Jan. 1920 -Edmund H. Spivey of Talbotton has been elected Color Guard for the Georgia School of Technology. He was selected for this rank

and duty on account of his special fitness as shown by his scholastic and military records.

The Road Committee of Talbot County has petitioned the County Commissioners to seek a bond issue in the amount of $30,000. This money would

 be used to hire 15 free laborers for road work in addition to the chain gang.

J. B. Clements, Talbot County native from Lott, Texas, reports that he has a fine farm there, with most of the work done by machinery. Crops for

1919 were excellent.

Oak Mountain Academy: Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Hawkins were with the Walter Culpeppers last Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Kellum were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kellum.

Woodland: Miss Ollie Mae Pafford is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. B. A. Pafford. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Pound, Mr. Olyn Pound, Mr. Pyron Pound

and Me.

Alwyn Pound were the guest of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Pound.

Home for the holidays: Willene Webster, DeLa Woodall, Alwyn Pound, John Pye Russell and Jim Woodall.

Christmas marriages: Mrs. Belle Lowe Smith to Mr. White in Box Springs; Miss Ruth McGeehee and A. P. Smith Jr.; Miss Bertha Smith and Mr. Walter Hendricks; Miss Garnett Smith and Mr. Ralph Heath; Mrs. Laura Belle Blanton and Mr. Alvah Kelly; Miss Gladis Gertrude Worthen and Mr. Jesse C. McCargue of near Woodland.

Mesdames Matilda Boyd, Ben and Clarene Bussey, Misses Lina Dunn, Willie Boyd and Mr. L. Rutledge enjoyed Christmas dinner with Miss

Eugenia Wells.

Miss Gussies Pearl Childs, Mary Graham, Messers Will Woodall and B. G. Jordan were a congenial party motoring to Geneva to visit

Miss Lucille Cox.

Jan. 1920 - The A.B. and A. Railroad has shown a loss of 1 1/2 million dollars in the last year. Efforts to scrap the railroad are now underway.

Dr. W. C. Douglas has been discharged from the Army and will return to his former practice in Talbotton.

Side track is being laid to the Talbotton Trap Rock Company and the company hopes to be in business shortly.

Mrs. S. Barnes of Junction City spent a busy week entertaining her seven daughters. The C. W. Moores, the Blythes, the Kellums and the

Greens all helped entertain the young ladies.

Miss Bessie Collier will wed Mr. Henry Clayton Matthews in the early spring.

Miss Vera Rawls and Mr. Clifford McBride will marry on Jan 14th.

The American Refining Company has set the wholesale price of sugar at 14 ¾ cents per pound. We hope the retailer will be able to sell at about

 20 cents per pound.

Talbot County is rapidly turning into a non-farming county. It is losing its white farmers at an alarming rate. For a healthy economy, we need to

 attract more farmers to our county.

Messrs. J. C. and William Miller, Lynn and Grady Butler, Elmer and Johnnie Beverly visited the Spinks Chapel Community.

Woodland parties given during the holidays: John Pye Woodall; Miss Loudie Pye Smith; Miss Katherine Martin; Miss Mildred Woodall.

Miss Nannie Mae Chapman and Mr. C. M. Barksdale were married Sunday afternoon. Miss Eleanor Wilson and Mr. Rollin Hall were married last

Sunday. Mr. W. P. Sparks, formerly of Talbot County, passed away in Baltimore, Maryland, Sunday evening. Dr. Dorothy Bocker will open an office in Talbotton on Jan. 19, 1920.

Little Laverne Witt, only child of Dr. and Mrs. M. S. Witt, died early Sunday morning.

The Talbotton Sewing Club composed of Misses Margaret Collier, Mary Stinson, Clara Downs, Cornelia Jordan, Carolyn Leonard, Margaret

 Rutledge, Virginia Dennis and Mary Stephens met at the home of Miss Collier last Monday.

Miss Willie Lee Moore of Junction City married Mr. W. N. Newton of Atlanta last week.

J. T. Stephenson, local express agent for the A.B. & A. Railroad was hit by an engine as he was handling a large amount of express near the tracks

in Talbotton Friday morning. He was carried to Macon and was found to have a dislocated shoulder, a broken hip and severe cuts and bruises.

The State Highway Department has proposed a new highway from Talbotton to Thomaston. Citizens of Meriwether and Talbot County have

petitioned the Department to change the route to go through Woodland and Manchester.

Mr. J. L. Taylor, owner of a grocery store, blacksmith shop and a general merchandise store in Geneva, is installing two new grist mills there.

February, 1920 - The former Miss Katherine Giddens, now Mrs. Katherine Bussey, born 88 years ago near Talbotton, died at Waverly Hall

Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1920.

Mr. and Mrs. Olin Oliver announce the birth of a son, Hugh Olin on Jan. 25, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Parker announce the birth of a son

Norman, Jr. on Feb. 2, 1920.

Mr. Levi Smith, son of Col. Levi Smith and Mary Gullet Smith, died Monday at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. I. Johnson.

Feb. 1920
Roughedge: Mr. and Mrs. Barney Hawkins visited the Walter Culpeppers for the weekend.

Miss Maggie Ingram is at home, having completed her work as census enumerator in Pleasant Hill.

Mr. and Mrs. George M. Allen have moved to Manchester.

Mrs. Hamp Allen and children visited Columbus relatives last week.

Mr. James Graham of Talbotton and Miss Annelu Jones of Leslie were married on Valentine's day. Miss Jones is the daughter of a very wealthy couple in southwest Georgia.

The young friends of Marvin Starling enjoyed his tenth birthday party on February 15. Skip the Rope, Hide and Seek, Clap in - Clap Out and many

 other games were indulged. Mesdames Cleve and E. H. Edwards assisted Mrs. Starling.

Mrs. B. M. Shumate and Jackie spent the week with relatives at Spinks Chapel.

Mr. J. J. McDaniel announce the birth of a son, John, Jr. on January 28, 1920.

Valley: Mr. Charlie Garrett and Corrine spent Monday with the J. B. Miller family. Mr. H. B. Kendrick and sons spent Sunday with the J. P. McCoy's.

Miss Louise Holmes has returned from a visit with her sister, Mrs. John Beach. Miss Udora Slocum is visiting her daughter, Mrs. D. O. Holmes.

Mrs. William Holmes Gorman, formerly of Talbotton, died last Saturday afternoon in Atlanta.

After only a few hours sickness, Mr. Farnett Smith passed away at his home in Red Bone. He is survived by his wife, the former Alma Simmons,

 four children, Mesdames Hendricks and Heath and Messers Clifford and George.

Mr. John C. Baldwin, born in Baldwinville Talbot County, passed away in Atlanta on February 17, 1920.

Mrs. Tyler, daughter of Rev. Leonard Rush and kinswoman of the Jenkins and Kellum families of Talbot County, died in her home in Barnesville

 this week.

Sunday School Superintendents of Talbot County, S. W. Woodall, A. J. Webster, W. F. Matthews, C. E. Garrett, J. H. Morgan, R. A. Maxwell,

 John Trussell and R. E. Olive will participate in the coming Sunday School Convention in Talbotton on March 21, 1920.

Mt. Zion school news: Sickness has ravaged our school - flue and pneumonia. Those afflicted are Miss Mary Mallory, Miss Eugenia Wilia,

Miss Julia Teal, Huel and Curtis Gilbert and Ruby Adams.

Mrs. Felder R. Spivey is ill in an Alabama Sanatorium becoming ill while visiting her sister. Mr. E. H. Spivey and his maid drove over

to bring his granddaughter, Elizabeth, home.

March 1920 Vineville: Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Weems spent Sunday with Mr. John Weems. Lawrence Callier spent Sunday with Eugene Burt.

Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Alexander spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Alexander. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Turner and Elizabeth spent Sunday

with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wade at Spinks Chapel. Mrs. Arthur Mallory and daughter Lucy spent several days with Mrs. Della Cox in Baldwinville.

Mrs. Margaret Cartwright passed away March 20, 1920. Born in 1829, she was one of Talbot County's oldest citizens. She was buried in Mt.

Vernon burial grounds near Baughville.

Misses Lucille Norris and Myrtle Smith of Raleigh were guests of Mr. And Mrs. W. L. Russell at Tax.

March 1920 - Mr. Henry Jones and sisters have moved back to Talbot County after living in Thomaston.

Miss Catherine Callaway entertained at a unique party recently. Her grandmother had built a doll house with every convenience dear to the hearts

of children. The guests were invited to play in the doll house. The house is one of the show places in Talbotton.

Miss Marie Carpenter of Talbotton and Mr. James Henry Shaw were married in Centerville last week.
 

Roughedge: The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hamp Children was buried in the Carlisle cemetery. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Alexander was buried Monday in the Hawkins burial ground.

