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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1920
Page
8
Dr. Claude Griffin trips to Florida while many locals and visitors travel to Atlanta Rome Griffin Newnan LaGrange and other Georgia towns. Residents report illnesses visits and holidays with numerous relatives and friends noted in town and nearby areas.
Miss Lydia Tanner hosted a Tuesday dinner for eighteen friends. Red and green decor featured a poinsettia centerpiece, candlelit ends, red baskets with green mints, and hand painted bell place cards. Guests included Lucy Stone Lois Smith Hazelie Bass Laura Kytle Corinne Baas Aline Correy Barnesville. plus Guy Cheney Fer Snead Bobby Vaughan Marion Brodnax Holland Melson Jr Hollis Gray Jr Charlie Tanner Jr George Sowell Earl Watr on Jr of Atlanta. A five course dinner followed in the red green color scheme.
Tuesday afternoon Mrs Wiley Creel entertained with a dominoes gathering to meet her sister Mrs Camp and friends including Mrs Claude Smith Mrs I Loftin Mrs Lawrence Turner and others. The home glowed with red wreaths bells and holly while guests enjoyed many games and a sweet course served by the hostess.
Mr Eldred C Bass invited all Carrollton painters to supper at Chambers restaurant. Seventy five attended and after the meal he escorted guests to the Strand Theatre for an evening event.
A garbled classified page lists real estate for sale and rent, jobs, a reward, and local notices from Carrollton Georgia. Items include vacant lots for sale near Sea E. M. Bass, a Percheron mare and mule for sale for cash, a cottage with rooms and trees, a housekeeper wanted with good wages, two traveling salesmen needed, a large farm for rent, and a ten dollar bicycle reward for a theft near Griffin’s Store.
An ad style line touts a preparation to increase egg yield for hens. The spot encourages trying a package from Carlialo's Pharmacy as a means to obtain more eggs, claiming similar results with the product.
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