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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1921
Page
4
Local notes list residents visiting Atlanta LaGrange and Athens for weekends visits, commencements and family events. Names include J P Travis Tl N Pritchett Terrell Robison Bill Norton Inox Robison and many others with births, visits, and travels noted along with church and school activities.
Sacred Harp singing session at Tallapoosa Prim tive Baptist Church on Sunday June 12 began with prayers led by Rev J I Knight. The meeting organized with M W Lovyern as chairman and T S McLendon as vice, with a committee on minute and a slate of leaders for performances, lunch break, and afternoon sessions concluding with a benediction by Rev J H Knight.
Community notices report strong turnout for services at Pleasant Ridge on Saturday and Sunday. Multiple visits and social calls are listed among locals including J W Jones, H M Parrish noted as ill, and gatherings with families such as Grays, Duncans, Spences, Lovells, and Barrontons across Carrollton and Bre men route 2.
An all day singing is planned at Consolation church three miles south of Hulett next Sunday the 19th. Singing begins at 9 30 a.m. We invite Carrollton friends to attend and bring their new books. Thos A Higgins arranged the event.
Brick stock offered at lower prices by Maple Street Warehouse Co with a note of abundant supply. Also listed are used pianos organs sewing machines at Kytle Aycock Limehurn. Civil service exams advertised with salaries and open ages. Potato slips offered at 175 per thousand by M W Smith Sycamore, Ga. Hosiery sales rep positions advertised by International Stocking Mills with pay rates.
The State Board of Health warns typhoid fever is unusually prevalent this year with higher mortality. Officials urge the public to protect themselves using free distribution antityphoid vaccine. Sanitary Inspector M. M. Hallan of Carrollton appeals to readers to spread the word.
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