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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1883
Page
3
The Cuthbert Appeal blends weather, crops, and local happenings from Randolph County. Reports mention caterpillar damage, a possible Ward Station incorporation bill, deaths, college support, shop updates, and vendor ads, with reflections on rainfall, crop prospects, and community events in this period publication.
Drought-battered Ward faces drying weather with cotton badly injured yet crops scarce. A school exhibition near Hyford draws crowds. Dawson endures a house fire blamed on arson with minor damages. Gen Arington pushes local cotton market, 31 bales received this season. A prominent citizen, Mr Hiram T Jay, dies after a tree fall near a sawmill, aged about 75, buried at Rehoboth church.
A Quitman County notice announces $100000 available for land loans in Randolph and Quitman counties with deeds recorded before applying. The issue also reports sermons, editor changes, court dates, travel visitors, orchard and melon trade notes, hydrophobia concerns, railroad talk, and a telegraph strike development, reflecting local life and economic activity.
A bustling five cent column lists notices for loans, cotton gins and hauling services in Clay and Randolph counties, with offerings from J D Rambo Fort Gaines and J McK Gunns. Local shops advertise boots shoes hats harness furniture hardware and cheap groceries at multiple merchants including S S Gunn and Jas A Hava.
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