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p Local Items. $M ©OOOOQOQOGOQOQGQOOOOQOOQQQ Douglas must pull for herself, no other town will help her. Mr. C. O. Du Vail will go over to Homerville, during court ween. Surety bonds, standard rates, from Mark A. Candler, Agent. Cashier Geo. McCranie, of the Willacoochee Bank, was over here last Monday. Accident insurance, the old re liable Travelers of Hartford, Mark A. Candler, Agent. Mr. J. H. Moore offers a six room, two story house for sale, cheap. See the advertisement. For Peanut and Taffy candies, Soda Water, Ginger ale, etc., go to Vickers & Lott. Mr. R. G. Kirkland, of Nichols, was in town last Monday, and gets the'news through the Breeze right on. Life insurance, the old reliable Penn Mutual, from Mark A. Can dler, Agent. Judge C. J. Meadows, of Pearson, and Col. B. T. Allen, of the same place were here last Monday. Fire insurance, S. E. F. A. rate, from Mark A. Candler, Agent. Remember, now is the time to have your picture made. We are making low price work for a few -days. DuVall Studio. “Home Raised Rust Proof Seed Oats, for sale. Applv to E. B. Moore. Broxton Ga.” The Douglas Breeze is the oldest as well as the best paper ever published in Coffee county and will continue to be. Cyclone insurance socts. for SIOO. from Mark A Candler, Agent. Col. W. I. Dickerson, of llo merville, Clinch county, was danc ing attendance on the ordinarie’s .court this week. Miss Bertie Dixon will be at the DuVall Studio during Mr. DuVall’s absence If our people who have money to invest would look around and get up some manafacturing enter prises there would be no let up to the growth of ;he town. Remeber the DuVall art Studio is making Photographs to please the people. Come in and look at the pictures. Now, we hope our people will nie et Judge Joel Sweat at the court house Monday, prepared to make some arrangement for the county exhibit at the fair. The very best buggies on the market, at the same prices that others are sold, are at Flowers & Whilden’s, Douglas, Ga. Mr. J. E. Peterson, of Leliaton, was here this week. We sorrow to see him in so much grief because of the recent death of his wife. God help him in this hour of af fliction. 'When ever it comes to good, as well as nice job work this is the place to get it. Shoddy stuff and poor work don’t go in this office. Mr. E. D. Brinson, of Homer ville, a prominent merchant of that ’ place, was in town Monday •on legal business, and also came around to secure the Beeeze for the •Campaign year. Tanners church meeting conven ed yesterday and will continue until Sunday night. Baptising Sunday morning at 10 o clock. Every body invited to come and enjoy the services. It is well known that the Way cross lawyers look foward to the coming of superior court in Lot fee county, with pleasurable antic ipations of good, square meals. They will be here next week. J r TVT* Air Iv. G, Kirkland, of Nichols, was in town last Monday and Ut an order for SIO.OO worth Job ■printing and an order for the Breeze , 5t this office. Kirkland has a long. head with sense in it, and knows a of two. thank yon. ’ A three-year-old boy was lifted ''a . he bed-ide this week to get his drit glance at new-comer 11. . ’ oty home. Aite*- .V > - v arrival t. r —__ 1 i v . looks just like Minou s"./ • bv ; he a ny get over it." Porter, the painter, paints houses and signs. See him. H. H. Fielding of Leliaton, is visiting his brother, C. N. Fielding this week. Doctor and Mrs. Montgomery’ are now domiciled at the residence of Dr. W. W. Terrell. Our esteemed friend, John M. Lott, Sr., is having a new roof placed on his house. Remember, the Confederate Veterans meeting at the court house next Monday at noon. Boss Teston, of Nichols, was in town Monday, but was too busy to tell us any news. We are giving some of the greatest bargains in pictures now that has ever been made in Douglas. DuVall Studio. Misses Beulah and Missouri Cady, of Leliaton, visited their sister Mrs. C. N. Fielding, first part of the week. Keep your money in Coffee County! Get your Fire, Cyclone, Life and Accident insurance, and Surety bonds, from Mark A. Can dler, Agent. Yon cant miss getting some thing we will make