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The anti-dispensary people
Statesboro have organized a club.
There appears to be a regular
epidemic of burglaries in Savan
nah.
Macon county teachers institute
will meet in Oglethorpe on the
10th.
North Augusta is wrestling with
an incorporation or no incorpora
tion issue.
Oconee superior court is in see
sion at Watkinsville, Judge Rus
sell presiding.
Last year Wilkes tax values
were $2,729,761; this year they
are $2,747,270.
The Twenty-third Georgia regi
ment will hold its annual reunion
at Ac worth Aug. 12.
A reunion of all the Confederate
veterans id Cobb county will be
held Aug. 5 th in Marietta.
August term of Hancock supe
rior court, owing to illness of cer
tain counsel, has been postponed
to Monday, the 31st.
H. A. Clinch camp, U. C. V.,
will hold its reunion dinner at
Culberton camp ground, Hancock
county, August 19 th..
Taylor county’s taxable proper
ty last year amounted to $944,242;
this year it is $1,009,507, making
a total increase of $65,255.
Pierce county last year had
629,650 in taxable property, this
year it is $1,797,691. The polls
are 1,547, an increase of 33.
If the newspapers, mass meet
ings, resolutions and judges’
charges can give Augusta a pure
ballot she is sure to have it.
Mercer Baptist Association will
hold a union meeting at. the Fel
lowship Baptist church, two miles
east of Cecil, on August 28-30.
No danger of the automobiles
running over the people of Bulloch
The sand will hold them down to
a slow time, says the Statesboro
News.
Crops in Clay county are in ex
cellent shape at present. The
corn crop is about as good or bet
ter than farmers have had in sev
eral years.
The Tribune calls the proposi
tion to sell the Augusta canal
to a private corporation ridiculous.
It is said $3,000,000 can be se
cured for it.
Savannah’s new city exchange
project is meeting with some oppo
sition from members of the Cham
ber of Commerce. The question
of increased taxation is the cause
of it.
Railroad ticket offices and post-
offices seem to be favorite places
for burglars in Georgia. The re
cent theft of $108.20 from Gab
bettville postoffice adds another to
the list.
When it comes to peaches and
tomatoes Jonesboro and Clayton
county can easily take the prize,
says the Enterprise. One citizen
is exhibiting a 13 1-2 ounce El-
berta peach and another a 3-pound
tomato.
Greene county’s school census
shows the whites have gained a
total of 108, about 6 1-2 per cent.
The colored lost 444, a loss of
10 12 per cent. The totals of
both white and colored show a loss
of 336, about 5 2-3 per cent.
In all about sixty negro men are
said to have left the Twin Cities
(West Point and Lanett) this
week to work on the extension of
the Seaboard Airline railway, in
north Georgia and the work now
being done on the Mississippi river
levees.
The Schley County News is
justly proud that that county
gained $53,*41 over last year’s re
turns, “which is a neat sum when
you consider the jfact that Schley
is one of the smallest counties in
the state with no manufacturing
interests.”
Moultrie News: Ira Sims, a
prominent farmer living near Mer
rillville, planted 45 acres in mel
ons this year and has realized from
this crop to date something more
than $1,900. Mr. Sims raises one
of the best varieties grown in the
state. Among those he raised
this year was one weighing 78
pounds, which he sold for $15; an
other one weighing 76 pounds, he
sold for $10; another weighing 74
pounds was sold for $5.00.
The fifth regiment broke camp
at Rome on Thursday morning.
Contracts have been let for a
new academy building at Augusta. I has just finished a month’s vacation
in California.
Lawerenceville is to have a cot
| ton seed oil mill.
Moultrie council will elect a
mayor Tuesday night.
The Rome Tribune is demand
ing a new depot for that place.
A four-legged chicken is one of
Cuthbert’s present curiosities.
H. J. Cross is now the pub
lisher, of the Dawson Recorder.
Rev. Alonzo Monk, of Atlanta,
The wife of Sheriff Milton Davis
was found dead in her bed at
Daniels ville.
Within sixteen months six per
sons have died in one family at
Pendergrass.
The old soldiers of Johnson
will hold a reunion at Kite Satur
day, the 15th,
Editor Bankston thinks a bird
bill about the caliber of the pres
ent legislative session.
