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Plums arc getting ripq. Cotton has at last taken a start to grow. The Fanner are neaping the oat crop. The farmers generally are up, with their work. Cordele had her annual pionio at the campground Friday. Great preparations are being made for soldier* re-union at Byromville on the 2nd of July. The tax books dosed Tuesday and it was a busy day with Receiver Brown. Every article of food raised in this section is wantod at a good price. Surely the farm is the surest place. The excursion train from Fitzgerald to Anderson ville went through Vienna like a blue streak. P. S. Wo didn’t go. Pleasant Vellay had a gathering last Friday that was equal to any that ever was at that place; and the ooeasion was one of the most pleas ant. There will be a meeting of the Odd Fellows in the Masomo hall Friday night at 8 o’clock. Let oveiy member bo present and adopt by-laws, The Cordele Sentinel is applying for charter. Editor Charles Jackson Ship is doing a good work and publishing lots of good reading matter. There was a heavy rain at Findlay Saturday night, a light one at Vienna and not at all at Richwood. Since then the rain has been quite general. - Vienna had her annual pienio at the park Thursday and had as nico a time as you ever saw. The day was tine and the dinner likewise. Lots of people were there und they really enjoyed it. Tho goo ! old summer time is here. lie who said ho would got warm one time if summer over did oonio again can now bnsk in tho beautiful rays of noon time to his heart’s content if it does not blister. The trustees and tenters of tho Dooly oampmoeting are called to meet at the campground at 10 o’clock on tho 8th day of Juno. A good oampnicoting is expected tins year. A negro named Jim Baugh, from Leslie, was shot at Coney Saturday night in an out house but refused to die. The r;ame of John Hendricks is connected with the gun, and there was a woman in the case for them to full out about. .A letter from the colore t school it Beautiful Dell, three and a calf miles east of Vienna, says that school of-IT pupils closed on the 27lb of May with uu exhibition, mid that the trustees are well plcasod with tho results of the school. Tho next union sing will be at Snow on the second Sunday J uue. To Snow is a good place to go. That we all know for we’ve found it so. Preparations are being made for a big dinner and lots of good; singing. Two invitations to dinner at the pionio Thursday weicsent up to this office in the early morning, brightening up-the anticipations of the day. Suoh kink remehibrahoes to those who havo no one to prepare dinner for suoh occasions are always appreciated, and the neglect otthem always brings sadness, and causes one to remain at home. That Throbblie: Headache. Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King’s New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless' merit for Sick and) Nervous Headaches. They wake 1 pure blood and build up your health. Only 26 cents, money baok if not cured. Sold by Vienna Drug Co. Judge DL Henderson went to Macon yesterday. Tho mcasels is in town and you better not catch cold if you havo it. ■ Miss Lilia May McDonald is visiting Miss Ethel Hall in Cordele. Mr. John Warren, in the 8th distriot, age about SO, died Sat urday Miss Bertha Leonard is off to North Georgia and North Carolina for a few weeks LitUe George Mobley is spending the week with his grandfather at Byromville. Miss Mabel whidden, of Cordele, spent Saturday eveniug and until Monoey morning with Miss Minnie Cole. Harmony had a big Sunday soltool celeb mtion Friday, Saturday, an d Sunday , bat we have not had a report of it. Robert Key, a negro preacher was put in jail last night for some crooked dealings about a bale of cotton. Rev. P. G. McDonald ownea ooraer lot in Cordele opposite the union depot, upon which ho expects to erect a handsome two-story next fall. Rector H T W alden will hold sorvioes at the Episcopal churoh in Vienna next Sunday afternoon at 6 o’clock Lot a good crowd attend. Wiilie Morgan, a yohng white man from Cordele, is in jail for forging a $16 note on Crum & Jones and trying to pass it off on W. H Tripp. A big pile of briok is on D. B. Thompson’s property at the depot, and you need noe be surprised at a large two-story nouse goes up on the corner. John W McLendon was here Monday from the 14th district. John is.a good farmer and deserves much credit for what he has ao- complishen in life. J B Folds, the singing man, waa hero Tuossay telling how much he enjoy cd the sing at L’berty Sunday, and what a nice time he expects at Snow on the second Sunuay. The negro who wrote a vulgar, profane and obscene letter to onrse out the city eourl and its ofticiels was iudictcd by the Federal grand ]i ry in Macon last week. Lots of peoplo write things that would put thdm to shame if thoy saw it.in print. Dr. W M Haslam of Pinehnrst look tho train here Monday morning for Alabama to visit a brother and a siok niece. The young lady has been sick for quite a whilo and sbo wanted her uncle from Georgia to prescribe for her, file doctor will be none only this week. Col. D. A. K. Crnm annoucces tnat he has a tine cabbage patch and will give freely to all - poor people who apuly for them. We realize more and more bow numb we lost when Crum moved away from Vienna, for it is ten miles irdin hero to his cabbage patch. Mr. Alvin Greene and Miss Elethia Sims were married by Rev. B. E. Whittington at Marvin churoh Sunday at 11 o’olook. Mr. Greene is the eldest, son ot our county sobool commissioner. Miss Sims is a daughter of Mr. J T Sims of Richwood. The couple left on the noon train for Fargo where Mr. Greene has a position in the railroad office. Driven to Desperation. Living at an out of the way place remote from civilization, a family is often driven to desperation in case of accident, resulting in Burns, Cuts, Wounds Ulcers, etc. Lay in a supply of Buoklen’s Arnica Salve. It’s the best on earth. 25c, at Vienna Drug Co. THE STATE CONVENTION The state convention of the democratic party of Georgia met in Atlanta on ihc 1st day of June. The four delegate* to the National convention at St. Louis in July are J W Maddqx^of Floyd. Jas. M. Smith, of Oglethorpe. Jas. R. Gray, of Fuliou. - C. R. Pendleton, of Bibb. They are instructed to vote tor Parker for president. GOUT SPRADLEV AGAIN Again Cout Spradley is in Vienna jail. He spent a season within the walls for being connooted with Bnd Dow-ning in the killing of Dr. Joiner four years ago. Mr. Spradley came very near being sent to the ohatngang for it. Tne jury wanted to convioti him with a sentence of five years, but rather than to send him np for twenty th:y turned kira loose. That case did not make the Christian of him that it might, and he was still an uglycitizen. to .som» of biS’neighbors One thing lie did was to beat an old man so unmer cifully that the grand jury got after him and he hit the grit. He was rounded up in Texas last week and Deputy Lee Sheppard loft Saturday for tho Lone Star state to escort Mr. Spradley back homo, lie will bo given i hearing at tho court for an assault with a hoc on a help- mss old man. , HOUSE BURNED The dwelling bouse occupied by Mr. Cobb Melton was burned Sat urday nignt about 10 o.'clock. It re not known how the tire started, but it was in the roof. No tire had been aoout the house smoe dinner was oodked on tho stove. Two children, Luellon and Walter, were in the house asleep and alone, the rest of the obildren being off in the country and Mr. Melton over in town." The door was broken in and the two children aroused from their slumber and saved, probably, from death in the flames, as they were sound asleep when the housetop was ready to fall in- Only a few things were saved,-not more than a one horse wagon would carry at a load. NEGRG KILLED AT ARABI Speer Sims at Arabi had nothing to feel especially thankful for Sunday morning, and he stuck something in that hip pocket and went ddwn to tne depot.wherj. Jim King, another negro, was hanging around the crowd. Having a little grudgo agalnstKingaboutatrikinga younger brother, Speer whipped out that hip pooset trick and fired King down. There is now one King less and Speer is getting free Doard with tho .county. Speer was a