Talbot County Sunday School Convention will be held at the Talbotton Methodist Church on Sunday, Mar 21, 1920.

Death visits two Talbot County homes in one day. Mr. Clay Starling and Mrs. Robert W. Blanton both died of pneumonia on Monday, Mar. 8.

Mrs. L. A. Sanders passed away at her Marion County home on Feb. 28, 1920. She was the former Leila Smith of Talbot County. Talbot County

is suffering from the flu and pneumonia. Every district has been hit by these illnesses.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kellum and little son have moved to Woodland.

Walker Academy: Mr. Stephen Howard spent Thursday with his daughter Mrs. Jim Hawkins. Miss Thelma Ingram a student at Woodland School,

 spent Sunday with her sister, Miss Maggie Ingram. Miss Ruth Hawkins and Mr. Jesse Hawkins spent Sunday in Geneva with the Marvin Anthonys.

Friends sympathize with Mr. Jack Spinks in the loss of his wife and baby.

Mr. and Mrs. Thad Buchanan attended church in Roughedge and had dinner with the Mat Carlisles.

Misses Frances and Maggie Ingram had as their dinner guests Sunday, Messers Ed Chapman, Sam Jones, Andrew Grant and Miss Thelma Ingram.

Talbotton ladies are enjoying life with weekly meetings of various Rook, Bridge and Sewing Clubs.

The wireless transmission of messages and the human voice is a growing business. Many young men in Georgia are now studying this new vocation.

Messers R. J. Alsobrooks and J. William Firor, agricultural agents for the A.B.&A. Railroad, are in our county and are greatly impressed with

Woodland's peach industry.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hall and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hall of Lineville, Alabama are visiting Mrs. Sallie Hall in Talbotton.

Talbotton stores will close each day at five o'clock from now to August 27, 1920.

J. F. Edwards, convicted of murder by the Talbot County

court in 1919 has been denied a new trial by Judge William Harrell.

Indiana University seniors were constantly picking on freshmen by going to the freshmen's room, lighting their pipes, closing al doors and

windows, and smoking until the freshmen became ill. One night they entered the room of a country boy from Kentucky, lit their pipes and

 puffed away. Lo and behold, the Kentucky boy pulled out his corn cob pipe and joined in. Near midnight, the seniors started staggering out;

the country boy opened his locker and showed several pounds of Kentucky tobacco and invited the boys back anytime.

A midwestern farmer has obtained a zebra, crossed it with his mare pony, and has a zebrule, far out performing the local mules.

Miss Anna Hime of Macon and O. C. and Mary Nix of Talbot County are applying for a charter to mine sand in the Junction City area, called

the Hime Sand Co.

Talbot County's financial condition is so poor, they may have to abandon the chain gang and return the prisoners to the state and sell all their mules and machinery and let the roads go. We desperately need a bond issue.

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Turner and Elizabeth spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Woods at Spinks Chapel.

April 1920   Snow and freezing temperatures Monday played havoc with the young vegetables in Talbot County. Great apprehension is felt for the peach crop.

Talbotton has an Overall Club, joining many other clubs around the United States. Men, rich or poor, have promised to wear overalls from now until September 1, 1920 as a protest against the profiteering in the clothing industry. Dress clothes have gone sky high resettle, and many men
are no longer able to buy them. The only problem (?) is, you can't tell the rich from the poor as you move around town.

Bishop Joseph Key, former pastor of Talbotton Methodist Church and District Superintendent of the Columbus District, died at age 91 in Sherman, Texas.

The United States is now spending at the rate of six and one half billion dollars per year. This does not include a one billion bonus for soldiers.

Sugar is now selling for thirty-five cents per pound. If the price keeps rising, sugar will be sold by the grain.

(Note on the Overall Club) This drive has been so successful, the largest overall manufacturer in the United States has just sold his plant for 1,000 percent profit and retired to southern France.

5,000 peach trees in the Ideal area are dead from the freeze in early April. Reports from local peach growers report some trees dying form the freeze.

After spending several days with the W. G. Freeman family in Roughedge, Mr. S. A. Freeman has gone to Pleasant Hill to spend some time with the W. T. Nelson family. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Allen of Columbus visited Mrs. George Allen and the Will Chapman family in Roughedge.

May 1920 - Heavy rain and strong winds have caused much damage to buildings and farms in Talbot County. One person had a barn and small building destroyed on the left side of his house, several small buildings destroyed on the right side of his house, but the main dwelling was untouched.

16 Aug 1923 Mr. I. C. Hall, employed for one week as bridge watchman on the AB & A RR (replacing the just deceased E.R. Smith) was killed by a

train near Bell Station. Mr. Hall realized he had left his lantern on the tracks and in trying to retrieve it, did not get out of the way of a passing

freight train. He is survived by daughters, Mesdames B.M. Starling, Arthur Jones, C.C. Carson, E.B. Nelson, W. A. Teal, E.H. Bozeman and

sons Lloyd, Charles, and Cliff., Brother W.H. Hall, sisters Miss Bell Hall, Mesdames Susie and Julia Oliver, M. B. Edwards and Charlie Edwards.
 

30 Aug 1923 Mr. Nute Samuels of Ripley, Tenn., died on August 26, 1923. His wife is the former Minnie Jenkins of Box Springs.

Hardy L. Matthews passed away at his home in Red Bone on August 23. He suffered a stroke while working at his sawmill and his nephew,

Clayton Matthews carried him home where he died a short time later. Rev. E. C. Dell performed the funeral ceremonies at Collinsworth Church.

Talbotton's Methodist minister, Rev. J. H. Jackson, has resigned. He never joined the South Georgia Conference, leaving his membership in the

 Missouri Conference, his home, and will return there.

30 Aug 1923 Mrs. H. T. Cottingham is opening a hemstitching and picoting business. She will carry a fine line of art, kerchiefs, etc.

Mrs. J. A. Battle, Mrs. C. P. Calloway, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Greathouse, Mr. Carl Matthews, Mr. W. S. Dennis and Misses Virginia and Martha Dennis

 visited the Smith-Calloway-Battle house party at Oak Mountain Springs.

Miss Mary Slade honored Miss Grace Freeman and Mrs. Will Johnson at an al fresco party on Wednesday afternoon.

Misses Sallie Emma Butler and Daisy Miller of near Junction City were entertained by friends in Macon recently.

6 Sep 1923 The citizens of Box Spring, Geneva and Juniper gathered at a meeting on Aug. 30th at the Geneva Methodist Church to organize a

Consolidated School District. They voted to erect a school building in Geneva and appointed a committee of Messrs. L. D. Johnson, M. M. Cook,

Dr. A. W. White and Mr. John Jenkins, the district should have 125 - 150 pupils.

The home of Mr. Dixon Olive on Talbotton Heights was completely destroyed by fire last Wednesday night. Neighbors aroused the family and

 all escaped injury.

A man was bitten by a snake 17 years ago and is still drinking whisky to cure the bite.

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Slade are returning to Talbotton from Butler. They will occupy the residence opposite the new Baptist Church.

Good news is being received from little Flournoy Matthews who had a successful operation in City Hospital in Columbus.

13 Sep 1923 Jury verdict in the case of Dr. C.M. Black: "We the jury find the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter and set his sentence at a

minimum of 19 years and a maximum of 29 years. M.H. King, Foreman. Sept. 12, 1923. Counsel for Dr. Black immediately filed motion for a new trial.

Mrs. C. W. Thomas died at her home last Tuesday. She is survived by her husband, son, Florrie Thomas and daughter, Mrs. Allen Olive.

Mr. Albert P. Smith, Sr., died on Monday, Sept. 10, 1923. He is survived by his wife, children Mrs. Jewel Morgan, Mrs. Sallie Kyle Griffin, Messrs,

A. P., Jr., Jesse, Donald and Frank Smith.

Little Lurline Williams has returned from Columbus where she had a pin removed from her throat. Doctors guessed she had swallowed the pin at

least a year ago, with no problems except her voice was growing weaker month by month. She will fully recover, they said.

Mr. J. C. Blount, former citizen on Talbot County, died Thursday, Sept. 6, 1923 in Atlanta. He was 86 years old.

Last Saturday afternoon in Woodland, little Miss Frances King celebrated her sixth birthday. Those invited were Gladys Trussell, Miriam O'Neal,

Edith Daniel, Margaret Woodall, Maejoe Boswell, Carolyn Miller, Vera Jordan, John Woodall, Jr., Evans Boswell, Homer Starr, Jr., Hinton Smith,
Ralph and John Rice, John Pye, Jr., Billy Collier, John Daniel, Jr. and Richard Russell.

20 Sept 1923 - Many improvements are going on in Talbotton. The old Opera House above two stories has been torn down leading to much

improvement to the stores underneath. The handsome new brick church being erected by the Baptists is progressing nicely. Mr. Frank Freeman

 has built a beautiful bungalow near the residence of Mr. P. F. Mahone. Others, trying to keep up with the Joneses, are putting on new roofs

and paint.

