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From: Judy C <>
Subject: [GAFORSYT] North Georgian - Route 7 news - Jan. 30, 1920
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 19:14:05 -0400

Vol. XXXI, No. 4, top of third column of front page:

"Route 7 By David Dawdon.
The profiteers are still in business, we are sorry to say.

Miss Mary Waldrip spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Buice.

Mr. Hard Nalley and sister spent Saturday night near Wild Cat.

Miss Terry is spending a while at Mr. Fred Buice's.

Mrs. Martha Ramsey and son, Ed, were in Cumming one day last week.

Mr. Marvin Cobb says he is going to build up his farm by letting stubble
grow on it.

Everybody is awaiting with interest the ditching of Big Creek. No doubt it
will be a great help to the country at large. The land in these bottoms is
just as good, or a little better, than it was years ago when enormous
yields of corn were made.

If you know of any one that has leak of the heart let us know and we will
put them in touch with some one that guarantees to cure it.

Mrs. N. I. Heard is reported on the sick list.

We read with interest an article in the North Georgian written by Mr. C.S.
Hawkins. In reference to a statement of ours in our news items in the North
Georgian of January 9. Among other things Mr. Hawkins says: "We had several
married men that would get drunk nearly every log rolling or corn shucking"
We would like to add, also, that the whiskey they drank was as pure as
spring water and did not make a fool of those that drank it as it does
now-a-days. He says "we had no revenue on whiskey [until after] the civil
war." That may be, but we are told that any one selling whiskey before the
was was required to buy a license. And here let us add that the government
could use now-a-days to a great advantage the revenue on whiskey. ....
But after all the point we wished to make in our article of January 9 was
that we had better times, better people, and all these things when we had
no prohibition law, and we challenge any one to prove that we did not. Not
that we are seeking an argument, but we wanted to explain the point we
wished to make.
When Bro. Hawkins convinces us that we are wrong we are willing to bow to
the inevitable."

Judy Campbell
who loves reading opinionated columns from old papers...brings history to life!

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