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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1893
Page
3
The Cleveland Progress announces pricing for ads with one dollar per inch for the first insertion and fifty cents per inch for each subsequent insertion Legal advertisements are charged at the rate set by law Bills for ads are due and must be paid in advance.
Public notice lists daily mail arrivals and departures for several towns including Blairsville Maysville Dahlonega and Alton with specific times. County officials and court schedule are noted with the court to convene on the second Mondays in April and October.
Church notices list Baptist services every third Sunday and Saturday before 11 am with Sunday school at 9 am. Metropolis services every fourth Sunday at 11 am. Laurel Prayer Meet at 7 pm Wednesday. Justice Courts Blue Ridge notes and several district N P and J P appointments with meeting dates on Saturdays and Fridays.
A Gainesville area update lists club rates for Progress and other periodicals, a premium offer, and advance payment terms. Local personalities travel for legal business, surveying continues on local properties, and a mine tunnel project advances. Community members such as John Martin, H H Dean, Will Asbury, Jack Bowden, J Lamb Johnson, and others are mentioned with recent movements and activities.
Marcus Vandiver was acquitted in the W. K. Palmer murder case in Hiawassee after a five hour jury deliberation. The verdict surprised many, as all evidence was circumstantial and twenty years had passed since the crime, leaving witnesses uncertain and tangled. The Modern Beauty ad paragraph appears alongside the trial report, noting Taxative Syrup of Figs as a mild laxative remedy.
For sale cheap for cash one buckboard a four seated buggy with pole and shafts one set double harness one set single harness one good combination harness and saddle horse J J Nicnons Nacoochee Ga.
Isaac Oakes Carr of Blue Creek B B Club states that two games by Nacoochee club on Cleveland grounds dated October 7 have led to bid moral tendencies and officials object to a third match.
Mossy Creek residents report a week of busy activity with lite fodder gathering, pes picking, and syrup work. A protracted meeting yields steady results and thirty five additions to the church with many conversions not yet formalized. A bridge across the Chattahoochee at Duncan's Ferry earns support as residents in Demorest subscribe a dollar. Current local observances include abstaining from meat as part of a Jewish ordinance.
Blue Creek District letters report a large fox caught Wednesday night and a large catamount captured on Pink Mountain. Rev Henry Dorsey preached at Oak's Chapel Sunday night before leaving for Athinta. The bottom hind corn is fine along Blue Creek. George McCollum owns the county’s finest corn patch.
Mr J R Lamsden plans headquarters in Cleveland while Mrs Hiram Camron recovers at home. Miss Mamie Glen visited Atlanta. Ellen Starr is improving. Dr Stat's family greeted warmly in Clarksville. Mrs Martin of Greensboro, Ga, ill. Tenry Henderson laying a new barn roof. Prof Whatley nearly finished map of Calhoun property. Blue Creek B B club unable to play. locals claim club is Blue Creek champions with claims from Cleveland Shoal Creek and Mossy Creek. Georgia public school teachers awaiting quarterly payment. critics call for timely pay, denouncing delays as injustice.
A Chicago Record poem fragment describes the Rock-a-by Lady from Hushaby Street stealing into dreams. Poppies hang from her head to feet as children dream tiny visions of drums sugar plums tin tops and dolls while universal dreams drift up toward the Moon.
The Mossy Creek gathering began Monday night with strong appeal to faith. Twenty one converted one night and 17 joined the church. services fill the house nightly. Visitors George D. Pitchford and Lester Bell attended Sunday with positive results. Michael Beard improves, and Misses Ida Holcomb Lizzie Barrett visited Mills Saturday. Mossy Creek High School holds its own as five dormitories near completion.
Mr Daniel Brownlow is spending a few days at Demorest. Mr W B Burke and wife of Alabama visit their children and old friends in this community. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at Macedonia. Miss Lizzie McKinney attended church at Mossy Creek Sunday. Prof D L Payne and his students will visit the top of Mt Yonah on the fourth Saturday. Henry Craven is building a new wire shop. Success to the old bachelors and the Progress.
The ad lists numerous textile deals including 54 inch Henriettas at 20¢, 86 inch at 25¢, 42 inch wool plannels at 75e, and 46 inch French Serge at 98e with cheap marks. Black and Tan Cheviot Cloaks, fur trimmed styles, Yds of homespun checks, and children's handkerchiefs are advertised as selling below typical prices.
An ad urges readers to take Hood's Sarsaparilla for chronic ailments. It claims the medicine fights deep seated illnesses with tenacity, warns cures require time and moderation, and asserts the remedy attacks disease vigorously until conquered.
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