Rain Ends Dooly Area Crop Drought at Byrentville Reunion
Reports say crops suffered from dry weather until a Tuesday night rain revived fields near Dooling. Local events include weddings, a move to Florida, a Cordele coach and the sale of a large cabbage. Blooming fruit farms, fairs and school notes mark county life with civic and social activity.
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Byrentville
Mika Pannre
Lillie Wilkes
Doolig
Joe Burns
Bivins
Hiva Gunn
Dooling
Rena Johns
A Blind Bat Exhibition At Taylor Bros Store
A box with ventilation holes and a tied lid labeled A Blind Bat was shown at Taylor Bros store. A crowd gathered and peered inside while staff explained it contained a blind bat picked up early that morning. The box was dropped and a brick bat emerged onto the sidewalk.
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Taylor Bro’s
Says About Home Life and Relationships
A collection of aphorisms notes views on marriage love and ambition. It reflects ideas on appreciating home distance motivating actions and the ease of courting when money is available. The tone resembles a moralizing local column with brief maxims.
A Key to Examinations for Georgia Public Schools
A promotional notice offering a book titled A Key to Examinations containing questions and answers from Georgia public school exams since 1888. Sixteen years of work. Price one dollar postpaid. Descriptive circulars free. From B. Molden, Cashier, Gilmer County Bank, Ellijay, Ga.
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Georgia
Molden
Gilmer County Bank
Ellijay
Watermelon Prize Contest for Atlantic Birmingham area
THH MONEEL Marble Co. Ga offers prizes for the three largest watermelons grown in territory tributary to the Atlantic & Birmingham Railway. Top prize 35.00, second 10.00, third 5.00. One prize per grower. minimum five acres cultivated. weights determine sizes. entries forwarded via agents to H. C. McBadden for labeling and delivery.
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Atlantic & Birmingham Railway
Atlantic and Birmingham Railway
Ivhereby
H. C. Mobadden
Weekend Train and Boat Excursion to St Simons and Cumberland
The Atlantic and Birmingham Railway offers Saturday round trip tickets from Cordele to St Simons and Cumberland Island for five dollars. Boats depart Brunswick Saturday afternoons for both islands, with trains leaving Cordele at 7 06 a m and arriving Brunswick at 1 40 p m. Electric bun beds promise comfortable summer travel during a cold wave in the heated season.
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Atlantic & Birmingham Railway
Cordele
St. Simons
Cumberland Island
Brunswick
Cumberland
Atlantic & Birmingham
Pleasant Valley Notes Preschool health and local visits
Jim Nelson and family of Pulaski County visited at O and P Churchwell's. Little Clarice Forehand is quite sick. Hendricks and wife visited Cordele. Miss Clara Thompson of Byronville visited last week. Ham Clewis and Ed Moore of Snow attended Sunday school. J B Cooper has been quite sick with measles. Several residents including J T McNeese and J W Smith have measles in their families. Mrs Olaune Forehand reelected principal. Prospects for a large school look bright. R M Lewis confined to his room. Mrs Claude Forehand to Athens soon. Miss Annie Swearingen visiting Columbus. M E Roshin of Vienna visiting farming interests. Misa Ober Varnadow visiting relatives in Vienna. A J A Varnadow of Vienna here Sunday evening.
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W C Hamilton
Cordele
F. Lewis
Qoi
W H Tasseter
Lasseter
Findlay
Thomas ‘Hooks
Nannie Bullington
Dooly and
Pulaski
J W Roberts
Whitehall
JB McDonald
Florida
Turpentine
W M Forehand
Pleasant Valley
J. Hallman
Marshall
Ashburn
Dooling
Johnson
Hall Place
JB & HB Davis
Esquire
Jnck Smith
Allea Herrington
Tivola
John Logan
Express
Jim Nelson
Pulaski County
O &P Churchwell
Clarice
Hendricks
Clara Thompson
Byrom+ville
Ham Clewis
Ed Moore
Snow
J B Cooper
Annie Swearingen
Columbus
ME Roshin
Vienna
Misa Ober Varnadow
J A’ Varnadow
Odd Fellows Elect Monday Night for Next Term
The Odd Fellows meet Monday to elect officers for the upcoming term and ensure the lodge is properly organized for the season.
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Odd Fellows
Worlds Fair 1 4 The G 8 and J railway rates to St Louis
The G 8 and J railway offers round trip tickets to the St Louis Exhibition from Vienna with season tickets 86 45 sixty days 29 60 fifteen days 24 25 ten days 17 6 coach rates only no sleepers or parlor cars special coach fare for groups of 35 adults 25 cents added for specified events including Normal School Nashville Summer school Tuscaloosa Athens Knoxville Warm Springs Georgia Educational Association Washington Monteagle and other gatherings in late June to early August 1500
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G 8. & J. Railway
St. Louis Exposition
Vienna
Benbody ‘Normal School
Nashville
Monteagle Tenn
Monteagle Wible School
Montegale
Tenn
Bunday Solfobl Institute
Montegala
Aligy
McCoy Steam Laundry Ad in Cordele
An advertisement for McCoy Steam Laundry in Cordele promises quality cleaning services with a bold guarantee. The partial line mentions Vienna and a slogan style claim, reflecting a vintage local business notice.
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John Warber
Senator Crum
G O Earnest
T’ R Smith
B Walker
Alf Scott
Sentinel
Justice T F Ethridge
Jones
Uthridge
Migs.Buttiey
Rome
Shorter College
Noble College
Bhorter
Tar
Rogalee Henn
Ughter
Gus Fenn
Romeboay
E. M. Gunn
Pinehurst
John II Bedgood
Arabi
Houston High School
Lawson Brown
W A Cate
Bazemore
Korea
Severa
Moneel Marble Co
Codele, Ga
Ren
Planyers
Moseley Mercantile CO
J T McNeese
J T Shearley
RG Swearingen
J M Watson
W O Britt
J W Smith
R M Lewis
Claude Porehand
Athens
Bryant Bros
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