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VOL. VI" LOCAL NEWS slrs. S. TANARUS, Thompson has boon quite sick this week. Black and white veiling at Relihan’s. The celebration of Children’s Day will be held on the sth Sunday. Fishing poles at Relihan & Co’s. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Smith of Hazle hurst were in town Monday and Tues day. Nice line crockerey at Relih in & Co's. Read John Bennett's letter in this issue. Now it is time for some more remarks by Judge Sweat. i Gal glass pitchers at Relihan’s. The little two year old son of Mr. Henry Sapp of this place has been seriously ill for several days past. Sack flour 65c at Relihan’s Louie thick tobacco 25c at Relihan’s. Jim Kenedy of Denton was in town Saturday and Sunday, and reports crops in line condition out there. The Wayeross Steam Laundry pays the express both ways on work sent tnom. Col. and Mrs. J. M. Denton and Mrs Hoke Davis left yesterday for Indian Springs where they will recreate a season. Nice line of trunks and valises at It olihan & Co’s. Joe Daugiitery treated the Peterson house Sunday to a fine watermelon he received from Florida. It was as excellent as he is clever. Send your washing to the Wayeross Steam laundry. They guarantee all tlieir work. Union meeting convened at Sand Hill church last Sunday. A large crowd were present and the pulpit was ably filled by Rev. 11. Meek. Should you want to buy elotbir.g it pill pay you to examine my stock be fore purchasing. Relihan & Cos. Jiles Lott says he and Bud Vickers caught 25 pounds of fine fish, but an alligator swallowed up the entire string. We are desposed to deny the allegation and defy the alligator. Percales 6c at Relihan's Black velveteen 40c at Relihan's. Mr. Henry Gray, general manager of the Gray Lumber Cos., was in town Monday for the first time in twelve years. He says Douglas lias grown out of its swadling clothes since then. Through mistake the names of J. S. Burns, J. G. Carter and H, L. Hall were omitted from the list of the new county democratic executive commit tee. We publish a correct list in this issue. Hotel goblets 50c set at Relibans. Rev. 51. A . Grace of Blacksliear lias been in town several days this week. He preached two very interesting ser mons to large congregations at the Baptist church Tuesday and Wednes day nights. Best family flour $4.75 at Relihan's. Mrs.C. A. Ward who lias been in delicate health for several weeks left Wednesday for Indian Springs. We trust she will have a pleasant stay and that the mineral water will be benefi cial to her health. Rochester lamp chimneys Relihan & Cos. Tax collector B. W. Douglas will be in Douglas on the first Monday in each month with the register books. Remember you caunot vote in the coming elections without having reg.s tered. Everybody should take advan tage* of this. My stock of gents furnishin g goods is complete and prices are as low as is consistant with quality of goods. IM lian A Cos. The people who attend the dedica tory services at McDoualls Mill fun day are requested to bring their bas kets, as the crowd will be so large that the good people there will not be able o accomodate everybody. Friend F. R. Sweat will be prepared to serve a large number at bis hotel, but peo ple are going front far and near and it w ill be safe for all who can to carry dinner. THE 80UCLAS BREEZE. Pea rsou. We are very much incouraged at the increase in our Sunday school last Sabbath, we hope it will continue to increase. Next Sunday we wish all the children to be present as it neces sary to elect a Superintendant and we w sh them to open their little mouths. Mr. J. F. Greer has returned home after spending several months at Sparks. Prof. Du Vail will leave this week for Ohio, his old home, where he will visit his parents. 51 rs. Tim Kirkland and niece sliss Anderson spent Sunday afternoon in Pearson with friends. slrs. Jeff Kirkland has been quite ill this week, but we are glad to state she is better. slaxie. Philips Mill. The drouth seems to be causing a bad state of health among the people of this section, Only a very limited amount of rain hero this spring and crops are already cut short. Here 1 have worked day aud night, says a young man ofjtliis neighbor hood, in the mud and in the rain, pressing and being pressed, scolding and being scolded, paying out and paying in, and when I travel I either walk, trot or ran and yet I am looked upon as being the laziest man in the country. sless. D. B. Smith and T. J. Holland were on our streets last Tuesday, both prominent business men. 51 r, George