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GOODS FOR HOLIDAYS I
We have brought out for the Christmas trade an unusual large stock of attractive and handsome presents. A few suggestions:
SMOKING JACKETS OVERCOATS, TROUSERS, COLLARS, UMBRELLAS, CUFFBUTTONS, MUFFLERS, CRAVATS,
BATH ROBES, SUITS, SHIRTS, CUFFS, SUSPENDERS, SCARF PINS, HATS, GLOVES.
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COTTON MARKET.
Quotations at ]0 o’clock this moruing
wore:
Strict middling ............13%
Middling.................... 18%
Low middling...................18
Highest price past week......18%
Lowest price past week 12%
Price cotton seed today 18f per bushel.
—Christmas gift.
—Look out for Christmas fires.
—A number of Christmas trees over
the comity.
—We haveu’t given away all those
calendars yet.
—All the rural mail carriers have
holiday ^today.
—Lexington is not entertaining many
holiday visitors.
—People were never in better spirits
to enjoy a Christmas.
—A little more like our southern
clime the past few days.
—Somehow tjie depot platform will
stay crowded with cotton.
—The Echo office will be close for all
business until today week.
—Onr dealers are kept hustling to
supply the demand for mules.
—There are some wild speculations as
to what price cotton will reach.
—Twelve pages of this Echo and
something to read on every page.
—The Echo will bo loss in bulk
not in reading matter after this issue.
—Cotton leaped a half cent in
Tuesday, carrying it to thirteen cents.
—Two or three more movings will set¬
tle Lexiugtons population for next year.
—A slight run-off on the Terminal de¬
layed trains two or three hours Monday.
—And especially do wo hope all onr
correspondents will have a merry Christ¬
mas.
—Lexington’s people ought to come
together ofteuor in public social gather¬
ings.
—The young people have several en¬
tertainments on foot for the coming
week.
—The Christmas tree was indeed a
happy time for the little folks, and older
ones too.
—The Masons will celebrate St
John’s day with an oyster supper next
Thursday night.
—Thanks to our correspondents for so
readily granting onr request for early
dots for this issue,
—Shipments of cotton from this depot
are some six hundred bales more than at
this date last year.
— Would that we could always have
such pleasant and quiet elections as was
that of Wednesday.
—Lands in Oglethorpe county will lie
considerably higher in price a year hence
than they are today.
—The band will give some sort of en¬
tertainment for its own benefit about
the first of February.
—Merchants congratulating them¬
selves that no Christinas goods are loft
on their hands this time.
—The customary scramble for house
servants. The golden rule is too often
broken in this particular.
—Light shipments of cotton seed
would seem to indicate that farmers are
keeping them for manure.
—A show purporting to be a comedy
was billed for the auditorium Monday
night, but it didn’t show up.
—Going to press a day early as we do
with this issue accounts for the absence
of some late local news items.
— An all-the-week fair will be con¬
ducted by some negroes at, the colored
Odd Fellow’s hall, beginning today.
—Quite a number of subscribers
have dropped in and renewed during
the past week. They have our thanks.
—The sale of the Maxwell lands on 5
next first Tuesday will put a large
amount of desirable rt al estate on the
market.
—Eggs or no eggs, there will be no
scarcity of nog, judging from what’s
been doing at the express office the
past few days.
THE ECHO, LEXINGTON, GA.: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25.
.Judge Pope Harrow Head.
Just as The Echo was being put to
press the Atlanta Constitution reaches
us telling of the death of Judge Pope
Barrow quite suddenly in Savannah
Wednesday evening. He was a native
of and known to almost everyone in
Oglethorpe county and his death will
cause profound and widespread sorrow.
No Paper Next Week.
The Echo force wants, and* richly de¬
serves, a little Christmas recreation and
fun like other folks, and that they may
enjoy the privilege there will be no reg¬
ular issue of the paper next week—only
a small sheet to accommodate legal ad¬
vertisements. Our next issue will
therefore be* on the 7th of January
when we will begin the labors of the
new year with a hope to be able to give
our readers a bigger and better paper
during 1904.
Repairing Railroad Track.
The track of the Terminal road is be¬
ing put in applepie order. Besides the
heavier rail before mentioned, more of
which is prouiished, new crossties are
being put in all along the line and the
track given a general working and lin¬
ing up. Track-raisei Jackson, from
the Athens Branch, has his force doing
the work and says he will give us a
good, smoothe, safe track over which
to ride. We will thank him and the au¬
thorities therefor.
