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TURPENTINE SALE.
Susina News hems.
(By 8. M. Bwch.
* The Weekly edition of this payer bag
a gun ranteed circulation of two thousand
■ me Hundred, and U read by several
ir times that number of people. I
11 would suggest to the people of' this
m neighborhood, all of whom surely have
d someone interested in their welfare, 1
a that they help to make these items I
i. more news^ and isteresting. <
i Mr.F. O. Bose who taught ' oer
i school last term came over from Met'
■ calf las* Wednesday on a visit.
Messrs. B. L. Slater and J. R. JoneJ
1 went to TltomasviUe last Thursday. j;
t Mr. J, Bv Wight of Cairo has bought j
* the pear crepon the Btaekahear planta
tion.
Mr. A. 0. KHckey want to Cairo last j
i Friday.
The relatives and maoy friends of
Mrs. E. L. Brotanof Macon, and Mr.
T. B. Blackshear of Montgomery, are
delighted to have- them once more
ammigthem. Mr. aud,Ma. j. M.
; Blackshear are enjoying, a happy re
union of all their family.
Mr.B. Whitfield Jr,-finished hie con
tract to carry the mail- between here
and Thomasville last- Wednesday. B.
J. Simmons, a colored man- of; Thomas
ville. has token the cemmot for the
nest four years, and biasnbstitute made
(lie first trip last Thursday,-reacting
here under the new schedule,, at 3:16
put. The now schedule-is giving very
much satisfaction. f
Are you in a rut? If so^got out Bos
ter Brown's recent advico ssrikea. oa aa
being so good, wo give it bore:. “Water
will find lu level, so will, everybody
else. Vim are where you belong. If
you doit's sunk so. get out oi.it;. its ap
to you. Noons else is to blame tv
AND
Gsorgia Progress.
her of a family of thirty-two children.
This ha* been generally accepted as the
largest family in South Georgia. \ ■
Published every Friday by the
; i 312 s .Enterprise Publishing Co.
t: ’‘
Wilton M. Hardy, Prealdent
John D. McCartney, aae.di traae.
At the Timo-Buterprise Building.
Thomaeville, Go.
Yesterday wae tlie IfiStii. birthday of
the American republic. Pessimists to
the ooutrary notwithstanding this coun
try of ours, is bigger, broader, better in
every way than ever before.
Entered at the postoffioe at Thomas
ville, Ga., as second class mail
matter.
Andrew Carnegie recently referred to
a little incident of hit boyhood days as
"the most touching thing in the world.”
World's Fair vhntora attach a mod-
6rn meaning to that phrase.
The investigating committee hat rec
ommended a state auditor. Of course
Atlanta will want a state auditorium for
him to auditate iu.
Drily,Ono Year....
" Six Months...
" Threo Months.
« Ono Month...
Official Paper of Thomas County
In some places the “Gloriuua Fourth”
means u "glorious drunk,” We are
glad to state'that such was not the cose
in Thomstvilie.
Guaranteed Circulation a,350.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Representative Mitchell of Themes is
one of the million of a bili to roUe the
salary of Georgia's governor from gfiOoO
togSOOO.
few day's illness, b was taken. tJ
Ochlockoneo for burial Sunday.
Mni. A. O. Dickey of lamouin, wae
recently a pleasant visitor to her sister,
Mrs. E. E. Hose.
Ur. Frank Monroe ui Ozell ran down
aud spent dun day with his sou,. Ur.
W. A. Monroe.
Messrs. W. W. l''elnet B. F. 'Uyer,
T. E. Dixon, \i. 'h
Howard and F. G.
Fonrth of July pieuic u.
Mouday.
There is a movement on foot to uorn.
inate The*. E. Watauu of Georgia for
preeldout on the populist ticket.
Thostate ilupsi'iuteiH of entomology
lain a crippled oendilion. No wonder
with tnoh a name.
tvu.li .1 the
Roosevelt is at Ins snmmir home.
Let's make it permanent.
Death of Mr E. P .sh.suu.rar Man-
eeifa.
MetJolfe, Git., July J.—On T.iunt,lay
moraui a ui»t, a.r. 1-.1.. 1.-.. .. ., uv«
ouu ut uur well kuuu h autl popular j
toivuimeu, died lieie, after 1111 1.Inert!
la,:mg for auiuu three luu., hWj
muiu ihau a year lie had been in
tug health anil it was kuuwu that i.u ■
could not long survive tlie ravages ut |
the diiai* which preyed upon luuij
still his deatii came 1
.ueiur-
tho lew. ,Tho tale, of the beverage
known as “buck” it sqaarely sud fairly
a violation of the law. It is said to be
more intoxicating than any of the
brows, mixtures or conooctions of the
distiller.
The effect of iho drink would seem to
indicate that scoli If the cate. Almost
all of the brawls, murders, catting af
frays and the like,-which occasionally
blrniMi the fair name of onr county are
traouiible to the Influence of buck. One
of the worst things on earth ft a negro
with a buek Jag and a rsxor. Then why.
