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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
YOL. X.
GREAT REDUCTION SALE
OF ALL
AT
AT GREATLY
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REDUCED PRIGEB
■& O - titOc** I- A 9C5
that will soon be rolling in,
A BIG LOT
CROCKERY and GLASSWARE,
AND
Household and Kitchen
leqci i>a,
wAJ He describv.
You will t>,
is so^ mt t&.
from
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■ Big' Lougias"store.
DOUGLAS, A. SATURDAY, JULY 29,1899.
Trade Day In Douglas.
1 he merchants of Douglas have
selected Al (il ST' 18TH for a
1 RADE DA'S , ami a day of fun,
ami the people are coming from all
over the country to be here. The
merchants will sell
Goods at Reduced Prices
on That Day,
and the prizes will bring the people :
For the preittiest lady—married
or single, a line silk dress.
For the first man or boy who
climbs the greasy pole, .fij 40
For the fastest runner in
a foot race, - - z 40
For fastest running horse, 5 ix>
For the prettiest baby, two
years old 'and under,
Fine Trimmed Hat.,
For Colored People.
Douglas merchants know that
the colored people trade, and that
Coflee county colored people like
fun, so thse prizes are for them :
For the most stylish dressed pair
in the Cake Walk, - -
For the fiirst one catching the
greasy pig - - - 2 50
The Breeze Free to Teachers.
Every School teacher in Coffee
county can secure subscription to
Breeze tree of charge, if he or
she will write us short newsy letters
from their immediate section. We
want nothing but the NEWS, no
essays, but short pointed para
graphs, deaths, murders, marriages,
socials and other interesting items
of a newsy nature. Mention your
own school and keep us posted.
Never mind about experience, do
your best, and when your “news
notes,” come out in print the er
rors will be corrected. If you
want a picnic, “big day Friday,”
or anything for benefit of your
school, write us about it.
When in Douglas your headquar
ters, if your name is on our staff,
is at tins office, gentleman or lady,
and your mail may be sent in our
care, during your visit.
Now, let every young lady and
gentleman teacher in the county,
(only one at a post office, neighbor
hood or district) consider them
selves our correspondents, send in
their names, (not for publication)
and communications at once, be
fore some one else does, assume
some short non deplume, we will
have the news, you will la; doing
your vicinity good, and the Breeze
will be brighter and better.
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SEND US YOUK NAME
and address, together with the
names and addresses of a number
of your friends who are interested
in any sort of poultry, for a FR EE
sample copy of Tiie Gkokkia
I’out.THY Hkkadp, anew, up-to
date and interesting monthly poul
try paper. Send to
The Gkoikjia Poultry Herald,
' Blakely, Ga.
Heaviest Watermelons.
The heaviest watermelons brought
to this office up to date are as fol
lows :
J. A. Anderson, - - -4.)
I. like Cannon, 46
T. M. Fletcher, - 46
Daniel Meeks, 75i
At the end of the season tlie per
son bringing in the heaviest melon
will recieve a receipt for a year’s
subscription to the Breeze. Sea
son closes August 15th.
Public Meeting.
A meeting of the citizens of
Douglas is called to convene at
the court house next Monday
night, July 31st, at 8 o’clock, to
take steps for the improvement ot
the town anil school facilities.
Everyone who has the interest of
the town at heart is asked to be
present.
Many Citizens.
t wo negroes robbed |. E. Ogie
tree near Bainbridge last week and
afterward raped his wife in his
presence, alternately. Both fiends
came pretending to purchase goods,
as the store and dwelling are con
nected. More lynching.
The tax rate on insurance agents
lin Georgia of if per cent on pre
j liiiums received has been reduced to
i 1 per cent by the tax committee.
City Council Proceedings.
City Marshal’s Office.
Douglas, Ga., July Ist, 1899.
T* the Honorable mayor, and al
dermen of the City of Douglas,
Gentlemen.
1 have the honor to submit to
you, my semi-annual report, end
ing July Ist, 1899. 1 find by
vouchers, that former Marshal, K.
X. Callahan, collected street tax
for the Ist quarter, $57.28.
Gus. L, Brack, City Murshal
IH!W To city of Douglas Dr. Cr
July Ist, To street tax eol’il
2nd quarter - (17 50
“ By street tax vouchers, 07 50
" To specific tax ex'ct’n, 23 50
“ 23 50
" To fines, etc., 12 00
“ By ** “ vouchers, 12 00
“ Tosan’t’y funds col’c’d
front county, 3 00
“ By sanitary vouchers, 3 00
“ AdvTr’m tax ex’c’t’ns, 5 19
“ “ “ vouchers, 339
“ By am’t. to ballance, 2 10
/
$112.09 112.09
“ To ballance on hand
brought down. $2 10.
Kespcctfully Submitted,
Gus. L, Buack,
City Marshal.
Office of City clerk, Douglas, Ga.
To the Honorable mayor and aider
men of (.lily of Douglas,
Gentlemen.
1 have the honor to submit to
you, my semi-annual report ending
July Ist, 1899. I find collected by
former clerk, A. C. Sweat.
Collected by A. it. tiwent. Dr. Cr.
