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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1895
Page
3
The June issue notes crop conditions across Georgia with mentions of corn stands, potato yields, tobacco area, hog disease, and pear and apple blights. It also covers crop prospects if rains return, and includes agricultural Q&A on pea meal as fertilizer and compost practices.
The editor praises Georgia pine woods country as the easiest land price for laborers, detailing counties Appling through Colquitt and Worth. Unimproved lands, turpentine and sawmill removed, sell for about 1 per acre with easy credit. long staple cotton holds value with guano, corn and oats yield solidly, and diverse crops like sugar cane, rice, potatoes, cabbage, and fodder crops flourish with little labor.
Children’s Day events will be celebrated Sunday morning at Cleveland Methodist Church. Program includes opening Uview Over the Sea, opening prayer, responsive reading, songs, infant solos, addresses by Superintendent Logan and several speakers on Foreign and Home Missions, recitations, and a collection followed by benediction.
Yonah Lodge No 382 F and A M will celebrate St John’s day on Saturday June 29 at Cleveland. Members meet at 9 a m. speeches by Judge 1 41 Kimsay Cold We TN Underwood the Rev W A Simmons and others. public exercises and social fraternity day.
Subscribers are urged to take The Constitution with The Progress as a combined deal. The price for the two papers rises soon from 1.25 to 1.50 per year, making this a limited time opportunity. Georgia newspapers offer no similar clubbing incentive. This may be the last notice before the new rate takes effect.
A promote paid up subscribers of The Progress may win a gold watch guaranteed to last twenty years. If your subscription is paid or beyond the Fourth, you earn a chance. unpaid subscribers should settle up soon. Prizes awarded in about two weeks. Also promoting Hood's Sarsaparilla as real merit.
Joseph A. Richardson wed Florie Loyd on Sunday morning June 16 in the blue gale of Nacoochee. The ceremony was led by Rev. W. A. Simmons. Richardson, a county commissioner, is a respected figure, and the bride is noted as one of the region’s fairest young ladies.
The Georgia Experiment Station prescribes a three year rotation for four main crops on a typical Georgia farm. Year one allocates one third to small grain followed by cowpeas. year two grows cotton with rye or crimson clover sown in fall. year three plants corn with cowpeas in the middles. The plan stresses liberal fertilization, specific oat varieties, and adaptable substitutions like tobacco for cotton or spring sowing in mountains.
Local items report paper and envelope sales at Tin Progress office, farm equipment for sale, new summer hat line from the North, church entertainment planned, saw mill lease renewal, and notes on county education events. Mentions weather, a courthouse teachers institute, an upcoming county examination, a White County marriage, a cyclone incident near Cornelia, legal appeal in hog stealing case, and a Cleveland press visit by Brother Price with praise for his editor.
A testimonial from B. Basford of Carthage Dakota praising Parks Sure Cure for rheumatism and urinary disorders. The ad claims the medicine cures certain diseases by removing acid from the blood and notes it is sold by W. W. Price in Cleveland Georgia.
Tam agent for A FonsheOU Root Mf Co promotes first class hydraulic pipe and piping services. Contact W. W. Prier in Cleveland Georgia for inquiries or orders.
The Third Round Quarterly Conferences announce July 1 and 2 meetings for Porter Springs Mission against Chattahoochee Church with Cleveland at Monroe on July 20 and 21. District Conference to be held at Chirkesville starting July 21. Open sermon July 31 by Rev W A Summons. Committees to examine license applicants and deacons orders meet July 8 at 4 PM. M L Unruwoop P E.
A medical notice extols Hood's Sarsaparilla for restoring appetite and energy, arguing that lack of appetite signals illness as fuel to the body wanes. It claims universal testimony from users about revitalizing the blood and improving overall vitality.
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