Thomasville times-enterprise and South Georgia progress. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1904-1905, October 14, 1904, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextriME8-ENTEBERI8B,.THOMASVILB GEOB0XA., OCTOBER14 T, F. Dyson DEALER or General Hardware, turpentine. 8 // a b m m t Y ac I WANT 1 MEIGS ii ii— «NS, sTEAMFITTINGS BELTING. VAOim AND CART MATERIAL. 3N1L TIMBER. CARTS. BUGGIES, YD EVAPORATORS FOR s«G SYRUP. 3D LUMBER ANY SIZE. GEORGIA. ' /; For what is vyorlh in anything' But so much money as ’twill bring.’’"Butler. We desire to csll attention of onr customers this week to a largi line of Baggies, Wagons and Farm Implements. —We handle the Weber Wagon and the Virginia Wagon, the Oxford Buggies and the ReX Buggies, and the McFarlane Buggies and Surries. We have combination corn and cotton planters and combina tion guano and corn drills. We have the best line of Fertilizer Distributors we over saw. You osn put ont with them from one hundred to two thousand poundr of fertilisers per acre. We also oarry a.full line of two horse riding and walking cultivators and weeders. We are still offering Bargains in —Floor, Sugar and Tobacco— and have on hand yet some select Forth Carolina Seed Pinders. Remember that we give with paoh 25a cash purchase a ticket en- titliug you to a chance at the beautiful Amos stick scat run about on display in our window, whioh will bo given away on May 28th. Out- of our customers will get this beautiful run about. You may be the luoky one. COMB to see us. Comfort Trading Co., ' BOSTON, - • -GEOROLA. To Meigs W ith Your Cotton The J. N. Carter Compny desire to say to their friends and patrons that their modem gin plant is now in operation and that Cotton intrusted to them will be handled to the satisfaction of the grower. We have eliminated ever feature of middleman’s profit and and are in position to pa the highest possible prices * for all cotton coming to us. It shall bejour polic to protect full the interest of our patrons, therefore we do not hesitate . to solicit their business. We are well up in all lines and you can make no mistake if you buy of us such goods as you may need. Our prices are always in line. Bvery transaction with us—At the office or over the counter will oe brought to a satisfactory conclusion. J. N CARTER COMPANY, Dealers in Everything, Meigs. = - Ga. ANONYMOUS WARNING. But Messrs. Griffin end Plttmen are not Alarms*. Ur. Barrel Grtfflo, who lives on Mr. Jim Pittman,s place five miles from town, across the river was here Thors day morning. He had with him an anony- moos note found in Mr. Pittman’a mail box yesterday- morning. It reads as follows.* Warning. Mr. Jim Pittman We understand that yon and that man griffin am onimies to oar cfmh and wo are going to get yon both the first chance we have, so now that yon bate the nigger race so look ont for -we in tend to fix yon. I am one of the fordny club a member. Mr. Griffin is a native of Thomas county and was born here 66 years ago. He is a veteran of the civil war and was in Pickett’s charge at Gettyabnrg so he is not mach frightened at this anony mous card. He said "neither Mr. Pittman nor| myself believe that there la any before, day clnb here or anywhere in ths neigh borhood. And we don’t believe that the letter it the work of a negro. We think it is a white man who hat ei trudge against us and it trying to •care us. I am not seared and when the man attempts to carry ont his threat ha will And me right there." Mr. Griffin la thoughly in earnest about the matter. This is the third warn ing of the same sort recently reoeived by Thomas oounty peop’e. Cns was sent to Mr. James Horne of Metcalfs and one to the citizens cf Ocbloeknet Mr. Griffin thinks they may have bean a,l sent by the same nun. MRS. BEARDEN MARRIES. Tan O’clock Thursday Night She Bo- cams Mrs. Alford. The'whispered engagement of Mrf. SaUie Bearden to Hon. A. J. Alford has •roused a great deal of Interest in Tliom- asrUle during the putt week. It will be a matter of even greater interest to the public to know tliat the happy ivent took place Thursday night at ten o’clock. The ceremony waa performed at the residence of Mrs. Bearden on love sweet by Rev. Alex. W Beaier. Very faw spectators were present, only Mrs. Tom White, Mrs. Spence, Mr, D. 0. Barrow and Mr. Pittman composing the party. Refreshments were served after tbs