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. Leaders of Styles and Low Prices.
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THE DAILY TIMES-ENTERPRISE.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 188S.
SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAUS)
R, Thomas JrV 126 Broad Sired.
O. S. Bondurant Vounteer Observer
Weather Bulletin for the 2+ bonra ending
nt 7 o’clock P. M., Sept. *20, 1889.
Temperature
7 a.
2 p. m _
1 p. TO
Maximum for 24 hours 8 -
Minimum “ “ “
Rain-fall
We told you so.
• Mr. J. Mayo is making improve
ments on his cottage in East End.
Mr, W. J. Wilson, of Boston, was
in town yesterday.
Mr. R. L. Dodson aud wife have
taken rooms at the Whiddon.
Mr. J. W. Roddenlutry, of Cairo,
was at the Whiddon yesterday.
A party of East Enders picniced at
the river yesterday.
Mr. H. A. Mayer, of Atlanta, was
in the city yesterday.
All the saloons were closed yester
day on account of the election.
Mr. H. T. Vann, a merchant of
Boston, was in the city yesterday.
Mr. A. C. McLeod, of Meigs, was
in town yesterday.
Mr. W. H. Barnett, of Memphis,
was at the Stuart yesterday.
Mr. Will Baker, ot Kentucky, was
registered at the Stuart yesterday.
Judge Hansell went down to Mon-
ticello yesterday afternoon.
The fall trade has begun, and the
merchants are feeling good.
A good many strangers were in
town yesterday.
We understand that Mr. Frank
Winu and family will move to town
at aa early day.
Look out, dealers! The Governor
has signed the bill prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes to minors.
Several parties were noticed “spit
ting cotton” yesterday: the bar rooms
and beer saloons were closed.
The poles for the three electric
lights on Warren street were put up
yesterday.
Mrs. Glenn, of Cairo, has beeu vis
iting her father and mother here.
She returns home this afternoon.
Mrs. Jennie Carrol! left yesterday
noon lor New York, to buy a stock of
millinery goods for her store on lower
Broad.
A (i-mule team, loaded with seveu
bales of cotton from Mr. Hugh McIn
tyre’s plantation, was in town yester
day. It looked like old times.
We hope the concrete pavement on
the East side of Broad street, down
to Stark’s corner, will be completed
before the winter travel sets in.
Mies Moselle Hayes, of Eufauln,
Ala., is visiting the family of Mr. S.
L. Hayes. She has many friends in
the city who are pleased to sec her
here again. ■
Every one is glad that the park
question is settled. And it is settled
to the entire satisfaction of nine-tenths
of the property holders of Thomas-
ville.
The excursion train from Albany
to Vnldosta passed through yesterday
about 10 o’clock. Very few went
from here. The train consisted of
eight coaches.
The Dixon Bros, were in town yes
terday with twenty bales of cotton.
This makes 102 bales they have mar
keted here. They expect to market
150 hales. The Dixon's arc hustlers.
Thauk the Lord we arc through
dlwu^sing the park. Now let public
Attention he directed to some other
public improvement, A live town
never gets its growth. When a town
gets the impression that it is fully
grown, theu decay sets iu. This has
been demonstrated in a thousand in
stances.
The Thomas County Stock Breed
ers met at Judge Mitchell's office iu
Thomasville last Saturday and decid
ed to hold the annual fair on Friday,
the 15th of November next, and have
agreed to oiTer quite a premium list.
We trust it will be a grand success.—
Wbigbam Advance.
CTJRTRIGKHT & DANIEL
Are now receiving a large and elegant assortment of the celebrated
Zeigler and Reed’s fine Ladies Shoes.
J. S. Turner’s, Stacy Adams’ and Bannister’s Men Shoes.
Boys’ and Misses’ School Shoes a Specialty.
Sign of tlie Bier Boot.
BONDS CARRY.
The Park Election Yesterday.
Thomasville settled the question as
to whether she would purchase Para
dise Park yesterday; and she settled
it in no equivocal way, as the vote
below will show. Of course there
were some who did not vote, and who
arc known to be opposed to the pur
chase ; at the same time many were
absent who are known to he in favor
of the purchase. The vote shows
that the voters of the towu are, prac
tically, a unit in favor of the park.
This unanimity speaks well for the
town. It shows that the citizens,
white and col'-red, are ready to join
hands to promote the welfare and
prosperity of the place. This is the
proper spirit, and it always tells.
