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Newspaper
Americus Weekly Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1889
Page
4
The Americus Recouper publishes daily and weekly editions with broad circulation across Southwest Georgia. Highlights include local grafted notices on dances, lumber ads, a district meeting, a Methodist revival, a store push for new goods, and social events such as a moonlight ride and lodge celebrations in Americus and surrounding areas.
Columbus extension of the Ba vanaland Western road finished to Buna Viera at half past five. A large crowd welcomed the completion. A regular passenger and freight train will run within ten days after surfacing. Two and a half years of work credited to A. B. Harrold and resident engineer Thomas Harrold. Americus and Columbus linked by iron bands.
A Jacksonville hosted fancy dress event for Mrs Stoughton’s sisters Maggie and Lucia Rees and Americus children. Attendees wore varied costumes from gods and Indians to sailors and pages. Flowers formed a bouquet. All left by 11 after a joyful evening, with praised attire and decor.
A month after a splinter nearly pierced Charley Phillips foot two splinters were found. The first measured two inches after extraction. a second one and a half inches long remained undetected until recently and was pulled out by the boy himself.
Mr. Frank A. Hooper a young and talented lawyer of this city has been requested to deliver the prizes at Andrew Female College in Cuthbert on the 4th of June next and to deliver the commencement oration at Lumpkin for Lumpkin High School on the 5th of June. He has consented to act in both instances and we are confident that he will interest the audience on both occasions.
Judge Allen Fort bought the Nicholson residence on Lee Street from Wm. A. Black heirs for 3000 dollars. The old house will be torn down to make way for a handsome new residence on a beautiful lot. Also notes an ad for Samarit an Nervine claiming asthma relief and renewed health.
A Columbus reader argues the Savannah Americus and Montgomery line is controlled by Louisville and Nashville. He predicts standards gauge, extensions to Savannah Columbus and Montgomery, and a shift making Columbus a major southern railroad hub with rival systems including Central and Williamson.
Convict Mathew Jackson, a five year prisoner for burglary, was killed on the Columbus extension of the B V and E railroad while attempting to escape with five others. He burglarized Hitchcock's house in the 28th district last year and will not answer roll call again.
The widening of the gauge on the 5 A. M. road advances rapidly with about twenty miles laid and two miles laid daily. All necessary iron has arrived in the state and is being delivered at Americus Cordele and Abbeville. The broad gauge will be in operation within thirty days.
A Sunday 1:35 special train reached Central depot Americus from Columbus in three and a half hours over a new road not yet surfaced. The voyage had but one car engine 118 with G W Jackson as engineer and J B Phillips as fireman. The trip drew few citizens, and a RECORDER reporter planned a welcome. Officials listed include W H McClintock and others. The party praised the Savannah and Western extension and suggested future fruit business growth. water supply relies on streams along route.
A sweeping dry goods sale offers palms fans, laces, prints and fabrics at low prices before they vanish. In Lee Superior Court the term featured three murder trials with sentences for John Pickett and Elias Hood, while Henry Watkins’ murder charge remained undecided. Citizens praised Lee County’s industrious harvest outlook and M. E. Love hosted guests at Lindsay House with substantial press turnout.
Public understanding delays the Baptist Church building committee but plans to begin immediately. A $20000 goal aims to fund a new house of worship considered worth more than the sum, with residents urged to be cheerful liberal contributors as committees canvass this week for subscriptions.
At the quarterly conference on Sunday the East Americas Church decided the present house of worship is too small for the growing membership. A committee led by Rev. R. F. Williamson will seek subscriptions to fund a new, larger building on a Jackson hill lot, as repairs to expand the old site are deemed too costly. Local citizens are urged to support the fund drive. Also noted is a planned June trip for several residents to New York and then London and Paris on a pleasure excursion, with destinations including J W Sheffield J W Furlow J C Nicholson J W Wheatley M Speer and daughter Carrie Jas Fricker and daughter Minnie.
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