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Newspaper

Americus Weekly Recorder

Location

Americus, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Dec 26, 1890

Page

4

Election Blanks Received and Local Rail News

Ordinary Speer holds election blanks for county officers to be elected next month. The 8:00 a.m. Macon rail service resumed after being cut, with the 6:45 p.m. and 8:40 a.m. trains dropped causing local discontent.

Speer Central Macon

South Georgia Methodist Conference Appointments Listed

The South Georgia Methodist Conference announces the year appoint ments for districts Savannah Macon Columbus Americus Thomasville Eastman Valdosta Brunswick Sandersville and more. Presiding bishops Haygood and J W Hinson distribute assignments to churches circuits missions and schools with McFerrin Johnson Hodges Burch Darley and other named leaders.

South Georgia Methodist Conference Haygood Savannah Lovett Trinity AJ Jarrell Wesley Monumental E Dowman C H Carson City Mission JH Mather New Houston Mission Johnson Guyton E Wray Eden W Connors Springfield D Mcgregor Burke W Arnold Sylvania Flanders Bethel T Clark Waynesboro Bascom Anthony Millen Jordan Wadley Boston Scarboro C Flanders Jefferson Louisville Davisboro C Thompson Statesboro E Caiaway Bullock Mission T Tucker Hinton Strong Macon Joa Clark Mulberry J P McFerrin First Street T M Christian Vineville F McCook East Macon H A Hodges Centennary W.E Vaughan Grace Mission Sandy Rup EJ Burch J. W Burke South Macon Wesley Simmons Fort Valley Av Thompson Marshallville Montezuma Riley Perry Wesleyan Christian Advocate T T Christian J W Burke Columbus B McGehee St. Luke M Williams St. Paul Pearl Chapel Domingos Broad Street Snow Rose Hill Harrison East Highlands Midway Key Cataula Griffith Hamilton Mumford Talbotton Talbot C Wade Central Circuit B Griner Geneva B Ferrell Howard M Boland Crowell W Tidwell Buena Vista M Austin M Allison Cussota G T Roberts P Harrison Americus E H MacGehee J B Johnston F ‘Williamson Sumter LaCrosse H Og Sentell Lumpkin and Richland Brewton Florence T Lowe Andrew Female College Twitty Thomasville J W Hinton Wynn Albany J Robertson Attapulgus A Phillips Bainbridge B Reams W Stewart Blakely F Evans Cairo Olmstead Camfila T Etheridge Colqult R. P. Fain Decatur Rosas Leary Bateman Mars Hill Topps Valdosta JO Branch Presiding Elder F Breedlove Adel J Shirah Greenfield Mission J H Taylor Branch J M Hendley Alapaha P H Crumpler Sycamore G P Revier Lowndes JW Foy Ashburn Warwick RM Booth JJ Williams Willscoochee and Mission C T Rickley JA Adams Roberts GA Kelley Abbeville O A Myers Seville McCord Crisp W Brown Quitman J M Lovett Brooks T Ainsworth Douglass F Carter Irwinville A Wethers Brunswick F Cook Waycross W Mathews Blackshear P Parker Slokly D Morrison Jessup Wwen Hinesville L Stokes Taylor's Creek Culpepper Davien J T Ryder Jonesville J Bell J. Mary’s Kemp Bryan W T McMichael Hortense G P Purnell Camden P Dickinson C Parker Homerville H Bazemore Statersville Glenn J G Grooms Waresboro J Stallings Duker C Austin Washington F Carey New Hope Boland Wrightaville Mission Ridge Morgan Rhine Corinth GT Flanders Dublin Mission F Smith Summerton F Bales Awainesboro G Rabun Irwinton A Harmon Gordon J Carr D Maudlin Jeffersonville

Americus’s Role in Georgia Railroad Commission History

The Augusta Chronicle notes Americus’s central role in Georgia railroad affairs since 1870. It credits Judge Allen Fort and Judge Alex Erwin with appropriate qualifications while highlighting Americus figures like Dr. Cooper and Charles F. Crisp for their long influence in creating and shaping the railroad commission and related interstate law.

Augusta Chronicle Americus Allen Fort Hela the Chronicle Alex Erwin Railroad Commission Sumter County Wadley Southwestern Railroad Savannah Albany New York Cooger General Assembly Sumter Georgia Congress Chas. F. Crisp Fort Reagan House of Congress Gen. Toombs Cooper Charles F. Crisp

Public sale of stock from Maddox and Perkins in Lumpkin

On January first the stock of Maddox and Perkins of Lumpkin will be sold at sheriff s sale. The sale continues daily until all goods are sold. Dealers are urged to attend to acquire groceries dry goods hardware and general merchandise. The notice ends with a Christmas charity prompt to give and feed a bootblack.

Recorder Messrs. Hudson & Blalock C. B. Hudson Bollcitor-General L.J. Blalock Sumter County Maddox & Perkies Lumpkin Bheriff Americas

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