Statewide County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE July 10, 1899
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Savannah Morning  News July 10, 1899
                         NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
                                 10 JULY 1899
     Dr. Spalding Kenan has been re-elected Mayor of Darien for another term by
the board of city commissioners. Mr. R.H. Knox is Mayor pro tem.
     Columbus is making all needed preparations to erect a new and improved
cotton mill. A site of seven acres has been selected on North Highlands, and as
soon as the charter is secured work on the building will begin. The mill will be
owned  and operated by the Columbus Manufacturing Company.
     A meeting of fanciers and farmers interested in poultry raising is called
to meet in Perry on Tuesday, July 18, It is desired to organize the Houston
County Poultry Association for the purpose of promoting interest in poultry
raising and the disemination of useful knowledge on poultry culture.
     Worth Local: The many friends of Dr. G. B. Watson of Acree, who was
recently adjudged insane and sent to the sanitarium at Milledgeville, will
regret to learn that little hopes of his recovery are entertained, but that
death is expected at almost any time,
     The pupils of the Georgia School for the Deaf, which is located at Cave
Springs, get out a little paper called the School Helper. A printing department
was established in this school one year ago, and a number of boys are being
taught there and will go out as practical printers, who can readily earn a
living at the trade.
     Prof. E. E. Parker, a young white man, who has been teaching a school in
Miller county, was arrested Sunday and tried and convicted Monday for
appropriating a railroad ticket at Safford when the agent's back was turned. He
will serve ten months in the gang if he fails to produce $40.00. It is said that
the young man is of good family, and resides somewhere in Alabama.
     Blakely Reporter: Old man James Hayes who lives a few miles in the country,
was in town Tuesday in rather a bad plight, having been chewed constantly by a
dog with rabies. The dog's head had to be severed from his body before it could
be made to turn the old man loose. A splendid mule and several other animals
were also bitten by the dog, and the whole neighborhood is now armed and looking
for mad dogs.
       


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