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Arwood mentioned as a wedding guest
Mr. T. W. Arwood is mentioned as a guest in the Saye-Langford Wedding Announcement (1920)
Article about Saye-Langford Wedding in Canton, Cherokee, Georgia, 1920
Wednesday, 26 May 1920: Ida Lee Saye, of Canton, weds Albert Roy Langford, of Denver, Colorado, at the bride's home on East Marietta Street (Canton). Officiator: Rev. F. S. Hudson, pastor of the Canton Methodist church. Given in marriage by Prof. George Paul Saye (brother; University of Georgia). Best man: Fred Langford (Macon; brother of groom). Music: Wedding March; Lorengrens Bridal Chorus, played by Miss Maude Wheeler (Ball Ground). Bride in navy and tan; beautiful decorations, etc.
Out-of-town guests: Mrs. A. S. Langford and Mr. Fred Langford (Macon); Mr. T. W. Arwood and Miss Ida Cole (Marietta); Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Smith (Tate); Mr. Willard McCollum (Nelson); Misses Viola Brady, Bonnie and Maude Wheeler (Ball Ground).
Wedding trip: Mobile, New Orleans, Colorado Springs, etc.
Future home: 1324 Emerson Street, Denver.
[Source]: "Saye-Langford," The Cherokee Advance (Canton, Cherokee, Georgia) 1880-19??, Friday, 28 May 1920, page 1 (digital image 1), Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, The Library of Congress.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn87090231/1920-05-28/ed-1/seq-1/print/image_574x817_from_825,4025_to_2472,6369/
(10 February 2022).
Arwood of Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia
Girls Escape from Whitfield County Jail
Atwood Surname
Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia (1920)
Story from Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia, published in The Cherokee Advance (Canton, Cherokee, Georgia).
"Two Girls Escape From Countl Jail"
"Dalton, Ga. April 22.—On the night following the recommendation of the grand jury that no prisoners be confined in jail until a new jail could be erected here, two girls, Ottie May Arwood and Bertie Owens convicted in court and being held until they could be sent to the state farm, sawed the bars of their cell on the ground floor, climbed the stairs, crawled out of a hole in the brick wall and swung from the second floor, gaining their freedom.
"Just where the prisoners got the saws is not known.
"Tusday night, the Owens girl was recaptured and again placed in jail."
[Source]: Arwood in "Two Girls Escape From Countl Jail" (dtd. Dalton, [Whitfield], Ga., April 22), The Cherokee Advance (Canton, Cherokee, Georgia) 1880-19??, Friday, 23 April 1920, page 4 (digital image 4), Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, The Library of Congress.
https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn87090231/1920-04-23/ed-1/seq-4/print/image_562x817_from_1889,5205_to_2681,6356/
(10 February 2022).
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Myrtle Rogers of Marion County, Tennessee
[Quote from Sequachee Valley News, 29 October 1896, Supplement, p.5]:
"Miss Myrtle Rogers is proving to be quite a valuable assistant postmaster."
[Source]: Rogers (untitled item) in Sequachee Valley News (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Marion, Tennessee) 1896-1952, 29 October 1896, Supplement, page 5 (digital image 5), Image and text provided by University of Tennessee, Library of Congress, via Chronicling America Historic Newspapers website. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058250/1896-10-29/ed-1/seq-5/ (04 February 2023).