Newton County GaArchives News.....GOSSIP HERE AND THERE November 16, 1883
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The Georgia Enterprise November 16, 1883
~Col. A. B. SIMMS has purchased the Floyd Mill in this city.

~Mr. STEPHEN A. BROWN has been quite ill since our last issue.

~PLEASANT WARREN, has been on the sick list for several days past.

~J. A. H. HARPER thinks he will leave for Texas before Christmas.

~Miss FLORENCE TUCKER has returned to her home at Shady Dale.

~Mrs. SARAH RICHARDSON, perhaps the oldest lady in Rockdale County, is reported 
to be very sick.

~The JONES, PERRY and ROBINSON property will be sold on the first Tuesday in 
December.

~Coroner FREEMAN preached at Liberty Church, near the Shoals, Sunday last.

~MACON CLARKE, colored, caught five large possums one morning last week.

~Farmers generally praise the merits of Esquire FRANKLIN WRIGHT’S guano.

~J. R. CLEVELAND and family, of Henry County, have moved to Alabama.

~Messrs. BENJAMIN and JACK ELKINS, of Henry County, left for Texas last week.

~Gov. MCDANIEL has presented his wife with a team of magnificent black horses.

~Dr. DOUGLAS tells us that he will move to town after he kills his hogs.

~JOHN DAY, of Rockdale County, who it will be remembered caught to many beavers 
on Alcova River last year, is trapping in Alabama.

~W. J. GREEN is the only one that has a license to sell pistols and dirks. Give 
him a call, if you want anything in that line.

~Few men ever lived who done more for the poor people of Newton County than the 
late Col. E. STEADMAN.

~JOSEPH S. NIX returned from a business trip to the Western States one night 
last week. He is looking fine and healthy.

~GEORGE HILL has put in a large crop of grain. He is the man that says it cost 
no more to keep a fat horse than it does a poor one.

~Sheriff PRESTON, of Jasper County, has carried WALTER ROBY to Atlanta jail for 
safe keeping until court.

~Mrs. GRIER QUIGG, of Conyers, daughter of Mr. M. B. FOWLER, of this city, has 
been down with a spell of fever at her father’s residence.

~C. S. JARBOE and HOUSTON JONES spent Sunday last with the formers good mother, 
who lives about six miles from town.

~W. B. LEE and his brother-in-law, Mr. BUTLER, spent a day or two hunting in 
Rocky Plains district this week.

~The largest and most complete line of men’s and boy’s hats and caps ever 
offered in this market, at panic prices, at W. J. GREEN’S.

~ I. W. BROWN bought one of the finest Jersey bulls in Georgia the other day. 
Solicitor General WOMACK is also the proud owner of a similar piece of property.

~Two or three parties who don’t take our paper, came ten miles the other day to 
see Dr. CLARK. The doctor left on a visit for Texas three weeks ago.

~The people of Jasper County offered to replace the stock lost by Dr. WALKER in 
the late burning, but he declined the proffered gift with thanks.


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