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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
2
An earnest plea urges residents to support county road improvements and bond purchases funded by seven and a half million dollars. The author argues better roads boost farm trade, save time, and benefit everyone, urging urgent action and civic duty.
Fourteen Worth County schools participated in a pig sale using lunch basket waste as feed. The 41 484.00 total proceeds funded school improvements, with one pig hitting 400.00 and later auctions adding 1 499.00 from younger pigs.
The notice recalls Owen Burks who died January 6 1918 at age eighteen after years of illness and disability. It laments his pain yet speaks of his cheerful spirit and the belief he rests in the arms of Jesus with loved ones awaiting reunion in a brighter home.
The article notes a funeral conducted by Roy G. W. Jones for a deceased community member. It mentions the sister bearing the burden with family, and prayers for reunion in the sky where God will wipe tears and heal hearts. Ruth Branwell, a sib of the deceased, is named among mourners.
An Act to amend an 1912 and 1936 acts establishing a city school system in Carrollton. It provides how vacancies on any Board of Select Commissioners shall be filled and for other purposes. Dated May 13 1919.
Public notice warns individuals not to hire or harbor Tom Mand who is under contract to work for the author for the May 22, 1919 event. The note ends with a directive to clean up dirty premises.
All persons are notified not to hire nor harbor Oscar Bonner as he is a minor and hired to me for 1919 crap. Stoe2may J. M. Cantrell. Some people ought to begin to clean up now so they would get clean June 1.
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