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7 nteqjngje YOU. 1—NO. TIIO.UASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNIMtt, APRIL 10, 181)0, $5.00 PER ANNUM HIGH-WAVS AND HV-WAVS OF THOMAS COUNTY T1S, INDEED, A LAND. GOPDLY Homes of Plenty, and Plenty of Homes for all. Something About Boston AT On Monday, Tues day and Wednesday next,beginning Mon day morning at 10 clock we will place on sale 5,000 yards Plaid white Nainsooks for ladies’ and chilrens’ wear, at It is the purpose of the Times-En terprise in tliesketchcs that will fol low under the above head, to give a bird’s eye view of Thomas county These sketches will lie continued until every section of the county has been pictured; to avoid the stilted style that might, or would almost luevitably follow, if the dry didactic form of mere description were adopt ed, I shall endeavor to write as though I wore addressing n personal and pri vate letter to each one into whoso hands the papers may fall If there be one instinct that is stronger than all others in the human heart, it is the love of home, which sentiment when it takes a wider sweep than the circle that gathers around one’s own hearthstone, firings out the best development of humanity, patri otism, love for our country. The captious may say that I am a bit enthusiastic, and the croaker may say that I nm drawing the long bow. To these gentlemen I will only say follow me patiently to .the cud, and you will be convinced that only the truth, if indeed the whole of that ltts been told. It bus been my fortune, and I say this in no spirit of egotism, pot was an open common, and as late as 1885 Col. Bennett raised a tall flag pole on this common, in honor of the inauguration ot President Cleveland. Such a thing as a brick store in the village was unknown, and it might be said undreamed ot. A few hundred bales of cotton were annually sold, a (ew barrels of naval stores, a few cars of melons, a few crates of pears, a great many chickens and eggs, made up the business of the town. Under neath the friendly shade of the oaks of Main street the business men and the non-business men of the village daily assembled to while away the hours with chickens, and it is even whispered that on drowsy summer af ternoons the ancient game of “mar hies” was inlroduccd and cries of “tat’ and “don’t fudge” rung out on the ambient air. Boston then had no warehouse, brick stores, no sprightly newspaper, but the element of her prosperity were even then at work and it did hot require the gift of prophecy to foretell that she would develope into a thriftv, prosperous town. It so happened that Dr. Jim Cul pepper played the role of host to the wandering scribe, and this is not an in appropriate place to pay a passing compliment to the charming manner in which he performed the duty. The scribe told him that there was a future for Boston, and driving together over the high hills that overlook the fertile lands south of Aucilla, they drew a picture of what Boston would be, that least in some small degree resembles the reality that has come. Such Bos ton was: Here is what she has grown Lie. The open common is now covered with a handsome block of brick, a warehouse stands along the rataoad Irorit; a saw and planing mill makes erry music all the day and the cheer- throb of its engine beats a pleasant confidence undiminished and untar nished. This confidence did not, how ever, lead them to stand and wait for fortune to come to them; they were and are yet willing to work for the good they expected aud expect to re ceive. Take these combinations— a fine farming country, filled with thrifty farmers that know how to do their own work if necessary, a town filled with live, alert aud active busi ness men, full of confidence and will ing to work, and you have the causes that have made Boston what she is, and that will make what she will be. Such are the two pictures that tell of the B03I011 of eight years ago, and the Boston of to-day. The companion picture would he what Boston will he after the lapse of another eight yenrs, But the last one is hidden in the womb of the coming years, aud it is not allowed to men to lift the veil that covers the future ; we can only stand and wait the personal uufoldingof the panorama. This much we can do, however; we can recall the past, and it will now be my pleasant task to go hack for a time to the early days of Boston, and tell what I may of the men and events that followed the first settling of the whites in Thomas county, while yet the red men wandered over the pine SIGNAL SERVICE BUREAU AT K. IliomM JrY 126 Broad Street. O.S.Bondurant Voluntoer Observer Weather Bulletin for the 24 hours emling at 7 o’clock P. !!., April lit, 1800. TnirKPATCBc. 