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A new line of Steel and Pearl Buckles. A new line of all Silk Ribbons, all shades and widths
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VOL. 1—NO. !305.
TEIOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1890,
$5.00 PER ANNUM
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.
The News of the Day Told in
Brief—Personals, Etc.
Close tip the railroad subscription.
Capt. Tom Lake and family liave
returned from Savannah.
Conductor Joe Gilbert will have
charge of the picnic train to-day.
Dan Herht, of Savannah, was in
to >n yesterday.
Thomas Hailey, a prominent citizen
of Athens, was in the city yesterday.
L. 1’. Watson, of New York, is stop
ping at the Gulf.
Close .up uhe Railroad Sub
scription.
Capt. J. Cronin, of the Southern
Express comp iny, was in the chy yes.
terday.
Among the guests lately arrived at
the Whiddon, is William A. Russell,
of Macon.
There will be a colored excursion
from here and other points to Bain
bridge on May 23rd.
Quite a party of gentlemen went
down to the Shelton pond and seined
it on Wednesday. They aught about
five hundred fish. Parties never (ail
to get fish out of the Shelton pond.
We learn from Mr. Whaley that
Boston and vicinity was flooded, on
Monday, with the heaviest rainfall
experienced lor years in that locality.
It amounted almost In a cloud burst.
Fencrs, in many | i.-ice , 'ere washed
away.
Mrs. I-abel Baldwin and Mi-s
Bca'rice I.iEroy, o' Toronto,Canada,
and Mrs. J. E. Crawford, ol Mo..
who have been spending die winter
here as guests ol |udgr Merrill, left
for their homes ye-lerdav. The ladies
were delighted with our place and
people.
Hon. H. C. Tuck, representative
of Clark county in the legislature, is
spending a few days in the city. Mr.
Tuck, though a voting man, is one
of the nblest members of the legisla
ture, anil Athens is proud to claim
him. Wc trust the gentleman will
find his stay a pleasant one in the
wire grass city of Thomasvillo.
HIGII-WAVS AND BY-WAYS
OF THOMAS COUNTY.
’TIS,
INDEED, A GOODLY
LAND.
Homes of Plenty, and Plenty of
Homes for all.
Metallic Touched Up.
Friendship church, of which men
tion was made in another connection,
was organized between 1840 and 1850,
by a few devoted men. seven in num
ber, who labored faithfully for the
cause of the master. The old church
records have unfortunately been lost
and the names of none ol the first
members is known except one, Mr.
Sugar Forrest, wh j died a few years
ago The first church building was of
logs, but a few years afterwards it was
replaced by a frame strusture, which
stands a few miles east of Metcalfe.
A burying ground is attached to the
church, but none of the marked graves
bear a very remote date. Mr. John
T. Rushin was clerk ol the church for
many years, but has made way for Mr.
J. F. Knapp, who now holds the re
sponsible place. The present mem
bership of Friendship church embraces
many of the leading men of the com
munity in which it is located, and the
ci;cr<;li wields a strong influence in
haping the morals of the membership
and the congregation,
Ii will be readily unrlerstood that it
is imp is 1 l>le, within lie linnls of this
article, 10 name all of 11,e important
men and events of the past. 1 would
and will have a fair crop of fruit the
present year.
One mile south of Metcalfe Mrs. M.
J. Beau lias a model farm, and she
lias, perhaps, the finest field of cotton
in the county. Her success in farm
ing demonstrates beyond all pernd-
venture that there is money in farm
ing.
J. S. Montfort, who lives across the
Florida line, has a splendid farm, and
is ope of the substantial men of his
con raunity.
] rate in the afternoon we reached
Mr Bass' place, where we received a
warm welcome from W. M. Bowman,
whp has it in charge. lie is one of the
.roost successful practical farmers in
the state, and though he is at preseut
a resident of Florida, he cherishes a
warm feeling for his old home and old
friends,
pir. Bass owns nearly 3,000 acre3 of
ldpd in one body, and has three miles
of;front on lake Miccosukie. It is his
pip-pose to go into stock raising large 1
lyj and to this end he issettinga large
area in Bermuda grass ; he will also
devote considerable attention to forage
crops, besides planting cotton largely.
His ranch, as he calls it, has all the
advantages one could wish in a stock
farm. We slept that night in a tent
on the banks of the lake, and it sweet
er sleep ever settled on my eyelids, I
have forgotten the time and place. It
may be that the number of bream I
had eaten for supper had something
to do with my rest; I know not,
whether this he true, I merely state a
fact.
