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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1893
Page
2
The Cleveland Progress organ of White County lists editorial staff R Glen and associates. Published in Cleveland with post office entry January 29 1892, issue details include pricing and postal designation. however the readable fragment confirms a local newspaper masthead and publication metadata rather than a complete news item.
The piece argues that public school conditions have greatly improved over five years, with no need for amendments to school laws, while urging continued progress. It cites delayed teacher payments in several counties in early 1892 and 1893, noting teachers face financial hardship and high interest. It calls for legislative action at the next assembly to fix payment delays.
Dalton Argus Fillmore correspondent defines happiness as a healthy body and contented mind. Wealth and honor are empty. true happiness comes from contentment at home and living daily without regret, guided by the principle do unto others.
Deputy Marshal Henry Robert son speaks for a future rule requiring trials of revenue prisoners to be before a Justice of the Peace in counties distant from a U S Commissioner. The note praises local J P loyalty to moon shiners and praises Congressman Pate and Mr Tate for steady work amid office rush. The Cleveland Progress is lauded as a young, bright weekly with a versatile editor.
John Martin and expert mineralogist Morrison visited Cleveland to inspect White County mining veins and assess gold richness. They noted recent gold nuggets from John Thurmond company on Dukes Break, while James McAfee begins on the Reaves property with a stump mill upcoming. H N Stevens plans ore work near Reaves, milling at Wilson stamp mill, and A Moynahan of Ohio surveys White County resources.
The White County Teachers Institute held its regular meeting last Saturday with full attendance aside from a few absentees. Teachers Pross Bell Smith Merritt Tenderson Kytle Cox and Miller led discussions on teaching methods for required subjects. Rev Fr Newton Mossy Creek High School president spoke on education and John J Kimsey gave a keynote address that energized the crowd. The institute adjourned at five and the Normal Institute for July 3 4 was announced with Prof Gailliard of Dahlonega engaged as expert.
Report from Kimball yesterday cites northeast Georgia sources claiming Judge Charlton J. Wellborn may resign early in the summer to take a promised federal appointment. If true, the anticipated race for the seat would pit White County’s Hon. John J. Kimsey against Howard Thompson-Constitution, the Solicitor General.
The verse compares constant forces reshaping outcomes, noting water wearing stone, gnawing bite, and a lover’s persistence. It ends by praising the advertiser as the one who wins the trade, credited to Dalton Anus.
A playful verse traces Spring’s arrival with jonquils and perfumed airs while a comical sneezing motif punctuates nature’s gifts. The speaker images a house and hill as the scene shifts to the comic “Ah choo” and “Ca choo” echoes.
Temperance column urges youths to count the costs of drink. It lists losses of money time health business character friends conscience feeling mind life and immortal soul. It recounts young men who began at the dinner table paying a terrible toll and asks sisters to intervene by asking if such losses can be afforded in time and eternity.
A Burdette passage lampoons drinking and gambling with land value, comparing 100 square feet of farmland to a drink and urging readers to tally acres at 43.56 per acre. The piece uses a brash, mock-legal tone to expose the folly of treating soil as drinkable profit and warns about the dirt in the glass as a critique of wasted land.
The Temperance Society meets to rehearse songs for an upcoming entertainment event. Members continue regular sessions to prepare material and refine performances for a community gathering.
advertised as a reliable remedy for improving health and enjoyment by cleansing the system. It claims gentle action on kidneys liver and bowels, with acceptable taste and quick relief from colds headaches and discomfort. The text touts physician approval and usage in bottles marketed as Syrup of Figs.
Prink Meixsel a young widower dies at his home in Nacoochee from morphine taken by his own hand in a personal crisis. He mourned his wife, prepared her grave with a wall around it, and spoke of joining her in heaven after settling affairs. He left letters asking relatives not to hold an inquest and prayed by his Bible for guidance as his soul departed.
The deceased, once speaking of becoming pure before God, was buried on Tuesday the 21st per Rev. H. M. Newton who read the 23rd Psalm and led hymns Nearer My God to Thee and Till We Meet. A pall of gloom hangs over the community after the event.
Sheriff S Brown announces April public sales at the courthouse in Cleveland. Properties include 25 acres in Lot 165 third district of White County, belonging to Josephine and C. Blalock, mortgaged to J. C. Bell. 20 acres in Lot 188 third district, belonging to C. C. Blalock and Josephine Blalock. about 62.5 acres known as the Y. L. Robertson old place, administ rat or guardian of Hildah Robertson deceased. 02 acres of Lot 128 in the second district known as the Jos M Berry place, owned by W. Alexander or agent J. B. Brownlow. Costs and notices per various executions and tax liens.
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