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LOCAL VISITORS
AND TRAVELERS
L J. Beoketc of Bostoa was a Mon
day visitor.
Mr; J. C. Collins of Montezuma la
Ibe guest of his aunt, Mrs. P. B.
Monk.
Mr. Gene Fleming has returned
from a vacation visit to Indian
Springs. 9
*■ im
Mr. Applewhite of Thomas-
vile is here Voting his son, Mr. W.
E. Aplewhite.—Moultrie Observer.
Mr. B. L.,Hudsou of .Ociilookonee, a
prominent farmer and teacher of the
county schoo s was in town Monday.
luiaa juiiti Wright of Thomasvllle,
who has been the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. Anton P. Wright, left Monday
for North Carolina.—Savannah Press.
Mr. A. M. Watson came hom from
an extended trip yesterdp; afternoon
W. G. Lewis was here • «.|ro
Tuesday.
W. C. Lightfoot and daughter of
Bradentown, Fla., are in the city, the
guests of Hon. W. B. Harableton. Mr.
Lightfoot *is editor of the Branden-
town Herald, one of Florida’s best
weeklies.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pltchard and
little daughter, Sue Jack, are visit
ing in this city. Mrs. Pltchford was
formerly Miss Map Sinter *f this
place. Their home is in Lexing
ton, Miss.
ThomasviUo people will rend with
sorrow of the death of Miss Lillian
McRae. She passed.into the great
beyond at th^ borne o? her brother
ir. law N. J. A isii*: on Monday ;.Igle
Her remains were sent to Quitman
Tuesday 2 4 • and
interred in the family burying ground
near that city. Miss McRae was
about 45 years of age and her friends
were admirers of hercliaracter and
good deeds.
Mr. N. S. Chastain of Thomasvllle
spent tojlay In Moultrie. Mr. Chas
tain says that this Is his first trip to
Moultrie In ten years and that the
toown has grown so fast In that
ength of time he could scarcely be
lieve what he saw here.—Moultre
Observer. t
W. A. Elkins was in the city yester
day. He is on a hustling tour through
South Georgia in the interests of Stan
ley’s Business College in Macon. The
Stanley school need to be here and
Thomasnlle people will be glad to
learn that it is doing well in its Maoon
itin environment.
see
,‘jr Does coton mature earlier In these
latter days than It did In long years
ago? It seems so to us. There was
a time when cotton picking began &a
September and continued until frost.
Now begins in July and August Is
one of the busiest months In picking
and marketing. Moultrie Observer.
Of course It does. The crop aver
ages a title earlier because farmers
plant an early variety of seed. Prices
are uniformly better at the beginning
of the seson. Texas farmers espe
cially make efforts to this end be
cause they like to get ahead of the
boll weevil. The early coton misses
the worm.
Moving About
Mr. John H. Varney has moved his
plnmbing establishment across Broad
street to the large store room in the
Masury Hotel. His former quarters in
the Postal Telegraph room will be util
ized to put in a stairway leading to the
new offices in the Mitchell Houso block.
THE THOMAS REPORT.
The weekly crop report for Thom
as county says: Week excedlngly
warm, with afew local showers; much
fodder being saved; cotton declin
ing, bolls opening; pears yielding
well; cane,peas and plndars doing
very well.
ONE LEGAL SALE.
There was only one legal sale at
the Court House yesterday. Several
pieces were advertised for sale but
neither seller nor buyer appeared.
They may have been deceived by the
first Tuesday coming on the first day.
Feetwood administrator of the
estate of Tena Mitchell sold a house
and 100 foot lot on Crane’s lane to
E. M. Mallette for $300.
.MORE PLATE GLASS.
It seems as If ever)* property own
er on Broad street has caught the
plate glass-and-and-lron-pllar-front
fever. The contractors are busy at
different places on the street now,
and willbe busy at different places
continually. Dr. T. M. McIntosh will
have this improvement made let he
storo owned by him and occupied by
Alderman’s soda fount. Contractor
Porter will do the work.
The seamy side of life in Thomas-
Tille was tnrned np for the inspection
Of Mayor pro tern Pittman yesterday af
ternoon in police court. Fight, do
mestic infelicity, dronk. disoiderly
made np the menu. The case of prin
Otpal interest was that of a young white
man named Ballard, who works for a
loan company. He had endeavored in
▼ain to oollect an aooonnt from a negro
"Shady.’J Mr. Ballard says at hU last
interview in search of 91.35 3hady
flung a brick at him, and he retaliated
with the same while Shady (ltd. The
negro denied this and claimed shat Mr.
