Bethel News Deaths and Local Happenings Highlight Week
The Bethel column records the death of Benjamin Morris from heart failure followed by burial at the family cemetery on the Louisville road with Rev. Charles Montgomery of Kenbridge VA delivering the sermon at McGregor Presbyterian Church. It notes births, visits, and social calls, plus a forecast that cotton acreage may be halved to lift prices.
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Benjamin Morris
Louisville Road
Charles Montgomery
Kenbridge
McGregor Presbyterian Church
Virginia
M. D. Hughes
Marie Morris
McGregor
L. V. Mitchell
Nannie Gordon
Vidalia
John Dickson
Cleo Beckum
Normantown
L. C. Graham
Mary Tharpe
Ezra Tharpe
Soperton
B. J. Tharpe
Rebecca Osborne
Cedar Grove
Mesdames
Nannie Darley
Eliza Hardeman
Fannie Ph
Mrs. Cannie Fountain
Government motion pictures save time for farmers and educators
The USDA offers 112 subjects on 460 reels of film for widespread use. Borrowing is free except for transport, via county agents or state extension directors, with Circular 114 detailing the process, buying options, projector tips, and lighting guidance.
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Massachusetts
Nebraska
Great Plains
North Atlantic
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
State Colleges of Agriculture
Farm Bureaus
Chambers of Commerce
Womens’ Clubs
Extension of
State Agricultural College
Free Million Packets of Flower Seeds Offer
Hastings Seeds offers over a million seed packets free with a 1921 catalog. The promotion claims easy to grow flowers for homes and urges readers to request the illustrated 116 page catalog with no obligation to buy.
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Hastings
Hastings CO
A, GA
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic for Blood Purity and Vitality
Purifying and enriching the blood with quinine and iron, Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic is promoted as a reliable energizer. The ad claims it strengthens, improves appetite, and restores color, noting its long history of use and availability at drug stores for 60 cents per bottle.
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ROVE
Grove
Hayes Healing Honey and Grove Salve Combination Offer
A boxed Grove’s Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat is included with every bottle of Hayes’ Healing Honey. The salve is rubbed on the chest and throat to ease cold and croup symptoms in children. The combined treatment, packed in one carton, costs 35 cents. Ask your druggist for Hayes’ Healing Honey.
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Hayes
GROVE
Stockholders Meet Vidalia Sea Island Double Roller Gin Co
The Vidalia Sea Island Double Roller Gin Co held a stockholders meeting at its Vidalia offices. President W T Jenkins, vice president W T McArthur, and manager H L Cromartie led a plant claimed as the nation’s only manufacturing site for double roller gins for Sea Island cotton. The firm also imports Walrus hides used on rollers.
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Vidalia Sea _ Island
Napoleon Adopts Faux Be bees as Imperial Emblem
The article recounts how Napoleon sought an ancient emblem beyond the fleur de lys and chose supposed golden bees found in Childeric's tomb. In truth the bees were mere ornaments on horse harnesses with wire remnants. The emblem's origin as a curious discovery led to their imperial adoption. The original bees were later sent as a curiosity to Louis XIV.
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Napoleon
France
Childeric
Louis XIV
Steely Eye Description Causes Modest Lesson
A seventh grade class writ description of their principal. One pupil praised her cold steely eye, provoking amused reactions from teacher and principal. A timid girl then quipped that a better description might have been written if the writer hadn’t signed his name.
Pa melia Lake Leaks After Years of Steady Fame
A Popular Mechanics article reports Pa melia lake in western Oregon shrinking last summer as fissures opened the bottom. Water drained away through subterranean disturbances leaving only a few Acres near season end.
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Pamelia Lake
Oregon
Popular Mechanics
Explaining Appetite and Satiety Dialogue
A child and father discuss appetite as they share a meal. The father notes that eating satisfies appetite, while the child asks why more eating is said to increase appetite, prompting a concise exchange on hunger and desire.
Route Three Locals Highlight Community Visits and News
A collection of local social notes from Route Three records visits and guests. Individuals from Vidalia, Poplar Head, Center, Lyons, and surrounding areas appear in a string of weekend stays, shopping trips, and family gatherings.
Aimwell Happenings and Local Visits
Messrs Matthew Sharpe and Bruce McIntyre of Sadie and Miss Minnie Wilkes of Lyons were guests of Miss Mattie Kate McLeod Sunday. Mrs Lewis Jordan of Reidsville visits relatives here. Mr and Mrs Hugh Taylor announce the birth of a girl on the 14th. Mr and Mrs Henry Wilkes spent Sunday with his brother Macy Peterson who underwent surgery at Vidalia Hospital Friday. Vernie Clifton of near Unier attended Sunday school here. Lonnie McLain of Lyons.
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Matthew Sharpe
Bruce McIntyre
Sadie
Minnie Wilkes
Lyons
Mattie Kate McLeod
Lewis Jordan
Reidsville
Hugh Taylor
Henry Wilkes
Macy Peterson
Vidalia Hospital
Vernie Clifton
Near Unier
Lonnie McLain
I. D. Stewart Tile and Brick Works
Vidalia Georgia craftsman I. D. Stewart offers tile brick coping and flower boxes with contact by phone 131 for local orders and installations in Vidalia and surrounding areas.
Train Schedule From Vidalia to Macon and Return
Trains leave Vidalia for Macon at 8 00 a m and 7 40 p m. Trains return from Macon to Vidalia at 10 55 a m and 7 20 p m.
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Vidalia
Macon
Meade cotton seed on sale early long staple grade
A seller offers a few bushels of Meade cotton seed described as early long staple recom mended by the State Department of Agriculture. Lint matches Sea Island grade and fetches the same price. Limited supply. act quickly.
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Meade
State Department of Agriculture
Sea Island
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New York
the Centaur Company
New York City
Kodakers
Knight
Roquet
Yle C. Knight
Pullin
Kedaker
V. B. Hearing
Citizens Bank
Vidalia, Georgia
Chas. D. Williams
L. H. Darby
Georgia
Elton S. Osborne
Jones Street
East
Savannah
M. L. Currie
Postoffic Building
Rescience
E. W. Grove
J. E. Mercer
M. D. Vidalie
Union Pharmacy
Builders Supplies
Sherwin-Williams
John T. Ragan & Company
B. P. Jackson
Fi National Bank
D. Cc. Pattillo Attchney
LAW Collectionstates
Joans
First National Bank
DR. H. Hughes
Bank of Vidalia
I. Lewis Atney
T Law
Btues Retsin‘oved
Ed Pac Wes
Love Brothers
van Camp
Welch
Vidalia Bakery
Lowe Bros
McIntosh St
Vidalia, Ga
South Carolina
Florida
Citizens and Southern Bank of
The
Georgia State Savings
Route Three
Angus Todd
Mrs
W. D. Todd
John Holmes of
Rachels
John A. McLeod
Attie Phillips
Poplar Head
W. W. Phillips
Lester Rachels
W. D. Scott
Sarah Phillips
W. B. Caraway
Attie Philips
Ivan Nobles
Center
Eli Chavers
Baby
W. W. Odom
Ernest
Alex. Odom
Aimwell Happenings
John T. Ragan
I. D. Stewart
Vidalia Vault & Tile CO
the. National Steel Reinforced
M., D. & S. Railway
J. B. Brewton
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