27 Sept 1923 - The Georgia Supreme Court last Monday denied Maj. Lee H. Coart a new trial. Maj. Coart was convicted over a year ago of

murdering Prof. A. B. McNiece.

Miss Carrie Mae Jordan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jordan, Sr., will be married to Mr. LaFayette Henry, Jr. of Atlanta, in December.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Cartledge, Mr. Robert Cartledge, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Parker were dinner guests of Mrs. T. F. Smith Sunday.

Mr. William C. Jordan died at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. John Pye, in Woodland on Sept. 22, 1923. He was 90 years old and has the

following grandchildren in Woodland: Messrs. W. B. and Ira Jordan, Early and Hoke Smith, Misses Annie Clarke, Elizabeth and Willie Theo Smith.

4 Oct 1923 - Letter to J. A. Braddy and C. W. Matthews from the Fruit Inspector in Chicago: The best Georgia peaches we have ever received

arrived in Chicago this week. If more Georgia peaches landed like these two cars, the Georgia peach would enjoy a much better reputation away

from home than it does.

Woodland Senior Class elects officers as follows: President Catherine Martin, Vice President Ola Collier, Secretary Johnnie Joe Pearce, Treasurer

Collier Allen, Critic Louise Cauthen, Class teacher Pro. W. B. Savage.

4 Oct 1923 - Baldwinville: Mr. Rudolph Butler and sister Annie Ruth of Talbotton spend Sunday with friends here. Miss Louise Smith spend

Wednesday night with Miss Pearl Teal. Mr. Jesse Lucas of Atlanta spent the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Lucas.

11 Oct 1923 - Talbot County Commissioners and eleven members of the Major Coart jury have requested that Major Coart be placed under the charge

of the Talbot County Warden for the purpose of serving his sentence. The State Prison Commission has tentatively assigned Major Coart to the State

Farm at Milledgeville, stating that they were afraid the Major would not be safe in Talbot County. The Talbot County Warden stated that is a petition

 was circulated in the county, 90% of the citizens would sign for the Major to be returned to the county. Commissioners W.G. Freeman, R. L. McBryde

and H. L. Trussell stated that Major Coart would make an excellent road man to assist Warden Goodroe.

Mr. J. Hardy Mahone and Mrs. W. C. Jameson, Jr. were married on Sunday Oct. 7, 1923. They will reside in LaGrange, where Mr. Mahone owns

 a business.

Woodland will have a special election on October 20 to elect two Trustees for the Woodland Consolidated School District to fill the expired terms

 of E. C. Garrett and H. S. Buchanan.

Mrs. Kelly McManus died last Friday morning. Since her marriage 30 years ago, she has lived in Prattsburg or Red Bone communities. She is

survived by sons Jim and Hoyle, daughters Mrs. Carl Adams, Misses Sallie Emma and Ethel McManus and three step daughters.

Miss Julia Harris and Mr. William McCoy were married in the home of Rev. B. E. Donehoo Sunday afternoon.

The Arlington, Ga. Baptist Church received several patches of cotton from various members. Not one boll weevil has been seen in any of the

church's cotton.

18 Oct 1923 - Geo. D. Miller of Woodland, Talbot County's Game Warden, warns people who hunt before and after the hunting season opens and

closes, that they will be prosecuted if caught.

Maj. Coart was officially transferred to the State Farm at
Milledgeville. Mrs Coart immediately filed for divorce. It seems there are powerful politics involved; no one listens to Talbot County.

18 Oct 1923 - Mr. and Mrs. John Al Buckner of Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Will Braddy and family of Daviston, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. M.

Greathouse.

22 November 1923 - During the past years, Talbotton and Talbot County have helped tremendously in populating such towns as Macon,

Columbus and Atlanta.

Now comes a letter from Texas telling about the Bishop of the Central Texas Conference, J. E. Dickey. Bishop Dickey's daughter, Jessie, has visited

in Talbotton many times. They were born in Griffin. also, Mr. Ben Hill Calhoun is a pro-minent Methodist in that Central Texas Conference and

is a very prominent grocer in Temple, Texas. He is the brother of Talbotton's J. D. Calhoun.

Mr. C. S. Woods, founder of Woodland, is in Talbotton from Texas, visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Dennis.

Mesdames Collier Mills and Will Leonard spent last week in Atlanta.

Rev. and Mrs. B. A. Pafford of Butler had as their Sunday guests, Mr. And Mrs. W. J. Braddy, Ira Jordan and Inez Mills of Woodland and Miss

Fannie Mahone of Talbotton.

Mr. and Mrs. John Woodall are erecting a handsome residence in Woodland and hope to have it completed in time for Santa Claus.

Mr. C. W. Matthews of Woodland lost his garage and Ford car to fire last week.

22 Nov. 1923 Guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Parker in Upsilanti: Mr. And Mrs. Norman Parker and Norman Jr., Mrs. Lucy Suggs, Mrs. Milo Parker

and Parker Wimberly of Poplar.

Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Ingram announce the birth of a daughter, Elanor Jean on Nov. 5, 1923. Mother and daughter are due home from Jacksonville

 at an early date.

November 22, 1923  Mr. J. M. Heath is suffering from two broken ribs as a result of an automobile accident.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hill and children Curtis and Glydis spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. H. P. Teal in Baldwinville.

Mr. and Mrs. Mercer Caudle of Cataula, Mrs. Jennie Caudle of Box Springs were called here last week on account of the death of their uncle and

brother, Mr. John Mallory. Mr. Mallory was buried at Mt. Zion where he had been a member for 60 years.

November 19, 1923   Mfr. and Mrs. Joseph Brown Mathews announce the marriage of their daughter, Frances Louise to Thomas Peter Callier, Jr.,

on Nov. 28th at Prattsburg.

November 29, 1923 - Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Mahone, Dana Brown and John Persons spent the weekend with relatives in Talbotton.

Mr. Henry Brannon of Columbus and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bulloch dined with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brannon on Sunday.

Under a proposed new law, Talbot County could build fifty miles of roads and turn them over to the state for mainten-ance. A Federal Aid

Allotment plus gasoline taxes would pay for the road building.

6 Dec 1923 Mr. Reuben Bussey died on Nov. 28, 1923 at the home of his son, Mr. Tom Bussey. He was born in Pike County in 1833, moved to

 Talbot County at age 13. A Confederate veteran, he was one of Talbot County's most successful farmers. Survived by five children, Mrs. R.

U. Brawner, Miss Vanna Bussey, Mrs. B. C. Starling and Messr. Tom and F. C. Bussey.

We worried about a $9 billion war debt. Now we spend $5 billion per year for automobiles.

Dec. 13, 1923  Homer Downs, Woodall Bussey, Gus McCrary, Vollie Brown and Leon Posey were injured when a train hit their auto as they

 left the Woodland School ground headed for W. J. Braddy's drug store. They heard the train blow but thinking it was coming from the north where

 they had a good view, the train was coming from the south and hit them.

Dec. 1923  An operation on the right leg of Thomas Wills was rendered necessary after playing basketball at Talbotton High School.

20 Dec. 1923 The P. F. Mahone residence is being remodeled and they are staying with Mrs. Lou Baldwin.

Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Worthen are making their home with their son and daughter Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Olive. Mr. And Mrs. Olive recently

 purchased the Thornton residence.

J. W. Pye of Woodland was in Ypsilanti recently, installing a Delco lighting system for Mr. S. C. Ingram.

A. C. Chancellor Co. in Columbus is having a sale on men's wear. Socks 59 cents; ties 69 cents; suits $39.50; shirts $2.95; overalls $1.95 and

10 Jan.1924 We visited Geneva Saturday and were told there was plenty of money there. We came near to stopping over there for several days.

Mr. and Mrs. Legg are the proud parents of a baby boy. Mr. Legg nicknamed the boy, "Boot."

Ambitious young lad: "I am looking forward to 20 years from now." Twenty years later: "I am still looking forward."

Clothes make the man. For women, clothes are like salad. It depends on the dressing.

When a mule makes up his mind, I'd as soon try to change it as to argue my wife that she married a bargain.

Mrs. Sewell Williams, the former Miss Lydia McCoy, is visiting Mr. Caesar McCoy in Talbotton.

Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Spivey and daughter Beth, and Miss Mary Graham are visiting Dr & Mrs. J. R. Grogan in Tallahassee, Florida.

Mr. R. D. Foster, a native of Talbot County, is visiting his sister Mrs. R. M. McFarland. Mr. Foster now resides in Longview, Texas.

17 Jan 1924 - Miss Mary Thomas Brown died on December 8, 1923. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Brown and was the sister of

Mrs. E. L. Bardwell, Mrs. John Waterman, Miss Ella Brown, Messers Dana and Harry Brown. She was 80 years old.

