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Tho council ib having tbc public
eqt'art dressed off-
Mrs Hardy Brown is visiting
relatives in Elko.
Tuesday was memorial day and
the banns were closed.
Senator and Mrs Crum of Cordele
spent biinday In Vienna,
The teachers held their monthly
meet fug here Saturday.
Mira Bertha Leonard returned
borne Sunday from Montezuma,
Tho young folks are enjoying their
tennis ground near the courthoouse.
Miss Vannio Stovall has beeu
bavii g a serious spell of fever for a
week.
Miss Nell McCall spent Sunday
in Cordele with Miss Mary Lee
Pound.
The Vienna Cotton Oil company
is adding a machine shop to its
liusiucHs.
Tv qni) -five persons wore baptized
into the Baptist church at Arabi
Sunday evening.
John P Lilly has gone to Tampa,
Fla., to keep books for the Citizens
;Bauking & Trust oompany.
Jud.'o J li Woodward was
honored with a visit Sunday by Mr.
;P L P Peacock of Unadilla.
Chief ol Police L It Hobbs is
,boarding this week while his wife'
=aud baby are visiting in Albany.
John li Barliuld was driving a
-fine hovMj around town Saturday.
Rev J E Wray will preach the
commencement sermon for tho
Cordele logh school on 3ra Sunday
in May.
Oscar Mclviii/.ie put on afresh lot
Of oologno Sunday aud wont to
Cordelo to spond tho evening.
Monday he looked pleasant all day
and iH smiling yet.
The mayor of Cordelo has ordered
all dugs kept off of tho streets or
muzzled. A mail dog at largo
oaiiscd the order.
A lumber ear on the A & B was
afire when it ran into Montozunin
tho other day, and the water tank
did good scrvioe for it.
The singing at tho Baptist ohuroh
Sunday evening sounded like tho
good old times in the oountry
before so much style got hold of us.
Conductor E D Brown, son of
our townsman Mr Hardy Brown,
got hiB foot mashed a* Tifion last
Thursday and will lie off of duty
for a fey weeks.
Tho pnmic, low nock dress and
Ernest Stovall returned home
Sunday from a New York medical
college where he has heeu studying
pharmacy. He made a good record
in tho college and made the highest
per oent of any in his class.
Former President Maohen has had
the B & B railroad placed in t.ie
hands of araoeiver for an aooount
of $1,200, which is about the value
of a quarter of a mile of track It
will net at all effect tho buflines" <-f
tho B & B or the A & B.
RICH WO'IL> ITEMS.
The lire in the mill ground ha* i
been burning all liie week mitt still
uuiuiduos to burn.
The ram this uuv nlug was verv .
rot resiling to the crops and gardens.
Services were conducted here In,-,!
week uy Rev. W. 11. Masset ol
Ashbiirn * fa. lie wit appreciated
in noli. v\e were all very orry to
see him le;> e
Mr W. .1 tael;.-on < wW
from a severe •burn ■ t
March zephyrs at
Flhy n
Tte annual cc obration of the, ror.mted la,--. week during .helin
Independent Ordef Of Odd Fellows Mr am)
was observed Tuesday night i>> ti.o 1 lriomi|( , l0r<J | ;4gl £
Fitzgerald lodge and other lodge-
were invited to attended. 1 he
following members of Vienna huge
attended: Ed Howell, O M Heard,
L F Coxo, L R Hobbs, J G Boat
Rally
! M .-I V ng’« Luo Johnston
, a wen 10 Cordelo last veek. I
j M i-rt Ida Mathews Vistied relatives
nero ; mui-ia,, aud Sunday.
wick and H D Smith.
Rip Van Winkle, played .m
Charles King and his ooinpauy ■
Heard’s opera bouse Friday nigh',
was a good play aud well ptesemed.
The returning home of the hero
after his supposed sleep of 20 vears
in tho mountains was so touobi ig
that eyes in tho audience were
bedimmed with tears.
The friends of W K Forehand
say they are gob g ter elect him
jnetioeof the peace at the- rtext
general election. Mr Foreland 1 was
a candidate-four years ago and'was
defeated by a small majority.. Hie
is a good farmer of the PI earnin'
Valloy settlement, 1ms a level load
and is highly esteemed by his follow
citizens.
We are gmd that there are >
1 more new i-nres ot meat-els and the
ilea people are ail boner.
Mm. M. M. Johnson is making
preparation for the closing exercise
C*f the school.
A certain candidate was audacious
rough house with the human race.
It's their delight in sportive play
To roll a fat man's hit away.
