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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1889
Page
5
Local items report travel plans, new prospects, and business. Several residents and visitors are mentioned from Moultrie, Macon, Columbus, and Richmond. A mercato of side-walks, a hunting party, and a rosewood piano gift are noted along with legal matters and minor crimes. The tone keeps a busy small town flavor with names, places, and dates.
Mr H H Laramore of Lee county details last year’s rural outputs on a three mule farm. He produced 1 100 gallons of syrup killed fifteen boge netting 8 707 pounds and harvested 500 bushels of corn on 35 acres with thirty five acres of cotton at 60 bales six hundred bushels of potatoes and oats and peas plus fodder. Dr R C Cotter Macon Ga offers eye ear and throat services at 572 Mulberry street corner Second. Fifty thousand bales cotton receipts in Americus this season rise to 75 000 bales as the market grows.
A reader urged action on gas service last night. The RecoupeR office received a call about gas issues. Campanini, hailed as the greatest tenor of the world, is booked by Manager Glover for this month.
The Sumter Superior Court will sit the fourth Monday in May. Judge Fort drawn a grand jury and traverse jurors for three weeks across three weekly sessions with named jurors listed for each week including IJ Nicholson and J M Howell. The item also mentions local grocers and a notice about public life, plus a death report and notes on convict labor plans in Sumter.
The up mail and express train to Macon was an hour late into Americus. Passengers bound for Macon were eager to eat, so the engineer sped the seventy-one miles in 105 minutes with all stops included. A notice asks Sumter stockholders of State Exchange of Sumter contr aub Alliance to meet at the courthouse at 10 Selecke Feb. Int. N. A. Ray, dawlt County Trustes.
A Lumpkin notable discusses the A P L extension, detailing an 110 mile line from Abbeville to Louvale with river boat connections to Brunswick and New York. He notes surveys toward Montgomery and a Chatta hoochee river route to Columbus, plus possible Eufaula link, with funding backing from Col Hawkins and English capital interest.
Mr P C Clegg buys the southwest corner of the Lawn property and plans a handsome building after arranging details. Mr Jac T Argo sells a Jefferson street lot to Cyrus Smith of Ohio, now residing in Sumter County, who will begin building at once. Citizens of Americus welcome both gentlemen and wish them success in their new ventures.
An old physician claims a vegetable remedy can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous complaints. He offers to mail the recipe free in German French or English with directions, to any who request it, as a public service. Shade tree planting was underway around the Granberry building at Laméat and Jackson.
In the city, Hon W W Hooke of Lee County and Dr N C Alston Jr of Richland visit. Miss Mattie Durham and Miss Sallie Lowe from Buena Vista stay with locals. Capt Brannon returns with two carloads of cotton on Buena Vista road. J L Moore, son of Mrs Tom Tinsley, is yardmaster at Americus Central yards. A group from Lumpkin’s and Stewart counties visits for business. A J Waite praises Brewer’s Lung Restorer for asthma linked cough and lung tightness.
Central road inspection train visited Americus on a Southwest division tour. Maj. M. S. Belknap and several railroad officials conducted a thorough property inspection with plans for annual record keeping and systemwide improvements. A. B. Harrold joined the party to Smithville on the private car. Casper Weaver’s lottery win noted from past text.
Nature's own true laxative, easy to take and effective for cleansing the system, relieving biliousness and headaches, curing habitual constipation, and aiding in cold and fever relief. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company, San Francisco.
The Savannah News reports a crowded Monday audience in Albany for Ealy and Brickens company and three more nights at the opera house. Morphet the illusionist drew top applause with Kellar style slate writing, while Nellie Peters and the Peters troupe impressed with ballads and dances. Phil Peters and Miss Peters received encores, and souvenir gifts were won by ticket holders.
Governor refused to intervene on behalf of Charles Blackman sentenced to death in Schley county for murder. An appeal by his attorney Edgar Hinton of Amersos is for a new respite until the Supreme Court can hear a new trial application on extraordinary grounds. The motion cannot be heard in vacation. The governor telegraphed Hinton that a hearing would be granted at once.
A brief obituary from Atlanta Georgia dated January 20 1630 mourns Will Latimer a frail child whose quick mind and gentle nature impressed a devoted father and patient mother. The notice records his deep pain in loss and his idolized role in the family.
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