Ballard raked him in the head with a
knife. As proof of his claims he waved
a gory shirt shewed a slit hat and a
court-plastered head. The case was
oontiansd until next week in ordsr that
additional witnesses might be|«ecnred.
£a£T
G.ttlnfj Ready
Heath & Sheffield are making ex
tensive repair, on the Interior of
their bakery and grocry. The gro
cery department will open In about
two weeks On August 7 the drill
will begin their doub'.u d.l'y i.rvlto
and “hot rolls for supper" will ly.ln
be a feature. One of *ho best ba
kers In the entire South will have
charge of the ovens. He Is Mr. W.
J. Campbell, a native of Scotland.and
recently of Columbus, Qa.
PROMOTION FOB MR. CASSELS.
7 bomasvlle people always retain
their Interest In Thomasvllle boys
wherere/ they may go. The nows
of a young man's success as told In
the following from the Montgomery
Ad. ortiser Is pleasant reading far his
friends.
“Mr. and Mr. Samuel Cassele leave
today for Memphis, Tenn., where they
will In future reside. Mr. Cassels
has been called to Memphis to accept
the management of one of the large
mills of the Southern Cotton Oil
Company. He his been with the oil
lun-pr.ny here for a number of ,-«*rs
dnd Is looked upon ss one of the most
capable and efficient man of ths com'
pany, so this merited promotion does
not corns as n surprise to his friends
•nd ths business men of ths city. The
appolntmedt of Mr. Cassels to this
place Is quite a compliment bestowed
upon him by Ms company, for he is
quite a young man. The many
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Cassels and
their Interesting children will regret
very much to lose them, for they
have been quits a factor In the (octal
and buslneas world of Montgomery.
VALDOSTA BANK
PULLS A PLUM
Judge Emory Speer haa Issued an
order creating the Citizens’ Bank ef
Valdosta a depository In bankruptcy
for the counties of Berrien, Brooks,
Clinch, Coffee, Colquitt, Decatur.
Echols, Lowdns, Thomas and Worth
counties.
The order has been signed by him
and the required bond of $10,000 haa
bean Sled President J. F. lewis
with the clerk of the United State#
District Court.
Mr. Editor—That's jut tbs reason
why every bo iy should use it. It's s
germ killer. Xss sir, catarrh la caused
by germs Doc ter told me ‘twas. Mr.
tt. H. Sims over here at Leslie, Qa. was
cared too. He mart hare had a mighty
bad o.sft 77 years .landing. Pity he
didn't know of it before he did. There
fellow, hod nnrel catarrh. Sam. way
with tha Stomach. Tall your friaad to
take Mttaamti The draggitta
: {'Little BUI."
COTTON THREATENED BY
WARE HOUSE FIRE.
Other Newa of Interact From Meigs
and Vicinity.
By J. S. SEARCY.
M<!gs, Ga., Aug. 2.—Air. ft T.
Houso the pioneer fruit fii. a
coniinoCans barn used as a iPirklnt
Piuae. Until last Mo day he has
alert'd his entire cotton crop, consist-
! is' "f about twelve boles ,n this
ht'iisc let higher prlcet. I .net Suit-
day lie took hla fanu.y loi n t-i the
.'enter Hill nelghborhtd for up out-
Peon afterhe w-is * - ,e. a
neighbor discovered the house to be
on .""O cn the outside. It an
tl'lgl shed without damage. Mr.
P iuae guarded the cotton Sunday
night end Monday broafat it i p s ta
and pieced It in the new v.a-o bouse
Messrs. T. W. Cure-. J. \V. H.'.i.
. A. Duren, W. H. Boswell. E
Wilkes and others went to Atlanta
J - nday to be present at tho Grad;
• uuty hearing Mondtv.
At a mass meeting Saturday strong
resolutions against partitioning this
county were unanimously passed.
Mrs. H. B. McCormlc and little
daughter, Mary, have been the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Singletory dur
ing the week on Quality Square.
Mr. Jamie Buckalew of Dawson
was here a few days ago. He was
formerly of this place and was a
good pupil In this deponent's school
for several sessions.
