Dooly Superior Court Adjourns After Harsh Week of Trials
Dooly Superior Court adjourned Thursday after a week of trials all ending in guilty verdicts. Judge and solicitor were active as cases including murder, receiving stolen goods, horse stealing, and assault with intent to murder resulted in sentences from four years to life. A grand jury adjourned to resume after a committee reports on county matters.
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Dooly Superior Court
Col. M. P. Hall
Col. W
Vienna
State
Jim Young
Brady Pasley
Joe Whitehead
Henry Ross
Jim Clayton
Will Snell
George Pasley
Oliver Heath
Hope Robinson
P. A. Mayo
Vienna Public School Commencement Outline
The Vienna Public School closes with events starting Friday evening March 22 under J A Klein superintendent of Music. Sunday sermon by R W Cramer of Cordele. Monday features girls old boys contest for a gold medal for Reading and Declamation. Col J Ellsworth Hall of Mason delivers the annual address Tuesday morning at 10:80. Graduation exercises and diploma and medal awards follow Tuesday evening.
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Vienna
J. A. Klien
Department of Music
R. W. Cramer
Cordele
Board of Education
Mel Forehand
Col
J. Ellsworth Hall
Maon
Farmers Union thanks citizens after May meeting in Pinehurst
The Farmer's Union of Doolg y extends gratitude to every citizen who aided in their entertainment while in session on May 4. Signed by J. L. Godwin President and W. J. Hendly Secretary.
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ie‘Farmera’ Union of
Doolg Y
J. L. Godwin Pres
W.J. Hendly
G F Swearingen Dies After Declining Health
G F Swearingen of Pleasant Valley died Tuesday night around 7 o clock after years of bronchial illness. He was 68, survived by a wife and seven children. Funeral held Wednesday at Swearingen Cemetery with Confederate Veterans pallbearers and Rev M B Ferrell officiating.
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G. F. Swearingen
Pleasant Valley
Swearingen
Methodist Church
Dooly County Camp No
Mesdames W. ©. Ingram
J. B. Mason
J. T. Fudge
Cottle
Jim
John
Charlie Swearingen
Stowe
M. B. Ferrell
Byromville
Whites report attack on McDonald after fatal shooting
A group of Negroes unknown in number came to E O McDonalds residence in Millford Baker county at 11 pm and fired on him as he opened the door. McDonald a cripple shot and wounded a Negro who had earlier attacked him at N H Sanders store. Citizens mobilize to protect life and property amid rising tensions.
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Albany
Millford
Baker
E.O. McDonald
McDonald
N. H. Sanders
Vienna Cotton Oil Co Orders 8 70 Saw Gin Outfit
The Vienna Cotton Oil Co orders an 8 70 saw gin for the East Vienna plant. Repairs and overhauls are underway to ready the building for the cotton season. The move should boost local business and attract more cotton to Vienna, aiding regional farmers.
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Vienna Cotton Oil Co
East Vienna
Vienna
Georgia Should Not Return to Corporate Rule Says Graves
Hon. John Temple Graves, editor of the New York American, visiting Atlanta, urges Georgians to resist surrender to corporate power. He calls the current crisis a test of liberty, warns against capitulating to Hoke Smith or corporations, and cites panic and over-capitalization as New York origins of upheaval.
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John Temple Graves
New York American
Atlanta
New York
Journal
Georgia
Hoke Smith
Old Israel
Rehoboam
Georgia items in buildings bill include Savannah hospital grounds purchase
Washington reports Savannah may gain an extension for its Marine Hospital site with an $18,500 authorization. Georgia items in the public buildings bill cover repairs and enlargements in Athens Rome Americus Marietta Augusta Gainesville and other cities with site funding for Griffin Newnan Waycross LaGrange Cordele Dublin Milledgeville Tifton Bainbridge Elberton Cedartown and more.
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Washington
Savannah
Marine Hospital
Drayton and
York
Georgia
Rome
Americus
Marietta
Augusta
Gainsville
Griffin
Newnan
Waycross
LaGrange
Cordele
Railroad to Pay $500000 to Court in Lumber Case
Macon Georgia May 14 Devision of the court in the H H Tift lumber rate case to the railroads of the Southeastern Freight association required the defendants to pay $500000 into the court This is the amount of the supersedual bond posted to stay the perpetual injunction against collecting the excessive two cents per hundred pounds lumber rate The decree hinges on the bond being sufficient to satisfy all just claims The defendants intend to appeal the ruling
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Macon
H. H. Tift
Southeastern Freight Association
Speer
Brown Will Win If Counties Vote, Say Vox Poputt
A political column argues for Governor Joseph M. Brown, accusing Hoke Smith supporters of manipulating voter lists. It urges Georgians to rely on county results, insists Brown can win nationwide, and ends with a call to argue facts and avoid personal attacks.
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Hoke, Smith Club
Byromville
Big Joe Brown Lomb
Fulton County
Byremoville Club
Atlanta
Hoke Smith
Fulton
Journal
Joe Brown
Smith
Dooly
Crisp
Pulaska
Houston
Bibb
Hoke
Mr. Smith
Brown
Vox Poputt
Hegidio Bros Market Sold To E C Taylor
Notice states E C Taylor has purchased Hegidio Bros market and will continue fresh meat service at the store. Orders will be handled promptly. contact phone 76 8.
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Hegidio Bros. Market
E. C. Taylor
Fakir swindle nets Americus farmer twenty dollars
Americus resident Charles W. Ansley was duped by a traveling con artist known as Colonel Slick posing as a buyer. The fake trader convinced Ansley to lend twenty dollars after a staged sale of a farm, then vanished with no wallet or pistol and no trace of Slick. Police found no clues as to the suspect.
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Americus Times-Recorder
Charles W. Ansley
Americus
Ansley
Slick
North Carolina
Mr. Slick
Mr Ansley
Colonel Slick
Mr. Ansley
Willie
In God We Trust To Return To U S Coins
Washington May 12 The Senate Finance Committee voted unanimously to restore the motto In God we trust to gold and silver coins of the United States. The motto was removed from coins by presidential order.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Committee of Finance
House
United States
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Pinehurst
Savannah Marine Hospital
Judge Speer
Joseph M. Brown
Fakir
Sumpter County
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