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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1900
Page
5
A terse roundup from the town recounts social changes, labor, and agriculture. Travelling salesmen rally 30,000 strong against trust threats. Cotton has begun, with a four-farmer bale weighing 564 pounds. The first bale markets as Texas takes the lead. Sweet potatoes, pears, and farm yields appear amid weather chatter and local curios.
Water with surrounding counties announces the August 1 opening of a drygoods and clothing shop at 805 Lamar. The new store promises up-to-date merchandise, fair treatment, and good values. Owners Evonxe E. Euwore, James W. Gueary, and Buchanoan Bros lead the venture, inviting the public to visit.
A dark mouse-colored mare, about eight years old, disappeared from a lot. Describes the animal and offers a liberal reward for information leading to recovery. Contact J. J. Cocks at De Boto, Ga. for details.
Seaboard System moves Georgia and Alabama division dispatching to Americus under W R Beapr ie new trainmaster for the Fourth division with Savannah HQ. S B Bennett assists and Americus office to handle main stem trains Savannah Montgomery Albany Columbus lines. New dispatchers arrive. health issues delaying E E Anderson. Pain Killer ad follows.
Two Mormon elders from Utah arrived in Americus yesterday morning and plan a week stay. They have spent over a month in Sumter County working in rural districts and will travel to south Georgia afterward. They spoke to citizens about their religion, offered literature, and said they had not been mistreated here unlike elsewhere. They denied preaching polygamy, stating they focus on scriptural interpretation from their viewpoint.
Mr H E Allen closed a three year lease on a corner Windsor Hotel block store formerly Skelton Bros bicycle shop on Lamar street and will open a drug business with manager Mr W L Mims. Mims brings long experience. shelving and fittings begin immediately with opening planned by September.
On Jackson Street near Col. Merrel Callaway's home a young resident, Blanch Rutherford, encountered a small alligator on the sidewalk. The animal arrived via a gulley linking Frog Bottom with Muckaleo creek, prompting amused speculation about future visits from other odd town visitors.
Montos L Hine of Lebanon Indiana reports his wife suffered widespread inflammatory rheumatism for six weeks and eight physicians. After using the Mystic Cure for Rheumatism she improved in three days and could walk again. Sold by E J Eldridge Druggist Amor, Ga.
The white teachers of Samber county are notified to attend the combined Institute to convene at Oglethorpe on Monday August 6 and continue for five days. SV Be Moone Os and O.
Americas People and Their Friends Who Are Going on Business or Pleasure list numerous residents and visitors in Americus leaving for or arriving from trips to Indian Spring, Savannah, Montgomery, Nashville, Columbus, and other places. The item names individuals, places, and destinations, noting brief movements and visits, with several families and guests mentioned.
White school teachers from Sumter county will attend the combined summer Institute to be held at Oglethorpe this year. Teachers from three or four neighboring counties will join. The session will open on Monday, August 1st, for a two day extension.
Miss Mae Page daughter of Mr and Mrs J L Page married Mr C W Colling of Arlington Ga yesterday at 11 in the Page residence. Rev I F Griffeth officiated. Bride wore tan crepe de chine traveling suit and carried bride roses. Maid of honor Miss Mamie McDonald. best man Walter Page. reception at Arlington followed with gifts and congratulations.
Sheriff McArthur, overseeing a large Sumter Fifteenth district plantation, reports the first open cotton of the new crop. A negro farm hand found a dozen open bolls yesterday and brought them to the house for inspection. The crop has not suffered from rain, and the yesterday’s cotton had not opened prematurely. The fist bale for Americus is expected in a few days.
The Mary reports from Shanghai and Yokohama that eight hundred foreigners, including women and children, are crowded in the British legation in Peking exposed to Chinese heat and lacking adequate food. Ice plants are absent. provisions rely on Chinese markets and hotel stocks are insufficient for the crowd.
Five thousand pants makers in Manhattan and surrounding areas have walked out seeking a 10 hour day and a 10 percent wage increase. Reported shifts show a move back to the task system, with workers claiming tasks have grown too large, demanding one and a half to two days of work for a single day’s pay.
Surveying the grounds at Clafteston on July 25 shows the exposition area being laid out with subscriptions being paid and overall progress reported as favorable and satisfactory by organizers and attendees.
A Che Foo dispatch dated July 20 reports American troops aided by English fuzileers conducting a bold assault on a large Chinese force at Tien Tsin. They captured eight modern guns and seized a fort after hand to hand fighting, with no American or British casualties. Chinese retreat toward Peking follows. Two near Wei Hai Wei engagements end in Chinese repulsion. Russians concentrate at Charbin amid reports of Obailar occupation by Chinese troops.
A Shanghai letter dated June 23 describes Mrs Mills arriving from Tien Tsin just before the bombardment. As 2,000 Russians repelled Chinese forces, the Chinese consul ordered women and children to flee. The steamer reached Taku in time for shelling as British, Japanese, Russian, and German forces moved to seize forts.
A germlike illness spreads through North Alabama causing ear abscesses and painful risings. Governor Joseph F Johnston and Birmingham B of Trade president John W O Neill are among the victims, with many others affected across the city.
July 4 report notes China retreat threatens a Japanese financial panic. China has been the main field for Japanese trade, and the practical closing of this market will heavily burden large Japanese firms. Large establishments in Tsin and whore have orders to close up and retire to Japan when feasible.
In Geonertowy Kentucky July 25 Wheat court heard over a dozen witnesses for the commonwealth with many excused daily. McKenzie Todd testified to Governor Taylor and Caleb Powers with Youtzey present in the governor’s office. Witness saw Youtzey with a gun and later in the secretary of state’s office kneeling by a window as the gun was pointed outward. Powers warned against shooting from the building. Other witnesses described guns hidden under a plank and the tense atmosphere preceding an assassination attempt as the trial entered its fifteenth day.
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