Report on Carnegie Library Americus annual year ending 1922
Miss Carrie Speer presents the thirteenth annual Carnegie Library report to the city library board for the year ending May 1, 1922. Registration reached 1,618. home-use books issued 18,622. catalog additions 850. notable donations include Dickens set and history volumes. attendance in Reading and Reference 7,000. auditorium used by American Legion, Farm Bureau, clubs, and others. staff and volunteers thanked. funding notes show city and county support and miscellaneous revenues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Speer
City Library Board
Souther Field
Dickens
Foundation Library
Library of Universal History
Berle
H. G. Well
Farm Bureau
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Woman's Club
American Legion
Woman's Auxiliary
Mysic
Emma Chapman
Streeter
Music Study Club
Susie Taylor
Walter Merritt
H. D. Hansford
W. L. English
Times-Recorder
W.S. Kirkpatrick
Commercial City Bank
Carnegie Library Association
Amcvicus
Maa PO Uee
Lula
Plains Club to buy radio for new auditorium
Plains Georgia events note the local Literary club favors purchasing and installing a radio outfit for Plains new auditorium with H R McGhee named as to lead. Graduation ceremonies at Plains high school feature seventh grade promotion and senior class exercises with a full program and diplomas presented by Superintendent Thomas Morgan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faust
Plains High School
Thomas Morgan
Miss Clark
Bertha Dominick
Irene Murray
Daisy Stephens
Thomas and Murray
Eva Wiggins
Cecil Dodson
Rosa Stephens
Walter Kennedy, Jr
Laura Caughman
Lillian Thomas
R. S. Oliver
Lucy Kate Clark
Magnolia Springs
Clark
Pearl Langford
Marjorie Mauney
Nellie Bowen
Louise Lamar Wise
Harold Andrews
Christine Wise
Edith Gibson
Mary Will Wadsworth
Karline
Macon
T. W. Walters
Helen Smith
Covington
Darden Chairman for Tift Memorial Here
Semter county admirers of the late Hy be. Tift, of Tifton, are to s have the opportunity, if they so desire, of having a part in the erection of a memorial to him, which is,to take the form of a build at the Second District Agricultural school, at Tifton, of which he was the father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Semter County
Hy Be. Tift
Tifton
Concord alumnus chairs Sumter fund drive for H Tift gym
A F Darden of Concord community, Class of 1920, attended the school commencement and alumni meeting where he was named Sumter county chairman for the H H Tift memorial fund. The goal is a modern gym on the Second District campus funded by subscriptions with a payment plan through November 1924. Students have pledged 1781 dollars, and interested parties may contact Darden at Americus Route C. Rev H T Brookshire, back from Jacksonville, will lead midweek prayer at the Enval Baptist Church tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babe Hagerson
Friendship
L. J. Crawford
W. H. Brimberry
Atlanta
Aughtrey Oliver
Estelle Rawls
Columbia
S. C
H. A. McCullough
M. R. Wingard
M. D. Walters
Carrie Walters
Americas
J. M. Rauch
Francis
Sam Dean
Dawson
Mattie Caughman
Claud Walters
Nell Walters
A. & M. College
Virginia Mae Bass
J. D. Whiteside
Francis Whiteside
Robert Harris
Macon
Thomas Morgan
Morgan
Pearl Walters
Pearl
Cynthia Langford
Plains School
Shawmut
Ala
Walter Kennedy
A. F. Darden
Concord
Sumter County
H. H. Tift
Darden
Americus
Route C
H. T. Brookshire
Jacksonville
Southern Baptist Convention
Enval Baptist Church
Power line dynamited closes eight mines near Elberton
In Charlestown West Virginia on May 24 an electric power line tower belonging to the Virginia Power Company was dynamited early today. Eight mines were forced to close as a result, said J C Smith commercial manager of the power company. Norway studies electrifying its railways. Advertisement for Brown's Self Rising Flour concludes the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlestown
W. Va
Virginia Power Company
Elberton
J. C.smith
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Bucher
Lewis
Hall
Library Commission
Lloyd George
Dilnot
Georgia
Brown’s Mill
Oseerose
Jweocaenes
Bank of Commerce
Wate Nwenae Cateseeererseersesee
Plains, GA
J. C. Logan
Fred
W. Fred Sills
Tift Memorial
USCO
U.S
United States
U.S. Tire Co
United States Tires United
Rubber Company
Rubber Organ N the World
Warlax
Americus Steam Vale Company
Americus, Ga
G. A
W. G. Turpin
Norway
Brown
ALL Red Cross and Holters
Ladies
Oxfords
Cohen
Rylander Theater
Fashion Shop
Edith Creighton
Henry Lumpkin
Geraldine Payne
Gertrude Davenport
Edith Shy
Hazel Prather
Mrs. Pearlman
Elizabeth Stevens
Mrs. Garner
Golden
Ellinor Tillman
Golden's
Naomi Wright
Pinkston Co
Sarah Tower
Walker
Cargill, Davenport, Clark, Beavers
Churchwell
Leta Merritt
Walter Rylander
Churchwell’s
Myrtle Rushin
Jennie Pearlman
Laura Johnson
Roy Cordell
Rylander Shoe Co
Kat Hamilton
Margerite Wheatley
Eugenia Parker
Evelyn Bell
Georgia Lumpkin
Ruth Everett
Frances Easterlin
Mary Walker
Louise Edwards
Louise Hamilton
Vera Henry
Mary Parker
Annie Ivey
Ellen Estes
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