Special tax, - - - H3t!4
Advalorum tax, - - 20 30
Dog tax, - - - - 100
By, vouchers, - - - 111.00
1809. To city of Douglas. Dr. Cr.
July Ist, To special tax, II 00
" By vouchers, 5 (XI
" By bal. on band, 0 00
122 00 122 00
No. of orders drawn by
A. C. Sweat. Nos. from Ito 45 total 298 10
Nos. 4(1 to 5(1 by O. Rudolph, “ 89 21
Total 387 31
O. Rudolph,
City Clerk.
Office City Treasurer of Douglas.
To the Honorable mayor and
aldermen of City of Douglas,
N. F. Goodyear, city treasurer
report.
1899.
July Ist' To City Douglas, Dr. Cr.
" Hpecilic tax - 13109
“ Street tax 12128
“ Fines and cost 30 35
“ amt. appr’t’d for si.
funds 193 80
“ By vouchers general
fund 130 74
“ “ “ St. tax 220 04
“ “ “ Fines, cost 112 80
" “ lifts, on st .f<ls. 52 65
“ 11 bal. on band 14 89
537 12 517 12
Douglas, Ga., July 6th, ’99.
Council meeting called by J. J.
Walker, mayor. Aldermen pres
ent, W. F. Sibbett, 'l'. J. Davis,
I’. Sellers and C. E. Caker.
Health committee reported that
folin Manning was not doing the
work satisfactorily that he was em
ployed to do. Said committee in
structed the clerk to cause John
Manning to pay his taxes and allow
him pay for what he had done and
tlie marshal to look titter the cause
hereafter.
Moved and carried that A. W.
Haddock he relieved of street tax
for 1899 for fixing street west of
Madison street to said A. W. Had
dock’s house, also U. Sellers be re
lieved of all street tax for 1899 for
work to he done on Sellers street
from Gaskin Avenue west to Pearl
street.
Reports of the clerk, treasurer
and marshal was read, it was moved
and carried that said reports be sub
mitted to the finance committee for
investigation and turned over to
the clerk for publication.
Meeting adjourned until Thurs
day night, next.
O. Rudolph. J. J. Walker.
Clerk. Mayor.
Telfair Enterprise : “A man in
Randolph county killed his mother
in-law the other day because she
persuaded his wife to quit him.
Some men wouldn’t knock the old
lady out for a little thing like tliat-
Soiite of the republicans up
north are raising a howl about the
resignation of secretary Alger.
It’s all in the family and we shall
have nothing to say.
NUMBER il
Georgia Wheat.
The wheat convention held in
Macon last week demonstrated the
tact that wheat can be raised, and
actually was raised this year, at a
profit in every section of the state.
North Georgia, south Georgia, Cast
Georgia and west Georgia all pos
sesses large areas of land which un
der proper cultivation will give
yields ot wheat that would be sat
isfactory in almost any state of the
Union.
1 lie winners of the prizes offer
ed by the Macon Telegraph for the
best yields <>l wheat, in spite of
very unfavorable seasons, made
good records. One hundred and
forty-eight bushels of wheat on four
acres and over forty bushels on
one acre tire fine showings, but we
predict that both will be beaten in
Georgia next year.
Ihe interest in wheat growing
in this state was never before so
lively or so general. This year
more Georgia farmers than ever
before have wheat ot their own
raising. Most ol those who raised
wheat this year will raise more
next year and there will be many
recruits to Georgia’s wheat army.
Ihe county ol Spalding comes
out of the contest for tlie Macon
Telegraph wheat prizes with flying
colors, having won three out of a
possible four.
1 his shows what middle Georgia
can do.
It has been a common belief that
north Georgia is the only section of
the state where it pays to raise
wheat.
I'he wheat convention and the
competition for the Macon Tele
graph’s wheat prizes have shown
that this is a talse notion and tliat
Georgia has far greater possibilities
for wheat culture than has been
generally supposed.—Atlanta Jour
nal.
A bear, weighing 250 pounds
was killed in Pulaski county
recently.
Mathew Sweat, of Pierce coun
ty, and old and esteemed citizen of
that section, is dead.
The “kissing bug,” a bug that
attacks you only on the lips has
been apprehended in Waycross.
Robert Ingersoll, the famous
lecturer and unbeliever is dead.
He laid suffered with heart disease
for five years.
The mormons are in Wayne
county, but the people down there
are on to their racket and will leave
them very much alone.
Five Italians were lynched at
Lallaueh La., last week for killing
Dr. Hodge. Dr. Hodge bad shot
a goat belonging to one of the
Italians.
Nashville, Berrien county, long
without a railroad, is now threat
ened with two lines. Berrien is
one of the best counties in the state,
and Nashville deserves good rail
road connections.
John Turner and bis wife, ne
groes, killed a widow woman,
white, near Birmingham. The ne
gro woman lias been caught, but
the man is still pursued. Judge
lynch is ready.
A seven year old boy shot and
killed bis step-father for beating
hi sister at Birmingham, Ala., last
Saturday. He did right. Men
who marry widows with children
should treat them as children, not
brutes.
Eastman Times Journal: The
Douglas Breeze is waging a warm
tight against the mormon mission
aries in it’s territory. Right you
are, Brother; they are about as big
a nuisance as the “faith cure”
cranks, and are calculated to do
about as much damage. Heat ’em
hot, and keep a heatin’.
Senator Morgan of Alabama has
created a sensation by authorizing
an interview in which he virtually
declares against the domination of
Bryan for president, v