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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1888
Page
8
Beginning September our correspondents must limit communications to actual neighborhood news as telegraphic space will be filled. Correspondents may be cut down and only sexual news will fit in our weekly, though we desire all of it.
In Luciusville, Aug 12, farmers praise recent showers and discuss cash crops. The writer argues cotton is unprofitable after costs, urges more small grain and corn, and promotes home bread and meat production. A neighbor mentions a plan to obtain a search warrant over missing chickens. Local residents note a large African American gathering and lively shouting.
From Preston in August reports show the county enjoying the best cotton crop in years though corn lags. Rains benefit late crops like cotton and potatoes. Pea fields on Mr W F Jowers plantation impress with speckled peas. Farmers push field peas as an extra crop. Politics heat up as discourse rises. Rev J A Griton concludes Baptist revival with new members. A child of Mr and Mrs W I Stevens passed away, offering consolation to grieving parents. Misses Mary Daniels and Annie Crouch of Dawgon have been visiting.
At the Thornton residence of Mr Geo FE and Mrs Vivier Skinner sisters and relatives are visiting friends here. Judge 0 18 Marrell departed for Atlanta. Prof Harvey Black runs a flourishing school. Miss Nannie Myers returns from Marion and Schley visits to rejoin friends. many regret her departure and hope for reconciliation among the boys.
Fragment from a Putnam Georgia newspaper recounts social observations and reflections on language gender and morality. It notes a storm injuring a tree sheltering three enslaved workers, remarks on corporal punishment and schooling, mentions mill dam repair by R M Williams and lightning damage, and reports a horse killed during a visit by Cullen Cox in Mason County. It closes with casual notices of visitors and Henry Munroe studying medicine.
The last two drawings of Louisiana State Lottery leave a large capital prize in Galveston with $15,000 in May and $30000 in June. The latest $1,000 winner is Mr. George W. Seibert, auditor’s office, Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, who held one twentieth of No 0443, winning the $100,000 prize. He collected by depositing Listicket with Ball Huttinge & Co. in Galveston. Representative from the Canaan Conn district will not return to Washington due to health concerns from climate.
From Richland a page of social and business items reports new bale arrivals from John Freeville and anticipation of future shipments to A. PL & L. warehouse. It notes partnerships forming in local firms Lanford & French and Overby interests, staff moves at Meyer's, and local visits. It also mentions convicts’ escape, a death of Uncle Johnnie Norman, and community events as a broad slice of small town life.
Webster County letters report dry weather shrinking cotton and strong peanut harvests while fodder and crops are discussed. A Grange district is formed with July 25 meeting at Sardis and Whaley Grange hosting September 7. Local visits, a new clock for a bantam house, a planned Alliance Hall under Edwards and Chambliss, and a new Dr. John Alston residence are noted along with school tensions over farmers alliance meetings.
In Cherubbee August 1 a group of three intruded on Mr. Pritchard and Mrs. Pritchard, leading to a fight after they refused to leave. Pritchard and Hiller thrashed the trespassers, who have since obtained warrants against them. The community notes weekly sermons, visits by residents, and farm yields including corn and melons with peculiar ALB JREMS markings on melons.
Prince Roland Bonaparte, back in Paris, writes to a Washington friend that he was delighted with his visit to the country and will long remember the courtesy of Mr. Cleveland.
From Oglethorpe Aug 16. The writer laments rising bagging and tie costs and jokes about farmers replacing with old socks and ropes. He visits Buck Creek farm of W. J. Souter noting rich crops, German millet, two tons of first class hay, and thick popcorn forage. Neighbors and local movers, including sheriff candidate Ed English, mingle with barbecues and town life as houses fill and camp meetings loom.
The Log Cabin campaign era of 1840, marked by cabins in cities for political meetings and the symbol of hard cider barrels at fronts, is described as the era’s most enthusiastic political contest. Warner's Log Cabin Remedies and Tippecanoe tonic bitters are noted for their lasting place in history.
The writer shares a travel diary from Bronwood August 14 describing a buggy trip from Sumter, crops, peaches and watermelons, a rain shower at Kinchafoonee creek, dinner at Eversons, and plans to visit a local plantation. He notes a Pleasant stay and mentions the Sumter County Sunday School Convention at Double Branches next Thursday week. The piece ends with a domestic note and the first Chinese pension news.
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