railroad negro and King waa a farm hand with M. J. Mikael! REFRES11M EN T PRIVIL EG 15 At 10 o’clock before ilie courthouse door, in Vienna next Tuesday will hp sold to the highest bidder ex- olrs'.ve privilege of selling rolresh- ruents at the re-union of Confederate owned by his mother. Veterans at Byromville on July 2. W II BYROM. M P HALL. Commute UN’A DILL A HOTEL BURNS The Duncan house at Unadilla caught lire in an upper room Sunday evening and burned ('own. It is not known how tho tire stasicd, but it did its work. The house was managed by Mr. C C Duinau and The building was '-allied at $4,000 and insured for $3000, and the furniture was insured for $800."! Another re to be built at once SING AT LIBERTY Your humble servant spent Sun day where all the prisoners would like to be—at Liberty. Being at Liberty is a great privilege,' but the privilege of a day at liberty on an occasion like that of last Sunday enjeyed not often. t A union sing of the classes con ' poking the South Georgia Musica >> convention was the occasion so much eujoyed by a few hundred people at that taored place of worship. Dinner was there in abundance ana it was free to all, a goneral onvitation being extended. Every time you go to Liberty, when dinner is to be served, you will get a square meal of the best rations the county supplies. Good people live in that community and they love to havo their friends go among them. Liberty is a Missionary Baptist okuroh that was established among the pines when tho wild deer grazed peacefuUjHir the broad expanse and the bear felt at nome »« he /prowled tor miles and miles without.scenting a human being. At tbat aaored place Sunday we traced the ohureh baok three quarters of a century and aid not find when it was established Mr Byrd Peavy could toll us that his grand-mothar ipoved to tbat settlement 76 year's ago and jo.’ned that church The grave yard has a wire fence around, it, it ib cleaned off onoe a year, has lots of flowers blooming to the sweet memory of many who arc gone, and handsome tombs mark the place of this and that goon citizens who was useful in a day gone by. ' We admire the spirit of the members of tbat ohnroh in bolding to the old place of worship and not scattering up and down the line when the railroad came through. PLANT’S INSURANCE In the willof the late R. H. Plant it is specified that more than thr a quarters of a million dollars of his insurance money is to go to his creditors. His total insurance was $1,015,000, and $760,000 was made to his estate. Those who put money in his banK will get it divided among tnem. The wife and chiidron oi Banker Plunt refuse to accept for themselves any qf the money set j aside for his creditors, ami say it must go as far as ic will toward paying his obligations. RESIDENCE OF B. P. I O.il.ES ON’ CHURCH STREET. -3 ! iSf-V* rWW? t*rr~L -C~- -. I'^x^ : Hats for Men and MOSELEY MERCANTILE CO. Vienna, Ga. News comes from Wilcox county tbat Miss Bello Carden, of Hatley, fell dead at Union Springs church, Heart disease had been troubling the girl for some time. She was in company with, other "girls and going to the spring when she fell. In t\> relation comes fidim Pinlyiew ten miles from Hawkinsville, that Mr. Blue, the town marshall, was killed by a negro Saturday morninfi while making an arrest. Robert M. McLr.ve, mayor ot Baltimore, c'.fmmiti'ol suicide Monday by shooting himself turough the hea l. lie had been married two weeks. Farmers, get the Scrapo Adjuster and save heelpins ana money. J E De^aughn, Montezuma. Start ins Evidence Fresh testimony in great quality is constantly coming, in, declaring Dr. . King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Coldi to be uuequaled. A recent expression from T. J. McFarland, Bentorville, Va. serves sis example. He writes: “i had Bronchitis for three years aiirl dectored all the lime .without being benefited. Thou I began taking Dr. King's New Discovery, and a few bottles wholly cured me.” Equally effective in curing all Lung and Throa troubles, Consumption, Pneumonia and Grip. Guaranteed by Vienna Drug Co. Trial bottles free, regular sizes 50c, and $1,00.