The next morning a number of
gentlemen gathered to see the work
ing of the Ammons Cotton Chopper,
but owing to the non-attendnnee of
the expert who was to make the test,
fain if time and space and the .pa-. Ij&f machine was not given a thorough
tience of my readers allowed gather
up all of the scattered leaves from lire
past and weave them into a garland
tha' con'd be presern d. H'c care 100
little in this day lor the perishing me
mentoes of people that made a na’.on
for us; at some fu'ure time 1 may
travel over ill yround again, but just
now I am too thoroughly imbued with
the restless spitil of the age to dwell
longer in lie corriders of years that
have faded awav as a dream.
Pear Crates.
Mr. Daniel A. Horn, of Boston,
advertises pear crates. Mr. Horn
has been in the business 11 long time
and is fully prepared to supply the
demand. See his card.
At the Lake.
A large paity of young gentlemen
from here have been spending the
past couple of days at the lake. They
carried boats nnd touts, and have no our
doubt bceu enjoying themselves huge
ly. They will return to day, and fish
stories will be in order.
Married.
Mr. W. G. Coats, and Miss Addie
McClellan, a grandaughter ol the late
Major Stegall, of Warren street, were
married Wednesday night, Rev. W,
J. Williams officiating. Congratula
tions to the young people are in order.
Notice.
The Annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Thomasville Real Estate
and Improvement company will be
held at the Court House in Thomas-
villc at 8 o’clock p. m., Tuesday the
13th, of May, 1890.
Jno. F. Parker,
3t Scct’y.
Improvements for Meigs.
The S. F. & W. By., will soon
erect a neat depot at Meigs, to take
place of the box car that has formerly
done service in that place. Mr. J. C.
Coulter has the contract to build the
depot. Mr. J. Cronin, of the South
ern Kxpres; company, will also estab
lish an express office there.
Close up the Railroad Sub
scription.
INCIDENTS AND IMPRESSIONS.
It was my good lortuie not many
days ago to Icav. Thomasville late
one afternoon behind the spanking
team owned and driven by Mr. B. A.
Bass. We were bound for I.ake.Vlicco
sukie, where Mr. Bass has a fine place,
of which more anon.
It need not be said that in our
minds eyes we could see vision; of
sundry and innumerable blue bream,
that we were in the act of drawing into
boats. In other words we were
going fishing, not mostly to fish but
we expected to catch a few. We drove
out the old Magnolia road, nliicli
when Thomasville was a rude hamlet
was the thoroughfare to sal: water on
the Gulf, and therefore the main artery
along which passed the tide of trade.
We drove part the cosy home of
Mr. C. L. Bowker, by the splendid
farm ol Mr. A. F. Prevail, and across
Wards creek, pastille large farm of Mr.
David McCartney. Since buying this
place Mr. McCartney has greatly im
proved it, and it is now one ol the
best kept plantations in the county.
Next we t ome to Mr. Walter W. Wil
liams place, and a wonderful change
has been made in the last year.
Fields that were given over to sedge
and shrubs are nowin cultivation, and
give promise of producing abundant
crops.
The next place we passed was that
of Mr. W. T. Knapp, and he has one
of the best places, and is one of the
best young farmers in the county.
test. Messrs. Christie, Blake, Miller,
Fntch, Hines and Carter nnd perhaps
others were present to sec (lie test
working of the chopper.
On another evening it was my good
fortune to rido out from Metcalfe to
.Spring Hill Church, with John T.
Bushin, who is one of the substantial
men of the place, and one of the pros
perous farmers of the community.
Sonic of the results of our observa
tions are given in the “Leaves Irotti
the past.” We passed the cosy home
of Larkin Mims, whom we found busy
at work in his fields, though he has
passed the three score mark in the
journey of life. He has a fine crop,
and is content to sit under the shadow
of liis own vine, and therefore, he is
one of the happiest of men.
We next vis’ted James Terrell, who,
though he has passed the three score
ten years allotted to man by the
Psalmist, is able to do a good day’s
work. He moved to Thomas county
in 1820, when lie was ten years old,
from Noah county, North Carolina,
and through a long life has preserved
the respect and confidence of his
neighbors, which is as high a compli-
mcn as can he paid to any man.