Prizes for Attendance.
It has for a number cf years been the
custom of Superintendent Geo. C.
to present bibles each Christmas
those of the Presbyterian
school who had not missed a Sunday
attendance for the year. The
tion was made last Sunday Mrs.
Stewart, Misses Virginia and
Smith and Marguerite Faust and Mas¬
ter George Stakely Smith. Four or five
more of the scholars had missed only
one or two Sundays during the year.
Tax Executions Issued.
Tax-Collector Jno. B. Crowley has
had the Echo job office print 1,495 tax
executions which he will proceed at
once to till out against tax delinquents
aud place in the hands of bailiffs for
collection. This is about 150 more than
he issued last year, which would indi¬
cate that high-priced cotton has not in¬
duced tax-paying as it lias other obliga¬
tions. Most of these executions, t hough,
are for merely poll tax, and siuce next
year is election year will probably be
paid.
Show will Winter Here.
The James Shelby show, which ex¬
hibited in Lexington two weeks ago,’
will winter at the fair grounds here,
having already established itself on the
grounds. Twenty-five or thirty horses
and eight or ten men will be in the camp
and they will be at the grounds until
about the first of Man'll when they start
out for the show’ season of next year.
This means the buying of a lot of sup¬
plies from the merchants aud people
here and we are glad to have the show
with us.
A Marriage Tuesday.
At Bairds church Tuesday eveuing at
5 :80 o’clock occurred the happy mar¬
riage of Mr. Hans H. Hunter, of Bow¬
ling-Green district, and Miss Sarah
Cheney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Cheney, of Bairds town. Mr. Hun¬
ter is one of the county’s sterling and
highly esteemed vouug men and he wins
one of the most lovable girls of the
county for a wife. Their friends are
legion who extend them all the best of
congratulations and good wishes, in all
of which The Echo heartily joins.
('oming Rack to Oglethorpe.
A special from Milledgeville to Wed¬
nesday ’{i Constitution sirs: "Captain
L. D. Slater, warden of the man’s de¬
partment of the state farm, has sent in
his resignation to take effect December
26. Mr. Slater goes back to his old
county of Oglethorpe to take charge of
roads and bridges. He gives as his rea¬
son tor resigning that he is offered more
money in his new position. Oaptian
Slater lias always been considered a
most I'fficieut man, and it will not be
easy to supply his place at the farm.”
CLOUD ELECTED ORDINARY.
Carries Election by a Majority of
Two Hnndred and Nineteen.
Though Pretty Full Vote is Polled the
Contest is Entirely Free From
Any Excitement.
The campaign between Messrs. Joel
Cloud and L. H. Bacon for the office of
Ordinary, and which ended with the
election Wednesday, though a short one,
was vigorously waged by both candi¬
dates. Both are popular and both con¬
ceded by everybody to be well fitted for
and worthy of the trust. It was there¬
fore a matter of seeing the most voters
and securing their pledges of support.
Neither candidate let an grass grow un¬
der their feet in doing this. But it de
velopes that Mr. Cloud saw the greater
number of them as the returns which
we give below will show. •
Mr. Bacon accepts his defeat grace¬
fully aud says that he with the balance
of the county will have as good an Ordi¬
nary in Mr. Cloud as any county in the
state can boast. Mr. Cloud would have
said the same had he been defeated.
The vote by precincts was:
Lexington CLOUD BACON
Beaverdam..... . .......no 55
Bairdstown. 6
Crawford. Bowling- Green ....... 10 72
Falling Creek..... . 28
Glade..... ....... 27 10
8
Pleasant Hill...... 43
.......
Wolfskin... 17
Grove Creek. 20
Goose 14
Woodstock pond.. 2
4
Totals... ......471 252
Card From Mr. Cloud.
Mr. Editor:— Please allow me,
through the columns of your paper, to
express my profound gratitude to those
who gave me their support in the recent
election for Ordinary of Oglethorpe
county, and to say that I have nothing
but the kindest feeling towards those
who supported my opponent.
Very respectfully,
Joel Cloud.
Lexington, Dec. 24, 1903.
A Happy Occasion.
The Christmas tree or rather Santa
Clans home, at the auditorium last night
was an indeed happy occasion for the
Sunday-school children and grow’n
folks too as well. A pretty program of
exercises, consisting of songs and recita¬
tions, was rendered, and then each child
and most of the grown people present
were presented with a present from
Santa Claus who was on hand for the
occasion. It was a happy time for all
present.
After More Stock.
Dealer John Knox left Tuesday for
Kentucky to buy his second shipment of
mules and horses. He tells us that since
they go so quickly he will buy two car¬
on this trip. He expects to have
them here the first of next week. Mr.
Knox goes to the farms and buys direct
from the farmers who raise the stock
thereby saving middlemen’s profits to
the buyer. He says the demand for
stock will be unprecedented when the
buying season fully opens and that
prices will go sky high. If you intend
buying any better do so right away.
Wreck on Terminal.
A pretty bad wreck occurred on the
Terminal at the depot in this piace
Wednesday morning. As the train was
going out and when just at the top of
the steep grade from the depot to in
front of Rev. P. W. Davis’ residence the
coupling of the coach broke* allowiug it
to run back down the grade. No one
was on it to apply brakes and it gained
considerable momentum by time it
reached the depot aud though
Mr. J. M. Gregory succeeded in
mounting it there he could not
apply brakes in time to stop it be¬
fore it reached the end of the track be¬
yond the tank, where it jammed against
n rock. One of the platforms and one
pair of trucks were considerably smash¬
ed up. However, it was gotten back on
the track* by evening and put in service
again. There was no passenger aboard
the car at the time.
PURELY PERSONAL.
—Miss Melissa Davis is at home from
a month’s visit to her grand-parents is
Elberton.
—Miss Esther Gottheimer is at home
from Brenau college, Gainesville-for the
holidays.
—Mrs. M. E. Gunter, from Union
Point, has been visiting relatives in and
near Lexington this week.
—Master Rob Arnold, of Hampton, is
spending the week with his grand-par¬
ents, Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Arnold.
—Hon. and Mrs. W. M. Howard and
Mr. W. C. King arrived at home today
a week ago to spend the holiday recess
of Congress.
—Dr. aud Mrs. D. L. Cloud, of Craw¬
ford ville, arrived here Wednesday to
spend two or three days with Mr. and
Mrs. Joel Cloud.
—Both Mrs. Faust and Little Miss
Fanida Brooks have continued to im
pr ove for the past week and their ulti¬
mate recovery is assured.
—Mr. Geo. J. Cunningham has
bought Miss Mary Willingham’s house
and lot on Boggs street, and will repair
the house and rent it out.
--Messrs. King Howard and Clayton
led the vanguard of school boys
girls home on their holiday vaca¬
They arrived a week ago.
—Mr, Walter Arthur, who has been
at the Lexington ginnery dur¬
the season, has been engaged as
marshal of the
days.
—Master John Callaway reached
home from school at Stone Mountain
Wednesday to spend the holidays with
his parents at “Calladene Farm,” near
town.
•Prof. Wallace expects to move next
Tuesday into Capt, Geo. C. Smith’s
formes cottage home. Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Maxwell w.ll move into the resi
dence he vacates.
—Cashier C. M. Hunter, of our bank,
attended a reception tendered his
brother, Hans, and bride at the home of
his mother in Bowling-Green district
Wednesday night.
—Misses Stella and Myrtle Callaway
and Ruth Drake, of Washington, are ex¬
pected Saturday to spend Christmas
with their cousins, Misses Mamie Lou
and Iris Callaway.
Prof. Looney, principal of the Glade
High School, made The Echo a pleasant
call Wednesday evening. The profes¬
sor is an exceptionally fine teacher and
a most affable gentleman.,
—We are glad to note a still more rap¬
id improvement in Master Beverly
Ford. Though he has been np for only
about three weeks he has discarded
crutches and can get about almost as
lively as other boys.
—Gordon Callaway, after serving The
Echo as “devil” for two years, severs
his connection with ns today and will
enter Meson academy with the opening
of the spring term. He is a promising
boy and we wish him well.
Bob Esco in Trouble.
The Athens Banner of Wednesday
tells of some trouble in which Bob Esco,
so well known in this county, finds
himself. On Saturday night Bob took a
Mr. Berry Wilson, formerly of Madison
county, home to spend the night with
him. Wilson claims that on awaking
Sunday moruing he found that twenty
dollars had been extracted from his
purse which he had placed under his
pillow, and he proceeded to get a war¬
rant for Bob for stealing it. Bob stren¬
uously denies the charge. They were
drinking Saturday evening and night.