yo-u glad you come, be sure and call and see what it will be at Mrs,. Turpentine’s court week. Flowers & Whilden deal in small musical instruments. If you need a good banjo, mandolin, guitar or accordeon see them before purchas ing elsewhere. Sheriff Southerland has landed the negro Adams back in jail. It will be remembered that he escaped when Lee Cribb made a break some time ago. Mr. J,no. L. Kirkland, the polite young man that stays in ihe- Post Office, visited his mother Mrs. Mack Kirkland, at Kirkland, this week. * If you have any pictures you want enlarged and framed, bring them to The DuVall Art- S-fcudio. We are doing a high class work and will please you. You may get it for one cent come and see what it is, its worth $16,00, and it is going at, Mrs. S. O. Turrentines. Please remember when in need of a new Sewing Machine that we keep the best grades, and do not charge excessive prices. Come and see them. Flowers & Whilden, Dougl as, Ga. Collector Tim Tanner is hurrying up some additions to his handsome residence, so that everything will be in apple-pe order when the Breeze’s Artita comes around. Pianos and Organs, some of the finest graded instruments we have ever handled, on time or cash terms, are at our store, rear of Citizen’s bank, Flowers & Whilden. The handsome photos of fifteen Douglas residences went to the engraver in a northen city this week, and as many more will leave next Monday. Still, the work goes on. I Work ,Jon the Wadley & Mt. Vernon isfbeing rushed, we learn. It may be sometime before it is j finished tj the river but when it is ccrrjpletejt will be a lever toward : pulling qown freight rates. TL’he editor of the Breeze is unde .-j otyligatitns to Col. Jos. F. Doyle,: S«;cretay of the Savannah Indua*- tufii.il arl Agriculture Fair, Noverat bjer 4 tl 14, for a complimentary t‘ J o thiJgrand exhibition. Mr Charles O. Beauchacap, (Sibbailnan of the Board of Friide, of TJrrfxton, was in town recently and made arrangement for sending out several thousand hand bills ' descriptive of the Country near and |at Broxton. This is the may to build up a place. Col. H. C. McFadieaa, the | popillar and efficient passenger and ; traffic manager of the Atlantic & Birmingham railroad was in town Tuesday, presumably on. railroad business. We hope oe will take I U rTthe matter and give our county jaild town a competitive freight i rite. | / W T e w’sh to notify a!’ people ‘from the country and other places hat we are going to put some 'special bargains on foi court wee!: ana Unit \vc vvui icK&t *•*- nt, . ng them to you, com > come ail - o see. I Mr. & Mrs, S. O, Turrertine, For the Future of Dougras. Wh en the people of Dduglas, as a citizenry, throw their shoul ders-to the wheel, and all push to gether, grand achievements- are possible. Like a queen orv her throne, she sits on the hills?: the fertile lands unro l like a carpsrfc of surpassing beauty, about her, while the rivulets and creeks around her mark out her domains. With ‘the most oomplete natural drainage, good water, salubrious clime tbfcre is no reason why her population should not be doubled within an exceeding, short time. Factories, of almost any kind, would do well here, surrounded with these ad*, an tages, ar.d within a short time, we hope, the shipping facilities wHI warrant their erection. Hard- ! wood is plentiful, why not mans'-: facture wagons and buggies, fruit! crates, axe handles, wheel-barrows; etc. ? Wool and cotton can be Lvtl j in abundance, why would not a j factory to turn it into cloth bc-a! money maker?- Thousands of'j bushels of cotton) seed can be 0 b* 4, l tained, why not manufacture fer tilizers and oil? Superior Court Next Week. The Superior Conrt, October Term for Coffee (County will be id* session next week,, and our friends from all over the- county will be here. Those-in arrears are expected*: to call on us, either at the court.: house or at the office, and if theyv have the money pay us, if not. set*' down and tell us the news. If they* want the Breeze continued all they v havetodo- is to say so. In this connection we desire to inform our -- patrons that we have spent all tear money we have made since we ha .:«<> been here in'fitting up She