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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
4
Local notes list many residents visiting Atlanta Rome Dallas Carrollton and Columbus. People mentioned include R T Comer Judge S J Brown John Power Upshaw Pearl Zachry Mary Lon New Hamel Crider E B Brodnax Hugh Stephens Lucy Candler Marion West and others. Several plan trips return to Atlanta and nearby towns as families visit relatives and pursue schooling or work opportunities.
Hulett residents and guests from Atlanta and Villa Rica visit relatives in Alabama and Georgia. The section notes departures and arrivals, including the Duncan Jones wedding, a Mayrtie Jones and James M. Duncan marriage, and local social visits. An advertisement for Dr Shoop Pink Pain Tablets promotes quick relief for pain and blood pressure.
Sam Brock departed Thursday for Birmingham Anniston Piedmont and other Alabama points. J W Barrow prominent Bowdon businessman visited on business. Misses Clarice and Ethel Adamson of Bremen guests in the city. Layton chief hydrographer of the Geological Survey visited with Judge Adamson to study waterways and plan a water power map. Five room dwelling by City Park for sale see Baskin brothers.
A survey notes that people in many countries crave earth as a delicacy. German bread with clay, stone butter from clay, Indian pills, and West African yellow clay are cited. Assam and Bengal show widespread earth eating among classes, with Calcutta bazaars selling clay wafers.
A tiny man struggles for a view behind a tall spectator. The big man offers a plan to share the laugh and keep calm while watching the show, a quick wit exchange captured by the London Chronicle.
The piece explains Sabbath as a Hebrew term for rest and time, noting weekly and larger cycles, and traces Sunday’s naming to a sun-worship day. It states Christians observe Sunday as their Sabbath, but Sabbath is not Sunday.
A observer quotes a conundrum about a Bible character without a name who died in various ways, whose shroud appears in every household. The riddle links salt to Lot’s wife and notes Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward as a clue, concluding with the name Lot’s wife and the modern author reference.
Community notes report a well attended Pleasant Grove singing with expert singers and orderly behavior. Other items note typhoid illness of Dr. Marion Brock near Tyus, a dissolved firm Simpkins Price & Payne, local family visits, and crop conditions including watermelon shortage and blooming cotton.
Mrs Chas E Smith of West Franklin Maine says she likes good things and has adopted Dr King’s New Life Pills as family laxative medicine because they are good and do their work quietly. These painless purifiers are sold at W E Johnson’s drug store for 25 cents.
A sheriff sale is set at the Carroll County courthouse door on the court house steps in Carroll County Georgia to satisfy a fi fa issued by the City Court of Carrollton in favor of the British and American Mortgage Company Limited against John P. Houston. Fractional land lot No 129 containing 45 acres and fractional land lot No 126 containing 10 acres plus about 45 acres east of the McIntosh reserve, totaling around 100 acres, lie in the fourth district. The sale will be to the highest bidder for cash within legal hours this July - by Webb, Sheriff.
A.3 Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana reports a three month summer cold with hay fever symptoms that resisted a doctor's prescription but was quickly cured by Foley's Honey and Tar after trying several medicines. His wife also used the product with success. Hamrick's Pharmacy sells it.
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