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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1890
Page
4
Jorven and Nicholson advertise a fresh lot of apples bananas and oranges and invite a trial from new monthly customers. They claim the largest stock of fancy groceries in town and urge shoppers to visit for a trial.
John Preston now heads the Central railroad yards succeeding J. W. McGee. The Supreme Court will hear circuit cases around Friday with attorneys planning to travel to Atlanta Thursday night. Deputy U S Marshal C F Thomas of Macon arrested Georgian Parker for selling liquor without a license and took him to Macon for trial. The Improvement Company elected Thorn ton Wheatley secretary and John Windsor treasurer. charter application approved for publication. Superior Court delayed due to Judge Fort’s illness and will reconvene Wednesday for the motion docket. Baptist congregation plans to purchase a tent to hold services during church construction. telegram reports W A Harbuck died at Milledgeville asylum. he was a former local farmer.
The partnership between Ragan and Ragan is dissolved. The business will be operated by W. T. Ragan who moved to Americus about two years ago and has many friends. Henry Smaw will continue with him.
Martha Foster a colored woman formerly on Jenkins place near Morgan faced Judge Speer on a Thursday insanity charge. The jury found her insane and ordered her confined at the Milledgeville asylum. Bargain Sale announces Miss Anniel Pickett will auction three show cases two dozen shelf boxes half dozen revolving stools parlor stove table and trimmed hats bonnets and other millinery on Monday February 10 at very low prices.
The Alliance of Sumter county advances plans for a cotton bagging factory. Subscription hats for capital stock will circulate shortly. They aim to erect buildings and install machinery, hoping to be in operation by December first.
Due to a surge in Western Union Telegraph business another operator will be stationed at the city office. The change starts Monday February 17 and the office will then stay open until midnight.
New trestle work under Capt Coulter aims to rebuild the Muckabee trestle on the A M road. The project will be standard gauge and raised ten feet to remove the steep grade at the western end of the high trestle crossing the Central road.
The eastern end of Brannon Avenue was presented to the city by Col. 8. K. Taylor, with pear trees along the sidewalks. Since the land was donated, the pears would belong to the school boys, we suppose.
Primus Jones died in Atlanta at 1 40 pm in Hotel Weinwinter after a two week illness from pneumonia. A veteran of the forty first Georgia in the Civil War, he enlisted at sixteen, later returning home to Baker county. Born 1845 in Merriwether county, he became known for marketing the first bale of cotton each year since 1866. An unmarried man, he spent much of his life in quiet solitude and served three terms in the Georgia legislature with honor. His estate is valued at fifty thousand dollars. Funeral and burial will be in Atlanta tomorrow. M M F
Carl Willaner A 8 Mason and Carl Kaichlin of Chattahoochee Brewing Co Columbus Ga visited Americus this week to arrange sale of their beer through Americus Ice Company. Beer will be stored in the ice house and kept in a cold room ready for sale year round. The Americus venture aims for steady business and praises the managers as clever and excellent gentlemen.
On Sunday February 2 a colored man Daniel Hill two miles from Andersonville reported his house broken into while he and his family attended church. The thief cut a chest chain and stole a British bulldog pistol and several deeds including fifty acres in Sumter county and two lots in Andersonville, and one hundred acres in Macon county. No suspects yet. If found, Daniel vows to pursue the full extent of the law.
A Thursday night blaze leveled the dwelling smoke-house and dairy of Mrs. Susan Cherry in Stewart county. Flames, which began in the store-room with an unknown origin, consumed nearly all within. Mrs. Cherry, widow of Poindexter Cherry and mother-in-law of Lumpkin detective Holder, faces an unrecoverable loss as the community offers sympathy.
A Dawson citizen vents cautious support for subscriptions to the Recorder while expressing fear about a Black postmaster in Americus. The missive predicts political risk and urges self-preservation amid changing postal leadership and coin methods.
A rock was hurled through a coach window on a Saturday afternoon near Randals Crossing along the 8 A.M. road. The train halted and two boys were chased and captured by Troy Holder. Ed Bryant, ten, and Lemon Moses, eleven, were given a thrashing and admonished for future behavior.
The body of the late James Fricker was laid to rest Monday in Oak Grove Cemetery after services at the Presbyterian church. Rev. G. B. Eager of Anniston Alabama conducted the funeral and delivered an eloquent eulogy praising the deceased. Rev. A. B. Campbell also spoke, noting Mr Fricker's good qualities. Eager had pastored Fricker in Danville Virginia several years ago.
Monroe Adams Joe Dudley and Coot Jones were arrested for Monday night’s blaze at Brown and French’s. Adams, owner of a lunch stand next to the store, is linked to the crime with motive tied to a notice to vacate. Dudley a politician and Jones an employee of Pat Williams were arraigned with preliminary trial set after prosecution help was delayed. The plan used kerosene soaked cloth dropped into the cellar and a front entrance door barred by iron to reach the rear alley, with one bar bent to allow entry. Evidence ties Dudley and Jones to Adams before and after discovery of the fire.
Monday Mr. W. L. Mardre received enlistment papers from Adjutant General Kell for the Americas Light Infantry. Drawn under a last legislature act, the militia is enlisted for one year with a vow to support the Constitution and obey governor and officers. Enlistment begins February 18, and all company members will be sworn in Thursday night.
Col Nelson Tift Capt 8. RB Weaton of Albany with Col 8. H Hawkins visited Cordele yesterday to locate the line of the Albany Florida and Northern railroad, a 35 mile link. Weston serves as construction president and Tift as railroad company president, promising a rapid route from Albany to Macon via the Georgia Southern and Florida.
Monday morning a branch of the Atlanta National Building and Loan Association was organized in this city with officers including A C Bpeer as President H D Watts as Vice president L J Blaock as Attorney T A Graham as Secretary and Treasurer T J Brannon B F Nysewander and H D Watte as directors Barney Haynes named local agent the whole noting the new branch formation.
The Savannah and Western aims to reach Sterling within three months with track laying to begin after a trestle is finished. General Manager Gabbett reports strong progress and rail connections to the Savannah, Americus, and Montgomery line, boosting Savannah's commerce and regional industries. An unknown individual harmed a cow, injuring a teat, while a local note laments unreliable dray services and suggests white dray operators could capture business.
The Baptist ladies report the congregation will provide a temporary house of worship funded mainly by themselves. Unsolicited but generous, a group of young men gave 88.75 dollars to support the project without the ladies asking. The committee extends gratitude and invites the young men to share in future services at the new place. Cook's Pharmacy, 439 Cotton Avenue, calls answered at all hours.
Mr. W. G. Bailey, brother-in-law of Messrs. E. D. and C. A. Ansley, arrived to find a shoe store location but could not secure a suitable building. He planned to go to Owensboro, Kentucky. A house and lot on College Street are for sale or another on rent. H. T. DaVenrorr, Jan 5.
The piece advocates Hon. Chas. F. Crisp as the ideal candidate for Georgia's Third Congressional district and the fifty-second Congress, praising his leadership of Democrats in Congress and predicting a bright future. It signals the party's intent to back Crisp and notes upcoming declarations of Georgia Democrats.
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