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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1900
Page
4
General crop bulletin notes ample sunshine but below average season warmth with cool nights. Rain is needed to soften cotton and aid growth while wheat rust remains contained. plowing and planting continue across regions as corn, potatoes, peanuts, and melons show varied progress and fruit trees face shedding.
Rockdale cotton variable with some wheat rust and oats heating. corn plowed and cotton stands fair. Washington area reports good growth except wheat injury and early cotton grazed. oats heading in Wilkinson and cotton curled by cool weather. Appling sees yellowed corn and blighted apples. Brooke’s rainfall needed for cotton, Ryan area reports corn killed by recent rains, Calhoun notes corn plowing. Chatham soil drying but improving. Clay and Coffee report showers aiding growth, fruits and berries fine. Colul notes cotton chopped, corn good, fruit promising. Levator reports steady growth with rain for potatoes. Dooly clean crops and oats. Curl/Cotton chopping progressing. Irvin reports oats strong, fruits large. Lownder apples blighted, cotton nearly chopped, oats poor. McIntosh dry and cool with good crops. Marton cotton chopping, corn plowed, wheat uncertain. Stewart cotton and corn in good stands, gardens fine. Tattnal crops growing, fruit doing well.
Waukesha Wisconsin with mineral springs well kept drives and natural advantages is promoted as an ideal place to spend warm months. Wisconsin Central is described as the direct route from Chicago. Illustrated pamphlets about resorts are available from Jas C Pond G P A Milwaukee Wisconsin.
In a New York Institute program a deaf blind boy, Orris Benson Ivea, learns through touch and sign. Teachers use finger pressure and palm taps to convey sentences. He communicates a pocketed knife incident and progresses from basic object naming to elements of speech despite childhood meningitis.
Orris, a pupil at a New York Institution, shows remarkable progress in speech and communicating with familiar people. He enjoys history and geography, crafts wood carving and chair caning, and has modeled accurate copies of landmarks. Teachers praise his intellect, happiness, and growing independence. Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as a remedy for tired, debilitated conditions.
New Orleans hosts the Travelers Protective Association May 21 to 26, 1900. Southern Railway sells round trip tickets at one fare with sale May 6 to 13 and return valid May 33. For details contact City Ticket Office Kimball House or Union Depot Brooks Morgan.
From Atlanta and return 20.60 to Southern Railway with low fare tickets May 15 16 final limit June 3 1990. South ern Hailoway offers quick schedules with two daily trains from Atlanta. Information at Kimball House office or Union Depot Brooks Morgan District Passenger Agent Miller Co. Marietta Street advertises books and stationery at competitive prices.
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