Albany Baseball Series and Rail Work Update
The Albany club will host games on the 20th and 21st with an Albany umpire, while solicitations seek matches with teams in Macon Hawkinsville Athbert Ellaville Oglethorpe Columbus Perry and Thomasville to be played in this city on the A P L railroad. Six flats of rolling stock arrived for the A P L railroad with eleven more cars expected. the locomotive is awaited daily. Lightning struck a cotton field near D W Bagley’s farm destroying an eighth of an acre of cotton in a single strike. An accident on the A P L occurred when a heavily loaded pole car hit a washed-out section, injuring a colored worker named Randolph and delaying track work. Mr Herrington lost a drill at two hundred forty feet and well operations remain suspended. The Piping thimble was brazed imperfectly and the eight inch drill snapped it off. Fishing tools are in Macon shops awaiting delivery, and water stands six feet below the surface, clear and cold.
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Albany
Macon
Hawkinsville
Athbert
Ellaville
Oglethorpe
Columbus
Perry
Thomasville
D. W. Bagley
Randolph
Buena Vista Railroad
Buena Vista
Thornton Wheatley
Grand Lodge of the American Legion of Honor
Atlanta
Monk and Moore
Satilla River
J. W. Sheffeld
Cumberland Island
John Ed
Thomas
Sumter County
J. Cohen
Nora
Sanderaville
The
A. Read
Americus
W. P. Jowera
Wax—elbaum
Jowets
Cotton Avenue
Buena Vists Sentinel
Chattahoochee
Sumter
Stewart, Webster
Schley
Georgia
Creole Swarthiness and Fodder Pulling Talk in Schley
In Schley and nearby towns many notes on weather and crops fill the page. Fodder pulling time nears as cotton bales soon arrive. crops look well. Visitors include Miss Ida Monroe and Miss Lulu Harris. several local men travel or move, while artesian wells and eggs command steady prices.
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Mattie Collingsworth
Capt. Bell
Dorse Shierling
Schley
Marion
Judge Josby
Preston
Ida Monroe
Putnam
Lulu Harris
Friendship
Ellaville Club
Andersonville
Lott Warren
Taylor Street
Artesian Bulletin
Sloan
A Hard Road to Travel
A narrative notes a vile road from the city limits near Capt. Felder’s along the Huguenin road, described as a corduroy jumpy path needing immediate repair. The text also mentions Davenport's drug store offering a fall assortment of flavorings and extracts.
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Davenport
Hatcher Sues Central Railroad for Wagon Wheel Loss
Justice Mize presided as J. M. Hatcher sought damages for a wagon wheel loss after a narrow escape crossing the railroad. A jury returned thirteen dollars and fifty-five cents for the plaintiff, citing the engine struck the wagon before it cleared the track as his horse moved slowly.
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Mize
J. M. Hatcher
Central Railroad Co
A Dudish Snob Critiques and Cigar Smoker Mockery
A letter attacks The Smoker in last week's Republican for crude remarks about town and country at the agricultural picnic on the 4th. The writer, calling the smoker egotistical and a bad example of cigarette use, offers a rebuke and notes doctors warn of brain softening.
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Republican
Veterans Reunion Plan in Milledgeville for Survivors
Nation of the survivors led by Phil Cook plans a reunion on a second day visit to the Asylum and other local points of interest in Milledgeville. The city offers history and hospitality as railroads charge full fare there and one cent per mile back for regiment members and their families. Capt. Sam Walker is collecting names to organize accommodations and meals for attendees.
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Adhesson
Phil Cook
Milledgeville
Histone Inter Cab
Sam Walker
Melon car loads and a magnetized well report
Albany News boasted of a fifty melon display average fifty pounds and a Southwest Georgia shipment to Cincinnati by McGarrah and Smith. A separate artesian well story notes a magnetism phenomenon attracting nails and tools to the casing, drawing crowds to the site.
Fishing on a Large Scale near Gold Point
Tuesday Mr. J. C. Mathews and family joined a fishing trip with B. Hudson. They landed five carp averaging around ten pounds, smallest three pounds, with two larger ones. They kept only one for a meal, returning the rest, though tale suggests Col. Charlie may have taken more of the catch.
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J. C. Mathews
B. Hudson’s
Mathews
Col. Charlie
Thehsne
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Schley County
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Eufaula
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Emory College
Sunday Constitution
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Blue Ridge Mountains
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Bowery Prairie
Freestone County
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Tom Graham
Hugh
Messrs. Miller & McCall
Americus Presbyterrian Church
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Owen Nelson Institute
Col. Brown
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Askew
Webster County
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I. W. Harper's
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