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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1896
Page
3
A brief notice from The Cleveland Progress advertises a pair of good male colts not to exceed sixteen hands when grown. Listed by Ons L. Henley, the offer is for young stock suitable for future use.
Mr. John Bell attends school in Rabun county and Rev C C Spence moves near Park's store. Prof Tom Bell visits his brother in Rabun Sunday. Rev Spence to preach at Younwh Sunday. crowds attend Rev W R Power sermon. Carrie Porter dies at Lumpkin paupers home after severe burns. Mr F F Sexbern leaves for Athinta to attend Sam Jones meetings. Mr W B Beil travels for Daniels' drag house in Athens, visits home. Mrs A H Henderson suffers rheumatism. R M Dorsey joins Yonah Masonic Lodge. Local court actions, school enrollments, new residence work, and various community notes.
The column highlights the sonic appeal of stamp mills with clinking coins and hopes of wealth, noting Molian-like music of dropping stamps. It reports Tuxry V. Maxwall's placer mine find of a rich vein near Dah lonega, valued ore around $20 per ton, and a chance for Rice & Davis to profit. The Preacher Gold Mining Co plans to work Crown mountain soil with minimal cost. It also carries a note from the Engineering and Mining Journal on the Metropolitan Gold Mining Company abandoning the Siemens Halske electro cyanide process, citing low extraction efficiency compared with MacArthur Forrest.
A fragment from Dahlonega signal notes a note found on a piece of fruit inviting a young man to correspondence from Miss Fannie Seaholt of Suches Union County Georgia. The item hints at romantic intrigue and possible domestic tension sparked by a letter.
Last Wednesday night Simeon Miles, visiting R. M. Dorsey, discovered a fire at Mossy Creek school house. He quickly extinguished it after noting embers in the fireplace had fallen to the floor and burned significantly before discovery. This marks the second time Miles has saved the building from fire.
The Atlanta weekly journal and progress issue price remains one dollar nineteen cents per year in early 1860s context. This item notes publication cadence and pricing for readers in the era.
In White Creek district lively notes report Uncle Blisht Davison ill with heat, J. B. Brownlow planning a new kiln, P. M. Alexander visiting Shoal with family, and photographer Brooks seeking Will Robinson’s pictures. Local clergy Rev. Noah Martin and Rev. C. W. Ledford attendances, with Miss Fannie Kemmer teaching and infant Beech burial at Mount Pleasant. Farmers prep land for corn.
Town Creek reports fewer girls than the county average and plans to import workers. Farmers push ahead, aiming for rewards. Local residents J A Cantrell, J W Allen, James Seabolt, and others are mentioned with visits, illnesses, and mining work. Residents share updates on families, sick relatives, and community improvement efforts.
A unique ceremony occurred Sunday afternoon as Will Shubert and Mary Kinsey both of this county were joined in marriage atop Yonah's heights with a small group of friends present.
Mr Bailey Cox at a Baptist church last Saturday argued that Sunday is not the Sabbath and that the seventh day should not be mandatory. He cited Matthew and Romans to support自由 observing any day as Sabbath if one is fully persuaded. He argued flagrant Sabbath desecration affects northern and western cities and that the current generation should follow the majority Christian practice unless convinced otherwise.
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