7 a. 2 p. 7 p. m Maximum for 24 hours Minimum " “ “ Rain-fall Indications for clear, warmer. A PAPER WANTED. Any of our old subscribers having a copy of the Tiiomasvili.e Times dated October 22d, 1887, will confer great favor by mailing it to this office, We will give one year’s subscription or other fair compensation, for that Temperance Talks. A temperance meeting, to which ali friends of temperance arc invited will he held iti the Methodist church on Thursday night, commencing at o’clock. A number of short speeches and addresses will he made. -Conic out and help the ladies. Married. Yesterday, morning, at to o’clock in this city, Rev. C. I. LaRoche, of covered hills, and the "dun deer” ficialing> Miss E. L. Rea of Pittsburg, scampered through the glades, and Pa > and Mr> Rdwarij Simonds of along the margin of the winding Oclt- New Orleans. lockonee and picturesque Aucilln W (to be continued.) ful regular price 25c no bettr bargain ever offered in Thomasville attend the SAL.ES AT 132 Broad3Stil to travel in nearly all of the states east of the Rocky Mountains; within I accompaniment to the march of pro the past year I have traveled over I gress and the hurrying tide and bustle nearly all of the South; I have seen of trade. Other brick stores have tjie marvelous mineral wealth of the I sprung up and at one place a hand- region. I have looked over broad I some block stands where vacancy sweeps of mountains that held hcauti-I stood out in bold relief eight years ful and fertile valleys in a loving I ago, clasp nud yet I honcsily believe that I The Boston World, one of the Southwest Georgia is the garden spot I sprfghtliest weeklies in the state, now of the union Thomas county is my I makes its periodical visits to hundreds home, and under the rules I have laid I of happy homes, and it bears messages down, I am bound-to hold up her I °f cheer at) d promises |o them all. cause ns against the world. I Its voice and influence has been and It is not hard to find other reasons I will he the most important factor in the for my partiality; reasons that have continued growth of the town. It made themselves felt wherever the I does not always follow that honest ef- fame of our county has spread. For I fort receives its proper measure of ap- yenrs Thomascounty has been, not in-1 preciation and support, and it is not aptly, called the baunsr county of the yhe least of the good things that can state. ^e said of Boston and her people, Within her borders can ho found I that they support, cherish and foster thrift, enterprise, push aud success. I their home paper. Whetner this trait No other county in the state can show I is the legitimate aggregation of the such a blight galaxy of prosperous I causes that have made Boston pros: towns and villages and neighbor-1 perous, or whether it stands as the hoods. I cause that has made that prosperity, it If by what I say I am able to itn is useless to argue ; but this it is not press a keener appreciation of lnrae, I amiss to say: Boston people do sup- or incite a single aim that looks to the I port their paper, and Boston is pros upbuilding of individuals and perforce I perous. The few hundred bales of thereof of the community, I have not I cotton that were sold in Boston eight labored in vain and will be content, years ago have grown into as many So much by way of prelude. I thousand, and the trade of her mer it is in order to skip the preface if I chants has increased in equal ratio, you so desire, and plunge at once into I The fame of the enterprise, push and what follows; I thrift of her business men has gone two riCTURES, I out > and ‘ h ey levy a heavy tribute on There can be no better way to bring trade ,hat < orn »er!y sought other mar out fhe effects of a picture than l0 kefs, some of it across the Florida bor- draw its contrast, or to make my I der and sorae * rom ‘he grand old meaning clearer, the nostrum vender I coun ‘y Broeks, paints two pictures, one before, the I Within the eight years the acreage other after taking. I will describe the annually planted in melons has doubled Boston of eight years ago, and then several times; extensive pear orchards Bucket Shop Speculators Caught Columbus, Ga., April 14.—The pork speculators here are still very un happy. Saturday afternoon they were radiant over the pron»iseS-t>f Manager H. C. Pickett ot the exchange to set tle Monday morning. This morning, however, things were different. About 9 o’clock Mr. Pickett left his office before any settlements were made and has not been heard from since. A sensation was created amone the speculators when it was learned *that a deed front II. C. Pickett to two Co lumbus gentlemen, conveying his store on Broad street, had been filed for record, the consideration being $8,600 and the- date of deed April 14. This afternoon \V. D. Scott attached all the office furmtuft, blackboards, etc,, in the exchange for margins owing to him. Whether Mr. Pickett has just gone to see his principal, Mr. Phelan, in Atlanta, or whether lie lias given Columbus a final farewell is not known. At any rate many pork speculators here are anxious to see him. To night his whereabouts are still un known. Amertcus mourns the absence of McDonald the manager of the ex change in that city. Rome also got caught in the swirl. Phelan, of the Atlanta exchange, has gone to the wall He