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Representative coverage of Wilkinson County and surrounding territory ior over GO years
THE BULLETIN
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A. T. Land
TO THE PEOPLE OB' WILKINSON
COUNTY:
Two years ago, you gave me a yote of
confidence by electing me your Rep
resentative in the Georgia Legislature.
The best interests of our County and
State has been my first consideration;
and I feel we are making progress in
our expanded school program as well
as in the building and improving of
our roads and bridges. I think the
two go hand in hand and by all
wprking together, we cau march for
ward in full step with the wonderful
progress our State is now enjoying.
I am a candidate for re-election and
1 will appreciate the support and help
of all our people. I feel the two years
experience I have had as your Repre
sentative will be a great help during
the next two years. Our State is faced
with momentous problems and the fu
ture of our people may well be writ
ten during the coming months. We
must face the situation with courage
and conviction and with the determi
nation to try tu solve all the problems
fairlv and for the good of our people.
Your help and advice will always
ba appreciated; and in return, I
pledge you the very best that is in
me. Again, thank you for your sup
port and with best wishes always, I
am,
Sincerely, i
A. T. Land.
HOME-COMING AT BETHEL
The First Sunday in August
will be annual Home-comming
Day at Bethel Church. Brother
R. L. Bridges of Hardwick will
bring the message and the Har
mony Four quartet will sing. At
the noon hour a basket dinner
will be served. All members and
their friends and all former pas
tors are urged to be present.
During the following week re
vival services will be held each
evening at 8:00. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
Send The Bulletin to a friend.
A CHIP ON THE SHOULDER INDICATES WOOD HIGHER UP
Vol. go Irwinton. Wilkinson County, Georgia. Friday. July 23, 1954 £Vp.2B
Toomsboro Topics
Colson -- Cannon
Miss Rosa Colson of Toomsboro
became the bride of J. B. Cannon
of Irwinton Friday afternoon at
the Methodist parsonage in Ir
winton. Rev. Childres performed
the ceremony,
Rosa is the oldest daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Colson and
was to have entered the Senior
Class in the new High School
this fall. J. B. is employed by
the Bee Line filling station.
Best wishes to this young cou
ple for a long and happy married
life.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Kingery
and daughter, Marion, of Eliza
beth City, N. C, have arrived to
spend a short vacation with rela
tives. Mr. and Mrs. Kingery are
natives of Georgia and. even tho
Marion was born in Connecticut
and has lived both on the east
and the west coast, as well as
Hawaii, she claims Toomsboro as
home.
Coming home for the past
weekend were Miss Marion Hol
liman, Gene Weaver. Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Montgomery, all of
Atlanta. Vance Lord and Mr.
and Mrs. David Eubanks from
Macon.
Serviceman Wm. L Weaver,
better known as “Bo” is in town
after being in Alaska for some
time.
Clyde Ware and family of St.
Petersburg recently visited par
ents. Dr. and Mrs Ware.
Mrs. Lum Pitts has returned
from Texas where she spent 3
weeks with her daughter and fa
mily.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Fisher,
their mother and little daughter,
Connie, were weekend guests of
the Victor Kaminskys.
Mrs, A. L Branan has returned
from a visit to her daughter in
Estill. S. C.
News from Ensign and Mrs.
J S. James of Guam tells of cool
er weather there than here. The
temperature stays around 80 de
grees most of the time. Mrs.
James, the former SuEllen Holli
man, arrived in Guam June 23
Sorry, No more space.
WOMEN TH SERVE
The Noyember sessien of the Gen
eral Assembly qualified women for
Jnry service and the jury commission
which meets the first Monday in Au
gust for the purpose of revising the
Traverse and Grand Jnry boxes, will
place the names of women in the
Jury Boxes for the first time, How"
ever any woman who does not desire
Street of 1 r win ton
Mrs. J. E. Butler, Mr. and Mrs
Wade Claxton, Cheryll and Mor
ris spent the week at a cottage
in Freestone State Park, near
Martinsville, Va. Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Butler and children joined
them there. Joe got puite a kick
out of his cottage which was
named ‘ The Pinkie Bell.*’
The many friends of Mr. C C.
Johnson, prominent citizen o f
Gordon, will be glad to know he
is slowly improving and regain
ing use of his limbs after suffer
ing a stroke months ago. We
are all pulling for his complete
recovery. His present address is
Pineworth, Inc , Macon, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. John Mason are
spending the week at Daytona
Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. T C. Herndon Jr
returning from a week’s outing
at Daytona Beach, came by Ir
winton to see Mr and Mrs. Mar
vin Hall and “retrieve” their ba
by boy, who had spent the week
with his grandparents.
Mr. and Mrs. Huby Shepherd
and Faye were in Macon Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Adkins
of Port St. Joe, Fla , are guests
of their mother, Mrs. Mary Ad
kins and family. They are return
ing from a visit with Mr. John
Adkins and family in Oklahoma.
< ross yonr fingers for Ralph
Culpper and his waterworks sys
tem, —wish him the best!!! By
the time he conquers one catas
trophe another one looms! His
friends are most grateful to him
for all the efforts made to keep
a supply of water, and would
like to give him a “rising vote of
thanks in appreciation of his
services.”
Mr. and Mrs. Lance Freeman
stopped over to see relatives in
the county this week, enroute
to New York where they will
join a group sailing for Bermuda.
Mr and Mrs T J. Finney of
Gordon spent Thursday p. m.
with Mrs. Elmo Davis.
Mr. and Mrs, Ralph Macon, of
Summertown, came up to visit
Mr and Mrs. Lum Dixon at Bin
ion’s Clinic Sunday. They 'will
be pleasantly remembered as for
mer Irwinton residents
Lum came home Tuesday.
ON THE JURY
to serve on the jury, mav notify the
Jury Commission in writing to that
effect, so that hei name wi’l not be
placed in the Jury Boxes. This
should be done prior to August Ist
and such notice notice should be
mailed to The Jurv Commission or to
Willis I. Allen, Clerk of the Juiy
Commission at Irwinton, Ga,
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Johnny WEISSMULLER
as JUNGLE JIM
Toomsboro— The former Janice
Lord, who now lives in Omaha,
Neb., was intown last Sun
day with her husband and four
children, (three little girls and a
baby boy.) The family was en
route by car to Savannah to visit
her brother, Flanders Lord and
family. They had also visited her
sister, Mrs. Frank Bush, Zebulon,
and Ralph Lord of Milledgeville.
JAMES HENRY DUGGAN
Funeral services fur Jamea Henry
Duggan, 55, a court reporter who
died in Atlanta Friday, were held at
3 p. m, at Manning, S. C
Mr. Duggan attended Mercer Uni
versity and the University of Georgia
He was a member of Sigma Nu Frat
ernity, the Elk’s Club, and the Court
Reporter’s Association of Georgia.
He is’ survived by his wife, Mra.
Lillian Erwin Duggan; four sons,
James, Edward, Erwin and Jolin
Duggan; five brothers, Ivey Duggan,
of Macon, Sam Duggan of Moultrie.
Lorenz Duggan of Douglas, Charles
Duggan of Jeffersonville, Dean Dug
gan of Decatur and John Duggan of
Plant City, Fla; three sisters, Mrs. J.
M, Jacobs of Washington, D. C. Mra,
Frank Smith of Alexander, Va., and
Mra. E* C. Maddox of Gordon.