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THE DOUGLAS BREEZE.
VOL. X.
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AID BEAD WATSON’S
BIG' DOUGLAS STORE
Will Be Headquarters for the Best| Cheapest
BIG FUN AND CASH MONEY
The Prettiest Lady, a Silk Dress The Fastest Running Manor Boy, 2 *>o
Ine Fastest Running Horse - - 500 Greasy Pole Climbing, - - 2SO
And Pretty Baby Show, Fine Hat."
A Five Dollar Cake Walk And a Greasy Pig Catching.
iLet Everybody Come and (Have Fun!
♦ Special Dry Coeds Bargains $
■ FOR THAT DAY!
Mice Cord Dress Lawns, 10 yds 25c
All 10 and. 15 Bemnamts Sc.
Fine yd. wide Percales, 5©
Everything in Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Slippers, Shoes, Hats reduced in Price for that Day,
SWSj'TiTDAs Y, A l Ci. 18th.
Tc(t enough infor fends to Meet Yount WATSON’S
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DOUGLAS, GA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1899.
Trade Day In Douglas.
The merchants of Douglas have
selected Al GUST 18TII for a
TRADE DAY, and a day of fun.
and the people are coining 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, $2 50
For the fastest -runner in
a foot race, - - 2 3°
For fastest running horse, 500
For the prettiest baby, two
years old and under,
Fine Trimmed Ilat.
For Colored People.
Douglas merchants know that
the colored people trade, and that
Coffee county colored people like
fun, so thse prizes are for them :
For the most stylish dressed pair
in the Cake Walk, - - .SSOO
For the fiirst one catching the
greasy pig 2 50
The War in the I'hilipines.
The following is an extract from
one of Bill Arp’s letters and is true
every word of it except that the
Filipinos are not all negroes. Many
of them are civilized and cultured
people. This is the extract:
Now, the population of the Phil
ipines is said to be i0.000.000.
That would give them i .000.000
soldiers who are at home. At home
defending their native land and
even if our boys should kill or capt
ure Aguinaldo, another one would
ri.->e up and lead the people. Spain
is chuckling over the $30,000,000
we paid for islands she was tired
of, and it looks to me like we have
bought an elephant. For the life
of me I can’t arouse much interest
in this far off war with 10,000,000
negroes, I don’t cure anything
about it. As Spain treated the na
tive Cubans, so is our government
treating the Filipinos. 1 can’t see
any difference. 1 wish there was
a difference.
I wish there was something to
provoke my pride whenever we
obtain a victory, hut really this
does not seem like our war. It is
an administration war —a Republi
can war, a war that will within a
few years cost millions and entail
another pension outrage. There
was no necessity for it and no ex
cuse for it, and peace might have
been made soon after Dewey’s
victory over the Spaniards. Ag
uinaldo repeatedly proposed for it.
Yes, begged for it, but our officials
wouldn’t even treat with him or
recognize him, and so thousands of
our soldiers have gone to their
death and more are called for.
Organs and Pianos.
We have one hundred parlorand
church organs and fifty pianos for
sale, cheap. They are all brand
new, now in the factory, and will
I
be sold for cash or on installment
(to responsible parties) plan.
Come to our office and see cat
alogue or write us about them.
Pianos best grades. Competition
defied. All latest styles, most im
proved, mouse proof, silver-toned,
first-class in every respect. One
hundred and fifty (150) of these
new instruments, Mason & Hamlin
and Sterling Organs and Pianos
ready to ship, because we have just
been appointed agent, and the
managers want every man, woman
and child in the county to he hang
ing away knocking daylight out and
music into every dark corner of the
land. Write or see us at once.
J. M. Freeman & Daughters.
Waycross and Douglas.
Mr. J. L. Wilcox, of this county,
has sent to the Waycross Journal,
samples of his open cotton, as early
as July 20.
A Negro's View of Lynching.
Sparks. Ga. July 30. —S. M. &
G.R. R. Fireman to the Macon
Telegraph.—Gentleman 1 want this
publish to let the world no what
kind of a negro I am, 1 am sorry
to' my heart I am a negro and got
to bee look at with the rest of the
grand Rascal that is going around
imposing on White ladies. I was
born in \\ ilkinson co. My father
died the year of IS7B, August 7, 21
years ago, and 1 have work ever
since and have not bin out of a job
10 day at the time since. I Say to
the white mens of Ga. if you will
stop so many young negroes from
seting a round on the streats pick
ing Bangos and gittars and make
them go to Work like 1 have all
Ways done then you will see yours
ladies Can go Where they Please.
1 hope your Law-makers •will Pass
a law if any man loaf around 5 or
10 day call him in. As soon as a
Negro stop work he begin to get
in develment at once, So take the
dogs up and make them go to work
for the States and you all will soon
quilt finding them hanging to
limbs, it is getting So it is dangers
for ladies to go by them self. lam
33 years old and never Played card
in my life, never made a dollar on
ly from the muscle and that is the
way for a man to get it. But all I
can Say to my Race is to look up
and bee a race, not dogs. Join
good orders like odd Fellers, let me
call your mind to one thing. We
have lost sum odd Fellers for steal
ing and sum for murder, but you.