Several negroes have passed
through Macon,, claiming to have
fled from Danville, Ill.
More than ninety bills of a gen
eral nature are now awaiting action
. , - , ,, , , ... I by the state legislature.
A meeting of the farmers insti-1 f °
tute for Worth county will be held j
at Poulan Wednesday.
Euough carpenters and brick
masons cannot be obtained to keep
up with the building pace in Mil-
ledge ville.
Albany Herald: There will be
another session of this same Geor
gia legislature next summer.
Think of that!
Mickey Culpepper has been ap
pointed postmaster at Liberty, vice
P. L. Culpepper, dead.
The Senoia Enterprise-Gazette
thinks the capitol question was
settled a number of years ago.
Robert Smith, the Franklin
county wife murderer; has been
lodged in the Carroll county jail.
The Jarvis Ice Cream Parlor at
Rome has gone into voluntary
The quarterly meeting of the
Fayette County Sunday school | bankruptcy, with $4,000 liabilities
association will be held at Line
Creek church Friday.
Cures Eczema, Itching; Humors, PIm
pies and Carbuncles.—Costs Noth
ing to Try.
B. B. B. (Botanio Blood Balm) is a
certain and sore cure for eczema, itching
skin, humors, soabs, scales, watery blis
ters, pimples, aching bones or joints,
boils, carbuncles, prickling pain in the
skin, old, eating sores, ulcere, etc. Bo
tanio Blood Balm cures the worst and
most deep-seated oases by enriching,
purifying and vitalizing the blood, there
by giving a healthy blood supply to the
skin. HealB every sore and gives the
rich glow of health to the skin. Builds
up the broken down body and makes the
blood red and nourishing. Especially
advised for chronic, old cases that doc
tors, patent medioines and hot springs
fail to cure. Druggists, $1, with com
plete directions for home cure. To prove
B. B. B. cures, sample sent free and pre
paid by writing Biood Balm Co., Atlanta,
Ga. Describe trouble, and free medical
advice sent in sealed letter. aug,
Troops Still at Danville.
Springfield, Ill., Aug. 3.—Adjt.
Gen. Scott received a telegram
from Danville, from Capt. Frank
Beggs, commanding company A,
Fourth Infantry, of Areola, an
nouncing that his company had
arrived there this morning and
relieved companies H and I,
Seventh Cavalry, John M. Closby
commanding, which returned to
Chicago on arrival of the Areola
company.
IS YOUR LIFE WORTH 50 CENTS
If So Try a Bottle of
Buy a Graphophone
We defy the world to produce a med
icine for the cure of all forms of Kidney
and Bladder troubles and all diseases
E eculiar to women, that will equal
mith’s Sure Kidney Cure. Ninety-
eight per cent, of the cases treated
with Smith’s Sure Kictney Cure that
have come under our observation have
been cured. We sell our medicine on
a positive guarantee, if directions are
followed, and money will be refunded
if cure is not effected.
Price 60 cents and $1.00. For sale by |
FINCHER & NICHOLS.
and entertain your childn
at home. You can
them musical
"HIS MASTER’S VOICE”
en
give
entertain
ments that will keep them
at home, make them I 0Te
home and be happy,
Muncy & Bate will sell
you one. Call and see them
Wanted, Feathers!
New or old, in exchange for|
mattresses, or will pay cash.
Write to
Parham’s Mattress Factory
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
The farmers’ institute for the
Thirty-third senatorial district is
Dublin must be a good field for I in session today at Harmony
fire insurance men. The last 121 Grove.
months they received $22,427 in I
premiums and paid out $8,240 for ]
losses.
The total amount of taxable
pioperty macintosh county, ex
clusive of the railroads in this
county, is $690,445. Last year it
was $726,843, a decrease of $36,-
398.
Buford Enterprise: Who dallies
is a dastard, who doubts is damned,
and who slides into the cloakroom
to keep from voting will shoot-the-
chutes at the next election.
Colquitt county’s local option
election may be called off because
the registration book for Moultrie
has been lost.
The Cedartown Courier has
just issued a very creditable and
interesting industrial and illus
trated edition.
The Thomasville Times- Enter
[ prise suggests “The Dead March
From Saul” as an appropriate
mosquito-killing tune.
