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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1877
Page
3
A mixed page notes advertisements for products and services, local store promotions, and a death notice. It mentions bears baking, snaps about failed cotton harvests, a fall goods stock run by Carlton J. Suslth, and W. S. Ditson dying at home with burial in Western cemetery.
A long local notice reports A W Gillespie paid the first bale of new cotton on a Saturday, with market talk of war farmers settling accounts. The piece covers a ball game between Chewallas and the Stars, political remarks on Hayes policy, letters from Montvale Springs, a death of Mrs Ward, Andraw Fey Tasle College events, cotton prices 9 cents, and business plans of Boons & Dixson to stock seasonal goods.
The convention debated where the state capital should be placed and decided to submit the issue to a popular vote separate from the constitution. A ballot plan named Ar tanta was proposed to decide the capital location, with the outcome affecting the current constitution. The article also notes contemporaneous political commentary and obituaries.
An Atlanta correspondent reports venue prayers and shouts at a state convention as support grows for the new constitution. Miss Este Cheney of Merr y weather county dies by drowning after a dream of death, while life insurance deposits and Texas job plans surface amid regional talk. Local edits note store expansions and travel of residents including Mr. Browe and Mr. Monts.
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