Butler county memory and church notes from Frances Woodall
An 89 year old writer recalls early forebears and local memory in Butler. A list of about twenty contributors provided 250 each for a two story office building and Masonic Hall. Also includes a money account for A D Chapman estate and a long anecdote about local religious and social life plus a riddle about complex family relations.
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Frances) Woodall Miller
Barnesville
Fannie
Butler
Masonic Hall
Herald
Grand Lodge
Fickling Lodge
A. D. Chapman
M. A. Chapman
Americus
Georgia
William McKinley
United States
George Washngton
George Washngton To Pres
McKinley
Washington
Mary Ball
John Adams
Susan Bolyston
Jefferson
Jane Randolph
Madison
Nellie Conay
Monroe
Eliza Jones
J. Q. Adams
Bigail Smith
Andrew Jackson
Elizabeth Hutchinson
van Buren
Maria Hoes
Harrison
Elizabeth Assett
Tyler
Mary
Lincoln
Nancy Hanks
Ohnson
Mary McDonough
Grant Jannan Simpson
Hayes
Sophia ‘Irchard
Garfield
Eliza Ballou Arthur
Malbina Stone
Cleveland
Annie Neal
Elizabeth Irwin
Nancy Campbell Allison
Pages from a rural recollection of Talbotton life
A narrator recalls a large family in Taylor County and Le Vert College memories of the Straus brothers. He notes letters from former Talbotton residents and recounts a Sunday invitation to an all day meeting in a county corner, facing a trial for loving Marshallville and Gray. He reflects on jealousy versus trust in community ties.
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Taylor County
le Vert College
Straus Brothers
Talbotton
Marshallville
Gray
Marshallville and
Barrett Fires Ninety Veterans Council Staff in Atlanta
On June 17, Billy Barrett, state veterans service director, dismissed 90 employees of the old veterans educational council. Letters of dismissal were issued with an effective date of June 30. Barrett was unavailable for comment as the action followed rumors of a larger purge. Attorney General Eugene Cook had previously halted a potential mass shake-up by ruling the workers fall under the state merit system.
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Atlanta
Priday
Veterans Service
Billy Barrett
Old Veterans Educational Council
Barrett
Department
Eugene Cook
Ellaville Woman Receives Columbia University Degree
Ellaville June 20 Elyn F Hammond a Ellaville Negro woman has been awarded the Master of Arts degree by Teachers College Columbia University New York announced by Dr M C Del Manzo provost. The degree was conferred at the 195th annual commencement exercises. The graduate is one of 1300 receiving this degree in June from Teachers College with students from every state and 59 foreign countries during the 1948-49 scholastic year.
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Ellaville
Elyn F. Hammond
Teachers College
Columbia University
New York
M. C. del Manzo
Decrease in Federal Funds Forces Veterans Council Layoffs
Wm. K. Barrett, director of Georgia Veterans Service, announced that 90 employees of the old Veterans Educational Council will be dismissed effective June 30. The layoffs follow a new federal contract funding supervision of the on the job training program, and the council itself had been abolished by the 1949 General Assembly.
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Veterans Educational Council
General Assembly
Wm. K. Barrett
Georgia State Department of Veterans Service
State to Profit From U S Sale of Three Georgia Schools
Georgia will profit from the Federal Works Administration plan to dispose wartime surplus property. The R L Osborne school at Fair Oak built for Bell Bomber area residents costs 139 349. Two Brunswick schools priced 433 115 and 84 089 will go to Glynn county along with a Glynn sewerage system 57 764 another 458 550 and a hospital costing 122 536.
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Georgia
Federal Works Administration
R. L. Osborne
Fair Oak
Bell
Brunswick
Glynn County
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Old Education Council
Ellaville Negress
Columbia U
U. S
Uist
Meg
Warren
Southern
Brown Electric Company
Butler, Georgia
Westen
WSM
Grand Ole Opr
Frigidaire
N. S. Palley Reynods, Ga
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