Pike County Grand Jury General Presentments 1897
The March term grand jury reports county offices in good order with notes on clerks sheriff tax collector and county treasurer. They urge jail improvements including ventilation water tower chimney and kitchen updates, endorse school and court administration and propose a 3.7 percent county tax levy and a bridge over Elkins Creek. They commend Judge Beck and Solicitor General Bloodworth and publish the presentments in two local papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Pike County
E. F. Dupree
Col
S. N. Woodward
John T. Hunt
G. M
W. T. Childers
J. H. Starr
Pike County Journal
Barnesville Cazette
County Commissioners
Elkins Creek
Zebulon
Williamson
Beck
Col. Bloodworth
Baliff
D. S. Hamilton
Barnesville Gazette
Scott's Emulsion Promises Richer Blood for Health
An advertisement asserts that poor blood causes weakness and that pills bitters or iron tonics cannot fix it. It promotes Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites as the best remedy to enrich the blood, available from druggists at 50 cents and one dollar through Scott and Bowne New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Scott & Bowne
New York
Manly respect endures for Judge Boynton despite defeat
The passage honors Judge Boynton as a respected, useful figure. It notes Pike County is generous, paying about $800 annually to paupers not on the poor farm. Eight inmates on the farm cost the county about $31 each yearly, totaling roughly $1,050 annually for indigent support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Elder
Board of Education
R. D. Adams
J. W. Means
Pike
A Night With W. H. Mitchell
Epior Gazette highlights Pike County's Will Mitchell as the genial host whose hospitality and refined home life charm visitors. The piece praises his large farm of thirteen plows and meticulous management, noting his wife Mrs. Mitchell as equally graceful and accomplished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epior Gazette
Pike County
Will
Mitchell
H. W.P
Administrator's Sale of Ella R. Dwelle Estate
Under a court order in Bartow county Georgia the administrator will sell on May 4 1897 at Barnesville Pike county Georgia the one acre lot with improvements in Barnesville bounded by Market Street J W Stafford Mrs M E Cochrane estate G L Summers and Greenwood Street to pay debts and distribute estate assets of Ella R Dwelle deceased. George W Dwelle administrator estate of Ella R Dwelle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Ordinary
Bartow County
Georgia
Barnesville
Pike County
Ella R. Dwelle
Market Street
J. W. Stafford
Inventive Americans and Chamberlains Remedy Endorsement
The piece notes Americans holding nearly 600000 patents, over a third of world total, praising Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a major modern benefit. Oakton Kentucky resident J W Vaughn testifies the product eases stomach cramps and has been trusted in his family for years. Sold by J H Blackburn Druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
J. W. Vaughn
Oakton
J. H. Blackburn
New Repair Shop Opens in Barnesville
J. W. Wooparp announces a repair shop in the rear of A. O. Murphey Hunt warehouse offering overhauling on buggies wagons and farm work for 1897 with Charles Chatfield a skilled horse shoer. Satisfaction guaranteed call to view and try services in Barnesville Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. O. Murphey & Hunt
Charles Chatfield
J. W. Wooparp
Barnesville
For Sale in Thomaston GA Elegant Hammond House Ad
For sale at Thomaston Georgia an elegant home named the Hammond House. Ten rooms with every convenience on a corner lot facing two streets one block from the public square and a large lot with outbuildings. Sold on reasonable terms to the right party. For details address W. T. Hammond Thomaston Ga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
W. T. Hammoond
Thomaston
Wanted Reliable Salesman for Lubricants in Cleveland
Classified ad seeks a reliable salesman to sell a complete line of lubricating oils to gin mills sugar plants and planters in the Cleveland area. Salary or commission offered by Atlantic Refining Co. This is a good opportunity for a proper party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Refining Co
Cleveland
Ohio
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Royal Baking Powder CO
T. J. Blasingame
Clerk Superior Court
J. D. Carreker
Justices OF the Peace and Notaries
Court House
W. P. Hemphill
B. H. Harpy
Foreman
A. G. Harp
J. E. Gardner
T. W. Cochran
J. W. Dunbar
Charles Matthews
J. L. Duncan
J.T. Blackman
M. K. Jordan
J. L. Hunt
W. A. Carreker
J. R. Franklin
J. W. Head
J. P. Seagraves
J. J. Fisher
J. H. Shackelford
J. M. Scott
W. P. Holmes
R. M. Scott
Josephus Coggins
C. G. Driver
Pike Superior Court
J. B Maruens
M. E. Burr
Cols
J. F. Redding
Burr
J. S. Boynton
Griffin
Claud Estes
Macon
Cols. Boynton
Estes
Col. Woodward
Col. Redding
Supreme Court
Grand Jury
C. L. Pitts
Bill Horton
Dock
Elmo Lyon
Oscar Allen
Ely Harden
Anderson Gates
State
John Lenoir
R. Safford
Tillie Barker
Will Hinton
Genus Lyon
John Collier
G. E. McCarthy
Robert Jenkins
Squire Banks
John Day
W.S. McCord
James S. Boynton
McDaniel
Boynton
W. H. Mitchell
George W. DwElle
Morris Jacobs
Barnesville, GA
J. W. Hightower
J. We Hightower
C. B. Rouss
N. Y
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