Meeting at Bethlehem Church Friday August 18
A church grounds work meeting at Bethlehem Church is set for Friday August 18. The group aims to erect an arbor for the September Association meeting and to continue cemetery improvement with Rufus Kirksey as chairman and Victoria Whatley as secretary. About 63 workers attended the last cemetery effort, with $36 pledged toward a new fence. total cost is projected at about $1650. Additional help is requested from all who have relatives buried there.
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Bethlehem Church
Rufus Kirksey
Victoria Whatley
Floyd Jinks
He Had It Teacher’s Quip About Excuse and Breakfast
A classroom exchange features a teacher teasing Johnny about tardiness and a humorous reply that he had buckwheat cakes and sausage as the season’s first breakfast. The brief vignette captures light dialogue and schoolyard tone.
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Johnny
Give Him More Teacher Dialogue Snapshot
A humorous classroom exchange features a teacher asking for terms for apple quarters and a pupil replying with a playful hungry remark. Another line shows a character quoting an expense account reading of 814.73 dollars, reflecting a comic understatement.
Rehearsing Marriage Banter in a Witty Exchange
A humorous dialogue between Mr. Dreery and Miss Leary centers on marriage. The old man and Bob trade barbs about education and a future life together. The exchange pivots on turning life into a grand song versus a dull routine.
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Bob
Mr. Dreery
Old Smasher Quarrel Over Husbands and Furniture
In a colorful exchange captured in speech, a wife laments her husband breaking her hat while another quips that his husband broke the furniture, illustrating a domestic spat flavored with regional dialect.
Willie Firefly-Tee Hints Ghost Pranks for Hallowe'en Night
A light joke from Willie Firefly about fool bugs thinking he is a Hallowe'en ghost. He laughs at their fear and keeps the mood playful as the night nears.
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Willie Firefly
Tee Hee
When His Love, Grew Cold Book Exchange
A dialogue excerpt references the title When His Love Grew Cold and features a remark about a man adjusting a cape for a woman, highlighting a social interaction and a suggested feeling of coldness in the relationship.
Electric Lights Transform Reynolds Clubs and Rural Georgia
Eugene Anderson notes Reynolds gains electric service with overhead lights at the country club while golf still awaits course illumination. R E A project spans Musco st. to Bibb, and local merchants praise electrification. Taylor county cattlemen planned with Mr Davis from the State Agricultural College to update breeding aims. Montezuma opens a larger golf course after unemployment-driven relocation, poste master Gardner scores a hole in one, and Judge Felton lauds the new link to community life.
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Eugene Anderson
Macon
Reynolds
RCA
Country Club
Tuma
Brown Marshall
Fromi. Musco St
Bibb
D. Coolik
Georgia
Hugh Neisler
Taylor County
R. E. Davis
State Agricultural College
Charlie Neisler
Lockett Place
Mississippi River
Montezuma
Montezuma New Golf Course
Gardner
Jule Wimberly Felton
Dr Warrenfells and wife die at LaFayette home
Dr Allen P. Warrenfells 44 dentist and business man of LaFayette died Saturday night after a paralytic stroke at noon. His wife Mrs Bessie Catron Warrenfells 36 died Sunday after a few days illness. They are survived by son Jakie and infant Nancy Lee. Double funeral services were held.
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LaFayette
Allen P. Warrenfells
Bessie Catron Warrenfells
Warren Wells
Jakie
Nancy Lee
Talbotton Holds Cattle Auctions
Talbotton Ga August 13 Talbottons semi monthly cattle auction was held here Thursday Many types of cows were offered price range 450 to 650 per 100 pounds Some poor grades sold for less and some excellent grades brought a bit more than 650 The sales demonstrate to farmers the desirability of beef type cattle for beef purposes and are stimulating interest in cattle growing in the county The sales are well attended and the bidding is brisk.
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Talbotton
No War Abroad This Year Predicted By McGee In London
Columbus attorney Theo J. McGee predicts no war in Europe this year despite tensions. He notes Britain's resolve, mass mobilization, trench work, gas masks, and public drills, with France and Britain practicing air invasions and I R A bomb outrages prompting stricter measures. He praises Churchill and FDR while criticizing Berlin and domestic opposition.
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Europe
Britain
Theo J. McGee
Columbus
Butlerman
London
European
McGee
Ledger-Enquirer
Southampton
City of London
France
Mediterranean
Hitler
Berlin
Chamberlain
Loase of Commons
Greenwood
England
Co Jlz
Pace Aims $75 Peanut Price At Washington Meet
Americus Georgia representative Stephen Pace announced he would press a peg price of $65 a ton and seek $75 a ton at a peanut growers conference in Washington next week. Georgia produced a 15.9 million dollar crop last year with a top price of 65 cents per ton. pace heads to Washington Sunday to meet Department of Agriculture officials and urged action to prevent diversion and price pegging.
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Americus
Stephen Pace
Washington
Pace
Hante
Department of Agriculture
Montezuma Airport Construction Under Way
Montezuma Ga Aug 11 construction of an airport for Montezuma is well under way in the Spalding community about two miles from town. The field lies on the Duke farm and is being constructed by H A Ivey and W J Duke local aviators. A hangar is under construction.
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Montezuma
Spalding
Duke Farm
H. A. Ivey
W. J. Duke
New Georgia Novel By Thomaston Girl Accepted For Publication
Thomaston author Thelma Thompson has sold Give Us This Night to Arcadia House Inc. for early fall release. The novel follows Kay Lambert in a model cotton mill town Lowell, with romance involving Dr Rex Warner and a social rival, against a South backdrop.
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Thomaston
Thelma Thompson
Walter Slayden
R. E Lee Institute
T. L. Thompson
Buffalo
Ala
LaGrange High School
Georgia State College For Women
University of Georgia
Emory University
New South
Lowell
Middle Georgia
Kay Lambert
Francis
Lambert Cotton Mills
Katharine Lambert
Lowe
South
Warm Springs Foundation
Tommy Martin
Rex Warner
Francis Lambert
Lucia Wentworth
Kay
Arcadia House, Inc
New York
Church Burns at Barnesville
Barnesville Georgia August 16 Fire believed from a defective wire destroyed the First Methodist church and an adjoining annex in the business section. Losses were placed between 405000 and 50000 with some insurance. Only a few chairs and songbooks saved. Heavy rain hindered volunteer firefighters.
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Barnesville
First Methodist
W. L. Yarbrough
Vaeaatmenk
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