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Newspaper
Vidalia Advance
Location
Vidalia, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1921
Page
3
Mark McLemore, chairman of the Fish Fry, announces tonight as the pivotal moment at the old brick yard on the Oconee river west of Mt Vernon. Supper starts at seven with a 6 15 departure from the New Vidalia Hotel Thursday afternoon. Catfish stew is praised as par excellence by McLemore.
The Girl Scouts held a regular monthly meeting at the clubhouse with twenty girls present. Activities included membership tests for Tenderfoot, singing, and discussion of the year’s work. A separate hike to Mr. Sharpe’s sawmill featured lunch, camp fires, singing, stargazing, and farewells as Misses Gerturde and Estelle Stith leave for college. Mrs. Poindexter and daughters depart for Milledgeville where the girls will attend school.
Mildred Herring introduces the program with a poem titled Only a Dad by Emory Herring. Kathryn White offers a scripture reading. Readings on Absalom focus on selfishness lawlessness rebellion and death by Ruby Sutton Evelyn Walker Juanita Carr Elizabeth Hudson with Mildred Herring as Captain.
The Georgia and Florida Railway offers round trip tickets between all Georgia stations at one and one fourth cents per mile for travel Sundays from July 17 through October 2. Tickets are valid on trains arriving back at the original selling point by noon Monday. H. W. Watson, G. P. A. Augusta, Georgia.
The ad notes 666 has more imitators than any Fever Tonic, warns against imitations, and suggests a little repair work may lengthen the flue.
W T Rouse announces mattress and bed renovation work in Vidalia from September 1 for 60 days. He invites contacts for suitable jobs at the old Brittain shoe shop stand.
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