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The Oglethorpe Echo
LEXINGTON, CEORCIA.
BROUGHT BY MAIL
From the Different Sections of
Oglethorpe County.
OUR CORRESPONDENTS’ WORK
The News Items They Gather in Their
Respective Localities for the In¬
formation of Our Readers.
AROUND ANON.
GULLIVER.
—Sunshine once more.
—No corn planted yet. «
— Much complaint of seed potatoes
rotting.
—Mr. A. A. Bayle went to Wash¬
ington Monday on business.
—Dry Fork creek was higher Satur¬
day than it has been in four years.
—The mail carrier could not make
his trip Saturday on account of high
water.
C*—B. II. Spratlin and L. O. Crawford
attended preaching at Indian Creek
Sunday.
—Mrs. T. N. Lunceford is quite
sick. We hope soon to chronicle her
recovery.
—Mr. W U. Jackson ib doing some
carpenter work for Mr. A. A. Bayle
this week.
—Mrs. Slaton, who has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. M. B. Moore, re¬
turned home Sunday.
—Arthur Cheney says he has a hen
that breaks the record. lie says she
lays t wo eggs a day and a slice of ba¬
con to fry them with.
—Mr. J. W. Arnold will try his luck
at raising poultry this year. He has
just received an Indian game rooster
from North Carolina for which lie paid
S5.
WESLEY CHAPEL.
HANCIIO.
—Mr. James Reynolds was visiting
in our vicinity on Sunday last.
—A party from near Edwin were vis¬
iting Mrs. Draper's family last Sunday.
—Mrs. Slaton was detained in
• Wilkes beyond her expectation by high
water.
-—No Anon mail on Saturday ns Mr.
Crawford could not stem the currents
of water.
—One of Mr. Tidwell’s legs bursted
a few days since thereby temporarily
relieving his dropsical affection.
barley —A sample and of some bends of grain,
oats were sent, us from Cal¬
ifornia which dwarfs into insignificance
the grain crop of our section.
—We were made to say in our last
“social” when it should have been
“special” lady referred claim on being Mr. Carter, relative the old of
to no
liis.
—The friends of Mrs. Sarah T. Ste¬
vens, well known in this, her native
county, will rejoice with her that after
many hitches and vexatious delays,
she has at last drawn a pension from
l tide Sam, her husband having served
in the India war of 18118.
—Miss Fannie Baughn, though quite
feeble, lias been able to take a little #ut
door exercise for the past few days.
Site complains of a latbargic feeling
and sleeps a great deal, which of course
is best for ©tie iu her condition. Mr,
P. B. Baughn is suffering from his kid¬
ney trouble.
WOODSTOCK.
KKNKX.
—We suppose our dots for last week
stopped in Sylsfork creek.
—A good many contemplate sowing
oats yet if the ground will ever get dry
enough.
—(’apt. Daniel has had his place
nicely Wilkes terraced by Mr. Mansfield, of
county.
—liens have at last got a move on
them and eggs, as a consequence, are
becoming more plentiful.
—Mr. Iludie Hardy has gone to
Smithonia to live. He will be employ¬
ed by Mr. Jas. M. Smith.
—Guano and acid is betug hauled
from the depot in larger quantities
than was first anticipated.
—Several people on this side got
caught on the other side of the river
during the freshet last week.
—Miss Maggie Laudrun,. who has
been visitiug friends about Centerville
for about two months, returned home
last Saturday.
—“Cousin Dave” l’ittard, we are
sorry to report, has moved back to his
plantation in Wilkes county. W©od
• stock regrets very much to give up
such a nice family.
—We notice nearly everybody be¬
tween Woodstock auii Weodville are
having their places terraced. Mr.
Juo. S. Brooks, of Woodville, is doiug
the terracing for that section.
—We were glad to know that Mr. E.
M. Drake had so for recovered as to be
able to ride down from Lexington to
Woodstock the first of this week, to
visit his mother. Ilis wile and chil
dren came with him.
