Desire Aerial Spraying of Hardwood Trees in Taylor County
Taylor County citizens are urged to submit requests for aerial spraying to the County Forestry Unit. Spraying will start next week with a minimum 20 acres and maximum 400 acres, which can be combined within a half mile radius. Cost is $8 per acre and the chemical is described as non harmful to humans and animals.
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Taylor County
County Forestry Unit
Austin Guinn
Guinn
Butler
Georgia
Quoted Thoughts on Peace From Poets and Leaders
A collage of quotes on peace from Katherine Lee Bates Caleb Colton Mary Baker Eddy General George Marshall and Matthew Henry. The excerpts reflect peace as blessing virtue truth and a state beyond absence of war.
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Katherine Lee Bates
Gade
Caleb Colton
Marriage Guidance For Sacred Union And Preparation
The article urges couples to enter marriage reverently yet practically. It recommends three steps: prior preparation through youth and religious groups or books. extensive premarital counseling with a pastor. and visits to a physician for informed questions about health and happiness in marriage. It emphasizes careful planning and guidance.
Preacher counsels on easing wedding burdens
W L Anderson pastor of Cherokee Heights Methodist Church Macon cautions couples against financial or emotional strains during marriage preparation. He warns against making the wedding prep so heavy that the honeymoon becomes a recovery period for stressed nerves and stresses the partnership.
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W. L. Anderson
Cherokee Heights Methodist Church
Macon
Historic sites of St Simons Sea Island and Jekyll Island
Gascoigne Bluff marks the east bank of the Frederica River where the HAWK sloop landed and Timbers from St Simons fed early U S Navy shipbuilding. Epworth by the Sea sits on former Hamilton Plantation now a Methodist center. Fort Frederica and Bloody Marsh mark Georgia’s colonial battles.
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Gascoigne Bluff
Frederica River
St. Simons Island
Cape Gascoigne
HAWK
Oglethorpe
England
St. Simons
U. S. Navy
U. S
Constitution
Epworth-by-the-Sea
Hamilton Plantation
Sea Island
South Georgia Conference
Retreat Plantation
Old South
Bloody Marsh
Spain
Christ Church
John
Charles Wesley
Frederica
Anson Green Phelps Dodge, Jr
Ellen Ada Phelps Dodge
Fort Frederica
Britain
America
General Oglethorpe
The Motorist's Prayer Improvised Car Warnings
A humorous piece frames a motorists prayer about driving power and control. It personifies a car as 100 horses and three elephants, noting four aggressive tires and bright lights, while stressing that only the driver holds true restraint and responsibility behind the wheel.
Frederica Fort ruins and Jekyll Island tours described
Archaeology at Fort Frederica reveals two three story brick houses in the old Frederica town and artifacts on display. The piece highlights Sea Island resort life and Jekyll Island State Park, noting milestones from 1886 ownership by a millionaire club to 1947 park status, with attractions like Maj Horton's tabby ruins and the Wanderer kettle.
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Fort Frederica
Florida
Frederica
Sea Island
Sea Island Drive
Jekyll Island State Park
Brunswick
Jekyll
Maj. Horton
Wanderer
Rockefeller
Methodism expands with new congregations and churches
Since June 1 1956 the National Missions division reports organization of new congregations and construction of 306 church buildings plus reopening of 100 abandoned churches. The piece also recalls Washington on the symbolism of the Star Spangled Banner with stars from heaven red from Britain and white stripes for liberty.
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United States
Division of National Missions
Board of Missions
Methodist Church
George Washington
Searching for the Truth on Insurance Rates in Georgia
The piece quotes a 1958 letter from Georgia Attorney General approving rate increases while noting long term declines in fire insurance costs since 1948. It lists varied rate changes from 1948 to 1958, compares January 1958 with 1948, and contrasts living costs and utilities, ending with a remark that insurers set their own rates.
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Zack D. Cravey
Eugene Cook
Cravey
Georgia
Georgia Power Company
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Mary Baker Eddy
Gen
Geo. C. Marshall
Matthew Henry
Ysis
United States of America
First National Bank of Atlanta
Atlanta
City of
Attest, Elma G, Swain
St. Simons Sea Island
Jekyll Island
Carey Williams
Greensboro Herald Journal
Augusta
Ford
Ford Trucks
Payne Motor Company
Butler, Georgia
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