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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1885
Page
8
Narrator tours Marshallville area noting rising farm prosperity, improved fences, rock walls, and drainage. Visits Wilton Lake Nursery owned by Sam H. Rumph, admiration for orchard stock, peaches, plums, and fruit culture. Recollects old Georgia settlements, then warns against Mercury and Potash in medicines, promoting Swift's Specific with a testimonial from Cabot Arkansas.
A broad Georgia roundup reports on Thomaston soda fountains adopting free farm systems, Daltonia planning an opera house, and Albany drilling seven artesian wells. It notes Dodge county rats killed by dogs, Daw on youths eyeing a dramatic club, and Knights of Honor meeting in Marietta. Also mentioned are a memorial day possibility in Macon, a self-inflicted leg injury near Salt Springs, a four foot six inch hawk caught in Gordon county, and Sturgeon canned as salmon.
The February 10 drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery at the Exposition drew large crowds in New Orleans. A total of 265 500 was distributed, with tickets 28600 winning 75000 to a San Francisco resident, 88414 winning 25000 to a local purchaser, and 1130 winning 10000 sold in Lynn Massachusetts. Other big prizes of 6000 went to holders in New Orleans and Cincinnati. The next drawing is planned for April 14 with details from M A Dauphin of New Orleans.
A Southern World excerpt recounts Sandy Wanoway a colored man from Baldwin county who left for Liberia after the war then returned disgusted yet found steady work and built a $5000 farm with unlimited Milledgeville credit. It likens his success to Charles Vinson who owns 500 acres free of liens and praises their industry and honesty. Merchants readily extend goods and trust their cash payments.
The editor of the Dawson Journal visits Dr. R. Jones at his farm two miles from Dawson. He farms scientifically and keeps fields clean by burning coral stalks. Over three years he has removed 18,000 stumps. a 100 acre field yields about twenty bales of cotton. Corn yields thirty bushels per acre, with drills four feet apart. He also has 105 acres of oats with a fine stand.
Georgia curiosities include Master Eddie Roane of Lexington showing a hornet’s petrified relic as large as a man’s hat and a Confederate currency printing press. W T Witcher and R A McMahan, both of Crawford, own 1784 Spanish coins and a 1775 Spanish gold piece, while a coin sent to Miss Birdie McNulty was found near Jackson County Florida under a tree where Gen. Jackson once halted. A historical coon eludes capture as guardian of his haunts in southwest Georgia. The gardener’s seeds planted a month ago will soon show results for those who recently started.
Sumter County Sheriff sale to be held at the courthouse door in Americus Georgia on the first Tuesday in April between the usual hours. Property of T A Snelgrove levied by a Sumter Superior Court writ in favor of Harrold Jubnoun Co against T A Snelgrove. Sheriff W G Cobb.
Sheriff’s sale to public auction at the courthouse door in Americus Sumter County Georgia on the first Tuesday in April between the usual hours. Property of Americus Oil Company sold under power of a county court fire, in favor of L H Miller. Sheriff W H Cobb.
Levy of 1884 state and county taxes on the Americus Oil Company in Americus, Georgia, provides for sale before the courthouse next April during legal hours. Property includes a seam engine and boiler and fixtures in the engine room of the Americus Oil Mill near the Southwestern railroad. Sheriff 300 W. H. Cobb.
The sheriff sets a sale of twenty acres on the east side of the Ellaville road from Americus to Ellaville. Former residence of W. J. Patterson, now occupied by Wm. H. Morp. Property tied to a county court fi fa in Savannah Guano Co. vs Wm. H. Morgan. 3.42 H. Cobb, Sheriff.
Georgia Sumter County will sell before the Court house in the county on the first Tuesday in October two thirds interest in lots 117 and 151 in the 16th District Sumter, as the property of R L Kite, by virtue of a county court fire in favor of Savannah Granite Company vs B L Kite. W H Cobb, Sheriff.
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