Local Notes From The Progress Chronicle
Dooly County official advertising includes sheriff J. Riley Carter’s death by paralysis last Thursday. Macon hosts a grand street fair during the National Farmers Congress session in October. A Winder sweep nets 20 blind tigers fined $50 each. Laurens County races for John R. Baggett on the Populist ticket. Worth County man John Suggs dies after a rattlesnake bite. Holiness Camp Ground camp meeting draws about 5,000 daily. Tifton burglary spree targets money watches provisions. Dawson pitcher Paul Melton dies after drinking ice water while playing ball. Third District Convention set for Montezuma on August Mth. Lewis urges attendance. Lawmakers discuss new judicial circuit for several counties. Mrs. N. E. Lytle alias W. L. Nash held for failing to return a used typewriter. A baby’s voice heard over New York transmitter linked to Atlanta grandparents. Warrenton merchant Gheesling dies by self-inflicted throat wound. Willis Ponder and Dr. Minter face commitment trial. Ponder bond set at 285,000. Atlanta news: Walthour wins race. ball team defeats Shreveport Pirates. officer reports a pocket-picking suspect. Miss Missouri Querby arrested for passing a counterfeit $3 bill.
Reckoning of Wrong and Honor for a Humble Hero
A Columbus Enquirer-Sun column warns that every wrong bears a repaying fate and true justice cannot be escaped. It contrasts moral reckoning with a separate note praising newspapers as a free educational tool for children. Augusta citizens plan a monument to Dennis Cahill, a laborer who died saving a widow’s child.
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Tax returns show gain across 91 counties in state
Comptroller general reports 91 counties filed returns with 55 gains and 36 declines totaling a net increase of 3 526 317. Most counties and larger cities besides Muscoges show gains. last year general property up about 17 million with railroads lifting total to over 22 million. Tax rate likely to fall slightly from 5 44 per thousand.
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