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The & Nugget
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DAHLONEGA, G*. fvjAY II, ’28.
Enetreil ai the liitlilourun, Ga. I*. O
a«Second clash Matter.
Official Organ of both City and
County.
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A negro has been elected to con
gress from Illinois on the republi
can ticket.
Mr. Rinderberg
fly to Europe by
land and Iceland.
h is expecting to
way of Green-
Congressman Sweet, of New
York state, was killed last week
by an airplane turning over with
him.
Senator Harrison, of Illinois, is
of the opinion that a federal tax
reduction of $325,000 can be
made.
Years ago many of the mails
were carried by men on horses.
Now airplanes are being brought
Into service, A great improvement.
We see where a casket company
has failed down at Columbus, Ga.
It seems from this that the health
of the people in that section is
good.
In Memphis last week in a fall a
man dropped in front of a train
and lay so flat when it ran over
him that he was not hurt. Of
course he wasn’t a fat man.
New Orleans and New York are
linked by airplanes now. Atlan
ta is on the route. This ser
vice will not be troubled with high
water courses and muddy roads,
nothing but cyclones.
We notice where a Bishop up in
Kansas vs going to have a church
trial, charged with conduct unbe
coming a minister. So you see
high church officials need watch
ing same as country editors.
The name of the young man
who was killed by his car last Sat
urday night a week ago, was Ar-
del Mentor, from Wilksboro, N,
C. aged 17. The accident occur
red in Forsyth county, Georgia.
The police of Macon mtde a re
port of 609 cases for April, a de
crease in the number of cases for
March. Drunks were in the lead.
Just think of this while we n.'e
living under what they call a pro
hibition law.
Some of the ladies in Washing
ton City are urging women to
wear cotton clothes. But the size
and length has been reduced so to
suit the Paris instructors in styles
that it would not cause the price
of cotton to advance much.
A man is generally scolded by
h'swife for coming home lute at
night. But we notice where a
husband up in Missouri was re
buked by his wife for coming
home early, causing him to com
mit suicide. It might have been
that the wife had a rooster wearing
a tie hid in the closet she did not
want her husband to see.
The Georgia editors, who are
now oil on their ocean voyage,
were all requested musically inclin
ed to carry along their instru
ments. Had we known this in
time we would have been in the
bunch with our jewsharp. It cer
tainly would have been a tieat to
see and hear us "harping” while
Dr. Arnold picked the banjo for
some one or lesser years to dance.
Wo notice where a minister at
Gainesville was recently presented
with :m auto by his admirers.
Such a gift is about like putting a
shotgun in the hands of a boy, a
minister though if one who prac-
ces what he preaches, will have
the advantage of tiie boy, if he j
1 ,oc;tl and Other N :\vs. .
North Carolina has had snow and
sleet for May.
They arc moving right along
with their grading on the highway
between Jasper and Dawsonville.
•Jim Angles of Baldwin county,
was taken out a few nights ago
by four men and beat unmercifully
with a studded thong. Said
to be done by bootleggers and
night ridres.
Senator Harris asks for a mil
lion dollars appropriation to re
pair the roads and bridges damag
ed by the recent disatrous floods
in Georgia. President Coolidge
opposes it.
An effort will be made to save
the hundreds of thousands of
pounds of fish washed out into
ponds by the Hoods in South Geor
gia by the recent Hoods and trans
ferred to running water.
Officers Hopkins and Kimsey
captured a Dodge ear and seven
gallons of liquor in Dnwson coun
ty Monday. The driver took to
the woods and escaped. And on
Tuesday the same officers togeth
er with Hopkins, found 22 gallons
of liquor m Dawson where the
owner had hid it.
The negro elected to congress
from Illinois to fill tho place of a
whtte member, who died, will be
the first one of his race who has
occupied such a seat in congress
in thirty years, and will have no
more showing than a wooden leg
ged man at an kicking.
We notice where the editor of
the Clermont Florida Press has
just been given a box of the fa
mous Marvel bluekberjies, a new
variety which grow an inch long
anti two inches in circumference.
If it was so we could we would go
down there and feast on these un
til our smaller ones get ripe up
here.
There is some talk of putting
out one independent at the gener
al election for County Commission
er and get up get more confusion.
When an election is held legally
we all should be willing to submit
to it. And the last one held in
Lumpkin county was legal so
far as we know. Let the majority
rule.
Just before closing our forms
this Wednesday afternoen we learn
that Mr. Henry King, one of Dah-
lotiega’s best citizens, has just
breathed his last after a long ill
ness and much snflering from T.
