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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1900
Page
8
This store claims to lead the season with newest sought items and quality fashion at moderate prices. It emphasizes serving an appreciative public with a wide range of umbrellas from cloth to silk, priced from two dollars fifty cents to four dollars per item.
The city sees a wave of new homes as several residences near completion. E B Everett finishes a fine Lee Street house while P L Holt prepares materials for a Taylor and Em Avenue project. Dozens of dwellings recently erected reflect thrift and prosperity citywide.
The cotton market continued its slide, dropping twenty points yesterday to August close at 8.54. This marks a cumulative one hundred point decline over two weeks, with August down twenty points from its highest level this year.
A thunderstorm struck telegraph wires causing a central office fire and cutting the Albany long distance line. All 120 switchboard drops failed when the bolt hit the wires, with repairs to follow. In a separate note, Bucklen's Arnica Salve touted as a ten day cure for a leg ulcer and other ailments at 25 cents.
Sumter county school teachers have 22000 in the bank to be distributed among them Saturday as payment for March salaries. Supt Moore prepared sixty five checks yesterday and arrangements are complete for payroll dispersion to the pedagogues.
The city council met to fill the vacancy caused by E B Thayer’s resignation and departure to Alabama on June 1. After lengthy caucus, Mr George A Nix was named engineer for the remainder of the current year.
A mix of public health advice and local news items appears. It notes a simple remedy Syrup of Figs from California Fig Syrup Co, a county primary meeting set for January 6 at 10 o clock chaired by Judge J B Pilebury, a Windsor excursion dinner tally of 156, and a testimonial for MYSTIC CURE by T J Blackmore of Pittsburgh praising quick recovery from pneumonia.
The general examination of teachers seeking a license to teach in Sumter county will be held at city hall Americus on Saturday June 16 starting at to o'clock sharp. All prospective teachers in Sumter should take this opportunity to obtain a license. Old Gent—I guess you don't like to go to school my little man. Small Boy—I don't mind de goin and I don't mind de comin. It's de gtayin' dere in between dat jars me.
Rain failed to dampen the annual Retail Clerks Association outing at Magnolia Dell in Americus. Visitors from Macon and Columbus enjoyed trains, music, and a grand banquet despite showers, with City Attorney James Taylor and Senator-elect Roland Ellie delivering welcome and thanks.
Mrs Geo Long of New Giralianile Ohio reports a frightful cough kept her awake nightly. After trying many remedies and doctors, Dr King New Discovery cured her in one bottle. She says it also cured Mr Long of pneumonia. The medicine is priced 50c and 1.00, with guarantee and free trial bottles at E J Eldridge drugstore.
Special sale edition offers three lots of ladies waists at half or reduced prices. An assorted waist group priced 65c to 75c now 35c each. A second waist lot formerly 1.00 now 56c. A third waist range 1.25 to 1.50 now 75c. Silk waist sales and ready made skirts also discounted: skirts formerly 1.75 now 1.25, 2.00 now 1.50, 2.50 now 1.98. Tees
This week foulards sell at 98c per yard with some priced at 85c per yard. Odds and ends in foulards offered at closeout dollar rates. A Straw Hat Special dumps men’s women’s and children’s hats to one-half or one-third of former prices. Straw hats 50c to 75c, formerly 50c to $1.50, now 25c to 50c. Special prices apply to all regular straw hats.
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