Untidy OCR Fragment Describes Waterway Traffic Note
Fragmentary OCR text hints at lake or coastal traffic near New York with references to location names and vehicles or boats. No clear event or person identified. details are too garbled to confirm.
21 Mar 1895
Page 1
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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1895
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text hints at lake or coastal traffic near New York with references to location names and vehicles or boats. No clear event or person identified. details are too garbled to confirm.
A fragment notes Lowe R tine camp in South Carolina with unclear context and missing details. The readable text hints at a location and a camp event but provides no dates participants or outcomes.
Neighbors report Pearce Clark of Liberty Hill suffered fire related insanity. A baby girl six months old was found drowned in a yard tub at midnight. An inquest blamed death on unknown parties, while locals say Clark likely killed his child during a spell and may be tried for lunacy.
The writer notes travels and observations on business. A guano traders’ conversation suggests dull trade in Georgia with less product this year. A Macon business leader reports a perceptible improvement in the past two weeks and hopes for slow gains across industries.
Barnesville reports Rev Leonard Rush aged eighty six is seriously ill at Stinson with heart trouble. He has served as a gospel minister for sixty four years and preached 134 sermons in 1894. Friends fear limited chance of recovery but remain hopeful he may regain health and continue his ministry.
A column recalls a wall advertisement for a prominent Atlanta dye house with the motto We dye for you followed by a meditation on how people die for money. The note also describes Macon’s flooded Ocmulgee river and a family’s sorrow over a faithful dog that dies after ten years of companionship.
Obe Nelson and Willis Crawford, both colored, fought outside a barbershop and faced the Mayor. Obe was fined eight dollars or fifteen days on the streets, Crawford two dollars fifty cents or five days. Obe appealed to the city council. The next day, Mat Pickett Ezra Jenkins and Vina Bell, all negroes, were tried for fighting and disorderly conduct and fined from ten to fifteen dollars or twenty to thirty days on the streets.
Amos Gibson, a colored man, was lynched in Monroe county near Mt Pelter Springs on Wednesday night for assaulting Miss Narcissa Hart. The mob swung him to a limb and riddled his body with bullets. The article deplores lynchings but supports the mob’s punishment.
A six year old girl of Sam Oneal, colored, drowned in a swollen stream near Strouds on the Forsyth road Thursday afternoon while attempting to close the crossing. The body was recovered about thirty yards below the crossing.
The Baptist church ladies hosted an entertainment at the Mathews hotel last Friday night. Despite bad weather a good crowd attended and enjoyed a program though some acts were canceled. Net proceeds reached about 23 dollars, to be added to the church organ fund with hopes for a new instrument once sufficient money is raised. The ladies thank Mr Hodges and Mrs Hodges for the use of the hotel parlors and items.
A report notes Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder receiving the top prize at the World’s Fair. The award recognizes quality and innovation in food products, highlighting its prominence among competing brands.
The past week brought continuous rainfall with streams overflowing and outdoor farming halted. Georgia reports rainfall catching up to average yet still short by a small margin, as investors note that modest capital and enterprise aid recovery efforts.
Mr. G. W Mann and Miss Jackson of Monroe county wed by Mr. W. J. Goggang last Wednesday. Congratulations poured in. Mr. J. A. Hickman and Miss Bell Lee married on the 10th near Griffin and now reside nearby. Both couples are well known and well wishes abound.
Mrs. T. R. Reviere died at her husband’s home in this city Monday morning at 2 o'clock after a two year illness. General prostration caused her death. Undertaker Summers sent the body to Reynolde, Georgia, her old home, Monday night for interment Tuesday. The community extends sympathy to the bereaved.
Court week signals the March term at Pike Superior Court with Judge M W Beck presiding. A list of cases to be tried during the first three days appears in the accompanying column as the session is deemed of importance.
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