T. Jones lias sold out his crop and has entered into turpen tine business by holding his rifle and walking the woods after convicts. Bob Meeting at McDonald. The Holiness meeting began a, tHe new church at slcDonald Tuesday night and will continue about two weeks. Rev. slr. waller is the evan gelist and as we have heard him, we can say that he is an intetest-ing, earn est, active preacher and his z .st is al eady waking up the people at the Mill. On Sunday the pretty little church will be dedicated and presiding Elder Twittv will preach tlie dedicatory ser mon. Supt. Lott will run an extra train cut to Douglas for the people in this section, and out of the liberality of bis soul and the good graces of our r. il road it will be free, A big time is expected and all the people will be there. Wayeross District Convention. It meets at Hinesville, in Liberty county slay 28th Thursday at 9-A. 51 I hope the delegates from the Doug las circuit will go on Wednesday or be on time Thursday. Hacks will meet us at the depot and take us out, good home3 provided for all. Delegates: Dan Peterson, Jesse Lott, W. P. Taylor, and Dan W. Loti. Revs. J. 51. Wilcox and S. G. Tay lor are members. We had a pleasant and I trust a prof itable meeting at Wm. Chapel on last Saturday and Sunday. We took our collection for foreign missions on Sunday and got, in cash and sub scription, about all ve asked for. Why not have such meetings at all churches? Dim r on the ground, a religious picnic. Instead of the fiddle and jug, we have the Bible and a song book. J- S. Lewis. His Wife Saw Him Drown. James Henderson a young white man in the employ of the Gray Lum ber Cos. at Lehaton was drowned while bathing in the Alapaha river, three miles from Wiilac ioehee last Satur day. Jt seems that quite a crowd had gone out to the river on a pleasure trip, taking their bathing suits along, and when be had plunged into the river and swam out some distance from the banks he was taken with cramps, and before any one could get to him he went under for the last time. His wife was standing on the bank a witness to the scene and her gad rendered her so frantic that she would have jumped into the river had she not been prevented by friends. He was twenty five years old and leaves a wife and three children, DOUGLAS, GA. COFFEE COUNTY. FRIDAY MAY 22. 1896. Unto All Men and All Things G-Lve Due Consideration. 18. E. ILnllmice. jjjjf Mantels, Grates, Tiling, Iron Fencing and fine IBMWIBII memorial ware. far WriteMor designs and prices. R. E. LaMance, gjj-jRg -uli Brunswick. Ga. V. Wayeross store The Largest Stock of In any One Store in South Georgia—and PRICES LOWER than small houses can afford. We are Headquarters for everything in a FIRST CLASS H CLOTHING STORE B. 11. LEVY BROS. & CO. WAYGROSS, GrYr. The following is a correct list of the County Democratic Executive committee elected on the first Monday in May : (B. F. Summerlin, Willacoochec ML L. Faulk. (J. S. Burns, ft. J. Jowc's, Wooten <Wm. Minohew, (C. C. Smith. iT. G. Hilliard, Tanner <J. G. Carter, (H. L. Hall. (J. ll.l’etcrson, Pickren <W. W. Southerland, (Leonard Byrd. (Joe Bailey, Pearson <Jeff Kirklan, (Dr. Julian. (Joe McDonald, McDonald 'll. F. Gritfi , (F. L. Sweat. (B. l’cterson, Douglas < John w. Greer, (J. w. Quiucey. Auction Horse Sale. Remember there will be a big auc tion sale of horses in Douglas Monday 25th 1890. The last chance of the season perhaps to buy a good horse at your own price. Don’t fail to be on hand. Every horse guaranteed as represented or no sale. Pound & 8011. Dr. Wilcox writes a letter to Hon. Warren Lott of Waycross which was was published in the Herald, explain ing his position on the money ques tion. He asserts that he understands the National platform of ’B2 to declare for sound money and that he will stand on that platform till the one of 96 is formed when he will assume its requirements as a guide to his polit ical procedure. The 1 tier will he published in fullnext week. Last Friday night at Fishers sti'J, four miles west, of Wareshoro, John Davis shot and killed Warren Sum mer with a double barrel shot gun. Davis claims that Summer had boast el of intimacy with his wife, and came to his house and endeavored to shoot him. His report is very contradict ory, however, and it is believed .that lie killed him through malaee. