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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1920
Page
3
The semi weekly Carrollton paper notes the county fair at South Street ball park and discusses topics from speculative gambling to election returns. It observes rising freight rates and meat wrapping paper costs while recalling wheat harvest declines and past conditions with local humor.
In Carolston a man challenges the claim that the apostle Paul was married as he notes the biblical urging for wives to follow their husbands and questions Pauls own marital status.
The Carroll County Memorial Hospital in the Kaylor building on Maple Street is now open and admitting patients with careful care. Rev and Mrs W W Roop have sold their Dixie street home and join the facility as superintendents of grounds and the vegetable garden. Carrollton has long needed a hospital and growth will demand a larger building.
Community notices express gratitude for support during illness and death of a wife and mother. Also listed is a for sale notice: harness business with tools and machinery for making and repairing harness. Includes a Carrollton Shoe Shop sale line and a remark about advertising to cover Carrollton trade territory.
Local residents share travel and visit notes with several Atlanta trips. Names include Arthne Ackin J W Grimes and J M Dodd visiting Atlanta while Miss Wilma Hemrick Elizabeth McClellan and Miriam Stone host or travel to or from Atlanta and nearby Mercer College in Macon and LaGrange.
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