Georgia clergyman named executive secretary of temperance league
Dr Norman Jyein, pastor of Re Hill Methodist church in Columbus, has been chosen executive secretary of the Georgia Temperance League effective November 1, with state headquarters at Wesley Memorial building in Atlanta. He is a prominent Columbus leader on moral issues and served in various Methodist roles. In Alabama, rural mail carrier Lewis H Brooks was gravely wounded in an ambush near Vesta, Oglethorpe county, shot while delivering mail. he drove himself to a house then was taken to hospital. No suspect or arrest has been made.
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Olumbus Methodist Faster
Georgia
Taylor County
Norman Jyein
Astor
Re Hillethodt Church
Atlanta
League
United Temperance Forces
Wesley Memorial Building
Sta Ate
bas-Phenix
Themen of Columbus
Sparta
Lewis H. Brooks
Oglethorpe County
Elbert County Hospital
Brooks
Vesta
Mary Rose Ankerley coughs up pin after years
Mary Rose, now 15, coughed up a rusty pin after a long illness and was operated on when X rays found it in her lung She had earlier been told to be careful by her mother and may have swallowed the pin six years earlier.
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Mary Ankerley
Mary Rose
Taylor Mill News Notes Local Visits And Birth Announcement
Social updates from Taylor Mill describe visits by Underwood and Windham families to Macon Thomaston and Boston. Miss Florine King and Horace visit relatives in Thomaston. Mr James Brown and wife announce the birth of a daughter on September 3.
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Millard Underwood
Carol
Thomaston
U. S. Underwood
Tinie McDaniel
W. D. Poole
Billie Poole
Taylor Mill School
Alfred Roberson
Alabama
Shellie Swafford
Greenville
S. C
J. L. Patrick
Johnnie Windham
Barbara Fay
Florine E. King
Horace
Church Services and Flowers Dedicated to Local Serviceman
Flowers in the church and Sunday School services were dedicated to Lewis Wilson son of Mrs George Wilson. Next Sunday the service will be dedicated to Pvt Bryant Douglas son of Mr and Mrs J F Douglas. Taylor Mill School opened another year with good enrollment Sept 4 with Miss Bell Gardner as principal and Mrs Tinie McDaniel and Mrs Lillie Mae Tomlin on staff. Margaret Woods assists until Tomlin reports. The Taylor Mill Woman's Club met with new president Mrs G L Windham presiding. Mrs Elbert Pride led devotion and the club presented teachers with a box of canned foods. A chicken dinner was served by Mrs Dan Posey and Mrs Jake Windham.
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Man
Lewis Wilson
George Wilson
Pvt
Bryant Douglas
J. F. Douglas
Taylor Mill School
Bell Gardner
Tinie McDaniel
Lillie Mae Tomlin
Margaret Woods
Taylor Mill Woman's Club
G. L. Windham
Elbert Pride
Dan Posey
Jake Windham
Mrs Elbert Pride Honored by Taylor Mill W M U
The Taylor Mill Woman's Missionary Union held a regular meeting at the Library with Mrs. J W Windham presiding. Officers elected for the year include President Mrs Jake Windham and Secretary Treasurer Mrs Dan Posey. Mrs Pride received a white silk blouse as a token of appreciation.
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Taylor Mill W. M. U
J. W. Windham
Bell Gardner
Herman Parks
Jake Windham
D. A. Cofield
Dan Posey
Eunice Crook
W. T. Smith
Elbert Pride
Memorial Service Held in Ellaville for Two War Victims
Memorial services were conducted at Ellaville Methodist church for James Willard Carswell and Dorsey Luther Parks who died in action in France. The Army sent a chaplain, bugler, and escort from Fort Benning. Parks born 1916 in Schley County and Carswell born 1916 in Ellaville were both lifelong residents with families surviving.
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Ellaville Methodist Church
James Willard Carswell
Dorsey Luther Parks
France
Ellaville
Roy J. Bond
Ft. Benning
Parks
Schley County
C. C. Parks
Almanda P. Parks
Ideal
Pleasant Hill Freewill
Hazel Harper
Americas
County Line
Taylor County farmers advance soil conservation program
Local farmers continued soil conservation efforts with terrace work, pond construction, and new blue lupine plantings. Reynolds and Butler farmers mowed lespedeza to boost seed yield, while others added 11 ponds countywide and prepared 16 acres for blue lupine seed.
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Taylor County
Walter Wainwright
C. B. Shine
Crowell
R. E. McCants
Carsonville
Monroe Layfield
Cross Roads
Ernest Childree
Reynolds
Childree
Butler
W. A. Payne
Weekend social notes from Thomaston area
Mrs Ernest Robbins of Atlanta visited with Mr and Mrs T A Robbins over the weekend. Mrs T J Amos stayed in Thomaston with her sister Mrs Clyde Franklin. Nell Beeland of Thomaston visited Miss Mary Frances Gilson. Sunday visitors to Mr and Mrs R M Suggs included Mr and Mrs Wm Maxwell and daughters of Talbotton, Mrs Walter Suggs of Butler, and Mr Robert Suggs with Mary Shealy of Thomaston. Doris Culverhouse of Macon visited her parents Mr and Mrs George Culverhouse. R M Suggs traveled Tuesday to Thomaston. Hugh Gilson Jr of Thomaston spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Hugh Gilson. Mrs Robert Halstead spent Friday night with Mrs Charlie Hammock.
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Ernest Robbins
Atlanta
T. A. Robbins
T. J. Amos
Thomaston
Clyde Franklin
Nell Beeland
Mary Frances Gilson
R. M. Suggs
Wm. Maxwell
Talbotton
Walter Suggs
Butler
Robert Suggs
Mary Shea
Fort Benning Inf School to graduate 50000th officer
Fifty thousand second lieutenants from the Infantry School at Fort Benning will receive commissions in a Friday graduation. The 50 000th candidate will have his gold bars pinned by Lt General Lear. Maj General Walker, commandant, will present the other bars. 66 317 entered since establishment. success praised by Maj Gen Collins.
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Ft. Benning
Infantry
Benning
Lear
Army Ground Forces
F. L. Walker
J. L. Collins
Europe
Augusta Boy Lost on Hunt Is Found
Augusta Ga Sept 12 Sixteen year old Ray Woodward of Augusta missing since Sunday after separating from companions on a hunting trip was found safe Monday Rescue parties including state guardsmen and Camp Gordon soldiers searched the Savannah river swamp Weather and planes from Daniel Field aided the hunt before conditions hindered progress
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Augusta
Ray Woodward
Camp Gordon
Savannah River
Daniel Field
Government plans to sell 30000 surplus army trucks
Announcement from Washington says 30000 Army trucks and cars will be sold as surplus property nationwide. The sale begins next week per the Treasury Department procurement division. Some vehicles at Columbus and other Georgia Army camps are expected to be disposed of as the war in Europe nears a climax and training needs drop. About 15000 trucks cars and motorcycles have already been released in the past 45 days.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Columbus
Georgia
Europe
Cotton Ginning in Taylor County Falls From 1943
1 108 bales were ginned in Taylor county from the 1944 crop before September 1, down from 1 934 bales for the 1943 crop.
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Taylor County
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