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TOWN AND COUNTY.
Mrs. E. G. HARDEMAN, Local Editress.
Hut, dry and dusty.
Wc are still in need of rain.
Mrs.J. Jones, continues very sick.
What a jolly timo tho young
folks are having.
M rs. II. A. Morgan has been on
a visit to relatives near' Wayside.
Mrs R. J. Turner and daughter
visited Five Points Wednesday.
Mr. William Winters and family
of Bradleys, visited Gray this week.
We are glad to learn our Edi
tress is enjoying her trip delight
fully
_
Miss Belle titowartof James, has
been the guest of Miss Kuto Mor
gan this week.
D. D. Holsenbeck and William
Barbee made a flying trip to Way
side Sunday.
Tom Massengale aud family aro
on a visit to relatives in Monroe
County.
W.D. Winters and family spent
Saturday and Sunday with relatives
near Franks.
Rev. and Mrs.. M. A, Phillips
have a summer visitor at their
house-—a boy.
Miss Kate Morgan wishes to say
to her patrons that her school will
open Monday July 30th.
Mrs. Winters, grandmother of
Mr W.D. Winters, is now tho guest
of her grandson. Wo wish her a
pleasant stay.
A party composed of Messrs R.
Y. Hardeman, F. S. Hardeman, J.
A. Morgan, Gordon Hardeman and
George Purseley went out to Mr.
William Green’s wheat field Wed
nesday and succeeded iu bagging a
large quanity of doves.
Mrs. Burton Smith neo Miss
Fannie Gordon, is reported critical
ly ill at tho executive mansion iu
Atlanta.
Clark Smith, having beat Dr.
Barron, Jones County’s professional
checkup player, now challenges
tne stato of Georgia.
Mrs. William G. Morgan Mrs.
Dr. Jas. Barron, and Mrs. O. A. Fin
ney spent Wednesday very pleas
antly with Mrs. J. II. Morgan.
Misses Lois Johnson and Sallie
Barron leavo to day to visit rela
tives and friends in Monticello and
different parts of Jones County.
Miss Ina M. Kelly after a weoks
stay in Clinton returned to her
home in Monticello, much to the ro
gret of her many friends she made
while in our midst. Hope Miss Ina
will visit us again soon.
Mr. II. S. Greaves had tho mis
fortune last Tuesday to lose a fine
two year old filly, which he prized
very highly. Ho had hitched her
up for first time, and whilo drivin g
along she reared up and fell dead.
Attention is called to tho an
noucemcntof Messrs W. W. Barron
and Moses W. Smith for the offices
of Sheriff and TaxCoilector. Dem
ocrats of the county know Will to
be a faithful officer ever ready to
discharge the duties of the office,
regardless of frieud or foe. Let us
center upon theso gentlemen aud
elect them.
CLINTON LOCALS.
Miss Ina lvellv of Monticeilo left
a host of friends last Friday when
she returned to her home.
Mrs. J. A. Stewart who has been
on a four weeks visit to our sister
city of Macon has returned homo to
the joy of her many friends.
The Local Editress, Mrs. Harde
man with four of her charming chil
dren, is absent from homo, spending
several weeks with relatives and
friends in and about Talbotton. Miss
Maude Hardeman will remain some
four or fivo weeks, visiting Warm
■springs before her return. W’e join
the Headlight in wishing her much
pleasure and a safe return to her
home and the resume of the edito
rial duties.
At the charming country home of
Miss Katie Morgan a most delight
ful day was spent on Thursday last
by Missess Ina Kelly, Sallic Barron,
Emmie Chiles, Dutie Griswold, Belle
Stewart, Irene Bowen and Lois
Johnson. During the afternoon the
young men put in an appearance
when delicious cream aud cake was
served in the vino covered poich.
It was a merry crowd as they rolled
into old Clinton late iu the evening
and old Sol never throw his last
bright ray's on a happier or bright
er number of young people,
Thursday' evening at the residence
of Mrs S. L. Chiles one of tko most
elegant entertainmentsof the season
was given to the visiting young la
dies by Messrs. F. M. Stewart and
F. S. Hardeman. The following
couples were present.
Miss Ina Kelly', F. M. Stewart,
“ Sallie Barron, George Purseley
“ Katie Morgan, R. N. Hardeman,
“ Ireno Bowen, Clancy Finney
“ Emmie Chiles, James Morgan
“ Belle Stowait, F. S. Hardeman
“ Lutie Griswold, Holmes Johnson
“ Maude Phillips, Eugene Morgan
Lois Johnson, E. M. Landrum
Mrs. Ida Ingram, L. F. Bradley,
Chaperones—Mrs. D. M. Chiles, Dr.
R. B. Barron aud wife, Col. J. C.
Barron and wife.
