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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1885
Page
5
After May 4 trains run east and south with listed departures from Buena Vista and Macon connections. Includes Sunday hours for selling ice and a Davenport’s Drug Store promotional note. Also mentions gloves at Jon B Shaw, prescriptions, and a sale of all wool goods with locals advertising bargains and a salesman’s remarks.
A brief meteorological note records rainfall totals and temperatures for Jano in 1885. It notes a total rainfall figure and a temperature reading, with values that appear from historical ledger entries and rough calibrations of the era.
On Friday July 3 an examination of the Howell school in the Fifteenth District will be held with a community picnic and a night exhibition. The event at Au Oil House invites all locals while the Chess-varley Company builds an oil house near the guano depots. Next Tuesday is the County Sunday School Association meeting at the Bank of Americas at 10 o clock.
The article describes drilling on the railroad well with casing details and potential water at depth amid marl beds. It includes local notices about social events, visitors, barbecues, farming updates, street life, and upcoming Fourth of July preparations in Americus and surrounding areas.
The plan to extend a line from Macon toward Americus could cost about 8000 dollars and yield fair returns. Local business leaders support testing its feasibility, with Manager Mullenix visiting Atlanta to push the proposal. a local company may form if authorities delay.
Reports from county soliciting committees show a bountiful meat supply for the barbecues at the Agricultural Picnic on July Fourth. Districts contest a generous rivalry to offer the most baskets of food. Water committees promise ample supply and orators prepare a grand display.
Col 8 H Hawkins president of the A P I railroad returned from a bus trip to Ohio arranging engine transport and care for the A B L road He cut freight costs by about half and expects one engine and cars to arrive by late next week He notes cool weather and frosts in Ohio.
The Atlanta Constitution notes at the Academy of the Immaculate Conception commencement that Miss Lillian Watts of this city won the Stat prize in mathematics for the second senior class and received four prizes for improvement in music.
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