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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1886
Page
3
An old clipping invites Pleasant Grove readers to a free camp meeting next Saturday and Sunday. It praises the editor of the Free Press and urges lovers of good music to attend, promising a big time and success for the free paper and its editor.
The Carrollton Free Press outlines fall trade prospects, civic doings, and community updates. It profiles local leaders, real estate shifts, farm notes, church activity, and upcoming railway plans, highlighting Carrollton’s improving prospects and public notices.
Reported by I L Notlin. Autumn harvests and farm life described with hay making, syrup production, and weather notes. References to land, crops, and local events include sugar cane syrup quality, crabbing hay, and a Texas visit by Dr Gid Thomasson amid town earthquake rumors and railroad hopes in Carrollton.
In Whitesburg a large Sunday congregation heard Rev U S Clarke of Bowdon. A red headed scorpion briefly disrupted the service, then the preacher resumed. Local notes include mill updates, beef market moves, travel to Villa Rica and Austell, and upcoming quarterly conference with Rev W W Wadsworth.
Large wood shipments head to Atlanta as merchants stock for fall trade. Died: Mrs Fannie Conner of Villa Rica, wife of J E Conner, age unknown, buried at old Villian Rien graveyard with ministers officiating. Frank Ragan also buried same day after typhoid fever. Community health described as generally good. church meeting at Mt Carmel yields 23 accessions, 10 by letter. Rev GA Gardner to preach at Oak Mountain in October. Luthern meeting to run next week with Rev J A Julian.
Work resumed on the academy last Monday and it now appears it will be ready for use soon aside from pending chimney work. Married last Sunday morning at the bride's residence, Mrs. Mattie Googlar to Mr. John Long. Mr. WW Robinson has bought the Laney farm from J. W. Jeter of Waco.
Bowdon reports fallish weather as residents, including Col Joe Hutcherson and Siblings, visit the Shelnutt house. Atlanta visitors S I Little and M L Brown, with several moves of residents, marriages, and church plans appear. Oak Ridge notes large Bethesda church gathering and upcoming sermons, with farming life, remedies, and new winter merchandise at local merchants.
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