08 Apr 1910
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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1910
Page
1
Home Affairs notes fresh fish Friday at Farrer and Landrum. Institute Hall events and Bennetts ground meal promotions. Socials include Miss Rosa Byington and Miss Louvale Brown visits, several local weddings, preachers at Ebenezer and Friendship, and a line about sales, photos, and millinery. Friends and families frequent Fayette and surrounding towns with church notices and upcoming conventions.
Mr F M Banks died at his home one mile north of here Sunday from cancer after years of illness and blindness. He was born in the county, lived there over seventy years, married in 1856, later to Mrs Stanley, who survives him, leaving a wife and eight children. Funeral at Banks family cemetery last Monday by Rev J E Turner with many relatives present. burial at the bride’s father T E Zellars home in Grantville. Attendants included maid of honor Christine Dickson, matron of honor Mrs Abner Camp, flower girls Emily and Mellie Zellars, best man Sim T Blalock. Reception followed. color theme white and pink. Mr Zellars and daughters assisted in receiving. Mr Blalock and bride left for New York trip.
One of the prettiest weddings in memory united Miss Estelle Zellars of Grantville and Mr Braxton Blalock on Thursday evening at a formal ceremony. Guests and local residents praised the charm and grace of the affair, which featured customary vows and festive fittings in a warmly lit setting.
Mr and Mrs J A Perry announce the engagement of their daughter Lou Ella to Mr Michael Lee Seagraves. The marriage will be at the bride's home on May 18. Miss Perry, a popular county teacher, is praised for ambition and public-spirited work. Seagraves is a young man in the mercantile business at Anderson South Carolina.
The census starts April 15 and must be completed in two weeks in cities and thirty days elsewhere. Enumerators wear badges reading United States Census 1910. Citizens must answer. answers kept confidential. The creed assures no injury from responses and clarifies it does not affect taxation, military or jury service, school attendance, immigration, or law enforcement. Detailed Fayette County enumeration districts and enumerators listed. Also notes on the grip and promotion of Electric Bitters as a tonic and purifier with anecdotes of relief and a Dixon Drug Co guarantee.
Adams Bros and Easten announce a new shop at their old site on Jonesboro road near the depot offering blacksmith and wood shop services including horse shoeing by Mr F J Garrison. They invite calls from customers seeking various metal and wood works.
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