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...farm near Carrollton, Ga., Nathan Brown was stung by a bumblebee, ran toward his house, was bitten by a green snake, headed for town, was bitten by a bulldog, pulled into town in a bad humor...
...NEILL Vice President Peoples Bank & Trust Co. North Carrollton, Miss...
Breezy as any college football crowd were the 10,000 tobacco farmers who poured into Carrollton, Ky. one day last week to help celebrate Carrollton's first annual tobacco festival. They guffawed when a big black hearse lumbered into position at the head of a half-mile parade. Emblazoned on its side was the legend: OLD TOBACCO PRICES-SIX FEET UNDER THE SOD. To the blare of a 40-piece band they marched through the business streets of Carrollton to the Henry County Tobacco Warehouse. When somebody yelled "C'mon folks, the burgoo's ready!" they broke...
...insure the success of their first show, Carrollton businessmen had gone over to Lexington to fetch grey-thatched, handsome old James T. Looney, best brewer of burgoo stew in northern Kentucky. Over his open air vats, "Burgoomaster" Looney, proud of his 500-gal. iron kettle that was used in the Civil War to make gunpowder, had spent a day and a night brewing 1,500 gallons of burgoo.* Every last dipperful was exhausted before the crowd settled down to a program of speechmaking. On the platform, along with many another bigwig, were Carrollton's Ralph Malcolm Barker, president...
Juicy as the burgoo were the business prospects of each & every tobacco farmer at Carrollton and of thousands of their colleagues throughout the burley belt. When the burley market opens next month they will get an average of 18? to 20? a lb., highest burley price in five years. Reason: a one-third crop reduction under the AAA program. "Crop reduction has transformed a buyers' market into a sellers' market!" cried Secretary Ben Kilgore of the Kentucky Farm Bureau...