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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1886
Page
3
Dr Milage and fee schedule listed for physic and midwifery services. Public notice of charges includes medication, midwifery, extractions, fractures, bleeding, and consultation. Text also mentions tax listings and unrelated notices mixed in from neighboring ads.
Local intelligence reports severe cold affecting business and schooling. Notes sheriff, county health officer Brock in Randolph Alabama, a preacher absent due to weather, rumors of a dry town, and town council concerns about a supposed whisky hole. Includes social events, marriages, and local editorials with strong local names and places like Carrollton, Bowdon, and Randolph county.
Whitem shores report Mr. Padgett and John Strickland's kin gravely ill. Chattahoochee River frozen over with ice amid the coldest stretch locally in years. T. W. Ingram rents Storey farm. FP L Wager builds a new residence opposite Stallings on Newnan. Prof. W H Andrews says academy school begins January 18 1886. terms dispute with committee may spawn two schools. Several locals leave for Bowdon College. Misses Orear and McCollums return from visit to Jackson. Notable house moves: A J Wines builds west farm residence. Dr George Burnett and Rev G P Glass assist with local builds near Phint Tillchurch. Wilsonville post office renamed McWhorter.
Post on five built near Mr Henderson's store and notes on municipal election quietness. Marriage ceremony at Sandy afternoon with Rev John Stallings officiating. Local item reports accident death of Zeke Pope near Doughtsvilla after drinking. Advertisements include Plymouth Rock chickens for sale and a cost sale by McLendon Co agent Lewis Suarez Carrollton December 19 1885.
Mr John Ward wed Miss Mollie Sims in Hitsphice with Rev A W Quillian officiating. Ward is a young businessman with E G Kramer. Mollie Sims is the daughter of Mr. 2 W Sims and greatly loved by many. Guests praised the wedding center and later notices warn accounts unpaid by December 1 will be sued.
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