Cordele News Roundup of Crimes and Local Happenings
Burglaries plague Cordele with five break ins reported on Tuesday night. Local court actions involve Ethel Smith's car robbery case transfer and Frank Ledbetter and Calvin Ledbetter charged with murder after a deadly shooting. Community updates note social events, deaths, revivals, and local business moves in Vienna, Cordele, Unadilla, and surrounding areas.
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Ethel Smith
Ledbetter fires five shots killing a colored man
An Atlanta Journal correspondent reports from Lumpkin on July 26 that Frank Ledbetter, a white employee of Ledbetter Telephone, shot Bob Wilson after a disturbance at JP Cherry's. Wilson died later. Ledbetter and Calvin were jailed, bond pending, relatives due.
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Cordele
Bob Wilson
Calvin Ted
Roy
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Wilson
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Prank
Lumpkin
Atlanta Journal
Ledbetter
Ledbetter Telephone Company
J.P. Cherry
Calum
Montezuma preacher denounces blind tigers at Dooly camp
Rev. Sentell from Montezuma preached a prohibition sermon at a Dooly county camp meeting denouncing blind tigers. He cites Pig Massey from Montezuma delivering liquor near Vienna, now jailed at Richwood. Two other Montezuma tigers were captured, bonds posted by the church steward to keep them out of Vienna jail.
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Montezuma
Dooly County
Pig Massey
Vienna
Massey
Richwood
Vienna City Council Considers Branch Drainage Plan
City Council met in a call session on July 24 with members W T McDonald W Thigpen J J Cooper and P G McDonald present. A motion passed to drain the north town branch by an eight by four ditch at thirty cents per running yard starting at Pine street bridge and running 621 yards to the branch. Mayor W J McDonald, City Clerk B M Wood and treasurer were noted.
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Thia
W. T, McDonald
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J.J, Cooper
P. G. McDonald
Pine Street
W. J, McDonald
B. M. Wood
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Tres
Free Park Performance by New Zealand Medicine Company Tonight
The New Zealand Medicine Company will present a free show in the park tonight and may stay several days. D. T. Toomer opens a barber shop facing the park advertising shares at five cents and haircuts at fifteen cents. J. D. Hargrove warns road commissioners to call out road hands and ensure five days of work on public roads before the September term, vowing court scrutiny of county road conditions.
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Myrtis Everett
Miss Everett
Vienna
Messrs
Grady Whitehead
Price Heard
Carl Stovall
J. C. Powell
Eddie F
Nathan Powell
Carl Morgan
John N. Hargrove
Buford Hamilton
Collie Williams
Kemp Summerford
Misses Sarah
Christine
Alice Smith
Hawkinsville
Jazzie Harvard
Jesse Myers
Ora Morgan
Belle Rushin
May D
Pinehurat
the Sentinel
Cordele
New Zealand Medicine Company
D. T. Toomer
Dooly County
Grand Jury
J.D. Hargrove
Tax Notice for Vienna Property 1901 Closing Aug 15
The town of Vienna opens its books for 1901 tax returns and will close August 15 1901. B M Wood Clerk announces the town records for taxable property. The notice is dated July 10 1901.
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B. M. Wood
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