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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1874
Page
3
The Cuthbert Appeal reports the death of A J Ward a long time county resident after a prolonged illness. It notes warm days bring peach and plum blooms and garden vegetables, and mentions Dr Wills lecture on Woman in Powell's Hall along with local notices about investments, saloon break in, and repairs to the courthouse.
The community cheers the mayor s plan to beautify cemeteries with convict labor in the Eastern grounds then moving the work to Western for a week. Citizens and ladies are urged to supply evergreens and flowers, while Capt. Atkins receives support for the project. The Fort Gaines Messenger is announced with editor J L Tucker, pricing at 150 per year and a note on market drumming. Market reports show bacon demand strong, hay supply limited. Rascally behavior by dishonest contract workers condemned, and a North Carolina election law provision on voter identity praised. A satire note from Early county mocks debt spending, and a remark about convicts hired out by the state.
The article praises cemetery upkeep in Cuthbert as a test of community refinement. It notes Mayor M L Atkins directing prisoners to clear Eastern and Western cemeteries, inviting female volunteers to help plant shrubbery, and urges continued public cooperation for city improvement as Civil Rights bill stalls in Congress and mixed schooling prospects dim.
A 14 year old girl Elizabeth Moore of Cleburne county is attacked by an eagle while returning home. The bird drags her along a road and up to ten feet high before dropping her injured but not seriously. Hunters report the eagle seen again as they seek to capture it.
W. L. Baldwin is authorized to settle the accounts and receipts for all monies due the late firm of Smith and Tackett. Dr. Besson of Broad Street, Eufaula, Alabama, holds sole wholesale rights for Abbott's Liver Medicine in this section and invites orders.
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