We then visited the homeof Emory
1). Stringer. As we drove up a flock
of pigeons was c'-oing softly ; cattle
were feeding, and the surroundings
bespoke the happy country home, and
at last there can he no happier gath
ering of the household gods than in
the quiet hush of couutry life, where
the sweetest and best sleep follows la
bor. Mr. S. makes a success of farm
ing. I know of no stronger term of
praise to use.
Among the other prosperous farm
er; of the Metcalfe neighborhood, are
I,. W. Carter, who has as well order
ed a farm as can be found anywhere.
He has recently started a saw mill,
and is prepared to furnish lumber to
the public.
Dr. E. B. Young, another successful
artner,captured the premiums offered
ing what may lie a rich phosphate
bed. The rocks crop out to the sur
face, nnd the supply is simply inex
haustible.
Mr. J. M. Rushin is another one of
the successful men of Metcalfe. He
has recently built himself a handsome
cottage in the village, but he still pays
the necessary attention to his fine farm
a lew miles south.
Mr. James F. Lilly, besides bis ex
tensive interests in the village, has a
splendid farm four miles distant, and
ho has made money out of his chosen
calling.
Messrs J. A. and O. A. Thomas arc
also prosperous farmers, and the
Knapp boys. J. F. and D. F. Knapp,
are makiug money out of mother
earth.
IN CONCLUSION.
When Byron brought his Childe
Harold to a close, ami it is without
doubt the noblest production of hu
man genius, he said : “What is writ
is writ, would that it were worthier.”
I soy the same.
In what I have said I have followed
the truth closely, aud if I have erred
at all it has been on the side of snfety.
It can be seen at a glance that any
section that can support as many
prosperous men as I have named, and
I have not named them all, has abun
dant natural advantages, and that it
will be even more prosperous after
thorough development than now.
The opening of the T. A: M. B. B.
brought a new era to this section of
the county, and as the years roll on
the tide of prosperity nnd thrift will
widen nnd deepen till it makes the
country contiguous to Metcalfe as
prosperous as any in all this broad
land, and no man is willing to work
more zealously for this end than my
self, and no man will hail it with
more pleasure. W.
The Guards.
This crack Military company held
an important business meeting on
Wednesday night. Captain Hnnsell
was re-elected Captain and Lieu’t.
Hawkins ro elected. Lieut’s Wilder
nnd Smith having resigned, their
places were filled by the election of
Mr. L. II. Jerger and Professor A.
G. Miller, of the South Georgia Col
lege They will make splendid offi
cers. Lieu’t Miller is one of the best
drill officers in the state, and the
Guards will soon snow his careful
handling. The company regretted to
have Lieu’t Wilder sever his connec
tion with them. He lias taken great
interest in the company since its first
organization and has contributed
largely to the present, effective status
of the company.
The Augusta encampment was
discussed, informally. The general
sentiment was in favor of going, and
Captain Hausell will doubtless notify
the Adjutant (icncrnl, on or before
the 15tli, of the purpose of the com
pany to take part in the encampment.
The Guards, in persouel, uniform and
equipments,will compare most favora
bly with any company in the Slate.
Augusta is going to do the hand
some thing by the Military on the
occasion, and we hope Thomasville
will be represented. The training
Mr. T. J. Horn is on the old For- at one of the Thomas County Fairs,
rest place aud he has a fine farm. He ! years ago, for the best yield of cotton
is devoting much attention to melons, j on five acres of land,
and has a very promising crop. One 1 The yield was five hales, one bale
mile front Metcalfe John B. Thomas I per acre, and it may be interest-
lias a nice home and a well kept farm; ing to state that the fine crop was
he has an orchard of bearing LeContes 1 raised on ground immediately adjoin-
nnd experience to bn gained by par
ticipating in the encampment, not to
mention the social enjoyments to be
had, will he worth much to the com
pany.
They Will be Missed.
Every one will regret to learn that
Mr. Love Wilder, who has been man
ager of the express office here, for tha
past two years, will return to Albany,
bis former home, where he will take
an interest in with his father in bus
iness. Mrs. Wilder who lias been a
favorite in society here, will be equal
ly missed. Mr. Wilder Bostick, who
has been assistant in the office for 1
some time, will assume charge.
Mrs. John Sharon, of Baiubridge, J
is visiting Mrs. W. M. Hammond.
Water mains are beiug Inid down
Jefferson street, to the Variety,
Works.
Bcv. W. J. Williams expected to
go to Fort Worth, Texas, to the great
Baptist Convention, hut could not
leave 011 account of his pastoral duties
here.
Call and see our
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Drapery Nets,New
Fans and many
otl^er New Goods.
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