Schley County GaArchives Photo Place.....Church St. Looking West, Ca. 1908-09 1908
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Steve & Rebecca Gurr http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002514 May 4, 2005, 10:07 pm

Source:             Personal Photo
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http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/photos/churchst5795ph.jpg
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This post card from Bobbie Royal (daughter of John T. Royal and Frankie Reed) 
to Anna Belle McCrory was almost certainly mailed from LaGrange, Ga. to 
Ellaville on Sept 14, 1909.  The photo on the front of the card probably dates 
to 1906-08 as Royal Bros. cotton warehouse was not a long term business.  This 
short piece from the Schley County News of Thursday, Jan. 17, 1908.......

Royal Bros., after several years of successful partnership have
recently disolved, Mr. S(tephen) A. Royal purchasing Mr. J.T.
Royal's interest.

As to the date of mailing of the card.........The post mark visably states 
Sept. 14, 190?  The last digit is missing or unreadable, but the following 
short piece from the paper pinpoints the date as 1909.

The Schley County News  Friday, Sept. 10, 1909  No. 35
Misses Bobie and Minnie Royal leave Monday for
LaGrange, where they will enter College.

Bobie Royal and Anna Belle McCrory were close friends and classmates for 
several years prior to this date, having attended Wesleyan college together 
and several music classes.




Additional Comments:
The handwritten message of the post card reads as follows:

"Dear Girl

I am at last settled down for another year of hard work as a Junior.  I have 
every period full not a vacant one all day long just with literary work-  
Can't you sympathize?  Mr. Leon said if I wasn't dead by Xmas I couldn't be 
killed.  Write me a long letter & I'll sure (switching to handwriting on front 
of card) appreciate it and answer as soon as possible.  We are in a cozy 
little room for two and delighted with taecher on our hall. ......makes me 
think of another.

Remember, Bobbie

Bobbie

Bobbie Royal is found on the 1910 census in Bullock Co. working as a music 
teacher.

Interesting to note are the other bldgs. in the photo.  According to the 
postcard the next bldg. west is J.B. Williams' Dept. Store and the last bldg. 
visable on the street (with the tree in front) bares a striking resemblance to 
another photo in the Schley archives that until now was unidentified. It would 
be located on what is now church street and was I believe the Belmont Hotel 
and later called Points West.  Compare with the other photo at 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/schley/photos/ph2335ellavill.jpg
Note the tree is much smaller in this old photo so if this is an accurate 
assumption then this cotton wagon photo predates the postcard by several years.

Many thanks to Steve & Rebecca Gurr for sharing this photo and to Ernie Jones 
for facilitating it's use and help in researching it.

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