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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1884
Page
5
A political appeal notes ongoing candidacy and calls for backing. The author promotes new policy planks including hardware stoves and sewing machines and invites readers to view the proposal. A carriage mule is offered for sale as part of the notice.
Local readers see dozens of items promoting J L Kennedy's groceries including flour pork sausage fresh fish citrus and canned goods. Notices report land sales marriage attendance and public office moves plus sheriff and probate updates in Barnesville and nearby Griffin events.
Yesterday Henry Matthews of Talbot county bought O. Higgins lot and will begin erecting a $10,000 hotel. Hurrah for Barnesville Woman's Missionary Society meets next Friday at 3 pm at the usual place. Lost watch purse described. reward offered by Stafford Blalock & Co. for return of black buckskin purse with four $20 gold pieces and $2 in silver.
The advertisement section promotes new lighting and Hull Vapor Store products and lists Griffin District church appointments for the North Georgia Conference. Notable mentions include G H Pattillo as Pe, W R Stillwell Orchard Hill mission, J B Hanson Pine Mountain, J H Little The Rock, B L Timmons Thomaston, and A W Williams Forsyth.
Miss Laura A Bacon of Albany Georgia has been secured by Professor Lambdin to teach Drawing China and Oil Painting in the Gordon Institute Art Department. A Shorter College graduate from Rome Georgia she previously led a similar department at a local Albany seminary and comes highly recommended.
A homicide occurred last Thursday night near Unionville in Monroe County. The event followed a gathering at the home of Mrs. Crawford, a widow, with several young people present and details incomplete.
An altercation over whiskey led to Jesse Crawford being struck with a rock, crushing his skull and causing death. Howard Cawley was held for a commitment trial, with Joe English and Cheney Cawley arrested as accessories. Col J A Hunt assisted in the case. English and Cawley bound over, Howard absent at trial.
The Gazette urges readers to consult the advertising columns for purchases. It highlights LOVE & STEELE brick, Atlanta millinery stock, A. P. Tripod art supplies, P. H. Snook furniture, and recounts Snook’s rebuilt four story store offering a vast, varied stock and factory-like fourth floor for assembly and shipment.
Mrs. Mary A. Dailey of Tunkhannock Pa suffered six years with asthma and bronchitis. In October she used Dr King s New Discovery and felt immediate relief, then recovered completely gaining 50 pounds in months. Free trials at J W Hightower s Drug Store. Large bottles 1.00.
The Llood Balm Company began a year ago with 162 dollars and now cannot be bought for 50,000. The article touts unmatched demand and satisfaction, calling it the only speedy permanent blood poison remedy. Gist notes druggists already have stock and readers should buy a bottle for blood diseases kidney troubles scrofula catarrh ulcers and skin diseases.
Town council sold eleven Jackson street lots and several Forsyth plots to raise 3358.75 in real estate proceeds and 2660 for square changes. Net gain exceeds 776.75 with brick buildings rising, streets opened, and Ambrose Murphey pushing a brick drug store by Christmas amid post fire recovery. G. W. Hayzlitt notes St Jacobs Oil as his family remedy.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as the best liver and urinary remedy and a reliable tonic, promising fast relief for biliousness constipation and kidney issues, with a money back guarantee. It also urges readers to consult Fay and Hickberg of Atlanta for architectural drawings to improve city buildings.
A young man named John Naves near here had a facial cancer eating nose cheek and near the eye. After Swift's Specific the patient improved rapidly and recovered. the notice cites Dr M F Cremtey of Oglethorpe Ga and a promotion for Swift's Specific Co. Drawer 3 Atlanta. The item also mentions Brown's Tron Bitters as a tonic and a Savannah gossip line about a man claiming relation to Grover Cleveland and Benedict Arnold.
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