Heard County GaArchives News.....Newspaper Notices for MARCH 1945 March 1945 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 December 27, 2004, 12:14 am The News and Banner NEWSPAPER NOTICES FROM "THE NEWS AND BANNER", Franklin, Heard County, Georgia for MARCH 1945 NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, March 9, 1945 EPHESUS News Mrs. Mina Kelley has purchased herself a Model-T Ford and is riding about. __ Mr. and Mrs. Grady Brand and James sent Sunday with McAffee Jordan and family. __ Mrs. C.G. Nixon of LaGrange, spent the weekend with Miss Ethel Nixon and folks. __ CENTRALHATCHEE News Mrs. J.B. Mulkey of LaGrange is visiting Mr. and Mrs. H.W. White Sr. Sgt. Hulet White of Macon, spent Sunday night with them. ___ Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Kent and Mrs. J.B. Eley Sr. spent Sunday iin Columbus with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson Bledsoe. Mr. Bledsoe has been very ill. ___ Alfonso Bussey spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bussey. __ Mrs. E.R. Seaman of Linwood, N.J., spent several days last week with her brother, Troy Chambers and family. __ Sorry to report that Tom Davis is very sick. Jeff Shelnut is also on the sick list. ___ Mrs. G.W. Jackson and children have moved into the house with Mrs. W.B. Hardy and Bennie. ___ GOSHEN News Pvt. Monroe Smith was recently shipped overseas and is now in Germany. __ Pvt. Calvin Ray, stationed in South Carolina, is in the hospital suffering from a foot injury. We are wishing him a speedy recovery. __ SIMPSON News Mrs. Nina Noles and Marie spent the weekend with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie White. __ We are glad to know that Charlie White is back home after his operation and doing nicely. __ Everyone remember Granny Bozeman in your prayers; she is very sick. ___ MIDDLEBROOKS X-ROADS News Mrs. John Crouch has been on the sick list but is some better. __ Mr. and Mrs. Ishmael Hughey have been spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Groover Middlebrooks. __ Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Arrington spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Jones. __ Mrs. John McConnell spent a few days last week with Mrs. Fannie Middlebrooks. __ MT. PLEASANT News Mrs. Juley Cooley died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Suan Kirk last week and was buried at Prospect Church beside hre husband who preceded her several years ago. She leaves four sons and two daughter to mourn her going away. ___ Miss Louise Walston and Marvin Cooper were married a few days ago. We wish them a very happy and prosperous life. __ Bert Davis celebrated his birthday last Sunday in LaGrange with his daughter Mrs. Bernard Freeman, where all of his children were present except Bradley who is overseas. __ WARESVILLE News Robert Drummond who had his foot cut off, is improving. __ Bobby Gore was married last week to a Miss Gosdin. __ Mr. John T. Middlebrooks is in a very serious condition. ___ LOCAL News Mr. and Mrs. Guy Atkinson attended the birthday celebration of Mr. Atkinson's grandmother, Mrs. J.A. Talley, Sunday last in Hogansville. __ RIDGEWAY News J.S. Burgess and John Harvell are on the sick list. __ Uncle Dan Arrington, age 74 years, is the champion farmer in our community, having all of his land ready to plow. __ ROCKALO News Sorry to report that Miss Callie George was brought home from West Georgia College some few days ago and continues ill. Mrs. Carrie Walls from Roanoke visited her bedside Sunday last. __ STATE LINE News Sorry to hear that Mrs. Kiser O'Neal is sick and in the hospital at Lafayette, Ala. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, March 16, 1945 RIDGEWAY News Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Arrington and children of LaGrange visited Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Burgess Sunday last. __ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gore of Opelika, Ala., visited Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Gore last weekend. __ EPHESUS News Mr. G.F. Rogers celebrated his 60th birthday Sunday. It was a happy occasion for his family, relatives and friends. Mrs. Gene Yarbrough was also present to celbrate her 70th birthday too. A noon barbecue with many good eats were spread out in the beautiful yard. ___ LOCAL News County road man, Mort Lane and his crew have done a find job of surfacing the riverside drive on the county commons from the jail to the bridge. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, March 23, 1945 J.T. MIDDLEBROOKS DIES EARLY TUESDAY John Thomas Middlebrooks, age 76, well known and loved farmer of Franklin, died at his home at 7:20 a.m. Tuesday after an illness of about one month. Mr. Middlebrooks was a native of Harris county and in early childhood moved to Heard county where he had lived all of his adult life. He was a member of the Bethel Christian church where his funeral was held at 3 o'clock p.m., Tuesday March 20th with the Rev. Foster, pastor of his church, officiating. