[meteorite-list] NPA 09-06-1906 Pickens County Meteorite and GA News
From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun May 1 18:00:09 2005 Message-ID: <BAY104-F404FE01A91CC9DA35D12A7B3260_at_phx.gbl> Paper: The Atlanta Constitution City: Atlanta, Georgia Date: Thursday, September 6, 1906 Page: 6 (of 12) TRUSTEES ARE APPOINTED FOR THREE INSTITUTIONS Governor Terrell Also Names Additional Members of Georgia's Jamestown Commission - State May Buy Park's Meteorite. Prior to leaving for New York at noon yesterday, Governor Terrell named quite a number of new trustees for various state institutions, and appointed six new commissioners for the Jamestown exposition from Georgia. An entire new board of trustees was named for the South Georgia Agricultural Industrial and Normal college, provided for by the act of the recent legislature, and which will be established at Valdoma. The board of trustees for this new institution named by Governor Terrell yesterday is as follows: W. B. West, of Lowndes; J. D. Sutton, of Meriwether; R. F. Gusley, of Lowndes; John R. Mercer, of Terrell; C. R. Ashley, of Lowndes; H. H. Tift, of Tift; K. J. McRee, of Lowndes; Foudren Mitchell, of Thomas, and Otis Ashmore, of Chatham. The foregoing appointments are effective from date. The following new members of the board of trustees of the North Georgia Agricultural college at Dahlooega were also appointed by Governor Terrell to serve for the usual terms from October 1, 1908: W. P. Price, R. H. Baker and W. A. Charters, of Lumpkin county; J. G. Deadwyler, of Jackson; H. H. Perry, of Hali; F. C. Tate, of Pickens, and P. S. Arkwright, of Fulton. Governor Terrell appointed the following new trustees of the State Normal school at Athens to serve for terms of six years from August 27: From Athens - Hugh J. Rowe. From First Congressional District - Joseph W. Smith, of Reidsville. Fourth Congressional District - A. A. Carson, of Helena. Jamestown Commissioners. The six new members who were added under the resolution recently passed by the legislature, making an appropriating of $30,000 and providing for a Georgia display, are as follows: C. W. Russell, of Columbus, representative from Muscogee and author of the resolution providing for the exhibit; W. S. West, of Valdoeta, president of the state senate; James W. English, Jr. of Atlanta; S. F. Parrott, of Macon; J. Carroll Payne, of Atlanta, and B. C. Dunlap, of Gainesville. This commission will act in the advisory capacity in connection with the Georgia exhibit at Jamestown, with the Jamestown commission already created and composed of Governor Terrell, Commissioner of Agriculture Hudson and State Geologist Yeates, W. N. Mitchell of Atlanta; Martin V. Calvin, of Augusta, and S. R. Fields, of Cordela. The governor and these commissioners will have charge of the matter of expending the fund of $30,000, which was appropriated at the recent session of this legislature for the purpose of making this exhibit. These commissioners, it is expected will meet within a few days and take active steps looking to making preparations for the Georgia display. State May Get Meteorite. A meteorite, said to be the genuine article, now in possession of A. B. Park, a Pickens county teach, is creating some little stir, it seems: A few days ago a brief account was given in The Constitution of the fact that Mr. Park had communicated to State Treasurer R. E. Park the information that he had this meteorite for sale. As a result of the publication Treasurer Park has already received several letters about the matter, one of them coming from New York. It seems the meteorite market is pretty high, and there are several who seem to want to get hold of it. Mr. Park has no idea of the value of the meteorite, and so he is willing to let it go to the highest bidder. He says it has been pronounced genuine by two well-known geologists and he is ready to submit to another test. Treasurer Park, who is a member of the state geological board, is opposed of letting this meteorite go out of the state. It was found in the mountains of north Georgia and it ought to remain in Georgia as an exhibit in the state geological collection at the capitol, he says. He will favor the geological board purchasing the meteorite, in case it can be procured for a reasonable sum. It is said a meteorite was cut up some time ago in New Orleans and sold for something like $100 a slice, sections of it going to various museums over the country. Governor Goes East. Governor and Mrs. Terrell left the city yesterday at noon for Washington and New York, where they will be gone ten days or more on a pleasure trip. Governor Terrell proposes also to make a business trip of it, as he will stop in Washington today for the purpose of calling on the navy department and ascertaining what arrangements can be made to have the new battleship "Georgia" placed in commission in Georgia waters. Following this he will take up educational matters in New York, and may come home with some information of wide interest to the educational field. Governor and Mrs. Terrell will be for several days the guests of George Foster Peabody, with whom the governor will discuss the State university and the district agricultural colleges for which provision was recently made by the southern education board in New York relative to Georgia Institutions in which that board is interested. Governor Terrell will try to get it to take an interest in the Technological school and, if possible, to aid in its further development. (end) As with the last, another Pickens County NPA is posted on the following page: http://www.meteoritearticles.com/znppickenscounty.html ....and I will have others posted at some point. (I do add dozens of pages a week.) Clear Skies, Mark Bostick Wichita, Kansas http://www.meteoritearticles.com http://www.kansasmeteoritesociety.com http://www.imca.cc http://stores.ebay.com/meteoritearticles PDF copy of this article, and most I post (and about 1/2 of those on my website), is available upon e-mail request. The NPA in the subject line, stands for Newspaper Article. The old list server allowed us a search feature the current does not, so I guess this is more for quick reference and shortening the subject line now. Received on Sun 01 May 2005 06:00:08 PM PDT |
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