Talbot COUNTY  GA   Newspaper Abstracts

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News From the New Era by Nelson Goolsby 
January 1926


Miss Sarah E. Butler and Mr. James H. Brown of Howard
were married on Dec. 27, 1925 at the home of the bride's
parents.


Mrs. Fannie Lula Williams Griffin died recently.  She was
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Williams, who lived
east of Talbotton.  She attended shcool at LeVert College
and was a member of Talbotton Baptist Church.  Her
husband was the late Carter Griffin.


Olin Royal, 11-year-old son of Professor and Mrs. J. M.
Royal of Woodland, was accidentally killed by his 14
year-old brother on New Year's Day.  The older boy was
polishing a gun when it hung on his sweater and
discharged.


Miss Frances Brown of Howard celebrated her 16th birthday
last Saturday night.  Among the guests were:  Misses Mary
Adams, Annie Mae Bozeman, Ruth, Mattie Mae and Lenora
Collier, Jessie and Lois Heath, Lillian and Marie Brown,
Alice and Estelle Parker, Marilu Everett; Messrs. William
Childress, Billy Brown, Jack Morris, Robert Harry
Callier, Albert and Billy Butler, Louis Matthews, Archie
Heath, John Pound, Floyd Davis, Sewell Maxwell, Charlie
Buckner, John Boswell and Lewis Spinks.


>From the New Era twenty years ago:  Mr. Frank Bethune
has purchased the lot next to the Peoples Bank of
Talbotton and will erect a three story building.  The
bottom story will be a store and the upper stories
offices.


The Stewards of the Talbotton Methodist Church, in an
effort to raise money to pay their pastor, have assessed
each member a certain amount.  If not paid, they would
send a collector out to get the money.  The Stewards say
it is successful.  (Now back to 1926)


Mrs. Lizzie Smith of Talbotton, was standing too close to
the fire andher clothes caught fire.  She burned to death
in the home of her son, "Tip."  They are a well respected
family of Talbotton.


Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards, age 76, died in Talbotton on Dec.
15, 1925.  As Miss Elizabeth Boswell, she married Mr.
Henry Edwards on July 9, 1875.


Mr. R. Griggs Currington, convicted of killing his
brother, has appealed his sentence to the Georgia Supreme
Court.  He is represented by J. H. McGehee of Talbotton.