Meriwether County GaArchives News.....Meriwether County Vindicator News April 16 through June 4, 1886 April 16 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 September 14, 2004, 7:33 pm The Marion County Patriot The Marion County Patriot, No. 16 Friday, April 16, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Meriwether County Vindicator Greenville has recently elected town officers. The Amateurs’ trip to Hamilton was a financial success. Ice formed in Greenville during the last blizzard. The heavy rains have retarded the progress of the construction of the new stores now going up in Greenville. The mortgage crop promises to be an unusually large one. The cost of production may take away all profit at maturity. A Masonic lodge will be erected soon at the residence and store of Mr. W.T. Bussey in the Warm Springs district. The Marion County Patriot, No. 17 Friday, April 23, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Meriwether County Vindicator With good May rains the Meriwether oat crop will be a fine one. The Columbus and Greenville railroad has carried more cotton to Columbus than any other road entering the city. The Commissioners have ordered a special election for County Treasurer to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late G.J. Anthony. The Marion County Patriot, No. 18 Friday, April 30, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Meriwether County Vindicator Elder John Rowe, of Columbus, will preach at Flat Rock, five miles above Greenville on Monday after the first Sunday in May. We hear rumors of a probably extension of our road to Newnan. This is the point above all others to which we would delight to have the extension made. We have heard that Mr. Edge, of Seale, Alabama, is negotiating a trade with Mr. J.T. Williams and may probably open a dry goods and family grocery business at an early day. The new post office at Midway is to be supplied from Greenville. The office in the 7th district known as Violet will be supplied from St. Marks. The Marion County Patriot, No. 19 Friday, May 7, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Meriwether County Vindicator Greenville is coming to the front with useful inventions. Just think of it. Four hundred bushels of home raised corn for sale by one Meriwether farmer. Mrs. Atkinson, whose elegant residence at Oakland was destroyed by fire, will rebuilt at once upon the site of the former edifice. The new brick store of Hon. R.D. Renden on the southeast corner of the square will soon be occupied. It is a handsome edifice. Tax payers this year will be furnished with a printed list on which to make out a list and valuation of their taxable property. The dry weather of April has been very unfavorable upon the wheat crop. The yield in Meriwether promises to be an unusually short one. Married on Tuesday evening near Greenville at the resident of Mr. V.F. Hill by Rev. W.P. Rivers, Mr. J.O. Tigner and Miss Mattie Hill. Greenville must have a bank. A town cannot expect to transact a large business without home facilities for carrying on a heavy trade. If we depend upon getting money from other places to make our crops the trade of the town will not increase. The Marion County Patriot, No. 20 Friday, May 14, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Meriwether County Vindicator A bank and more brick stores are the need of Greenville. We understand that some planters are replanting their cotton crops. Rumors by grapevine are passing that work on the extension from Greenville to Newnan will begin at an early day. We hope the reports may prove to be well founded. A little son of Mr. Connally near Oakland, went in a creek bathing last Sabbath afternoon. A short time after coming out of the water the little boy was seized with cramps and died in a few minutes. The deceased was between six and ten years of age. A party and supper was given last Saturday night by one of the colored hands on Mr. Winslow’s plantation a few miles from Greenville. Some colored brothers came in uninvited and raised a disturbance. Some one emptied a bucket of water in the fireplace extinguishing the fire and light. As soon as this was done knives and pistols were drawn and promiscuous cutting and shooting began. One man is reported disemboweled, another shot in the head while sundry cuts and shots damaged other Ethiopian braves. No one was killed outright, but one or two are dangerously wounded. The Marion County Patriot, No. 21 Friday, May 21, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Meriwether County Vindicator A new bell has been bought and placed in position at the Baptist church. Candidates for the legislature were girding on their armors and war paint will soon be distributed. Mrs. Augusta Jackson has returned from a six month visit to Texas. She says Georgia is preferable to Texas. Col. Gunby Jordan telegraphs that work on the Midland east of Flint River will not commence before August. A large convict force are now busy grading the Columbus end of the line. Mrs. Thomas Jeter died very suddenly last week at her home in Lutherville. A husband and several small children mourn the loss of a most excellent wife and mother. The Marion County Patriot, No. 23 Friday, June 4, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Meriwether County Vindicator Miss Emmie Willis, daughter of Judge J.T. Willis, of Columbus, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robt. Spivey. Mr. James Bell, a few miles below Greenville is in feeble health. Mr. Bell is 82 years of age. An alligator two feet long was found dead Wednesday morning tied up at the ford of the tanyard branch on Talbotton street. Married at Rocky Mount on the 14th by T.B. York, Esq., at the residence of Mr. Guss Clark, Mr. James Turner to Miss Lucy Green. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/meriwether/newspapers/nw1513meriweth.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 6.7 Kb