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sifsiG SERBIA.
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\ik 'id i y m %/ (& 'feat a! Li liS feiP b w U 513 '<&
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Muiaj Loaned to Codon Shippers on
Appro red Seenrifa.
Experienced and Expert Handlers of
Sea Island Cotton.
(laiiaiacUireTs of Higl) Grade Fertilizer.
LMDilLifliuiL • iiAU r' UlwUillilllLil,
J. P. ULMER, WAYCROSS, QA.
Anything 1 in the Burial Line Furnished, Horn a Pine Coffin
to a Steel Casket, on Short Notice.
STATE LICENSED EMBALMER.
Will go anywhere within One Hundred miles of Way
cross, Embalm bodies for shn ment or take charge of
funerals. Order through responsible parties by telegraph
or telephone.
THE ULMER WAGON, ONE HORSE, $28.00
J. IN UL.MEI R, • 8 WAYGB3SS, fil
um ed :r w-ip. i iii
I tags!
“Star” tin tags (shov.l , : cm::!; si..-,: ; print' .1 on under side of!
teg). “Horse Shoe,” “J. TANARUS.,” “Good Truck, ” “Crop's Ifov.-,” and |
“Drummond” Natural L- at Tin Xo::s mv of cr. i. a 1 value in secur- i
ing presents rmuitionoii h-.iavr, and may he assoil.ed. Everyman,!
■woman and child can find someth!: g on the list that they would |
like to have, and can ha, .-
•tile. sU Auf-dS O |
TACP.
1 Vfatcnßox 2.‘>
2 Kuife, one blade, good stew. 2T
3 Sc.rsors,
4 Child Set, Kn! f c, For 1: and Spool? 25
5 Salt and Pepper Sot. one each, r,;nd
niple plate on wild a metal HO
6 French Briar "Wood Pipe..... 25
7 Razor, hollow ground, fine Englieia
steel 53
8 Butter Knlie, triple plate, best q ui.hty Si*.
9 Sugar Shell, triple plate, best quality 60
20 Stamp Box.stevliiie silver Vo
11 Knife, “Keen ILutUT,” two blro'-s 73
12 Butcher Knife, “ Keen E-utter,’* b In
blade 75
13 Shears, “Keen Kuitor.”B-!uob 75
14 JSut Set, Cracker end fi Ihcks, eii\er
plated jn
15 Base Ball, “ Ar/ovint'cii,'- 5 best quality.{.‘‘O
1G Alarm Clock, trit.r 1 ’. 150
17 Six Gennine Rogerb* Ti-arpoono, :
plated goods FO
78 "Watch, nickel, r-tern wind and sot •<>
19 Carvera, good steel, buckbfi-n imf?'I f “-*A'ti)
20 Six Gennlre Regers’ Table SpooL -,
best plated goods 250
21 Six eaeii. Knives and Fords, buck hern
handies tSO
THE ABOVE I‘FFRH. EXPIRES NQ’/EMBER 30th, WOO.-.
&5-BEAR IN anvil fhn. a dime’s worlli of
STAR PLUG TOBAQCO .
veil I lo.st longer and rJlortl more pleasure than a dime’s wortii of any
ether brand*
MAKE
Send tag3 to CONTINENTAL TOBACCO GO., St. Lewis, Me,
LargestahdHostCohpleteSuggylactqry on Earth Write fois
Prices an*
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Q-.iP. Cooes A~e The .■■- .
Cur? PRICE THS LOWEST / •i? Sn^
.pAKitY. b^°l ‘ 3 w
1 TAGS, a
C 2 Six ra-eT’, Genuine Rogers’ Knives and }
••. * c.t plated goods 500 &
;.b ‘z. 8-dny. Calendar, Thermometer, S
Ji ;i••meter 500 l
: t leather, no better isade 500 J
15 i level ••' r, automatic, double action 32 a
Ol .: caliber GOO S
CD '(>'■!. et. not playthings, but realtools 050 I
i'o-lef. Set, decorated porcelalu, very; J
une fi r, '|
p- l iemhigion Rifle No. 4,22 or S3 caliber HUO'j
k'9 V-.'e.fc:: sto-f\ !*• ailrcr, full jeweleu. .1000 I
Jl) Dress Suit, leather, handsome I
n ible 1000 a
31 Sewing Machine, first class, with all $
attach :nt St a 1500 5
22 Revolver, Colt’s, SB-caliber, blued 6
r'.‘ Rifle. C'oir.T. id-siior., 22-caiiber If 00 3
.1 Gubar ! Waaim rosewood, inlaid.|
' h Mandolin, very "ittlidesoini*. ...2000 |
-hi AVincficster Kei.bating Shot Guu, 12
o:ge. 2000
a. Ib obigton, hammer
■•-o < Gun, B' or J 2 gauge 2000
38 Tricycle, standard make, ladies or
g)tit* j. : 2500
29 Sbo r Gen. Ren lingual, double-barrel,
iiamrucrless
‘0 Reglr.a Music Box,
DOUGLAS, GA., SATURDAY, AUG. 25th, 1900.
