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VOL. NX. NO 43
VIENNA. GA. THURSDAY MAY 2], 1903.
TERMS *1,00 PER YEA R
So tew men remember a favor!
Even pio lie people sometimes dia*-
agree.
Very few me i sit gracefully in a
Carriage.
If yon would feel good, try to
sleep good.
Idleness is tho cause of half the
trouble in the world.
No decent man wants a drunk
ard hanging around.
Some people are polite to every
body but their frionds.
A favor always aeoms dull when
not granted uheerfully.
To got rich, you must make
money during dull times,
People often pretend to be sur
prised when they are not.
You are badly mistaken if you
think everybody,knows you.
The long face that a man wears
does not mean that he has religion.
You are tho subject of many a
slack remark that you do not de
serve.
If you cannot oblige people in
any other way, you can at least let
them alone.
Some men pay a bill with the
same spirit in which they have a
tooth pulled.
"When some people pay a com
pliment, they look as if they really
expect pay for it.
Y/^e know a man who had tho will
quit smoking, but lacked the
nerve to stay quit.
!' When a man gets mad enough to
stop speaking, it is a sure sign that
he has given under.
^ Many , a man looks sheepish be.
' cause he entertains so many sheep
ish things ia.hie mind.
A said disappointment is to get
V even with a man and he never
&now that anything has happened.
The world haB but little faith in
people who are always going to do
things that are never accomplished
We cannot understand why a man
will go on a drunk when he knows
it will wind up with the bust head.
You can stir up a bitter feeling
in a woman any time by giving her
children a lot of kittens to take
home.
You never increase your popu
larity with a man by telling him,
“I told you so,” when he gets in
trouble.
We always feel a willing iess to
give the road’ when we meet a small
man wearing a fierce mustache and
a plug hat.
You oan have intimate friends
abd always love them, provided you
are separated from them at the
proper time.
In writing up a marriage, be
tjMiUfeful to fix it so it will look well
in a scrap book to the ohildien m
after years.
When a woman follows a guest
to tl$,yfront gate, that doesn’t mean
anything; but it is different when
f man does it.
Whenever a woman is successful
in resisting a man’s attempt to kiss
her,"she begins to lbok upon httn as
the weaker, vessel.
1 he far-off look that some men
give you sometimes means that
they are thinking about a dirty
trick they have ddue.
MARRIED.
Col. W. S. Christian was mar
ried last Thursday to Miss Susie
Harmon, in Chambers county Ala.
A happy marriage ou short notice,
as they had mot but once and that
only six weeks ago.
About the first of April Mr.
Christian had an uncle to die at
West Point, leaving considerable
proportv, and it becomo his duty to
look after the estate. On a busi
ness trip over in Alabann he met
Miss Harmon, a wealthy farmer's
daughter, and the match resulted.
Since he met Miss Harmon, he has
been admitted to the bar, made 100
per cent, in the examination and
was given license during Troupe
superior court to praotioe law in
this state. About that time he
purchased three aores of land in
east Vienna and lot the contract
for a college building which will be
the permanent home of the Dooly
Business College, which he founded
singly and alone only a few months
ago, and whioh is doing a prosper
ous business. No man among us is
fuller of energy than W. S. Chris
tian.
This is Col. Christian’s second
venture in matrimony. He was
married a few years ago to Miss
Bowles at Cottondale, Fla., who
died August 5, 1890, leavmghim
a boy and a girl, who are now in
oharge of their grandmother.
Col. and Mrs. Christian are at
home on Ffth street and are as hap
py a3 they can be.
PICNIC AT KEENS.
There will be a pionio and fish
fry at this place Saturday before
the fourth Sunday in this month.
Evetybody is invited to attend and
bring a basket w^U filled. Don’tj
forget the date, Saturday May 23rd."
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VIENNA WON.
The game of base ball between
Vienna and Fitzgerald Thursday,
resulted in a complete victory for
Vienna. The Fitzgerald boys are
good ball players, but Vienna but
olassed them in every particular.
The features of the game was the
pitohing of Stovall, of Vienna, and
the heavy hitting of the whole Vi
enna team. Fitzgerald only got
two men on third base. The score
was 10 to 0.
With a little more practice Vien
na will be in good form and ready
to meet any team in this part of tho
State.
ARABI SCHOOL CLOSES, j
Once more the pupils, teachers |
and patrons of the Houston Higb
school have drank deep of tho
pleasure of a commencement in
Arabi whioh began Thuisday morn
ing at the Baptist ohurob.
At 3 p. m. the anniversarian ad
dresses of the societies were deliv
ered. First, the Philomathean so
ciety was represented by John R.
Brown, then J. A. Cox Represented
the Sigma Pi Zeta.
