Statewide-Crisp-White County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE December 19, 1912
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Savannah Morning  News December 19, 1912
                            ROUND ABOUT GEORGIA
                             19 December 1912 

     Rev. E. R. deWall, a nephew of Om Paul Kruger of the former South African
Republic, was a recent visitor to Albany and Brunswick. He wants to return to
South Africa, from which he was exiled by Great Britain following the Boer War.
His entire family, four sons, wife and two daughters, was wiped out in the war
and he was wounded four times. He was at Majuba Hill. He commanded 4,000 Boers.

     "Uncle Billy" Gardner, who it is said captured Rutherford B. Hayes during
the War Between the States and shot a finger off the future President, has gone
to live at the Soldiers Home at Atlanta. He is the father of Tom Gardner,
principal of the school at Zebulon.

     The Toledo [Ohio] Times gave a full page recently to a description of a
visit of a number of Toledo business men to Brunswick.

     The Brunswick News blames the mildness of the Northern winter because very
few home seekers have come to Georgia, yet this season. It expects the first big
cold snap to send many southward.
     Eddie Cole Jenkins, a little boy was badly burned in Crisp county while
watching stumps being burned on his fathers farm. The workers saved him from
quick death.
 
     It is said to be not improbable that Worth and Crisp counties will wage a
second legal fight over a strip of territory each claims and which is productive
of taxes.

     That a convicts wife moved over to the camp to keep him company is a charge
made in Crisp county.

     After being away from home for two years and being supposedly dead. Herbert
Mercer showed up again at Cordele. His wife had received a telegram long ago
saying that Mercer was killed in Augusta.

     Gold mining in Georgia last year increased in placer mining, but decreased
in vein mining, compared with the previous year. These thirteen counties were
producers of gold during 1911: Cherokee; Cobb; Dawson; Haralson; Fannin;
Forsyth; Hall; Lumpkin; McDuffie; Oglethorpe; Rabun; White and Wilkes. White
county led in gold production closely followed by Lumpkin and McDuffie;
  

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