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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1915
Page
2
A Warren County farmer named James Ward faced a year’s farmhand asking for costly benefits in return for another season. The list includes rent free housing, garden space, manure, eggs, milk, flour, apples, cider, coal, pigs, calves, and twenty dollars monthly, plus half the poultry and produce.
Full supply of ice at D. F. New's mill every Saturday. Leave orders there during the week and ice will be delivered to you there at the same price as at the factory. NEW ICE CO.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church will meet July 7 at 4 o'clock. The program centers on Home Mission Schools with devotional by Mrs. Will Parker and Mrs. BR. HH Fitts offering. A view of the Mountain Schools will be presented by Mrs. A. K. Snead, followed by a Mountain School Teacher's Letter read by Mrs. B.S. Chambers. Business includes an offering and a note on stationery orders from The Free Press office.
Mrs Mattie Thompson departed this life June 3 1915 after a long illness in LaGrange. Born September 8 1868 she leaves a mother husband five children seven siblings and many relatives to mourn. She was a devout Methodist and was praised for her cheerful nature. funeral by Rev Moseley at Mt Zion and burial at Union Camp Ground.
The Central of Georgia offers round trip tickets to Athens on June 28 27 28 and July 3 5 11 12 13 19 with final limit the 15th day after sale not counting sale day. Extension to September 30 may be secured by depositing tickets with Jos Richardson special agent 184 College avenue Athens within 15 days after sale and paying a small fee. For details ask any ticket agent.
A practical guide urges strict fly control to protect families. It advises swatting any intruding flies, preventing entry with screens, keeping doors and openings closed, and ensuring food and milk are shielded. Emphasizes avoiding sidewalk foods and pest-friendly venues, and teaching children fly prevention.
RD Jackson offers unlimited supply to good men on good farms with the best terms ever offered in Carroll and Haralson counties, promising favorable financing for eligible applicants.
A stranger asks war correspondent and writer Irving Cobb to describe a man named Cobb related by marriage. Cobb offers a brief, lightly detailed sketch noting six feet tall, light roan color, an undecided figure, and belonging to groups like Yonkers Pressing Club and Park Hill Democratic Marching Club. He notes Cobb’s father a Confederate soldier, one wife, one child, and his stance as an Innocent Bystander in religion.
A fragmented verse recalls a motorcyclist speeding past a lone pedestrian and a boastful claim on improving averages. The speaker hints at motive tied to a friend’s desires and a restrained anger, ending with a telephone greeting riddle about identity.
W L Folds offers several gentle horses and miles along with buggies for sale or exchange. Terms cash or good note.
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