The annual reunion of Humph
ries’ cavalry and Capt. Joe Al
bert’s company will be held at
Shingleroof camp ground.
There will be an election held
in Jesup Tuesday for a county
school commissioner to fill the un
Catoosa county shows an in
crease in the return of her property
for taxation. Last year the amount
was $817,556, while this year it is
$855,054. Poll tax shows a de
crease of $78.
The Madison Advertiser thinks I eI P ired tetm of J ' H - Ca,m011
the Milledgeville News modest in Charlton returns show an m-
its request for the removal of the crease of $112,000 in tax values,
state capital to that place. “Why more than $50,000 of this increase
not ask for something bigger?” being in the Folkston district.
Around Sowatchee, Early coun- The veterans of Camp No.
ty, corn will be plenty, but meat, 1138, U. C. V., of Jones county
unless hogs can be got elsewhere, will meet in Clinton to appoint t
will be short. Several of the day and place for the annual re
farmers have lost nearly all of | union.
their hogs with cholera. , „ , , . ,
Griffin News. If the legislature
Next Friday, will be held in does nothing but defeat the pres-
Norcross the annual meeting of ent convict lease system, it will
the L. P. Thomas Camp, No. 1468, have done enough to justify its
United Confederate * Veterans. | existence
Gen. West and L. P. Thomas will|
deliver addresses.
this
C. C, Weeks, who resides at
Ellen N.,on the Southern railway,
was killed instantly by a passenger
train near that station, the body
Darien Gazette: It is a waste
Elbert county tax values
year are $2,330,381 against
303,851 last year. In the county I being mangled horribly,
are 1,629 white tax payers, 1,176
colored, twelve lawyers, twenty-, . _ . , .
1 of time to organize clubs in the
interest of presidential favorites.
An examination of Jasper’s I Wait until the party nominates a
court house by an expert shows candidate and then organize your
that building, in his opinion, to be clubs,
as safe twenty years hence as it is
today, and nothing but a regular , •
Gainesville cyclone could ijosfleit. were ® ^ 1S . ^ ear ^®y
J J are $3,307,J61, an increase of
There is a lot of building going $305, 717. The colored people
on at Hoschton. Since April 1, return property this year at $176,.
51 car loads of brick, 37 car loads 1192, as against $172,975 last
Brooks’ tax
this
values
of lumber, 3 cars of lime, and sev
eral ears of other building material
have been received.
year, an increase of $3,207.
Walton’s tax returns show the
following figures: Gain, white,
$273,628; colored, $16,028; total
Walker county tax values in
creased during the last year $141,-1 gain for 1903, $290,150; gain for
823. Returns white taxpayers 3 901, $260,322; for 1902, $101,-
,444,693; colored taxpayers 288; total gain for last three years.
$24,749; defaulters, white, 36,262; $651,761. The total amount of
colored, 1,260; wild land $36,167 taxable property in Walton for
—total for 1903, $2,542,121. 1903 is $3,423,573.
With groaning eorncriba, well L The prospects in Cobb are very
filled smokehouses and a good cot- flattenn S f <? » «»* crop B the
ton crop celling at 10 cen ts or bet- ?P lnl °? °f. the . Coone . r - The
ter, the farmere about Americas h< $ P^"g “ " ow ">*rtu>g-
will indeed feel in excellent humor f ar ’ has flne °°} or ' 8 ood "Wk, and
this fail, says the Americas Times- larg6 . “V* The latei- plantings
Recorder also *°°k we “’ Cotton is small,
but growing well, and has ample
A temporary camp of Confed-1 time to make yet.
erate veterans of Taylor county Albany Herald : The people of
has been organized with twenty Georgia will find it necessary after
members. On August 8 they will awhile to pay more attention to
organize permanently. That day the election of members of the ]
they will have a basket diuner, legislature. It is getting to be so j
and Gen. Gordon has been invited that it is almost impossible to get 1
to speak. a measure that is in the interest
The Times Enterprise says Wal-h^ the f"P le ‘i'ongh the two
ter Redding of Thomas county has hou8ea o£ the 8 eneral 7-
five acres in cotton and competent Perry Home Journal: So far no
judges say that he will raise at mistake has. been made in. the
least 2,000 pounds of cotton on preparations for the Georgia state
this land. He also has thirteen fair at Macon next October, and
acres of corn, which will average the indications now are that it will
more than twenty bushels to the be the largest and best exposition
acre. His success is a htriking of agricultural and industrial
example of what energy devoted products ever seen in the state,
to a small plat of Thomas county It will be an object lesson in pro-
jand will bring forth. J gressive energy and industry. )
Escaped an Awful Fate.