-Mrs. Ilenuie S. Glenn, who has
becn visiting in Knoxville, Tenn., at
her son s, Mr. Jno. B. Glenn, has
turned to Woodstock, and is now at
Mrs. Emily Nichols. Mrs. G. was
abread a good many mouths.
—Time to bed your yams. Some
people are going to try "the vineless
tubers. Mr. Oscar Scott, liviug be
tween here and Union Point, plants
them altogether and last year made a
fine crop, selling lhey kept well aud he has
beeD them lately at sixty cents
a bushel. Two hundred bushels to the
acre and sixty cents a bushel beats col
ion at tour cents.
—Mr. W. A. Hardy went over into
the flatwoods one day last week, and
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THE OGLETHORPE GA.: FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1895.
| on going M. Drake’s over a places bridge the near bridge one of Mr.
! E. gave
way and bis horse went down with
both hind feet. lie succeeded in get
ting the horse out with only a few
scratches but bad to cut his harness,
and on the horse making a sudden
lunge, the shaft was broken. The gul
ly over which the bridge wa is a hot
eight or ten feet deep. lie was indeed
fortunate in not loosing his horse.
HUTCHINS.
GUSTO.
—Very few farmers in this commu¬
nity have bought guano yet.
—Our little town was full of rock
men last Monday and Tuesday. They
mean business.
—The Sabbath-school at this place
re-organized Supt.; last Mr. Sunday. Mr. Bray, L. M.
Arnold, W. A. As¬
sistant.
—Collins & Yeung have shipped two
cars of nice stone to Athens this week.
They have get a move on them and
are working a good force of hands
now.
— If the weather permits Rev. J. F.
Cheney will preach at this place next
Sunday afternoon at 1 o’clock. Hope
all will turn out and give him a good
attendance.
— Mr. J. A. Bray says he doesn’t
know whether to buy any spring goods
for bis children or not. He is afraid
if he does that some good lady will
come around with a pigeon-tailcoat and they be¬
fore the school commissioners
will endorse it just as they did Miss
Bacon’s arithmetics and force him to
buy two coats as they did to buy two
arithmetics.
—Our little town has had a boom on
it for the last few days and what do
you suppose made it. Mr. C. W. Ber¬
ry got behind the counters and took
hold of the yard stick and Mr. II. C.
-Jackson took the carrying and went to
the woods to hauling Btock. If (J. W.
Berry doesn’t make a successful mer¬
chant it will be the lirst, didn’t thing that he
ever tried that he make pay.
Now if you want the worth of your
dollar just call on Berry & Brooks.
CHEROKEE CORNER.
nri'FALO HILL,
—Mr. 'J'. C. Harris visited home
folkB Inst week.
Mr. K. J. Tuck had the misfortune
to lose a horse not long since.
—The continuous rain has [nit all of
our farmers a great deal behind.
—Messrs. A. W. Wilkins and Sam
Arnold went to Athens last Monday.
—Mr. George 1’yrou visited relatives
in this neighborhood a few weeks ago.
—Mr. B. J. Tuck visited his uncle
in Big Creek neighborhood last Sun¬
day.
—Messrs. L. II. Smith and Vince
Arnold have bought them a regular
doctor’s buggy each.
Fuclc Fielding Dillard and wife
visited Saturday their daughter, Mrs. Comer,
last a week ago.
—Miss Maud Leary, who has been
ed visiting friends since in Augusta, has return¬
home our last writing.
—Mr. J. F. Dillard has the finest
piece of oats we have seen this year,
lie planted them right after the last
snow, and now they have covered the
—Mr. T. C. Harris will plant largely
of the ribbon cane this year. It is said
that it will produce more than any oth¬
er, making two to three hundred gal¬
lons to the acre.
—Col. B. M. Gaulding does not seem
to mind the rain. He does not stop
for anything. lie says that if the
farmer stands back for bad weather he
never does anything.
