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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
5
Duncan's Store advertises parasols priced 1 50 to 5 00 reduced to 75c for prompt clearance. The ad notes twenty five silk, linen, and cotton parasols left, plus new lisle thread and Swiss embroidered handkerchiefs, white aprons, and men’s shirts discounted from Chatham Shirt stock.
Augusta GA August 26. The Savannah river flood inundates the city with four to six inch hourly rise and waves sweeping Broad Street. At least nineteen dead and property losses may reach one million. Water covers most basements as Western Union and Postal offices evacuated. Rail service halted and city cut off.
Dr. H. Mckee praised Sumter county farming on a return from Georgia, calling it the garden spot of the state. The Times-Recorder notes Sumter and Americus growth and says ten thousand people could be drawn to the area.
The text fragment suggests future national and urban expansion tied to undisclosed advantages. It hints at development ideas planned in coming years, implying strategic benefits to be recognized and exploited. No concrete names, dates, or places are given in the fragment.
Continuous rain and a new downpour delay cotton harvests as open bolls rot beneath dense foliage. Pickers cannot work wet cotton, reducing yields and delaying receipts at American warehouses this week.
Mr. W. P. Wallis displayed a cotton stalk on the streets yesterday bearing more than a hundred bolls. Grown from Hardin seed sold here last season, the plant drew interest from many who noted its height and potential yield. Wallis farms five or six acres and expects about two bales per acre.
A jumble of local items reports cotton demand, road building plans with convicts, a dry cotton stalks scare, pending Windsor Hotel sale, and a Seaboard improvement rumor. Americus schools set Sept 22 for fall term, county schools start soon, and Camp Sumter VFW meets while veteran reunion plans in Atlanta occur. Noahic rains slow business. Frank Cleghorn runs Southern Express agency at Montezuma. insurance details in Ellaville loom.
American orchard men note a new Georgia peach variety ripening August 15 developed by Butler and Rumble of Goggansville Monroe county. It is deep yellow fragrant freestone, between Carmen and Elberta in size, an excellent shipper, extending Georgia peach supply into September. The Atlanta Constitution notes public excitement over prosperity.
Alonzo Walters cashier of the Ellaville Bank was found dead in a Windsor Hotel lavatory with a bullet wound in his forehead and an automatic pistol nearby. An inquest ruled death by his own hand amid reports of a $4,000 accounting discrepancy and missing ledgers. Officials from the Bank of South Western Georgia prepared to appoint a new cashier and reassure customers there would be no interruption in banking services.
A slight rally in the morning improved spirits among Mr. P. H. Redmond’s friends after reports from his sickroom the night before. He had a paralytic stroke on Sunday night affecting his left side and doctors hoped he would withstand possible further brain hemorrhages.
A terse fragment notes a patient already ill for a month or more and not in condition to withstand a near attack. The writer says they will continue to hope for innate recovery.
De Soto trimmed Leslie here this morning in one of the most interesting games of the series beating the Lions 15 to 0. Jones Ferguson and Culver formed the battery for the De Soto champions with Page Johnson and Hines supporting them. An audience watched as Leslie will come here for another day afternoon next at 3 30.
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