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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1883
Page
3
A ragged OCR page from Cuthbert area ads and notices shows a crowded block of merchants touting dress goods boots and calicoes with prices and imports. It mentions Kempner Pulaski Co Bracewell Co and Jordan Co selling calicoes at six cents per yard and a range of furniture and hardware items along with public notices and local court mentions including Judge Lawson and Tadgs Clarke cases.
We alert readers that an account is overdue by the end of October. Immediate payment is required to meet obligations. Affected patrons or those with questions should contact the declared attorney or agent for settlement actions.
Prof Bash’s dancing school opens with lessons for masters and misses at the council chamber amid mixed views on public dancing. Local editor notes visiting Cortes J. Mapp, photos, a bill for a new county courthouse, and plans to attract northern visitors. Also reports marriage, weather, business openings, and town growth with hopes for a hotel and civic development.
Notices will be reinserted in the five cent column. Each insertion will not exceed 25 words. No notice will be inserted for lone entries.
Money to Loan at 6 percent for five years on improved farms in Clay and Randolph counties. J D Rambo announces stock additions of whiskey and beer for public trade. J W Mattox offers sale of Lot 218, 5th District Randolph, near Worda, terms one half cash, rest in 12 months. City tax books open for 1883. close December. For rent storehouses on Depot Street until Jan 1 1884. Piano bargain offered by D Kernen. Dixson gin offers October rate with cotton prices and trims at F Puraski & Co.
The notice promotes D Kernen selling Ladies and Misses shoes at bargain prices in Cuthbert along with W T Bruny Co and Biante fruit stands selling produce and fruit. It also advertises livestock including two mules seven to eight years old and hor se sales by M A Bardwin. The City Bakery at W T Bigby’s Fruit Stand offers fresh bread and cakes and a cotton ginning and hauling service is advertised by local providers for the season.
House and Lot for Sale. Allwag Jeane at D. Ri ver'a Tor 37h cents. wr.
Fragmentary notice claiming to offer jug and bottle filling in Fort Gaines and shipment by express. Mentions Bee liquors and advertised furniture prices, with garbled names and phrases suggesting a local supplier promotion.
A thorny jumble of local notes from Georgetown covers forecasts of events by the 10th, moves of Fannie Watts, preaching plans, weather and scarce news, plus praise for local girls and a dramatic hawk incident. Cotton prices dip to 91 cents, housing needs rise, and a call for a live school and new teachers. Also reports include orange sales, Barley corn activity, hog stealing, and state asylum statistics.
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