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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1888
Page
5
The Americus area sees civic and social updates from Ellaville to Vienna, including visits by notable residents, new local papers, political developments, and plans for hotels and rail service. Highlights mention manufacturing outlook, county health leadership, fishing at Parker’s Mill, and ongoing road and railroad projects influencing commerce.
On March 1st May W L Glessner began as Commissioner of the Georgia Immigration Bureau for the Central Railroad. In one month he appointed nearly seventy five county agents, organized distribution of literature to the North and Midwest, and prepared reports and a traveling car plan to populate Georgia's counties with settlers. Col Clay of Hueguenta plantation predicts cotton and oats output despite rains and river height, wagering a new suit if his oats underperform.
The Savannah Oconee and Chattoahoochee rivers are very high with Rome and Augusta flooded. Some Rome areas under water one to three feet and Augusta streets submerged. The Chattahoochee falls slowly, Columbus bridges at risk, Selma submerged, thousands flee. Trains run normally, danger easing.
Court attendance collapses as Webster county floods wash away bridges mills and embankments. Judge Fort adjourns the term to Wednesday evening with notice to follow. Market notices and local ad items fill the page alongside Passover notes and Y M C A Lyceum updates.
Americus is celebrated for its strong wholesale market, manufacturing point, and retail trade footprint. The piece urges settlement by skilled farmers in Sumter and nearby counties to expand the area, notes ongoing city improvements, and highlights a proposed $100,000 hotel on a central $20,000 county-owned lot.
An aged veteran, Mr Stathem, once a lieutenant in Captain Jernigan’s 1834 Indian War unit, is noted for participating in a 1836 Dawson area fight and for climbing a pine tree to observe nearby hidden Indians, a tree still standing today.
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