Paul Parker and little sister, from
Mitchell county, are here this week
visiting the family of Mr. W. H.
Hurst.
Mr. G. L. Duren, acompanled by
his daughter, Miss Bele, went to
Merrillville a fewdays since. Return
ing they were accompanied by Miss
Belle Duren, of that pace.
Miss Lewellyn Powell of Whlgham
lias been the charming guest of Mrs.
George Joiner this week.
A*few days ago Dr. I. R. Aultman
received a telegram that his nephew
Mr. E. J. Mlmms, a prominent young
man had billon from a train at Mtl-
ledgevllle and had been killed. He
boarded the next train and went to
Reynolds. Ho found that the dbad
man was Honry Ross of Macon.
Dr. Aultman returned Tuesday.
Prof. W. H. Searcy . wife and lit
Re Frank, of Cairo, spent Thursday
with relatives here on their way to
tslt their old home near Talbottom.
Mr. J. H. Hararlch of Macon, has
arrived and will aslst Mr. Willis In
the management of the Farmer^'
Warehouse this seasoa.
Mlsa Erie Douglass has accepted i
position In the dry goods department
of the J. N. Carter Company. She
will no douht make many friends in
her new home.
Now is a good time for the dog
killer to come to this town. We don't
believe in wantonly killing dog, be
cause many valuable dogs
the death of the wicked. But It seem*
that this bnrg it replete with dogs of
all stages of respectability.
Mrs. Genlo Stubbs Lines after n
visit o fibres weeks to htr rela
tives here, returned to her home at
Mars, Oa, Thursday.
Col. A. E. Smith a prominent
young attorney of VaiAwta, was here
Sunday. The colonel he* r very in
teresting ''conn'' case hero and Is
giving it hii best attention
Mlsa Lanra Vick, who attended the
Normal Summer School at Norman
Park, and -iss since been visilirg
friends at Titian Moultrie and other
points retur.ied homo Thurulay, m.
companled by several popular young
ladles from those places.
Mrs. Rober' Jones ot the Western
part of the co-iaty and Miss Ai, ha
Pullen of Cmou, visited the family
of Mr. J. ».IJ Pullen this week.
Mr. W. E. Davis and wife, Mcsvrv
Troy Fuller!, Esrl Ifnrvt, W. 51.
Vanlandlnghum. Haywood SIiirIi-
tory and oca • < went from hero lo
the anion meclng at OchlovkL-e Sun
day.
The AtvhUon Mercantile Comvnay
set s good ox imp!*! to the other tner
chants of the town by cleaning up
around their store. They keep thing
on the onli d i almost ss preventable
ss they do on the Inside.
Mr. and X-«. Hoagsrd Davis of
Bsrwick cs'Od Tuesday to visit »ela-
$ves here.
YELLOW JACK FROWNS
ON ADDED VICTIMS
New Orleans, Aug. 2.—The local
cases of yellow fever to noon today at
New Orleans number S47; deaths 74.
New cases today, one; deaths today <1.
At Ship bland, a quarantine station
off Mobile, four cases, convalescent
Shreveport one ease; Montgomery ‘one
Lumberton Miss. one. In Louisiana at
Westwego. two cases and one death;
Algiers, one case: Snurise, one caw;
Empire, oue case; Ostrica, one c
Poiut Celeste,.oue case; Vaocaro. one
ease.
The situation in the Sooth is not so
favorable today. High temperatures
and heavy rains at New Orleans, the
oeuter ot infection, producing unfavor
able conditions and andoing much that
hod already been done in oiling cisterns
and gutters.
In Arkansas details state that guards
have been made to gnsrd Jail gateways
into the state. A rigid shotgun quar
antine will be euforced.
FRUIT LADEN TREES
BEND T0GR0UND
Mr. R. N. Applewhite who has a fine
farm in the Oak Hill neighborhood
three and a half miles from town was
in the city Wednesday afternoon
had with Mm some (interesting photo
graphs from his pear orohard. The
tiees are eo laden with fruit that the
branches bend to the ground and many
of them have broken. One limb |plioto
grapiied has 175 Keiffer pears within a
space of four feet. Mr. Applewhite
will begin shipping these pears Monday
and expects to market about 40 barrels,
He has already sold 180 barrels of the
oimmon variety.
