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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.;
J. M. FREEMAN I: DAUGHTERS, Proprietors
J. M. FREEMAN. Editor.
AONES F. FREEMAN, AsslsUat Editor.
En to roc I as Bocond-Class Mail Matter.
SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1899.
Official Organ of County.
We have no authorized agent*, but
every one i asked to forward subscriptions*
ond money to this office, and receipts will
ae returned by mail.
Brunswick Circuit.
Appling Superior Court: —First and second
Mondays in March; Third and fourth
Mondays in September.
Camden Superior Court;—Tuesday after
the third Monday in March ; Tuesday af
ter the first Monday in October.
Coffee Superior Court; —Fourth Monday
in March; Second Monday in October.
Charlton Superior Court:— Tuesday after
the first Monday in April; Tuesday after
the fourth Monday in October.
Clinch Superior Court;—Second Monday
in April; Third Monday in October.
"Ware Superior Court: —Third and fourth
Mondays in April; First and second
Mondays in November.
Pierce Superior Court: —First Monday in
May; third Monday in November.
Wnyne Superior Court:—Second Mon
day in May ; Fourtli Monday in Novem
ber.
Oh nu Superior Court:—Third Monday In
May, and Hirst Monday in Decern bar; to
continue for such time as the business
may require.
Notice te Visitors to the Office.
It is a rule in all printing offices
to give the newspaper to the pub
lic as soon as it is ready for your
inspection. Your visiting the
press room and reading over the
paper when one side only is print
ed. is not good taste, out of order,
against the rules and shows that
you have no respect for the pub
lishers. How would you like for
us, to go into your office and look
over your books, your letters, bills,
cost marks, etc.? You wouldn’t
like it, and we don’t ; and if you
ever see us do such a thing kick us
out at the front door, hack door,
window, chimney top or kay hole.
Again, when in the office please
don’t read the proof-sheets the
printer is correcting for it has er
rors on it, and we don’t want you
to see them, if we had we should
have had no proof taken and print
ed the type in the paper, errors
and all.
Then, again, the publisher can
read the proof and don’t need your
services, and a man that will push
himself where he is not wanted
might hear things not complimen
tary to himself, and we don’t want
to hurt any one’s feelings, nor ap
pear rude or unkind. We have
no right to pry into your business
alTairs; if you catch us at it spatter
our nose all over our face. You
have none with our ofTairs, either.
'We’ll give you the paper as toon
as it is ready.
Once more sometimes merchants
or patrons have advertisements,
locals, handbills, etc,, that they
do not want any one to see before
they come out in the paper or ready
for distribution on the streets, and
the copy is brought us, the work
given us with that understanding,
and if you come in and read it, go
out and talk it, so it will really
be no news when it comes out in
the paper or in posters on the
street, it will be known that we
have no system of secrecy in busi
ness and you no common sense.
Remember these things, friend*,
and don’t do them. We like you
and we are glad to have you come
and see us, but sit down, talk to us
a little, ask us how’s our health,
subscribe for the Breeze, for a dol
lar cash—hand us a $5.00 bill and
aav never mind about the change,
and if we want you to see anything
about the office we'll show it to
you, but don’t go prying around,
reading copy on the hooks, proofs,
etc.
A telegram from Salt Lake, Utah
July iS, says Angus M. Cannon,
president of the Salt Lake Stake of
Zion, charged with polygamy, en
tered a formal plea of guilty before
Judge Norwell in the Third district
court, and Thursday next was
named as the day for sentence.
Postmaster Brimbery, of Albany,
is on the rack, and the authorities
are investigating matters connected
with his office.
An old bachelor asserts that over
in Brooks county is the finest Cain
in the State.
; conven-
Tbe Ueorpa Weekly Press Convention.
We left home with our good wife
in time to reach Dublin Monday
evening at 6 o’clock p. m. Our
route was via. the Air Line, l’lant
System, Georgia and Florida and
Macon and Dublin railroads.
At Dublin we were met by a com
mittee of citizens and escorted to
the elegant new home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Pittman, and the prince
ly hospitality accorded us by this
family will be a rich legacy in our
memory for years to come,
We are also indebted for many
courtesies to Mr. J. 11. Withering
ton and wife, relations of Mr. and
Mrs. Pittman.