Mr. J. A. Matthews of Reynolds died last Sunday. He is survived by his wife and several children, brothers T.F., C.D. and W. F. Matthews, sisters

Mrs. J. B. Matthews, Mrs. A. W. McClellan, Mrs. C. L. Smith and Mrs. C. M. Atwater.

Mr. Ralph J. Jones, a Talbot County native, writes from Duluth, Minnesota that the temperature there was 35 degrees below zero, and there was

24 Jan.1924 - The laziest people in the world - A tribe living the mountains between the Black and Caspian Sea have not changed their lifestyle in

 2,500 years. They observe four holidays each week, with specials thrown in extra on occasion.

Modern mothers: The nursemaid rushed into the sitting room and exclaimed that the twins had fallen down the airshaft. The mother very calmly said: 

 Go over to the library and bring me the book on "Bringing Up Baby."

Little Frank Smith, son of A. P. Smith Sr., is critically ill with pneumonia.

Mr. Talmadge Hudson is out after a period of illness that lasted several weeks. His little daughter Maude is still ill with the fever.

Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Downs were in Atlanta last week visiting their son Homer who was injured in a train-car wreck in Woodland.

A woman advertised for a caretaker for her large home, stating she would consider married men only. The successful candidate for the job asked why she wanted a married man - did she have work for his wife also? No, I just wanted to be sure the man would be used to taking orders from a woman.

Sgt. Smith was inspecting his squad and their equipment. When he came to Pvt. Tibbs, the sergeant asked if everything was in order. "Yes," stated

3 April 1924 - Mr. A. P. Persons of Talbotton, one of the most brilliant men in Southwest Georgia, will deliver the address at the Memorial Day

 Exercises in Butler on April 26.

Four men died in France in a distillery when they were over-come by fumes, fell in a vat of brandy and drowned.

Atlanta thugs are becoming very accommodating these days. One thug accosted a citizen, asked for his glasses, then robbed the man and beat

him up, and with a thank you, returned the glasses.

Talbot County natives W. C., M. M. and A. M. Woodall have published the first edition of the Industrial Index, called "Columbus Number."

Mrs. Charles Watkins and children of Zebulon are spending the week with Mrs. Mollie Watkins in Ypsilanti.

Mrs. H. C. Matthews" dinner guests recently were Mr and Mrs T. P. Callier, Jr., Mrs. T P Callier Sr., Mr Maro Callier and Mr and Mrs H. C. Callier.

Talbotton News: Misses Mary Slade, Dorothy Weston and Mary Stinson spent the weekend with Miss Virginia Posey in Juniper.

Mrs. C. A. Alford of Sylvester is spending some time with her father, D. J. B. Douglas.

Lost between Talbotton and Woodland, a delf blue shawl with herna bands and frize. Made of knitted wool and silk. Return to

 Mrs. W. B. Freeman.

For sale at $l.50 for fifteen, Everlay Brown Leghorn eggs from the Everlay Leghorn Farm. S/Mrs. J. M. Heath.

Messers Sim Maxwell, William Parker, H. B. Heath, Robert Slade and Wimberly Bivins motored to Box Springs Country Club Sunday.

Domestic lumber production is three times the annual replacement through new growth. All reserve timber will be gone in ten years.

10 April 1924 - Professor J. T. Barrett has been elected Superintendent of Talbotton Consolidated School at a salary of $1,800 a year. Other teachers

elected: Professor J. L. Taylor, Mrs. W. K. Kimbrough, Mrs. T. J. Barrett, Mrs. T. P. Callier, Jr., Miss Jessie Jameson, Mrs. P. F. Maxwell.

Mrs. W. E. Butler of Talbotton died on April 8, 1924. She is survived by her husband and seven children.

Miss Eva Mae Childre and Mr. Clifford Hall were married in Reynolds.

The Consolidated School of Box Springs-Geneva presented a series of comedy plays on "The Sweet Family" and "The Dixie Jubilee Minstrel."

Mr. H. M. Ligon of Geneva married Miss Johnnie Mae Stokes of Alabama Wednesday morning,.

One inch of rain on the roof of a 3,000 sq. ft. house equals 2,000 gallons of water.

An American inventor predicts that in twenty years (1944) television will be in common use.

Cincinnati women have the shapeliest feet and are the best shod of any women in the world. The average size is 5 1/2 to six, according to

that city.

The public is invited to attend an old-fashioned spelling bee at the Centerville parsonage Saturday night. Admission - 5 cents and 10 cents.

17 April 1924 - Veterans of World War I will meet at the Talbotton Court House on April 24 to organize a post of the American Legion.

 
Mr. R. S. Baldwin spent Sunday with his Uncle, Mr. Henry Searcy at Wesley.

R. L., Albert, Clyde and James Butler and Mr. C. W. Moore returned to Junction City after attending a funeral in Chase City, Va.

"I see you bought a grammaphone - I thought you hated them." "I do. My mother-in-law came to live with me and she hates one more than I do."

Woodland News: Mr. J. H. Woodall, Chairman of the Woodland School Board, conducted a meeting last Saturday evening, asking the District voters to approve a "Maintenance Tax" in order to give every child in the District a chance to get nine months of schooling. Col. J. H. McGeehee, County School
Superintendent, stated the only way the county could have nine months of school for the grammar school kids was with outside help from each District.

Mr. Dan Owen of Pleasant Hill died on April 8, 1924. The funeral was held at the home of Miss Emma Owen.

Jim Woodall of Carrolton and John Pye Woodall of Tech came home for the weekend.

Mr. John W. Pye spent several days in Dayton, Ohio, courtesy of the Delco Corporation. Mr. Pye is an outstanding salesman for Delco.

Mr and Mrs. J. H. Ferguson and Miss Ernie Miller are visiting friends in Florida.

Mr. Olin Pound of Eastman is visiting his mother Mrs. J. J. Pound.

Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Weatherly have returned after a visit to Athens, LaFayette and Atlanta.
 

Miss Mary Alice Chapman spent the weekend with home folks at Tazewell.

Mr. Ira Jordan has recently put in a nice filling station.

Mr. John R. Braddy of Butler narrowly missed being injured when the radius rod on his car dropped down and the car plunged headlong into the

railroad cut near the Couch place.

We are glad to welcome Mrs. J. T. Martin and family who have recently moved back to Woodland.

The people of the nation are witnessing a mudslinging con-test in National affairs which is disgusting the average American with overdone Partisan

Politics. These policies may cripple or destroy prosperity by destroying the peoples’s confidence in our Government.

"How did the accident happen?" "He got run over when he stopped to read a safety first sign."

Why does a woman keep a man waiting 30 or more minutes when she says she will be ready in a minute? Because she picks out a minute that is at

least a half hour away.

24 April 1924 - Messers Will Woodall and Gilly Miller were in Junction City on business last Friday.

Mrs. JU. B. Wimberly and Miss Mattie Maxwell entertained their Sunday School classes with an Easter egg hunt last Saturday in Centerville.

1 May 1924 - Mrs. Sarah E. Lumpkin passed away at the home of her son, E. B. Lumpkin, west of Talbotton.

Miss Violet Drenna and Mr. John Douglas were married on Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Graham.

Dr. J. B. Douglas died on Monday. Most of his adult life was spent in Talbotton where he also served as Mayor for sixteen years.

Mr. John T. Stephenson died Tuesday in Macon. He lived most of his life in Talbotton.

Talbot County veterans have applied for a charter to organize the Slade-Leonard Post of the American Legion.

Mr. and Mrs. Grady Sinclair, Mrs. Ellis Story, Mr. George Lowe, Jr and Mr. Miles Green from Box Springs, spent a day in Columbus shopping.

8 May 1924 - Miss Edna McCrary and Mr. J. Earl Morgan were married Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr. W. C. Lumpkin.

Mr. and Mrs. Garnett Heath and Mr. Woods of Junction City, spent Sunday with Mrs. Charlie Spinks of Prattsburg.

Mr. and Mrs. Weeks Adams of Carsonville spent Sunday with Mr. R. E. Olive.

Miss Ruby Couch married Mr John Hodges of Perry Thursday afternoon at the Talbotton Baptist church. Mr. F. R. Spivey played "Narcissus"

on his  cornet, accompanied by Mrs. E. H. McGeehee, Organist.

Friends are congratulating Mr and Mrs J. K. Wimberly on the arrival of a little son, Charles Norman in Centerville.

8 May 1924 - In 1633 Gov. John Winthrop brought the first fork to this country.

Miss Mildred Woodall of Atlanta was called to the bedside of her sister, Mrs. John Daniel, in Woodland.

Screen sides and canopy tops have been added to one ton Ford trucks built with all steel body and cab. This has greatly increased the number of sales, since this enables a complete enclosure of the load.

