Newspaper Page Text
Free Soda Water S>
For 30 Days, I will give to each customer spending 50 cents in ,
cash at my store a ticket good for One Drink of Soda "W«.ter
at my fount. Drinks guaranteed to be as good as can be had
in the city.
Anything in the Way of Fancy Groceries*
9 packages ArbuCkle’s Coffee SI.OO.
One barrel of good Flour $4.35.
2-Hoop brass Water Bucket for 20c ; two for 35c.
Corn, Oats, Bran, Shorts, Cotton Seed Meal and Hay always on hand.
Call on or ’phone üb, we appreciate your patronage.
Xtv. d. ray,
Free Delivery, j* & & 'Phone 92,
Spring : Millinery l
Now on Display.
Mrs. C B. Geer cordially invites all
to come and inspect her beautiful line of g x
Pattern Hats 1 j
which has been selected with especial
care, both as to style and prices. X jjjj
Will have on display Patterns for | |
Ladies, Misses and Children, from New I
York, Baltimore and Atlanta, giving x jf \ p
you choice selections from the very seat X ||
of fashion. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Earnestly soliciting your patronage, I promise to give you
my best services. Thanking you for your very liberal patron
age in the past and with confidence in your generous support in
the future, for which in advance I thank you, I am
Yours to please,
MRS. C. B. GEER, •
Next Door to Postoffice c* .* c* Blakely, Ga.
Mr. E. T. Reed, of the Blufftmrf
neighborhood, was in the city j
Wednesday and from him we learn j
of a terrible accident which befell j
Mr. W. M. Hodges last Friday af
ternoon. He was out in his field
cutting down a large pine stump
some twenty feet high. He was
accompanied by his little three
vear old son and just as the tim
ber began to fall he looked for the
little fellow and discovered him
right in the path of the falling
stump. He jumped to save his
little boy whom he succeeded in
getting out of the way of danger,
but he himself was struck about,
the shoulder and head and carried
to the ground, his right leg being
crushed just above the ankle and
his left one being broken about
two inches below the hip joint.
Mr. Hodges succeeded in rolling
the stump off his body and assist
ance coming to him he was carried
home and given medical attention,
his doctors dressing his wounds
without chloroforming him, as he
said, “a fellow can stand most
anything when he has to do so,
and I don’t want to take the
chloroform.”
Fresh ,Garden Seed, all kinds,
at L. C. Strong’s, Blakely Drug
Store. 8-ts
Lfeave your laundry at Will
Bryant’s barber shop, Lee Strick
land’s or Dr. Standifer’s office if
you wish it to go to Dothan.
Jack Standifhr, Agent.
mmmmmm m m fmmmmmmmmttmmmmmjg
j. A LONG LIST j
!; of well satisfied patrons will tell you about the ;j —«
j; advantages of getting your Printing done at j;
%ij The Early County News Job Office. ii |
j! We Do Good Printing Telephone No* 38* ji 3
fun m m mi man m iimmmmmmmim
City Tax Notice.
The tax assessor’s books are now
open, and all parties must return
their property to the city clerk by
April 25th, as the books will close
on that day.
W. H. Alexander,
City Clerk.
Miss Helen May Butler, the
music wonder of the world will en
tertain Friday night, 17th. Price
25c, 50c and 75c. Seats on sale at
Walter Thomas’ Thursday at 12
o’clock.
Notice.
Messrs. Oliver & Ponder, two
expert piano tuners, can be found
at the Thompson Hotel for the
next five days. Orders left at hotel
will receive prompt attention. If
work is not satisfactory, no charge
will be made. .
Mr. Dave Moulton and wife and
Mr. J. D. Moulton and wife, of
Steam Mill, were among the many
visitors to Blakely Monday.
Go get a pair of sample shoes at
Underwood’s. They are beautiful
and only half price.
The nicest line of Pickles, Olives,
Snow Flake Crackers, &c., at
Martin’s.
Very swell—Shirt Waist sets
made of Pearl. Price One Dollar.
Jno Underwood.
Short Stops*
Lee Strickland will appreciate
your grocery trade. Read his ad
vertisement and ’phone him an or
der.
The Ordinary of Calhoun county
has ordered a local option election
for May 16th, in response to a pe
tition of the whiskey advocates in
that county, it having been over
four years since the county went
dry. This election will doubtless
be much livelier than was the one
four years ago, owing to recent
agitation of the subject.