Mr. H. Haggins of Melbourne, Fla.
writes: “My doctor told me I had Con
sumption and nothing could be done for
me. I was given up to die. The offer
of a free trial bottle of Dr. King’s New
Discovery for Consumption, induced me
to try it. Results were startling. I am
now on the road to recovery and owe all
to Dr. King’s New Discovery. It surely
saved nay life.” This great cure is guar
anteed for all throat and lung diseases
by Fincher & Nichols, Druggists. Price
50o & $1 00. Trial BottleB free. aug
The expenses of the legislature
up to date amount to about
$30,000, which is a little more
than $1,000 a day.
For Over Sixty Years
Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Sybup has
been used by millions of mothers for
their children while teething. If distur
bed at night and broken of your rest by
a sick child suffering and crying with
pain of Cutting Teeth, send at once and
get a bottle of “Mrs. Winslows Soothing
Syrup” for children Tsethlng. It will
relieve the poor little sufferer immediate
ly. Depend upon it, mothers, there is Early Melons and Georgia Peaches specialties
no mistake about it. It cures Diarrhoea, Your consignments solicited. .. ..
regulates the Stomach and Bowels,cures
Wind Colic, softens the Gums, reduces
Inflammation, and gives tone and energy
to the whole system. “Mrs. Winslow’s
Soothing Syrup” for children teething is
pleasant to the taste and is the prescrip
tion of one of the oldest and best female
hycianB and nurses in the United States,
rice twenty-five centB a bottle. Sold by
all druggists throughout the world. Be
sure and ask for Mbs. Winslow’s
Soothing Sybup.
CASTOR IA
Eor Infants and Children.*
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
The old wall of historic Wes
leyan Female college, at Macon, is
to be torn down and the front yard
will be terraced and made into a
beautiful lawn.
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Drug Stores
WANTED—SEVERAL PERSONS OF
character and good reputation in each
state (one in this county required) to
represent and advertise old established
wealthy business house of solid financial
standing. Salary $21.00 weekly with ex
penses additional, all payable in cash
each Wednesday direotfrom head offices.
Horse and oarriage furnished when nec
essary. References. Enclose self-ad
dressed envelope. Colonial Co., 334
Dearborn SL, Chicago.
2-12-26t
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Wood’s Seeds
FOR FALL SOWING.
Farmers and Gardeners who de
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tion about
M e and Farm Seeds
e for Wood’s New
Fall Catalogue. It tells all about
the fall planting of Lettuce, Cab
bage and other Vegetable crops
which are proving so profitable to
southern growers. Also about
Crimson Cover, Vetches,
Grasses and Govers,
Seed Oats, Wheat,
Rye, Barley, etc.
Wood’s New Fall Catalogue mnilnd
free on request. Write for it.
T. W. WOOD & SONS,
Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va.
“TEN WHEELER”
Union Made Overlls.
Ask for Them and be Sure You Get Them.
“Ten Wheeler” Overalls are the best made.
STUDIED MHHJMCT0RM CO.,
ATLANTA, CA.
MUNCY & BATE
SELL
DIAMONDS, WATCHES, CLOCKS. JEWELRY,
SILVERWARE, CUT GLASS, GRAPHOPHONES,
RECORDS, and NEW HOME SEWING MA
CHINES.
They do all kinds of Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing in first-
class style. Eyes tested and correctly fitted. Call and see them.
Don’t forget the place.
MUNCY &BATC
JEWELERS.
Or. Biggers’ Huckleberry Cordial
The Great Southern Remedy.
Cures all Stomach and Bowel Troubles,
such as Chronic Dysentery, Cholera Mor
bus, Bloody Flux, and also children
teething. It seldom falls to make quick
and permanent cures of all stomach and
bowel diseases. See testimonial of the
late
HEJVRy w. G'RADV.