MORE TO FOLLOW
IN CARTER CASE
Valdosta, Qa., Aug. 3.—Solicitor
Geuorsl W. E. Thomas will probe to
the bottom tho charges made against
the McDonald, In oonneotion with the
marder of the darter children. The
solicitor left last night for a trip of
rew days to North Qeorgta, an on Ills
return will sift the matter thoroughly.
An Indictment was drawn np by him
igalnst Tim and Jim McDona'd fat tbs
beginning of the torsion of oonrt Jcallod
to try the Rewlingt, bnt the jury
found that the evidenoe In ; their bands
was not snffioisnt to warrant them in
finding a tree bill.
QUARANTINE NEEDLESS.
NO DANGER FROM FEVER
Refuges* Were Invited to Thomas
vllle Thirty Yeere Ago-
A subject of mach conversation on
Thomasville’s streets jost at present is
(He yellow fever. The scourge has
spread from New Orleans and jester-
day's newspapers told of a case as near
as Montgomery. Bainbridge has quar
antined against New Orlen»» aud there
has beeu some Talk of a similar action
here. Dr. A P. Taylor, a member of
the State Board of Health gives it as
his opinion that no sncli action i« necet
ary. "If anyone comes from an in
fected district we can easily discover it
without^he aid of a quarantine." he
said. "There is^absolnte y no came for
alarm and it would be none oven if the
fever shonld show itself. If the case is
isolated aud the pitient is screened
there is no danger. Them is one par-
ticular type of uioequito that communi
cates the diseaso. Tit is probably exists
hero and almost everywhere else. At
lanta extended an invitation to refugees
but after it^was given they amended
it."
Thomasvllle has never had a ca.*e of
■yellow fever aznong its residents. Dur
ing the epidemic of 1878 the doors of
the oity were thrown open to all who
might wish to come aud many took ad
vantage of the opportunity. Theie
were twenty-five cas*s sent here from
au orphat s' home in. Savannah and
they were quartered opposite the Bap
tist church. Very fortunately no other
cases developed aud almoet all if not
everyone of the ^ were sent hoxxe re
covered. Sino j tl at time ideas alont
yellow fever here haveohanged oent-ider
ably and it is hardly probable that
Thomasvllle at present wonld invite
anyone to bring fever to town.
RAWLINGS TO HANG
0 SEPTEMBEA I5TH.
* Judge Robert O. Mitchell came
hams yetorday afternoon after finally
disposing of nil the cases In the cele
brated aeries of trials connected with
the murder of the children of W. R.
Carter. Yesterday morning at 8:30
he sentenced Alf Moore, colored, to
hang on September 18. Frank Tur-
nr, a negro preacher, convicted ss
accessory befors ths fact was soutenc-
sd to tbs chain gang for life. Ths
other sentences were J. O. Rawlings,
tbs father to hang; Melton and Jesse
Rawlings, to bang; Leonard JUwl-
lngs, to ths chain gang forllte. AU
ths executions art sst for September
Before the elder Rawlings was
sentenced he said:
"My conscience stands erect; you
can no mora pinch it than yon can
the hrightneaa of the ran. The
sentence can do nothing but kill.
Pass it.”
In each of the Rawlings' cases a
motion for a new trial was mads by
\ttornsy Cooper which will bo argued
no September >th. If s new trial Is
refused by Judge Mitchell ibe matter
will be carried to the Supreme Court
The trials hare ocnpled two weeks
and havs been the center of attention
for the entire state. Judge Mitchell
la universally praised for the excel
lent order the promptness and the
impartiality of the trial.
The next quarterly mo-ting of the
Methodlat church for tho Pelham <Tlr
cult will be held here on the second
Sunday an-t Monday following. Tin-
services will be contlnusd thro -ah
the week. ,
Mra. Hour, Ramsey who has been
visiting relatives hen returned to
Tbomnsville Monday.
A TART REPLY
Railroad Commissioner Joseph M.
Brown wtl publish in the morning
dallies of the state today a tart reply
to the Camilla speech of Hon. Hoke
Smith. In this speech Mr. Smith
said It he were ^governor he would
remove Mr. Brown from office pro
vided the latter failed to meet his
views. In support of the actions of
the railroad commission Mr. Brown
quotes convincing facts about port
rates store rates and the like. Mr.
