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LECAL ORGAN OF COFFEE, COUNTY. FOR OUR COUNTRY AND HER PEOPLE, FIRST AND ALL THE TIME! VOL. 14, No. 21 NOVEMBER 4=l4th, 1903 SAVANNAH Industrial and florlcuitural Fair. Under Auspices of Savannah Racing Association. <• A School of Instructions Along Industrial and Agricultural Lines. 112.000 '.".’’""''T*' I '".'’"'*** $12,000 lOHMjOay’s l^acii^HMlO “THE SPORT OF KINGS,” upon the best and fastest Mile Track in the South, by scores of thoroughbreds from all parts of the Uuited States, Midway, Circus Attractions, Amusements Unexcelled. LOW RATES O/V ALL RAILROADS. COUNTY EXHIBITS SOLICITED . Savannah Best Produce Market in the South. For premium list, space, concessions, entrance, and particulars address JOS. F. DOYLE, Secretary, GORDON SAUSSY, Fair Headquarters, Savannah, General Manager. BRtfMON ITEfIS. Broxton?, Ga., Oct. 10, 1903. Mrs. E. H. More, we are grieved to state, is critically ill this week. Miss Mamie Tonie, of middle Georgia, will soon open her new lot of upto-date millinery. We wish her success. Among those who attended the tent meeting at Ambrose Sunday, were Misses Ethel and Neila Forehand, Miss Effie Willet and Mr. Hiran Vickers all report an enjoyable time. Mr. and Mrs. D. \V. Lott made a business trip to Atlanta last week. Mr. E. A. Tyler is visiting his brother near Macon who is criti cally ill. Fannie Lee Dixson of Osierfield, entered school here last week. Mrs. Burk, of Rochelle, who has been visiting her son, Mr. G. W. Burke, returned to her home a few days ago. Mrs. M. E, Forehand, who has been suffering of eczema is slowly improving. We are glad, to note even the slightest improvement. Mr. C. O. Beauchamp is looking very pleasant “now-adays, guess it is be cause his “best girl” is in town. Mrs. M. E. Vickers is very sick of typhoid fever, but we trust she will soon recover. Miss Eula Newborn is on the sick list this week. Mr. Gillen, and family, formerly of Douglas, have moved to Broxton. We gladly welcome them in our midst. The people of Broxton are mak ing efforts to errect a new school building. Best wishes to the Breeze. CINDARILL. There has been enough sugar cane made this year to sweeten Coffee. Coffee is even heard to beat with long sweetening. The editor of the Breeze is thankful for the honest support accorded it this week. Old sub scribers renewed and a good list of new ones put on. sottgia?i Ulccltlji §mu. BRISTON, Briston Ga., Oct. 10.—-We are glad to hear that Mr. J. E. Bryant is improving from his severe sick ness. Union meeting begin at Harmony Grove last Friday closing Monday night, Brother Oxford, of Douglas, was with us Friday and Saturday, and Brother Vining, the pastor, continued the meeting till Monday night. And we are sorry some of our boys created a disturbance during prayer Friday night; hope it wi 1 be a great lesson to them. We have learned that Mr. B. W. Douglas objected to the wire which was bought for the Royals church cometary and would not let it be put up last Tuesday after the post were hauled. We havent heard his reason for it. We onlv regret he didn’t make his ebjection before the wire was bought. Farmers are buisy hauling off cotton. Pretty bird wants to inquire around about Mrs. Grundy and some of the correspondent’s. Of course Pretty Bird can sympathize with Mrs. Grundy and Carranation but Georgia Boy and those other single ones could keep up with the news. Ptetty Bird regrets very much that Uncle Jim lost her letter and missed printing the death of Mrs. Daniel Metts, who departed this life the—l7th, of September. “Asleep in Jesus! far from thee. Thy kindred and their graves may be. But thin, is still a blessed sleep. From which none ever wakest to weep. Mail which usualy arrived here at two o’clock has changed and now arrives at n o’clock in the morning. Petty Bird. Mr. V. L. Stanton, of Way cross, was in town Tuesday. If you are in need of some job printing we can accommodate you in style and prices. If we can’t please you, there is another office in town, try them but what ever you do keep your money at home. Douglas, Ga., October, 17, 1903, NICHOLS NEWS. Oct. io, 1903. —Miss Lily Ross has returned to her home in Fitz gerald aftar spending a few days with the Misses Tanner. Miss Alice Oliff is visiting her Brother Mr. J. A. Oliff. Mrs. Gilbert Meeks is visiting relitives in Jesup this week. We are very sorry to know that Mr. Jim Wade is very sick at her home. Mr. John McCloud, of Blarney, has accepted a position with the Nicholls Trading Co. Miss Christian Lee, of Beach, is the guest of her Sister Mrs. John Cooksey. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Johnson was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Wilcox. We are sorry to say that Mr. S. C. Douglas is still here tuning pianos and organs. Charlton Annie needs you at home. TALLAHASSE, GA. Tallahasse, Ga.. Oct. 12. 1903. — Rev. Jim Quinn filled the pulpit at Philadelphia church Sunday in Rev. C. W. Snows place. Mr. W. L. Stone and Miss Wealthy Sellers, of Graham, were the pleasant guest of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Horton last Sunday. Mrs. Lavinia Ilortor and daugh ter Mrs. R. L. Googe, visited the formers sister Mrs. Mary Crapps last week. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. A. C. Gordon is seriously ill at her home in Montgomery County. She was a Miss Horton before marriage. Guess what girl was looking for her best tellow Sunday but failed to see him ; too bad! Mrs. James Yawn is on the sick list this week also her nephew Mas ter Belton Carter. Marie contemplates visiting re latives in Graham soon. “Marie.” ALTAMAHA NEWS. We are having some very pleasant weather for the past few days. Mrs. George McEachin and child ren visited Mrs. D. W. Dyal Sun day. Mrs. A. C. Gordon of Mont gomery county, is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Horton this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Horton at tended the camp meeting at Graham Sunday. Mr. Conwell Yawn visited in this community Sunday p. m. Miss Lucretia Sellers, of Oakland is visiting in Graham, Ga., this week, we hope her to have a nice time. Mrs. J. G. Horton and daughter Miss Georgie visited Mrs. R. L. Googe Sunday. Mr. J. E. Horton, of Laff, Ga., visited bis best girl Saturday p. m., living near Graham. Mr. Clayton Swain visited home folks, Sunday p. m. Mr. J. R. Horton has got a busi ness job, in Montgomery county, this week. Guess wh..t voung girl was out riding Sunday p. m—she knows who was driving for her. With best wishes to the Breeze and Uncle Jim. Lily of the Valey. We have another correspondent this week, —“The Lily of theVal iey.” Now, boys, don’t go to hunting for ner. The biggest fool is the man al ways ready to criticise another and the hardest looking cusses are aLvays making remarks as to another’s appearance. TABLE SYRUP AND SUGAR. An Interesting Letter—King Cotton is About to Loose His Throne. Douglas, Oct. 10th, 1903. Editor Douglas Breeze :—I notice your little article recently in regard to Capt. D. G. Purse, and his remarks on the sugar and syrup industries ot the South. Now, the name Napoleon brings to mind the power of perseverance and the will to conquer. This determination to over come all obstacles in bringing the South’s wonderful advantages before the world stamps Capt. Purse as the Napoleon of our Sunny South and its producing powers, in the way of making sugar and table syrups. liet us look for a moment at the question of cotton or cane. Cotton at 10 cents per pound, cane at $4.00 per ton, at the mill—the price offered and paid for it at the government mill at Way cross : EXAMPLE. Cotton, one bale to the acre, o 500 pounds, at 10 cents per pound, will be $50.00, less $15.00 for seed, fertilizer arid picking —leaving a ballance of $35,00 for one acre on cotton. Cotton $35.00, cane $65.00, aballance in favor*of cane of $30.00. Now 25 tons of cane per acre is a small average, for they pro duced 30-6 tons at Quitman last year, and it will run up as high as 40 tons per acre in many places. At Quitman last year (1902), the average gallons of syrup per acre was 465 to the acre. This was all carefully tested by a governmertt expert, Mr. Starr, sent from Wash ington for the purpose. See bulletine No. 75, issued by Dr. Wylie, Bureau of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Now, if this 465 gallons of syrup was prepared at a regular syrup mill (as I hope to see running at Douglas some day in the near future) this class of syrup will sell readily at 35 cents per gallon, will bring $*62.75, less 5 cent 6 per gallon for grinding, leaving a ballance per acre for syrup of $139.50. Cotton $35.00 per acre, cane $139.50. Suppose you cut the product of cane in half, there would be still $69.75. Which, then, is king, Cotton or Cane? It behooves us, as a people. Mr. Editor, to hold up Capt. Purse’s hands while he fights the battle