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide, but in commit ment trial he was hound over for mur der an 1 l edged in the Waycross j til Both parties are white and well known in Coflee. The S. 11 . T. Coming. We have it fron very good author ity that the South Brunswick Terminal rail road will be built to Douglas and thence to Fitzgerald at no distant day. The road is now in course of con struction from Waynesville to Offer mau, and it is the intention of the of ficers to push it through to Douglas without delay. The Southern Pine Lumber Company are the prime mov ers in the enterprise, and the pluck and energy of that company lend as surance that Douglas will have anoth er rail road before long. It is the in tention to build the road to Douglas and extend it on to Fitzgerald in the future. Dont forget the auction horse sale here next Monday. You can get a good horse and get him cheap. Set 1 piece glassware 25c Relihan’s. All aboard for McDonald’s Mill. Saturday you will have to prepare for Sunday when all of you will want to go, if you.do, what is to become of Bro. Lewis and his appointment on Sunday at Douglas? Now listen, begin in time and lets all go out to church at Douglas on Saturday and then all of us go to Me Donald's Mill on Sunday. \Y r o think this is fair. Let’s go Sunday in the spirit of earnest prayer to do good and get good. J. S. Lewis. The Wavcriss Steam baundry dont wear or tear your clothes like other laun dries. % Why not be your own Middle-man? Pay but one profit between maker and user and that a small just one. Our Hig 700 Page Catalogue and Buyer* Guide proves that It’s possible. Weighs 2'4 pounds, 12,000 illustrations, describes und tel Is the one-profit price of over 40,000 articles, everything you use. We scud It for IScents; that’s not for the book, but to pay part of the postage or expressage, and keep off idlers. You can't get it too / quick. MONTGOMERY WARD & CO., The Store of All the People iiiii6 Michigan Ave., Chicago, ditj can tomatoes -i for 2oc, Re!h in & Cos DON'T YOU DO IT DON I Dispute with a woman when she says our goods are the ones to buy, because she knows what she is talking about. DON’T Argue with her when she says our prices are money-savers. She talks like a sensible woman who knows what’t what. DON’T Try to excuse yourself for going to someother store instead of ours. sou know that you can oiler no sufficient reason for passing the store where the Best and Cheapest Goods together. DON T Expect wife to meet you w tli a smile if you’ve gone to so n j oth 'r sto.'o t’n i o ir.s, when she expressly told you to go no where else. Don do these things if you expect to live long and do well. We want all people to drop in and see our New Stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Fancy Good, clothing, nats, shoes etc. Wk Cali. Your Attention To The Following Prices. lo,oooCows-Calvßs-Goats aii Kills msei. Make up our Stock of Shoes and Slippers. We can save youEOe. on theft, in shoes. Don’t Monkey With High Prices or Dynamite. They will "Bust” You. WE HAVE CUT PRICES IN H ALVES. Calico 4* a *. 5. 6, cts. yd. -Checks 5,6, cts. yd. Sheeting 5,6, 6'.cts yd. Pants cloth 12>V, 15. 20 cts. yd. Corseets .’!5, 50, 75ct. Lace let. yd. and up. Embroidery 4ct. yd. and up. Ladies silk belts flouts. Gents leather belts 40cts, Window shades 25cts. i.aco curtains loots. Straw matting 20cts. yd. Hemp carpet 15ct. yd. 24 envelopes Set. 24 sheets paper Sets. 100 fish hooks lOets. SHOES: Oxford Ties for Ladies 75ets. and SI,OO, a good congress shoe $ 1,25, Oil Grain plain sboe worth $1,50 our price SI,OO. Ladies Dongola Button shoe only SI,OO. GBOGJSaXKS. We can save you money in this line. Flour $4,75 Bid. 05ots. sack, meat 7 1 |(-t. 16, Lard Bct,s. tli, 20tl> rice sl, Htb su ar sl, Ott, coffee sl, 4oz. snuff 10c. Tobacco 25c. 11 , 4 feet Flora Lee Tobacco 27cts. Candy lOets. 16. It is the eront of the moi*- We have got the strongest line we have ever offered in this notion amLall . at extra low prices. OUR BAIT IS BARGAINS! M (LSY* very day IS BARGAIN DAY.jp * WARD & DAVIS. lea.de el iisr low priob?? Douglas, - G l corg’* THE CHEAPEST GROCERY STC * ' In ir T\ J. DAVIS & OcV'Ji UIH A y* Wo do not sell good for ftU II for the Least Mone YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND BARGAINS WITH Our line of Bacon, Bice, Sugar, Flour, Coffee, Grits, Tobacco, Cig:TC* ; Candies, Cakes, Jellies, Butter, Lard and all kinds of VegtablesAre Call and ask us prices before, bityincj elsowhelgg of always remember hoadquart.es lor wester,...,, and sail, and fr esh fish, at, lowest, pr ices. •’' We have Shaved oii clean ourselves aiA Shaving we cut so close WE CUT OUR PRICES. We are always glad to Show you our good BECAUSE WE KNOW WE CAN SELL YOU AND SAVE YOU MONEY. T. J. DAVIS & CO. Douglas, C*eorgia. 1 NUMBER 20