"It is interesting to analyze the reasons for the publicity which the little town of Ashburn in Turner County, South Georgia, has been recently receiving. The publicity is of the favorable and constructive sort; it affects more than the pleasure and…
"Fuller details appeared in the morning papers concerning the attempted assault on a young school teacher at Ashburn... Public feeling is running dangerously high here tonight against F. J. Cawley the local grocer, who is accused by one of the lady…
"Turner County officers today are searching the woods in Amboy direct for Tan Cleghorn, a young farmer who was to have been married to pretty Minnie Marchman last Tuesday. Instead of a wedding at the Marchman home there was a funeral, and the same…
"One of the most moral towns in the state, and at the same time one that is thrifty and prosperous is our hustling neighbor, Ashburn. The citizens of that town are living evidence of the fat (two often, alas, contradicted) that business and religion…
"The City was Ashburn. And since then its growth has been steady, rapid and phenomenal. Peopled by a class of the most refined, intelligent and moral citizenship, their influence so counteracted upon their surroundings, that to-day the…