Geneva - Mr J. T. Goodroe and Mr. Fred Bulloch left for South Georgia where they have accepted a position with the Hightway Dept.

Miss Telma Hansen, Miss Mabel McCrary, Messers Regan, Moore and Willis motored up to Woodland Sunday.

Mr and Mrs B M Starling, Marion and Bishop from Talbotton visited Mr and Mrs J. T. Goodroe, Miss Marion McCrary and Mr Ed Rigell and were dinner guests of Mrs Isabelle Bulloch Sunday.

Miss Ansell Maund and Ansell Jr of Columbus were the weekend guests of Mr and Mrs W. T. Turner.

The supper given by the Geneva-Box Springs PTA Friday night was a great success. Col J. A. Smith was the featured speaker and Mr John Boswell of Junction City sang several selections. $65.50 was cleared at this time.

Visitor: What a wonderful sermon your husband preached on "One Day's Rest in Seven" last Sunday. "I didn't hear him," said the wife, "I was home fixing his dinner."

A Sunday School teacher asked her pupils to name two great men of the Bible. One boy's answer, "Genesis and Adenoids."

Woodland: Miss Loudie Smith of Atlanta spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Ben Smith, Mr and Mrs W W Collier and Mrs Lucy Mills attended Memorial exercises in Talbotton.

Miss Annie Clark Smith is studying music at Chase's Conservatory in Columbus.

Mr. Clyde Russell of Hampton Roads, Va has been with home folks for several days.

Mr. J. H. Woodall and Mr. M. H. King visited friends in Newnan last Friday.

Mrs. Charles Tidwell and Mrs. Huette Powell of Woodbury were with their mother, Mrs. W. T. Holmes, Sr. last week.

Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Woodall of Atlanta, are with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Woodall; also Mr. S. W. Woodall, Jr. of Batesburg, S.C. They were called home because of the illness of their sister, Mrs. John Daniel.

We regret to hear of the illness of Mrs. S. H. Birdsong in the valley.

Junction City News: Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Lumpkin and Ernie Mae were in Columbus Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Flen Gill are with Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Gill.  Friends are congratulating Flen on winning his bride, Miss Etta Sanders of Manchester.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Moore, Mesdames W. A. Blyte, E. M. Lucas and J. H. Jackson attended the WMU meeting at Waverly Hall.

Mr. W. E. Greene, Jr., Mrs. William Keller, Misses Lois Head and Nellie Lumpkin motored to Columbus Friday.

Miss Lena Higgerman, agent for Central of Georgia Railroad at Box Springs and Miss Polly Seay, who is learning the
agency, were at home this weekend.

Baldwinville: Messers John Caudle of North Dakota, Boyd Caudle of Box Springs, and Mercer Caudle of Cataula were guests of Mrs. C. A. Mallory and family Sunday.

Messers Wilson Downs and Grady Wilson of Wesley were in our midst Sunday afternoon.

Mr. H. P. Teal spent Sunday with his uncle, Mr. V. A. Steed and family.

Mr. and Mrs. Oits Adams of Buena Vista spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lem Adams.

8 May 1924 - Miss Edna McCoy and Mr. Earl Morgan were united in marriage Saturday afternoon.

Mrs. J. W. Watkins, Leon and Martha Watkins, Mrs. Amorette Callaway, Winfred Coogle, Rev. and Mrs. W. P. Leonard, Mr. F. C. Lewis, Mr.

Howard Stinson, Mrs. Jennie Stinson, Annie and Mary Stinson, Cornelia Jordan spent Monday in Columbus.

Mrs. J. W. Slade was called to the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Reeves because of illness.

Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Sparks of Shiloh visited Sunday afternoon with Misses Louella and Mattie Robertson.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Earl Morgan, Mr. Winton Morgan, Mrs. Henry Wilson and daughter Emmie spent Sunday afternoon in Buena Vista with Mrs.

 Henry Wilson.

Miss Ruth Moore of Waverly Hall and Mr. J. D. Clements of Talbot County were married in Buena Vista Saturday.

Master Leonard Morgan entertained a number of friends at a prom party at his home near Junction City Saturday night.

New anti-skid chains for automobiles are clamped directly to the spokes in the wheel without the side chains we now use.
         

22 May 1924 - Mrs. Kate Burt, Talbotton native and graduate of Le Vert College, died last week in Athens. She was the former Kate Chapman.

Four states in the South have passed a law requiring all vehicles to stop ten feet from a railroad crossing.

If you want your dream to come true, you must first wake up.

Contentment is when you pass your neighbor in your flivver while he is driving his twin six.

Doctor to patient: Go to your druggist and fill this prescription for Foldhyrargyrate of Iodine of Potassium, some Ankydrygyincochar Loral

and some Dioxyaniclodoraene-benezol. I guarantee this will help your memory loss.

"I’m in deep trouble. My wife heard I had two misses in my car last evening."

"But that's no reason for trouble - everybody has misses in his engine from time to time." "Yes, but only one of my misses was in the engine."

29 May 1924 Congress passed a bonus bill for four million war veterans over President Coolidge's opposition. The bonus will not be in cash but

will be in the form of an insurance policy that will accumulate cash values and will be redeemable in 20 years. The value of the policy will be
determined by the length of service of each soldier based on a rate of $1.00 per day for domestic service and $1.25 per day for service overseas.

The first car of Mayflower peaches was shipped from Ella-ville last week.

Talbotton has now voted in favor of a tax increase to pay for nine months of school.

Messers F. R. Frreeman, J. B. and Thomas Mahone will open a modern drive-in filling station on the corner known as Thornton's Mill Lot. It will be

 known as "Sudden Service Station."

There are two sides of every quarrel and every quarrel can be settled by thinking of the other person's side.

Tuesday evening June 3rd, the Collinsworth and LeVert literary societies will debate "Resolved that the soldiers Adjusted Compensation Bill should

 be passed by the Sixty-Ninth Congress." Collinsworth will be represented by Levi Smith, J. W. Jordan, Jr., while LeVert will be represented by

 Wellborn Slade and Frank Jordan.



5 June 1924 - Mrs. T. P. Callier, Sr., had as her guests Sunday Mr. T. P. Callier, Sr., of Columbus, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Callier, Jr.

Misses Mattie Mae Collier and Miriam Smith have returned to Centerville from college.

Misses Atholine Childs, Elizabeth and Miriam Riley and Sara Searcy were guests of Mrs. J. C. Lumsden Sunday in Ypsi-lanti. Misses Leoline

Chapman,

Linda Hatley, Myrtice Garrett and Mr. Duncan Chapman were guests of Mrs. J. T. Goodroe in Geneva.

Mrs. Snell and children Frances and Jospeh, MIss Margaret Shipp of Reidsville, Mr. Perry Shipp of Albany and Mrs. J. W. Shipp of Crawford, Ala.,

are home for the graduation of Miss Nellie Shipp in Talbotton.

The Talbotton Board of Education entertained at a six o'clock dinner at the Weston Hotel in honor of Mr. N. H. Ballard, State School Superintendent.

Present: Messers J. H. McGeehee, J. W. Woodall, J. A. Smith, J. W. Jordan, N. G. Culpepper, Rev., B. E. Donehoo, Prof-essor T. J. Barrett and

Mesdames J. W. Jordan and A. J. Perryman.

Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Boyd and Mrs. L. P. Rutledge left Sunday to visit Mr.and Mrs. C. H. Downs. On Monday, Mrs. Rutledge and Mrs. Downs drove

 up to Due West, S. C. to attend the graduation of Miss Mary Louise Downs from Due West Woman's College.

12 June 1924 - Georgia taxpayers will receive a twenty-five percent reduction in their income tax payable in 1924.

Miss Eugenia Lowe and Dr. Oscar Spivey were married Saturday.

Centerville community was shocked and saddened by the death of Mr. Walter S. Maxwell Saturday morning. He was laid to rest in the family

burial grounds on the T. P. Callier place.

Miss Florence Childs, a graduate of Talbotton High School, was married to Mr. J. D. Rambo Sunday. They were supposed to be married early

 this fall and caught everyone by surprise by their early marriage.

Southern Boy Wins Honor in East
Thomas B. Fielder, Jr., won honors as an orator. The young lad is the son of T. B. Fielder, Sr., of Atlanta and New York.

The Woodland Seniors were entertained on different dates by Miss Inez Mills and Miss Maggie Collier.

Members of the class: Catherine Martin, Ola Collier, Laura Cauthen, Carrie Mae Buchanan, Thelma Ingram, Mattie Bryan, Rachel Marshall,

 Johnnie Jo Pearce, Hoke Smith, Collier Allen, Clarence Williams.

Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Brooks of Columbus, and children Edward, Charles and Annie Rose were the guests of Mrs. James Graham in her parents home,

 Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cody in Box Springs.

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dukes of Atlanta spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Downs. They were accompanied on their return home by Misses Clara

 and Louise Downs for a few days visit.