AMONG THE EXCHANGES.
Interesting- Items Gleaned From Our
State Papers.
| Dooly county's taxable increase
* for i 900 is .$ i.| i. n .|.
I The Ocilla Public School will
I open the first. .Monday in Septem
j her.
Fifty brick masons are at work
pj-n the Dublin cotton mills, and
more are nestled.
I*
'Hie “fence or no fence” problem
is worrying the minds of the peo
ple of Dooly county.
Irwin county’s taxable increase
for 1900 is $70,596. Amount of
j tax in default $8*925.
Dodge county held her primaries
last week. A heavy vote was
I polled and good men nominated.
Mr. Allen Smith, living near the
I line of Ware and Coffee carried a
barrel of new syrup to Waycross
last week.
Parties living near the (Ikefcmke
swamp, a few miles below Way
cross, report having seen several
large bears recently.
Cordele’s. new artesian well has
been finished and furnishes 500
gallons of good pure water per
minute. Lucky Cordele.
The populists of Pierce county
vcill bold a mass-meeting at Black
shear on Thursday, August 30th,
to nominate'county officers.
Mr. J. A. Jones, of Waycross,
recently returned from New York
seriously ill. He is of the well
known firm of Jones & Thomas.
The Tifton correspondent of the
Macon ‘Telegraph says Mr. W. B.
Parks, of i’y-Ty, has been shipping
pears by the car-load for the past
two weeks.
Mrs. J. M. DeVane, of Tifton,
is dead. She was a popular,
Christian lady, loved by all who
knew her. She leaves a husband
and six children.
Waycross is enjoying sweet po
tatoes. Farmer J. C. Clough dug
ten bushels from three rows an
acre long. They were fine, and
sold readily at 20c per peek.
And now it turns out that Coffee
county is not the banner county in
the tax increase business. Well,
Coffee was ahead and some of the
Others overtook her, that's all.
The Breeze notes with pleasure
that all the South Georgia papers
have the State-Fair-County-Kx
hibit fever. The disease will spread
we hope until every section is in
terested.
A young man named Brenner,
who got: to fooling around another
man’s wife, (Whaley last: week in
Atlanta, and even attempted to
shoot the husband,) was .made to
pay a fine of $50.00
The Chairman of the Prohibi
tion party in Dodge county offers
j $50.1,0 reward for the arrest- and
conivction of a white man in
that county for selling whiskey,
and SIO.OO for a negro doing the
same. W
The Brunswick Times and Bruns
wick Call, an evening and morning
paper, have consolidated, fund now
appear in eight-page form as the
I “Brunswick Times—Call.” .The
improvement . thus formed will
doubtless benefit the City by the
Sea.
Ocilla Dispatch: “Congress-
I man Brantley will begin a canvass
j oi the Eleventh district about. Scp
| tember Ist. Tills is not necessary,
though of course the people would
i iike to hear the tbljipiant 'young
orator and discuss the
issues of the ’J
Over in Iyyviit county last Mon
day week*, 'iii the City court, a
I vdbtnan was fined s,;o and costs for
| keeping a lewd house, and in Doug-
I las last Monday another woman
| received the same fine for the same
! business in the same kind of a court.
\ That rruist be the regular fine* -
The Cordele Sentinel appear-, in
anew typographical dress. Du
ring a storm on August ,jth. a huge
! tower fell on the roof of the print-
P demolishing it ;mV
eip a fellow
DEPLORABLE MISTAKE.
A Colored Man Takes the Wife of a
White Man to be his Wife, and
is Seriously Cut by the Hus
band's Brother.
So many cases of outrage and
depredation are being daily report
ed that the mind of the man who
is responsible for the safety of a
wife, sister m- daughter is full of
suspicion am: easiness, and on
this identical account a respect
able, well liked colored man is
near death’s door, in Douglas to
day.
