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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1921
Page
7
An editorial lament on sensational journalism and its harms. It recalls a grieving father asking to spare his family from painful details, notes tenderness of a country weekly, and warns about modern egg production tradeoffs and fragile chick hatching due to stronger membranes.
In Fairview residents enjoyed sermons by Miss Pessie Moody and a string of social visits. Local trips included J Gordon and Radford, C B Shirah with H W Phillips in Temple, and others to Rockmart Draketown Anniston Ala Villa Rien and Brooklyn. A Mt Carmel singing schedule was announced for the first and third Saturdays.
The Free Press reports a full stock of regal blanks available at their office, ensuring readers and local buyers have ready access to the items. The note highlights ample quantities and easy access for interested customers in town.
The reader extols a true gentleman who spurns social vanity and idle gossip. He defends the weak, treats laborers with equal regard, and values virtue over dress. He shuns public squabbles and scorn from women, offering support to the fair and the poor alike.
Nice showers brighten Kansas community with well attended preaching. Ollie Bradley and family visited his parents. Grace Brock stayed with Miss Mstelle Walker as Dora Robinson and Almi Warren visited. Roopyville appeal ends with calls for learning from Roopyville.
Miss Zelna Adama returned from Mt. Zion after staying with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Entrekin. Locals attended a Farmers High School singing and enjoyed Mr Burge Kuglar’s Sunday night program. Gertrude Scott, Effie Mac Wright, Bettie Lou Presnell, Mesera Brit, John and Burge Kuglar visited Mrs. Bernice Fletcher in Atlanta, who is in hospital. Lem Hyatt came home from Jacksonville Florida. Lucile Adams and Annie Craven hosted visits with friends.
A Wiregrass Farmer note praises the A B and A railway strike as timely for South Georgia with full corn cribs and crops. transport adaptions by motor trucks and passenger service are planned to ease disruptions while farmers offer trucks for hire. The piece argues the strike saves money for the company but costs workers, and may spur freight truck and bus service across the South.
Local notes report Shady Grove School coping well for the time of year with about forty pupils. Farmers stay busy preparing crops for another year and well wishes go to the farming community. Several residents and guests are listed visiting relatives and friends across Shady Grove, including Worth Bryce, Claud Jordan, Hubert Vaughan, Barton Hesterlee, Dooley Sheffield, Ezra Gilley, Roxie Morrow, and many others. A birth is announced for Hulett Wendrix and wife welcomed a son on March 2.
March 10 1921 Carrollton route notes Mollie Stamps Johnson dies March 7 hospital burial at Beulah church Rev W W Roop baptizes in 1901 funeral sermon held for a good woman loved and respected. Local updates include bee gum theft not yet solved and moving into the community by the Vass Walker family with neighbors Mrs Josie Stamps convalescing and visits from Mia Leola White and others looking like spring though appearances may deceive.
J P Gray formerly of Bremen Gateway died at his McKall North Carolina home after a brief illness. His funeral and interment were held in Bremen. Ton J F Walker remains bedridden after surgery in Atlanta. A fire at Entrekin block destroyed J B Spruell’s store, valued goods over eight thousand dollars with five thousand insurance. building uninsured.
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