The Press Convention, about 250
strong, was called to order at 9
o’clock, by President Coleman, in
the elegant new courthouse of the
historic old Lawrence.
In the afternoon the ladies of the
convention were escorted to the
river where they boarded the steam
er Gypsie, and the gentlemen
boarded the steamer City of Dub
lin for an excursion down Oconee
river to Wells’ spring, returning at
7.30 to Find in waiting at the hotel
one the most sumptuous banquets
to which we have ever attuned our
appetites. Among the distinguish
ed orators present on this occasion
were Gov. Candler, Senator Clay,
and last, but not least, our Con
gressman, W. G. Brantley.
The Dublin people are of the
highest class of citizenship, and
they not only know how to enter
tain but they add that unction of
gratuity to every courtesy which
makes everything they touch royal.
It is, therefore, no wonder that
they have builded one of the
most beautiful and thriving little
cities in the South. Wednesday
morning a short session of the con
vention was held, and at 11 o’clock
we boarded the Wrightsville and
Tcnnille train for Savannah, arriv
ing at 6 o’clock, and were taken
over the city, and after having en
joyed ourselves for more than an
hour seeing the sights we boarded
the train for Tybec Island where
we spent a few pleasant hours roll
ing in the surf. We reached huuse
safely on Friday afternoon with a
full heart and full stomach anil our
wife affirms we must live on sweet
memories of the trip lor the rest ol
the summer.
All the railroads mentioned in
our travels cannot be excelled for
courtesies, and to them we are in
debted more than we can repay.
C. A. W. Jr.
tl>lilii( ‘‘Hrooin Corn.”
Question. I have decided to grow
“brtoin corn" (or the market.
Please give me all the infor
mation along this line possible.
Answer.— This plant is a variety of
“eorghuiu,” and a native of the East
ludlea The introduction of this plant
is attributed to l)r. Franklin, who, find
ing a seed on a whisk broom that had
been imported, planted it, and from this
originated the culture of "broom corn”
in the United States. The average pro
duct of brush per acre is about 600
ponudi. There has been produced from
very fine soil and locality as high as
1,000 pounds per acre.
As there seems to bo no substitute for
broom corn brush, there is always a de
mand for tt, and it is a crop that con be
easily cultivated. It is a profitable one
for the farmers to raise tn those sections
to which It is well adapted.
The seed make very good food for
horses when mixed with oats. It is
also fine food for poultry after the
chicks are two or three woekeold, when
fed with other food. When ground
with our common Indian corn iu pro
portion to three bushels of broom corn
to one of Indian corn, it makes good
food for cattle, bogs or sheep.
Generally speaking, broom corn grows
beat where onr native corn grows best,
asd the preparation of the land is similar
to that for corn. Good river or branch
bottom land Is best suited to this plant;
bat any good land well drained will,
with barnyard manure, or a good fer
tiliser, make a good yield. The better
plan is to broadcast the manure, plow
and harrow the same so as to pulverize
the soil thoroughly. Plant in the drill
or in hills. The rows may be from
three to fonr feet, according to the va
riety te be grown; the dwarf varieties
In three feet rows and the larger varie
ties in fonr feet rowa The hills may
be two or three feet apart. When the
seed are sound and well-ripened, two
quarts will be sufficient to plant one
acre. Be sure to get good seed. You
can use the seed drills that will plant
small seed, or if only a few acres are to
be planted, you can plant with the
hand. The culAvation is similar to
that of corn, only you have to use mors
care and skill because of the smallness
of the plant. Thinning should be done
when the plants are two or three inches
high, leaving five or six in the hill, or if
drilled, the stalks should be left three or
fmurif ebe* apart.
The Biggest Melons-The Red Neck-Tie.
Mr. Brad Watson proved to all
who do not believe in advertising
their mistake last week. Some
days ago he sent out, or his able
manager here, Geo. F. Wooten
did, thousands of circulars offering
two dollars for the heaviest water
melon brought to Watson’s store,
besides some other little attractions,
premiums, etc., and last Saturday
was the day of awards.
