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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1887
Page
7
In Americus the county agricultural society Executive Committee is called to meet at the ophouse on Friday at 10 o'clock. Reports note purchases and potential bargains, with emphasis on readiness for upcoming auctions and goods available from local merchants. A marriage and other small items are also reported in the week’s notices.
A Sumter farmer living on twenty acres lists twenty seven field crop varieties eleven fruit kinds and many vegetables he could contribute to a county display at the Atlanta Exposition and State Fair. The piece notes Southwest Georgia’s wealth and productivity and urges collecting and arranging products for a world class exhibit.
Mrs. R C Black, cousin of the Woolfolk family, recounts Thomas Woolfolk as habitually moody and resentful, with a dissipated youth and possible inheritance grievance. She notes his quiet, planning nature and a motive tied to lost property, while suggesting window closures before the killing concealed escape.
An amateur farmer extols Spanish groundpeas as the best forage and corn substitute for stock. He describes the tall, leafy stalks with roots bearing large peas, easy sun curing, and high protein qualities. He claims peas yield 40 bushels per acre on poor ground, with fodder value far above corn, urging farmers to adopt the crop.
A petition for a charter was filed in Wilcox county by J. J. Williford W. J. Harper B. H. Hardaway M. B. Council A. R. Coulter and others to form The Rochelle Land and Lumber Company. It intends to purchase lease and develop Wilcox and other Georgia lands to map platte and lease lots for residences farms or manufactories and to distill turpentine manufacture naval stores and saw timber. capital stock set at fifty thousand dollars with twenty five percent paid in and options to increase.
A westbound Cannon Ball train between Jacksonville and Montgomery crashed near Dawson before daylight on Thursday. The engine and tender escaped injury by staying on the rails, but three cars including a sleeper toppled off and wreckage piled along the roadside. Remarkably, no one aboard was hurt as the mail car and engine continued to Montgomery and workers cleared and rebuilt the track. Also reports note strong cotton markets in Americus with high activity and promises of better prices as buyers return from the mountains.
Advertisement notes Backlen's Arnica Salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Price 9 65 per box. Also urges merchants to obtain small change from the Washington treasury to ease cotton season coin shortages.
A local warning cautions buyers away from whiskies with grand sounding labels shaped to mask harsh blends. The notice references brands associated with deception and harmful taste, noting the I. W. Hannex line and a New Orleans mash distiller as examples. It advertises secondhand pianos for sale by Hm Scussrom and a dealer Tattis & Tomer.
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