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Newspaper
Barnesville Gazette
Location
Barnesville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1897
Page
8
Long list of names for Grand Jury and two Traverse Jury weeks, with residents from Barnesville area. Short social notes mention visits, returns from trips, and local advertisements for coal and products including Watts eczema ointment and Coca Cola prominence.
Miss May Lambdin returns from Macon while Mrs O Gerrald and Mrs Mare Prout visit Thomaston. Visitors include W K Wilkinson of Savannah who owns Parker place Zebulon street and G B Zettler from Macon staying with Charley Brittain. Rev and Mrs Fowler of Florida stay with J M Akin. Mrs J M Manry visits J L Kennedy on Zebulon street. Dr T R Kendall of Atlanta visits Mrs L K Rogers. J C Collier Co buys goods in New York. Mattie Merritt and children visit Georgia Female Seminary matron.
An advertisement urges readers to use Scott's Emulsion to treat weak throats bronchial trouble and chest weakness during warm weather. It promises health benefits by strengthening the whole system and recommends continuing all summer with price at 50 and 1.08 dollars by druggists.
Mrs Polk Milner and her daughter Marjorie arrived to reside in the city. Milner runs a large gin mill and has been here for weeks. Miss Jennie West of Kentucky becomes Gordon Institute’s new teacher arriving Tuesday and ready to start with Monday’s term. She has a strong teaching reputation. The notices also include testimonials for Dr Tichenors Antiseptic from Geo K Pratt and TuHos Finn asserting satisfaction with the medicine.
Dr O Henley Snider of Atlanta Ga reports fifteen years of mail and express treatment for chronic diseases with a money back or guaranteed cure. He claims to remove cancers by painless methods and offer private, confidential treatment at five dollars a month or ten dollars for cancer cases. The notice also mentions Miss Clifford Burr visiting Montezuma.
Mrs. W. M. Kitchings mother of J. A. Kitchings died in Milner Monday. She was buried Tuesday at Zebu lon street cemetery Barnesville after a Baptist church funeral attended by Dr. J. M. Brittain and Dr. Rolfe Hunt. Nearly seventy, she had served the Baptist church about fifty years. The family has the community’s sympathy.
The best selected stock of stationery in Barnesville is to be found at Chambers' Drug Store.
Local grocer Joe W. Reeves boasts of thriving trade despite talk of travel and tariffs. He praises water-ground graham flour, fresh corn meal, Canton ham, cheese from Switzerland, rice and pearls, and Georgia watermelons while poking fun at McKinley tariffs. He plans no trip, fearing mistaken identity and assassination.
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