Statewide-Wilcox-Sumter County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE July 7, 1887
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Savannah Morning  News July 7, 1887
                             NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
                                     7 JULY 1887
     Howard Dexter and George Cook, while celebrating the Fourth of July at
Brunswick, met with a serious accident. They were shooting off fire crackers,and
had a bag of powder near by for  bigger shooting. A broken cracker full of fire
landed in the box and exploded it, burning George Cooks' face very badly. Howard
Dexter came very near having his thumb torn off.
     Alf Prater, the "Mountain Wonder," won in the walking match at Atlanta 
Monday night, Prater was matched against two men, Robert Lawshe and Charles
Armstead, and the race was twenty miles for $100.00. Armstead and Lawshe were
each to make a part of the twenty miles, but when the first man on the track
left he could not return. Prater won easily, his competitors together making not
quite nineteen miles.
     The citizens of Abbeville held a meeting at the court house last Tuesday
evening and went into a temporary organization with a capital stock of
$5,000.00. The object of the company is to invite and encourage emigration to
the town by offering all the inducements at their command to parties desiring to
engage in mercantile or manufacturing pursuits, and develop the resources of a
fine, healthy, growing section.
     At Macon Monday Post Office Inspector Robert Cope brought in Charles F.
Abbott, postmaster at Pelham, in Mitchell county, charged with embezzlement of
funds, and also of making fraudulent returns. The inspector had been looking
after the case for some time, and during his visits to that section on other
business, kept a watch on young Abbott, On July 1 the inspector took the case in
hand. He was before the United States Commissioner, but the case was continued
to secure witnesses for the defense.
     At a meeting of the Washington County Grange, on Friday last, it was
decided to hold a festival at the Grange Hall on or about July 27. The Lecturer
of the National Grange and Past Master of the State Grange are expected to
speak. A delegation consisting of Master Jasper Henderson and Messrs. George
Gilmore and William Jordan were appointed to attend the Grand Encampment at
Spartanburg, S. C. 
     The Bank of Americus has declared its regular semi-annual dividend of $6.00
per share and that amount was placed to the credit of its stockholders payable
on demand. The gross profits of the bank since January 1, 1887, are $26,500.00,
so after paying the large dividends of 6 per cent, the surplus account is also
very largely increased. The pride of stockholders of this od and flourishing
bank is its large and increasing surplus.The capital stock and surplus now
amounts to over one-quarter of a million dollars.The bank has loaned out over
four hundred thousand dollars. With this stock paying $12.00 oer share per annum
and with the good business patronage it now enjoys it can well be understood how
it is that none of the stock can be bought for less than $150.00 per share.


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