Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-02-11

TOMORROW is Georgia Day. And this occasion be
well to remember the following about Georgia.
First America build orphan asylum, 174oshowng loving
n others.
folk"
slavery colony realizing
produce
First have vagrancy law 1913; no idle people in
escape tomahawking Georgia
First to trail the Spanish flag in Remember Bloody
Marsh!
First Christian baptism in America-l54O in ocmulgee
America-154O by of Desoos men
a polcy2OO Of land settler
and so to every child
StesFree and Independent
of America" July, 1776.
schoOlJohn Wesley, Savannah 1885
First to negro preacher-George Leie, 1774
First Indian aphabet-the Indian Sequoyah or George
hymn Charles weeypublshed Charleston
1887.
First to egslate against save1a
first % a commissioned ship.
to a schooner the British
First to send powder to Bunke
. a Liberty Pole in the South ITS.
the
possibility of applied to navigation
Patent granted by Georgia legislature to Briggs and
First to have iron-cad steamboat Austin
First Botanical in willow from
Napoleon's grave.
First colony appoint Thanksgiving Dayogethorpe at
Augusta 1875.
First the Married Womans Ac-gNng woman the right
pass imprisoned for debt
codify the English law and principles of equrhOs
Cobb.
First to have a paper mill in the
First to make coton OIL Athens, Ga 1929.
a railroad commission 1877 Americas
First to give railroad transportation farmers
First o a Farmers club in the South, 1891
Golf club in the Savannah, 1911.
First of Agrcuture-l81O
to plant commercial in America 1884
made into thread Amersent by Richard Leak
Massachusetts.
to chop GU a hoe-Purna Truit. 1918.
a England from America-James Hab
erham Samuel Auspourgeur-both of Georgia
First invent and patent the cotton gnJoeph Watkins Petersburg
Ca 1892
Whitney Watkins gnMrs Nathaniel Greene of
St Smons.
First to invent cotton tie-Dudley Blakely.
o a machine-F. R. Gouldmg.
o a sewing machne-Mrs F. R. GOuding
First suggest having put to music and to sing HeOerS FROM
Greenands Icy Mountains'N1rs F. R Goudmg, Savannah
o diversity Louis Exposition.
ether Observation-Disclosures w Long
and edit aper-The Washington Gazette 1902
Mrs HlIhOuse of Wilkes County,
First to cultivate WOrsham de Lyon1735. e.:
First bay in America
First o a picker
South-bought DR.
Henry Jackson for Franklin College, 1917.
First to have a State Unverity-1784.
1886
o a dpoma-Catherne
First to bestow degrees
First free high schOolRichmond Academy Augusta, 1888
First organize Boys Corn Club in the souhNewtOn county
c.. Adams.
First to Invent a circular saw-Cox in 1895
First the Ferris weeOsborn Lowrey jefferson
First to invent revolving cannon.-James Stewart.
First woman own and be president of Williams
First woman to receive commission from Government-otavia
Ievert, Paris Industrial Exposition
First Golf Club-savannah 1911 (See files of Columbia
First Southern State to sign the U, S. Constitution,
First to for turpenine Neutrality-suspicious.. Hery
First to tunnel the Hudson--WIiam McAdoo
and vceresnt
h Stephens
offer Confederate oghorpe
Infantry, Savannah .'.
First to wayside Home soldiers-Kingston 1851
First Day-Coumbu Ca April 26h 1866
suggest the Cross of Honor for S Erwin
Athens Ga