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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE. VOL. IX. Mr. Willie Crawley went down to Waycross Wednesday. The county commissioners held klieir regular monthly meeting last Monday, and had a heavy day's work. Bring your Watrhes, Clocks and [jewelry to D. P. Lynch, Terrell’s drug ■tore, Douglas, for cleaning and re pairs. Satisfaction guaranteed. Col. Frank Hawkins, the clever, efficient traffic manager of the Air Line Railroad, was in town Wednes day and will be back in time for the .picnic with a good crowd from down the road. No need of sending your work away from town. W T atches, clocks and jewelry cleaned and repaired by D. P. Lynch, jeweler. Terrell’s Drug Store, Douglas, Ga. Work warrented and .prices reasonable. Mr. L. C. Hilliard, of Jacksonville, arrived Wednesdday with his family, and is stopping at Mr. O. Rudolph’s- Mr. Hilliard comes te remain perma nently, and will go in business here with Mr. W. P. Ward. Mr. D. P Lynch, jeweler ane watch repairer, has fifteen years experience in the business, and is recomniendad by old Tom Lanier, of Waycross, as a fine workman. Terrell’s Drug Store, Douglas, Ga. If you suffer from heat it is your look out, for Tim Kirkland can supply ice in any quantity. Boss carpenter Connally is putting up a good, substantial awning around the Bank building?, and all the occu pants of the first t4,y are happy. Marshal Brack is nothing if not in dustrious, and in time of dry weather is preparing for rain. He is cutting a £’/jch and throwing up a walk west ciffe of Deen & Son’s store. Some mighty clever lightning-rod men are m town and if your building is unprotected you should see them. Mr. Win. Thorn the manager, is an old soldier aud gives general satisfac tion. His assistants rre clever, de serving gentlemen. ( • Wi learn that A. M. Brett, of Waycross, will occupy the Leader building. Soma of our fisherman are bring ing in nice strings uow. The creek is just right. Tim Kirkland has ice every day, and sells cheap because he buys cheap, in two ton lots. Mr. O. Rudolph has been elect ed clerk of council to fill out the unexpired term of A. 0. Sweat. * "■ The Savannah News favors Admiral Dewey for next president. The soldier's home property, at At lanta, wag sold for SB,OOO last lues day. Admirrl Sampson’s fleet was off New York last Wednesday, having returned from the West Indies. Cyclones are playing the mischief > lit west, sweeping away houses, JyL-K*, and killing some people. :p States government has £***'' (■ f a .'ecks, $5,000,000 each, to / M the l’hillipine islands. tL<)U crop is reportgjf “ ksfyear. m ‘ ■ '■ "" ■ B 14 ', * fee lJr ' ■’ THE BREEZE AND COFFEE COUNTY. As stated in our issue January I4th we have engaged in journalism in Coffee county before we bought the Breeze, and therefore cannot be called an entire stranger. There is not a man in Coffee county who can truth fully say we have ever misled any one by preteusions, nor will there ever be. In this connection we wish to say that in the purchase of the Breeze we did so because we thought this a great country and liked the people, and last week when we bought the Leader we proved that we liked the country better and loved the peopl* more. So we own the Breeze and the Leader. W* propose to publish the Breeze right on, in a larger and better form. The subscription price will remain the same that you paid us for a four page paper, but we propose after this issue to give you a good, clean, eight page paper, exactly the size of the Leader and Breeze combined. As soon as we can dispose of our Waycross printing office and heme, and arrange our bus iness there we shall move our family,— composed of the best wife in the world, four daughters, four cows and calves, twenty-seven chickens and a cat, to Douglas Coffee county Ga., and here we expect to remain as long as we live and we are going to live as long as we can, In our news paper venture we have been selected by the former owners of the Breeze and the Leader as the best man to conduct a news paper that would tend to cement the two political, factions of the county, be cause of our known desire to give all men justice, and accord to every man the privilege of thinking as they please politically aud religiously. This is our intention, we shall make the Breeze a good, reliable, newsy fam ily paper, for all classes. We shall have no abuse, no mud slinging, no contentions or controversies by cor respondents. ’ In this way, brothers, let us live and pull for each others mutual and general good, build up our county improve our town, serve God, live aud die together and go down to our graves uuited aud con tented. Mr. A. C. Sweat Leaves Douglas. In the. first of the year Mr. A. C. Sweat, who has been on the Breeze fpr some years, was employed to con tinue with us. He remained until April 29th. when he jumped the ranch. He left with $25,00 or $30,00 more of our money than he was entitled to, that we have heard from, and it is hard te guess how much more he has collected. There, are several other parties around town that he was in debted to, besides, as treasurer of the Methodist Suuday school he was a de faulter, leaving it to pay last year’s literature bill, after the money had been collected and turned over to him for that purpose. He hue never, that we haveJieard of, been associated with any oue that he has not swin dled. We are lead then, to conclude that he is a good printer, nrst-rate news paper man and thieving scoun drel. We understand he has headed for Denison, Texas, and in order that he he properly introduced to •Uiose people out''the.