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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1886
Page
3
The uses house j for Fancy Groceries advertises a large stock of canned goods including peaches oysters salmon and mackerel, along with pickles jellies lemons bananas apples cider extracts and the largest stock of sticks and fancy candles. It claims to be the only house in town keeping imported cigars and smoking tobacco brands.
A bustling market ad lists flour sugar coffee and dry goods with free city delivery by Sumlin and Sarris and mentions a ten thousand pound milling feed stock. Rhody and Spurlock advertise linens lawns and ready made clothing with low prices amid a Knights of Labor strike note. McConnell Shaw and associates push white goods shoes parasols and Pride of Denver flour with guaranteed quality and delivery within city limits.
Local notes report fresh goods at Bon Lona’s and New nitekerel at Loxe’s. W J Stewart markets, Carlisle visitors, and a Kentucky bred Spanish Jack purchase. Shown are civic notices, church remarks, weather hints, and a Carrollton baseball game in the works.
The S S Association held its quarterly meeting at Mt Zion last Friday with delegates from Carrollton. Highlights included an opening by J L Griffin, welcome by Rev Dean, and talks by A W McQuillian and Prof Johnston on Sunday school needs, superintendent qualities, and Bible study. Delegates reported progress but the article notes space limits prevent full sketches.
Whitesburg Community column reports residents visiting relatives in Georgia and South Carolina, school changes, and a Sunday school picnic planned for May at Morrow's mill. Local trips, bridge repairs, and emigration talk to Florida are noted, with light weather and farming notes.
Local report from Kansas via i FC harvests turnips beans and cabbage. Community news covers church conference plans at Antioch, Sunday school appeals, fence law debates, market changes, sickness, and rural progress including Jaralana County settlements and oxen plowing with a cautious outlook.
A fragment urges focus on merit over office seeking from gubernatorial to local posts. It notes Mr. P. Barnett will sing at Abilene church on the second Sunday in May and invites sacred harps and music lovers to join an all day singing with baskets of provisions.
Mr John Kirbow of Atlanta spent days with his sick brother Wyatt Kirbovy The widow Margret Gray has gone to Atlanta to live with Kirbow family Mr J E Huey lost his plow horse C Lyle is leaving his road a d once painted Dr Gaulding has the finest wheat seen
Local notices report a marriage at the groom’s father’s home with Rev J M Thurram officiating, and warnings from H A Winterma about a contested marriage of Annie Williams. Other items note lost money purse, remarks on Felix Cobb for legislative honors, visiting relatives, a school picnic, and the Georgia Sunday School convention to be held in Macon in May.
Advertisement for Dress Reform for Ladies a new book titled Dress Reform for Ladies with wood engraving and indigo illustration. Offers free to ladies on receipt of four cents in stamps and promotes agents for Madame Dean's Surfortina Corsets with commissions of up to $150 monthly and daily sales reports. Addresses $3.00 outfit and Newark Broadway.
A fragmentary advertisement touts tannery made shoes in many styles for all ages with a guarantee exchange for faulty pairs. It also promotes Woolford's Sanitary Lotion and Strong's Pectoral Pills as cures or remedies, ending with a dubious health claim and assorted drugstore names.
The record notes middling cotton prices in Carrollton for the current market period with prices improving slightly. Local merchants report steady demand across towns as buyers show cautious interest in upland bales and fair weather supports harvest momentum.
An 1886 notice from the Savannah Griffin and North Alabama Railroad presents a timetable table labeled NUMBER I HALT. The fragment mentions February and notes the railroad context in Savannah and Griffin with a brief timetable reference.
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