Talking Rock GA history and town origins in Pickens County
A historical sketch recounts Talking Rock’s name origin from an echo at a rock formation near the creek. It traces the town’s development from an early site with a thread factory to the present upstream town, its incorporation, educational centers, postal changes, and rural routes. It ends with a church anecdote about cheerful giving.
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Talking Rock
Pickens County
Rock
Talking Rock Academy
Chef’s Quick Trick Makes Summer Dinners Easy
Betty Barclay notes warm weather calls for quick meals and promotes Chef Boy-ar-dee Spaghetti and Meat Balls in a large two-pound can. The article highlights easy heating, accommodating families, and suggesting accompanying salad vegetables and desserts for a complete, cooling dinner.
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Betty Barclay
Chef Boy-ar-dee
Postal Bulletin Nostalgia Reminds of Duty and Benefits
Readings from Postal Bulletin 19668 and 119637 urge prompt attention to updates and rules. They remind about blood donations, sick leave, protected box holder privacy, lobby postings, authorized stamp use, Special Delivery pay, workroom access, and form pricing changes.
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Post Office
Red Cross Blood Bank
Postal
P.O
I Wouldn’t Eat I Wouldn’t Sleep Poem Excerpt
A short lines fragment expresses a vow of stillness and endurance, promising to sit unmoving for a thousand years to rest. The speaker uses dramatic hyperbole to convey stubborn resolve and inaction as a form of protest or patience.
When Dad Returns Home Aged In Quips And Punchlines
A humorous verse by Harold Willard Gleason depicting a chaotic household scene. The speaker, mother, is praised as the champion amid bumps in business and twin siblings Bud and Sis. The poem blends affection with playful chaos at home.
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Bud
Sis
Winnah
Citizens urged to continue rat eradication drive
Health Department asks to sustain the successful program with poison sold at 65 cents for three pounds and 200 pounds of 10 percent DDT Dust provided free for distribution. The listed distribution points include Butler, Reynolds, Crowell, Taylor Mill, Cross Roads, Rupert, Carsonville, Daviston, Charing, and Mauk area stores and offices.
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Health Department
Butler Health Department
Reynolds
G. H. Goddard
Crowell
E. F. Parr
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Talking Rock GA
Miss Jewel
Morrison
Harold Willard Gleason
Taylor Mill
Rex McInvale
Cross Roads
J. W. Taunton
Rupert
Cooper’s
Wisham
Carsonville
Five Points
Daviston
F. C. Jarrell
Howard
Vanlandingham
Charing
Lewis Watson
Mauk
Pike’s
Brannon Montgomery
Peed Bros. Feed Store
Butler, Georgia
Ford
Fordomatic
Payne Motor Company
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