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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1917
Page
8
Abruzzi rye is praised as the top winter cover and grazing crop for the South. It yields heavy growth after cotton harvest, supports 2 to 3 months of grazing, prevents soil wash and leaching, and improves soil fertility. It thrives on all soils, including poor sands, and outperforms native rye and legume crops for cover purposes.
Georgia Sumter County commissioners announce sale under 1917 decree in the R. Christian vs J. Ross case. The south half of Lot 133 in the Seventeenth District, Sumter County, containing 101 ¼ acres, known as the Ross place, to be sold at Americus courthouse on the first Tuesday in November 1917 for cash. Ten percent deposited to commissioners, balance due if sale confirmed by the Superior Court judge.
The Albany Herald reports via Mr. C. B. Burley that Sumter County farmers face severe cotton picking shortages as many workers move north. Fields are white with cotton, much has dropped from bolls, and some sprouting on the ground as labor scarcity widens.
Court ordered sale of a Plains house and lot with 20 by 100 foot frontage on Wise Street and adjoining bank property, plus bank fixtures, and 50 acres of land in Sumter County. Sale to pay debts of Citizens' Bank of Plains, under Superior Court order from 1917. Executors seek authority to sell additional estate property.
Notices in Sumter County Georgia show application for permanent letters of administration for Mrs N A Fuller and sale of Ellis Coleman estate lands. The letters of administration are to be granted at the November term and the Coleman property is to be sold at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in November to pay debts or expenses.
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