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BUGGIES! lllAf ilFCII BUGGIES! BUGGIES! DUUt Iltd!! BUGGIES! e~’ Buy where you can find an Article of Merit. I I Our /Buggies sire sold under a Guarantee Worth Something. IN BUYING! " Mi! We Represent Only Reliable Factories. come see os. We handle the following' well-known Brands i THE IMPROVED BflRNESVIL LE 4 . : ■ THE VALDOSTA SOCK HILL. AftCHOR. BABCOCK. Hnd many other Celebrated makes. If you want Buggies that Ride good, that Look well, and that are Up-to-date and Prices right WE ARE THE PEOPLE!! ' Yours for Buggies, J. P. HEARD & SONS, .Vienna, Georgia. L©e2\LHND PERSONAL NEWS Calmly and softly cnme a maiden so fair A proof-sheet In our sanctum to ponder. Lovely bright eyes and beauty so rare Lifted the gloom like a wonder— A hallowed grace swept over the place Lit by the beams of an angel fare. Inspired by thoughts in her pure, bright mind "Let me thank you" she said and started, Lovely blushes and smiles and words to kind I Years cannot erase, as we parted. « • • NV. J. Musslewhite of Plnia, was here Thursday. We are continually adding new sub scribers to our list. Say Gills, do you use snuff? ’Phone Kelly & Walton. Summer Smith was on the sick list part of the week. Rev. R W Alexander of Dublin, was in the city this week. Col. and Mrs. S. R. Fields ot Cordele, spent Thursday in the city. Kelly & Walton have some bargains In shoe* and dress goods. l)r R. B. Pate of Richwood, was In the city Thursday afternoon. Miss Ida Bomske visited friends In Macon, Sunday and Monday. Miss Wilson of Findlay is visiting her brother A. M. Wilson, this week. Pineapple and cake at Kelly & Waltons yeast cake and sliced pineapple. S. P Odom and daughter, Miss Anna, of Pete, were In the city Thursday. Judge T.F. Etheridge ot near Pine- hurst, was here Thursday on business. Mrs.. V. J- Walters of near this city, was in tow shopping Thursday morning, Atelly & Walton will buy your lard, haws, eggs ind peas. Editor j. W. Bivins, of the Cordele Sentinel, gave us a pleasant call yester Dried'apples, peaches and Irish pota toes at Kelly & Walton’s. Judge Allen Fort ot Americus, was in attendance upon Superior court this week. K. C. Harris, W B. Seymore and S- P Jones of Cordele, were in the city Thurs day on business. Judge D L Henderson. Col. J M Bus- bee and M E Rushin, visited Cordele Thursday on business. Jesse Clements !of Arab!, was In the city Thursday. He has been mentioned as as a probable entry into the legislative race. Dri. McArthur and Wooten, C. A. Horne, T. H. Gregory, nnd W, L. Hooks of Unadilla, were here Wednesday on business. Judge M. H. Hickson of Cordele, was in the city Thursday shaking hands with the people. He.is a prospective candi date for treasurer, D. B. Leonard and Joseph Burns went out hunting Yesterday morning and Mr. Leonard returned home with 43 doves and Mr. Burns 39. Rev. Hyde, a Presbyterian minister ot Cutnbert, who was formerly stationed at Cordele, was in the city this wees as a witness before Superior court. Judge J B Scott, R E Harris, H W Campbell, W B Mathews and W H Doughtry, were among the prominent Cordele citixena here Thursday. There is a great deal of sickness over the county at present, most of which has been caused from pneumonia. A large percent of the'Cases hare been fatal The fruits of the honest efforts of our recent grand jury is coming to light. The evil doers did not escape being in vestigated by this able body of men. W. D.Cross is figuring on entering the race for tax collector, and some, of his friends tiom the Third district say that he ia squarely in the race. The more the merrier,. J, W. Roberts left Yesterday afternoon | Contractor Shipp returned Yesterday for Atlanta, where ,he will be gone- about from Pinehurst and will spend todaY and two weeks. ' ; j Sunday here, Mrs W. A. Dodson of Americas, ar- I For cocoanuts, apples, oranges, cab- rived in the city Thursday on a visit to . luges, rutabagas, Irish potatoes, onions her sister, Mrs. D. B. Leonard. | and white peas,'phone Kelly & Walton There are several announced candi- There will be preaching at the Baptist dates tor the various offices in Dooly ! church tomorrow morning and evening county and more arc expected to follow ' bv the pastor, Rev E.S Atkinson. Every ip a few days. body cordially invited to attend . Jesse Brewer Jr., colored was tried be fore the Mayor’s court yesterday morn ing for shooting a gun several limes in the city limits. He was fined $2.50 J. P. Heard, Sr, left yesterday after noon for Macon, where he he went to have an (operation perfoimed upon his nose. The operation, it is thought, wil| not be serious. A number of the friends of H. W. Powell, ex-sheriff of Dooly county are urging him to run for the legislature. Mr. Powell however, has not made