Late in the evening elegant and
timely' refreshments wore served
consisting of cream, sherbet, ices
cakes with magnificent fruits of dif
ferent kind until the whole atmos
phere became redolent with the per
fume and the young couples vied
with each other in making tho oc
casion a success, each one declaring
it tho most recherche and deligbful
of the many sociables of the season.
Wc are indebted to Miss Lois
Johnson ono of the charming belies
of Clinton for our supply of local
matter this week in tho absence of
the Local Editress.
Letter from the Editress.
Talbot County, Ga.,
July 23rd 1888.
After several weeks, of anticipa
tion and preparation, we with tho
“better looking portion” of tho fam
ily, wended our way to the little
village of Gray, where after a
patient (?) hours waiting, the “ac
commodation” puffed to its stopping
place, and baggage, box and baby,
etc., placed in position, wo wero
soon, as onebiby romarked, “Going
somewhere I”
At 2 o’clock p. m. wc boarded the
Columbus tram, in Macon, and were
surprised to seethe crowd of pas
sengers for the season. It is always
interesting to. watch new faces,
and among these wo soon located
the bright face ofa recent Wesleyan
graduate, who was going over to
her brother’s marriage in Columbus.
A tired mother, with three dust be
grimed children from Savannah,
vainly tried ever and anon with
soap and towel to make the three
respectable. Of course the irrepres
sible Drummer was there, indeed,
scvci-al of them, and every time the
“little red pass book” was presented
to tho venerable Capt. Jeter, his
face took on a deeper look of con
tempt and tho already furrowed
brow wrinkled more. A poor old
man tiavelling with a quite nice
looking daughter bad been “painting
the town red” and was just reach
ing the stage of “feeling mighty
had” as the coach rolled out the
Depot. The daughter, with crim
soned checks, patiently endeavoring
to hide her shame, made a
fit for a Temperance pencil and a
subject fit for the eloquent tongue
of its orator.
All along the route tho green
fiioidso.f.waning corn and
cotton, with the sun’s slanting
lighting the scene, with now and
then a flash through a bridge as it
spanned a muddy creek, overhung
by willow boughs and rank with
rush and bramble, was real enjoya
ble. The crops seemed to be fine,
cotton especially, and we never saw
so many watermelon patches, some
in areage enough to be called fields
while wo passed carload after car
load of the luscious fruit, some enor
mous in size.
Sinco arriving in fbo old county
of Talbot, we have been faring loy
ally, from one elegant country home
to another, where vegetables of ev
ery kind flanked always by the rich
est chicken pies, etc., makes the
dinner hour a time to bo anticipated.
Ono housekeeper tells me she has
raised this year 350 chickens, sold
78 dozen eggs and had quantities of
butter milk and eggs for family use.
Wc are now sojourning in Bald
winsville, so called from the family
of that name, whose numerous sons
and daughters have homes ono mile
apart in this neighborhood. There
were in the family eight sons and
four daughters, all save the young
est of those have large families and
at overy house we find a girl baby.
This is leap year you romember.
Crops are the finest iu Talbot,
than for years. The Farmers Alli
ance has a ranch stronger force here
than in Jones. It has a membership
of between eight and nine hundred,
lias established a storo in Talbotton
with §12000,00 stock of goods and a
capital of §20,000.00. Only about
175 men, including tlio lawyers,
doctors and merchants, of the coun
ty, are not members.
We will go from here to Talbotton
and will give some dots from there
in next weeks issue.
E. G. II.
|TEMS FROM WAYSIDE.
Alone waiting for the eclipse of
tho moon, and to overcome the
sweet embrace of morpheous, I will
devoto a few moments to tho Head
light.
Tho farmers are about finishing
work, or in other words the “laying
bj ” season is on them. Some of
them will begin to pull fodder to
morrow—cotton small but fruiting
well.
Messrs Mason and Finney aro
overhauling their ginning machin
ery, prepartory to ginning the pres
ent cotton crop.
Mr. D. D. Ilolsenbeck of your
town gavo us a short call to day.
Mr, M. C. Barfield of Jackson is
visiting relatives in tho neighbor
hood.
Mrs. Freeman and son of Shady
Dale aro visiting tho family of Mr
M. E. Whitehead.
Mrs. Ibbio Horkins, Mrs. Van
zuart and Mrs. M. H. Groan wore
received as members of Now. Hope
church yesterday and wero baptiz
ed by Rev. J. II. Gresham to day.
A largo crowd present.
Our people are quiet on politics,
but will emphasise tboir choice of
candidates by a quiet ballot.
“Jake."
v Items from Five Points.
Wo call to mind tho fact (which
no doubt every reader of tho Head
light?) that tho news from this
section has failed for sometime to
reach tho Headlight. W.o- now
appear before public again with
proper modesty, like an old maiden
who has suddenly becomo tho
youngest of the family.
