Local notes from Macon and district on Monday visitations
O M Heard visited Macon on Monday and Judge D J Henderson spent Monday there. Miss Pearl Hughes of Byromville shopped here yesterday, and Mrs O M Heard visited Dr Heard s family near Macon. The Cotton Oil Company welcomes visitors to their works while rail and coal concerns differ by region. Wealth in pecan growing is hinted at for those patient enough to wait. The Leonard store near the court house is set for a new furniture business opening. Reverend J A Nelson notes a progressive Wright church meeting every third Sunday. Frank Holt from Montezuma says smallpox in his town is under control with only two cases. The O J Christian Agency in Vienna offers insurance on real estate, typewriters, or newspapers. J O Standridge visited and brought 8000 pay checks and printing supplies for 8 S Standridge & Son.
Bivins Insurance Case Reaches Macon Verdict
A long battle over Joseph E. Bivins life policy ends with a US court verdict in favor of Exchange Bank of Macon. Provident Savings Life Insurance contested the claim citing alleged drinking. Also mentions Carnegie income and condensed milk facts as context.
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Bivins
First National Bank of
Cordele
Provident Savings Life Insurance Co
New York
Vienna honors O. M. Heard and Jas. Burns with canes
A Vienna committee of nobles presents O. M. Heard and Joseph Burns each a gold headed ebony cane engraved by Vienna citizens. The canes, costing $45, are on display at Vienna Drug Co and will be formally presented during a future program for their services in bringing the road by Vienna.
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Vienna
O. M. Heard
Joseph Burns
Vienna Drug Co
Messrs. Heard and
Burns
Oldest married couple in US claim Gunns of Harrington
Mr and Mrs Alexander Gunn of Harrington Kansas say they are the nation s oldest married pair having lived together seventy two years The husband claims 114 and the wife over 100 Also noted is a fossil microbes study finding coal transformations due to microbes Mrs D D Pearson of Chicago urges her 83 year old husband to donate his fortune to education institutions A & B Railroad progress near Vienna Cordele line depot size track schedule hopes and Trans Continental plan with two to three trains daily and delivery of newspapers at six each morning
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Alexander Gunn
Harrington, Kansas
United States
D. D. Pearson
Chicago
Change at Richwood Delights a Town with Lost Mills
Richwood has cooled from booming industry after twelve to fourteen years of heavy milling. Two vast saw mills and a planning mill, plus numerous locomotives, operated at full speed until recent days. The B F O'Neal plant suffered fires but was rebuilt larger. Now the last timber is cut and the mammoth plant is dismantled and moved, leaving Richwood to become a large farm community per Cordele Daily News.
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Richwood
B. F. O'Neal
Fleet of Twenty Light Draft War Vessels For World’s Fair
Twenty light draught war vessels will be present in St Louis harbor on April 30 1904 for dedicatory exercises of the World’s Fair. It will be the largest fleet assembled in inland waters since the Civil War.
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St. Louis Harbora
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Macon
D. J. Henderson
Miss Pearl Hughes
Byromville
Dr. Heard
Lucious Howard
Teresa Calhoun
Kerns Wiestlay
Cotton Oil Company
Leonard
Court House
J. A. Nelson
Wright
Fitzgerald
Frank Holt
Montezuma
O. J. Christian Agency
J. O. Standridge
Progress Press
8. S. Standridge & Son
J. ¥. Bivins Insurance
Joseph E. Bivins
Andrew Carnegie
Jas. Burns
Massachusetts Mutual Safo Insurance Company
Hetty Green
THE
A & B Railroad
J. J. Milligan
Florida
Atlanta
Constitution and
Cordele Daily News
E. G. Cracy & CC
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