale and can furnish a hearse if desired.
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F. M. Barfield
Pinehurst
Picnicers Must Inform Board Before Campground Use
Notice directs all parties desiring to picnic or camp at the Dooly campground to advise the Board of Trustees prior to use. The directive emphasizes prior notification for access and scheduling.
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Dooly Camp Ground
Board of Trustees
Grief Drives Man to Suicide in Cordele
A telegraph report from Alamo near Helena says H. G. Rogers a wealthy saw mill and ranch owner blew his head apart with a shotgun at noon. Rogers a Vermont native whose remains go to Boston, Massachusetts, following his partner C. L. Ordway’s recent death believed to have unsettled him. Both men moved from Nebraska to Georgia about three years ago.
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Cordele
Alamo
Helena
H. G. Rogers
Rogera
Vermont
Boston
Mass
C. L. Ordway
Georgia
Nebraska
Big rattlers killed in Bulloch County
In Statesboro Georgia on August 11 J T Roberts met two large rattlesnakes in the Hart district. Unarmed he used a long pole to dispatch them after a close fight. The smaller had seven rattles and the larger fourteen. They were found near the Ogeechee river swamp and are noted as the largest of the season in Bulloch County.
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Statesboro
J. T. Roberts
Lockhart
Ogeechee River
Bullock County
Doves to Have Even Less Chance in Open Season Change
Atlanta reports the Senate approved an amendment by M. Reid of Putnam altering the dove hunting open season from September 1 to July 15. The bill, already passed by the House, sets the closed season from March 15. Critics fear possible dove extinction.
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Atlanta
Senate
M. Reid
Putnam
Killed by Policeman in Augusta After Arrest
Augusta Ga Aug 12 At midnight police officer M C Mathews shot and killed Edwin B Turner of North Augusta Turner former marshal of North Augusta Turner had threatened Mathews since a previous intoxication arrest Turner was on Mathews beat when Mathews tried to arrest him for intoxication and disorderly conduct Turner drew a pistol and Mathews fired five times four bullets struck Turner nationally067
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Augusta
M. C. Mathews
Edwin B. Turner
North Augusta
M. C
Turner
Mathews
Statesboro
Frazier Lundy
Savannah
Kendrick
State Road Not to Be Extended in Senate Action
The Atlanta session killed the Alexander bill and Wright substitute to extend the state road to the sea. Senator Felder mocked the commission idea calling the proposal a dream or joke. He warned the plan would be driven by politicians and cover every town, as the Senate voted it down nearly unanimously.
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Atlanta
Senate
Alexander
Wright
Felder
Farmer Drives Wagon With Dying Mule Towed
Atlanta August 12 a farmer named John Brown entered the city with two mules hitched to a wagon One mule lame hair and nearly blind and near death Special agent E V D Haskell of the S P C A forced Brown to unhitch the mule and tie it behind the wagon then take the traces himself to help pull the load Brown yielded when threatened with arrest
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Atlanta
John Brown
Lamoe
E. V. D. Haskell
Brown
Pecans Grafted on Tall Hickory Trees Near Brooklyn Heights
Local experiment by H W Smithwick grafting pecan trees onto hickory stock at his Brooklyn Heights home has yielded strong growth. He began last year to save years of pecan cultivation time by budding pecans on native hickories. This summer he continues the effort, reporting highly satisfactory results with pecan growth thriving well above twenty five feet and flourishing atop the taller rootstock.
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H. W. Smithwick
Brooklyn Heights
Americus Times-Recorder
Wanted reliable man to sell Champion Butter Separator
Wanted a good reliable man to sell the Champion Butter Separator in this county. You can churn sweet or sour milk in from 1.5 to 6 minutes. Every machine guaranteed. You can make 150 to 200 dollars per month selling these machines. For particulars write Rufus West Roanoke Alabama.
