Closing out sale and hot bargains lure shoppers
Advertises Spring Clothing bargains at Windy & Spur Jocks and Rhody & Spurlock's as they close out stock at reduced prices. Urges ready made clothing, coffins, farm market goods, and medicines. Sheriff sale notices list property and livestock. cigar flavor praised as Rough and Ready. Local merchants push time-limited deals and warnings from the Board about teacher contracts.
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Windy
Spur
Jock’s
Local notices and visits mark Carrollton week
Carrollton and surrounding area see a flurry of social visits, preaching and public events. Drummers tour the town while Beulah Church hosts a protracted meeting, and local residents including Messrs Lee Vaught and W. D. Crutchfield send sympathies and news. Farmers discuss stock law, fruit orchards, and a large beery batch. Misses Dimmock and Dillard travel for family illness, with several residents noted as away for church camp and visits.
Public School Plan Gaining Ground In Carrollton
Citizens gathered at the Court House to back a public school system funded by taxation. A five member committee was appointed to study plans used in other cities, consult the County Board of Education, and report a workable Carrollton plan. The meeting voiced strong support and set the committee to report soon.
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Carrollton
Court House
W. W- Fitts
Jesse KR. Griffin
Harris
Col J. B. Beall
The
Times
County Board of Education
E.G. Kramer
J. Brown
E.R. Sharpe
L.P. Mandeville
FS Brown
W. F. Brown
G. W. Merrell
Sunday School session draws large Carroll County crowd
The Carroll County Sunday School Association meets with a crowd estimated at 1200 to 1500. Delegates from twenty three schools attend, and morning exercises prove highly interesting. Prof. Sewell of Tem ple directs the music and delivers a soulful performance.
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Carroll County Sunday School Association
Prof. Sewell
Temple
Marriage at Carrollton and local election case update
Hymieneas wed in Carrollton at the bride’s mother residence officiated by Rev. GA Gardner uniting Mr M XN Brown and Miss Mattie L Merrell. A fence election dispute in Fairplay was dismissed for want of prosecution after ties to an Ordinary ruling and appeal. Pulody & Spurlocks advertise spring clothing while a health tonic touts Strom’s Five Pillar for relief and vigor.
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W. C. Perry
Carrollton
GA. Gardner
M. XN. Brown
Mattie L. Merrell
Morris
Chambers
Strom
Protracted meetings and local notices from Villa Rica
The Free Press notes ongoing church revivals at Presbyterians Methodists and Baptists with plans for six weeks of services and a Pleasant Grove stop. It reports heavy rains easing drought crops sickened children deaths from flux, a baseball dispute near Villa Rica, visits from relatives and locals, and critique of cheap tuition in education.
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Ford Org
Pleasant Grove Church
T. A. Higdon
Baptist Church
Villa Itica Boys
Oak Mountain Club
Tom Jordan
Jordan
Smith
Zack Dobbs
Atlanta
Tom Brown, Jr
Birmingham
Marlin Fowler
Alabama
Anduson McElroy
Free Press
J.T. Henderson
Villa Rick
Midway Corner News Roundup From Sunday Report
Midway Corner reports from Robert include Sev G G Smith's visit as Sunday school agent of the North Georgia Conference at Shiloh camp meeting and a call for parents to bring children Monday for preaching. Protracted meetings at Friendship church closed with seven accessions and resume next Saturday at Midway. Prof J M Ferrell offers a free singing school for youths each Saturday. local farming notes mention sick farmers, watermelon and fruit failures, and standout corn and crops from T J Disop and O D Bant.
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G. G. Smith
North Georgia Conference
Shiloh
J. JR. Bunt
Friendship Church
Midway
J. M. Ferrell
Enoch Phillips
Bethlehem
Ward
Carrollton
T. J. Dishop
Local Notes From Whitesburg And Bowdon
Townspeople report visits from Mrs Gipson of Newnan to Mr Wright of Lowell and RL Tanner in Campbell. John Tanner and RL Tanner visited. Will Holloway found a snake in pine carried indoors. Cotton on display by A Sims. Miss Sophia Stipe of Palmetto seeks to teach music locally. Laura Welborn of Atlanta stayed with relatives. J A Lasseter and wife from Villa Rica visited. Baptist church continues daily services under Rev E B Barrett. Bowdon reports Miss Fannie Stubbs returning from Mableton.
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Newnan
G. B. Wrights
Lowell
E.S
Roberta
Mrs. B. Wright
G. I. Wright
John Tanner
Campbell
RL. Tanner
N. Middlebrooks
Turin
Will TE. Holloway
Inc. A. Sims
Sophia Stipe
Palmetto
Misa Laura Welborn
Atlanta
Douglas County
W. Lasseter
Vila Rick
Lula Crews
Carrollton
Barnett
Carrie Parks
Eatonton
Ben F. Moore
Birmingham
Alabama
James D. Moore
Baptist Church
E. B. Barrett
Revival meetings and local notices Amid town news
The Free Press readers are told Bowdon weekly news from Uncle Prink cleo. Citizens report revival meetings at Oak Mountain and Mt Pleasant with outward signs of a hopeful religious renewal. Visitors like Mrs Hammock of Cowetan and Dr Lewis of Draketown are noted. Nursery ads promote Alden Spencer trees and Henry tobacco by McCord Shaw. Gentlemen Atman and Atkinson visit townsfolk as others travel to meet relatives and attend church gatherings.
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Free Press
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Uncle Prink
Cleo
Jock
Hammock
Cowetn
Ate
Pleasant
GW. Aderhold
Aderhold
Oak Mountain
Joe i Atman
J. B. Atkinson
Atkinson
George Caldswell
Meriwether
James Caldwell
Atlanta
James Belt
Oake Mountain
Mt. Pleasent
Draketown
Huarralson County
Hammond
Flo
Four Preachers Attend Holly Springs Meeting
Mr Johnsen reports a yearly communion and feet washing in Holly Springs. Elders Speight Robinson Bartlett Holcombe preached. about 100 members attended and enjoyed the service. Crop notes say upland corn is good where worked, cotton delayed three weeks, potatoes fine. The writer would not go without a paper and wishes success to the Free Press.
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