A Splendid Entertainment.
The musicale given by Miss Henrietta
Smith’s music class Friday evening last
is declared by all who heard it as being
the best entertainment of the kind ever
giveu in Lexington. The program as
published in last issue was carried out
in full, aud every feature thereon was
noticeably well rendered. It was plain
to be seen that each pupil had not only
received good training; for this special
occasion but that she had been well
tutored in music. Miss Smith is recog- ■;
nized as*one of the most efficient and I
painstaking teachers that has ever I
taught here. j
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-Mr. E. M. Stokely spent Sunday in
Crawford.
—Merchants are quite busy with
Christmas trade.
—Rev. J. A. Sewell, of Lexington,,
will preach here next Sunday night.
—Mrs. A. S. Rhodes and son, Walter,
made a business trip to Athens Friday.
—Miss Pearl Gaulding is at home
from the Normal school for a few days..
—The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. K.
P. Carpenter has recovered from mumps
—Mrs. Brown, from Greenesboro, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. D. W. Good¬
win.
—The family of Mr. Henry Luthi, Jr.
of Commerce, visitors in r
are our town
now.
-Miss Carrie Jones, from Cedartown,
is spending Christmas with relatives,
here.
-Miss Marion Herndon has returned!
from school to spend Christmas holi¬
days.
—Dr. and Mrs. Gheesling, of Greens¬
boro, visited their parents here Satur¬
day and Sunday.
— The friends of Mr. A. P. Stevens are*
delighted to know that he is much im¬
proved in health.
—The beautiful cottage of Mr. and
Mrs. V. A. Maxwell, on Railroad street,
is nearing completion. It will be quite
and addition to the town.
—We have already realized that the
holidays are approaching by the boom
of cannon and fire crakers.
—Misses Reba and Antoinette and
Master Willie Dillard, of Washington,
are visiting their aunts here.
-Mr. C. A. Stevens and daughter,
Miss Obie, spent Thursday and Thurs¬
day night with Mr. T. T. Herndon and
family.
Good Profits in Cotton.
One of our local firms of cotton buyers
is still holding its entire buying of cot¬
ton for the fall. At the present ruling
prices it has a profit of about two thous¬
and dollars on the first hundred bales
bought at the opening of the selling
season and upon its entire lot of about
five hundred bales bought during the
season they have a profit of some six to
eight thousand dollars. This has been
one cotton season favorable to dealers,,
but as a general rule they seldom get
w hat they pay for it when taken in pay¬
ment of accounts. All of our dealers
have made money in the business this
fall.
Especially Correspondents. *
While we wish everybody a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year, to
our good correspondents especially do
we extend these greetings. Words fail
ns whenever we attempt to give expres¬
sion of our gratitude to them for their
favors to and service in behalf of The
Echo. Without them what would the
paper be? We had hoped to give some
more tangible expression of onr appre¬
ciation of their services but conditions
we need not mention here have prevent¬
ed. However, we hope all of them do
realize that we value their assistance in
making The Echo a mirror of the hap¬
penings in the county each week, and
also how much onr readers appreciate
their services. We are justly proud of
The Echo’s corps of correspondents.
An Incendiary’s Work.
An incendiary got in his work near
Stephens Saturday morning at 2 o’clock
causing the destruction of a corn crib
and about fifty bushels of corn belong¬
ing to Tom Lumpkin, col., a tenant of
Mr. J. S. Bowling on what is known as
the Brooks place. There is sufficient ev¬
idence going to show that the fire was of ^
incendiarjp origin and the deed of some
party whose purpose was to run Tom,
who is an exceptionally; good negro
off the place. Mr. Bowling has offered
a reward of fifty dollars for the appre¬
hension of the incendiary. Special
mention is due Charles Campbell for hia
good work in saving several other
buildings in close proximitv to the burn¬
ed crib. But for his efforts the entire
settlement might have been destroyed.
It is to be hoped the fire fiend will be
caught and given his just punishment.
Santa Claus has made my store
his Lexington headquarters. Full
lines of all his goods.
R. L. Mathews.
Wanted—Cow Peas.
Joe E. Watson, Carlton.