No parasol Is built so stout
But they oan turn It wrong side out.
To earn thetr pay they feet they must
Fill both your eyes with tons of dust.
Then they will round the corner go
And give your ears the overflow.
fit Is a point with them to blow
Contrary frotn the way you go.
And If you take a backward track
They always meet you coming book.
They twist your muffler all awry
And tear a garment on the sly.
And what they do to women'e clothes
Is qult<) a scandal, goodnese knows I
Their early training was not right
Or they would sometimes be pollto.
f wish they'd chase themselves away
Bo wo could have the winds of May.
Rad a Bright Side.
“Lt^. is iidt worth living. Tho only
girl In t!V fWWH has turned me 4?pwn.”
“Cheer Jman. It might b«
worse.” j, ,
“I don’t see htW'
“She might have fltorriisj you."
More EipefttiW.
"Poor man, ho died of
heart"
i PERT PARAGRAPHS.
» ■
ItRs hotter to bo born rich than good
looking in these days, when thoro Is a
beauty doctor in every block.
Some men would go to bed earlier it
sleep cost'money.
It is very rude of burglars to walk
right Into a house without first sending
up their cards.
Winter has but one good point—It
makes us appreciate spring.
A politician and his passes aro not
easily separated.
When provisions run short In a be
leaguered city, da they cat tho dogs of
war?
A girl’s heart may be in tho right
place and still he made of marble.
(Somehow a man d°® 8 not ° n Joy
Strapping ° n the girl’s skates hnlf us
muen wheil he has boon married to her
for two or throe years.
T-nanese aro vegetarians. Bear meat,*
hiivover, “l'P eal8 t0 them “I al)0Ut
right.
Old shoosMtro x>ot nearly *o CoB»f° rt -
a bVbkcn nbl ° ,f r°'» can’t iKerd new ones.
Some mea would iwa. te8t , against the
enough to send a heu of bear to tems
tls."
"He must have boon poor or th« doe- 1 to drive
If* would have called It append*!- , “j'!?* tJn that It
The Athletic Handsfuk*.
i like- an honest handshake,
itichwvui. Wo aro all glad he was
defeated. Somo of the men who
drank of the horrid stuff wouldn't
vo c for bin, but wo have one-man
in our town who had grit enough' to
say, No, w)•*» inviten to jo?* with
tho party who made swine of thorn 1 -
selves.
iSon-.u of tho pcopic from here
i a* tended memorial services at
Shiloh. , _.
I xbu meet
W. t u good wishea'for the ProgreM WhcieWords are soft, and nice;
n “ In sore distress lest yau won t guess
I am your friend. Pansy. 1 Bis grip is Uke n vise:
out the horse for tho rwiv n .
Wiflilld fearo mows Oats to 1* A. nu
irhtfkfnet food.
tootief will ncfwmpllah most’
grip—
An earnest graze that hen W lay an egg.
by Its clasp ^ _
B J t * ,na comma*- p or j,jjpa a girl feels' that her money
But when a feStow will go farther In buyfdfcf n dtlko thaft
reaches out In purchasing nn Ameltostn. It will'
Tb'‘mush^you/tSi tten B ° to Enro P°-
Into a pulp.
Thule where I draw
the line.
a dumbbell Swinger,
Thu second annual Intor-HigH'
School Oratorical contest wns held’
at Tifton Friday night, and t,he-j, u ANTED—: JSVKKA J. INBUS'J’ltl
prize won by Miss Bessie McGarrnh, i'Ws -V«>ne n ou«b at te to trsvn' ‘or
. t, . ri . i Ivon s» *u l liihed elevon veers end with *
a student in the Houston High n. rt ,„ rapita) to call upon murt-bante aqtl
nts tor successful
Permanent engagem
-UIO Hi
d pro#-, a bio line-
Weekly ?ush
wtle-y nf muT an • paveii-" ,zpeiw.-
.<no "oct. bins advance . .n u« !i -inch '.sol.
Rti r-ri t -c li. t arsoniin! Mention refer-
ii' i-Hfld eppiose self-addressed erreii
v .: K NATIONAL. .18” JR-arborn
Chicago*
§t.
school at Aralri. A year ago the
contest wus hold at Sparks, r -id
Miss EllaBacon, also of the Houston
High school, \yon the meilal. The
students of Pi-of. Lawson E Brown
sonin always to bo successful. The
reason is, thoy aro prepared Dooly
will lose a good toaoher when Prof.
Brown goes away.