19 June 1924 - What is wrong with Talbot County? People here are constantly lamenting over the conditions here. Let's take a look: Four railroads

are available to Talbot County - Central of Georgia, AB&A, Talbotton Road and Southern. Woodland has more pep and hustle than most little towns

 four times her size. The Excelsior plant, Lumber plant, good
schools and abundant peaches keep them busy all the time. Peach season is in full swing with good prices - 60,000 crates will be packed.

19 June 1924 (Talbot County continued from last week) Talbotton has a large lumber plant, two banks, two churches, a large number of up-to-date

stores and garages and a school of 300 pupils.

Junction City is a lively little town with Junction City Manufacturing Co., and Butler Lumber Co., a bank, a garage and good stores and the best

school building in the county.

Geneva has three churches, a splendid school, six stores and a garage. Box Springs has a large lumber plant, eight stores that allegedly do more

business than any other town in the county.

Add to this the communities of Pleasant Hill, Centerville, Prattsburg, Upsilanti, The Valley, O'Neals, Flint Hill, Baldwinville and Roughedge.

What's wrong with Talbot County? Nothing.

Woodland Excelsior Mill is running 15 hours a day trying to keep up with the demand for peach pads.

Talbotton has voted three to one in favor of raising the school tax. Now Talbotton joins other school districts in the county having nine months

 of school.

Mr and Mrs. Fred Griffin of Manchester, Misses Lila Harris and Cora Bell Carter of Shiloh were guests of Mrs Louelle Robertson in Talbotton

Sunday.

Mr and Mrs Roy Starling of Woodland visited Mr and Mrs Cleve Edwards Sunday afternoon.

Dr Neal Kitchens of Warm Springs, Mrs Fred W. Denham of Lubbock, Texas, Mrs Adams of Slayton, Texas and Mrs Ella Lunsford of Knoxville,

Tenn., are visiting their old home place, the Steed place.

26 June 1924 - Mr D. A. Chapman, born in 1860, passed away recently. He is survived by his wife and children: Mrs T. T. Starling of Texas, Mrs. R.T.

Garrad of Alabama, Mrs W. A. Anson and Jewell Chapman of Manchester, Messers J. R. and H. D. Chapman of Florida, Messers Robert, Theo

and Elijah  of Manchester and Bennie Chapman of the U. S. Army in Texas. He was buried in Sardis Church Cemetery in Flint Hill by the side of

 his wife and little daughter.

Mrs. George Allen of Rough Edge died on June 16, 1924. She is survived by eight children and was buried in Matthews Chapel Cemetery.

Mr J. W. Slade, a resident of Talbotton for sixteen years, passed away recently. He is survived by his wife and seven children.

Peaches are an excellent food, containing calcium, magnes-ium, potassium, sodium, phospo\horus, chlorine and sugar, starch, proteins and

vitamins.

A large fish fry was given by the young men of Talbotton last Friday night at Upatoi Bridge. Present: Bobby Baldwin, Mary Gresham, Louise

 McGeehee, Eleanor McCoy, Mary Mahone, Elizabeth Imbrough, Imogene Smith, Martha K. Smith, Katherine and Frances Calloway, Jean Battle,

 Mr and Mrs A. J. Grantham, Mr and Mrs E. K. Leonard and Mr and Mrs J. A. Battle.

Woodland - Misses Ola Collier and Mildren Woodall are representing the Woodland League at the annual assembly at Wesleyan College

in Macon.

Mrs. Robert Fryer of Atlanta, is visiting Mr and Mrs T. W. Ferguson
Mr and Mrs W. D. Miller of Waycross are spending some time with Mrs W. J. Braddy.

Messers Eugene and Cullen Miller of Orlando, Fla, are visiting Woodland relatives.

Miss Nellie Barron of Thomaston is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Carson Powers.

3 July 1924 - Mr P H. Raiford of Ludowici, formerly of Talbot County is propagating the Pineapple Pear and is urging farmers here to purchase

some trees immediately. He said the pineapple pear will equal the peach crop in a few years.

Mr W. E. Butler of Junction City has returned from a trip of several weeks to Eastern Lumber markets. He fell and broke several ribs at one company

and was involved in a car wreck on his way home, receiving several cuts and bruises. He has decided to sell lumber by correspondence from now on.

10 July 1924 - A county gentleman, hearing some rather unpleasant messages and talks on his first visit to a radio, says it must be unhealthy for

that much garbage to be spread through the air we breathe.

Mrs J. D. Coogle passed away at the home of her sister, Mrs John Watkins, last Thursday. She was born thirty-three years ago in Upsilanti and is

survived by one son, Winfry; mother Mrs Emma Matthews; brother L. P. Matthews and sister Mrs John Watkins.

Miss Clara Miller, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Miller of the Valley, was married to Mr Vernon Floyd Taylor of Atlanta Monday.

Mr and Mrs J. O. Fryer of McKinney Texas are visiting Mr and Mrs R. C. Fryer in Woodland.

Maywood News: Miss Sarah Hendrix spent last week with Miss Ruth Moran. Mr and Mrs C. C. Buchanan and Miss Kansas Buchanan spent last

Sunday with Mr and Mrs R. G. Hendrix. Mr and Mrs L. H. Wynn spent Sunday p.m. with Mrs C. E. Garrett. Mr and Mrs Clyde Garrett spent last

Saturday night in Manchester. Messers Lester and Emmett Hendrix, Mr Holmes Chapman and Charlie Grant visited here last weekend.

Mr and Mrs Alvin Moran spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Jesse Moran.

Mrs L. H. Wynn, Misses Louise and Helen Foster and little Fred Gorman of Woodland visited here this afternoon. Mrs Clyde Garrett spent

Wednesday with her mother, Mrs H. D. Chapman of Shiloh.

Miss Elizabeth Culpepper and her cousin Miss Ruby Kellum returned to Junction City after a visit to relatives in Woodland.

26 June 1924 - Mrs Norman Parker of Prattsburg had as her guests Sunday, Mrs Vic Parker, Mrs Lucy Suggs and Jack and Mrs J. K. Wimberly and children of Centerville.

Mr and Mrs Ben Adams and family have returned from Ohio where they lived for several months. Welcome back to Talbot County!

Mrs Emma Pye has been quite ill at the home of her sister Mrs Fannie Webster in Woodland.



17 July 1924 - The C R. Culpepper family probably was saved from electrocution by being away from home Sunday afternoon when lightening

struck their home and caused considerable damage. Luckily, no fire was started.

Mr Marion Wilson Harris of Centerville was married to Miss Frances Lovejoy in Lovejoy.

Mr Henry J. Benson died in Geneva last Thursday. He is survived by his wife, daughter Mrs J.E. Tillman and sons R.H. and W.F. Benson.

A visitor from up north, after spending several months in Talbot County, stated that all Georgians are "living high." He named watermelons,

cantaloupes, peaches, plums, apples and other fruit plus a side dish of butter beans. One with good health and a chance to make a living have

little to make him discontented. Georgia has 43,000 acres planted in melons.

24 July 1924 - Mr and Mrs B P Sappington gave a picnic and invited Mr and Mrs C. D. Matthews and family, Mrs. W. F. Matthews and family,

Mrs. Alma Smith, Mrs. J. C. Smith, Mr and Mrs Robert H. Matthews and family and Mr Carl Matthews. After the picnic dinner, they all played

 Hide and Seek, Drop the Handkerchief and Stealing Sticks.

Messers T. M. Matthews and S. C. Ingram gave a picnic for their employees in the peach orchard near Mr. H. C. Callier's house.

Mr and Mrs Jerry Hill of Junction City and Mr and Mrs W. T. Worthen of Atlanta were guests of Mrs. H. Pl. Teal in Baldwinville.

Those spending the day in Warm Springs Thursday from Centerville were: Mrs. H. L. Trussell, Henry and Isabelle, Mr and Mrs Tom Carter and

 children, Misses Maxine Parker, Malvina Trussell, Clara Moore and Mattie Maxwell.

Mr. Charlie Morris, Mr. Perry Morris, Mr. A. P. Wade and Misses Lillian and Edith Wade were the guests of Miss Nettie Morris in Geneva.

Woodland: Mrs. R. E. Pound of the Valley is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. T. Cook. Mr. DeLa Woodall continued ill in Atlanta. Mrs. R B. Woodall

left Sunday for Blue Ridge where she will spend the summer.

Messers F. R. Spivey, Henry Persons, Cecil Edwards, Frank and J. W. Jordan and R. A. Barnes spent Friday and Saturday in Brunswick, attending

the opening of the Brunswick-St. Simons Highway.

Misses Cornelia Jordan, Martha Maxwell, Edith and Lucille Moore, Annette and Julia Branson, Christine Watkins, Mary Stripling, Mattielu Maxwell, Sarah Robins, Messers Felton Allen and Volley Bowman are camping at Juniper.