Never hear talk of one insult
ing a White Lady, in the lodge
Room they is teach better Sence.
So let ever body go to work and be
sum body. lam working, or at
least, Firing, on the S. M. & (,
R.R. for s3l a mont with E. 11.
Whitehead, Engineer; O. P. Me-
Clary, conductor. So all 1 can
say to the white People, if they
Unites insult yours Ladies Kill
them, Kill them. But it will never
bcc my Fate^
F. J. Butler, a Negro.
—Macon Telegraph.
The Georgia Populists,
Col. W. L. Peek, of Rockdale
county issued a call last week for
a meeting of the populists of the
vStafe to convene in Atlanta the
early part of the present week.
When asked what this conference
meant a well known Populist said
to-day :
“We are going to reorganize
the party for next year’s campaign
in Georgia. It is generally under
stood that there will he 110 fusion
of Populists in this or any other
state and we propose to start the
fight early and keep it up vigorous
ly-”
lo the initiated it appears that
Col. Peek is taking the reins in his
own hands and that lie intends to
to be to the party in the future what
Watson has been to it in the past.
This view is borne out by the fact
that tin's conference to be held
Tuesday is called by Peek and not
by S. J. McKnight, the chairman
of the Populist state executive com
mittee, who lives in Dalton.
Royal Arch Masons
There will he a convocation of
Royal Arch Mason at Willacoo
chee, this county, on the 23rd of
August. The Grand High Priest
of the State will be present and all
Royal Arch Masons are requested
to be present. Master Masons
who desire further advancement caij
he accommodated. Before closing
: a special lodge will convene to con
-1 fer suitable degrees upon all lady
J applicants. A full attendance is
: desired.
B. B. Gray, 11. P.
Broxton Brass Band.
J. A. McNear, Leader; Louis
Harris, Pre>. ; I). W. Wright,
Secretary; D. McFadding, Treas
urer; George Jenning, E. D. Cam
hell. W. J. Huntley, C. Mcßae,
Dorgau Wright. Will furnish mu
sic (or all occasions.
NUMBER 13
The Air Line Excursion.
The excursion last Monday over
the Air Line and B. & W. Rys. to
Brunswick and St. Simon’s island
was a success, like'every thing else
the former road undertakes. The
train over the Air Line, consisting
ot four well filled coaches arrived
at Waycross on advertised schedule
time in charge of conductor Smith
and engineer Morton, two of the
best railroad men in Georgia, and
was hitched on the B. & W. through
train from Albany to Brunswick,
arriving in the hitter place at 9.30.
Conductor Fleming had telegraphed
ahead and the Steamer Pope Catlin
and the editor of the Times with
his estimable family were waiting
to greet ps and convey the whole
crowd to St. Simon’s island, where
we arrived at 11 :00, without acci
dent, and a hungrier, sleepier look
ing lot of people would be hard to
find, still, as sleepy as it was it
made out after many struggles to
eat up two wagon loads of water
melons and drink up all the milk
shakes and soda water to be found
on the island.
Some of the party went in bath
ing, but the tide being out it was
not much sport, until about 4:00
o’clock. The return home was
made without accident arriving
at Douglas about 1 o’clock, tired
and worn out, having been nearly
twenty-four hours on the round
trip.
EXCURSION NOTES.
Lonnie Lott and his friend Rob
erts bursted the waves in grand
style.
Brother Arthur Lott and his fam
ily acted as a kind of ballance
wheel to keep the crowd straight.
Quite a number were left in the
morning, who wanted to go from
Douglas. The hour was an un
usually early one.
And you ought to have seen Dr.
Sibbett rolling in the surf. As
soon he made his appearance
the whales withdrew to the other
side.
About 12 o’clock biscuit ad
vanced to 15 cts. a piece with none
to be had.
The glory of St. Simon’s has de
parted as far as excursions are con
cerned. No accommodations or
attractions and we had as soon vis
it an old broom sedge field for a
day’s outing as to go there.
The steamboat company gave us
a rate lo the island of only 25 cents
round trip—the lowest ever known.
They must have known we
were all bankrupts. The ex
cursionists in a special meeting
passed resolutions of thanks to the
steamboat company, with an invi
tation to come and see us, bring
their boats and stay all night a day
or two.
The Air Line won fresh laurels
for the prompt manner in which
the excursion train was handled.
This was the first one and they
have shown their efficiency in the
premises.
Lost Pocket Book.
Last Tuesday, August Bth, in
Douglas, a folding black morocco
pocket book, with four or five
pockets. It contained a $5.00 note,
some change, several organ re
ceipts, one or two cancelled notes
! and several other papers, all with
: the name of the undersigned. Last
seen was at Sibbett’s drug store or
,B. Peterson’s store. Suitable re
i ward will be paid finder if left at
Breeze office, or returned to B. W.
Douglass.
SEND US YOUR 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 FREE
sample copy of The Georgia
! Poultry lleraho, anew, up-to
date and interesting monthly poul
try paper. Send to
Tiik Georgia Poultry Herald,
Blakely, Ga.
Mr. Elisha Jowers, who lives
near town, brought us in a fine
watermelon last Saturday, of the
big. fat variety which weighed
60 pounds. We carried it home,
, to \\ aycross, and ate melon all day
|Sunday.