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Rufus West
Roanoke
Ala
Not Independence Party Candidate Report Denied
Hawkinsville Ga August 11 A Atlanta report naming Yancy Carter Hart E J Regan McDonough J K Hines Atlanta and Hon J Pope Brown Pulaski as Independence League candidates for governor against Democrat Joseph M Brown is denied as erroneous and unfounded Brown says he participated in the primary and will support the nominees.
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Hawkinsville
Atlanta
Yancy Carter
Hart
E. J. Regan
McDonough
J. K. Hines
J. Pope Brown
Pulaski
Independence League
Joseph M. Brown
Brown
Girl Drowned While Bathing in Atlanta Pond
Minnie Morgan nine year old daughter of J B Morgan of Woodward and Wren avenues was drowned this afternoon about eight o clock in a pond behind the Federal prison. She was visiting a friend Bessie Robison near the prison when they waded into the water. Minnie stepped into a deep hole and drowned before help could reach her.
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Atlanta
Minnie Morgan
J. B. Morgan
Woodward and
Wren Avenues
Federal Prison
Bessie Robison
Record Wheat Biscuit Rush Shatters Minneapolis Mills
Preston Milling Co of Wallaburg Washington established a 22 minute record by cutting wheat with a combination harvester and transporting it by car to a nearby mill. The flour was kneaded into dough and baked into biscuits in 22 minutes, eclipsing a Minneapolis mill’s record.
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Wallaburg
Wash
Minneapolis
E C Taylor Promotes Western Steak Market
The note invites customers to try E. C. Taylor's Western steak market, promoting the selection and urging patronage.
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E. C. Taylor
Tam Thompson Offers Cotton Buying Upon Squeezes
To the public D B Thompson writes from Vienna offering to buy cotton and seed, noting he has money and will handle gin services, bagging and tie bills, claiming loyalty to farmers and readiness to act when mills crush prices. He emphasizes longstanding public service and invites calling when prices squeeze.
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Vienna
D. B. Thompson
Pullen Ends Life In Weiss Hotel Room At Perry
B K Pullen a traveling man from Atlanta died by self inflicted throat wound in his Perry Georgia hotel room. He left a note to his Greenville home and a newspaper clipping with about 48 dollars in his clothes. A coroner's inquest was held.
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Weiss
B. K. Pullen
Atlanta
Pullen
George B. Wella
H. M. Holtzclaw
Greenville
Mineral Mills Tex
Man Eats Grass In Central Park Arrested For Delusion
Policeman Moore witnessed a man in Central Park kneeling and eating leaves and grass. He was arrested and sent to Bellevue Hospital psychopathic ward after courts could not establish his name or address. The man wore only a coat and trousers and appeared to be unshod.
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Moore
Central Park
Yorkville Court
Moss
Bellevue Hospital
Day at the Turpentine Still Festa at Kellys
Pastor W. L. Cutts and family enjoyed a royal day at R. K. Kellys turpentine still. Kelly barbecued and Mrs. Kelly oversaw the concomitants. Brother editor notes the hospitality and the refreshing Sodorific canine days of August.
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W. L. Cutts
R. K. Kelly
Kelly
Oh Ad
Mrs. Kelly
Royal Entertainment Brother
Atlanta and Northeastern Railroad granted charter to build forty mile line
Atlanta reports that the Atlanta and Northeastern Railroad Company received a state charter to construct a forty mile line from Atlanta through Fulton Cobb Milton and Forsyth to Cumming Alabama? actually Forsyth to Cumming. The proposed route would pass Roswell and Alpharetta with capital stock set at fifty thousand dollars.
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Atlanta and Northeastern Railroad Company
Cook
Fulton
Cobb
Milton
Forsyth
Cumming
Roswell
Alpharetta
Farmer Institute To Resume in Georgia August
Dr A M Soule president of the state agricultural college at Athens says farmer institutes will resume with the next meeting set for Washington Wilkes county on Friday and Saturday August 14 and 15 in Georgia.
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A. M. Soule
State Agricultural College At
Athens
Farmer’ Institutes
Washington
Wilkes County
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