Last . Sunday morning the wives
of John.-Chandler and John Tavlor,
two well known colored men, went
down about Pearson to be gone
all day, and expected to return
Sunday afternoon, but up to 9
o’clock had not returned. John
C handler, becoming uneasy about
the absent ones, asked some friends
to go down the road a piece with
him to meet hfi wife and her sistev,
which they did, stopping at some
colored friend’s house about two
miles from town.
In order to record the account of
the affair as we have heard, it is
necessary to state that Solicitor
< )steen and \\ ifie had gone down to
Clinch county, below Pearson pre
viously, and were also expected to
return Sunday night. So it hap
pens that Sol. Osteen and brother
in one buggy were.passing about
the time John Chandler arrived at
the house, with the wives of the
two Osteens following in another,
buggy, some, fifty yards in the rear..#
John was informed by some in
mate of the house mentioned that
a buggy with two ladies was pass
ing, and he hurriedly ran across
the wood to the road and jumped
up on the rear of back axle of the
buggy, frightening the two Mos
dame Osteens so bad that they
screamed. Thinking the ladies
were his wife and her sister (for
both are nearly white) John said:
“don’t be alarmed it is me,” but
they continued to scream.
The two Osteen brothers in the
front buggy heard the " screams of
their wives and running back to
them saw the negro standing on
the axle asked : “what do you mean,
you fool?” The negro' replied that
“one, of the women in the buggy
was his wtfe.V “No she is not,”
replied Sol: Osteen, “She is my
wife,” and at the same time run up
and tried to puli. John down off the
buggy. At the same moment the
other O men ran up and began cut
ting John will) his knife, and was
about to cut his throat when his
brother cried out, then recognizing
who the negro was, “(put, quit,
this is |ohn Chandler—John what
do you mean!” “I thought it was
mv wife,” was the answer .-.s he
sank to the ground.
John was frightfully cut, three
or four places to the hollow, and
when Dr. Sibbett reached him al
ter he was brought to town, wa.
breathing through a stab-hole in
the back.
It was all a fatal, *fcad mistake,
John was expecting his wife and
her sister, at that time and by that
road, therefore when the buggy
carrying the white-ladies passed he
was sure it was the ones lie was
looking for. So it was with the
Osteen brothers, had they beard
and recognized John’s voice, as
as tbs v did too late, Sol. Osteen
would haiic known it wms a mis
take, for he knows John to he a"
polite, orderly, i'n-his-place man,
blit running back ‘when their wives
screamed, and seeing a negro hold
ing on to the back part of the bug
gy they had only an idea of defend
ing them from the clutches of an
imaffinsrv demon. It is a hard
matter to sav who is to blame,
while the affair is one of the;.-*, re
gretable ones that happen once or
twice in a life time.
Death of Thomas Wilcox. Sr.
The ’-old citizens of the county
j are dropping out by degrees, and
: we are..called on this week to tell
jof the death of one of the most
j widely known and respectable den
: izer.s of this section,
j- lie was father of Tom Wilcox,
! Jr., of this place, and lias con
; neclions over the county. He was
about* 70 years of age, and had*
i been somewhat ’ feeble for some
j time, still his death was a shock,
[and the cause of regret. We are
no ii position to say more about
jrff:.- este tiled citizen not being ac
■JjHinted or posted, but we know
■hW. |W.be bereaved ones have our
B.yrfepathv.
| Death of a Child.
The Breeze, is pained to learn of
the death of tlie-little son of Dr.
Jefferson Wilcox which pccured
last Friday morning, 17, at Willa
coochee. Little Jefferson, Jr., was
only a little over two years old, was
exceedingly bright and interesting,
and his death is a sad blow to the
effect donate parents, who have
our^sympathy.
Row at a Bawdy House. •
Solomfm says a lewd woman's
house is the road to hell, and he
don’t miss it far, for there’s many
lost souls in hell to-day who have
gone that way. Joe Arnold, a
young man, and Ponder McLendon,
a married man, met at the house
of Catherine Dawson, down on the
old McDonald railroad last Friday
night, and after a few prelimina
ries and some disputes, probably
caused from mean whiskey and
still meaner women, Joe Arnold
shot and killed Bonder McLendon.
Registration Books are Open.
John Bussell’s Store, Kirkland,
l’ost office, at Pearson.
Post office, at McDonald’s Mill.
Parker & Meek’s store, Nichols.
Post office, at JMclyen.
Post office, at Broxton.
Post office, at Phillips Mill.
Post office, at W-illacoochee.
Clerk's office, in Douglas.
Post offie#, at Bridgetown.
Books Will remain open until first
ot September. Please dont neglect
,to your name full and clear.
Tugs. L. Paui.k, T. C.
