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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1922
Page
4
A local appeal argues that a bond issue will fund a safer, better equipped school with finished rooms, blackboards, charts, and an improved auditorium. It stresses healthier, well ventilated classrooms and urges residents to vote on the bond on Wednesday the 19th, stating taxes will be minimal.
An all day singing event at Crags Piping next Sunday invites ANL good singers to attend. Dinner on the ground and a gathering of well practiced Unakets is planned for the event.
The article lists varied lunch ideas from the USDA era, detailing sandwiches of meat loaf, bean loaf, lettuce and celery, cottage cheese, and peanut options. It suggests fruit like apples and oranges, custards, jellies, milk, cornbread, butter, and cakes, all in a packed school lunch basket.
A church committee of Mt Pleasant Baptist Church drafts resolutions for Sister Josephine Tant who died March 11 1822 at about 92. She joined the church in 1875 and aided the sick and bereaved. The resolution notes her Christian faith and promises a heavenly mansion. She left two children Bettie Davis and Katie Driver. The document records condolences, requests publication in the county paper, and is signed by Volie Burnett J W Robinson T G Matthews and others, read in June 1922.
We thank friends for kindness after our dairy barn and other buildings burned July. Many provided fodder corn and money, others offer stock to seed the crop, and neighbors promise lumber and work to rebuild. We express heartfelt thanks and pledge to help others in need. Mrs Joe H Ifoland and Children
The annual revival meeting starts at Center Point Church on See night, July 21, inviting all to attend.
Laura Keaton Embrey Kenton born 1873 died 1922 after seven years of pellagra. Survived by husband and nine children, mother, brothers and sisters. Joined Baptist church in 1921. Funeral at Mars Will Cemetery on April 28 1992.
On the first Sunday in July at 8 A M Prof John T McKibben opened the annual all day singing with appropriate songs Rev J D Eason of Bowdon led in prayer and officers were elected McKibben chairman and W S Lette secretary An arranging committee backed singing with 45 minutes of music by Emory Pollard, A T Johnson and Lyman McKibben A memory lesson honored Mrs Frank Thomas and Miss Mac with readings by W D Nunnally and Rev A T Womack Dinner followed as ladies provided ample spread Performances included 60 and 80 minute segments by multiple singers and a Barrow brothers quartet A short address by Rev J M Davison of Carrollton closed the event with praise for Kansas The note invites readers to attend the first Sunday in July 1983 and signs off Yours for nisi JOHN T McKIBBEN Ch W D LEE Secretary
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