for us, as Moses did of old, and I would here suggest that the people of Coffee county take up this matter as other counties are doing, for it lies within ourselves to bring our southern lands up to tliemghest value. There is a great deal of misunderstanding about this cane raising and syrup making; there is lots of syrup made in and around Douglas that would sell for SI.OO per gallon if it was put up in proper packages and put on the market, as maple and other syrups are sold. This cane and syrup question is coming to the front, and it will be only by our own united efforts that we will reap any benefits on this line. We will have to do as the farmers of the north and west do with their milk. They find that it pays to co-operate and build a creamery, thus, they get a uniform quality of cheese or butter, as the case may be, and that is the great objection to our Georgia syrup—its want of uniformity. This can all be changed if we only take the right method of doing this business. The United State-, Agricultural Department, at Washington, is so thoroughly convinced that we can produce a first class uniform arti cle of table 6yrup that it is now erecting a mill at Waycross, just to show us that the thing can be done, and they are buying cane from the farmers, paying $4 .00 per ton for it at the mill, and will make a hand some profit on the transaction. In conclusion, I do not see how or why v\e should stand back any longer. Every one knows that this is a fair business for us all to work at, and by all means let us have a cane growers’ convention at Douglas. J. M. JARDINE. Confederate Veterans Organize. The meeting called for last Mon day by Comrade T. C. Allen, to meet at the court house was well attended. An encampment was organized with the names of about forty old veterans of the sixties on the roll. Judge J. L. Sweat, of Ware county, gave all the instruc tions necessary for organization, and also tendered an invitation to attend the rreeting of Veterans dur ing the South Georgia Fair, at Waycross, on November 12th. The encampment was named after “Gordi n’s Bull,” Spivey, the noted soldier and whooper. Permanent officers were elected, as follows : T. C. Allen, commander; W. M. Gaskin, Ist Lieutenant, W. M. Tarrant, Secretary. Delegates to the Augusta Re union, November 10-12 th. were elected, as follows: T. C. Allen, Joel Gaskin, W. M. Gaskin, J. M, Douglas, S. Doug'as, B. W. Doug las, E. Burkett, and J. J. Jowers. Next meeting will be held January 19 —Lee’s birth day, and it is hoped every old veteran in the county will be present. Two old neighbors,'Messrs. Har rell and Stephens wanted to have a pugilistic encounter last Monday, selected seconds and started out of towr for that surpose, when Post master Finley followed them, and asked th : crowd to k: eel with him in prayer. After the prayer there was no fight. •m ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING.*-?- SI.OO per Annum Sugar cane, by the ton, one acre will make twenty-five tons, at $4.00 per ton at mill, making SIOO.OO, less $35.00 for seed, fertilizer and cutting—leav ing a ballance of $65.00 on cane. Our Next Senator. For sometime the Breeze has been hearing rumors that lion. F. B. Sirmans. of Clinch county, would be put forward by his county as a suitable man to represent this Dis trict, composed of Coffee, Ware and Clinch, but not until this week have we heard this report confirm ed. Th's being Clinch county’s time to furnish the Senator, accord ing to the rotation rule, we have been interviewing some of Mr. Sir mans’ friends, and while he is not disposed to enter a scramble for the nomination, w : ll accept, if his “people say they want him.” This is in accord with his general way of looking at public trusts, and the people, generally, think more of him for it, and if Clinch county puts him forward Ware and Coffee will confirm him as Senator with a good, round vote. He has many friends in these two counties who know him intimately, and thous ands who know him by reputation. This being true we have «o hesita tion in marking Mr. Sirmans down as our next Senator. Are you constipated r Read what J. L. Pleasant, of Bobbin, Mont gomery Co.. Texas, says about you: “I don’t see how people who are constipated live without Ramon’s Tonic Regulator. There is nothing that subdues headaches, indigestion and other effects of constipation like this pleasant vegetable powder. 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