After the delivory of the ad
dresses tho present and former
graduates of the school, tho teach
ers and trustees, attended a banquet
given by tho graduates in one of tho
school rooms.
Mr. Will Brown read an excel
lent history of tho class of 1898,
Mias Leola Hatcher of 1901, Miss
Claudia Branen of 1902, and Mr. J.
Cox of class of 1903. Other olasses
wore not represented. Several ex
cellent toasts were given whioh were
ex joyed by all.
After the banquet offloers wore
elected aB follows: Mr. Will
Brown, President. MisB Addie Brau-
an, Secretary; Mr. Howard Norman
to give tho Alumni address next
year and Mr. John R. Brown as
alternate.
In spite of the heavy rains, the
concert at 8 p, m, was well attended
and highly enjoyed
The graduating exeroises opened
at 11 a, m, Friday morn’ng with a
prayer by Rev. White. A sketch
of Sidney Lanier’s life as a man and
as a poet, was then given by the
boys, after whioh his poem, * ‘The
Marshes of Glynn,” was oharraingly
delivered by the girls. They then
sang their olass song, “Fair Arabi,
Dear Arabi.” About two hundred
dollars were given for buildipg the
boys dormitory.
At 3 A 5 , 1 d>, : tivO girls contested for,
two mi&altf ttitifc h£d been offered
W Elooution by parties very muoh
interested in that department of the
JERRY DOTS.
IIX BUNNKK
W. T. STEWART SHOT BOY.
Mr. W. T. Stewart, a bicycle re
pairer and jeweler in Cordele, got
drunk last week, took out his pistol
and said he bet he could hit that
boy. The boy was Willie Willi
ford, about twelve years old who
was abandoned by his parents
in infancy and left in a basket at
the door of a childless home. The
shooting was entirely without cause,
and no excuse is given except that
Mr. Stewart was drunk. The?ball
hit the child on the head or neck but
did,, not produce death and he is,
able to walk aronnd. The man wi
placed under bond and is suffering
mortification from his condhet.i
We did not senda reporter .to in
vestigate the case,, but the above is
school. The contestants were,'Miss
es Mattie Brown, Gussie Hatoher,
Carrie Wooten, Bessie MoGarrah,
and Ida Bacon; The judges award;
od the medals to Misses Bessie Mo
Garrah and Ida Bacon
Mr. James Brown, principal of
the sohool at Oakfield, delivered
the Alumni address whioh. did cred
it to the Houston High School.
The concert was well attended, a
large crowd from Cordele being
present snd greatly enjoyed by all,
After the concert the medals and
scoolarships were awarded. The
successful ones in Elooution have
been mentioned. Miss Addie Bran-
an won the medal in music. The
scholarship to Mercer was awarded
to Mr. John R. Browh and the
scholarship to Monroe to Miss Ida
Bacon.
Just after all the pleasures of
commencement, the teachers and
pupils must experience the sadness
of parting, perhaps never to meet
on earth again. Yet we feel sure
that none will ever forgot the pa
tience, kindness and] bare of their
teachers, the fatherly,pare .apd ad
vice of Prof. Broiyn, and the moth
erly fendbrness df Mrs. and hunt
Fannie Browd,.;' . > i
In a£^ y^rs, vyhen triap.
temptations oonfront them,
will recall th&ftlkii of Prof..>BtO«ttiw
and tile teaohers rj an<ythe gkls^will
frepkll'the advi®^j®M»j^^Wn,
and whatever fiudeesa,. hijy. Imayjlat-
thin in life, we teel sure ttmy. will
possess enough gratefulness to” give
to them their share of the laurels.
. f ft;
The continued rainy weather of
the last week has retarded our farm
work and our farmers are somewhat
behind with their work. It is how
ever, a busy time with us now.
Our crops of all kinds are growing
fast except cotton, it is badly dam
aged by the continued cool weather
and looks little the worst for tho
time of year, of any cotton orop iu
several years. Oats are much bet
ter than we expected them to be,
the reoent rains brought them out
considerably.
Quite a lot of our farmers have
purchased Planet Jr., Cultivators,
of the Watt Harloy Holmes Oo., of
Cordele. This is a marked im
provement for our farmers. We
are getting out of the old ruts and
beginning to realize that tho same
old way is too slow. We are pull
ing stumps, plowing deep, running
cultivators, making the farm pay.
Speaking of the cultivators makes
me think of an amusing little con
versation I overheard between two
of our leading farmers: Have
you bought a cultivator? Asked
tho fat obumpy fellow of tho man
who wore specks. No, said the
other. Well I have and you
know I’m going to do the work of
two plows with one. No, said
the man who wore the glassos, I
have not bought a cultivator, but I
have bought a new mowing maohtno
to out your hay orop that you mako
with, your oultivator. The chat
ohanged from cultivators to a good
hay crop, and from the looksof
things now, I believe both men will
have something to do.
