This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1918
Page
3
Oak Ridge and nearby communities report attendance at visits and gatherings. Residents traveling for military assignments include Milton Kiflson stationed at Fort Oglethorpe. Local social rounds feature Mrs. L. J. M. Galup visiting Mrs. Johnson Yeager and multiple households hosting guests from Carrollton and Cross Plains.
Shiloh Wa updates show Aubt Caught Stephens improving, visitors such as Mrs Gertrude Harper and daughters Manning Stella and Camilla to Mrs Ellie Stone, Mr John Dean on a business trip to Newnan, and H L Stephens visiting his mother. Protracted meeting slated for August second Saturday. School progress under Miss Ethel Neil.
Roopville residents plan visits to Atlanta and Carrollton for meetings and shopping. The column notes gatherings with families, church events, and protracted meetings at Goshen, plus local store promotions and furniture sales at Tyus. Also included are oblique notices of visitors, travel to New York, and a commemorative obituary for Mrs. W. L. Stephens.
Carrollton area notes a Beulah Beulah scheduled protracted meeting and Sunday School progress. Residents Frank Stephens and Mia Newnan visiting relatives. W W Strickland and Horton couples visiting Caldwell family. community folks spend Sunday with Jackson and Hughs families. Garlant Daniell back home after appendicitis surgery at Werley Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Mollie Horton visited Manile Carter. Doc Powell and Marlow family visited. Beulah singing class plans to meet at John Johnson's home Wednesday to rehearse. D M Gentry of Heard County visiting sister Essie Caldwell. Bertha Bell and Ben Jackson spent Tuesday in town with Bort Roagin.
Pleasant Hill notes list visits and family news from Sargent Carrollton and Cross Plains. Residents like Mr. Bubs Howard Mrs. Rosy Smith and many Tyson Braswell Streay and Beaswell families are mentioned with travels illnesses and local gatherings. The tone reads as a community update with numerous names and places.
Mrs Kate Lee Able of Rossville Georgia reports her husband an engineer injured lifting a heavy machine. He weighed 165 pounds, dropped to 110 in two weeks, became constipated, doctors failed to help, he drank castor oil with no relief. After taking Thedford's Black-Draught he improved quickly and credits it with saving his life.
Monday morning July death Angel visited Mrs Allie 8 Oily and took her son Lashand Cilley after illness borne with fortitude He was a member of the M Clem and Christina Hirs and will be greatly missed Funeral services by Rev Walter Crown at the family graveyard Phrases express deep grief and faith in eternal home as family mourns the loss of a devoted son father and grandfather figures in the community He is remembered for kindness and cheerful greeting as relatives pledge to heal their sorrow and meet again in glory
In a heartfelt notice a family mourns Edna Robinson, a two year seven month old daughter who died on the twelfth of a month. The piece comforts bereaved parents William and Mrs Robinson, urging faith and the hope of reunion in heaven. It frames the child as a delicate flower plucked by death, urging virtue and spiritual solace.
A wartime appeal urges women from ages 1 to 85 to join nursing or home care. Red Cross asks for 5 000 to 30 000 volunteers by January for cantonments and hospitals. The call emphasizes training in hospitals and domestic nursing to support medical needs at home and abroad.
A mass meeting at the port base in Carrollton convenes to endorse five candidates for Representatives and a State Senate candidate subject to the September 11 primary. Prominent locals Felix Williams and others invite the public to join in shaping district representation and keeping the People’s rule.
The Chera Cola Bottling Co dissolves by mutual consent. R A Jolley assumes all liabilities and purchases all assets including bottling establishment notes accounts trucks and other assets. J L Lowery signs as trustee and confirms dissolution.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.