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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1910
Page
3
Bowdon residents fill regular Baptist church services. Local commerce booms with new warehouse, machine shop, and brick store construction. Cotton sales top $10,000 on the streets, while many houses are under construction and families visit kin across Georgia and Alabama.
Dr McWhorter made a flying trip to the city Sunday morning. Floyd Dorough was in Yellowdirt Sunday. Hewston Masden visited Uncle Bill Shoemake Sunday. E T Baughtman and wife visited Ben McWhorter Saturday and Sunday. Luther Rooks was in our village Sunday. Uncle Bill Shoemaker is very feeble. C M Ray and wife visited Aunt Sally Johnson Sunday evening. Luther Cowart and sister Beatrice attended Sunday School. Rev J C Roberson and F E Fortner visited Mr Frank Musick Sunday evening.
The Colored Baptist Association held a four day meeting October 13 to 16 featuring sermons by Rev Wm Story Rev J C Beavers Rev J A Moreland and Rev A W Smith with visitors Rev Quillian Radford and state missionary Rev C H Young. Rev A J Beavers was elected moderator and Thomas Gorman named clerk as business concluded in decency and order.
Conner and Martin advertise a full range of seasonal fresh meats fish and oysters available at their shop. They emphasize quality and variety for the current season.
The Carrollton District Sunday School Association No 5 will meet with West View Sunday School in Carrollton at 2 oclock p m on Sunday November 6 1910. The program includes devotional services, welcome and response, short reports, talks by workers, committee reports and officer elections. Superintendents are urged to attend. W Dozier B A Sharpe Walter P Jones Com.
A collection of aphorisms on work faith and character. It contrasts earned virtue with claimed virtue and warns against shallow religion and excuses. It notes poverty among the dissatisfied and the lilies seen in churches as a critique of ostentation.
Foley's Kidney Pills are advertised as curing diseases boosting strength and vitality. The copy claims they help loss of appetite sleeplessness and general weakness from kidney or bladder disorders and notes sale by Johnson Drug Co.
A satirical catalog lists local types from liars to gossips and jokers. The piece mocks a Jacksonian Democrat, meddling women, a bragging pastor, and men who misbehave in public. It notes a nonenforced stock law and a wide array of neighborhood quirks.
Mrs. E. Marti of St. Joe Michigan reports Foley s Honey and Tar saved her boy s life. A severe bronchial illness failed to yield to doctor s medicine yet the syrup stopped the cough choking and gagging and the child recovered quickly. The family keeps Foley s Honey and Tar on hand for future use. For sale by Johnson Drug Co.
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