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Newspaper

Carroll Free Press

Location

Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jul 18, 1912

Page

8

FOR RENT- 3 ROOM HOUSE ON CHANDLER STREET

Local notices list rental ad for a three room house on Chandler Street. Several city residents and visitors are named in social notes including Miss Grace Vea of Roopville and Miss Winnie Reaves in Hogansville. References to ads for Harris Hardware Co and Carrollton Hardware Co appear alongside brief personal mentions and upcoming church services.

J. Z. Reed Hogansville Wiley Creeland F. M. Camp Grace Vea Roopville

Card of Thanks and Local Notices

Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy after a loss. Notices mention visits, a birth announced by Mr and Mrs W S Campbell, and various local happenings including harness repair, a political meeting in Warm Springs, South Georgia land inspection trips, and a salesman’s pitch urging support for local advertisers.

Wiley Creel

Commission on W. and A. Lease Needs Senate Action

Senator W J Harris' joint resolution to form an eight member commission to investigate a new lease for the Western and Atlantic Railway passed the Senate without opposition. The panel would study terms, report to the Legislature, and guide the selection of a lease amid potential railroad monopoly concerns. Transmitted to the House, likely to pass.

W. J. Harris Western & Atlantic Senate House Georgia Harris Atlanta Journal

Seventy-Five Acre Farm for Sale Near Town

Seventy-five acres of land located three and a half miles north of town. Includes a six room house, barn, and out-buildings. About half are cultivated with the rest in woods. Priced cheap for cash.

Old Coins Wanted Advertise Old Coins and Stamps

Old gold silver or copper coins, Confederate stamps or bills sought. Provide description date and condition plus price wanted. Highest market price paid. Mail to J C McAuliffe Milledgville Ga.

J.C. McAuliffe Milledgville, Ga

Cleaning Up Day Urges Citywide Cleanup Effort

The U D C and other city societies declared Cleaning-Up Day Thursday to tidy both residential and business areas. The note encourages citizens to support the effort and help maintain a healthy, clean town.

Carrollton’s Fong Buys Carroll Cafe to Remodel Restaurant

Charley Fong, Carrollton’s Chinese laundryman, has purchased the old Carroll Cafe next to The Free Press office and is busy remodeling the interior. He says he will show the town how to run a first class restaurant.

Chas. Fong Carrollton Carroll Cafe Free Press Charley

Our harness repair work is second to Hone.

A short note asserts superior service with a boastful comparison, saying the harness repair work ranks just behind Hone and inviting customers to try their services.

Supreme Court Upholds Georgia Railroad Commission

Atlanta July 13 The Georgia Supreme Court sustains the Candler act establishing the state railroad commission and rules the $1000 penalty for charging above through fares over connecting lines is constitutional. William Stephens of Whitesburg sued Central for $2000 after being overcharged for a through ticket via Newnan and the A and W P line, with the case set for trial on the facts.

Atlanta Supreme Court Georgia Railroad Commission William Stephens Whitesburg Carroll County The Central New Man West Point Stephens Newnan Newgan LaGrange Graphic

For Rent Good Four Room House on Clifton Terrace

Four room house for rent on Clifton Terrace. Apply to J B F Dial. Phone 326.

Clifton Terrace J.B. F

Becond Nature and Tiny Acts of Kindness

A humorous excerpt recalls an old schoolmaster moved to tears by pupils gifting him a new chair on his birthday. He praises the boys for sacrifices from their little purses, expresses lifelong mutual trust, then reflects on his own sternness as devotion to their good. A judge's library note follows with two teething and grasshopper remedies from a magazine editor.

Echolara Kent Pine Magasine Mr. C

Cheney's Expectorant Sold At Drug Stores

Advert reveals Cheney's Expectorant priced at 45 cents per bottle across all drug stores, marketed for coughs lagrippe and colds with bold claims of fast relief.

Cheney

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Hart Schaffner Marx Stetson Boyden Barry Slippers Dorothy Dodd Dorris AS Baskin Co Chandler Street Chas Williamson Dr. Sheffer J. B. Nichols Hiram Cobb Chicago Will W. C. Adamson Washington, D.C Miss Eunice Bass Winnie Reaves Florence Perguson J. M. Butler Charles Bledsoe Sargent Kate Thornton Mary Fambro the Rock, Ga Frances Grace Harris Hardware Co Mattie Lou Houston Martha Traylor Opelika Susie Tanner Emma Lee Laura E Sarah Lane LaGrange George Bledsoe Leroy T. C. Bledsoe Edith McIntyre Cullman Ala I. C. Loftin Joelle Jones Mary Long Phc Covington Surreys and Harness Carrollton Hardware Co Clay Covington Atlantes Adolph Covington Clarence Nichols Thurs Oangeburg S. C Tives Mise Helen Brown Honduras Irs Ruth Kramer Lee Young Little Son Cedartown Dr. Shelter Hugh Cobb Mr. S.C. Kytle D. A. Power and Son John Humphrey First Baptist Church Bill Reese Carlton Urquart Oxford R. H. Fitts Carrollton Rebekah Lodge Effie Johnson Mary ‘Lou Bledsoe Edgar Johnson H. W. Long Alabama Ludie Baskin Temple W. J. Millican Kodak Episcopal Church Rev. Ruge Blackman Willis Brown Bowdon W. F. Brown Jim Dempsey Grady Cole Harry Kingsbery Belva Cole Mr. Fowler Birmingham South Buyer's J. W. Merrell J. al Monfort Car_tersville Wm. Beall Messrs T. S Tyre Watson Austin Avenue Mrs. Watson Bill Huckaba Park Street W. R. Cumby J. L. Lambert Col W. J. Fielder Mrs W. K. Fielder Dr. Shelfer Mrs. W. S. Campbell Mary Bookout Greenville Cecil Cramer I. H. P. Beck Fourth Congressional District Warm Springs South Georgia Commission On W. & A. Lease Jewelers Stewart & Fleming Buford F. Boykin Boykin & Boykin Railroad Commission Sears
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