Dr. Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: This la the first certlfcate
that I have ever given as to the merits
of any medicine, but I take pleasure In
recommending Dr. Biggers* Huckleberry
Cordial. I consider It the best remedy
that I have ever used In my family for
Stomach and Bowel Troubles. 60c In
vested In a bottle of this medicine to be
used In the beginning of any stomach
trouble will often save life as wall as
large' doctor's bill. I have a friend whose
life was, In my opinion, saved by the
prompt use of Dr. Biggers’ Huckleberry
Cordial. For sale by all Druggists, 26
and 60c per bottle.
(Signed) HENRY W. GRADY.
Atlanta, Ga., May 23, 1887.
Haltiwanger-Taylor Drug Go., Prop.,
Atlanta, Ga. *'
Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet
Qum and Mullein will eure Coughs, Croup
* ~ 25candJl *
and Consumption. Price :
SI a bottle.
SULZBACHER G. GO.,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
PRODUCE, FRUIT, VEGETABLES. I
DROP BY DROP
you count' with anxious care as you
pour out the medicine that maybe
the means of saving a dear ose’s life.
Don’t you want the best medicine
that can be had?
Don’t yon know you should go to
the most reliable and conscientious
druggist, the most up-to-date drug
gist who has up-to-date drugs and
methods.
We are that kind. Not alone be
cause it pays, bat because there’s sat
isfaction m feeling wo are helping to
make sick people well. We charge
just as little for putting up prescriptions as the use of the best drugs will
allow.
FINCHER & NICHOLS.
Stencils en application.
Reference; First National Bank and D. C. |
Pierce, express agent, Nashville.
Buy your Meat from B. R.
Bowen & Son.
Illinois Central Railroad
OFFERS VERY
LOW RATES
ON FOLLOWING DATES:
Colonist Tickets to California, Utah,
Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado,
Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming, on sale until June 15.
St. Louis and Return
ONE FARE PLUS 26 CENTS.
On sale June 16-17, good to return
until June 25th.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
Return.
National Encampment G. A. R.
Tickets on sale July 31 to August 13,
good to return until October 15.
Denver, Col., and Return.
On sale June 30 to July 9th, good to
return until August 31st.
Through Pullman Sleeping Car Daily
between Jacksonville, Macon, Atlanta,
Chattanooga, Nashville and St. Louis.
Free Reclining Chair Car between Nash
ville and St. Louis, and Through Pullman
Sleeping Car Daily between Nashville
and Chicago. This is the only Double
Track line between Chicago and the
Ohio river.
For full particulars, rates, tickets and
pamphlets, address
FRED D. MILLER,
Traveling Passenger Agent,
No. I Brown Bldg., ATLANTA, CA.
B. TERRY,
Lawyer,
Cannon Building, Dalton, Georgia.
Practices in all courts.
Speoial attention to Collections, Real
Estate and Commercial law.
Money to loan in unlimited quantities
on Farming Lands and City Property.
' T ‘ commission oharged. Time, five
Easy payments.
FIRE INSURANCE.
W. H. PRTJDEN & SON.
ESTABLISHED 1869.
Crwford Street, - - DALTON, GA.
50 CARS OF COAL
We have in and on the way Fifty
Car Loads of Coal.
We bought sometime before the price went up and are id a posi
tion to sell and save yon money. Now is the time to have it de
livered.
JOHN T. HOLLAND.
C. L. PARHALEE,
Plumbing f Gas Fitting § Fixtures.
Tin and Sheet Iron Work,
Bicycles and Repairs . * .
Bicycle Repairing a Specialty.
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PURE LIQUORS
SEND $2.10
and get yourself a gal
lon jug of my Old
Wild Cat Corn.
Express charges pre
paid.
$250
Gets a Gallon Jug of
my “Monogram
Rye.” Express charg
es prepaid.
$2.50
Gets a Gallon Jug of
my Lincoln County
Sour Mash Whis
key. Express charge*
prepaid.
You will find the**
whiskies the very best
ever offered for the
price. Send me your
order, will SURE
treat you right.
HOW SMOOTH AND MELLOW.
Good Corn, Rye or Gin, $2.10 per Dozen Short Pints.
Express charges prepaid.
also Remember 1 Pay ® xpre8a char S es on two, three and four gallon jug shipment
Yours for business and pure liquors,
JIM McCARTY,
Atlanta, Ga.
BELL PHONE, 1662. St 1
36-38 Decatur St.»
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