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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1889
Page
3
An article extols the graft of a rail and steamship network connecting Georgia to Liverpool, promising cheaper rates and steady cotton export to England. It highlights subscriptions and special rates, urging support for a wider maritime trade that benefits farmers state wide.
The Athens area plans a fair after neighborhood debate with a committee forming a rapid response group to organize four days of fun and merriment. Reports mention baseball league shakeups, rising real estate prices, and discussions on officer attire for Marines. A recovered condition of ex Speaker Randall is noted as Congress approaches.
The Alliance reports a contract let to McGinty and Hunnicutt for a two hundred fifty by one hundred ten foot warehouse with a 480 foot inner court, to be finished by October 10. The plan was shown by Mr. Lester and confirms the Alliance will hold cotton and manage funds, with a meeting in Athens on the 20th to finalize plans.
Athens letters from September 16 and 17 invite Hon. H. H. Carlton to address the Alliance at the Athens court house on October 2, a Saturday. T. A. Lester responds promising to attend at the same time and place, expressing appreciation for the invitation and constituency support.
Telegraphic Sparks reports the Democratic Colored Convention in Harrisburg denounces Republican sincerity. Georgia excursionists spent yesterday visiting Dayton farms. Rev E R Walls, a rural teacher near Birmingham, was fatally assaulted by six patrons for whipping their children. He is expected to die. Mr Tuck proposed a bill to amend Athens charter. The Administration faces mounting criticism as its influence degrades the Republican party in Virginia.
The article lauds Prof H C White as an expert and diligent state chemist, vindicated from neglect charges by a special committee and Agriculture Commissioner letters. It notes a prior barber shop anecdote and reports Capt James O Farrell appointed as solicitor agent at the C M Railroad.
A committee of Athens citizens forms a stock and poultry company to run a new fair after other plans stalled. They subscribe 1206 dollars, plan prize racing, baseball, fireworks, and speeches by Henry W. Grady and Governor Gordon, inviting Georgia racers and Alliance members for a Northeast Georgia event.
Prof Bond cites a Macon area grower producing jute up to ten to twelve feet high yielding 5 000 to 6 000 pounds per acre. The piece notes the fiber separation challenge, hopes American ingenuity will yield a separating machine, and urges Alliance farmers to monitor the Ma con patch and back innovation.
County farmer Tom Hudson said hay and corn look best but cotton has stopped growing and shows red stalks with boils. County farm cultivator Stencil Baundh links reddening to a wet spell and expects a fine yield despite some shedding. Barnieh notes some boll shedding yet anticipates lint development.
Farmers are switching to cotton bagging and expect exclusive use as jute supplies run out. Alliance members vow to shun the late trust bagging and anticipate ample supply of cotton bagging in large quantities.
A prize fight between Thomas E. Jackson and Ed Ancarn in a St Louis saloon ends after eleven rounds with Jackson collapsing and dying several hours later. Three physicians failed to save him. Jackson was the son of a prominent local politician. The police chief orders arrests of all parties involved.
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