Maude Howard Garrett and her husband owned the Dawson County Advertiser in the 1940s.
They were a colorful team who struggled to put out a weekly newspaper that was only four pages most weeks. That was when Dawson County was still a mostly rural county, the county seat Dawsonville a tiny town, its courthouse in the middle of it and few businesses on the public square.
Johnny Vardeman: Dawsonville paper lobbied to lure state capital north
