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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1899
Page
4
The notice advertises discounts for the first twenty customers after 8 o'clock Monday. It lists full dress patterns, lawns, sheer white lawns, fancy oil cloth, cassimere, cottonades, and ladies shoes with steep markdowns from regular prices, aiming to attract quick purchases.
Brief items list visits and travel of local residents including J. W. Sheffield in Albany, Miss Ray Hinton with Mrs. Hicks in Columbus, Miss Sarah Collier in Albany, W. B. Cheatham in Americas, Jessie Davenport from Albany, Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley at Indian Spring, Miss Beauprie of Atlanta, Kate Persons in Oglethorpe with Mrs. J. M. Field, Mrs. H. S. Gyles to Bronwood, Gabbetts at Lake George, and Ruby Dews en route to Forsyth. Also notes a weekly organdy sale at E. D. Sheffield Co and an advertisement for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and One Minute Cough Cure sold by W. A. Rembert.
Pastor Munson of Bethel church is jailed on a state warrant but bonds out and demands grand jury indictment or immediate trial. The case centers on alleged improper intimacy with the Ethiopian wife of Jee Whang, a former local wash house operator, with Munson denying the charge. His supporters fill Bethel, claiming foul play by a deaconic faction as the rival side protests. The hearing is set for Thursday amid a tense political church dispute and public debate over who commands the pulpit.
Arthur Rylander, on a Florida contract job clearing croesties for a railroad, returns home with BR Stewart to manage 10,000 acres of pine timber and a large labor force. He reports a nearby lake teeming with alligators and says he killed three with a pistol on departure day. He notes at least forty large saurians were seen swimming in the lake in a single day.
An old notice touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as the best healing salve for injuries and skin ailments. It claims it will kill pain, heal wounds promptly, cure old sores boils felons and eruptions, with a 25 cent price and guaranteed cure, sold by E J Eldridge, Druggist.
Ep worth League young ladies will serve ices cake and refreshments this afternoon and evening on the First Methodist church lawn to benefit their charity. Also advertised are Dr King's New Life Pills and Wollford's Sanitary Lotion with local druggists promoting the remedies and Nunnally candy at 60c per pound at Rembert's Drag Store.
A collection of brief items notes fashions at Schumpert Shoe Co and a Lee Allen lease of 421 Jackson street. A one fare rate from Americas to Montezuma during school closings is in effect. Rev S O Dean delivers today’s literary address. Brick work on the new bank progresses. completion by September 1 is planned. Annie E Springer reports a complete cure with King’s New Discovery for consumption after years of coughing. Trial bottles free at E J Eldridge’s Drug Store.
The quarterly county court session starts Wednesday July 5 with the criminal docket to be taken up. Twelve jurors drawn for the first week include L. A. Rouse J. P. Braswell W. M. Jones R. M. Stewart B. F. Teasley Sam M. Brinkley O. J. Sherlock W. C. Grant A. M. Bolton W. T. Shipley J.J. Brown and Jerry Ratclif. The rest is an old advertising aside for a laxative Syrup of Figs.
Professor Gilbert Walden offered a unique entertainment at the city hall last evening. He excelled in the old Southern negro dialect and his rendition of The Bells was worth the admission. The program impressed a pleased audience, and supporters urged a return engagement on his next tour, noting his talent as both musician and elocutionist. A relieved advertisement for DeWitt's Little Early Risers promotes relief from constipation and indigestion, sold by W. A. Rembert.
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