Wc all delight in reading the
Headlight, but do not like to sec
our neighborhood so sileut, as if it
was not allowedjthc happy privilege
of tooting its horn to tho public
through tho Headlight.
We had a jolly time at the picnic
at Gray on tho 14th ingt. Messrs
J. E. Green and G. L. Small who at
tended the picnic stopped on their
return to East Macon at Mr. J. G.
Green’s, where they remained un
til Suuday evening. Perhaps an
item of amusement to hunters,
which is in connection with the
visit of these two gentlemen, will
be the following; On their morn
iu S* walk accompanied by a point
they jumpeu a fox about
ono half mile from the house. The
dog followed the fox at full speed
a£ H overtook jt about a hundred
f l0m t i J0 j 10Use . This was!
as pretty a race as we have ever!
seen, even though it was ou Sun
day morning. This is the second
fox that this dog has caught, both
being full grown. Me has distin
guished himself in many' other re
spects as well. At birds, squirrels,
and rabbits whenever he is allowed
to run them), he is unsurpassed.
He also caugiit a mink Die other
day in passing through some of his
master’s luxnrant corn. By the
way, we reocotnmend this corn to
our farmers as an example worthy
of their imitation,—so thick and
fine as to vender it dark enough
for minks to stay in it in tho day
time. Wo also advise our hunters
to get rid of their hounds which
arc so expensive and besids such a
pest to the women folks, and get a
pointer which will always win the
race, in a few minutes. Leading
you to make further investigations
for yourselves on this proposition,
I pass on to the report from our
crops. Crops are very good in this
community corn is very fine,
and cotton exceedingly- promising.
Our pea crop seems to predict
fat hogs for this Fall, and (euno,
plenty of syrup. Hoping to better
interest you the next time, it' this
docs not stump its too and fall in
the scrap basket, I close by tender
ing tho Headlight my hearty
wishes for its success.
Prep.
Attention is invited to tho adver
tisement of tho Middle Gcorgio Mili
tary and Agricultural College, in an
other column. This college is doing
excellent work, and wo aro sure
that those who patronize it will
have no reason for dissatisfaction.
Champmau and Junes, Macon
Ga., have just received a car load
of well broke horses which they
aro offering for sale very low.
Parties in want of good horses or
mules will find it to their interest
to call at Hotel Do Horse aud give
tho boys a showing.
As Messrs J. G. Bradley and II.
J. Gresham were corning homo from
Cainy Creek church last Sundaj
the horse becamo frightened, ran
over a stump, upset tho vehicle,
threw them both out and darted
across the railroad near M r. White
head. After sifting sand around
the cotton patch he took tho rail
road, made good speod for a hundred
yards aud finally in running ovor
a log heap becamo entangled. No
one hurt.
The Baldwinsvillo Talbot County
correspondent of tno Maeon Tcio
graph has this to say
Tho elite of tho community as
sembled at tho residence of Mr. S
B. Baldwin last Thursday night
and spent a .delightful evening in
social enjoyment, the occasion be
ing complimentary to Misses Lucy
CollierofThomaston, Annie Bald
win of Marshallvillvc, and Maude
Hardeman of Clinton.
Mrs. E. G. Hardeman, Editress
of the Jones County Headlight,
and her charming duaghter Miss
Maude aro visiting tho families of
tho Messrs Baldwin.
They te’l tho following on an old
negro living near town ho bought
a mule on thirty days time at §25
during the thirty day's carries the
mule to a neighboring city, morta
ged her for $75, §50 in goods §25 in
cash comes homo pays for his
mule before he got through
trading o , his mortage, the
mule d A lio lost no timo in
burying it and when ask “S” where
is your mule I is got her in the
swamp fattening. Now tho city
dealers are sharp wc know but how
is this for a county “coon."
MONEY FOR FARMERS.
I am preparod to negotiate loans
for farmers at a total commission of
12 per cent, with interest at eight
per cent, payable once a year, to-wil
on Dee. 1st.
J. O’. Barron, Atty Law,
Juno 9th 3m. Clinton Ga
FOR SALE.
Fivo thousand acres of land in
Jones County in lots to suit pur
chasers, for cash or on time.
Apply to, Eiciiabd Johnson,
May 28th 1888 tf. Clinton Ga
MIDDLE GEORGIA.
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M1 LEE DO I5VILLE, GEORGIA.
Cen’l. IX II. HILL, President.
Twelve Teachers in the Faculty.
Four hundred and fifty one
Students,
TISHTO^ FREE.
Board very reasonable.
of Instruction is lull, ineludi tg Clas
sical, Scientific, Commercial, Musi
cal. In thoroughness of Scholar
ship and Discipline, this Co (logo
has no superior. Next Term opens
September 5th, 1SS8. For Catalo
gues &e., apply to J. N. Moore,
Sec’y. Trustees.
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