10 May 1918
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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1918
Page
1
Daily snippets list visits and family gatherings across Clayton and nearby areas. Residents such as Ruth Edwards, Willie Holt, Lizzie Fitzgerald, and others are noted hosting or visiting relatives. Also mentioned are sales, college enrollments, county fair optimism, pig club progress, and two deaths in the community.
We sincerely thank each friend and neighbor for kind favors and assistance after the burning. We extend our profound appreciation. Mrs. J. W. Dixon and family.
Ninety day velvet beans priced at 2.00 per bushel offered by W. M. Tarren of Amboy Georgia. Also several good horses and mules for sale or rent cheap by D. B. Blavock. Mr. Julian Arnold left yesterday for Austin Texas to enlist in the aviation corps. friends wish him success and safe return.
The Ways and Means Committee of the Women’s Club presents A Prairie Rose a four act comedy drama at the Auditorium Tuesday evening May 14 proceeds go to the Fayetteville Library. The Fayette County Singing Convention meets May 9 and invites broad participation. An Entomology experiment station on Redwines place tests Wanna naker Cleveland cotton variety with fertilizer needs on local soil.
The regular state teachers examination will be held Friday and Saturday August 3 and 4. All who desire to teach and are not licensed or whose license expires this year must take this exam. No special exams. those failing to take the regular exam are barred by law. Summer courses and reading lists are offered. EK E Thornton.
The notice invites customers to find a full Watkins supply at R. P. Minter's Store Woolsey and other outlets including A Rosenbloom Fayetteville, Bertney McElwaney Tyrone and Luther McDonald's Farrer Town. W C Vollenweider Watkins salesman Woolsey Ga thanks patrons and asks for future business with prompt mail-order service.
Nancy Hall and Porto Rico potato slips offered for sale at 2.5 dollars per thousand. Ready for delivery April 25. J and Warp, Fayetteville Georgia Route 1.
The town reads of a unique wedding planned for next Friday at the Wayetteville Court House featuring Miss Mary Pickford Peachblossom and Mr. Douglas Fairbanks Pershing with Rev. William Sunday Baker officiating. Performances include Miss Geraldine Farrer and Caruso, with elaborate costumes and decorations reportedly forbidden to detail. Notable guests listed include President and Mrs. Wilson, Governor and Mrs. Dorsey, and Secretary Baker among others. Admission varies by tiered pricing.
The Fayette County Red Cross Home Service offers information to families of soldiers and sailors about delayed government checks pay and mail concerns, insurance issues, school matters and in home aid. Volunteers knit wool socks shirts and triangular bandages though funds are low and a surgical dressing class led by Mrs Palkinburg teaches dressings.
Fragmentary OCR mentions canned tomatoes and named individuals along with numbers and a subscription reference. Details are garbled, identities and places are uncertain, and no coherent event or outcome emerges.
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