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Barnesville Notes and Local Happenings Report
Mr George C Crowder departs for Atlanta to join R S Crutcher furniture. Local businessmen Gainer Turner and Garland Seaman showcase a two person swing. Miss Roberta Mitchell accepts Molena High School teaching post. Prof Carl W Steed named at Southwest Virginia Institute Bristol Virginia Tennessee. Potat o creek project costs 599.47. Mitchell hill work eyed as additional expense. Otter exhibited by Otis Stocks near Lamont weighs eighteen pounds. E H Bloodworth named as cotton buyer to bolster Barnesville market. Bluff Springs camp meeting scheduled to start Friday. Jim Woodward recovering from illness. Shakespeare club set for anniversary. Rev J D Carreker reports fifty baptisms at Mt Olive church. Car wreck injures J T Middlebrooks and T J Watts. both unhurt. D L Anderson meeting Baltimore drummer in Macon to secure new Christmas goods. W A Wright drug store to stock fall goods. Charley H Chapman joins Rogers store. Wooten improving at Strouds. Mr B J Clark visiting. W W Wilkerson on vacation. T J Davis to fill duties. Maj John T Hunt to buy cotton for large firm. Barnesville gains fifth cotton buyer. John Collier ill with fever but improving.