Velvet Bean praised as soil healer and profitable crop
The Velvet Bean is extolled for nitrogen fixing and soil improvement across the South. Alabama Experiment Station shows one acre yields 201 pounds of nitrogen, with a potential fertilizer value far above cotton seed meal. Trials on poor lands in Florida show dramatic soil benefits and high yields. farmers urged to plant as a rotation, with seed available from Kline O Warn of Fort Meade Florida for testing. A side note recounts Rockefeller senior raising kerosene prices after his son’s stock loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legune
Alabama Experiment Station
Florida
Kline O. Warn
Fort Meade
Fla
Building Bid Notice for Bainbridge Presbyterian Church
The Building Committee of the Presbyterian Church of Bainbridge Georgia invites bids to build and complete a solid brick church in Bainbridge between February 15 and a later date. Bids must follow plans on file with Jno Donalson and R W Fleming, specify tin or slate roof options, include material costs, and be directed to Chas R Nisbet, with a $6000 bond and solvency proof. The committee may reject any bid or issue the contract at its sole discretion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church of
Bainbridge
Jno
E. Donalson
R. W. Fleming
Towit
Chas. R. Nisbet
Decatur County
Chas. R. III
Ingersoll Blesses Baby on Chicago Pullman Ride
Architect Goodrich recounts a January 12, 1898 encounter on a Chicago to New York Pullman. Col Col Ingersoll stood beside a mother and her baby as the child said a bedtime prayer and the famous speaker blessed the child and all. The anecdote ends with the baby uttering good night and Ingersoll’s grateful reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Wordsworth Goodrich
Sayna Battimore Dispatch
New York
Chicago
Robert G. Ingernoll
Col. Ingersoll
Mamma
Papa
Ingersoll
Decatur County Sheriff Sale Notices in Bainbridge
Legal advertisements report sales by Decatur County officials in Bainbridge. The first notice lists property of Sigmund Nussbaum, including Thronateeska Ice Light & Power Co. plant components, boilers, dynamos, and related equipment, to satisfy bank judgments. The second notice describes a Bainbridge city lot owned by Ed T. C. Dickenson, levied to satisfy a Superior Court writ. A third item concerns Emma I. Harrell’s mortgaged 62 1/2 acres in the Fifteenth district, levied per a 1588 Brimberry suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Decatur County
Bainbridge
A. Cohn & Co
Sigmund Nussbaum
Thronateeska Ice, Light & Power Co
Hardie-Tynes Foundry and Machine Co
J.S. Schofields Sons
Corliss
Hardie Tynes Foundry & Machine Co
K. W
Fort Wayne Corporation
Fifa
Bainbridge State Bank
Nussbaum
L. F. Patrinson
Sherff
Decatur Sheriff Sale Listings in Bainbridge Georgia
Multiple property foreclosures listed for sale on the first Tuesday in March in Bainbridge and surrounding Decatur County. Properties include Lot 178 in the 14th District, a Bainbridge city lot bounded by Broad Street and local properties, 125 acres off the west half of Lot 94, and the south half of Lot 75 in the 15th district. Foreclosures arise from City Court, Superior Court, and Justice Court actions dated 1895 to 1898, with various claimants including Donalson Hawes, Collins Manufacturing Co, and K M Roberts. Sheriff L F Patterson and L P Parrrraon note February 1900 dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Georgia
Decatur County
Bainbridge
Said
Evans Street
John E. Donalson
Hall Street
Caroline Donalson
Evans and
Hall Streets
Ed T. C. Dickenson
Superior Court
Court House
Said County
Thomas Grandison
Donalson & Hawes
T. G. Grandison
Hanl Gibson, Sr
H. H. Gibson
L. F. Patterson
Towit
Broad Street
Lida Bruton
Presbyterian Church
Julia Morgan
Justice’s Court
G. M
D. L. Briant
Mason
Anderson
Ferida Anderson
Levy
Onty-Five
K. M. Roberts
J. KR. Dean
Todo. L
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Dr. Williams
John Tunsey
Baker Street
Detroit
Mich
Bragkin & CO
North Broad Street
Surreys
Brackin & CO
Bainbridge, GA
aPu Fpr
Outgome
Troy
Ozark Prichard
Thomasvil
Valdosta
Dupont Waycross
Acksonviil
Jacksonvil
Palatka
Deland Sanford
Orlando Kissimme
Lakeland
Tampa
Port
Savannah
Charleston
Brunswick
Fainesville
Ocala
Trilby
Yates Belieair
Petersbur
Dupont
Oak Lake City
Igh
Takeimea
Hery
Troyam
Montgomery
The
Georgia Pine Railway Co
North Hound
South BO
9Th Meridian
Jacksonville
Waycross
Thomasville
Oykin
Colquitt Amascus
Arlingter
Arlington
Albany
Smithville
Americus
Fort Valley
Macon
Atlanta
Georgia Pine Railway
Central of Georgia
Central of Ga
Joelbany
West Bainbridge
Syeem
R. B. Coleman
Rockefeller
Atlanta Journal
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Arkoh
Emmal. Harrell
Emma I. Harrell
W. H. Brimberry, Jr
Emma J. Harrell
L. F. Patterses
Home Cure
H. L. Myers
Mulberry St
Newark
N. J
Ss. S. S
Swift Specific Co
C. Kvenk
Wells, Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Farrow
Meade, Mich
Bagkaghe
L. F. Patternon
W. H. Bishop
Central of Georgia Railway
Ocean Steamship Co
Boston
Lone
HINT
Traffic
Theo
D. Kline
Geneval
Haile
Gen
Pass Agt Nah
H. A. Turner
Lang Pasa
Foundry
Sutherian
Machine Works
West Bainbridge, Georgia
Ueehs
AMD
Valdosta Georg
Ae Foundry & Machi Valdosta
Thadenew and
Elouiie
Savana
Ita
de Fers
Stesme PS
Cratv
Exotel -Wybpe
Tyree Island
F. Graham
Dunlap
Stetson
Miller, Young and Gotham
Pine Way
C.O.D
Bale , Levy & & Bro
Savannah, Ga
Wicwillan
Price & Lis
Srheris
Alweys
P. O. Hox
J.P. Williams Company
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