The papers, daily and weekly,
both in Florida and Georgia, are ,
saying many complimentary things
in regard to Hon. R. W. Davis,
known to our people as Bob Davis.
He has announced himself as a can- *
didate for the governorship of the *
state of Florida and we would be 1
proud to have him win the de- *
served laurel, which we hope will '
eventually land him in the United [
States senate. 1
Mr. D. M. Wade is in receipt of
a postal card from Mrs. Mattie
Wood, of Macon, who writes him
that Miss Susie Brown will arrive
in Blakely this evening or tomor- j
row, it depending on when the
glasses ordered for her eyes arrive? (
they having to be ordered from a
distance. Miss Susie’s many ,
friends hope that her sight has been (
much benefited if not fully restored
by the operation she had performed
on them some weeks ago.
A little after 3 o’clock this after- i
noon, the roof of Mr. E. L. Fryer’s 1
livery stable on the northeast cor
ner of the square collapsed, falling
in on the joists. The buggy shed
had no joists and the roof of it
crushed down upon his buggies and
other vehicles damaging them con
siderably. None of the horses
were hurt, owing to the fact that
the joists protected them. Mr
Fryer had recogonized the insecur
ity of the building and was prepar
ing to erect a brick structure
Messrs. W. H. Overby and Ed
ward Y. Clarke, Jr., representing
the Atlanta Constitution, have been
in Blakely several days this week
getting up data for an extensive
write up of Blakely and Early
county. This write up will appear in
the edition of Sunday, April 19th.
and will doubtless be of great bene
fit to our county. The Constitu
tion is a great paper and its clever
representatives having been accoid
ed every facility for getting inter
esting information, we may look
for a splendid story of our county
and city’s progress.
Last Thursday afternoon the
new house recently built by J. R.
ewen on Liberty street and now
cupied by D. B. Anglin and fam
ily, caught fire from a stick of oak
wood, which being too long pro
jected out of the stove door, and
when it burned in two on the in
side fell with its own weight out
on the floor, setting fire to the wa'.'s
of the kitchen. The flames beii g
discovered before much head way
had been made,were soon quenched
and Mr. Owen came back to the
city and hunted up an insurance
man and gave him a job right then
and there.
BISHOP W. A. CANDLER,
who will dedicate the new Meth
odist church next Sunday.
The Inter-State Cane Growers’
Convention to be held in Macon,
Ga., May 6,7 and Bth, will be the
greatest of its kind ever held in
Georgia. It has been planned to
bring together the syrup growers
of the Southern States, and by their
interchange of views, the testimony
of experts of the sugar industry of
the world, make the convention of
the greatest educational worth to
the farmers of the South, and es
pecially Georgia, where the indus
try is now in its infancy. Hon.
W. A. Buchannon, our represena
tive in the legislature has been
asked to name five delegates from
this county and will doubtless do
so in the next few days.
Mr. John Underwood, Blakely’s
hustling merchant and machine
man, will receive next week the
second solid car of Mowing Ma
chines ever shipped to Blakely.
Mr. Underwood received the first
car last season. We can remember
when there were not two mowing
machines in the county, not a great
while ago either, and since Mr.
Underwood took up this business
three or four years ago you can see
a mowing michine on every hand.
This speaks well for our farmers,
as well as for the machines. It
will only be a short while when all
of our farmers will be trying the
hay and hominy plan, which is the
salvation for this country.
Mr. T. P. Price spent Sunday
“up the road.”
Empire btore for big values Mon
day.
Hon. W. A. Buchannon camA
down from Atlanta Sunday even
ing.
Matting at factory prices at the
Empire Store.
Monday morning 7 lbs Laundry
Soap for 25c at R. C. Smith’s.
Mr. T. L. Pickren was up fronK
Saffold Monday and paid our sanc
tum a pleasant call.
Buy your Scovil Hoes from Boy
ett & Gunn —only 35c each.
We want your orders every day
in the week. R. C. Smith. Phone
98 ‘
Mr. Hinton Boynton, of ArlingX.
ton, was a Sunday evening visitor
to Blakely between trains.
RU A
customer of Martin—U orter be.
It pays.
Very swell—Belts, new styles,
50c and SI.OO.
Jno. Underwood.
Mr. John A. Lewis, of Damas
cus, is in the city today and paid
this office a pleasant call.
Tea —
The best to be had, green, black
or mixed at Martin’s.
