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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FOR/ VALLEY, GA., APRIL 30, 1920.
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® To the of Houston County:
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© , I trust you will pardon me for intruding my opinion, suggestion or wishes up¬ © ©
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:© are sincere and honest. With this preface and in a spirit of good will to you all
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® and a deep seated love and loyalty to Houston County which has been address for 0
forty-five years--far my
more than 1 can ever spend in its delightful confines again—1 wish
| tp ask why should divide the Old County, the peaceful home of fathers and ©
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grandfathers? differ&Wces Is there not some means by which we can all get together, adjust
our and keep down division?
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i *- i A It is ridiculous that the last election decided the whether
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we should run new county lines or not. It seems this idea was promulgated sub
rosa and was known to but few-some swapping and some other motives governed - K.
the voting beyond any doubt in my mind. • ©
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Now my proposition is . . if we can’t get together and smooth over the
trouble or. whatever else is at the bottom of this disturbance, let’s get out in the open,
let the people know the issue and vote straight for a whole Houston or a divided
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From what I gather between the lines, there dissatisfaction roads, ©
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If busirte^s management, schools, etc., Now the fault is not in Houston; it is in us.
we want better roads, more school facilities and better business management, it is in
our power to have same without splitting up the county, a mistake I will not try to ex
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more money. Now I’ve reached the proposition. The County is in debt, We can © ©
© pay oftt ahd if nfrt miss it in a few years. While not flushed, I am willing to subscribe
$2000.00, provided one hundred men will subscribe $1000.00 and there are that many © ©
more able than I toward straightening out matters.
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W% lilvide thig is you, be a more
to t)f(i Hoh^lon—not counting the bitterness, which is worth nothing. ©i
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