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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1885
Page
5
Agricultural notes emphasize terracing, ditching, and maintaining upper ditch edges to prevent erosion. Readers urged to keep ditches open, use unplowed strips three feet wide, and cover gullies with leaves, straw, or trash to trap soil. Also discusses bran and horse feed recommendations for winter and proper feeding schedules.
A veteran shares practical guidance on salting pork and beef. He warns against packing meat while warm, emphasizes letting pork cool completely first, and notes dry salting for bacon yields better texture. He adds proportions for salt sugar and saltpetre and mentions repeated rubbing for large cuts. The piece closes with a brief report on a dog ejection from court.
A tale recalls a young candidate for a teaching post who meets a stern committee chair. When asked what cures itch, he quivers and blurts brimstone and grease. The doctor approves and grants a certificate, ending the scene with a comic moment as a child imitates telephone chatter.
The Rev. I. H. Pitman, a well known Baptist preacher of Heard county is dead. W. B. Berry has been re-elected mayor of Newnan. He had no opposition.
A collage of stray phrases and jokes from a late 19th century humor page. It includes mock dialogues about boxes, barbed fences, a Kansas earthenware idol, a London Sunday school joke, a rector’s illness and a potential sale of livings, and witty exchanges about riot definitions, flowers, and a grocer’s candle scent. The tone is comic and satirical, weaving observations on religion, education, and daily life.
An old advertisement touts Samaritans Nervine as a universal remedy for rheumatism blood disorders and nerve issues. It claims to cure dyspepsia restore vitality and ease mind, with endorsements from physicians clergy and European authorities. Sold by H Allem Hauck Co and related agents with refunds and postal correspondence offered.
Carroll Superior Court October Term 1885 reveals M G J F Kiser Co as petitioner seeking foreclosure on a mortgage held by W Williams on a house and store property in Villa Rica and Carroll counties to secure promissory notes totaling 178.65. The court orders payment by Williams or publication of notice in Carroll Free for four months and service on Williams’s attorney Hires.
Guardian of Owen OConner offers sale of 101 acres in Carroll County Georgia at public auction at the courthouse door Carrollton on the first Tuesday in November 1885 to satisfy creditors. Terms: one half cash balance 12 months with 3 percent interest. Exemption hearing set for November 21 1885 before Brown Ordinary.
Notice to debtors demands settlement by December 15 or make satisfactory arrangements. A January 6 order will establish a new road from James Chambers residence northeast through listed properties to intersect a fork road, with commissioners named. A second January 6, 1986 order will establish a different road from James Stevens residence on the Jacksonville road with nearby landowners named, crossing to Tieksongle road and upper districts, per Road and Revenues Commissioners.
Hartwell Nurseries of Hartwell Georgia advertises pecan trees that begin bearing at six to eight years. Prices range from twenty to fifty dollars per hundred trees with no packing charge. Prolific grower S W Peed, proprietor, notes trees ready for shipment by November 1 and offers a copy of The Nursery and Orchard Seed for buyers.
A reader friendly piece extols The Independent as among the best papers worldwide praising its breadth candor and broad coverage In a promotional tone it highlights its diverse range from religion philosophy literature and politics to poetry and art noting its no fear no favor stance and diverse readership Also mentions train schedules and routes for an Independent mail and express line with stops at Atlanta Birmingham Anniston and wider connections
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