Central News Briefs on Oct 27 Convention and Local Visits
The Macon County Singing Convention is slated for Sunday October 27 at the Oglethorpe school auditorium with dinner for visiting singers. Local social notes mention Ernest Halloway and sons of Americus visiting Clyde McCarty. Jim Hall visiting C Chapman in Thomaston. S O Jones visiting R N McInvale. Mrs Alton Greshman of Montezuma visiting her parents. McInvale convalescing. Mrs Tom Hardage and Fred Wardage weekending in Macon with Mrs Walls. sympathy to C R Simmons on Ida Simmons death. Minnie Chambley of Montezuma visiting Mrs Earl Jones.
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Macon County
Oglethorpe School
Ernest Halloway
Alton Greshman
Montezuma
R. N. MecInvale
McInvale
Tom Hardage
Fred Wardage
Macon
Mr. Hardage
Walls
Jim Hall
C. R. Simmons
M. B. Chapman
Loquita Chapman
Donna Davis
Clyde Chapman
O. Jones
Anne Jones
Thomas Little
Ashburn
Charlie McCarty
Clyde McCarty
Jack Smith
John Smith
Minnie Chambly
Earl Jones
Frank Weeks
Frank Jones
Elzie Shehee
Clarke Simmons
Weekend visits and family gatherings noted in local notices
Mauk residents and neighbors visited relatives in Macon Butler Columbus Atlanta Rupert and Charing. Veterans returning home include Harold Waller from overseas. Quilting gatherings and family visits marked a busy weekend across the community with several households hosting relatives and friends.
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J. T. Chapman
H. M. Chapman
Atlanta
Sara Pittman
M. B. Pittman
Mrs. Flournoy
Five Points News Roundup from Macon County
Local notes recap weekend and weekday visits across Macon County. Families cited include Hall Simmons Chapman Little and McInvale with mentions of illnesses and overseas service.
Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Harwell Snow
Funeral services for 84 year old Mrs Elizabeth Harwell Snow were held at 10 a m yesterday at her Fort Valley home following a long illness.
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Elizabeth Harwell Snow
Ft. Valley
Local Family Visit Notes from Upton's Mill
Upton's Mill society column records weekend and past week visits among residents. Marshallville and Thomaston guests include W H Mott, C O White, Lizzie Mott, W A Grayner, Claude, Emory Harris, Henry Barrow, Mae Cox, H S Wisham, Jack Harris, C C Jordan, Lucy B Harris, T B Green, Douglas, D M Harris, Wanza Carpenter, Ora Barrow, Ruby Wisham, Americus, Julia Parr, Alice Bodiford, J C Albritton, Sam Harris, Jule Harmon, Pearl Wisham, and Carson Harris showing recovery after an operation.
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W. H. Mott
Marshallville
C. O. White
Lizzie Mott
W. A. Grayner
Claude
Thomaston
Emory Harris
Henry, Barrow
Mae _ Cox
H. S. Wisham
Jack Harris
C. C. Jordan
Lucy B. Harris
T. B. Green
Douglas
D. M. Harris
Wanza Carpenter
Ora Barrow
Ruby Wisham
Americus
Julia Parr
Alice Bodiford
J. C. Albritton
Sam _ Harris
J. R. Carpenter
Jule Harmon
Pearl Wisham
Martin Harris
Carson Harris
Dennis Opens New Radio Station WMOC In Covington
Covington Georgia October 12 WMOC a new 250 watt radio station opens this week in a new building with new equipment. Owned by Belmont Dennis it will operate with his Covington Conyers and Monroe newspapers serving Newton Rockdale and Walton counties. The Mutual Broadcasting system affiliate will air some programs on a 17 hour schedule from 6 a m to 11 p m with unlimited time on 1490 kilocycles.
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Covington
WMOC
Tri-County
Belmont Dennis
Conyers
Monroe
Newton
Rockdale
Walton
Mutual Broadcasting System
Wallace becomes editor of magazine
Henry A. Wallace, ousted from Truman's cabinet, accepts the editorship of the New Republic. Effective in December, he plans a Democratic campaign tour and says he will freely express his foreign policy views at a time when bloc politics push the world toward two armed camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
The
New Republic
Wallace
Reynolds Woman's Club to Sponsor Hallowe'en Carnival
Reynolds Woman's Club plans a Hallowe'en Carnival for October 31. The W S C S of Reynolds Methodist church held a Monday meeting led by President Mrs. F M Carson. They discussed Indian Christian leaders, Week of Prayer and planned support for European Methodist ministers' families.
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Reynolds Methodist Church
F. M. Carson
J. G. Hicks
C. E. Whatley
Edward Goddard
R. L. Swearingen
D. T. Montfort
Lawrence Cook
Secretary of
Christian Social Relations
Spiritual Life
F. A. Ricks
Doctrine of Atonement Lesson Sermon Read in Churches
The Christian Science Lesson Sermon on the Doctrine of Atonement will be read in Churches of Christ Scientist worldwide next Sunday. The Golden Text speaks of reconciliation through Jesus Christ and the ministry of reconciliation. Included passages cite Psalm 86:11 and Eddy's Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures page 202:3 about the unity of God and man in life practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churches of Christ
Scientist
God
Jesus Christ
Ministry of Reconciliation
Mary Baker Eddy
Pace to Open Hearings on Cotton in South
Americus October 13 Representative Steve Pace of Americus will lead a 12 member congressional committee to Memphis for hearings on rewriting the federal cotton law. The panel will tour Mississippi and other cotton states before a Macon hearing October 31 and November 1 where growers will speak. Pace cites major changes in production and land use since 1938 prompting the rewrite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus
Steve Pace
Memphis
Mississippi
Georgia
Macon
Pace
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Carsonville
Butler
Columbus
Taylor County
M. T. Gaultney, JR
Ashley
Ashley Automatic Wood Stove Company
Columbia, S. C
Central News
S. O. Jones
Mr. R. N. MecInvale
Ida Simmons
Minnie Chambley of
Thomaston, GA
Sales & Service
E. Gordon Street
America’s Foremost Auto
Motive Service Organization
Chevrolet
Reynolds, Georgia
Carol Jane Waller
Mercer University
R. D Waller
Nellie Brooks
R. Duke
Arthur Lawhorn
Miss Skipper
Belle Lawhorn
Susie Lancaster
Arthur Carpenter
Rupert
R. D. Waller
R. G. Duke
R. M. Jinks
L. R. Pike
Sidney Austin
B. Montgomery
Walter Purvis
Charing
Betty Purvis
A. O. Highnote
Harvey Cromer
B.S. Parker
Dave Harbuck Jr
Ulus Wall Jr
Upton‘s Mill News
Dennis
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