Brown says;
Whatever the announced reason
the Inference Is clear that the attor
ney of the Atlanta Store Works if he
becomes governor of Georgia will
remove from his position a railroad
commissioner, who, acting in his oath
of office, doea not discriminate n fa
vor of an Atlanta client in hla rul
ings The slight fact that artlds 4,
section 2, of the constitution ot Geor
gia says; "The power and author
ity of regulating freight and passen
ger tariffs, preventing unjust dis
criminations and requiring reasona-
b.e and joat rates ot freight and pa-
senger tariffs are hereby conferred
upon tbegeneral aasmebly, etc., wonld
have no weight with n governor who
chose to brash raids the general ss-
semblysnd assume that -power and
authority’ himself. He would dear
ly prove to his own mind that the
general sesembly's duties wu to have
delegated that power to him in
stead of to the railroad commission.
Verily, If Csar Nicholas be dethroned
he need not refugee to Oeorgta.
There would be no room for him
here. > . >
Mr Brown says in conclusion:
“I can conceive of one class ot our
citizens to whose Interest it would be
that the railroads be limited to mak
ing a bare living while other people
were accumulating fortunes. I re
fer to lawyers, who get rich on suits
brought against rallrods for personal
damages the continge-tfee being fre
quently 6 Oper cent of the iotalk
amount recovered. How patent,
with with a Jury is the argument that
while wise men In al branches of Uf9
were Improving their property with
a view of maintaining the comfort
and safeay ot their employes this
heartless railroad corporation threw
all Its net earnings into dividends,
and slowed Its crossties to rot Its
rails to be worn beyondthe danger
point, Its bridges to become fragile
Its engine boilers to become peril
ously thin, its cars to become run
down, and, if established as true, is
this not really a convincing argu
ment with the Jury «
"Allow me to say in my personal
capacity I would prefer to pay, and
In my official capacity I would prefer
to prescribe, rateswhich would en
able the railroads to bo improve their
roadbed and rolling stock ns to abso
lutely protect human life and limb,
rather than to force a condition ot
affairs which would allow the hum
blest person in Georgia to be killed
ortto maimed beyond the power to
make a living and I would prefer this
even if the result were to drive be
tween the plow handles for a dally
living every lawyer who would flU
hl3 pockets with money drawn from
the railroad companies by reason ot
personal Injury to any man, woman
or child in Georgia.” j
BUSINA NEWS ITEMS.
(By 8. M. Beach.) ~' ! i
Mrs. A. M. Manning haa gone to
Pelham on a visit.
Mrs. John L. Poulk of Cairo was
at Lake Iahonla last Thursday
Miss M. Handley, now of Thomas
vllle came down Thursday to visit
friends.
Miss Adeline Moller of Thomasvllle
has been spending the week at the
home of Mrt. I'. N. Hall.
Mlsa Alice Eason of Boston came
down last Friday to visit Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Stanaland.
Mrs M. Owaltney and wa-d. Miss
Daisy Lee Owaltney, returned home
last Thursday after spending severe 1
days In Thomasvllle.
A committee of three consisting of
Messrs. A. C. Dickey, J. M. Blank-
shear, Jr., and 8. M. Be ieh, returned
icom Atlanta lut Wednesday where
•bey bad {been endeavoring t - have
part <f this district ad-!.d to tlr.tdy
n.iutj it that connty to create-!.
Ur. Charles Winter ot ThomaavUIq
a as dawn hare lut Tuuatuy on Iih
way in look at rams milk cons at
Mr. Charles Bells’.
Little Mary, one at tha twlndangh-
: ,-i Mr. and Mrs. L M Brinson,
after ah Illness ot nearly two weeks'
duration died last Wedrei-iav tm*.
was buried at the nvv •Vkln.hneo
•t»t'i»t church burial ground cn
'Tn-.rsdsy. The symp-UMei #• t*e
enteira communl.v are witn ths
parents.
BRUNO KERBER
Gardener and Florists.
Work of all kind by Job
Pruning a Specialty.
Order by Postal
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ufacturers will present to every mother a beautiful
baby ring, guaranteed for five years. These rings naually
sell for a dollar at jeweleis.—Application blank for ring on
the inside of every package. Ask your druggist about it or
write Baby Ease Co., Macon, Ga., for particulars and free
booklet.
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