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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1886
Page
2
A compact roundup of local notices cites editors in Jesup and Americus and mentions Albany tax issues, prohibition sentiment, suicides by Beall and a tramp, census grains and cotton, bridge ownership, and a Lafayette era rail gauge plan changing to 4 feet 9 inches with phased locomotive adjustments.
A Valdosta Times report recounts an attempted daytime money theft near the Akipeha River area. Jack Allen, son of Judge J. B. Allen, was attacked as he walked home from town but escaped. assailants trailed him after a cotton sale before dispersing. The incident stems from suspected ambush over money from a cotton sale. Fred Edmundson and family pursued the story, noting the successful sale and return of money to neighbors.
Brother Rainy of the Dawson Journal alludes to Waycross as a village in a column that discusses small town perspectives and local governance with pointed opinions.
An observer recalls a mid air battle near a barn involving a large red tail hawk and a cat. The hawk swooped, seized the cat, and the pair climbed fifty yards high before the hawk released then pursued. The cat clung with talons and teeth while the hawk's head was bitten. the hawk measured four feet nine inches wing to wing. Americus Republican.
Miss Mare Stead will open a school for primary and intermediate pupils on the first Monday in January 1856 at her father’s residence opposite the Presiding Elder’s home. Terms are one dollar per month for primary and one dollar fifty cents per month for intermediate students.
Testimonial from Warness Ga dated September 25 1885 praises Jennings Fever Tonic for curing chills and fever after two years of trouble. Letter from T Albert Jennings Jasper Fla notes recovery after using about half a bottle and expresses gratitude to the product and its makers.
True to the Signal Service predictions the cold wave struck us. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. McRae visit relatives at McRae Georgia. Dr W B Burroughs of Brunswick spent last Saturday in Jesup. Grady plants LeConte Pear trees. Miss Sackie Wright of Dublin visits her sister Mrs R E Walker. Mrs J R Richardson and her three children remain in Sumter South Carolina. Mrs J Ware, artist, finishes a crayon painting on exhibition. W R Vanderbilt and party stop in Jesup on way to Brunswick. Train near Macon tank derailed, shaken but no injuries. Antics about a local figure named Kappa and a fire at Altamaha hotel. Fire originated from an overheated chimney due to extreme cold. Advertisement for Rucklen's Arnica Salve at Folks & Morgan.
To Printers. We offer THE MILLEN BEACON for sale at a bargain. Millen, a live railroad town of 900 to 1,000 inhabitants at the Savannah and Augusta line junction, is prosperous and fertile. The paper owes no money, has been in operation two months, and is now offered because the proprietors have more business than they can manage. Sullivan Bros., Waynesboro, Ga.
Notice to debtors and creditors of the estate of Elias D Waldr on late of Ware county deceased. All demands must be rendered to the administratrix Coral Waldr on estate and all debts paid promptly. This January 6th. The notice also changes publication of legal advertisement to Warenas Heavyicar after thirty days from this date.
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