Some gentlemen—though they are
few—were conscientiously opposed to
the purchase. Now that the majority
—and an overwhelming one—have
spok?n, let all hold up the hands of
the city authorities in building up the
town. Happily there have been no
scars left. Differences have existed,
but all have been tolerant of the opin
ions ot his neighbor.
The following is the official vote:
For Bonds 2U8
Against Bonds 11
Totut Vote 279
There are 373 registered voters,
'lwo-thirds of these, 249, would have
carried the bonds. Nineteen more
than the two-thirds were polled for
bonds.
It will be interesting to know the
complexion of the vote. One hundred
and seven colored votes were polled
for bonds, and one against; one hun
dred and sixty-one white votes were
polled for, and ten against.
Another Fire.
Yesterday morning, about 3 o’clock
fire destroyed a one story dwelling
situated near terminus of Remington
avenue. The house belonged to Amos
Davis, colored, a porter for Jas. Watt
& Bro. Amos was insured in West
chester Insurance Co., of New York
Hansell & Merrill, agents, for $300.
Of that amount §150 was on his house
and the balance on the contents. He
has no idea how the lire originated, as
no fire hid been burning in the house,
Amos is one of the steadiest and most
reliable colored men in Thomasville.
His many white friends sincerely sym
pathize with him in his loss.
A number of firemen and others
went out to the fire and aided the best
they could.
A New Stenographer for the Southern
Circuit.
Judge A. H. Hansell has appoin
ted Air. Joseph M. Dreyer official
stenographer of the Southern circuit.
Mr. Dreyer, though still quite ayoung
man, has lteelt giving the science ol
short-hand writing careful study, and
he has, already, become quite an ex
pert. With pratice he will soon be a
first-class stenographer. Short-hand
writing is one of the best professions
of the day, aud we congratulate our
young friend on the acquisition of a
profession which is in such general
demand.
Our Railroad Outlook.
Mr. -Jessie Thompson, of Augusta,
and Mr. Sturdivant, chief engineer of
the Augusta and West Florida Rail
road Company, were in the city yes
terday, taking n topographical, sur
vey of the country from Thomasville
iu the direction of the proposed road.
It is quite probable that an engineer
corps will be put in the field locating
the road at an early day. Our citi
zens look upon the present movement
with much favor, as presenting the
most feasible aud probably successful
solution of our railroad difficulties.
The connection of Thomasville with
Augusta would place us in a direct
connection with old and favorite lines
and insure a paying line from the jump.
Not only tins, it will open up to
us a fine country heretofore undevel
oped, and a section which would nat
urally seek our town for its business.
We hope the company will push the
initial work with vigor aud afford us-
the pleasure, at no distant day, of an
nouncing the definite plans of the
projectors.
Beautify Thomasville,
Soon our growing city will be filled
with yisitors. It is the duty ot every
citizen—even in the absence of visitors
— to make his home as attractive as
possible. And this can be done at a
small cost. A little care and taste will
make every home in Thomasville at -
tractive and inviting. Only a few days
since, we published an article from
the Floridian, urging the citizens of
Tallahassee to beautify their homes
and premises by a little timely atten
tion. Below we print an article from
the Times Union, Jacksonville, on the
same line. What is proposed in Jack
sonville will apply with equal force to
Thomasville. Let every one read the
article. Here is what the T.-U. says:
“Now is the time to begin beautifying
the city, clothing it in bridal garments
as it were, for the reception of the
thousands of expected visitors. A
walk through the city discloses an as
tonishing neglect that could be easi
ly rectified. This neglect obtains he
fore numberless private residences, on
many of the most beautiful streetsi
and is one that a few hours labor
would totally obliterate, in the places
to which we refer; the sidewalks, either
of wood, brick or stone, are partially
overgrown with grass and weeds, the
grass plats themselves, are uncouth
and unlrimmcd, and many ’beautiful
plants are choked and dying in a wil
derness of tangled growth.
Neat and t well kept yards and flower
gardens have been the pride of the city
heretofore, and have won many com
pliments from the transient visitors of
the winter; to let them go into decay
now will create the very opposite im
pression from the one desired. If
every household will attend to the
beautifying of their own premises, the
rerult will be one that cannot fail to
add to the general beauty of the city,
and be strong evidence of the taste
and culture of the people.
There is so much that the children {
can do. A litte portion of the cool
morning and evening would clear the
sidewalks Irom the drifts of nature that
now threaten to entirely cover them
from sight, and the benefit to the youth
would be a series of object lessons
that art cannot duplicate.
These suggestions are thrown out to
the home public with the hope that
they wil! be heeded, that each one will
do his or her part, and that when the
north begins its much desired invasion,
Jacksonville the beautiful, and not
Jacksonville the neglected, will be
here to greet them.”
