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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1885
Page
3
The column blends rural tips, social notes, and business chatter from Bainbridge and surrounding counties. It mentions crops like turnips and sweet potatoes, local marriages, deaths, and real estate, plus theater and hotel developments, with brief notes on markets, goods, and regional shipping plans.
A lively Sharon House gathering last Tuesday featured visiting Misses Love and Lizzie McEloy of Whigham among a crowd of local youths. Hosts Lee & Des Vergers and local gentlemen R L Bruce Thomas Scott and R A McTiere ensured comfort, highlighting Bainbridge's social leadership.
A thunderstorm struck the barbed wire yard of Mrs. Innis splitting gate posts and arcing to the Iron water main near the Lee House. Ed Philips, Artesian Well engineer, received a painful shock while shutting off boiler water. No serious injuries reported though a large pine near the jail was split and set afire.
The article notes a rising tobacco crop in the county with imported Havana varieties leading. It proposes forming a Tobacco Growers Association to import seeds, improve cultivation, handling, and marketing, claiming Decatur county tobacco rivals Cuban wrappers in quality and profitability. It asks Fowlstown residents for input on the idea.
A party of gentlemen near Spring Creek to kill rock fish halted when Chayley Eggerton was bitten on the foot by a venomous moccasin. He received antivenom and was saved after friends supplied liquor to ease pain before sleeping through the night.
Prominent local resident J J Mash was killed last week while locating a ditch in Thoms County after a rattlesnake bite. The piece notes snakes are more common due to few hogs running at large, claiming hogs are the rattler’s chief enemy and that hogs can bite and tear a rattlesnake apart.
A Quitman New South item describes a Thomas County woman building a home made evaporator in a room with a stove and air tight bar. She dries pears in about two and a half hours, using a bushel capacity per run, and has also dried peaches figs and pears. The device earns praise from the community for efficiency and success.
The Savannah News reports the annual Plant system inspection began yesterday with officers from the Charleston & Savannah and Savannah Florida & Western railways. The party left Charleston at 7 am on a special train and will travel to Gainesville and back. Members include C S Gadsden, RG Fieming, J W Craig, H W Ried, John R A Mew, W B Wil Howe Jr, and supervisors of both roads.
A notice on marriages at the Cairo Methodist church reports Rev J O Branch and Rev E L Padrick uniting Florence Williams and a local farmer’s daughter. The Sharon House passage marks retirement of John Sharon and lease to B G Lee Co with plans for a new name. A fatal riverboat collision near Haywood highlights rival lines and passenger casualties. Local life shines with fishing feats, school delays, rail depot inspections, and 19th century commerce and ads. A cyclone endangers the town while well known remedies flood the page.
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