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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1885
Page
5
Local items report guest visits and relocations, school term openings, and business ads. Notices announce county election, Gordon Institute term start, and real estate opportunities. Community events include weddings, church anniversaries, and a new continued story in this issue.
In the advertising columns today the professional card of Dr S H Gray appears. He is described as in demand since making Barnsville his home and as the family physician who has earned warm friends in many households. Send for him when you are sick.
Monroe county readers are urged to support Mr C A King for re election as Sheriff. He is praised as a faithful and efficient officer who has raised the sheriff's office to a high standard and will serve the county by a continued term.
The notice lists storage restrictions for Barnesville Oil Mills cotton seed until January 5 1885 and offers debt collection warning. J L Kennedy advertises fresh canned goods raisins nuts candies fruits tobacco cigars coconuts cabbage turnips and more. An advertisement for Swayne’s Ointment offers cure for itching piles and skin diseases with pricing and mail order details.
The Christmas Day wrestling event in Thomaston drew crowds from town and country on the grass court-house yard. Local and visiting participants included mostly colored wrestlers with a white champion who directed the bouts and kept the crowd lively. The scene closed with merchants' licenses and a dry town condition noted after Christmas.
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