14 Sep 1900
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1900
Page
1
The speaker, a veteran Americus dry goods merchant, touts fall and winter stock from New York markets. He emphasizes being first to offer new dress goods and ready made clothing, claims lower prices due to market timing and low water marks, and invites customers to visit for prices.
A firm states it will source the needed goods regardless of price, emphasizing readiness to operate and serve customers despite elevated costs.
Auction style listing shows 550 acres near Americus at 6 per acre and several large tracts including 2000 acres for Geo McNeal and 672 34 acres on J A Reid with Magnolia Springs. City blocks offer houses 7 rooms priced 1200, 6 rooms 1250, 5 rooms 1109 and 6 rooms 1150 with rents noted. P B Williford invites buyers to invest or rent properties at Jackson Street.
The item describes local cotton prices climbing to about 11 to 12 cents, with observers noting hot weather, shifting buyers, and a Columbus correspondent calling Americas a small interior town that paid ten cents the prior day. It also mentions tax matters and local commerce notes.
Sumter County commissioners cut the current year tax rate to 9.0 mills from 9.50 last year despite a sharp decline in property values shown in the 1899 digest. The county rate is 8.80 mills and the state rate 5.20 mills, marking a record low for the period.
A surge of construction spreads near Seaboard Ranch shops with many residences completed recently. Ed Btallings has built a large manufacturing plant at Farlow Street crossing, while E D Ansley raises a storage warehouse by the railroad at Hill Street. Builders Emmett Bolton T M Farlow R S Broadhurst plan several dwellings on Barlow and Hill streets, signaling continued growth in the area.
News from Galveston reports a catastrophic event with probable thousands of deaths and massive property loss. Several Americus residents including Eugene Hawkins Jr Thad and Henry Glover are unaccounted as wires fail, delaying word of their safety.
A Atlanta area mill president warned that if cotton prices stay high and finished goods do not rise soon, his mills may close next Monday. He noted raw cotton costs outpace finished product prices, squeezing mill operators.
Greenville reports a cotton price war as square bale and roundlap ginneries compete. Prices per pound and seed payments boost farmer income, with ginneries paying higher rates and wagons piling up. Georgia’s crop estimated at 67 percent, August at 74 percent, with forecasts under 900,000 bales versus state average around a million.
Reading across social notes a list of locals visiting relatives and returning home from trips. Names include Miss Bessie Harper Miss Lizzie Williams Mr H T Davenport Miss Opal Hines Miss Callye Coney Mr and Mrs Walter B Brown Miss Helen McCall Miss Yonah Buchanan Mr James A Riviere Miss Ora Perry Miss Ira Mrs M Speer and Miss Carrie Speer Master Olin Williams Mrs James Davenport Miss Alice Slade Miss Allie Belle Adams Mrs Will Green Turpin and Mr Turpin Eugene A Hawkins and Lucia Hawkins. The items mention travel to Atlanta Buena Vista Leesburg Forsyth Monteagle Knoxville and New York with music study and visits to friends.
Survivors of four regiments including Sumter, 46th and 44th Georgia units plan a brigade reunion in Atlanta. Commander Robert Young notes attendees arrive from Sumter and nearby counties with railroad rates offering return trips free for the event.
A colored farmer reported a good bale sold yesterday at 10 cents or more, bringing $58. He noted that this year’s cotton earnings are more than twice those of last year as he focused on the actual money received rather than fractional figures.
The Bible Institute of the South Georgia Conference will hold its annual session in Americus for three or four days next week or the week after. Bishop Candler and other distinguished conference members will attend, and a large attendance is expected.
Two Mormon elders working near Americus persist in their preaching at Newpoint despite a small Sunday night turnout. The report notes they show grim tenacity but little evident progress in converting locals.
John P. Cato, who left America a year ago to start a business in Macon, is reportedly bound for De Soto where he and partners may establish a large mercantile operation. The plan has not been confirmed by Cato.
Henry M. Neill’s monthly report is due today with an estimate near 9,750,000 bales for the cotton crop. A playful insertion notes Prickney Asa Birrens claims to cleanse digestion and restore appetite and vigor.
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