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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1920
Page
8
The column lists residents visiting Atlanta and other towns, returning from trips, and health updates. It notes multiple families traveling to Wilmington North Carolina Roanoke Alabama and Birmingham as well as hospital visits in Atlanta. Several relatives and local residents are mentioned visiting kin and friends in surrounding cities.
The Carroll County Trade Board held its first annual meeting in Carrollton Ga at 4 30 p m with President A J Baskin opening. officers reported on year one projects finances and future plans as community leaders praised the board and pledged cooperation. The gathering adjourned to a barbecue social hour after the program.
About eighty farms in Colquitt and surrounding counties are described and priced in a book. Mail order copies available by July 10 for information on Colquitt county and Moultrie markets. Write Kline-Groover Real Estate Co. Moultrie, Ga.
The passage argues success cannot hinge solely on wealth. It warns that money cannot buy happiness, health, or friends and lists signs of failure to avoid: losing self confidence, prioritizing money over character, harming others, neglecting kindness, and ignoring the broader joys of life.
A discussion debating whether steam or electricity is the top force yields to the claim that an idea is the strongest power. It cites religious unity under Atah, Columbus's discovery, and Edison’s achievements as proof that ideas move history and invention.
Carrollton hosts five days of Harp singing with events on the first weekend of July and the first Sunday in August. The White and Reese memorial event honors Maj B. F. White and J. P. Reese, with delegates from several counties and singers from Atlanta Newnan and Alabama. Col Joe James of Douglasville, publisher of the Sacred Harp of 1911, is expected to attend. Public urged to attend and support strictly voces music.
In San Francisco a convention is underway but attention focuses on a middle aged man staying in a large white building near Pennsylvania Avenue Washington where actions will unfold.
The Carroll Free Press urges local readers to subscribe and use its col vins in advertising, encouraging community support and engagement through newspaper buying and promotion.
Washington reports onions have entered the market as a drug for the first time in years per the department of agriculture weekly market review. Potatoes rise to high levels, California growers plow under crops as marketing costs exceed value.
Mrs Robert H Kinabrew hosted a morning gathering in honor of Mrs Hugh Thrash of Atlanta Mira formerly Miss Nettie Tomlin of Carrolton. The Harris home looked festive with decorations and table settings as a salad course with ten was served at noon.
The first bale of the 1920 cotton crop in the United States was baled in San Benito Texas on June 25. Farmer Ernest Matz grew most of the staple and bought the rest from other area farmers.
Fragmentary notes describe late frosts and ongoing rain destroying Eastern peach yields, leaving fruit to rot as harvesters and buyers become scarce. The text reflects a hard season for growers and market disruptions.
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