09 Mar 1917
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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1917
Page
1
Farmland sold for 35 dollars per acre here Tuesday. Various local updates include residents visiting Washington and Atlanta meetings. Brooks School District bonds approved for a new four room brick building, with the county board of education meeting and parsonage notes.
A Fayetteville teachers meeting is announced for March 17 at 10 a.m. with devotional by Rev. A B Sanders. Sessions cover community enrollment, club work, school equipment, and primary methods led by listed instructors including J D Smith, L Ficquett, Addie Lou Sams, Lela Dickson, Dora Stone, G H Guy, E S Ward, Kimsey, Johnson, and Hardy.
The article notes Dr C Lewis Fowler president of Cox College will deliver a lecture The Dreamer of Galilee at the Baptist church on Monday March 12 at 7 30 pm. Admission is free and all are invited. It also mentions J J Brown the new Commissioner of Agriculture supporting a marketing system for farm produce and the need for grading standardizing packaging to command better prices for meat and corn.
The Fayetteville public schools list 41 names on the February honor roll across grades one through eleven. Miss Head’s third and fourth grade class leads attendance at 96.39 percent, with Miss Chatfield’s fifth and sixth at 96.81 percent and the high school at 95.16 percent. A bookkeeping class meets outside hours with Prof. Colvin, and representatives for the March 30 public exercise have been chosen.
A cough that racks and irritates the throat may lead to a serious chronic cough if neglected. Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey soothes irritation and eases breathing with antiseptic properties. Useful for croup sore throat and chronic bronchial affections. Get a bottle today at Druggists. Pleasant to take.
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