Mr Thomas J- Ct x,..tgo about >0.
died Saturday morning:at his home
three miles east of town, He was
truly a man of aliiiotion an t
aoqnanted with grief. He lost his
good wifo two years ago, was loft
with five ohildren andwas overtakon
hy ifiliation aboul the same tune
Hie companion gone, five dear little i asoctsoge th* Rttle Emm fisc iwourlty,
children fo care for and; almost an
invalid at tho same time, lot
happy he appeared and contentod
with his lot while struggling for a
livelihood. lie was a son-in-law of
Ibid a liberal education for a; man, to
know when not to butt In.
With, -some people the lawyer- has
takes the place of the prieab oo-father
•avfseeor.
Ib would be much harder to>plck out
a great man from the herd If. ho were
separated from bis clothes.
There, ie.this advantage about; bor-
Tou with you had a pistol;
To make him underataYffl
That lator on In life you want
To uso that good right hand.
Mu puts an nmple pressuro
Until with-pain you scream
Athd dunce and squirm, bst-lie h'vids firm
And turns on extra steam/-
Sow you would llko to soek hlm;
A blow between the ayetr,
If ho were uot of such a build 1
And mere than twice yo. ■- size.
I don't-mind-from a lady
Au absuntmlmlcd squeeze,
with half o. show I wlilspe».tow>'
“A ffttle l.ardw, plgtse."
But when a bolterai*or
My troubles v/oum ^ncr«e 80
By making mince meat of tny ktmdl
I call ifor- the polloo.
How They Grow.
My gracious, ho-J» the clill).’
dren grow!
Thu see them p>Vy about
your knee
As back and forth Irt-garinssf
tl.kflf go,
OC t-roulilo and of Worry"
free-.
You e- v away and oome
agalik.
And, lo, tho little tots '«>*■
men!
Bren Worse.
“It is intolerable the traj| Jack Frost
pinches.”'
“Cheer up; It might be a qjolloeinan.’*
Upon Aour kneo when
she Is small
You fondle some
dear little miss.
1 As though by inaglo
she grows toll
And quite too dlg-
nlflod to hiss—
I Unless the right man
| should! appeur
l And sho- wore sure
; nono W.'io were,
near.
Bdu listen-to the childish talk.
Of some bright, Interesting lad.
depund tbo-block you tpks a- walk,
Oema bado-hsta quite os longs as dog 11
And all of twenty times as sage
An sons mea more than twice-bis age,-
MswUig trouble—one Is not obliged to with fishermen I believe they are
gpod foofti. fne the Imagination.'
To-make tho thing emphatic,'-trouble
usually comes O. O. D.
rcl bug scitHon will be open its somi, , , „ ,
-hi tho Eg*tor weather is over. We lh ° la J 0 , ? ufus Lane » a, * d j* 18 ohlld ’
ron will bo care<1 for Surely he
will be happier in Leaven tban if ho
had had no hardships on earth.
saj« Easter because it remains so I
cool.
J D Taylor is a good business
man, but ho does not always hit tho
nail on thohoad. Consequently ho
has a thumb done up in a rag and is
holding it oarefuliy, tho result ot a
blow with a hammer.
Th'e cotton orop of Dooly county
for five years, aocording to the
government report, is as follows:
year
Bales
1800
18,405
1000
22,405
1001
22,120
1002
27,003
1003
25,102
UNDERTAKER
Leave orders at Progress office
for coffins, Caskets, ana robes
Deposit tho amount you wish to
invest in an outfit, and I will send
the best and liloest that the money
will buy and Ship it on uext train.
'Coffins from $3 to as high as you
want LAMAR GRAY.
1 1 Macon, Ga.
HEEL Marble Co., Ma-
l Cordele, hare the largest
i for prioes
English, creditors do not view, with
alarm, the marriage of their royal
duksa to common, though wealthy,
American girls.
Tha-wages of sin Is not Infrequently
a job in the city hull.
Soma-people take a hint an seriously
a* though ft were a riot sot
ZION HILL NEWS
Rev Royuoids attended his regular
appointment together with Rev.
Wilson and Conner, at Zion Hill
3rd Sunday.
A large crowd attended the sing
at Ziou Hill last Sunday and all
seemed to enjoy themselves. |
Mr. aud Mrs. Lewis Powell are j __ . . . . . . ..
. , .... When tempted to drown trouble, re-
spending a few days with tbeir | member tb&t it wears a life Boeserver.
daughter Mrs Edna McSwaiu near
Arabi. | Frequently the face of the- trans
gressor Is scarred.
Some of tho farmers in this
section have not planted cotton yet,
Never try to know more- tbaij: the.