office co that we could give them a first class paper, which we have donsy. but we inclined to the belief that the Breeze -will be- beSfer in 1904. than ever. As the county and town grows it will keep up with' the increasing demand of the p eopih we shall make the -B'reere bette r arid more readable. We- have al 1 car earthly possessions here, an d 7/e expect to die hera;. brother GMOiTs Work. We have been permitted to :,ee the manuscript of a repo rt: of Brother work ; co -;he Baptist Index, and from it gLan the following : Beside, preaching-aA Doug las two- Sundays in each rrw:»nth, he has organ zed three churches, one mission and three Sunday schools., The Wray raissiom has eighteen members, with a Sunday tschooi of forty attendants-. The- Tanner church has a,fine atriendau ce anti a good i Sunday scifrool. Brcxton chuieh has twenty five ime mbe.w, ;t deed 1 to a fine-161 ota which to build money and subscraptions sufi ci’ent almost to build a chin* h 4Cjx6o>. Gi'jf.sie Baptist cluurch, w ith twenty members has-been? orgaua ized, a Hot haa been donated!, $148..0 o has-been raked to build a; rhurchi and every thing seenrs-prossperousi and smooth The Fsfcllc Taad to? I loujrljs. On acsount of the: heavy- sand esfeds between tlbis place and %ars«n and Wil.aeoocffaee, this s'de aoid jfteyond 'die-ri/ter, quite a lot,-of cot ton thab v.oubd come to thie-po.int goes elso-wheare. With the. cotton also goes tha trade of the,/ people \ who sell or ship it. Tc , renaedy this, lit. (A E. Baker, always- Pok ing out, for the well-fare u: Doiuglas, has circulated a paper rmorug the people- of Douglas, and. gottum up some- money to have this sand-, beddo-d road changed io a* good, bar L clay road. Of comese tibis writ be a>. great advantage tc our hustling towns, will bring new business to our clever merchants .aid vve shall sco new faces on our streets. We 1 ope the work will be done at once. The man who compares the , patronage of a newspaper to that I of a grocery or general merchan ! disc house does so without a second thought. About twenty five out of a hundred read newspapers and every body uses general merchan dise. C? ’oV6*s Tasteless 3 the tc:b 25 y sars. Avers AvrurZ C eJ~- .. c vet ' 7 Br r :' | fenclost-d with Wti'j hsiafc is a Tea package of Crove .. Koc-h ' y W&trts Boogfas BoniF Mr. J.. M. liVent, Mayir Kosn and otherst'have received’ several applications- from northern capi talists who arty anxious to secure the whole output of the E ohglaa Water V cfks- ami Electric Light! Bonds, an i when: the bon is - * are issued, therefore,, there be little or no ‘'difficulty in plating them at a fair'advantage. This- is another pn of that Douglas has a gilt-edge reputation in the iiAwn cial circles, brought on by the unanimous vote of her citizen uvfor substantial i mprovements. South dddrela Fair. A meeting will be held in the Court house at) Dbuglas, during the noon reccis-of .‘-Hip'erior Court, immediatel alter dminer, on Mon day the 12th instant, to arrange for a county and individual ex mb its of agricultural products, live stock, etc., from Coffee county, at' the South Georgia Fair, to be held at Waycross, 1 ifiv. iwtei 14, 19 to compete for premiums and ad vertise the advent ages-off the comi ty ts> home seekers and! investors. Let every body attend- said meat img. This Oct . -sth, wjesg. All t l 4 New- These are busy times. A imei of business, rror thcr farmer or | mechanic has t ine to- pass hall k< day now in gutting' the news* The Breeze dichtes it tap in short ; paragraphs for ; quick readings. The State news is in short, criap*j paragraphs, to bte re-ad in a few! moments, while you will find tlrfe j local! matter in the sum® palatable; j readable shape. Most off our reader* j close to post ofiioiesv take the city j papers and are posted on general • news, but many* do mot, conse quently we publish- some general: news, but in a condensed . for:’** Board of Trade for Dousrlas- The Breeze bas-repeatedly urgyii’ the people andlmerchaints of Doug las to organize seine means of co operation for transacting business which affects thte* interests of/Jne town in any manner, but so far,, without success. There seems to be a lack of