Local notices and misfortunes fill a small town page
The column reports Elayille resident very ill and Mrs sore on nusiD asehouse Died at 42 from typhoid fever. Disbanded Light Infantry meet to discuss duties. Local mule traders advertise fine young broke mules. Grand jury returns true bills against seven youths for gambling known as shin. Link Williams faces bond and injury after accidental shooting. A wagon accident injures Mr. Hawkins with a dislocated knee. Dr. Hawkins notes a slow, painful recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Link Williams
E. A. Hawkins
Dr. Eldridge
Bigamist Hayes Faces Commitment Trial in Court
The Webster county committment trial for Bigamist Hayes was held before Judge Fort. Hayes’s NC connection surfaced via Justice L. D. Haynes who confirmed the first marriage to Julia E. Tucker in 1877 and revealed the wife’s ongoing support. Hayes is to be sent to Lumpkin for safekeeping, with an anticipated term of about three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baby Hayes
Stewart
Hayes
North Carolina
Haynes
Mr. Haynes
Mr. L D. Haynes
Lincolnton
Lincolnton County
N.C
Slaty Tayes
Julia E. Tucker
James
Lumpkin
Railroad Talk Turns to Lands Alongside the Route
In a late night discussion, a Doctor and cotton man dissect Linderman's railroad plans. They wager over motives and spotlight land values, suggesting English capitalists seek profits from surrounding timber, cotton, and farming lands rather than the rail line itself. Other locals note costs and regional benefits as Florida-bound lawyers hurry to catch a train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Linderman
Americas
Dublin
Savannah
Central Railroad
Americus
Central
Macon
East Tennessee
London
The New Road To Savannah Survey Advances Convict Work Looms
The surveying corps work on the proposed Savannah road continues while negotiations bring near two hundred convicts to begin construction once the survey ends. In Americus public opinion favors the project as a salvation and a catalyst to rival Macon in regional wholesale trade, with the warning that without the road Americus faces a self built completion this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
Americus
Macon
Notable land boom and canal scheme across Georgia
A speaker discusses buying a million acres of lake land at one dollar per acre, draining it, and selling the timber and land at higher prices while a canal venture served the people. The piece pivots to a Sunday reflection on charity, judgment, and letting others mind their own business, urging restraint in criticism and support for writers and advertisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Mrs. A
Mrs. B
Mrs. C
Mesars. Wooten & Ford
Americus Subscribes for 5000 Page Folders to Lure Immigration
Col 8 H Hawkins and Messrs H Bagley and J B D Shipp report Americus residents have funded a 5000 twenty page folder project. The brochures describe Americus and southwest Georgia highlighting climate wealth and lands to attract immigrants. Distribution targets Ohio readers via Dr Estabrooks excursion. Folders answer common questions and aim to persuade farmers to relocate south. J B Furuz announces reduced long loan rates on improved farming lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Estabrooka
Americus
Americas
Tam
J. B. Furozs
A. P. & L party tours country road trip
Col. H Hawkins president of A P and L led a party that included E Burr Jr of Bridgeport Conn president of Georgia Loan and Trust Co Moore of New York and H J Nichols of Boston. They rode the A P and L line to the country end, returned to Richland for the night and to enjoy local hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
At Cost Shoes and Plants Across Town
JOEN B SHAW offers mens pine hand sewed shoes at cost while Baty Hayes fears lynching if he travels to Lumpkin and is carried by Sheriff Dan Davis. Hayes is manacled, no escape risk. Also offers men's fine hand sewed boots and childrens shoes at cost and Chickering pianos for rent from Jas Pakken & Bro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joen B. Shaw
Lumpkin
Baty Hayes
Dan Davis
Hayes
John R. Shaw
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Jgenicus
Strange
McMichael
Mrs. Sore
Red Level
William
Black
A. Hunter
Ameri- Light Infantry
N. G. Prince
G.& J. Ke Prince
Cuthbert Enterprise
Atlanta
Atheta
The
Southret
New York
John BR. Shaw
Link
W.A. Hawkins
Willis
Bronwood
Col. C. B. Hudson
Bigamist Hayes
Hallroad
Americas Post Office
C—Champion
J. D
D—Dawsie
Bob
Dorsey
Matilda
F Franklin
Benjaman
G—Glaze
Henderson
H—Halliburton
Bilvey
Harris
Amanda
Harring
Martha
Mra
Brit
Henry
L—Lawery
M—Mitchell
Mary B
Moler
L. R—Resnilds
L. K
Rogers
Rhoda
Job
J. 0. Bowny
Americus, Ga
John & Shaw’s
Chickering Pianos
Jas, Pakken & Bro
Childrens
John IR
Shaw's
York
J. Waxeldrum
AND
J. Waxelbaum & Co
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