B,, survived by a wile, one son
and three daughters. The deceas
ed was truthful, honest and indus
trious. Beei. resiiling here for
many years and never made an en
emy Everybody spoke well of
n ini.
Rev. W. \ . Grindle will preach
at Town Creek Church next Sun
day.
WoodlifT’s Plant Farm on Flow
ery Crunch, Rt. 1, yon find now
ready for the purchaser Charleston
Wakefield and Flat Dutch cabbage
plants and tomatto plants.
't he City fathers think the time
won’t ho long until many more
concrete sidewalks will be built in
Daliloiiega so people can walk
around ir. the winter season with
out miring up in the mud.
Wc have been notified by card
that we made a mistake about the
length of the sentence of Pierce
As some may not know thd ori
gin and purposes of the N. G. A.
College at Daliloiiega we will give I
it briefly : By an Act of Congress,
passed July 2, 1862, entitled
all Act donating public lands
to the several States, anil Territo
ries which may provide colleges
for the benefit of agriculture and
mechanic arts,” making certain
conditions. By an Act of the Geu-
jernl Assembly of Georgia March
10, 18(56, acoop’el the donatirtl
j upon the terms and conditions pre-
i scribod in the Act of Congress.
The fund having been received,
| the interest of it was placed under
j control of the Trustees of the Uni-
Brown by Judge Sibly recently, j versity for the purpose of the Act.
Brown was only given thirty days The North Georgia Agricultural
and Barney Brackett *1 months.
A patron of ours said they were
getting tired of loaning tho Nug
get every week but hated to say
anything. It does look like
rowers could take the hint,
ought to get a paper of your own
College having been incorporated
in IK71, received from the United
S:atis government, in pursuance of
an Act of Congress passed in that
l)0| .jyear, introduced by IIou. W. I’.
y ou j Price, of Daliloiiega, then a mem
ber of Congress, a donation of the
and not bother j eople in any such N' *^' n * M Daliloiiega, and ten
j acres of land connected therewith.
A contract was then made with the
a manner.
McIntosh
This is from Ned
New York: ‘‘Please
dollar’s worth of subscription to
your paper. I used to be strongly
addicted to The Nugget when I
was with the Atlanta Constitution
and I am sure it has not lost its
good salty flavor. Also send dol
lar's worth to Stanley Walker in
care of World-Tribune.”
Mrs. Rachel Roberts was in our
office one day last week, being tho
first time she has been in Dalilon-
ega in forty years or more. The
lady used tojlive here, yet said it
looked like llie town was turned
round. Uncle Dave, her husband,
was in our Hioce only a short time
ago, using two sticks, but death
has removed him from our midst.
Trustees of the State University
send me a by which the North Georgia Agri
cultural College became n depart
ment of the University, the title
of the above property being con
veyed to the Trustees of the Uni
versity, by its making an allow
ance of $2,000 annually to the N.
G A. C. and exercising over it
a general supervision. Teaching
began at this College isl of 1873
with David W. Lewis, Presidont
and three assistants. One of whom
was Col. II II. l'erry, now resid
ing at Gainesville. We hove for
gotten the names of the other two
teachers. The President only re
ceived .81,000 a year for his servi
ces. Tae first trustees of this in
stitution : W. P. Price, President,
E. Wood, Vice-Pres., A. G.
Wood-
lived at
The government officials are en- Wimpy, Treasurer, J. \V
gaged now in enclosing lo acres of! war d, Secretary. Wood
ground on the Blue Ridge, near
Hawk'Gap, with a high wire fence
Aurnria. The other threo were
residents of Dahlonega. T he Treas-
wliere many deer will be kept. A urer rec.ived nothing for his servi- j
house will be built convenient for ces, except the profit made on his
the one who looks after them to re- merchandise sold to those of the
tide, besides shoot hawks and rat- teachers who traded with him,
tlesnakes. Well graded paths I The remaining Trustees were N.
built ail over tho government’s IF. Howard, Wier Boyd, R. H.
Moore, W. A. Burnside, John
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wherever they are
and phones
needed.
The trial of Bishop Bast began
up in Kansas 1 ast week by seven
teen ministers. Ho is charged
with misusing money. The tri
al didn't seem to open with pray
ed. Some years ago a Georgia
judge opened his court with pray
er -asked the Lord to bless while
lie, liie judge, sent defendants to
t be ebaingang for punishment,
conflicted so that he soon left oil'
his us less prayers that were made
for a show snore than anything
else.
