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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1887
Page
2
The Americus cotton market reports 34 144 bales received to date with 115 by rail and 219 by wagon yesterday. Middling prices are steady as holiday goods promotion runs alongside classified notices on warnings about an unauthorized receiver and local marriage, new grocery venture, ring raffles, house numbering, and extended store hours for holiday shopping.
Messrs Clegg Coney will soon open a wholesale grocery in this city. The note welcomes them and wishes prosperity, calling them men of means who will aid the town. Also discusses recent reductions in passenger rates on the 8 W R R, detailing new fares for various distances and noting a half fare option.
Christmas shoppers find a wide range of solid silver items from spoons to berry dishes, plus porcelain frames, plated novelties, and elegant watches. Gold jewelry, pens, clocks, canes, umbrellas, eye glasses, and a selection of pianos and organs are also advertised, aiming to suit all ages and purses.
Messia James Fricker and Bro will keep their jewelry store open from Monday night the 19th until Christmas, every night until 10 o'clock to serve customers who are too busy during the day.
Two tramps were arraigned before Judge Pilsbury for vagrancy and sentenced to twelve months each in the chain gang after a stern lecture. The judge showed no sympathy for those who refuse to work.
Gus Harris on Lamar Street urges customers to remember his Christmas groceries lineup. The catalog includes canned goods citron raisins preserved ginger prunes dates candles nuts fruits and pickles in the barrel buckwheat flour and other essentials. Orders can be placed by telephone.
Merchants report lively trade last week as crowds from Wilcox County visit Americas Hereafter. Morris Sontheimer, winner of a $100 diamond ring in Albany, plans a raffle with seventy five chances at $1 each. Ring on display at his store as an exhibition. Weather note and inventory cues follow.
A how to guide for festive Christmas trees detailing inexpensive trimming ideas. It describes a modest $1 trimmed tree with a 10 cent Santa, 15 cents in popcorn, 10 cents per dozen candy canes, tarlatan stockings, and candles. Also covers a more lavish setup using crystal paper snow, fairy lamps, colored balls, can dies, and canopies to reach the ceiling. The piece notes cost ranges and care, ending with a nod to Great Nation Cigarros and G. W. Glover as wholesale agent.
Mr C B Wilburn General Passenger and Freight agent of the A P L established agencies Monday at Cordele and Rochelle Mr Fairchild appointed at Cordele and Mr Wallace at Rochelle These are no longer flag stations and shippers will be greatly relieved as a lot of goods are sent to these points.
Messrs J B Shipps and Co who moved here about a year ago and occupied a room under the Recorder office have sold out and will move to Cusseta Chattahoochee county as soon as they can close up their affairs in this city. They are pleasant sociable gentlemen and will be missed.
The entertainment promises a most delightful program with interesting and novel features. Ladies in charge urge friends to attend noting that the amount received depends largely on the generosity of attendees.
Directors announce extension of the Buena Vista and Ellaville railroad from Buena Vista to Columbus with surveying to begin next week and grading by January. Backed by Central road funds, the line will provide a Northwest to Florida route, connecting Birmingham to a new Kansas City line and lowering wholesale provisions costs for Americus.
Yesterday morning the Telephone Exchange began operation with neighbors greeting and chatting all day. Several new subscribers joined. one business owner noted the service paid his rent in a single transaction, illustrating its business value and potential widespread adoption.
A man travels through the country posing as a U S Army member to tell African Americans they are owed large sums from the treasury. In Americus he learns from a colored man of his plan to pass counterfeit checks. He offers to pay $5 to a young Negro for a $700 check and $2 for about $400 to an old man. Two of these checks were cashed at the People's National Bank by an elderly man from Macon County.
An A. P. & L. eastbound train delivered nearly a hundred black workers who had been paid off and planned a Christmas in town before proceeding back to work once funds ran out. Some reside along the Southwestern line, while others returned home. Captain J. H. Shaffer, formerly with J. Waxelbaum & Co., now joins Morrison, Herriman & Co. in New York to manage white goods in Georgia, parts of Alabama and Florida. Seventy-two applications were filed for the position, Shaffer securing it. R. R. Stewart and Brothers moved camp and goods along the A. P. L. line, packing up tires to wait out the holidays. A note mentions peaches at six hundred per gallon, at a price of cc.
Special to DAILY Recorder reports the Woolfolk jury returned a guilty verdict after brief deliberation. Judge Gustin sentenced Woolfolk to be hanged in private near the county jail on Friday February 10. Woolfolk remained calm and blamed witnesses as he spoke. Mayor was asked to provide an armed escort after the ruling.
Superintendent Claburn of the Americas Telephone Exchange receives a telegram from State Superintendent Cole ordering him to relocate his crew to Rome. Locals praise Claburn, noting his quick subscriber gains and suggesting he be made manager of Americus office. Also reports on city council resolutions for Chattanooga trip, a poisoning incident involving Dr Maynard, extended store hours at Brown & Harper, a large fish catch by Merrick Ford and Will Leamon, and a Christmas piano sale promotion by a local dealer.
A young woman Miss Anna Tallis died near Preston from a morphine overdose amid family ties to prominent farmers. Separately, Oscar Ansley married Miss Allie Noble in Atlanta after a sudden courtship, the couple eloping to wed at Dr Morrison's church with witnesses, returning with her mother and brother.
A man with a long nose criticizes Christmas gift giving as a nuisance. He cites couples on Jackson Street who exchange home necessities and decorations as mutual presents. He argues the practice drains finances and highlights reciprocal giving as benefiting both spouses.
A domestic tale unfolds as a wife charms her husband with affection and hints at needing a small loan for Christmas gifts. The plot centers on a playful ruse to obtain cash for presents, while a local retailer Buchanan & Bell claims to offer low prices on household goods.
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