-ft. we shall send every printing office in that city, or any other city within a radius of one hundred miles a marked copy of this payer. will rob as poor a man swindled \ v .t , Hut- ;; im-ttlifiHiwL DOIUGLAS, GA. SATURDAY, MAY (!• 1899. SALUTATORY. It is | already being whispered around tjhat myself and sisters are assuming to take places that men should 41l, —that girls should learn to -t sew, teach music and t school butt that the rostrum and press sholuld bo managed by the sterner seic. In certain fields this is true, huf when our father’s form is bending: under the weight of years, his 1 eyes growing dimmer day by dayl his dear old faoo be coming furirowed with the care marks of tiilne, it is our duty, our pleasure to fcive him all the aid and ccmfortUhat it is in our pow er to render. j The hissing, seething, waters of theißatilla river snatch ed from him aur brother—our only brother —all <i]ur fathers help, nine years ago whejp he was drowned, and since that time we have w-alk ed by his side, held up his feeble growing arms, Kjissed away his tears and prayed tlifit God would give us strength to help him. God has heard that pray er and gave us a printing office nu Waveross, then the people, the giood, kind people of Coffee, let us have the Breeze, and then later, the Leader, and as they unfold their arms and give us support and comfbrt we feel that God has directed uj* right, and our way is clear and bright. Noble people, generous people, grand old county with its beautiful towns, You will find us over ready to serve you. No scratch of our pen shall tear your heart, no w ord of ours shall wound your feelings, un less the truth does it], and we hope to deserve your sympathy. As lo cal editor we ask yefur co-opera tion and we will giyo you a fine paper, Wifti tips, opr name j run up at the head of the paper as one of its editors. Agnes F. Freeman. Gaskin*’ Spring. May Ist. foolish Sport, Last Tuesday morning when some of our business men went down town it was found that some sports had been playing the mis chief tu night before. Carts were turned over, signs had been moved, the town pump molested, a barber shop sign put up at No. 10., and the otlur pranks gone into gener ally. It was done so quietly that no me knew who to blame. Somo ut the sufferers could not *ee the point, and vengeance is declared when the guilty ones are found out. We waut to give those lellows a word of advice, and that is that we heard a man say ho was going to load his shot gun for ’em. The nice part about it is that the mis chief makers can’t laugh uor brag about such doings, and other peo ple know how naughty they have been. Sunday At Haskins' Springs. Gaskin’s Springs is getting to be a favorite resort for people from Doug las and other adjacent places every Sunday afternoon. Hardly a Sunday passes when there are not represen tatives out there from several places. Last Sunday, out there we noticed Agnes Freeman of are! -i-t r I')■ vV ,i r w'-h’n*' * ’ifist, t ■ ;<■" 'hv'h-K jjl Bt ■ II -.Ua v *■’ y, xi'.:. wm . mm • 'j- ' % U ■ Kjf-*s , v>sis.y> M ■ HHHHBpPffMlini-mjtmiieu. M :i;- manager of the job off)i e, therefore ha.- ns she caa ntteud to without up the news, Miss Agnes <Je Brea newsy correspondents from all Karts of the county. Send them along, Imale or female correspondents, and I she will put them in shape. TEN YARDS OP CALICO FOR THIRTY-FIVE CENTS. THE RUSH OF NEW GOODS * # ‘ ❖ the Rush of New Customers STILL CONTINUE AT BRAO WATSONS Douglas Store. Mz don’t fltotend to be Setter than ©tber flfcople. wm &&& HOT Ittl 80 G.OQS 1 m Min we oroir BUT ANY FAIR-MINDED HAN OR WOHAN WILL TELL YOU THAT WE DO SELL A LITTLE BIT FINER DRESS GOODS AND TRIMMINGS THAN HAVE BEEN KEPT IN DOUGLAS HERETOFORE. > Fine Silks, Fine Organdies and White Goods. Are the King Bees of our Dry Oootla Hive, and you are Invited to Loo at them. Our Riverside Checks. I Lead the Grand March of Staple, every-day Dry Goods, and they are joined by hund reds of yards and hundreds of pairs Cottonade, Jeans and Working Shoes at Lowest Prices Possible. Going to get Married? If so come to us for your Wedding Outfit. Everything for “him” and “her.” Fine Silks for the Ladies, and Fine Ready-made Clothing for Men folk and Boys. Ladies’ * TrimnYed ♦ Hats' • I In many Shapes and Colors, and the Finest Line of Ladies’ and Childrens’ Slippers to be seen Anywhere. < Strictly 4 Headquarters FOR MENS’ FINE SHIRTS, NECK-TIES, SHOES and ALL KINDS OF GEN %O . TLEMENS’ FURNISHING GOODS. 4- One Price to all-and that,the Lowest Every Time. 4- BRAD WATSON, Dcmgl as, Gfeorgia,. Xiu 4 (*-£’<* V -l/' / " r ,- ' U- ' TE.N YARDS OF OALIOO FOR 38 CENTS. NUMBER 4fi