Easter biddies—just hatched —
lomething that will amuse the lit
tle ones. City Pharmacy.
Mrs. P. D. Dußose, of Cordelk,
arrived on Sunday evening’s train
on a visit to her sister, Mrs. J. B.
Livingston.
If you want a good photograph,
come to see me on Cuthbert street.
J. K. Everitt. V
Miss Mittie Perdue, a charming
young lady of Griffin, is the guest
of Mrs. J. W. Deal and Miss Daisy
Deal this week.
1
You wash on Monday or some
* body washes for you—Laundry
1 Soap, 8 bars for 25c, at R. C.
, Smith’s. One day only—Monday.
- 1
Thrilling Times.
On Tuesday night about eight
o’clock, Mr. G. L. Ivey, familiarly
known as Joe, in company with
Mr. John Timmons, Mr. Leslie
Riley, and Rev. Dock Moses, col
ored, went to the plantation of
Mr. J. W. Calhoun out two miles
this side of Arlington to serve a
warrant on a negro by the name
of John Worthy, who had left the
plantation of Dock Moses, carry
ing off a watch, pistol and Borne
other things belonging to Wiley
Adams and one of his boys.
Stationing Mr. Riley and Dock
Moses on the outside of the house,
Mr. Ivey in company with Mr.
Timmons opened the door and
they stepped across the door sill
side by side and discovered the
negro sitting on a bench in the
room. Mr. Timmons was un
armed, Mr. Ivey having informed
him no trouble was apprehended
from the negro. As they entered
the house Mr. Ivey carried his pis
tol in his hand and on telling the
negro his mission the negro reach
ed his hand down in his bosom
under his overalls, which came up
up high under his arms, and pulled
a pistol and fired at them both.
The room was dimly lighted by a
fire in the fire place. Both men
had stepped a little to one side
and the ball went in between
them.
The next shot was fired at Mr.
Timmons, who fortunately had a
piece of a buggy whip in his
hands, with which he struck at the
negro, knocking the pistol to one
side, the ball passing over him.
At this stage of the game, Mr.
Ivey fired two shojis almost in
stantaneously with the negro, hit
ting him in the right and left
side of his abdomen.
The negro then walked out of
the room and as he reached the
steps, t hough wou n ded, del i berately
turned and fired at Mr. Ivey, who
shot at him as he wheeled to go
down the steps, shooting him
through the heart. The negro
walked some two hundred yards
from the house before he died.
While the shooting was going
on, a married sister of the negro
called to her husband to get a shot
gun which stood in the corner of
tbe room. He reached for the gun,
and was knocked down by Mr.
Timmons with the butt end of the
buggy whip with which he had
previously knocked aside the pis
tol of the other negro.
The whole thing from the time
they entered the room and the
jaegro was killed did not occupy
' more than a half a minute. The
'-pistol the negro used is supposed
to be the one he had stolen from
the other negroes, as it was of the
same make and calibre.
Mr. J. R. Simpson, of
Gaines, was in the city Wednesday,
✓accompanied by his lovely wife and
handsome and intelligent son,
Alston R.
Mr. John Shorter Cowles, a
prominent and popular insurance
m in, of At lanta, representing the
Mutual Life of New York, was in
the city Wednesday. .
Mayor Chancy has appointed/ 5
'Miss Amzie Davis, daughter of Rev.
-B. W. Davis, to represent Blakely
in the musical department of the
Georgia Chautauqua.
Mrs. J. P. Lane and
Miss Susie Bell, of Sowhatchee,
and Mrs. C. S. Middleton, of Lu
cile, were in the city yesterday,
quests of Mrs. J. W. Deal.
Our town is rapidly taking on
the airs of a city. Following the
spirit of the day, the City Phar
macy has on display a line of Eas
ter novelties—something never seen
in our city before—Easter rabbits
and biddies, eggs and vases. White
rabbit Easter egg dyes, 16 design*
for sc. _
HARDWARE—
Hoes, Rakes, Shovels, Spades,
Axes, Hammers, Hatchets,
Chisels, Saws, Braces, Bitts,
Pistols, Cartridges, Shot Guns,
Shells, Leggins. See Boyett
& Gunn for Hardware of all
[ „ sorts.
; It Speaks well
for Martin’s store that so many
of his competitors are trying to
imitate his methods and copy his
stock—only an experienced man
knows the wants of the people.
. Mr. J. J. Hayes, of Bluffton, wag
. in the city Wednesday.