31 July 1924 - The little community of Woodland, smallest member of the Georgia Peach Growers Exchange, produces the best well-packed,

good quality and good size peaches than any other town in that area.

The Federal Government will pay one half or more of the salary of any good teacher of agriculture or home economics.

Of one-thousand students attending Mercer University in Macon, 34 percent were farmers, followed by ministers, physicians and lawyers.

Boll Weavil Blues:
Gaws made de bees and de bees make de honey.
Black folks and mules make de cotton and white folks made de money.
Boll Weavil hiding hisself in de woods,
Taking things easy "til de cotton is good."
If dis summers gwine to be mighty dry,
Old Boll Weavil will hab to dry up and die.
If it rains a heap and jest stays wet,
Old Boll Weavil will eat the crop up yet.
How it's gwine to be, dere's no way to tell,
We might get rich or we might ketch hell.
I'se got de Boll Weavil Blues- From the New York Enquirer

Out of town news has tripled since Mr. Culpepper bought the Talbotton New Era. Thanks to all our correspondents.

Messers H. T. Carter and Robert Cartledge, Misses Ruth Weed and Christine Carter have been employed by Triple Hill Peach Farm in Thomaston

14 Aug 1924 GREAT LIQUIDATION SALE AT WATSON'S IN COLUMBUS
shoes 9 cents and up; dry goods 10 cents to 19 cents per yard; work shirts 59 cents; overalls $l.39; union suits 39 cents to 59 cents; straw hats

79 cents; ladies hats 50 cents; ladies union suits 48 cents; men's suits $18.50; ladies oxfords and slippers $1.98; men's shoes $3.98; automobile

tires $9.95 to $17.95.

WOODLAND CHEVROLET SALES AND SERVICE: Tires, tubes and accessories, Woodland, GA.

Mr R. F. Riggs has opened the Quality Shoe Shop in front of the Post Office in Talbotton.

14 Aug 1924 GREAT LIQUIDATION SALE AT WATSON'S IN COLUMBUS
shoes 9 cents and up; dry goods 10 cents to 19 cents per yard; work shirts 59 cents; overalls $l.39; union suits 39 cents to 59 cents; straw hats 79 cents; ladies hats 50 cents; ladies union suits 48 cents; men's suits $18.50; ladies oxfords and slippers $1.98; men's shoes $3.98; automobile tires $9.95 to $17.95.

WOODLAND CHEVROLET SALES AND SERVICE: Tires, tubes and accessories, Woodland, GA.

Mr R. F. Riggs has opened the Quality Shoe Shop in front of the Post Office in Talbotton.

21 Aug 1924 Mr Munroe Heath of Alabama was buried in the Heath Cemetery near Junction City Tuesday. His sister is Miss Nannie Heath

and his brothers are H. B. & M. C. Heath.

Miss Pye Smith, daughter of Mr and Mrs B. A. Smith of Woodland, was married to Mr Carl P. Smith of Hapeville on Sunday, Aug. 17th.

Mr O. P. Youngblood was seriously injured while working at Flynns' sawmill. He had stopped to eat watermelon, knocking the carriage out of

gear but leaving the motor running. He noticed a loose bolt on the carriage and stepped across the belt to tighten it when the carriage jumped

 in gear and made a round or two with Youngblood attached. He received seven fractures in his hips and legs plus numerous cuts and bruises.

Woodland: Mrs Estelle Pye, Misses Mattimaude and Willie Estelle Pye spent several days with Mrs Joe Pye.

Mr and Mrs J. H. Woodall, Dorothy and John, Jr., Mrs H. T. Woodall and Mrs. Lucy Mills spent Monday and Tuesday with
Mrs. Josie Lee in Parrott.

Miss Mary Ross of Barnesville is spending some time with Miss Willene Webster.

21 Aug 1924 Mr Munroe Heath of Alabama was buried in the Heath Cemetery near Junction City Tuesday. His sister is Miss Nannie Heath

and his brothers are H. B. & M. C. Heath.

Miss Pye Smith, daughter of Mr and Mrs B. A. Smith of Woodland, was married to Mr Carl P. Smith of Hapeville on Sunday, Aug. 17th.

Mr O. P. Youngblood was seriously injured while working at Flynns' sawmill. He had stopped to eat watermelon, knocking the carriage out of gear

 but leaving the motor running. He noticed a loose bolt on the carriage and stepped across the belt to tighten it when the carriage jumped in gear and
made a round or two with Youngblood attached. He received seven fractures in his hips and legs plus numerous cuts and bruises.

Woodland: Mrs Estelle Pye, Misses Mattimaude and Willie Estelle Pye spent several days with Mrs Joe Pye.

Mr and Mrs J. H. Woodall, Dorothy and John, Jr., Mrs H. T. Woodall and Mrs. Lucy Mills spent Monday and Tuesday with
Mrs. Josie Lee in Parrott.

Miss Mary Ross of Barnesville is spending some time with Miss Willene Webster.

21 Aug 1924 -Mr. John Russell of Woodland has been called to the bedside of his daughter in Columbus, Mrs. Burt.

Juniper- The family of E. L. Nelson has enjoyed two weeks here camping.

Miss Cynthia Ward and Miss Elizabeth Woodard are guests of Miss Virginia Posey.

The building on the Y.M.C.. is progressing nicely. The Child's Welfare Bureau is planning on bringing 100 poor children here for a few days.

Mr. Jasper Turner and Master Dixon Maund were the guests of Mr. John M. Taylor last week.

28 Aug 1924 - Mr. G. D. Adair, former resident of Talbotton died at the home of his daughter in Thomaston.

Miss Julia Calhoun will marry Mr. Joe Morgan at an early date.

Automobiles seem to make life faster for some people and shorter for others.

Joseph DeLa Woodall, son of Mrs. D. F. Woodall and the late Rev. DeLa Woodall, died at his home in Atlanta Monday. Rev. V. F. Agan conducted

 the funeral at Woodland Primitive Baptist Church. He is survived by his mother and brothers James F., J. P. and W. C. Woodall and his sisters,

Miss Mattie Woodall and Mrs. W. B. Jordan.

Mr. W. J. Hester has added electric lights to his store in Junction City.

Mr. H. E. Lumpkin has also added electric lights in his barber shop

Mrs. E. M. Lucas escaped serious injury when her car overturned. While driving, she turned to adjust some packages on the back seat when the

car swerved, throwing Mrs. Lucas out, then the car plunged over an embankment and overturned.

4 Sept 1924-Revival at Junction City Methodist Church was a huge success. All services were well attended and 20 new members were added.

Mrs. Retna Carson, Julia Boswell and Virginia Black spent the weekend with Claudia Keller.

Robert L. Moore and James N. Lucas will enter school at Locust Grove this fall.

Miss Edith Moore will resume her studies at Girls' High School in Atlanta.

The fall term of Talbotton Consolidated School will open Monday morning, Sept 8, 1924. All pupils and teachers will assemble in their respective

rooms at 8:30 a.m. and will march to the courthouse auditorium for opening exercises.

Centerville-Miss Lynda Morris of Atlanta has returned from a visit to Washington, D.C., and will spend the balance of her vacation with her

parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Morris.

Coming home for the weekend from Atlanta: Messers John Trussell; Thomas, Clay and Jack Morris and Elbert Trussell from Columbus.

Talbotton-Miss Joe Thetis Smith is home after visiting relatives in Winder and Athens.

T.H. Person, Sr., has returned from an extended visit to
Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver and places in Canada.

Miss Marion Pitts of Locust Grove, sister of Mrs. Thomas Mahone, has accepted a position with the Butler Lumber Co.

Thomas Mahone Jr. age 4, entertained 30 of his friends with a birthday party Wednesday. Miss Carolyn Leonard is home this week after an

extended visit to New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Richmond.

Ypsilanti-Mrs. Kate Watkins is in Barnesville this week before returning to her home in Bullard. She has been the guest of Mrs. C. D. Mathews.

Prof. Grady Watkins has returned to Oklahoma after a visit with his mother.

Sept. 11, 1924 - Mr. Louis J. Matthews left Thursday for Blakely, where he will be with his sister, Mrs. Wade Watson, for the school year.

Messers J. W. Hesters and Garnett Heath apprehended two boys from Columbus driving a Hudson automobile. The boys were attempting to trade the Hudson for a Ford.

Misses McCoy of Woodland and Hushee arrived Saturday to begin the year's school work in Ypsilanti.

18 Sept 1924-Miss Sallie Birdsong passed away lasts Friday morning. She was born in Talbot Valley in 1863 and spent her entire life there. She is

survived by sons Sam H. Olive of Talbot Valley, Y. A. Olive of Woodland and E. B. Birdsong of Woodland.

