Carter and Crosston family mourned in Mossy Dell
In Mossy Dell May 7 the community mourns Miss Mary Crosxton who died of pneumonia at 69 and Mrs. J A Carter as a devoted wife leaves four young children. Funeral notes, local notices, and humor fill a column, with Saint Mary Harper and Tom Harper named among Mrs. Carter’s kin. Also reports mild outbreaks of mumps and farming updates from Simeon and the Northern Iron Men cutting May prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mossy Dell
J. A. Carter
Misa Mary Croton
Old Lebanon Church
Dovelork
Mrs
Carter
Mosera
Harper
Marion Harper
Americin
Tom Harper
Near
Elfayille
Mia
Mary Lizale
Richland
A. RB. Campbell
Americus
May Day at Plains of Dura Festival Highlights May Queen Crowning
Mrs Reynolds visits Greene county and names the Os visitor list includes Mr Evans of Atlanta and Miss Dunp Jennings with J W Hiller. Mrs Jernigan brings harvest produce. Mrs J Carter dies near there and is to be buried at Lebanon. Visitors from Macon and Ohio stay with local families. Baptist church work progresses and a village festival yields a lively May Queen coronation won by Annie Thomas. The wreath by Mrs Anna Markett features white pinks and daisies. About seventy five dollars raised. Bro Stubbs delivers a sermon to a full house. Rosai
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynolds
Davenport
Greene County
Mr. Evans
Atlanta
Slappy
Dunp Jennings
J. W. Hiller
Americus
Lonnie Selig
M. B. West
Alex Chappell
Jern
Annie Thomas
Mra
Anna Markett
Stubbs
Rosai
Oglethorpe News Roundup May 8 1889
The May weather boosts crops with cotton growth checked by cool nights while corn wheat and oats thrive. Peach and fruit yields look set, with local shipments planned. Judge Allen Fort opens a two week Superior Court term next Monday. Locals attend picnics, travel plans, and a Sunday School convention in Brunswick. Clarence notes Harper’s Magazine praise for Richard Malcolm Johnston’s Ogechee Cross Firing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Rumph
Thistlewood
Allen Fort
Oglethorpe
Buck Creek
Macon
W. G. Keen
Collins Bros
St. Louis
Messrs
M. J. Shealy
W. G. Johnson
EF. Willis
Savannah
Brunswick
BE. F. Willis
Clarence
Sad loss and community notes from Louvale Georgia
A long personal letter from Louvale Georgia recounts losing a five month old baby to brain congestion after bronchitis, the burial at Smith's Station, and family grief. It mentions Mr S. Johnston’s health, plans for a meeting at Green Hill, and local postal changes. The writer travels Alabama towns for road congress business, reports crop prospects, and praises Columbus Fertilizer Company. Florals in Gainesville attract attention, with roses and a silver and green variegated plant noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louvalk
Nileht
Smith’s Station
Columbus
Johnston
Mack Daniel
Cam
Gireen Hill
Fenn
Congress
Atlanta
Alabama
Opelika
Lafayette
Tuskeegee
Montgomery
Chambers County
H. Bussey
Columbus Fertilizer Company
Florida
Americus
Jennie Bussey
Cuthbert
Talbot
A. Ellerson
Ellerslie
Beasie
U.U. EL
Railway schedule complaints and local impacts in Dawson
The editor of the Cuthbert Liberal is right about the eight A.M. schedule and the Central and A.M. railroads. Delays and mis-timed trains hinder business from Cordele Americus Richland Macon and other towns, blamed on benefit to local hotels and livery stables. The piece notes costly delays, slow mail delivery, and calls for schedule reform to ease commerce. It also mentions church growth, baptisms, and civic improvements, plus a farmer meeting and a New York financial society forming in Dawson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Cordele
Richland
Col. Parker
McClintock
Prince Bros
Americus
Lumpkin
S.A. M
Smithville
Albany
Tifton
Tam
8. C. Powell
Ben Terrell
Sequine
Texas
Terrell County
Hart’s Opera House
Wm. Martin
W.T. Payne
New York
National Mutual Building and Loan Association
JL. A. Lowery
H. Bell
J. G. Parks
Southwestern
Georgia
Local prospects rise with new company and infrastructure plans
A new company with capital of 25000 plans growth including a cotton compress and electric lights, while city leaders push church property development on Stonewall street. The Methodist District Conference meets Friday, Rev D F Riley preaches Sunday, and a juvenile entertainment follows. A Presbyterian ice cream festival prospers, and a spelling bee is slated at the armory hall. County commissioners name delegates to Road Congress as local papers note visits and city pride grows amid blooming magnolias and improving flower yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church
Stonewall Street
Dawson Real Estate
Methodist District Conference
D. F. Riley
Albany
Methodist
Terrell County
Road Congress
Geo. C. Hill
W. D. Murray
F. L. Rainey
Hardy
Atlanta Constitution
A. K. Jennings
E. K. Rainey
Macon Evening News
Ada Rainey
Perry
Our City
E. L. Rainey
J. H. Guerry
J. M. Griggs
Randolph Superior Court
Dawson
New York Investors Eye Georgia Rail Consolidation
Alfred Sully and partners of New York inspect Georgia lines to form a large independent syndicate. They plan to extend the Chattanooga Rome and Columbus route toward Atlanta, connect with Savannah via multiple branches, and unite Cooper Hawkins lines to reach Savannah. A Boston syndicate reportedly bought 1,700 acres in Whitfield and Catoosa for a steel plant along the Western and Atlantic line, at a cost around 20,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Sully
New York
Georgia
Savannah
Chattanooga
Rome
Columbus
Atlanta
Atanta
Florida
Macon
Dublin
Georgia Midland
Albany
Covington
Col. Hawkins
Americus
Montgomery
Abbeville
Hawkins
Messra
Borg
Dow
Sully
Wood
Florida Road
Williamson
Rome Road
Boston
Whitfield
Catoosa
Western and Atlantic Railroad
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Trotte
Tropic
Frank McWilliams
Mr. Frank
Squire
Logan
I. N. Cheek
Fidelity Alliance
Simeon
Plains OF
Dura
The
Richard Malcolm Johnston
Harper's Magazine
Louvale
Judge Estes
Gainesville
Nashville American
A. Hack
Applic
Hawk Newbon
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