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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1885
Page
6
Mayoral and aldermanic names appear with campaign talk. Various residents travel, marry, start farms, or buy businesses in Barnesville and Jackson. A railroad meeting convenes, and local entrepreneurs plan a buggy depot and undertaker services.
The Allen and Tisinger law firm has expired by limitation. C. B. and J. H. Andrews will soon open a mercantile business in Thomaston. After September Mr. S. W. D. Caraway joins the Times staff and serves as assistant postmaster at Thomaston. Hollis of Monroe County visited with a pear stem bearing twelve pears. C. Middlebrooks was active at the State Agricultural Convention introducing and carrying two resolutions. he is popular with delegates and convention officers.
The Barnesville Oil Mills offer cotton ginning with bagging and seed, plus five cents per bushel, and free cotton delivery to town warehouses. A Camp meeting trip incident involved three young girls and conductor incident as they returned home. Judge J B Pope noted for his civility and praise as a local leader and educator, with his son enrolled in Gordon Institute.
Advertises loans of 15000 dollars or 20000 dollars on Barnesville property and any amount on unencumbered farm lands. Signed by J. J. Rocens with formal notice of readiness to lend and request for borrowers to contact.
Farmers are urged to bring seed cotton to Barnesville Oil Mills where gins operate at high speed. Each bale can be produced in about thirty minutes with unloading time. Ginned cotton is delivered free to any town warehouse.
Mr RS Crutchor returns from Western Markets while Messrs Trout Lambdin and Murphey travel to meetings. J T Hunt Co plans to host D Romway after Sept 1 to build a cotton buying business here. Rent offered for a brick store room. A young Milhe Cow for sale at 100 dollars. Mosquito netting and frames offered by Wilson & Stiff. Murphey advertises sale of stock farm partnership interest in Echeconne Monroe County.
In the advertising columns today an advertisement by Mr W R Church advertises carriages buggies road carts and harness. He manufactures and keeps on hand the styles named and invites patrons in Atlanta to visit 53 Broad Street for purchases or further particulars.
Six years after its founding the Southern Medical College is hailed as one of the thoroughest schools in the country. It offers superior bedside instruction in all diseases under a capable faculty and is commended to young men seeking medical education.
The article notes rust appearing in several fields risks material injury to a late crop unless hot dry weather returns. The cotton crop is about three weeks late and the rust could cause significant damage if conditions do not improve soon.
Advert says the Barnesville Oil Mill gin has overhauled gins and offers first bale of the season free of charge. It also lists a house and lot at Liberty Hill for sale with four rooms, plastered two rooms, a garden, crib and stable, priced at 250.00 dollars.
Advertises for salesmen agents canvassers with invitation to send name to J. M. Humphries 27 Cotton Ave Macon Georgia No Postals answered.
The Gazette notes rising circulation of four thousand as advertisers target planters across Pike Monroe Upson Meriwether Crawford Spalding Butts and Talbot. Col J J Rogers reports caterpillars defoliating a cotton limb and authorities cite control methods from the State Agricultural Society for farmers facing such pest outbreaks. Upson taxables rise with land and property values totaling 1 504 072 an increase of 30 711 over last year.
The Gordon Institute resumed fall exercises with 120 pupils on opening day and expected 150 to 175 by week’s end. The school welcomes pupils from Birmingham and various parts of Georgia and states, while boarding patronage grows and teachers return energized after summer. Barnesville supports the institution.
New on hand includes 500 white and colored scarfs with ties and bows. Heiser's Fine Shoes and a new clothing line from Strouser Bros Voor ets Miller Rupel. Straw hats at half price. 50 silk Alpaca and Gingham umbrellas. Plaited bosom shirts. 30 pairs handmade high cut shoes at $4.50. Ladies leather saratoga trunks and gents bags.
A historic urging to residents to stop holding back and to band together for progress. The author compares busy bees to citizens who work for the town and warns against the unproductive few who pull the team down.
Wives, mothers, and daughters are urged to self-treat uterine ailments with remedies described as cures for falling of the womb, leucorrhoea, and painful menses. Instructions and recipes are mailed in sealed form to avoid physician examinations. Mrs. M. J. Brapif, 426 Marshall St, Philadelphia Pa. Eclectric Fruit Jars sold by D. C. Hightower. N.O. Syrup offered at Taylor's for 75 cents per gallon.
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