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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1887
Page
5
Al Brooks physician and surgeon listed with office at dew residence at D Seipp street in Anorisus Georgia. Fragmentary OCR text shows a legal notice style location reference and a terse remark about practice terms, with garbled surrounding words.
Subscription rates warn subscribers about advance payment while news notes report the death of Eddie Hall from diphtheria in Mulholland District. Local commerce lists produce at Darden's. Tom Nees receives a railroad promotion to conductor with train duty around the 20th. Painless Eye Salve marketed by Davenport brothers urged by Dr. Haltoun.
Mrs Lizzie Harris died at her home on Monday night after several months of a painful illness. She was well advanced in years being considerably over fifty. Her death was due to a general breakdown in health and nervous prostration. She was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery yesterday afternoon at four o'clock.
A rare petrified strawberry exhibits in the village near this city on Messia Heys land. It formed as a shard stone during a stage of petrifaction observed by Messers Heys. Fricker & Bro polished it into a breastpin. The colored berry weighs about two ounces and will be shown for a few days.
A large lot of carriages and baby carts was just received from J W Suevrenp and Company. The shipment includes various models suitable for family use and small business display within the storefront inventory.
Rabbi Jacobson of Atlanta with Messrs. Issacs and son and Alfred Mack of Macon arrived in the city yesterday morning to witness the circumcision of Julius Mack's infant son. After the ceremony a large gathering, including Hebrew residents and other guests, enjoyed an elegant repast in the dining room.
Gus Harris and family abandoned Americus Texas life and plan to move back to Sumter, Georgia. He sold his mule, bought the Hudson place in East Americas for 1200 dollars, and will arrive with his family today or tomorrow, expressing strong homesickness for the old red hills. Latest styles steel wheels baby carriages advertised by A. W. Suerrizry & Co.
Judge Harrell of Webster, Capt Bell bedridden, and Rev Campbell moves into a new Taylor street home. Americus eyes B V and E railroad arrival, A P L railroad work, and Buena Vista extension to Columbus. Dent and bank notes show strong capital, with J E Brown passing through in his Atlanta car. Citizens praise roses as city grows and real estate thrives.
Mr. W. J. Murray who runs the commissary car for the A P & I railroad was seriously cut in the site by a negro woman yesterday afternoon. After a quarrel between two negro women at the camps Murray ordered the abuse stopped when one woman stabbed him in the side and hip three or four times. He was brought to the city and treated by a physician. the wounds are serious but not fatal.
For a week, western skies have glowed with forest fires beyond Muckalee. Fences and cord wool burned on Bagley place two miles from town, but no dwellings were damaged. Local men aided in halting the blaze after a tramp reportedly sighted the ore flare near the railroad.
Memorial notes the life of Willis A Hawkins born January 15 1825 in Madison Georgia educated in Walton and Morgan counties learned law under Augustus Reese moved to Starkville 1846 taught to supplement income led an able law career with Judge McCay forming a strong firm. He served as a Confederate officer in the 12th Georgia returning to practice until illness and death November 28 1836 is wrongly dated in the text but memorial expresses his character and calls adjournment and publication of the memorial.
A contested murder report from Sumter County Georgia details the killing of Lizzie Pooler by Fylite Hatcheron a negro woman aged about twenty three with a baby in the cell. The crime involved brutal blows with a hoe and subsequent threats of lynching followed by arrest and committal to jail awaiting grand jury action. The narrative also notes the Georgia Teachers Association meeting at West Point May 4 5 and 6 with a program and social events including a boat excursion banquet and free hospitality.
The Superior Court has spent the week on civil trials and will not finish the docket until tomorrow or Saturday, delaying the criminal docket into next week. About twenty civil cases were heard and as many remain. Yesterday the grand jury returned no bill in the murder case of Pat Erskine, ending the matter for H H Black and Annie More.
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