Marion County GaArchives News.....Brantley News - Oct. 8, 1897 October 8, 1897
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The Marion County Patriot October 8, 1897
Marion County Patriot, Oct. 8, 1897, Vol. XXI, No. 40

BRANTLEY ITEMS

With the long drouth [drought] and favorable weather to aid the planters we
believe we can safely say that two-thirds of the cotton crop in this immediate
section has been gathered, and the larger part of which is marketed.  Though the
price is low the condition of the average farmer is such that he has had to
sell.  What amount of depression and hardship this will work for the farmer we
have yet to fully see.  

The Brantley boys are getting up a Negro minstrel show which will come off at
the academy here on the night of the 22nd instant.  They are practicing two or
three times a week now and at the time of their public exhibition a fine band of
music will be on hand.
	
The Friendship Association held at Providence church near here last week as
relates to the convocation of a large crowd, ecclesiastical business and good
preaching was a success.  The Missionary Baptist church was largely represented
for miles around, and the great throng of people on Wednesday was estimated by
some to be fully 2,000.  Several long table were erected midway between the
church building and the arbor, and for three successive days were covered with
delicious viands sufficient to have fed that ancient crowd in the wilderness. We
had the pleasure of listening to every discourse from the introductory sermon by
Dr. Griffin at the church on Tuesday to the farewell sermon at the arbor on
Thursday by Rev. Mr. Arnold, and while the preaching, as we have said, was all
good, this, we might say was a splendid specimen of pulpit oratory.  As this
good man’s face lit up with religious truths, and his forceful sentences fell
upon a large and attentive audience, the earnest countenance of the speaker was
magical.  It will be a long time, so to speak, before old Providence church will
see such a vast congregation of people again. 

LEX


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