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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1900
Page
2
The Georgia Pine Railway has shifted offices from West Bainbridge station to the Barn Building on North Broad and Water street. New facilities include phone and telegraph connections to West Bainbridge and the line to Arcadia.
The Savannah News notes the paper trust controls spruce forests in the North and West and uses tariff imports to set white paper prices. It cites New Orleans Times-Democrat seeking substitutes for spruce pulp with Mississippi chemist G. W. Soule praising sweetgum and cottonwood as superior stock.
Multiple notices announce mortgage and sheriff sales in Bainbridge Decatur County Georgia. Properties include an ice factory and power plant owned by Sigmund Nussbaum and several city lots, with details of boundaries and equipment. Sales occur on the first Tuesday in March with sheriffs Patterson and Parrington as officers.
In Decatur County Georgia the 62 1/2 acre tract at the northwest corner of land lot 4 in the Fifteenth district, owned by Emma I Harrell, will be sold before the courthouse in March during legal hours to satisfy a November 1888 Superior Court mortgage in favor of W H Brimberry Jr. The sale notice is dated February 6 1900 and is executed by Sheriff J F Patterson.
The Decatur Sheriff announces a sale before the court on the first Tuesday in March. The 125 acre tract is in the west half of lot 94 in the nineteenth district, lands levied to satisfy a Justice Court judgment from the 5th District, G M, dated November 1895 in favor of D A Briant against Mason Anderson and Ferida Anderson. Levy by the constable, February 6, 1900.
By order of M W Bates Tax Collector the Bainbridge courthouse will host the first Tuesday in March sale of multiple properties in Decatur County. Leased parcels include Lasseter and Langston tracts near Attapulgus Bainbridge road, numerous lots and tracts in the 11th 16th 21st 27th and 2nd districts, and parcels tied to W R Thomas O B Thomas M C Williams Cook Simon Steininger J A Butts J A Moyes and others. Each parcel is offered to satisfy unpaid state and county taxes for 1899 and 1900 with sheriff I F Patterson issuing the levy. Full list of parcels and boundaries given in notice.
The Presbyterian Church of Bainbridge Georgia invites bids February 15 for building a solid brick church in Bainbridge. Bids may cover either full labor and material or material plus labor with slate or tin roof options. A $6000 bond and solvent securities are required. committee reserves right to reject bids.
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