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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
1
Sunday Dec 5 Carrollton Lodge No 1166 BPOE held annual memorial services at the Methodist Church honoring departed brothers. Attended by local Elks and many friends with a detailed order of service including preludes opening ceremonies odes and memorial remarks.
The Union News urges farmers to grow home supplies to gain independence from cotton markets. It credits President Barrett for pushing plow‑up of cotton last spring, notes a million bales could have driven prices down, and urges continued diversification with hay, hogs, cattle, and horses to support self sufficiency.
Col. W. D. Hamrick transfers from the Roop building to the Bass Building occupying rooms formerly used by B. B. Thomasson. They form a partnership for the coming year to practice in all courts. Hamrick is noted as a leading attorney and Thomasson, an Athens graduate with Yale law postgrad training.
To all who are endeared to Turner and Brook are hereby notified that if they are not paid as arranged by January first, first will be put in the hands of a collector. T. Huey. A. T. Turner.
In Memoriam on September 23 1909 the death angel claimed Ola wife of Will Stallings and mother of three little children. The notice mourns Ola as beloved kind and smiling and notes her husband and family left behind while expressing faith in the afterlife and divine will. Ola married September 24 1905 and died September 23 1909.
Obituary notice reports the death of Mr R W Almon of Dixie Street after a life in the town. He came from Franklin and left a wife and four children. A member of the Elks K of P and Knight Templar Mason, he was buried Saturday with Masonic honors.
On December 11 at Mt Zion Seminary an oyster supper will be held with homemade chocolate coconut sugar and molasses candies for sale. Admission is 10 cents at the door and lunch is ten cents. Amusements will entertain attendees.
The excerpt quips that an automobile is a large iron and rubber contrivance turning gasoline into speed luxury and excitement. It ridicules the vehicle as a gizeard full of machinery with ailments yet claims it is the fastest stylish transport capable of moving seven people to places like police stations a bankrupt court or the golden gate. It ends with an offer for a twelve month subscription to The Free Press and Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal for $1.25.
Mt Zion reports attendance at preaching by Dr R H Robb district superintendent and an Epworth League session led by Columbus Crumpton on the idle ness topic. Thanksgiving social featured games, grape juice and cake. Local students Blanche Earnest and Pauline Entrekin are visiting home folks. school social and oyster soup fund raiser teased. Ola Albright travels to Bowdon for music lessons. Mrs Joyce of Claremont, N H endorses Foley's Kidney Remedy sold locally.
The trio of papers The Atlanta Constitution, Trir Weekly, and the Free Press announce a bundled subscription for one dollar and a half. Advertisers tout access to wider readership and cost savings.
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