•lioold Its sale be allowed to continue?
The good people who have been aroustd
to a sense of how importaut It Is to
stop tlie sale, are clicuUUug petitioua
to have It stopped. When they do this
they morel v petition that the law be en
forced. The proper method of proced
ure is to swnhront warrants.' and insti
tute proceedings against those who
break the law lor soiling book. Then
the law already on the booke will take
It* oooree. A few examples of this kind
of action by the people and the sale will
soon stop.
; Muting the- two good —rstls* ut
Thomas and. l^on. Amongst tbs*throug 1
j wo noticed Messrs, a G. Lester, Km-
j nuttt Mli(,heil.J. B. Mitchell,-Gringo
j Waring. Jeff Dickey, John aiatwvXhofc
| Wyoiie. Dr. Oochran, Mr. and Mrs. a.
|F. : Dees. Mr. and Mrs. Da*. Dixon,
j Mr», H. U. Qaarterman nud- buiulj r
16lr. M. H. Dickey and others ot: Thou-
lusvilie. .VljistlsUhrop of Miehigou- Me.
tone' Vjs. Jerry Junes of Yaldcsts.,
MisaeaLohsaad Basie Mar Glower. Mrs.
W. R Glower,Mrs. Hattie Odom-. Mrs.
£>. D.Ponik, Messrs Mao and,. Julut
Clutter, VI i*. Crawford, Tlioe>.Doubw,
uud others fruui Cauo. Mis* Margaret
Hull of Tnouiasvilie. Leon, cuauty
was welt represented by Dr., sstd Mrs.
W. F. Robertson aud family,. Mr. aud
Mrs. N. Epps. Mr. and Mr*. Thomas
Brandon, Mr. Edward Sapp.. Miss Mae
Manning, Ret*. Geo. Brown, Ur. Pow
ell, Mr. Willis Quartermau. aud sou
Willis, Dr. Edgar Stnokland.'aud many
others. From tbit community we
noticed Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Block-
shear, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Dickey. Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Dickey Jr., Mr. aud Mrs.
A. R. Sessions, Mr. and Mis. Richard
Dross and family. Meson. LeRoy
Dickey, J. R. Jones, Waltee- Brown, W.
W. Wright, Sam Slater, Henry
Herein, E. *'. Dickey, J. M.
Blackshear Jr„ Misses Mary Hayes,
Greco Beach, Winnie Sister,
, Auuta Lou and Hat. io Blue. •
great alum. Lu|
bis frieuds and >tved onus throughout I
the community. He was luiru iuay 1,;
INH); tv us Mine tunes married, ah ui !
Ids wives proecdlug him to the gravet i
end is survived'by Ilia egeii inuilier,' ik!
biOlher aud sister oiuL four uiuuiiei.. |
who liave the sincere sympathy ut ah '
here. He professed faltii«iti Glinst a
few days before his ao.uii uni uivd
happy in the couaviohsoesa of Iu*
Saviour’s love. Ilia remain* were ui. kcl
Among the now tmlustnal organize-
tious m Georgia lost week were;
TUtii.i—Oottongin.
Colutuuus -Waterworks; 140,000 far-
-milliner factory
Sevnumili - gl,000,000 maunfauturing
company.
Ltthuuia—Kleotrio light plant.
Atlauta—1900,000 land company.
Tkllapoena—Naval stores' plant.
Fo »ytb—Cotton mill.
There cull hu nil
ubjin-lto 1 to el-su
amateur base.ball as a 4u uinur sport.
County polities arenas smoitu as
sarfa ti of a Georgia meton.
50,000
Free Samples
I You Can Get One.
THE GOSPEL OF DO.
Tltere are many gospels that might
well be taken to heart by thorn who are
Interested in the welfare of tht» city—
or any other. But the chief gospel Hi the
gospel of “do." The gospo, of wy is an
very well in iu way. It goes a long way.
The gospel of do amounts to little with-
Ove JOO Danish and Norwegian. eml-
gram*, bound for New York, are be
lieved to havu been drowned In the
Noyih Atlnutto on Jnno 28; Out of
neerli 8J0 souls on board the Danish
steamer Norge, which left Cojieiiliagen
Job* (ii, out, leeuty-suveu are known
to be alive, aud for tliu rest no hope is
117,ACa WUUD, tho great vegetable
remedy fpr Rheumatism, Catarrh, and,
Kidney and Bladder complaints, has mat
with almost instantaneous suooaaa be
cause it has made soma noteworthy
ouroa of very severe cases.
Mr. John Post, of the Atlanta Fire
Dept., writes:
" For months I suffered with my kid
ney*. 1 made every effort to get relief,
but failed until I accidentally came in
out the *ay, but the any without the do,
la of no avail.
We hare had a great deal of the
say In the past, in Thomasville, and on
ly a moderate amount of do. It seems
now that the action 1* about to displaoe
the word. The Young Men's Board of
Trade is U> an embryonic body ns yet
but It give* every proepeot of on organs
iaatkm that wiU work a* well a* pray.