They Won’t Bite ’Em.
Florida’s mosquitoes (at least) are
more voracious than California’s—
Exchange.] Very naturally. This
splendid climate endows them with
r.n all-devouring appetite. Whereas,
in California, the mosquito goes about
with a disordered liver, a sick head
ache, a had taste iu his mouth, a
billious complexion and sick stomach.
Besides, he doesn’t have such rich
food to feed 011 as does his Florida
cousin.—Times-l'nion, Jacksonville.
Bottcr come to Thomasville where
what few mosquitoes we have have
been educated not to interfere witli
visitors. A mosquito which mistook
a Northern nmu, who had boon res
tored to health iti this incomparable
climate, for a native, and inserted his
hill in the renewed corpus of the visi
tor, was promptly expelled by his
fellows. The natives here cancel all
the bills. These only bleed the pock
et—and that only to a moderate ex-
teut. O, yes, Thomasville mosquitoes
are well trained iu this respect.
With the building o’ fires at the
commencement of cool weather, there
is more or less danger of fires. Flues
aid chimneys should be carefully
inspected before the fall fires are
lighted.
Verdcl Davies, son of Mac Davies,
who has been in Chicago and other
Western and Northern cities, return
ed home yesterday afternoon.
Capt. Shuck Whittaker, not having
registered, could not vote yesterday ;
but he got in some good work all the
same : he placed every vehicle in his
stables at the service of voters. Cap
tain Shuck is a hustler.
The No Fqpce Question.
Every land -holder south of the
railroad, is interested in the no
fence law. If the bill becomes a law,
by the vote of the people to whom it
is submitted, that portion of our
county will be one of the most pros
perous sections in South Georgia. A
gentleman living on this side of the
railroad, and a good farmer, remarked
the other day: “If the no fence law
carries, south of the railroad, I intend
to sell and buy a place in that, section
of the county.” There has been some
talk about the colored labor leaving
that section iu ense no fence law car
ries. There is no danger of this.
The intelligent colored laborer and
tenant will soon find that it is to his
interest for the law to pass. In this
connection we may refer to a conver
sation recently had with a prominent
farmer in Leon county, Fla., where
the law is now in force. Among
other things, he said:
“When the question of a no fence
law was first agitated in our county,
there was a general and marked oppo
sition to it, on the part of the colored
people. Since they have seen its
workings, and how it. protects their
crops from stock running at large,
the great majority of them have
changed their views, and nre now
heartily in favor of the law. I know
of no laborer who has left our county
on account of the existence of the no
fence law. It will be worth thous
ands and thousands to the farmers of
Leon county. Our people would not
go back to the old regime for any
amount.” Wo respectfully call the
attention of our readers, those who
arc to vote on this question-at the en
suing election, to the views of tho
gentlemen above quoted. He is a cool,
clear headed man, and has given
the subject much attention,
soon os the law went into force in his
county, ho has had an opportunity of
seeing it thoroughly tested.
Of the seventy odd counties in
Georgia, which hnve adopted tho no
fence law, there is not a single one of
them in which the old rail fence could
be voted back. In determining this
and other questions, the experience
and observation ot others is a good
and safe criterion. There arc, of
course, some good men in the territory
mentioned who are opposed to the
no fence law, hut if they will take
the trouble to post themselves as to
the working of the law in other
counties, and under similar conditions
which exist and prevail in the section
of Thomas alluded to, they will, wo
are very sure, change their views. In
any event it is tho duty of every man
to post himself on the subject before
making up his mind. It is n most
important subject, oue which should
claim the earnest attention of every
land holder south of the railroad.
are daily receiving
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Fall
-AND-
Winter
CLOTHING!
and our line ot
Light
AND-
Iu buying hams this hot weather
don’t fail to get the Magnolia.
Pickett’s Hamlet Flour is the finest
goods oil the market, and costs you
only S5.C5 per barrel.
Pickett lias special figures for parties
buying iu quantities, aud boarding
houses.
Magnolia Hams keep through the
summer better than auy other brand,
and Pickett’s is still headquarters for
them.
HOUSE Foil ItEXT,
A good C-room dwelling house on Magno
lia street for rent, Silo per month. / pply at
Works. 1-w.
Ficsh Salmon,
Pickett’s.
18 cents a can, nt
Imported sardines 15 cents a can, at
Pickett’s.
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Laboring Man of Small Means.
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Call at my office soon if you would secure
one. This is a golden opportunity for you.
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Gin House Insurance,
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Thomasvillo, Ga.
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