A committee of ladies awarded
Dr. Terrell the red neck-tie, which j
was a premium for the ugliest man
in the county. It is believed, how
ever, that Judge Dart, Messrs
Johnson, Young, Greer, Freeman
and others will contest the award,
having filed notice to that effect,
on the ground of bribery, as the
ladies knew the doctor was the on
ly man among the contestants who
had a soda fountain and would un
doubtedly reward them.
The heaviest melons were beau
ties, and were as follows :
Daniel Meeks, 66 lbs.
Bryant Adams, - - 49 ~
C. D. Kirkland, - - 62 ~
T. M. Fletcher, - - 5 1 *
B. Peterson, - 5 2
Luke Cannon, - - ~
So, it will he seen Mr. Daniel
Meeks-received the $2,00.
The fine silk dress, awarded the
handsomest young lady, was award
ed M iss Ossie Ilarnage.
The white organdy dress and
white slippers, went to Miss Annie
Googe, of l’roxton, a grandchild
of Jessie Lott as the prettiest child.
Some people came from a dis
tance of twenty miles, and for the
first time in their lives, perhaps,
saw a merchant giving premiums
as an advertisement, and while
many of them did not trade then,
it is safe to say Brad Watson will
not be forgotten, and when any
thing is needed in his line they
will come to see him.
Georgia’s First Colton Mill.
Question.—Can you tell me where
the first cotton mill was established in
Georgia, also give me any information
touching the early manufactories and
the progress of the same in Georgia?
Answer.—The first factory estab
lished iu Georgia was built on the Oco
nee river, 4 miles below Athens, iu the
year 1827. This enterprise proved suc
cessful, and was soon after followed by
many others in the same county (Clarke)
and in Green, Richmond and other coun
ties. From small beginnings theso en
terprises have in late years developed to
considerable magnitude, and with a pe
cuniary success that points to them as
agents of a most prosperous era iu the
history of our state. The splendid wa
ter powers of the Savannah at Augusta,
and tho Chattahoochee at Columbus,
could not long fail to attract the atten
tion of a people alive to their own inter
est and to the general welfare. Georgia
has great advantages in this respect
over the New England states, which
have heretofore manufactured most of
the American cotton and wool fabrics,
hut the dawn of a brighter day has set
in, and we see from year to yejir capital
coming this way to our beautiful south
land. Manufacturers are now convinced
that the place to manufacture cotton
is on the ground floor where the cotton
is grown aud produced, and sooner or
later, the whir of the cotton spindle
will be heard from the top of every moun
tain, ns well as from every valley In our
beautiful Empire state of the south.
Here, we have no need of the middle
man or transportation Wages are much
less here than in the New England
states, the cost of water aud steam
power is less, building material of every
kind is less, living expenses are less aud
theclimate is more favorable. The wheels
are seldom clogged or obstructed by ico,
the consumers of onr products are at our
own doors,and for these reasons alone the
manufacturer of cotton must and will
come southward. There is still room
for greater strides along this line than
Georgia has made iu the past, and
yet she has done well.
Just how many organized cotton mills
there are now in operation, we are un
able to 6ay, but more than a decade ago
we had more than 50. We also have
many wool factories, paper factories,
iron foundries, flour mills, gold quartz
mills aud stamp mills iu operation, aud
railroad shops, locomotive and car fac
tories, carriage aud wagon, boot and
shoe factories, and sash and blind facto
ries, we have iu large number. We
have tanneries, potteries, liqnor and tur
pentine distilleries and fertilizer facto
ries Iso without number.—State Agri
cultural Department.
\on can't print newspapers
without money, and we wouldn’t
if we could.
Mrs. Terrel is away from home
visitirtg relatives in upper Geo*- 6u
and the Doctor looks mad / JBk
GREAT REDUCTION SALE
OF ALL
SUMMER DRESS GOODS
SHOES AHD SiimfcS
AT
BEAU WATSON'S
M DOUCUS STOKE.
ALL SUMMER CLOTHING
ATGREATLY
REDUCED PRIOR© !
To make room for the big stock of
FALL AND WINTER ULOTING
that will soon be rolling in.
A BIG DOT
CROCKERY and GLASSWARE,
AND G
Household and Kitchen
All STOCKS Reduced for the N|
SfcM WATI