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Lonia B. O'Neal Middlebrooks of the home address; two daughters, Mrs. R.B. Lipham and Mrs. E.T. Yarbrough, LaGrange; one son, C.T. Middlebrooks, Glenn; six sisters, Mrs. Henry Jackson, Waresville; Mrs. J.L. Hunt, Glenn; Mrs. Mervin Rooney, Mrs. Jesse O'Neal and Mrs. L.S. Hunter, all of Franklin, and Mrs. John Jackson, Glen; one brother, H.A. Middlebrooks, Chipley; seven grandchildren. Hammett and Groover, LaGrange funeral directors, were in charge of arrangements. __ S-SGT. J.E. BARKER PRISONER OF WAR, WRITES HOME Below is a copy of a letter written by Staff Sgt. James E. Barker, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Barker, to all his friends. He was employed by the Zenith Radio Corporation before entering the army in 1942 and was a radio operator on a B- 24 plane, captured September 8, 1944 in Germany. "Dear Mother and Dad, I am thinking of my lovely home tonight, longing to return to the old farm, to take walks through the woods and fields and eat chicken dinners with the family I love. I doubt that I'll be home for Xmas, but my thoughts will be there, so have a big time, and don't be lonely on my account, for I'll be doing something here for entertainment. Guess G.W. is doing well in college; it seems next to mother and dad that I miss him most, bcause we grew up together I guess. Notify Zenith of my being down. Send my love to all my friends and Dorris. I have traveled practically all over the world now and I haven't found anything that we don't have there in Georgia. I hope that you have received my personal belongings by now. I've often thought of what a feeling you must have had when you received them. I have aged quite a bit the last year but I look back to my youthhood like my brothers and sisters, enjoyed college life and all. Give my love to all the family and their children and my aunts and uncles. I am well, in good spirits, taking war prison life for the best, and hoping to be with you soon. James. " _____ CENTRALHATCHEE News Weekend visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Webb were Mr. and Mrs. John Combs, and Mr. Bob Combs and son and Mozelle Webb. __ Mr. and Mrs. Homer Shirey of Newnan visited Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bailey on Sunday. __ SHORT ITEMS ABOUT THE BOYS IN SERVICE Private First Class Sherman Eley of Franklin, GA has arriaved at the Army's Oliver General Hospital in Augusta and is now a patient on Ward 18. Eley has just returned from overseas where he served with the Infantry. He has been in the service for two years and his wife Netsie, lives in Heard County. __ Pvt. Otis L. White of Franklin, GA, whose wife Marchie White resides at same addres, has been in Italy for more than a year and is entitled to war a second gold overseas bar. Pvt. White is a cook with the veteran B-24 Liberator Heavy Bombardment Group of the 15th Air Force. Prior to entering the Army Air Forces on January 23, 1943 at Fort McPherson, GA, he was engaged in farming. ________ SIMPSON Community Mrs. Lois Buchannon and children were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bozeman Sunday last. __ We were very sorry to hear about Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bozeman receiving word that their son Glenn, was killed in action. __ Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Evans and family and Mr. and Mrs. Leamon Todd and children, visited Mack Adams in Newnan Sunday last. ___ MIDDLEBROOK'S X-ROADS News Mr. and Mrs. Marshal McConnell and daughter, Mrs. Winston Jones, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Middlebrooks. __ Mrs. Carey Evans spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Luke Almon. ___ Mr. W.A. Wingo celebrated his 74th birthday last Tuesday. Cramon Arnett one of his grandsons, who was home on furlough, had dinner with him, chicken and dressing. __ ROCKALO News Mrs. Emma Grizzard is in a serious condition. Parrie Calhoon, her daughter, has been at her bedside a few days, also Warner Grizzard and family, all of LaGrange have been visiting their mother. __ FROLONA News Some more of our boys are going into service for Uncle Sam; Curtis Nation and James Sheets left the 21st of March. __ Hardie Arrington has returned home with a discharge from the Navy. __ Sgt. Raymond Arrington is now sailing the Atlantic for overseas duty. __ Mr. Wiley Wellborn was buried at east Newnan last Monday. We regret to give him up. The family has our sympathy. ____ LOCAL News Our good friend Sam Stephens of Enon Grove, was in to to see us this week and asked that we thank the many for their kindness in his recent loss of his home and all its contents by fire. ___ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/heard/newspapers/gnw401newspape.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 9.8 Kb