—There arc very few seed potatoes
in this neigborbood. Most all of them
suffered from the severe weather we
have had this winter. It is doubtful if
the people will have enough to plant.
—There seems to be a sugar eatie
fever in this neighborhood from the
way every one is trying to get seed.
We know of one farmer who has
bought about a bushel of seed besides
a good deal of ribbon cane. It seems
as though they are going to “raise
cane” here this year.
WINTERVILLE.
REFORM.
—Mr. Marshal Newman has been
sick for a week.
—Mr. and Mrs. !£. T. Moore went to
Atlanta this week.
—Guano is moving more briskly this
week but nothing like former years.
—Mr. Ilobt. Tuck’s condition is per¬
haps better but Ins old age (80 years) is
against him.
—Amber sugar catie seed in demand.
Nearly every farmer expects to plant
some lor forage.
—l)r. Murrah, who is sojourning tn
Florida, says that state is nearly in the
condition of N ebraska.
—Marshal Patton, of the It. & I).
It. It. is around spending old a month’s vacation
at and his home.
—Maried, near Five Forks, last
Tuesday, Postmaster W. C. Hitchcock
and Miss Martin. “Oue by one (he
roses fall.”
—Our gardeners work one day at a
time and are growing restive uuder
the idea that they must wait till sum
mer f° r vegetables*
—The farmers of this section are
calling cheapest chiefly fertilizers for the low grade and
which we believe
to be wrong. If you will use any buy
the best. "
—Married, near Smithonia, last
Thursday by'Squire J. 1). Powers, Mr.
James Carter and Miss Patton. Jim
had to “skip by the light of the moon”
with his girl, but he “got there” allee
saraee.
-Miss Gertrude Jackson, of Wat
kiusville, the attest of the Misses
Lowe, has added uo liu’.e to the social
enjoyment week. of our young people the
past She returned last Wednes
day and carried with her the heart of
at least one of our young men.
_ Thc burning of Hon. J. M. Smith's
ginnery have was involved a terrible calamity, it j
must to him a loss of
near $50,000. It is hard to see the
work of years go up in smoke in an
hour. Mr. Smith’s ginnerv was the
most complete and commodious in the
State.
; —One of the most objectionable
things about home-made syrup is the
sorghum taste that clings to it and
much time and money has been wasted
trying to rid it of this" very objectional
feature, hut it has nearly been a<>
complisbed by Mr. Jno. T. Carter, of
this county. The sample given us has
only a trace left.
ZUBEK SPRINGS.
PU EE MEND AX.
—Locals scarce.
—Fair ©nee more.
—Everybody to work now in ear¬
nest.
—Nobody visiting now in these dig
gins.
—This is the week to plant corn and
nobody ready.
—Loafing negroes are on the creeks
fishing these sunshiny days.
—Most everybody around went
hunting on had the river last Saturday of the for
the water the rabbits out
swamp.
—Several of the ysung people went
down on the river last week and had a
nice time riding in the boats, and if
you want to know who got “ducked”
just ask Will Maxey.
—John Maxey, better known as
Long John, has seen Fido so much
that he can imitate and growl just like
him and we guess John's heels are
pretty sore where Fido has bitten him
as he ran off. There are scars to
show where Fido has bitten him three
times.
—We failed! failed in what? failed
to organize a Sunday-school last Sun¬
day. Why? Because there were not
enough people there. Where were vis¬
they? Some were at home, some
iting and some rabbit hunting. Bab¬
bit hunting on Sunday? Yes. My
God, are we in the land of the hea¬
then? Boys, and you men too, for
there was one man who had a family
of six or seven children, you ought
to be ashamed of yourselves. Be
member the Sabbath and keep it holy
and come next Sunday and let us or¬
ganize a Sunday-school. Do not take
\our guns and dogs and go hunting.
If you do I’ll put your names in The
Echo sure and the preacher will know
who to visit when ho comes around
next time.