The quarterly conferenbe at St.
Paul Saturday and Sunday passed
off piodlyH There was dihuer on
the ground Saturday for everybody,
and all who attended report a pleas-
ahtwne. ‘PfesidirigErder Morgan
being it home sick, Rbv. Reed, of
Macon, filled his place very except-
ably, he preached two very inter
esting sermons.
Our Sunday sohool at Marrs Hill
continues to improve. The sing- 1 * * *
ing is good. I wish to say to the
parents of this little settlement to
45 looks old to him. He says of a
fellow that calls them young people >
when they get married, “That his
intelligence is excited.” Who ev
er heard of a fellows intelligence
getting excited? I am afraid my
neighbors eye trouble has effected
his brain.
Mrs. Fannie Jennings, of Worth,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Morgan
Peavy.
Marion Moye, of near Sovillo,
visited relatives here Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr. Zeko Ilill, of Tippetville,
attended the singing at Marrs Hill
Sunday afternoon.
1 want to give the soribe of tho
Third district a hearty hand shake
for the kind things said about us
and a rail road for Jerry. See how
fo|ksoff from Jerry, look at Jerry
as a proper place for a rail road
station, and by all means we must
have that road.
TUB RAB111T 01,1111.
Tho weather damp and
Our hoys are having fun,
With their dogs raising old billie;
Futen tho rabbits on the run.
There’s Henry, John and Willie,
Tho dhampionshlp has won
For Flora, Joe, Hamp and Billie,
Put the rabbits on the run.
Our Babbit dubs’ improvin,
The rain And grass oan come;
They keep them dogs a movin,
puten the rabbits on the run,
The rain Just keeps a fallen,
Oh, gimme here my gun.
I hear them dogs a ballin
And the rabbits On tho run.
encourage the boys and girls to at
tend Sunday school. J am ashamed
to say, but it is a faot, that many
of our young boys are out pf Sun
day sohool loafing around over the
woods and creeks Sunday evenings,
in place of going where they could
learn something. I saw last Sun
day six or eight boys, whose pa
rents are good members of our
church, loafing about playing ball.
Now I hope, no readers of these
words will take any exceptions at
this, for it is important fof yiiui
boy, if you sow indifference to your,
children you may expect to reap
trouble by and by.
We had quite a lively game of
ball Saturday evening between the
teams of this place. A good many
spectators were present from off,
and the boys played a gqod game.
My neighbors eyes are troubling
him again!, They fail him in’ all
he sees. ’ 'SonibUmeB they ; magnify
''ind i fl&s ’lbok^hiiffihs hig d#’.ifab-
,y bits; and a* liftlo, ooufctfybnftWP'
puperi looks tergpn thqq ythtfj grqat
t lanta Constitution or Macon Tel-
•old add twisted up.. to his diseased
The Sparta Iskmaelito warns the
newspapers against accepting adver
tising propositions from the Spen
cer Modioine oompany, in whioh the
company dffers tb give the papers
ttfojdozen bottles of medioine for a
certain amount of advertising and
$6 cash. We have, received these
offers repeatedly and evjery one has
gone into the waste i basket without
being answered. The $5, the Ish-
maolite asserts, wbiild give tho
medioine people a profit of $4, and
®nd they would get the advertising
free. A newspaper that will even
answer such stuff is pushed for
something to do.
Excursion to Macon and Atlanta.
The G. S. & F. Ry. will run its
annual oheap "excursion to Maoon
and Atlanta on May 25th. Tho
rate from Vienna to Atlanta will be
$2,50 and to Macon $1. Special
train of elegant coaches, baggage
car and refreshment car filled with
good things to cat, will start from
Jacksonville and Palatka on the
morning of the 25th, and will take
on passengers at all stations up to
Unadilla, Ga. This train will
leave Vienna at 2:45 p. m, arriving
at Maoon at 4:80 p. m, and At
lanta about 8:30 p. m. Tiokets
will allow three whole days in At-
lanta , and Macou. A representa
tive of the G. S., & F. Ry., will
accompany the excursion to look
after the comfort and pleasure of
those on board. As this is to be
an excursion of unusually high
.character many of the citizens and
those, of the surroimding country
Will take, i ad vantage ,of the cheap
p*#'■? -■ y.
Full particulars will be furnished
!>y :#>gent of the Ry.
or Ci OB. Rhodes, General .Passenger
oyes, and .a good looking man of ‘ n, Ga. ' "