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DOUGLAS WEEKLY BREEZE
James M. Freeman & Daughter, Proprieto
j. M. Freeman, Editor.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter.
SATURDAY, JAN. 9th, r 9 0 4.
Official Organ of County.
notice to public.
'The Breeze is the Oliicial Legal Pa
per of Coffee county. There is no oth
er. and if a person wants to keep up
with the legal business he must take
the Hreeze. Any one can get it that
wants it. We make this statement,
and keep this notice standing in order
that people may know where to find
the legal business of the county writ
ten out in full, as handed in by the
officers of the county.
The total value of farming lands
this year belonging'to negroes 5,-
881,471. Last year the value was
$4>779> 26 3-
Sam Jones, a prominent mer
chant of Fitzgerald, not Sam Jones
of Cartesville, is preparing to go
into bankruptcy.
Chief Wiley Wiliams, of Colum
bus, who was in the race for prison
commissioner last year has an
nounced that he would not be in
the race this year.
Brother Rodgers, of the Irwin
County Courier, indulges in the
hope that none of the towns want
the new Fitzgerald colony will en
gage in a scrap oyer the matter.
Our friend is assured that Douglas
has no idea of being so depraved.
A peculiar incident of the Chi
cago lire was that number of watch
es of the victims were found to
have stopped at* the same instant,
3: 50 o’clock. This probably mark
ed the moment of the explosion,
the concussion of which was doubt
less sufficient to stop a watch-
Rewards aggregating SI,OOO
have been offered for the apprehen
sion, with proof to convict, of any
or all of the lynchers at Pineapple
Ala., the other day. That is an
atructive sum, and the posting of
it will no doubt cause some of those
who took part in the mob outrage
to quake in their boots.
A bale of cotton grown, ginned
and packed in Harris county thirty
years ago will be exhibited by the
state of Georgia at the St. Louis
exposition. This remarkable bale
of the Jjeecy eta pie, which is now
so much in demand, is owned by
C. C. Jones, a well know'u farmer
of 1 larris county.
Mayor Bridges .Smith, of Macon,
wrought better than he knew when
he suggested to the council not to
put ann license on newspapers.
The mayor stated: “1 would sug
gest to you, gentlemen, that no
license be placed on newspapers,
as they are public benefactors.”—
Americas Press.
Judge G. F. Gober, with 11. C.
Bagley, of Atlanta, are in Americas
to superintend the planting of the
monster peach orchard of the Go
ber-Bagley Orchard Company and
which will be the lagrest in the
South. A million trees of selected
varieties, will be planted upon a
tract of 2,000 acres, for which the
company paid $16,000. Fruit
from this orchard can be shipped
three weeks earlier than other or
chards can make shipments, thus
getting the first and finest peaches
to markets.
The first flat car of the 300 to be
built for the Atlantic and Birming
ham railroad by the South Atlantic
Car and Manufacturing company,
has been completed. Electric
lights are being installed at the car
works, and if necessary, the forces
will beworked day and part of
the night to complete the contract
within thiee months Regular
work svi’l commence on the bal
ance of the cars for the A. & I?.
Monday, and if nothing unforseen
happens, the 300 will be complete
by 90 days.
A new disease‘has made its ap
pearance in New York. It has not
yet been named, but is called "the
bends” and the “caisson disease”
ambng those who have seen it. It
attacks and frequently kills those
who work in the caissons of the
bridges and tunnels about New
York. In the caissons the air is
compressed to bout forty-five
pounds, to the square inch* which
is about three times the normal
pressure above grobnd. This great
alleels eyes, ears and hear:
THE CUSTOMARY WAY.
A Woman's Name Given to the Pnfclic.
The Man’s Name Suppressed.
In last Sunday’s Savannah
News, under the head of “The
Diamond Thief,” appears the ac
count of a young woman’s expe
riences and fall in ti great city. It
svas stated that this young woman
was from the country, had come to
the city to seek employments and
had fallen among evil associates,
who had, by sugared tongues and
other devices lowered her to the
depths of infamy. It also tells
how the old father of the girl had
been there and had tried to get
her to return to their home in the
country and her absolute refusal.
Then, we gather from the same
report the statement that this girl,
whose name was given as Louisa
Young, had been arrested and was
under bond for the theft of a dia
mond pin or ring, from a young
man whose name was not given,
valued at over one hundred dollars.
It is presumed from the statement
as to the value of the diamond, that
it must have been the property of
some young man of the “upper
ten,” or a thief or gambler, because
no honest poor man could alTord
such costly baubles, and for that
reason his name was not given.
This is in keeping with the usual
custom, but it is a sorry, one sided
reporter on this metropolitan paper
that would be guilty of leaving out
the name of the man and printing
that of the woman. If the young
woman was a soiled dove, and the
young man was in her company it
is very probable that his moral
standing was no belter than hers,
and he was in her company for he
accuses her of stealing the jewel.
The Breeze holds that parties in a
crime should be served with exactly
the same treatment. What is a
shame for a man is shameful for a
woman and what is right for a man
is not wrong for a woman.
DEMOCRAT VS - CONSTITUTION.
The Johnstown Democrat Wages War
On The Atlanta Constitution.