Juniper-Miss Velma Taylor is attending school in Columbus and Messers George and Leon Posey and Miss Virginia Posey are attending school in

 Talbotton.

Mrs. Walter Blackman of Columbus is building a neat cottage on the hillside just in front of Mr. Posey's house.

The Family Welfare Bureau of Columbus has given a ten day outing at Fresh Air Camp in Juniper to 60 poor children. When these children

return to Columbus, they will be replaced with 65 other children for ten days.

Mr. and Mrs. Golden Watkins of Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Adams and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kellum of Manchester, attended the funeral of

their nephew little Grady Braddy in Centerville.

Mr. Wesley Spinks spent several days the past week with Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Mallory in Baldwinville.

25 Sept 1924-John A. Smith reported that he spent $70,000 during his candidacy for the Legislature.

Mrs. E. A. Blythe of Junction City was in Tallahassee, Florida and reported 9 1/2 inches of rain in 27 hours.

Mr. Sam Mitchell, born in Ypsilanti and spent most of his life in Talbot County, died on September 16, 1924.

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Goolsby of Dawson visited relatives in Baldwinville last week.

Mr. Henry Foster, Talbot County native, has been elected
Superintendent of Longview, Texas, public schools.

16 Oct 1924-Judge: "When did you last see your husband?" Woman: "I have not seen him?"
Judge: "What do you mean you have not seen him?" Woman: "I am not married."

What is a collection: A little bit to eat served with a lot of style.

Woodland: Mrs. J. H. Daniel is in Atlanta for treatment. Misses Annie Clark Smith and Fannie Mae Slaughter and Mrs. J. A. Rice are studying

at Chase's Conservatory of Music in Columbus.

Mr. and Mrs. Early Smith have moved into their attractive new home.

Mrs. W. J. Allen is spending several days with her daughter, Mrs. Cullen Miller, in Ocala, Florida.

Mr. C. V. Mills has a successful variety store in Woodland, in addition to a twelve horse farm and 100 acres of peaches.

23 Oct 1924 -Mrs. Lula Bryan Carreker was born in Russell County, Alabama, in 1852 and passed away in Talbotton April 14, 1924.

The Haunted Hills of Talbot County - Two Americus business men were traveling from Talbotton, they encountered a down grade in the road

and were driving at a good rate of speed when the car slowed and eventually choked down. The car immediately started rolling backwards up

hill. Thinking people would think they were nuts, they said nothing about it.

A few weeks later, a couple were driving this same route in a high powered car when it slowed down on this same grade and came to a stop.

 The driver put the car in low gear, but could not get it to go forward. Getting out to see if he had a flat tire, the car started rolling backward

up hill. Ghosts? Spooks? Magnetic power? When this couple told about the incident, the Americus men admitted the same thing happened to

them. From the Atlanta Journal, repeated in the New Era.

Mules and men are alike. They work better when they stop kicking.

Miss Eugenia Maxwell of Centerville complimented her friends with a "possum hunt" last Saturday. They caught nothing and returned home

to a refreshing display of apples, apple cider and cake.

Talbotton: Mrs. J. W. Slade, Robert and Thomas Slade spent Sunday in Thomaston with Mrs. R. B. Reeves.

Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Edwards, Mrs. O. D. Edwards, Mrs. Isabelle Allen and Felton Allen attended the fair in Columbus.

Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Weston, Dorothy and Hamp, Jr., Mrs. Cornelia Allen, Mrs. P. M. Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Boswell and Julia motored to

Columbus

Gus Persons, Jr. William Leonard and Martin McGeehee spent last week in Columbus with Mr. Frank Martin and attended the fair.

30 Oct 1924-Last Sunday, the handsome new Frances R. Butler Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church was officially opened. It replaces the old

Pleasant Valley M. E. Church (Junction City.).

Collinsworth Literary Society had it's regular meeting Oct. 24, 1924. The program included a debate "Resolved, that the office of Game Warden

should be abolished." For the affirmative: Clara Downs and Wisham Smith. For the negative: Mabel McCrary and Gus Persons. Judges declared

the affirmative winners. May Williams, Emmett Adams and Ruth Collier also participated in the program.

The Le Vert Literary Society says that George Washington deserves more honor for defending America than Columbus for discovering America.

For the affirmative: Fannie Lou Gilbert and Henry Persons. For the negative: Juanita Smith and Deweitt Allen. The affirmative won, according to

 Judges Mary Slade, Dorothy Weston and Mary Stinson.

Mr. W. T. Nelson of Pleasant Hill was painfully injured when a bale of cotton knocked him off of the gin house steps in Woodland.

30 Oct 1924-Marshall Frank Gallops of Box Springs shot and killed Floyd Bridges last Saturday night. Bridges had been drinking and was ordered

to leave town by Marshall. Bridges became enraged and attacked Marshall, when the Marshall shot him.

Mr. Jim Owen Holmes escorted Misses Ruth Wilson and Mabel Smith to Woodlbury Thursday afternoon.

6 Nov 1924-Collinsworth Literary Society, at its last meeting, debated the question: Resolved, that one session be abolished from the public schools.

 For the affirmative: Vera Williams and Nina Edwards. For the negative: Mildred Edwards and Herman Matthews. Judges Mattie Mae Edwards, Mabel McCrary and Mildred Searcy gave their decision to the affirmative.

The Annual Institute of the Leagues of Columbus District will be held in Woodland on Nov. 7, 8, and 9th. Mrs. William Jackson Braddy will be

the welcoming address on Friday, after which the local Leaguers will entertain the visiting Leaguers with a party at the Pye Hotel.

Messers James and Zach Adams of Talbotton were guests of Misses Mamie, Ethel and Vivian Hand at Mt. Olive Sunday afternoon.

A small child's essay on cows: Four legs on the underside, born very young. So is calf. Bigger than a calf but not as big as an elephant. Some are

brown and others can't blow their horn. Milk is good to eat if you freeze it. Cow's milk straight is too strong to drink, so we put water in it. All

cows give milk and bitter but not eggs. Cows can't lay eggs but can lay down. Cows like red and will follow you all over the field to get to it.
Cows have tails hung from one end, which they swing to and for, mostly for, and swat flies. A dead cow can't hurt you, neither can a live cow

after it is killed. That's all I know about cows.

In South Africa, men buy their wives from her father. If the man defaults his payments, the father takes the daughter back and puts her on

13 Nov 1924-Miss Pearl Very and Mrs. R. J. Hall met at the home of Mrs. Julia Culpepper to plan for the Christmas party to be held at

Farmers Academy Sunday School in O'Neals District.

4 Dec 1924-Radio fans from 20 states have elected J.H. Persons of Talbotton as Georgia Tech Official Announcer for the 1924-25 radio season.

Mr. E. H. Spivey died last Thursday morning in Columbus. He is survived by his wife and children Mrs. T. L. Taylor, Mrs. A. J. Perryman,

Mr. Edmund Spivey and Mr. Felder Spivey.

13 Dec 1924-Miss Mattie Gertrude McLendon, age 23, from Box Springs, died Sunday evening.

Mr. Ernest Worthen, Carvill, LA, visited by his aunt, Mrs. H. P. Teal in Baldwinville last week.

Miss Isabelle Bullard, Miss Lilah Godwin of Warm Springs and Mr. Owen Kellum of Atlanta, visited Mr. and Mrs. McBride in Geneva Last weekend.

Miss Marion Pitts, Mr.. Thomas Mahone, Thomas, Jr. and Mr. Paul Lucas from Junction City visited relatives in Locust Grove last weekend.

Mr. M. C. Heath came by the New Era Office with a 25 pound watermelon which he says he will keep until Christmas.

13 Dec 1924-Mr. J. B. Wimberly is suffering intensely with a bone felon.

Mrs. M. E. O'Neal of O'Neal's District had as her guest Mr. and Mrs. Howell O'Neal, Mrs. Robert Couch and Mrs. Walter Gibson, all with her children.

Mr. Paul Jones of Tennessee is the guest of his mother, Mrs. J. W. T. Jones.

Mr. O. J. McCrary of Geneva entered nine birds in the Winter Poultry Show in Carrollton. He was awarded eight ribbons, and took two sweepstakes

 for best Pen and best Cock in the show. Mr. McCrary is an outstanding breeder of S.C.R. I. red chickens.

Mr. and Mrs. George Smith, Mrs. J. H. Holmes, Miss Virginia Holmes and Mrs. Ophelia Storey spent Sunday with Mrs. D. A. Downs.

18 Dec 1924-Misses Jessie Mae, Ida Lee, Mattie Seal and Mr. N. Jones attended an entertainment at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Holmes near

 Woodland.

Mr. J. D. Drew, Sr., passed away at the home of his son, J. D. Jr., in Junction City.

25 Dec 1924-Mr. John Shippe and Miss Velma Ligon were married Sunday night at the Methodist Parsonage in Centerville.