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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1887
Page
5
Directors include B Jeididge The Zohn Peery and Weales with J W Wheatley as vice president W H Dudaey cashier and A W Smith assistant cashier.
The Americus Recorder notes the Quarterly Sunday School convention to be held at the Plains of Dura on Friday February 25 with an invitation to all Sunday School workers. M Spare presides over the County Association. Also reported is a marriage in Smithville on February 15 between W A Reid of Friendship and Eslie J Miller of Smithville, officiated by Rev J H Cawood. A Standard Brand whiskey agency for Americus is announced, and Prince Bros offers cheap fruit trees as a closing sale. A freight train north of Americus derailed near Andersonville causing delays to the Sip M and 8 45 PM passenger trains. no injuries reported.
The Superior Court opened at nine with Charles Williams murder case first on the docket but was postponed until morning due to missing key witnesses. The grand jury spent the day examining witnesses in the Erskine murder case, with full-week proceedings planned to clear the docket.
Special telegrams report Benedicts Monte Cristo company drawing full houses from Texarkana to Natchez with large crowds and praise. Other items note injunctions in a circus dispute, local events, garden weather, railway work progress, thefts, slick public notices, and various city personalities and entertainments.
W A Davis of Brunswick visited Americas to price mules and ended up buying a car load. He planned to move on to Kentucky but chose to ship via Albany due to lower freight, boosting Americas claim of competitive rates. He left for Albany to load stock for Brunswick, underscoring calls for equal freight rates and closer connections for regional merchants.
Trial Tuesday consumed most of the day as jurors declared Reese Walker guilty of assault with intent to murder for an axe attack on his wife. Arrested in Jacksonville on December 10, he admitted the crime and sought rapid punishment, amid a large crowd and strong public emotion. His attorney was J. aa has.
Matt Hart confronts a white fruit thief named Adam who grabbed a barrel of oranges in front of his store. The man admits guilt and pays, but when Matt tries to seize the charge, a hidden knife is drawn and Matt collapses, the thief fleeing toward the settler sun.
Agricultural delegates touring the A P and DL road on Thursday praised the hospitality of Americus and Sumter County citizens. Col Waddell offered resolutions, unanimously adopted, thanking Hon. S H Hawkins and Superintendent Bass for the rail line’s conduct and wishing prosperity for the road’s future and the region. The Americus city papers were requested to publish the resolution.
A large group of delegates from the Iste Agricultural Convention joined A P & L R R management for a special excursion to Lumpkin. The train left at ten and returned by four, after a two and a half hour ride and an hour lunch stop. Theatre plans promise Flora Moore in Bunch of Keys on the 28th and Benedict’s Monte Cristo Company on the 25th, with strong crowds expected.
The damp capitol halls of Nashville Tennessee drive demand for Coussens Honey of Tar among lawmakers. The fragmentary text notes relief and a hardy remedy sought amid the legislative session, reflecting a bygone era’s coughs and cold worries.
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