Muscogee County GaArchives News.....Enquirer-Sun News, April 16 to 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, 7:44 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 Muscogee County Enquirer-Sun It is said that Columbus is soon to have another wholesale grocery establishment. Several members of the family of Mr. Denson at Nance’s, are quite sick with what is supposed to be meningitis. Measles are prevalent in Nance’s district. Several members of Mr. James Passmore’s family are sick with this disease. Mr. J.F. Moore, aged 47 years, died at his home in Browneville at 1:15 pm yesterday of congestion of the lungs. He leaves a wife. At the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. E.H. Rees, in this county on Sunday, Mr. J.W. Edwards of Talbot County and Miss Mattie Rees were united in marriage. The Marion County Patriot, No. 17 Friday, April 23, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Muscogee County Enquirer-Sun The oat crop is reported in good condition. It is said that the late frosts have not damaged the peach crop, as we feared. Pea soup is now one of the delicacies enjoyed by housekeepers. Farmers complain that the late freshet left the ground so hard that is almost impossible to plow it. Corn is beginning to look better since the warm weather set in. The farmers are now busy planting cotton and but a few of them are seen on our streets. Foxes are reported as quite numerous in the northern part of this county. Rev. James Rees is quite ill at his residence in this county. He is eighty-six years old. The Marion County Patriot, No. 18 Friday, April 30, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Muscogee Enquirer- Sun Forty-one cases have been returned to the May term of Muscogee Superior Court. With the Georgia Midland and Columbus and Western railroad extension Columbus will be on a big boom, and business will soon increase two or three hundred fold. Columbus is one of the prettiest as well as cleanest and well kept cities in the south and just now she is looking her best. The commercial tourists say it is truly refreshing to reach Columbus, with its beautiful streets and pleasant walks. We see that the projectors of the Savannah Dublin and Western railroad say that they will have trains running into Columbus within a year. On Sunday morning Mr. Thomas L. Ingram left this city on his bicycle and rode to Geneva, via Ellerslie and Talbotton, a distance of 43 miles, in five hours and a few minutes. Two little colored boys went in bathing Friday and came out and ate a quantity of blue grass. Both of them died Sunday with convulsions. The Marion County Patriot, No. 20 Friday, May 14, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Muscogee Enquirer- Sun The county commissioners have awarded the contract for placing the iron steps at the front entrance of the courthouse to the Columbus Iron Works company for $775. Viola Estelle, the little daughter of Mrs. Emma Martin, died at her home about thirteen miles north of the city on Sunday. She was not quite two years old, but her death is a sad blow to the loving mother. This morning at 10:30 o’clock in the Episcopal church at Clayton, Ala., Mr. Wiley Williams, of this city, and Miss Victoria V. Clayton, of Clayton, will be united in the holy bonds of wedlock, Rev. Dr. E.W. Spalding, rector of the church at Eufaula, officiating. Judge Willis convened Muscogee Superior Court yesterday morning, and after granting two or three orders to foreclose mortgages, adjourned the court to the fifth Monday in May. Judge Willis expects to leave for Indian Springs today where he will spend a short time for the benefit of his health. The Marion County Patriot, No. 23 Friday, June 4, 1886 Page One Among Our Neighbors Pithy Paragraphs Penned and Scissored from Our Exchanges Muscogee Enquirer- Sun Little Minnie V., the eighteen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Millirons, died at their home in the Northern Liberties at 12:30 yesterday afternoon after an illness of two weeks of meningitis. The party of bicyclist from New Orleans which passed through the city about a month since enroute to Boston reached there on the night of the 24th inst. They made the trip in twenty-nine days. Mr. Ed Rankin yesterday, when near Mr. Dorch’s place above the city, saw a heavy cloud of rain coming up. He stopped in his buggy under a large oak in front of the house, but a moment afterwards changed his mind and took shelter in the lot. A few minutes after leaving the oak lightning struck it and tore it all to pieces. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/newspapers/nw1517enquirer.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb