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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1891
Page
4
New York May cotton futures quotes show firm tone with middling uplands at 41 3 16 cents. Trading activity notes 6 000 bales and receipts totaling 60 100.
An advertisement claims Botanic Blood Balm cures long standing female complaints and restores strength. It cites distressing family illness, failing health and exhausted nerves. A user from Hawkinsville Georgia reports wife improved after six bottles.
Exeranpina Florida May 19 a notorious figure Murray killed Deputy Sheriff Joe Robinson and wounded a policeman. A six man posse pursued him after a failed arrest and a previous resistance. Sheriff O Neal leads the chase amid talk of lynching if captured.
Picnics and barbecues accompanied by good crops as residents report an enjoyable chamber bridge gathering last Saturday. J P Edwards and family travel to Lawrenceville for a sick brother-in-law visit while Mrs Emma Eberhart visits her sister. Sheriff Henderson and Oscar Brown tour the county on legal business.
The report notes a Royal Arch monthly gathering with visiting brothers Jobo Turner and Wm 4H. Smith of Cole Jefferson Ga. and others attending events in Athens, plus local farm and streetcar activity. It mentions physicians busy with regional sickness and praises Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women with a money-back guarantee.
Rev B F Elliott of Athens returns home. The Lawrenceville arrest of Farmer slayer Drake confounded a tramp named Snider recently in town. Officers and posse to Lawrenceville. Turner and Smith attend Harmony Grove Mason meeting. A regular Justice's court convened at 10 with several docketed cases. Col R L J Smith of Harmony Grove attended.
Protracted services at the Methodist church closed with 21 additions to membership. Baptist and Presbyterian Sunday schools plan a picnic at Toccoa Falls tomorrow while the Methodist group will meet at Garnett Springs next Friday. Citizens to attend Rev Culpepper's meeting in Athens. the town notes rain renewal and mentions at least five hundred Black residents.
Willy Tabor, a colored man, fled Madison County toward Franklin after an encounter at Jones Bridge. A stranded armed assailant demanded him to stop. Tabor grabbed a rock and struck, killing the assailant who died minutes later from a crushed skull. Tabor fled the scene.
The YMCA rooms will be filled for Col Richard Malcolm Johnson to read from his own works with wit and humor. The program includes readings and will be introduced by Prof P Willson to an audience expected to be large and receptive.
A dynamite laden flatcar exploded near Tannytown New York while railroad blasting was underway. Thirty men reportedly died and many were injured as tracks were wrecked and the wreckage cleared. Casualty details are uncertain and origins unknown.
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