marriage, and the evening was otherwise made most pleasant. Mrs. Bearden hae been a valued resi dent of Thomasrille for many yean, coming here from Moultrie. She still owns a large amount of property there as well aa here. Mr. Alford is from OarrabeUe, Florida and la a prominent man. He is a wholesale merchant in his town and represents his district in the Florida state senate. The oouple left at one o’clock last nlaht for OarrabeUe. where they will •pend only a few days before returning here in time for the meeting of the Bap tist association next week. They in- tend to divlda their time in future be tween ThomafrUle, OarrabeUe and Tallahassee. The groom is fifty-eight yean of age and the bride sixty-three. ' Dr. Thornton Returns- Dr. Thomas R. Thornton who for the past year tins boon conducting the drag business of Peacock & Thornton in Oot umbos, Ga, has returned to Thotnai- ville and resumed his old place behind the piysurlptlon oaee at Feaoovk’s drug •tore. The dootor waa kept busy re sponding to friendly greetings yester day. Hit wife and daughter will join him here next month A Bold Thlsf. John Humphrlea a negro port ployed at the store of W. N. Austin and Company Is the; latest addition to the oounty jail colony. He made his ap- pearenoe in a brand new hat the other ’morning which Mr. Austin recognized sa a late inhabitant of Ills shelves. The nervy purlolner waUed out a story of injured tnnooecnebut after being lod ged In the oounty BaslUe signed a plea of guilty. He wiU be sentenoad as soon as Judge C P. Haneell returns. LANE MATTER SETTLED. Street will be Opened Through 0 twosn Remington end Meeloan. The matter of the dosing of the lens c .injecting Remington end Maclean Avenues which has been heard before the city council at two session* was amicably settled vestorday morning.to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. Alderman Beverly chairman of the oouucU committee on streets baa ar ranged for the city to put a regular street through Jwhsre the old lade was On his part Mr. W. 0. Snodgrass who closed np the lane, wiU remove aU ob structions at once. TO MEET HERE. Rural Letter Carriers Association Will Convene In Thcmesville. Several weeks ago the Broobs-Thomas rural mail carriers assreiation was or ganised in Boston. Every R F. D. man in the two counties is eligible for mem- benliip. The association lias held several meetiegs, and its uext will be held bore in Thomasrille on October All rural ihail carriers are urged to be present. Such as have not already joined the association will do so, and the oooaaion promises to be pleasant and profitable to the R. F. D. men. Mrs. F. T. Brown, of Cairo, Who is attsuding the Methodist Missionary conference as a delegate la stopping With Mrs. J. L. Williams, at 2M Washing ton Sa DIVORCED FROM MILLIONAIRE Former Thomasvltle Woman Saps- rates.from Wsalthy New Yorker. Tbs final divorce decree separating Washington Boiklsy a Brooklyn mil lionaire politician and contractor from Chipola Viola Bulkley, formerly ot Thomasvills, was granted last weak, The case has been in court for eighteen months and was intensely dramatic. Mrs. Bnlkley Is a young woman, who was for some time a resident of Thomas- Tills. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wiggins. Mr. Wig gins was in the grocery and liquor bus lness here until about six years ago and the family it well remembered. The young son, a fourteen year old boy went as a maaoot in the Spanish-Ameri •an war to Cub*. The family moved to Wajoross whore Mr. Wiggins still nridsa, as a useful citizen. He is a bookseper there and is doing well. ‘ Miss Wiggins who Is described as an anally pretty and attractive married in Waycross, a young railroad employe named Sidney Lanier, whose tamer conducted a Jewelry store .there. Mr. Lanier, aocording to tho New York American, whleli describes the trial, was a nephew of Ueogu'a great poet, Sidney Lanier and waa blmsnt a poet. Snortlv after their marriage he died.' Mr. Bulk- ley while ou a southern trip met the altraotlve young widow and after a brief and runiauuc courtship they wens married. The New York Amerioanaaya:—“The domestic troubles of Bulkley began the first day after his marriage, when ids young wife declared that the did not love him and had only married him for his money. Three days later the aged man waa arretted *nd,draggedinlo police court, charged with abandon- In the Oates Avenue oonrt he wept at the charges made by his young wife and begged her to oorne back to him.’ They agreed tu try again, and for several months lived peacefully, though Mr. Bulkley aveis.jnot happily, togeth er.”., The atorr ot domestic infelicity aa told by the American brings in the name of Henry E- Hngheson ot New York, who previous to his being named as ooempoodent committed suicide to esoape arrest for the embezzlement of $100,000. In closing the American says: Attorney George Robinson, who carri ed on the long fight for Mr. Bnlkley, said last night that Mrs. Bnlkley had re turned to her parents in Waycross, Ga. Mr. Bulkley i* at his Benaonhurst bouse, a nervous wreck from the strain which he has gone through. hi an admission made by Mrs. Bulk- ley, she is alleged to hare said of her husband and marriage: It waa his gold that lured me. I tried to endure him for the sake of it, but wheu I looked into the face* of my children and saw reflected the lights and shadows, the gentleness and kindness of my dear de parted husband, who is sleeping at Thomasrille, Ga Ioooldendnre it no longer." Inquiry of the local officials fails to •how that Mr. Lanier is buried here, and ths reporter probably substituted the name of this city for Waycross. CAIRO FURNITURE COMPANY. Cario, Georgia, We can save you money on Tour Furniture Purchases because we are EXCLUSIVE FURNITURE DEALERS. Wc tan furnish your bouse from parlor to kitclien and have an immense stock of cheap II".: goods to select from - We bare ,he BEST STOVE tad the BEST SEWING MACHINE on earth for. the moncy^ We cnaransco even* oue to give satisfaction or money ij,funded. We are offering a Rocker for *175 tlmt will cost yon *2.00 anywhere else. We bought a lot of them at a SACRIFICE PRICE uml. while they last onr customers will reap the saving. You should see onr large stock of Rvgs, Art Squares, Lnoe Curtains and Window shades. \Ve buy direct from Hie manufacturers andsavo the jobber’s profit. We take COUNTRY PRODUCE of all kinds in exchange formereban- disc tad pay highest market price for same. Cario Furniture Company. Cairo, Georgia. Linked Sweetness t 9 4 4 9 9 4 4 Goldin’s New Model Cane HillJ is about to be long drawn out. Dou’t wait till the frost rests on your sugar c me to prepare to grind it; a delay might occur then that would prove costly. BuyyourQ ane Mill T ° ’ ay We'are sole agents in ThomasVille for These manufacturers have had 111 years experience, and this mill is the product of their highest genius. . Goods are the Best—Prices the lowest, Coleman & Adams, HARDWARE, Jackson, St. rhomnsville, Ga. Carter & Borough ' Valdosta, Georgia, Largest Organ Dealers in U. S. Sell the reliable ESTBY, CROWN, and Lndden and Hates Organ* at lower prices than the same grade of Organ* can be sold elsewhere. Every one of fItem folly guaranteed by ot, and oar guarantee is made good iu year home without expensoto^ejmrohasCT^t, for LESTER . MATIIUf IIEK, I VERS & FOND, LUDDEN & BATES, CROWN, OHICKERING, and McPHAIL Pinaov Catalogues and prices furnished ou yoor inquiry. Represented In Southwest Georgia by W. F. LEE, of Cairo, Ga. and others. CARTER & DOROUGH, Valdosta and Tifton, Ga. A *860.00 LUDDEN & BATES PIANO WILL BE GIVEN AWAY IN THE TIMES-ENTERPRISE “AND” CONTEST. MILINERY Chic, Tasty, Stylish. I have just returned from the eastern markets and Wish to present a mo;-: beautiful line of Our facilities for trimming are the best. MISS LAURA JONES, 131 BROAD STREET, THOMASVILLE, GA OLD PROGRESS STAND. SAV MILL MACHINERY. We Manufacture the best Saw Mill on the market. Engines. Boilers, Ginning Machinry, Grist Mills, Shingle Mills. COMPLETE OUTFITS A SPECIALTY. MACHINE SHOPS AND FOUNDRY. Mallary Bros., Machinery Co. Mention this paper. MACON, GEORGIA. Time Table Effective Sept. J 1th Trains Arrive Thomasville 12:10 p. 01.7:35 p. Daily. Trains Leave Thomasville 7:40 a. m., 4:15 p. Daily. Quickest and Rest Line to Macon Atlanta, St. Louis and all poiuts West, binest equipments in the South, Coache* electric lighted, with fan* m summer and steam heat in winter, making travel comfortable and easy, Ticket* oki sale to all points in the United States. ^ If you are contemplating a trip, ask : our Agent for information--we may^be able to save you money and time. H. C. McFadden, A E Glovef) General Passenger Vgent, Thomasvllk 1. Is. K-napp, Com. Agent, Fitzgerald: