[meteorite-list] NPA 09-06-1906 Pickens County Meteorite and GA News

[MARK BOSTICK]

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.

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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
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