push,, indifference in this matter-of organization v. our citizens. This should not be. As long as thisdtvsts the material advancement CfrDouglas is at the mercy of coroomtions, and tiiere will not be united action for the achievement cL a single purpose. Let’s have a Board of Trade to 00k after the interests of the towr and county, for whatever affects oaie touches the othar. * A 1 Tx©y Trio. Mr. W. RFlowers has nadeJ 'application to-us for terms fotd instructions 0:11 the Cornet. . d-soiS arrived last wask and has a strong pair of lungs. Tm Robert 1. tts, wears nev/ IfjH pants, shoes "tuf socks. TT. >v. boy and hi::, wiother are ,-R! ■ Dr. W. L. Bryan w:|SHH know if we t-.t .1 an enginetjHHj pressman. LEe tliinks !iv will fill the bilk '9 Cheap Pricer Uiit «ot Cheap ffhtare ™ Look at ’be low prices <:n Itioto graphs from-'Oct. joth to 'f<ov. Ist. ! One half Cal tet Bize, (i pictui'-e for SI.OO. One half Cat. ifcerSj/.e, 12 i»ieu: t* ■ r sl. />. I Lar(re Cabii .‘m.S&K, 0 pictura* i - $1.50. I Large We are.-alossng out o r summer gtock of materials ai d cards in order to :ivaKe room i ,f our new winter 1 ae of materials that will be here November ist. Remember these ann-fch at greatest bargains- in Photographs that lias ever beau offered in Douglas. Come now and ha va your made. Yours.to Please, Tan DuVau. Krt Studio, Douglas, to a Know What gt*a Are Taking. When you take Grove’s Tasut ■-„s ! Chixl. Tonic, because the form.-.da is plavjiy printed oa every bottle, snow ing that it is sin»y>,y Iron and g sin hr. in a tasteless forsc. No Cure., No Pay Mccure of Smyrna A-s&MiatiH . The -ext session of. •Srnyrn.i^fc.’jfe sociatiea* will convene at Li^BrJ church, one mile from .Nichols, Friday before the qtf.L Sundayffß October next. It is- hoped' mRj churches-will be represented,'iinßj that the- public generally will attend. Some fine sermons are exß pected from distinguished brethren® that will lie present. Doth o f Mrs Me "tier. Mrs. Miriam Merrier,! whose sickness commenced * last! Sunday night week, di-ftdi last Fri-i slay night about midnight;. October! oaad. She’ was stricken with’ paralysis, September aMh,. and in sopite of all medical attention, never rallied, until death relieved her suffering. She was buried at the V ineyard ©mattery near Mi?. T. B. Marshal’s list Saturday? evening, beside the gr-a w of lies? husband wlio died ‘ JHirteten years ago. She had been :oar-ri«d twice,: her first, husband having died during the late war. She leaves Buree sons and; two daughters to mourn her death, MLfr-Tim.taa Merrier, Mrs. :B names, Heasry and Eugene Merrier, of Douglas*. an.J Joe W’ilkerson, the-son of her- float husbead, Mrs. Manner was a. patient, . Christian lady, loved.by :«U who knew her, and will be-gfcutly missed, by her chiMren, for- whom she. has been a loving mother and faithful ad- Goofi fatal tor 'sale. A Ii JaaTC a goc it farm for sale cont-iiinmflß 157 acres, 11101 <t.or lens, with 125 acres in a” biA. state of oil 'ration, ler vim; re acres of i-Jxml lanit altioli wbieli cim ta-nleared ami 'used, e.v cut, a. small bra 011., Terms, sl.;iyO—!fS(>o cavlo l-a.llanee one tyul two , v-waak time v '*h Se.nar eont : ’vt -. ro.w-i. ifjoas. 'A. !■'. SI! W i llfi it CiLfitlOll; I *r- :' mi'. ’ ■HRS -n - ob'i - i * jj| <> f tale ut ' ll V 5 m ■ •c - ~-.-1 .iRK[3Hr o mmamm ! pi. 1 roil) -a W&mmmmm - 1 mßßgmsn 1 Bat ion- fIRHH jK ,l> •!..■- i . - M . , . mrnmmrnmmmm&mmm jM fik M t 5 vB S m HB mra M-A 55 r -’ f ■ ■ • < ’■ ' -- ) I- by / ?bo>viy if IdouiffuK, o-. 'ti:': ab - : ;n.‘-U\ ;uul_ leserintioa *fti.iiK\'iii ace . *iii'r e ’ with feck’s wtivvi v fiijaid city. Tpe alipve tie* sm-ibed prn'-Vty *\,-ins; a yort. »{original lilt r,f Jiiml So. '.92* in the -idth '(fjtii) dis ;.rie! OI'.VA. teMr. <■ buying , ell com 1 -*e.l bv cti-ed 1 coro- -c. A. ar Jr . to f'lr.ilope DetilW,. in Noveuweii iv.n. The sale v/iil e-mSihiue from day to day, if ms •••-ary, bet* -»o the same house - until all u'.d uroperty a- sold. Term.-, <-ne }: If •\. I l'u u? - cpfoved M«-\' *ity till Jar -• ry J - 1 , V>n >»\e made 14 pay debts oft. . Ol'-.aU-of Itrnelope 1 "ii ion,' and pii- <li r: '-a ar.-'fig the heirs. This Oc'.ob ■ sth, 1903. J. M.-DKNTON, Penelope tfenc-on.