any decision in the matter as yet. Cols. J. n< Hall, Walter Grace, and Merrell Calaway, of Macon, Jim Ander son of Atlanta, and Col W. S. Thompson of Greenville, S. C., were in attendance unon Superior court this week. Rev. J W Domingos of Hawkinsviiie, was in the city Thursday to conler with Evangelist Leitch of Charleston, *•'. C , about securing Ins services to assist in a revival at that place in the near future. Mrs. Gertrude Kinney of Atlanta, has arrived and will now be found at the Cttv Millinery and Dry Good Store of J. L . Taggart, where she is busy getting every thing in readiness for the Spring open ing. We welcome her back to Vienna. LOST—A daik-rcd lap robe and shaft band between Vienna and the home of J. A. Peavy. Finder will phase leave same at store ot Kelly & Walton in care of J. L. Peavy. Respectfully, J. C. Peavy. Rev. P. G McDonald returned from Atlanta Wednesday night, where he has been in response to an invitation sent out by Robert L Foreman, state agent of the Equitable Life Assurance company, of New York, to Its agents over the state to be in Atlanta to meet the vice-presi dent of that company, who was given a banquet there, by Mr, Foreman. Judge Zera A. Littlejohn has been paid several high anp worth) compli ments at this term of the court* tor the fair and impartial manner In which he has made hia decisions. Dt. C. T. Stovall has been confined to his bed several days, suffering from an absess on his left arm just below the shoulder, He has been hnving consider able fever and an operation was perior- nied on It bv Drs. McArthur and Smith Wednesday, and he hoa been improving slowly since the operation Don’t give up and say there is no spec tacles which yon can see through Just because you have failed to get fitted. Re* member I am fitting those kind every day. H. A. Youmajjs, Jeweler and Optician. Hat Fatted for Thirty Days. Boulder, Colo.. Jan. 9.—J. D. Choate, of New York city, is at the Colorado sanitarium here. For thirty days Mr. Choate has eaten absolutely nothing. His fast has been self-imposed and because of a stomach trouble which woufd not yield to medical treatmeut. Hia mental and physical condition aside from weakness of the latter due to his protracted fast has not suffer ed in the least. Captured After Twenty Years. Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 9.—After a lapse of 20 years Anderson Shackel ford, a negro, wanted In Montgomery for m**rder, has been captured and lodged in the Montgomery county'jail. All this time Shackelford has been ltv- ing within a few hundred miles of the scene of the alleged crime. He la charged with the murder of another hegro. Burro Punching Profanity. Hr his book “A Day With a Trami unit Other Days” Wuttcr Wyckoff telti the • following story of profanity am burro punching in tho west: - “The burros plainly shared the feel Ing of rollof In reaching a more passu bio region, and the art of burro punch ing began consequently to disclose itt difficulties. “They were most difficult to manngi nt tho fords. Generally they fcatterei to the four winds at the first itpproacl to water, and when we bad corralled them again and forced them down tc the brink they would stand calmly planted nnklo deep In the stream, res olutcly determined not to move. “It was then that Price gavo vent tc real profanity, and I am bound to owr that It was effective. When beating and prodding and the milder Invective failed to urge the burros forward Price would stand- back, palo witi rage, and begin to swear, calling upon nil bis gods and blasting the reputa tion of his beasts unto' tho third and fourth generation of their ancestors. “By some subtle perception they seemed to understand that this meant business, nnd slowly at first, but pres ently, as -though they rathbr enjoyed tho water, they waded through and started down tho trail beyond." A small damsel of twelve who dis liked boys wrote an essay upon thorn, In which she said. “If 1 bad my way, halt the boys in the world wonld be girls and the otber.hsjf. jvp.uld be dolls." Cruelty to Lobsters. It is singular bow the cruel practice of boiling lobsters alive continues. Our forefathers —and Indeed onr parents —let calves bleed slowly to; death, on the theory that In no other way could white meat be secured, and later on calves were bled one day and killed tho next Now, every one knows that a calf can be killed In a humane manner and the veal made just ns good. and. goncrally speaking, animals killed for food hove been put out of the way In a much more humane manner than for merly. But lobstera ore still tortured but of existence, tho only difference be ing that while formerly they were ex clusively boiled to death/bow some nro boiled and some are broiled. Which- process causes the moat agony no one.- can say.—Exchange.'