V
* ;
Even Denied an Asylum in Hell.
An editor difed and wended his<
way to where he supposed a warnijj
welcome awaited him. The devin
met him at the threshold: “For
years thou hast borne the blame for
many errors that the printers made
in the paper. \ onr paper has gone,
alas! for the sl. that has often fail
ed to come in. Men have taken the
paper, never payihg for it, and
cursed you for not getting out a
better one. Thou hast been called
a dead beat by the passenger con
ductors when thou hast, shown
thy annual pass to envious gaze.
All these thou hast borne in silence.
Thou canst not enter hero,-” ’and;
“fired” him away. ‘'Heaven is
his home, and besides, if we let
him in here he would be continually
stirring tin a racket by dunning
his delinquent subscribers, for hell
is full of them.”
This is to You, Friend.
We like to accommodate our
friends, and would be more liberal
in business than we are if we had
the nieaAv, but on that line we are
short. We have accounts now, '
in amounts ranging, from $5.00 to
$50.00 against nilliiy for whom we
have worked, for job work, adver
tising, etc., that we are needing.
We have pressing debts, paper
bills, insurance and other items
that call for money from us now,
by (he first,, and we must have (lie
money from some source. You
know whether you owe us or not,
and ii you do, help, us now—we
helped you. If you can’t pay all
you owe us, pay some, and it willJ
kelp. You will feel better, and
and will know that you have done
all that ail honest man could do,
otherwise you ( will not.
Pearson Paragraphs.
Pearson, Ga., 8-22-1900. —The;
weather is hot! hot! They say our
local campaign will be hot, and if
that, makes it any hotter we dread
it.
At last, an idle week with the
farmers of this community, but our
turpentine men are rushing their
work.
Mr. J. Butler, a you*gman who
was active in the turpentine work
in this vicinity last year, died a
few day-ago in Binvinghani, Ala.,
after lingering seWra! days with
typhoid fever. B^request of Mr.
Jno. McCaskill the remains were
sent to Fuyottevi/Je X. C., for bur
ial. lie was i brother of our
neighbor, \lp Jno. McCaskill.
The bereaved f. rmly has our pray
ers and -y'L.'jk* h b-.s
Mrs. \\4oon '-tills, of Fernundi
na, Fla., W~- in our midst, visiting
friends ami. rC.drives. She will
Igo home next ek.
Miss l!iunjtADyaS, little brother
I and Tll k Sink! of McDonald, vis
ited us Sunday. ft fs always
pleasant with us to meet Miss
! Minnie. /
E. T.
John Herrin, o\er at Tifton,
continuer to make a good paper.
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bccooiin;; the cotton
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imiid an I:| i-l 1 i-datc
lni\ in 1 ii.n cil \ , hi-adHSHBEH
of ihe anees-,lul businc999Hpr
energy ami a
a projeetof such fail
Inis been formed, any an invi
tation to the citizens Es.fffte
county to be present at j t|ie
meeting to Be held on
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getting the cream ■
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' * Fitzgerald the fight
z4ye cities for tby trade 1
pbettfc will he lively, because \V9|
e .*1 v re Id an inch wi9
and Fitzgerald
fd iu-thy her steel. wffl
Ai re’s a lively time ahea9|
Waycross Merchants. 9
J ai hunts down at \Vaj9|
still ready to pay-
for you to go an 9
1 999 them. When peop9
inducements for you9
/■aide ,/y mean business. Yo 9
*!niglit go farther and.do worse, ol
you might not go so far and dfl
/■till worse. These merchants ar*
not working for your present tradii
alone,- but hope by the treatment!
accorded you on your visit, now tol
induce your return in future years.l
An invitation to Coffee County. I
Xhc Fitzgerald Enterprise of
lastweek, had the following: 1 I
“Coffee and Telfair counties are
invited to be with us at the Cotton
Factory meeting in Fitzgerald,
September 6th.
The factory is big undertaking,
and every good citizen should taka
stock and help build up the county
and section.
There is no surer or quicker way
to do this than by the building of
manufacturing industries. X otl
help others, and at the same time
help yourself when you join in
these matters.”
Some of our people will be therp,
and we hope they will see their
way clear to subscribe for about
half the stock in that mill. Vfie
arc going to build one in Douglas
after a bit, but there is nq roa-,
on earth why Coffee county' sho- v .-
not help her neighbors, especiAL
when the beneliu ot such J
tcrprise promises tohii of such /At
mutual benefit, ' J !
Atlanta Journal and the
one year for $1.25.