is said to be short 850,000. Phelan has been arrested, a number of warrants have been sworn out against him in Griffin charged him with swindling. Nashville, l'tnn., gets caught for a round hundred thousand dollars. Speculating in futures, through bucket shops, does not appear to be a vety profitable business. There should be a law to suppress this wild cat busi ness. The newly wedded couple left on the 12:35 train for a bridal four through Florida. The bride has spent several winters in Thomasville and is highly esteemed by those who have met and known her. O, hut it’s dry. Wc were plensed to meet one of Leon’s rising young physicians, Dr. Christy, of Miccosukie, in town this wetk. The Hussars have ordered their sa bres. They expect them, as well as their uniforms, in time to pniticipatc in the exercises of Memorial day. Royal Arch Masons will he interest ed in the announcement that Mr. Charles Wesalaskey, of Albany, will confer degrees in the chapter here to night. Go out and see the work. Mr. David McCartney left for his home in Fort Howard, Wis., yester day. His daughter, Miss Emma B. and Miss Maria McGinnis, who has been hero with them this season, will leave for their homes next week. Miss Bessie Randnll, who has been employed in the Western Union Tel egraph office here ft r some time, left for her home, Scranton, Miss., Sun day. Miss Randall’s friends would he please to see her in the office again, next season Attention is called to the notice of a temperance meeting to be held at the Methodist church on Thursday evening. The cause of temperance is one which appeals to every good citizen and lover of order and sobriety, Go out, hear the addresses and join the pledge if you are in earnest. Tffis is a practical way of dealing with the evils of intemperance. You can per suade men to quit drinking—you ca*n- not force them to do so. At LEVYS. set over against it the Boston of to-1 * lave come * n ‘° hearing and yield a day. I fine income to'their owners. A very vivid picture of what it was I There was one peculiarity present eight years ago is present always in I ‘^* en ‘F a ‘ S ‘‘H holds its place at the my mind, for it was my fortune to I front. It would have been hard then to "write up’’ the town in 1882 for a pub-1 find a cleaner or neater village, or one lication, which, as Dickens would say, I w *‘h better kept streets; to-day it has become one of the lost works. I would be hard to find a cleaner, Boston was then an unpretentious I brighter town than Boston, village, with a few wooden stores I Another thing is worthy of corn- scattered or clustered along its one I tnent. Boston people then had con- thoroughfare; between the main busi- j fidence in themselves and the future Gribben & Levick. Attentiou is called to the advertise ment of Messrs. Gribben & Lcvick, contractors and builders, in nuother column. These gentlemen have had considerable experience in their line in Thomasville, and need no indose- ment from us. Their work on every hand speaks for itself. They are en ergetic, thorough working men, and give satisfaction. It you want any building done, see them. Dr. A. 1\ Taylor left yesterday for Brunswick, to attend the meeting of the Georgia Medical Association. , , . . , Yesterday was one of the warmest ness portion of the village and the de*1 of their place, aud they still have that | days we havo had this season. "What were your husband's last words?’’ "He hadn’t any,” sobbed the widow, “I was with him.”—New York Sun. Hurrah for Rhode Island. Sho snowed Harrison aud the republican party under, and endorsed aud em braced pure democracy. Tommie Reed may seo some of tho effects of his autocratie rulings as speaker, in the result of the election in Rhode Island. The result must have made Harrison sick. LETT’S A job of 200 pieces Embroideries positively 25 per cent under val ue. At LEVY’S. 20 pieces Angora Homespun •Suitings 15c per yard. At LEVY’S. We have made a large purchase of Boys Knee Pants from 4 to 14 years, which are now being of fered much under regular prices. Call early, they are selling rapid- *y- At LEVY’S. Have you seen our French Batistas, our Domestic and French Satincs, our Foreign and American Challies. None pret tier and cheaper in the land. At LEVY’S. Plenty Dry Goods in town—yes, but few to compare with ours. Having established an outlet for fine goods wo can afford to buy, and do carry the finest line in the city. Our popular low prices for fine goods insures a ready sale for them. At LEVY’S. Wc have brought out an unusual large and exquisite stock of White Goods. Our goods in that line must he seen to be appre ciated. At LEVY’S. The prettiest spring goods al ways sell out early in the season Wc would advise our friends to call early to select their wants for the season. We offer at all times the most goods tor the least money. The last word uttered by Mr. Ran dall, uttered just before he expired, was “mother.” There is a volume of love aad pathos in the dying states* man’s last word, “mother.” HOUSE. UITCHKM. UO0SC CORNER.} m