Help Ijl One Line.
"Do ycsMbellofl that fish are* brain
judging timn talks I he** had { try taMU H* ? ur *> b8
, ITT . wo arenaads by cruel fata
~ “ ‘ “ “ Book namber*.an<l quits out oL'llte.-
Tea, they evnw up before our -flres.
And whllo ws think they are-at playv
Tboy come anund to our aurpcMs-
Thc PiUte Dun.
Of all foUinvords of tongue and pi
The swsstest words are—ait—
Suppose you -owe a fallow ten—
"Pieoaw remit."
Tho galHiuc.lronw of "Please"—
Hypocrtay'sjowV stamp—
kltnays ypu more than words tills,tihsso:
••Fay iqp.rsu scampi"
ou woult
WoA cu
Cif Thor
You
V
Or
ouUln't mind K If the not*,
curt and even rude,
aaticy fellow wrote!
’Faw OB-bs. sued,"
Suspicious,
“Enutua^you are charged with: steal-
lag a chicken.- What have you, to say
1» defense t”
'T am afraid, boss, dat it dome look
Uke a nigger l'n do fence.”
A Drop ol Ink..
One modest little drop of Ink
A doubting man may bites
When ho Is standing on tha brink
If lb says "Yes."
Bute It may brine him anguish deep.
His happiness o'orthrow.
And give him c&ifee to make the leap
if It says “No."
and somoare just planting. Forward goiae t0 ,eav * you WOIley
planting that is up is not doiDg well
in consequence of the continued
cool windy weather.
Mrs Retta Pittman has the finest
snap beans in this seotion; they are
knee high and full of blossoms.
Mr. B. S. Pilkinton lost a fine
mule Saturday night.
Cotton Planter.
A pretty girl’s picture never dees hen
justice, to hear her tell It. ,
Often the father of Uee feels that he
has a rival when a man Is trying to
explain to hla wife where he waa the
night before.
Happy to the man who has a rod'
bended girt fon the light of hla Hfo.
Politeness does not cost any
and It sometimes makes people
THE MoNEEL Marble Co., Co ed to charge you.
dele, Ga., foi prioes and designs or , , . “ , . ..
,, ’ " . .in experienced fool Is the moat <
Monumental work. tf. asperating object on earth.
Evidence.
“Dees Judge Oflscker believe In a
future state?”
“k guess so. He has mowed to one of
the territories for the purpose of be
coming onp of- its first senators."
When a man- Is intoxicated with a
woman’s beauty the gold cure treat
ment may sober-him up.
The Liteki:.
Tho haughty.- savage
nation
Dwelt proudly- tn
their testa-.
That looked: like all
creation
And a nulled; Uke
thirty audits,
Gculdn't Stop the Balts,
“It Is said: to be Impossible tn.capture,
by storm u position fortified with mod-,
ern guus.”
“No one has. gone at It right A.
charge b>r an. army of bowlcgged men,,
should be effective."
Hi* Finish.
Be thought that crooked work '
And lightly looked on crime.
Once he woe doing every one.
But now he’s dohw tt-ne.
Hi* Qm Rv*Oure*-
borrow tposuble, my
dear
“Don’t
man.”
“j assure you I wouJd.O’t ft I could
borrow anytbtdg *!**.«
to the Left.
Hie vo|ce, which made the Hefner flee.
Rasped- like a crosscut saw.
Be couldn't learn to elqg In 0,
And so hs *ivn# in Jmw,
TAe. His Word For It,.
Oh. It wUl, he cool In 6t. Louie
In June-when you go to.the fair,
About Uke a day in November.
So bracing, and wlneltke the air.
WUl be. you will need your fall wear,-
Except In, the heat of the day—
That’a what the preee agents any.
July, though, accustomed: to aizzle,
This year wfil be pleasant and cool;
The men who. la looking tor sunstrokes
Wilt meet with' a-neat April fool.
Fur moderate weather- will, rule
Because if a. been ordred that way—
That'S What, the preee. agent* say.
Yfhftn, August comes round In Its glory,
sightseers, heed not be afraid
That tt will he hot os Old Barry-
One hundred and two hi the shade.
For different arrangements were mad*
Beforo It waa yet under w*y--
Ybafs prew agents ear.
Then qow't t5 >« weathep.
The temperature's bound to be low.
Bp pick up yo.w wives an d your babies
And tola them off down to the.ehow.
perhaps on?e a week tt will snow:
Then you can glide round in a sleigh—
Thhfl WhU the^preak sgentji gap. "