Ward Station Fair Promises Special Premiums Exceeding Local Interest
The Ward Station fair is hailed for July with a free show and premiums. Readings cover best wheat lashes, corn stalks, potatoes, watermelons, bread by a young unmarried woman, garden vegetables, oats, and a display from exhibitors. Local supporters pledge fair participation, with further premium additions promised before opening. A group will travel to Apalachicola and the coast for a fishing trip.
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Ward Station
Oahibitor
Uate
P.S
Warde
Thanks and political hints from an old newspaper piece
A Methodist Sunday School resolution expresses gratitude for hospitality in Fort Gaines during a recent excursion and thanks J P Sawtell for printing banners. The piece also notes Gen Alexander H Stephens and Gov Joseph Brown as political figures, critiques Georgia democracy, and mentions a sensational egg with a prophesied Judgment Day dated August 1882.
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Methodist Sunday School
Fort Gaines
Sunday School Missionary Society
J. P Sawtell
Felton, Lonet & Co
Alexander H. Stephens
Dune
Georgia
Joseph EB. Brown
Stephens
Brown
Planting Corn for Better Yields and Rural Values
RW. G argues a farming method to increase corn per acre by wide row spacing and closer plantings. He claims 16? bushels per acre can become 120 ears per stalk with careful fertility and drought resistance. Community signatures urge stores to close afternoons for employee recreation. Jefferson Davis defends Southern war prisoner treatment and urges posterity to condemn Northern abuse labels. Louisiana cane flooding effects noted with varied sugar crop prospects.
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Suverelt
Sawtell
Jefferson Davis
New Orleans
Davis
Andersonville
Quitman County Notices and Pleasant Picnic Notes
Local briefing from Quitman County includes executor and guardian annual returns due by July’s first Monday, tax receiver visits ongoing, and soon a tax sale. A Sunday School picnic at Col. Harrison’s pond brought praise for Col. Harrison and family, with lively dancing and reading club questions noted. The column mentions jail repairs, plans for travel by Dr. Mercer and July, and various social happenings around town, including a fair day, a spelling bee, and local figures like Dr. Bledsoe and Leo in lighthearted detail.
Corn vs Cotton in Southern Farming Prospects
A discussion on crop profitability argues corn and pea farming yields higher net income per acre than cotton. It cites typical southern yields of twenty to twenty-five bushels of corn plus a pea crop, and notes Western corn exports benefiting the region. Also mentions Senator Ben Hill’s illness, and flood sediments boosting cotton land values by four to five dollars per acre.
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Columbia Times
Picayune
Ridley
Songtor Benj
H. Hill
Ben Hill, Jr
Hill
Georgiana
Yazoo
Mine
Sentinel
Court House Practicability Discussed By Citizens
A notice from M. Gormley Ordinary invites residents to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the practicability of building a Court House by June next. The meeting will consider the plan and feasibility for the project and its impact on the town.
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Phecant
Tirtus
Court House
Vulbaing & Pew Court
M. Gormley
M. Fulton Ler
J. W. Bilin
Oulivary
Matebaway
Randolph Superior Cour
Legislacire
Pablo Jornals
Te City
Dod
FT. Guerry
Pera
County Commissioners Budget and Bridge Plans Noted
The County Commissioners report tight funds and recommend repairs to Dixsin dam Wilaw Wanl bridge Notchaway bridge and Cuthbeat Eufaula road bridge. They urge Terrell county cooperation to build new bridges and fix Peterson's LHS private bridge amid deteriorating public works and tax fund disclosures.
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Ceunly Zehr
Teaving
Kroner
Notatles
Eeanmoisied
Finn
Daniel
Shetitt
Law Eequirer
Abe Court
Law
Dixsin
Maftt
Wilaw Wanl
Siatheth
Cuthbent
Albany
Terrell County
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Jas. P. Sawtell
Cuthbert
Venbur
Sulery
Jay Guard
Florida
Farmville
Macon
Savannah
Augusta
Egypt
Archie
Buzgarda
North Carolina
Washington Star
Senate
Milledgeville Recorder
Congress
Recorder
Waynesboro
D. A. Wheat
Crittenden
Murray County
Geo. J. Seeney
Waesleyan Female College of Macon
Gen. Gidow
Worth Star
George Young
Little River
Charley Albrittan
Sumter County
Trinity Church
New York
A. T. Ann
Chas, Harris
Arlington
OM Jones
Aunota
N. Simpson
J. 2
Catfour ‘Toombs
Apalachis Cola
Fla
Lukom
Ballard
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Anguat
Pulaski County
W. Brown
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Ballard County
Polaski
Ohio River
Thantule
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Geo, McDonlald
H. P. Elder
Chas. Redding
SH. Gable
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D. Bailey
A. Gumbte
Toombs
F. McC. Gombe
J. le Brown, Sry
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F. Allison
Alfred Jane
T. B. Douglass
Chas. Tauatoo
J.C. Graham
A. Tittebaum
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J.L. Brown, Jr
J-C, Crozier
A, Titttebaum
G.T. Mathews
R. G. Owen
W.C. Howell
W. Owe
Freeman
S. D. Zuber
Parke
Jane
S.A. McNeil
W. D. Dunsaway
Bob Toombs
J. M. Cobb
Willie Flam
F.B' Anthony
McDonald
Louisana
Quitman County
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W. Lee
Buitor
Bledsoe
Roada Revenus
Mercer
July
B. Oglettes
Leo
Koctar Ty
Mosinia Coreanes
Col. Harrison
Green's Hall
Mms
George Washingston
Georgetown
Walter Dexter
Bob Smith
Quitman
Me. T. J. Methrin
Tong Ae
Tor
Henry Mano
Brooklyn Boyle
Ben Will
Fort Valley
Perry
Hiantora
Randolph Superior Court
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Count Houna
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Va. Han
FE Fillinghues
Teritt Moody
D.R. Siewert
Jeba Poiltipa
Grayso
Mey Toiai
J. McK. Gunn
Best Certi Mial
Sivengeat Visegar
J. Mex. Am
J. R. Wooten
N. E. Corner
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