SANDY CROSS.
.T0ALL1K.
—We hear nothing of easter.
—Everybody wanting to garden in
casnest now.
—Farmers are set back another
week from planting corn.
—A pleasant party of young ladies
were seen horseback riding through
our village Monday evening.
— Mr. Earl Stevens and his cousin,
Miss Cynnie, visited friends and rela¬
tives near Indian Creek Saturday and
Sunday.
—A certain young man of the Glade
seems very fond of calling some one
near here sister who is really no kin to
him at all.
—Miss M irilie Martin had quite a
pleasant stay with her aunt, Mrs. II.
II. Colquitt, and friends near here the
first of the week.
—Is it some dark-eyed oeauty or the
services that is so attractive at our sis¬
ter city for Mr. Chandler Stevens.
We hear of him going regularly.
—The true lovers of nature are whis¬
pering around something about picnics
hut how will we get to them? Walk I
suppose, for horses will be too busy.
—A certain young lady of the Glade
his recently been making inquiries as
to the whereabouts of Sandy Cross.
Hurry up, Sandy Cross, and make have your
appearance or Mr. Ed. B. will
the advantage of you.
—Mr. Ed. Martin made a flying vis¬
its through the wind to his aunt,
Mr8. J. N. Kinnebrew, near Athens,
and while in the city treated himself to
a new buggy. Watch out, girls, and
see who will get the lirst ride.
—Mr. J. V. Garbett, while on his
way to Carlton last Monday, was strick
ened with something like vertigo and
fell from his wagon. When he regain¬
ed consciousness he was lying on the
ground, but the results were nothing
serious.
—The charming Misses Mattie and
Lizzie Eberhart, of Carlton, accompa¬
nied by their brother, Mr. Cliff, and
also Mr. Herbert Witcher and sister.
Miss Florence, of the Glade, were the
guests of Miss Cordelia Watkins last
Sunday. Come again; we always wel¬
come you into our midst.
—At the home of the bride’s mother,
near here, two hearts were made one
at ;s o’clock last Thusday afternoon—
Miss Ida Hill and Mr. Ed. Mcllannon,
Mr. Charlie Witcherofliciating. ’Tis the
wish of their friends that their future
life may not be as the omen of the day,
but brightened with sunshine.
BAIRDSTOWN.
B1L1.T BOY.
—Some signs of weather to plow
again.
—Fruit trees beginning to bloom in
earnest.
—Corn planting will be the order of
tk e j a y nest wee |j
—s 0 me of us most out of rations
an d no cron * nlauted *
—hoad ,, scratching \ . . . in the . mud , was
thc ™ 131,1 busluess the hrst of tbiS
A. . c Rhodes, „f of Crawford, was in
^.
our Monday in the interest oi a
guan ® house.
—E. C. Cheney, of near Athens,
was down Sunday night to see his pa
rents au a attend l * other rjatters '
.
—Capt. John Walton, of Wilkes, is
oa a visit to his son. P. M. Walton.
and daughter, Mrs. P. M. Cheney.
—The sunshiue has put some people
to hunting all plow stock. Can't tell
where the ten-doliar stock has gone
to that was here for sale about Christ
mas.
—As the spring opens the inquiry
for cotton seed to plant is pretty gen-
| i 1 SEEING IS BELIEVING!
►-J hen See and You’ll Best Believe!
That is why we simply invite the good people of Oglethorpe County
to see our tremendous line of seasonable
Dress Goods and- Notions,
Novelties and Fancy Goods )
Trimmings, Laces, Embroidery
Knowing that when they have done so they will be thoroughly convinced that no¬
where can a larger variety or more choice selection of these goods be found upon
which lower prices are named. Come, see for yourselves and be convinced.
We have a tremendous line of New Carpets, Matting, Shades and Curtains that
we bought way yonder $5.00 below former prices and will sell accordingly. Good, heavy
Jointless Matting from per roll lip.