The first and only copy of (he
Johnstown, (Va.,) Democrat that
has ever been received at this office,
with an article censuring Mr. Clark
Howell, editor of the Atlanta Con
stitution, as a man of unsound dem
ocratic principles and ideas. We
don’t propose to take sides with the
Democrat or the Constitution eith
er. These little papers with little
men, one with ‘‘unsound democrat
ic principles and ideas,” and the
other without either of any kind to
edit them, cannot draw us into any
family rucusses. We got into one
once, where a man and his wife
were having a little spat and they
double-teamed on us and gave 11s a
lesson we shall not forget.. Another
thing a democrat cannot go back
on the constitution, in fact it is a
democrat’s business to support the
const iution, and if tin’s is done there
can be no cause or room for family
quarrels and rows. if the Demo
crat is sound and pure in its own
estimation it is well, for Constitu
tion is a great paper, read by tlious-
ands of equally as good democrats
who look upon its columns as a
guide in political muddles.
It appears to the mind of the
Breeze that there are enough
enemys of the Democratic party in
the land with whom political war
can be waged without singling out
someone in our own ranks. There's
too much of this, already. If you
are a democrat and want to fight
fight some one on the other side.
No, we take no sides with these
little papers, the Democrat and the
Constitution. The Breeze has too
much to do, and has no time to act
as referee between these light
weights.
FOUNDER OF FITZGERALD.
Intends to Brine out Another Colony
To South Georgia.
P. IT. Fitzgerald, of Indianapolis, !
Ind., is expected at Fitzgerald in j
a few days, and will then decide
what he will do about settling
another colony near that place.
It seems that the soil and climate
of Georgia is well adopted to the
choice of the western people. They
are industrious and will certainly
prosp.tr in a country like this.
The first settlers of this colony
are now happy and prosperous.
Those naving little farms are rais
ing quite a surplus to seli thereby
furnishing the mechanic and mer.
chant with a home market, with
when
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Another Good Woman Gone.
To-day we have the task ofrecording
the death of Sister Martha Fletcher,
who died at her home, near Wooten’s
Mill, Telfair County. Sister Fletcher
was born 1809, month and date not
known to the writer. While she was
ninety-four years of age, and her
friends and relatives knew that she
had reached her allotted days her
death was a shock to her dear children
and the community at large. She was
loved by all who knew her. It was the
writer’s pleasure to know this woman
and lie never knew a more unselfish,
kindly hearted being than the esteem
ed and loved departed. She #ras liber-
al toward her neighbors, and her house
was a home for the needy and uncared
for. She crossed over the Jordan of
death at 6:30 o'clock A. M., December
14th, 1903. She died in the triumphs
of a living faith. She told her daugh
ter, Ellen, to hear it the best she could,
said she: “I am going to a better place,”
and asked that all would go with her.
She seemed'not only willing but anx
ious to go. All that medical skill and
and good nursing could do was done,
but in spite of all she had to leave her
children and friends, and go to her
home in the skies. She leaves four
children, one son and three daughters,
besides two sisters and one brother,
and a host of friends. She was taken
to her last resting place Tuesday, De
cember 15th. Her funeral was preached
by Rev. W. T. Marlow, there being
about one hundred and fifty people
present. the God of all grace
comfort the heart-broken and grief
stricken children, and help them to see
that their loss is her eternal gain,
The angel came and took her,
The angel God had sent,
And bore her on his portals,
She whispered as she went:
‘‘l’m going home to glory,
A golden crown to wear,
O meet me, meet me,
Meet me, over there.”
A Fkimnd.
Only Results Tell-
There is little or no difference in
the appearance of flour, but ttiere
. is all the difference in the world ill
! results.
“Clifton” flour will produce
! light, white, wholesome bread—
you know from sad experience just
; what other kinds will do.
For more bread and better bread,
use our “Clifton” every time.
Mmikey Trading Co.
Judge Levi Osteen was elected
last Wednesday night to represent
Douglas Pythians at next meeting
Grand Lodge, J. T. Relihan alter
nate,
About 750,000 wage-earners will
begin the new year with the
knowledge that the trusts are very
much opposed to “standing pat”
on wages, but very much in favor
of “standing pat” on the tariff
schedules.
We Stake Our Claim
of flour excellence upon the flour
itself—it’s the very best kind of
evidence.
We know that if you will just
try our flour once for yourself, you
will never want to go back to the
inferior kinds. It will prove every
thing we claim for it.
Be sure you get “Clifton” flour,
if you want the best.
Maiikey Trading Co. i
The Sheriff’s Office was crowded
all day last Monday, by people who
had not been able to pay their tax
es before and the Sheriff had the
tifas and amounts ready for settle
ment. Sheriff Southerland will
carry a tax fifa to a man across the
county in order to. save that man
from cost and trouble, and then
collects only the amount of .taxes,
leaving off his own cost. This is
not done in other counties, as a rule,
if you judge by tax sales advertise
ments in the columns of some of
our exchanges.
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Vickers Building, Douglas, Ga
All Work Guaranteed.
Office hours: S to ie. a. m.
You know What You Are Taking.
When you take Grove’s Tasteless
Chill Tonic, because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle, show
ing that it is sin.p.y Iron and Quinine
in a tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay.
Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tome
has stood the test 25 years. Average Annua! Sales ever Cits and a Half MUIIon
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Livery, Feed and Sale
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NEAR TANHER HOTEL DOUGLAS. ijggp.
Turnouts furnished drum
mers to any part of the ~~y
county on short notice.
nmm hotel phone. PI
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not to cut out ad. write for catalog or the music wanted.
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Nearer, My God to Thee, Variations 11 “ .75
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Bachelor Girls Three Step “ “ .50
Smart Set, Society Three Step 11 .50
’Way Down South in Dixie “ “ .50 (
My Lady Love Waltzes “ “ .50
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