Waycross Headlight highlights local notes and court in session
The Waycross Headlight from January 27 1886 reports Mrs Higgins updates on the outside, notes Superior Court in Jesup, mentions visitors like Miss Fannie Jones and Mr R B Crum, local business moves at Jesup Drug Print and new printing materials, and updates on railroad prospects, floods of small items, and a pneumonia death in Jesup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. B. Crum
Homerville
P.P. Mfg Company
Will Lee
N. J. Hemmond
Thomasville
Alex Dasher
Valdosta
Prof. Baldwin
Blackshear
Higgins
R. A. Baker
L. ©. Mattox
Dill
East Georgia and Florida
Waynesville
B. & W. Railway
Waynaville
William M. Austin
Jesup
Mra. Austin
Waycross urged to awaken and build progress
A late 19th century notice urges Waycross Georgia residents to awaken to civic duty, finish a schoolhouse, support enterprise, and attract prosperity. It cites railroad shop work at Brunswick, fire damage in Valdosta, and local commerce issues, urging unity and investment to reverse apathy and spur growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waycross
Georgia
Macon
B. L. Wooding
Hamil
Prise
Interian County
Fla
Ware County Tax and Sheriff Sales Notice 1886
Georgia Ware County properties to be sold at public sale on the first Tuesday in March 1886 for unpaid state and county taxes. Lots 380 in the 9th district and 64 in the 5th district among others. also several parcels in the 8th district. Proceeds go to tax collectors J A Cason and sheriff S H Miller. Includes town lots in Waycross with detailed street bounds and a block declared for sale. Also mentions a separate sheriff sale for Block 53 and a house lot with improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Ware County
Said County
W. S. Lawton
A. S. Jones
J. A. Cason
Richerson Handcock
James T. Neshet
Sth
Cluff
Martin
Said
Waycross
Savannah, Florida, and Western Railway Company
Elizabeth Street
Mary Street
Tcheau
Parker Street
H. B. Plant
J. A Casun
J. B. Plant
F. Miller
W. C
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company
Reed Street
Gilmer Street
Henry Hohenstein Insurance Notice and Court Sale
Henry Hohenstein files $50,000,000 fire and accident insurance for Waycross Georgia. A sheriff sale at the courthouse seeks two hundred acres of land Lot 99 in the 8th district south of the Brunswick and Western Railroad known as the old Dixon mill, to satisfy a mortgage in favor of James W. Aspinwall. Also notices changing a public road near Glenmore toward Waycross and guardianship applications for Malinda Anthony and Walter Oliver Rowell, all dated January 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ware Shenife
Georgia
Ware County
Said
Said County
Brunswick and Western
Dixonia
Samuel Lott
Superior Court
James W. Aspinwall
S. F. Miller
W. C
Ware
Glenmore
Waycross
Warren Lott
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Valdosta Times
Penleton
Perham
Triplett
Grubb
Pendleton
Simm
Mhrick
Ana
Dr. Mattox
Jesup Drug Print
Jesup, Ua
Jesup Sentinel
E. Z. Byrd
Garhear
John C. Nichols
Live Oak
State of Florida
Rough Self
Wilson M. Kirkland
Lake City
W. B. Folks
Chutee
Hose
J. Knox
Eva Stevens
Fannie Wideman
Bull
Smith
Laster & Youmans
Dawson
Hendry
Oscar Mattox
Citizena Avouse
Brunswick
B. Srnwans
Jacksonville
Savannah News
Gaddis
Parker
Pearson
Ind
F. B. McRae & Co
Jesup, Ga
E.H. Crawley
Duath
J. M. Sorris
Rome
Folks & Morgan
Charlton
Atlanta
I. J. Stokes
Charlton County
J. 5. Atkins
Knoxville
Tenn
King
Folks & Morgan's
Senate
J. E. Dart
Brunswick Advertiser and Appeal
Messrs
Stacy & Son
IL P. Brewer
Sherifi
Ian
Georgia—Weare County
Valentine Stewart
B. Sweat
N. P
Ollicio J. P
S. Goto Lanier & Youmans
Henry Hohenstein
J. J. Rowell
Malinda Anthony
Walter
Oliver Rowell
Jane Rowell
Cha
Jno
M Henry
South Georgia
FB. McRae & CO
Tess
Lanier & Youmans
Practical Jewelers and Publishers
Waycross Headlight
G. BR. Youmans
A. R. Bennett
Congress Street
Savannah
Davan
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