We are showing the handsomest line of Gent’s Neckwear to be found in the city,
at prices (hat will astonish.
It would take too much space to name all we have and the bargains we offer.
Seeing is believing and we therefore only ask that you inspect our large and com¬
plete stock before buying.
M. MYERS & CO.
College Avenue, ATHENS, GA.
eral. Half crop is enough this year
anyhow. But the land iu corn and
peas.
—We are sorry to learn that Mrs.
Maggie Armstrong is again quite sick.
She has been greatly afflicted for a
year or more. We. do hope that she
will be herself again soon.
—We are sorry that Backet has dis¬
continued his dots for they furnished
spice and variety to the readers of
Thk Echo. We hope that he will re¬
consider and let us hear from him reg¬
ularly.
—The little rise in cotton just before
planting time means something when
it is nearly all out of the hands of the
producer. It may mean starvation
next year if the farmers don’t watch
and plant more corn and food crops.
—Some people who claim to be
white from a certain quarter stirred up
a terrible muss among the daikies here
a few nights ago. When will the
white people learn to stay in the place
of white people and give the proper
influence to society and aid in the ad¬
vancement of morals and refinement.
Dr. Franklin, I believe it was, said
that the idle head was the devil’s work
shop. Il does seem that in the finan¬
cial condition of the country every¬
body might find plenty of laudable
work to do in the day time to make
them want to rest at night and stay
where they belong.
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McELftEES WINE OF CA3PUI for Weak Xerrei.
Sweet potatoes for seed at the
Racket Store.
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Fat beef cattle wanted. Apply to
Roy Callaway.
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McElree's Wine of Carduf
and THEDFORD’S BLACK - DRAUGHT are
for sale by the fc flowing merchants in
Oglethorpe A. A. RAYLE, county: Aiion.
DU. M. G. LITTLE, Crawford.
TILLER BROS. A BROAC H, Point Peter.
K. H. KRONER, VVinterville.
WINTER & MOORE, VVinterville.
I. H. .V -T. T. 1'ITTARD, Wiutervllle.
•I. M. SMITH. Smithonia.
Perfect Health.
keen Keep the* the cvctem S) Stem in in nerfert perfect or or
der by the occasional * use of
Tutt , S Liver Tvll Pills. They —, reg
ulate the bowels and produce
V BOuV» — .
1QX) fOllS
Fnr ror <tirk =H-K hpadnrhe ncduacne, malaria maiaria, bil- u
jousness, constipation and kin
J «rea rP J Hiseacec diseases, anaDSOlllte ^mknlnte cure Cl.rL
XUTT’S LlVCf PILLS
WARNING.
tract with me for the present year. Any mfor
“«>on as to bis whereabouts \V. wut_be A. END apprecia- L AND.
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12 , iso. Crawford, Ga.
REMEMBER
When you need Seeds of any kind, Rare Drugs, Patent Med¬
icines, Etc., Etc., we carry the best assorted stock in North
Georgia. Special attention to mail orders and prescriptions.
PALMER & KINNEBREW
Wholesale and Retail Druggists,
105 Clayton Street, ATHENS, GA. Next to Davison & Lowe
A Little Out of the Way Oglethorpe For Friends. My
But I will make it pay them to look me up when they want
CROCKERY, GLASSWARE OR LAMPS.
I carry the best selection of these goods to be found
in N. E. Ga. at prices as low as the lowest.
Jas. H. Huggins, Jr, New Crockery Store
33 CLAYTON STR„ ATHENS, GA.
Fires Will Occur ! ■?
And it is the duty of every Property
owner to protect himself against
them. That, is to always
Keep Your Property Insured.
I Represent the third largest and
one of the best companies in the *
world. Rates as low as any.
W. A. SHACKELFORD,
OGLETHORPE ECHO OFFICE, LEX1UGTON, GA.
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ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING
Done with Neatness and Dispatch at this Office.