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Newspaper
Waycross Headlight
Location
Waycross, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1887
Page
1
M. A. Briggs of Vatnosis Georgia reports three years of illness with heart affection, weakness, loss of appetite, and facial swelling. After daily use of Nussmetter tonic pills, he improves markedly, regaining strength and sleep. Henry Collins corroborates the recovery claim.
Short classified note advertising guano for sale. Mentions Versions Wieling Guano, delivery by 8 FO Miller and PL D. J. Sepfords. Dated Warcross February 16 31.
Fragmentary church notices list pastors E J Burch W H Beragys Stewart Martin J C Allen and Rev J C Allen. Services include morning and evening sermons on first third Sundays, prayer meetings midweek, and Sunday schools with various supervision.
Town items report on court sessions, appointments, and local people from Valdosta area. Mentions J T Hale as deputy sheriff Read Underwood Rev J M Stiger and Rev Brett Denton visits. Notes artesian well talk, May church events, printing orders, schoolhouse plans, Kroms hall entertainment, and a Tampa cyclone. Includes March winds affect fruit, post office cigars, a jailed woman bound for asylum, Florida trip chatter, Georgia Press Association meeting in Valdosta May 11 1887, and local business movements including Dr M A Briggs ads and Cumberland Island meeting of druggists. Also reports on railway delays, DeLand trip, and local newspaper personnel news.
A true copy from minutes of Ware Superior Court. W. M. Wilcox. Dec. 8, 1886. An enterprising house Folks & Morgan can be relied upon to carry the best stock and secure reliable agency for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption with a trial bottle offer.
Under authority vested by court order I will sell at public outcry on the first Tuesday in April 1887 before the courthouse door in Ware County Waycross the undivided one half interest in a storehouse and lot known as the grocery store now occupied by W M Wilson sold as the property of Charles E Olson a minor of the county cash terms Guardian of Charles E Cason Fob 7th 1
Sheriff Henddi investigates ties between the Smithville crime and the Sirmans safe theft last Friday. Reports say culprits used a drill to bore the safe, taking twenty dollars, with possible links to burglaries in Griffin, Waycross, and Jacksonville. Local merchants are urged to place business cards for the weekly advertisement drive.
Brother Underwood of the Camilla Clarion recounts a three day visit to Waycross. He notes rail traffic on the Savannah Florida and Western lines, a fine southern railroad restaurant, and burgeoning town improvements. Local editors Brewer and Sweat of the Reporter and Freeman of the Hrap LIGHT are praised for promoting growth. The piece also defends Waycross churches, listing Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and African American congregations, while correcting Underwood’s remark about “one or two churches.”
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