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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1885
Page
2
Long jumble of items notes Thanksgiving celebrations in Atlanta and countrywide. Mentions Vice President Hendricks death, local quarrels, court cases, and a flood of brief notices about editors, harbors, circuses, and regional happenings. Contains scattered names, places, and events with no single cohesive narrative.
A tale from Montezuma Record recounts a Texas man visiting relatives in Georgia where he met Miss E. R. Brock. They pledged marriage, endured long correspondence, and she boarded a train for his home as they planned to wed. Nearby notices include a cotton and corn report and a Georgia divorce libel filed in Charlton County Superior Court.
Captain Coleman of a Weymouth bound schooner sailing between Atlantic City and New York suffered sleeplessness from a rough voyage. After using Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption he found instant relief and reduced chest soreness. His children experienced the same benefit from a single dose aboard. Free trial bottles advertised at Folks & Morgan's.
In Ware County Georgia Cora L Waldron applies for permanent letters of administration on Elias D Watron with a hearing set for the first Monday in December 1885. Warren Lott Ordinary notes the filing dated October 30 1883. Also James R and Henry Douglass administrators of Burrell Douglass apply for leave to sell the deceased’s lands with a hearing on the first Monday in December 1885. Notice dated November 2 1835. Warren Lott nov 3d4 Ordinary.
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