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CEDAR GROVEProf Sprayberry Closes His I Singing School at Cedar GroveCedar Grove, July 29—The health of our people is good at pres- i ent.Wheat threshing is about over. 1 McLemore cove has made enough I wheat this year to biscuit its people i another year IOur farmers haven’t sown many , oats for the past few years but i several of them say that they will 1 sow a good many next fall. Dr. 1 Crowder will sow 35 acres in fall I oats. 1Cotton is well-fruited and is lt;lo king well but it is needing rain 1 at present. The continued drought I has cut off early corn fully one half. 1 Our sweet potatoes and late irish lt;potatoes can't do much on account lt;of the drought. iProf. Sprayberry’s singing ' school at Cedar Grove closed out i Saturday afternoon. The school was nothing short of success. Prof. i Sprayberry left Saturday afternoon 1 for Pine Log in Bartow County where he will take up a school i there again the 27th. J. F. Hattield 1 went with him to attend the school 1 at Pine Log and Calhoun. We hope i to have Prof. Sprayberry ba:k with lt;us in September as some of our i people say it will be no trouble to get a school for him at Trickum by that time. 1Mr. Burk Millican, who is teach- i ing school at Mt. Olivet on Lookout , Mountain was at home Saturday and . Sunday.There was a large crowd out to hear Brother Sprayberry preach Sunday. Brother Sprayberry preach- , ed from the 48 chapter and the 18th verse of Isaiah. He handled his subject well. IThe protracted meeting at Cedar Grove w’ll begin on Saturday before the third Sunday in August. Rev. Mr. Ellis of St Elmo will assist Brother Sprayberry in the meeting.Saturday before the second Sunday in August the Cedar Grove and Antioch Sunday school will picnic at the Mineral Springs. Everybody come and bring their baskets well-filled.ltobt. Tatum who has been very low for some days with hemorrhage of the lungs is at present doing very well. His many friends wish him a speedy recovery.TJncle Wesley Hobbs, one of our oldest and most successful farmere, says we are going to have an early frost this fall. If this be true what about late cotton?PAT McCLASKEY
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LaFayette Walker County Messenger
Lafayette, Georgia, US
Fri, Jul 31, 1908
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