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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1920
Page
8
Carrollton residents and visitors are listed in a long roster of weekend trips and weekday errands. Figures include travels to Atlanta, Temple, Villa Rica, Newnan, Bainbridge, and South Georgia, plus local events, club meetings, and show notices.
The church outlines the Sunday 11 oclock sermon The Race That Is Set Before Us and an alternative 7 pm Georgia Baptist hospital service led by a nurse. Dr H J Goodwyn leads Wednesday prayer at 7 pm January 28 with Simbeams Juniors and Seniors featured next Sabbath.
The Presbyterian pastor plans a sermon series on The Life and Times of Josephs next Sunday night. L. Mandeville, Sunday School supervisor, has been ill and absent from services but is improving. The Ladies' Aid and Missionary Society meet Monday at 3 30 at Mrs Henderson Jr's home for Bible study and missionary study questions.
Obituary tribute to Robert Wright born September 4 1852 in South Carolina. He faced early orphanhood, joined Bethany Church in Henry County Georgia in 1874, married Mary Beott the same year, and died near Burwell Carrollton January 6 1920. A faithful church member and neighbor, he valued prayer work and charity, leaving seven children and a devout family legacy.
The Cordele Dispatch urges a New Year campaign of honest toil and steady employment. It argues that universal work will raise wages, increase farm yields, and strengthen households, framing work as the safe path to national and personal contentment in 1920.
An advertisement touts King's Early Improved cotton seed, a 90 day variety praised as boll weevil resistant and fast maturing. It claims early planting yields high production, grown in North Carolina seed districts with a call to write for price and early orders from KING COTTON SEED CO. Lavonia Georgia.
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