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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1899
Page
8
A county voice urges immediate action to aid farmers facing poor outcomes last year with damaged cotton and corn yields. He warns merchants who withhold credit risk future sales and argues for extending credit and rekindling customer ties to secure this year’s crop and profits.
Regular meeting notes budget bills approved by Finance committee and paid. Council to repair urgent leaks and blinds with up to 300 dollars. Borrowing plan for 5000 dollars authorized by resolution. note due Dec 15 1899 at max 8 percent. Lot sale to Standard Oil deferred. nuisance inspection ordered. engineer election deferred. adjourned.
Mr. C. V. Johnson returned from Barnesville with a dramatic account of a severe hailstorm that struck Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. He described four to six inch hailstones destroying corn and cotton along a six mile path, trampling wheat and oats, with drifts forming snowy heaps by 6 o'clock.
The piece argues age varies by self care and liver function. It claims Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery restores vitality by improving digestion, appetite, and blood purity, easing fatigue and weakness from bad digestion and impure blood.
Dr. T. J. Watts departs for Louisville Kentucky as a delegate from the Georgia State Convention. He will visit a brother and other relatives during the trip.
The Upson Superior Court at Thomaston closed after one week in session. Much civil business was deferred to November. Several visiting lawyers attended, including J L Hardeman Macon S N Woodward J J Rogers Barnesville E F Dupree G D Dominick Zebulon J M Smith Molena and H A Peeples Hampton. Homer Bradshaw was convicted of horse theft from Ernest Black and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
A Sunday School picnic is planned for Saturday May 27 at Bush's Pond near Fredonia church. A large crowd is expected with a bountiful picnic dinner. The day is anticipated to be pleasant.
A note of gratitude to friends and neighbors for assistance during illness. Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Lazensy express appreciation for kindness shown during a difficult time.
A letter in Epior Gazette criticizes the county for buying twenty seven dollars worth of lumber to replace or reinforce bridges between Riley Cross-roads and A L Taylors'. The writer questions the need for new lumber on solid bridges, urges terra cotta use, and calls for removing loose rock from roads to aid travelers.
Dr J M Bosworth of Atlanta arrives Friday night May 18 to operate on hemorrhoids fistula and other rectal diseases at the Matthews Hotel Saturday May 26. Free consultations and on the spot treatments offered for eye ear throat and vision issues with claimed painless cures and permanent relief for severe piles.
A New Barber Shop run by P. M. Edwards offers the best shaves in Barnesville with clean towels and face cream to prevent burning. It features a dandruff hair tonic described as the finest ever made and invites customers to call and return.
AGA reports an item titled The Kind You Have Always Bought featuring Castorian A Sich ts. The note hints at a product or advertising phrase with an unusual spelling, suggesting a reprint or typographical variant in a historical page.
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