Local notes share growth in real estate and industry
The Americus market reports a housing boom and new corporations forming, with the Americus Brick Company producing 100000 bricks daily. Local carpenters work at Wheatley Co. and a side track is laid through Americus Investment Co. lands. An April 26 minstrel contract, census inquiries, and guano factory plans in Richland and Lumpkin are noted alongside services at the Tabernacle and a promotion for Chase's Barley Malt Whiskey by Eldridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus Brick Company
C. M. Wheatley & Co
Americus Investment Co
Leeton
George Wilson
Chase
E. J. Eldridge
Americus
Georgia
Machinery and brick orders signal Americus iron works expansion
Work on Americus Iron Works buildings to start next Monday with 500000 bricks on hand. E F Lanier arrived to oversee a three-building complex including a 70 foot tower, machine shop, wood working, blacksmith and foundry sections. Completion targeted within sixty days, then fine machinery to be shipped. Also notes city hall deeds, Macon Cadets victory, planing mill setup, a marriage ceremony, new locomotives for the S A M road, and tax office opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus Iron Works
E. F. Lanier
Americus Brick Company
Lanter
Lanier
West Point
Americus Grocery Company forms in Americus
The Americus Grocery Company is forming with $100,000 capital to control the wholesale grocery trade in Southwest Georgia. Incorporators include H H Hawkins and J J Williford among others. planned acquisition of stock and goodwill of Clegg & Co. and Glover & Lanier to expand wholesale operations. Management likely to be Glover, Lanier, and Whitley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americus Grocery Company
Georgia
H. Hawkins
H.C. Bagley
W. E. Murphy
W. E. Hawkins
G. W. Glover
P. C. Clegg
Frank Lanier, Jr
C. I Whitley
J. J. Williford
Clegg &Co
Glover & Lanier
Americus
C. R. Whitley
Americus Brick Company
McDonalds Side Settlements End Balloon Exchange Troubles
The McDonald case ends as charges are dismissed with margins refunded from his private funds. McDonald, escorted by Columbus men, returns to his city room at the Hooper building. An associate statement says his arrest arose from fears of leaving Georgia and involved negotiations to settle about a $1000 debt, with all legal actions promptly dropped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDonald
Cobb
Columbus
Hooper Building
Lamar Street
McDonald's
Rankin House
Atlanta
Phelan
Pickett
Columbus Exchange
Americus
Georgia
Lumber boom and train pony tale highlight Americus notes
The Americus paper reports a building boom with dressed lumber rising to fourteen dollars per thousand feet and a local dealer projecting two million feet in sales. It also recounts a Shetland pony shipped by train from the S A M line leaping to the ground at speed, then surviving unharmed and continuing to DeSoto. Additional items note real estate activity and the death of Rev. J H Cawood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Americus
A. H. Simmons
DeSoto
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Prserlccuy Recorder
Talik
Just
Wall
Joiner & Nicholson
Linwood Shropshire
Eufauln
Macon
Mthrist
Census Bureau
Thornton Wheatley
Webster Court
Americas
Speer
Alliance
Allod
Matt Hart
Colored Cotton Avenue
Barney Usry
C. A. Bell
Humphreys
Coor's Pharsacy
Richland
Lumpkin
the Tabernacle
A. B. Campbell
W. L. ¥. Pickard
Birmingham
Pickard
Mra
Capt
H. C. Bagley
Captain Bagley
W. i E. Hawkins
Jacksonville
Ricorder
Planing Mul
Bell & Ragan
Felix Weeks
Col
Dusky Luerenin Shuber
Squire Oliver
Rhode Island Locomotive Works
Mize
Americus Grocery
Americae Postofice
Washington
Americas Post Office
Dudley
Lumpkin, Maudsay
Stewart County
Hawking
Hiat
Lumpkin’ S
Messrs
John F. Irvin
A. N. Simpson
J. E. Humber
W. KE. Perkins
R. F. Watts
Wilcox County
Gordon
J. H. Gordon
D. Fr. McCimmon
Berii Gordon
Lyon Field
Barrow's Mill
Cinsinnatih
C. C. Hawkins
Cincinnati
Burns
T. M. Furlow, Jr
Col. E. A. Hawkins
Church Street
Mdonald's
M'Donald
Thornton Wheatley’s
Clerk Allen
I. M. Furlow
Jackson
Caweon
J. H. Cawood
Smitville
Milledgeville
U. S. Gov't Report
Jack Cleghorn
J. Cleghorn
Americus, GA
Cotton
M. T. Elam
Fire Insurance
Westchester
New York
the National
Hartford
Capital
Lott Warren
EL. Sosse
Kentucky
Cotton Avenue
W. W. Wheeler & CO
Granberry Corner
Oxfords
O&ll
Barrbley & Co
Williford, Matthews & CO
T. Ragan
W. B. Mayo
Agt
Fey Bowling Green
Evon
Bergific Cos
Atlas Engine Works
Indianapolis
Ind
J. F. McMath
Rysiciam
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