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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1911
Page
3
The legislature approved large appropriations, creating a looming deficit next year. Advocates propose taxing public service corporations by real value rather than mileage, arguing it would simplify the tax system, reduce deficits, and spread burdens more equitably.
The Ingle Sisters Muscat and Opera Company will open an engagement in Carrollton Tuesday next week, promising sketches musical numbers dancing farce comedy and drama. They’ve been praised for filling large houses and present new up to date material.
Several thousand acres of land offered on terms and in bodies to suit the purchaser. For good homes in Franklin, Marion, Colbert or Lawrence counties Alabama, write to Russellville, Alabama.
Whitesburg visitors this week include Miss Mary Hogan of Carrollton and sister W H Murphy. Prof Roy Almon will join Bradley Banks Co as traveling salesman starting September 1. Prof G Parrott arrives Thursday to prepare for school opening Monday September 4. Intermed department to get single desks as finances allow. Whitesburg band gave a concert at the schoolhouse Saturday, praised by attendees. Jere M Pound of Gordon Institute will speak Saturday morning at Educational Valley. Millican and Wright to attend and speak. Mrs Martha Strickland of Carrollton returned home after two weeks here. Local church activity includes Rev J W McLeod finishing a protracted meeting with four new members and baptisms at Jones mill. Rev W W Kelley has been ill but improving. Others visiting include Mrs Charlie Bledsoe of Sargents, Owen Goodman of Birmingham visiting grandparents, and Mrs W A Parks of Chattanooga with granddaughters Ruth Parks and Little Miss Whitlow Betterton. Tom Jones spent last Saturday.
A brief notice states the speaker will remain in Carrollton and Carroll County praising the community and announcing a new full line of state goods at The Fair Store on Alabama Street inviting customers to inspect and receive value for every cent.
The notice urges an ideal outdoor venue for evening entertainments and parties from one to five hundred, with furnished seats and nearby water. It warns Cor Rollton to improve sidewalks to create a favorable impression for visitors, lest travelers bypass the town via Pa Billville Shakerag and Lick skillet.
Raleigh Progress Farmer lists guidelines for parental involvement in schooling. It urges focusing on teachers’ strengths, avoiding public criticism, improving home conditions, visiting schools, addressing concerns calmly, monitoring a son’s associations, and using gentle obedience to foster harmony between home and school.
Petitioners Charles M. Tagner and Themes J. Jones seek incorporation for twenty years as M. Tanner Grocery Company in Carroll County with principal business in Astroilion. They request branch offices, broad corporate powers, capital stock up to one hundred thousand dollars, right to real estate and securities, and authority to wind up, renew, and operate under Georgia law.
Notice of land sale by D S Haynes offers 50 acres in original Carroll County 8th District southwest parcel lot 47 plus 25 acres cultivated and balance woods. Sale to highest bidder before Court House door in Carrollton in September.
The tale from St Nicholas recounts George Washington visiting a host at 2 pm and testing loyalty. Washington suspected treachery, arranged American troops in British garb, and arrested the bribed host, who confessed to selling him to the enemy on that day.
A curious tale describes Charles Darwin visiting the London Zoo in Regent's Park. He pressed his forehead to a cobra's glass enclosure and dodged each strike, convinced the glass protected him. His mind held that the snake could not harm him, yet instinct proved stronger than will or reason.
The origin of the game of drafts is unknown yet traces appear in Egyptian monuments and in Greek and Roman writings. Paul de Mallet’s 1668 treatise notes its depiction. The game was known by various ancient peoples and revived greatly in Europe during the sixteenth century.
A three year old boy named Harry, described as old fashioned, declares he and his mother do not whip children while his father does. The playful exchange reveals contrasting parenting styles within the family and the boy's earnest, humorous seriousness.
A London Mail report recounts a clash between a nobleman and a farmer over respect. The nobleman asserts ancestral primacy from the Conqueror era, while the farmer counters that his own forebears were already present when they arrived, highlighting a blunt, humorous dispute over status.
The notice invites enterprising citizens to exhibit at the upcoming fair. It boasts excellent crops and livestock, urging participation from field forest mine and shop to showcase local natural resources for a memorable 1911 fair.
A Tokyo draper claims swift delivery as fast as a rifle shot. A large store touts customer service with posters promising complete satisfaction and obliging assistants, inviting shoppers with sunlit warmth after rain.
A tale from the Smart Set recounts a fool who declared in the king's presence that he was the king. The king laughed, knowing the fool's claim was false. A week later the king, angered by his own error, proclaimed I am a fool and the fool laughed at the irony.
200 acres three miles northwest of Carrollton near a church and school offers fine water and pasture. Timbered land can be sold in one parcel or divided into small tracts. Terms 1 4 cash with the balance over two or three years. Contact Walter L. Perry.
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