Carrier's Wife Tribute And Georgia Week Travel Plans
A Georgia GL C column by C C Wall presents a poem praising wives in the postal carrier family, followed by notes on the 1938 National Letter Carriers Convention in Des Moines Iowa. It details Georgia Week at the Century of Progress in Chicago with special train rates from Atlanta to Des Moines and Chicago to Des Moines, plus schedules from Atlanta and Chicago. The piece lists a long roster of Georgia members and retirement guidance for civil service workers, highlighting travel options to the event and urging participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother Bahr
Ving
Tey
United States
Des Moines
Huntry
Chicago
Peration
Georgia
Addice
Attes
I Southern Railway
Atlantic Coast Line
Chattang
Nashville Lake & St. Louis Railway
Dixie Express
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Atiania
Wes Moines
G. B. Harris
Atlanta
Dixie Flyer
N. C
St. L. Ry
Union Station
Dearborn
LaSalle Street
Atlanta Union Station
Fort Des Moines Hotel
Eighty Year Service Carriers in Georgia
The National Rural Letter Carrier list shows 143 Georgia carriers with eighty years or more service as of July 1, 1934, among 1,389 total in the state. About ten percent have thirty years or more, despite retirement act provisions granting the Post Office Department retirement rights.
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Georgia
Post Office Department
Why We Resist Swapping Lives and Envy of Others
A reflective essay argues envy is a toxic trade. It declares most won’t trade lives or families, preferring personal identity and flaws over another’s gifts. It uses parables and religious allusions to urge returning to spiritual values over worldly prosperity.
What Can I Do Not What I Get In God’s Plan
A religious exhortation urges selflessness and service, citing Jesus in Judea and the use of God given talents for God's glory. It emphasizes not seeking personal gain but giving and living by dying, with examples of Christ's miracles and restraint. The piece frames Christian duty as generous service rather than self serving gain.
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God
Heaven
Hell
Earth
Wildernness
Judea
Jesus
Satan
We Gotta Ride and Hard Times Tone from Plains Papers
Readers reflect on tough finances with humor and grit as rural towns report high car counts and rising debts. The Butler Herald notes 100 plus cars near a school at costs around 500 dollars while Wiregrass Farmer and Dawson News echo shared strains of scarce cash, unpaid mortgages, and relentless travel.
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Butler
Taylor County
Butler Herald
Turner County
Akins
Dawson News
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C.c. Wall
Ellaville, Ga
Sec
Treas
Juputés
Garnier
Waxes
A. C, Bahr
W. G. Armstrong
G. Street
N. W
Washington
D. C
Acworth
Joseph B
Rainey Adairsville
Burdine Jackson
Allentown
Ernest Cuver Adams
Armadhee
Emmett Burk
Oscar T. Head
Blackwells
Herbert J. Abbey
Bowman
Willie W. Faulner
John W. Roberts
Bronwood
George M. Gammage
Buchanan
Orlando F. Goldin
Buena Vista
Vilas Bell
Buford
Kemvest
Brogdon
Penley
Jackson Hayes
Byron
Nathaniel Arthur Bush
Henry A. Lowe
Calhoun
John V. Adams
Eli Cobb McEntyre
Camilla
Wm. Curry Hilliard
Carrollton
Hugh H. Ward
Cartersville
James V. Bishop
Cass Station
Wm. S. Chunn
Cedartown
Fred C. Hogg
Chamblee
James W. Purcell
Charing
Benj
J. Montgomery
Cochran
John H. Mullis
College Park
Arthur C. Allen
Colquitt
Thomas P. McDonald
Comer
Thomas W. Hinton
Clarence J. Howard
Conyers
Joel H. Camp
Covington
Pickney
J. Garrison Cumming
Wm. M. Poole
Jr. Cusseta
Thomas A. Grady
Dacula
James F. Nash
Dallas
Jesse T. Cole
Bennie Eli Smith
Dalton
Alex C. Shultes
Dearing
Wm. Z. Simmons
Devereux
Carlton Courson
Dexter
Perry English
Edison
John D. Stewart
Elberton
James T. Carpenter
Walter C. Jones
Elko
L. Holmes
Fairburn
H. Pennington
Farmington
Henry C. Poole
Forsyth
Augustus A. Smitty
Franklin
Walter H. Miller
Gabbettville
David W. Beaty
Gibson
Gartrell Thompson
Gillsville
Marion F. Chandler
Hahira
W. W. Barfield
Hamilton
James E. Fort
John W. Hargett Hartwell
Geo. L. Richardson
Hawkinsville
M. L. Bembry
Geo
F. Johnson
Hogansville
Reuben B. Smith
Holly Springs
Loomis Reece
Hull
Claude D. Tolbert
Irwinton
Isaac F. Billye
Jonesboro
Esca L. Stephens
John P .Porter
Jefferson
J. H. Balcom
M. S
Kathleen
Stewart T. Bryan
Kite
Morgan F. Hatcher
Knoxville
John C. Sawyer
Lafayette
Monroe
Prince A. Dickingon
Monticello
Charles H. Ballard
Montrose
Ben R. Simmons
Moultrie
Clarence M. Gammage
Newnan
A. A. Morgan
Norcross
John D. Cain
Oconee
Christopher A. Hodges
Ogeechee
Green K. Sharp
Oglethorpe
L. B. Gardner
Oliver
E. Hodges
Palmetto
Newton O Skeen
Senoia
Harry L. Alexander
Samuel H. Thurmond
Smithville
Alva H. Booker
A. F. Hale
Stephens
Jas
H. Hunter
Statesboro
Edgar A. Beazley
Stockbridge
Hugh M. Askew
Sylvania
Martin L. Taylor
Tallapoosa
Charley Wright
J. D. Askew
Temple
Charley E Stallings
Tilton
John T. Gentle
Toccoa
Sanford Keisler
Waynesboro
Walter A. Hatcher
Whigham
Ellis M. Cain
Whitesburg
Ben L. Camp
Woodbury
Joseph E. Grimsley Woolsey
John M. McLean
Wrightsville
E. J. McAfee
Yatesville
John B. McDonald
Zebulon
W. W. Mitchell
Bob Jones
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