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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1887
Page
2
A garbled regional roundup notes paper circulation claims, tax figures, and city events. Mentions Tampa orange shipments, Atlanta police, Prohibition talk, and Savannah court happenings. Also references church closures, a Young Men's Christian Association call, and local newspaper branding efforts.
The Savannah community gears up for the Jesper monument unveiling on February 22, 1888. AVaried mix of notes fills the pages: a safe robbery sentenced to fifteen years, a Savannah insurance agent’s disappearance of $3000, prohibition debates in Dodge County, and comments on editors and local quirks. The Ada steamer sinks on the Firut river. repairs cost $200 with no insurance, and the incident costs the Albany Steamboat and Navigation Company. The Times Union reports on the Florida Sub-Tropical Exposition opening January 1838 in Jacksonville, highlighting sub tropical displays and vast potential outcomes for Florida, including verdant wells and rain breaks in drought regions.
National Convention of Temperance Women in Nashville adopts resolutions denouncing low neck dresses, cigar box images, prize fights reports, and bird ornaments while backing Bible in schools. In Columbia a man named Edwards killed his wife as her son and daughter intervened. the mother died, father and daughter wounded, the son jailed.
Wabesboro Teachers Institute lists topics on teaching licenses salaries proximity of living near the academy and physiology in schools plus a plea for overdue payments. The note urges subscribers to settle back dues and job-work accounts to start the new year square and orderly.
Atlanta Georgia November 6 1887 Executive Darantext explains the new Legislature regent Act granting allowances to maimed ex Confederate soldiers. The document outlines eligibility for those with permanent injuries not resulting in amputation and addresses questions about the act’s main features and construction.
The article outlines Georgia law on pension payments for injuries from war service, detailing amounts for arm or leg injuries, permanent incapacities, and citizen eligibility as of October 26 1886. It notes payment periods, restrictions on duplicative prior payments, and administrative guidance from county ordinaries and the executive department. It also reports a separate railway accident in Irwin County where John Branch and Elbert Fletcher were injured stepping off a train at a trestle crossing, with details of injuries and initial medical care.
The mass meeting at the Courthouse signals a turning point for Waycross with adoption of the free school bill anticipated to raise the town’s profile. The town’s bright future attracts hunters, builders, and laborers alongside favorable climate and railroad access. Citizens pledge support for the Mayor and Council, hoping a fruitful year in 1888. Rev E T Etheridge reports Peargon circuit church growth and spending on missions and salaries.
Sheriff sale to liquidate mortgaged properties of C J C Blount and E J Blount at courthouse in Clinch County on the first Tuesday in January. Items include corn potatoes and wagon plus two 400 acre land parcels in districts 13 and 11. Also notices of photographs pricing at Lanier's Gallery and visits by Goebel of Lanney Gooble.
Do not waste time experimenting with imitations. Get the genuine Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. Free trials at Folks & Morgans Drug Store. Also Waycross Lodge 305 F and A M meets Dec 14 for officer election and important business. H Vickens & Sons LeLitton Ga carry merchandise clothing and dry goods with a full car load of salt at low figures.
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