The City in Brief for May 1892

 An article from Douglasville’s paper at the time (The New South) fully transcribed regarding “The City in Brief.” This article is from The New South dated May 10, 1892 (3)

Dry and dusty. 

Rain needed badly.

 Send in your job work.

 Farmers are needing rain. 

Picnics are all the go now. 

Garden truck is burning up. 

All flavor of soda water at Condors. 

The buncoed man dreads the stranger. 

The early bird is now apt to catch a cold. Best and purest soda water at Condors. H.P. Crawford went to Atlanta last Friday. 

All watches stop, but all are not stop watches. Spare the advertisements and spoil the business.

Mrs. J.C. Billinghurst spent Friday in Atlanta. A small advertisement is better than a bad traveler. People above suspicion must, of course, stand very high. The confidence of the political leaders equals their gall. When bank stock is watered there is bound to be a run on it. The tax receiver was in town last Monday and Tuesday.

The wages of sin are regulated by a back-sliding scale. There is a great deal of sickness throughout the county. E.F. Wright and B.G. Griggs visited Atlanta last Thursday. The church is all right, but some congregations are all wrong. The merchants are now closing up at 7 o’clock in the evening.

Miss Annie Smith, a daughter of Mr. Dave Smith, is quite sick. The dog is to be envied. He doesn’t have to stretch his pants. It doesn’t spoil the barrel organ to knock a few staves out of it. Mrs. Lillia Walton and Miss Effie Winn spent last Friday in Atlanta. People who have cast their eye must have iron in their blood.

Roseola has about spent its forces. A few scattering cases yet in town. He is a wise man who takes a large space and puts little matter in it. Every wise man advertiseth, but a fool speculareth on the Stock Exchange. A big advertiser leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children’s children. Misses Jennie Stockley and Nannie Turner visited Atlanta last Friday. Vulgarity in long clothes is more shocking than immodesty in short skirts. Stationary is all shapes, styles and quality at Selman, Mallory & Co.

A good advertisement is like the merchant’s ships; it bringeth abundance from afar. When you are roasting somebody remember that somebody is roasting you. Whoso loveth a good business loveth advertising; but he that depriveth fame is not wise. When people lose their tempers what a blessing it would be if they could never find them again.
He that trusteth in a large circulation shall be wealthy, but he that believeth in cheap rates shall be busted. It appears to be a hard matter to get anyone to preach the commencement sermon at the college this year.

Look up and see if your stationary is getting low. If so, come to The New South office and have it replenished.

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Are you hunting a place ot school your children? You cannot find a better place anywhere in Douglasville. Tuition free. Professor J.G. Camp says he belongs to the party where it only takes two to make a majority, and the majority is in Gwinnett County.

Spring is now upon us in all its bloom and beauty. Let us show our appreciation of it by being more cheerful, buoyant, amiable and kind to those around us. A complete line of patent medicine at Selman, Mallory & Co.

Miss Clonts, a charming young lady, is now visiting at Jeff’s. She arrived Tuesday night. Mother and child are doing well. Grandpa Furr is also resting easy.

Mr. Cass Harding, of this place, who recently visited his farm in Paulding County was taken dangerously ill, we are glad to state, is on the road to rapid recovery.

The successful young men in this world do not stand around waiting for something to turn up. They go to work and turn something up. Everything depends on one’s own effort.
There is a conscience of the head as well as of the heart; and in old age we feel as much remorse as if we have wasted our natural talents as if we had perverted our natural virtues.

The colored people have done a very commendable act towards their dead. They met last week and cleaned off and otherwise fixed up the graves, greatly improving their grave yard.

Rev. J.J. Haines, Mr. Thomas Haines and daughter, wife of Dr. T.J. Garner, of Hope, Arkansas, who have been attending on the Baptist convention in Atlanta, are now the guests of Mr. A.G. Weddington, of this place. They are sons and granddaughter of Rev. Henry Haines, a noted Baptist divine who left this section for the west several years ago. They will be royally entertained while the guests of “Sandy” Weddington.

Drink Coca-Cola at Selman, Mallory & Co.

Hutcheson High School - Faculty

Ulysses Byas was the principal of Hutcheson High School in 1956. He went on to a very distinguished career after leaving Douglasville. 

Some bio infomration I found regarding Byas online: "Dr. Ulysses Byas dropped out of high school two times before finally finishing and serving as a journeyman and a cook in the U.S. Navy. He graduated with a degree from Fort Valley State College (now University) in Georgia and went on to get a masters degree and a doctorate before taking over as head of schools for Macon County Public Schools in Alabama, making him the first Black superintendent of a mixed school district in the South."

As a leader, Dr. Byas was vocal about the disparities in funding for predominately Black schools. (Though Brown vs. Board of Education had been the law of the land for 16 years by the time he took over at Macon County Public Schools, Alabama and his native Georgia were slow to desegregate). He was well-known for his ability to turn around a budge crisis in districts, as well as his ability to bridge the gap between different sectors in education."