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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1885
Page
6
A broad Barnesville page reports sales offers on stoves and wagons, personal visits, remembrances, church activities, and local incidents. It notes cholera among hogs, courthouse business in Macon, and upcoming Sunday School conventions in Rome, with social alerts on deaths, marriages, and graduations.
Lumber at $1 per hundred. J. D. Woodall has a car load at that price. Call and see quality. Visit Woodall & Blassingaine's Ice Cream Parlor and Frigid Soda Fount for delicious Jersey Cream and refreshing soda water. Fresh bread in great variety every Thursday afternoon. May 2S-2¢.
The Young Men’s Christian Association will meet at the Methodist Church next Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Attendance is especially desired.
The Gazette notes a local bill to be introduced in the next General Assembly allowing voters in the 551st and 581st districts to decide by ballot on the issue of Fence or No Fence. The notice invites reader awareness of the proposed measure and its potential impact on local surveying and property boundaries.
John E. Gardner announced intentions to introduce two local bills at the next General Assembly session. One repeals the current prohibition law and the other provides a license to sell homemade spirits in the county in quantities of at least one quart by the makers or those who have such spirits manufactured.
To whom it may concern I seek the names and addresses of heirs of listed veterans from the Goliad massacre of 1836. Heirs hold large Texas lands granted by the state for ancestor service and seek recovery through prompt legal proceedings. Apply to Robta Holmes Atty at law Mibner Gra.
The article notes two districts seek to pass a bill permitting voting to adopt fences for their areas. It outlines that under such a law the districts would need substantial fences along their lines and authorized taxation by the Ordinary to fund erection and maintenance, using Pike as a contrast under the no fence law.
The article argues that without a county fence law the two districts would face taxation to build and maintain fences along district lines and around each farm. It asks residents to weigh the cost of erecting rails versus current conditions and contemplates possible legislation to grant a special law as requested.
The Barnesville Agricultural Club met Saturday chaired by President J. M. Powell. Members weighed tile drainage as a remedy for wet, hard bottom lands with E. S. Murphey advocating brick tiles, three feet deep, six to fifteen feet long, costing about eighteen dollars, and requiring openings to carry water to open ditches.
Farmers in a Georgia community discuss methods to drain bottom lands. Arguments favor regular tile systems over open ditches, with testimonies about cost, durability, and long term land value. Objections include labor, materials, and risk, while several speakers cite examples of successful tiling increasing yields and land worth substantially.
The page lists Bucklen's Arnica Salve for skin ailments at 25 cents a box via J. W. Hightower, improved hearse horses for R. G. Matthews, Electric Bitters with testimonials, fresh picnic pickles at Taylor's, Paradise smoking products at J. F. Taylor's, and R. G. Matthews Stables plus a harness shop. Other notices promote frame mouldings by Crutcher and a $150 cow for sale at the office.
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