We give an account of the Proc
tor and Gravitt recent trouble in
Mill Creek as furnished ns
by Mrs. J. \Y r . Proctor: “A rela
tive of Gravitt went to the home
ol llie Proctor boys so drunk, or
pretended to be, that he couldn’t
drive his car and begged Frank
Proctor to drive it for him, which
he did, and met Gravitt in about
half mile of home. Fred Proctor
pulled to one side, win n Gravitt
swang out and hit Fred in the face
with a black j irk and then uirneil
and went back too quick for anv
words, live hoys on the car all say,
was not, a word spoke lill Gravitt
used his black jack. Tae Proctor
hoys thought them and Gravitt
were friends up to mis time.
Don't know yet why he hit them,
but t lie re was not any tow at all
and no pliers used, and Gravitt
gets killed, by being piepared tor , was fj r .st i 0 L>a gone Don’t know
heaven when the horn blows tor
that any shot was fired as no one
the reception of jermanent gues ts ! but Gravitt heard it.
Mr. Ilouser is engaged now in
putting in new poles and getting
them on a line, looking better.
The line lias been extended by
Air. Henry MsGuires on up to ihe
Colored Baptist church, which
h is been partially wired. Now
members of this church, only 14 in
11 amber, can have electric lights lo
sing, preach, pray and shout by,
being the only colored church in
Dahlonega since their Methodist
house in which to worship, has
rotted down, such a house is useless
because 1 here is only one colored
Mot hod i st, who is a cripple and
unable to get out. The first col
ored church was built down the
street towards Crown Mountain,
on the lot opposite the brick house
where Mr. Nix lives, where all the
colored of the town met anil wor
shiped together up to and during
the Civil War, being lighted by a
few dim caudles. This building
was torn down, and ft while after
the s irrender the present church
was built. Later a colored school
w is started in tho Baptist church,
a limited amount of money being
furnished by the government to
pay a teacher. Of course there
was no colored person who could
teach in those days. This being
the case Rev. Jasper Woollen, a
native of Dahlonega, taught the
first colored school in our town at
this church, where young color
ed ideas have been taught liovv to
shoot ever since. As years passed
some of the colored race desir-
to be shewn the way lo heaven
by the Methodist route caused Dr.
X. F. Howard and Col. Wier
Bo\d, two old Ume Christians of
lAdilouegn, who wished to see ev
erybody. both white and black, do
fight, raised money for the erec
tion of a Methodist church out on
Pea Ridge, which was used for
years until the colored population
of Dahlonega decreased so that it
was abandon ;d and building
about rotted down.
J Woody, W. J. Worley, C. A. 13es-
set, G. F. Parker, Bev. A. Mar-
Jin, making thirteen local mem
bers, who made 11 strong pull for
the College. One was a bachelor
but lie never failed to do his part
in the pull. The remaining non
resident Trustees, who aided in
the upbuilding of this institution
were C. T Wellborn, Blairsville,
Dr. R. R. Hunt, Ellijay, E. A.
Williams, Nacoochee, .lames At
kins, Savannah, A. J. Comer,
Cleveland, A. Rudolph aud J. K.
Red wine, Gainesville, H. P. Bell,
Camming, John Hockenhull,
Dawsonville, H. P. Farrow, At
lanta, Dr. J. A. Moody, Pleas
ant Retreat, J. E. Brown, Atlan
ta W. S Erwin, Clarksville, Dan-
i 1 Neisler, Reynolds. It only
cost ten a year for the two terms.
No extras for ball playing or any
thing else. Every studeut had
lib 01 her mind on their books.
Only had an annual dance then.
Beginning on Wednesday night at
a late hour when the ex- |
excises closed. The first Com
mencement of the N. G. A. C. j
was held at the old Baptist church, i
then located on the lot in front of 1
where the Girl's Dormitery is now j
located, beginning July the 5th,
1873. A stage was built in front
of the church, and a big brush ar-
ber in the yard shaded the bun-!
dreds of people during tho day and j
at night the whole hill was alive j
with people from both far an 1
near, held here until the mint, !
used tor college purposes, was :
burned down and in constructing
the present building a suitable an
ditori 11 m was prepared. Dr. Tims
S. Powell, of Atlanta, preached ti e
first commencement sermon. \L
attended ike exercises. There are
a few of those present then who
are in Dahlonega today, or alive
any where. The student R. II.
Baker, then from White, and Miss
Fannie Menders, now Col. H. Ba
ker and wife, citizens of Dahlon-
hns ega today were among those on the
'stage then.
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