The Timea-Enterpriae txpteam* the de
vout hope and firmjbellef Hint tnoh will
betheone.
The committee on school laws, of the
boom and watte, that will report to
morrow will make a number of impor
tant recommendations, tending toward
the betterment of county schools. Any
movement of this' kind should bring
forth hearty support from erery one.
Our schools cannot bo too good.
ft it sold that the whole town of Al
bany is divided between sympathisers
of Dr. Broughton and Chief Westbrook
who fought recently. The affair will af
fect politics for several years, so rumor
says, and the Westbrook faction has al
ready selected a candidate for Mayor in
1806.
Here is a Florida view of it from the
Tallahameean: In Georgia when the
teachers are paid by the State Instead of
the oouaties, they don't alway* gat their
cash. The 8t»t* now owee them160,000
which it cannot pay because all avail
able funds are required to pay the mem
ber* of the Legislatere. Why not pay
the teacher* and 1st the member* wait?
6-17-8
United Slnte*. The nninber in the
United Suites, Including the area cov
ered by the twelfth eensuv, iu the con
tinental United States, Alaska and Ha
waii, mid Porto Rico, is 0,404,631. The
report Indicates that between H and 10
percent, are believed by the census
enqmi rators to have some degree of
white blood.
The center of negro population Is De
kalb couuty, Alabama. 1 Almost 1)0 jior Tho movemont for the Ststo Reform-
cent of the negroes In 'th» continental atory Is arousing onthasiasm all over
United Suites are iu the Southern the State.
State*. .The negroes constitute oue-
fifteeuth of the city population and
about ST;«.*cveuth oil the country popu
lation of the coutineotal United States
The ue>roe*, unlike the Indians and
White*, h .Ve slight excess of females.
Illiteracy among them is seven limes
greater than among the wlittos. Near
ly 4,001,000 in the United States arc en
gaged lu gaiurul occupations. The
death rate approximates 80 per, cent.
' while that of the whites, under the
eamettaiwtattow 1? 87 per-cem.
Major E. L. Jelks of tjoitmsu has
written the oontrollor goncral to kuow
whether the tax collector Micro has the
tight tu tax that city’s town hall. Tlie
.tax collector has sovrntl times endeav-
■ ored tu collect taxes on the city lmll
there, because part* of It are used ft,£
other purposes than pob'lo business.
Oontrollur 1 General Wright does not
thtnk the property Is taxable and bases
Ms opinion on adeolsiou of the Supremo
Court m a similar case.
pnssrwtrm of a bottle of Black Weed.
Tha relief obtained from its ass waa so
great before half the firs* bottle hod
been used, that I pat adds all other
■nedioine* and am now sound and wall,
having beau cured completely by Black
Weed. At the same Mm* I had an ag
gravated case of Catarrh of the head
and throat. Black Weed ha* completely
cured this, and my h*ad 1* now as dear
as a bell."
BLACK WEED is odd by all drug,
gist* at f 1.00 a bottle, or wa will mod
prepaid upon reodpt of prim.
Send Your Name
a trial aampla of thk gnat remedy,
which wiU be mot abadutdy ft*a, to
gether with eu book (wtaintng vain*.
Maybe iu called common *en*e be-
duo its uncommon.
Shoe Sale
Ext raord inary.
Monday. July 11, 8:30 a. ixK
we will open our doors on what
we expect to make the greatest
Shoe Sale ever held here.
Lots, and lots of odds and ends
e-oae pair of a kind, etc. wi’l bo
sacrificed regardless of cost
All our Shoe Stock will be
specially priced for this sal* except
“Dixie Girl,” the best sh~e in the
world at the price, and worth its
price in gold any day in the year.
Other good! things will be
sandwiched’ in at ridiculously low
prices to make tbe >ale more in
teresting.
A Shoe and a fit for every foot,
and a price for every pocket book-
Sain closes Saturday, J»ly 23,
a prize tor every customer spend
ing $1,
A. F. CHlIRCflWELL & Co.
SUrlr Corner.. Thomasvilla; Ga.
Newjdea !0c oapsr pit ern>
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I Our Customers g
I »re getting used to looking up I
our ads for new ba« gains lor tney I
g ^ now we only advertise genuine
| bargains and we kno v it pays
§ us not to disappoint them.
2 <|( Granite Saucepan, with a
coiten, the kind you always paid
2Sc(or, our low price
I qt Tin Bucket, sold the world over tor 5 cent again
it is cut to 3c.
Suits For Children.
Union Melton dark gray ground bone stripes and brown
; overplaidjdauble breasted suits. The proper thing for
the surnmat months, worth $1.98, our cut price $1.28
Children’s Norfolk Suits.
With sailor collars, dark blue around
double breasted, belt attached to coat
with nickel buckle, worth $2.25, our low
price of course
$1-37-
118 Broad Street.
