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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
6
A fragmented local column covers visits to Atlanta by Miss Clifton Lyndon and Catherine Johnson, early settlers like Uncle Lambert and John Sharpe, church activities at Rock Springs, new baptisms, a child's day event, a fatal mule accident near Palmetto, a wedding at Gaines Camp’s home, and trips to Hopewell and Fairburn with regional names and dates.
A Panama hat maker, lifelong in the trade, denies hats are woven under water. He explains hats are woven in damp dawn air to avoid brittle straw, then dried at night to absorb dew and prepare for another day’s work. He notes the long production time of the hats.
A mountaineer, claiming deep knowledge of a moonshiner on trial in a Kentucky court, received free transport to Louisville to testify for the state. He described meeting the man on a hot day, atop a pacing roan horse, waving a horn, and noting whether the horse was a Blue Grass or a Chitlerling breed.
From the Bremen Gateway Mr J T Barrow and wife visited Carroll county this week. J D Daniel went to Carrollton on business. L C Mandeville of Carrollton passed through Bremen enroute to Atlanta. H T Sharpe have returned from a visit to Carroll county. W A Gable and Miss Lena Chance visited H T Lambert Esq. on Wednesday. The stn avid were quietly married and the couple expected to keep it secret but word spread by Saturday.
Carroll ton Lodge No 96 O O F passes resolutions expressing sorrow over the death of Mildred Harper, child of H M Harper. They extend condolences, promise prayers for grace, and order the resolutions recorded, copied to the family and published in the county paper.
A.S. Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana reports severe summer cold symptoms last year that disrupted work. After medicines failed he used Foley's Honey and Tar which quickly cured him and his wife with the same success, sold by Hamrick's Pharmacy.
Public notices concern road establishment orders on Vnd Barge and Yacu roads near J D Powell and J M Powell, with dates in September 198 and August 2008. Administrators and heirs are cited for estates of AO Robinson, Caroline Lewis, J B Williamson, and Caroline Dewis, with court dates the first Mondays in September. Property foreclosures include land lots in Carroll County to satisfy a mortgage claim by British and American Mortgage Co. Limited.
Georgia Carroll County ordinary JH Barron notes a guardian request for leave to sell undivided one seventh shares of two minor wards Jimmie Adams and Lole Adams to fund education. Hearing set for first Monday in September. Mra M D Guthrie seeks twelve months support from estate of FL Guthrie, deceased, with witnesses to appear.
Mrs M M Davison of 369 Gifford Ave San Jose California praises Electric Bitters as a strong general remedy for headache biliousness and digestive torpor. She claims a bottle offers more health for the digestive organs than any other remedy and notes it is sold under guarantee at W E Johnson drug store with address 50.
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