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VOL. 13. NO. 43.
$21,500 PAID OUT MONTHLY
IN CORDELE FOR SALARIES.
A Caqvass Arqogg th|e Business Houses ar\d Manufac
turing Concerns of the City Develop This Fact.--In
the Fall of th\e Year It Will Reach\ $30,000.
No doubt there are many people
who live in our city and associated
closely with the business interests of
thecity who have no idea of the
amount of money paid out for sala
ries among our business houses and
manufacturing establishments here.
A Sentinel representative
viewed the different business con
cerns of the city this week, ascertain
ing from each of them the amount
paid out for salaries monthly, which
sum figures up as a whole to the
enormous amount of $21,500. This
only represents the larger business
houses and manufactories of the
town. There were a few other busi
ness men who we desired to include
in this report, but could not see them
as they were out of the city.
This enormous amount is paid out
A. E. Hamilton Paralyzed.
On last Monday evening about 8
o’clock, while feeding his horse, A.
E. Hamilton became paralyzed, his
entire right side being affected.
Since then he has been in a most
critical condition at the home of his
brother, W. C. Hamilton, barely con
scious if at all, and unable to speak.
All that can be done is being done
for him. but grave fears are enter
tained as to bis recovery. Dr. F.
R. Wallace is the attending physi
cian.
Cashier Hester Leaves.
W. II. Hester, who lias for quite a
long while been identified with the
Wight – Wesloskybank of this city,
as its cashier, has resigned and will
goto off Albany, before May 1st. He may not
get the 10th. He has ac
cepted National a position with the Albany
Bank, We exceeding re
gret Cashier giving up this excellent family.
Hester’s successor has not
yet been chosen-
Sam Jones at Tifton.
Rev. Sam P. Jones will deliver
his lecture “Get there and stay there”
at the Tifton Opera house on the
night of May first. One fare for the
round trip on the railroad and 75
cents admission. Keith Carson says
that Tifton has sent good delegations
to Cordele and now he wants Cor
dele to send a good crowd to Tifton
to hear Sam Jones on May first.
Unadilla Notes.
W.D. Wilson and his excellent
family where moved to Cordele this week
home. they will make their future
It is with deep regret that
every citizen of Unadilla bids Mr.
Wilson adieu, and he has the best
wishes of his host of friends who
hope for him much success in the
“Magic be city.” Mr. Wilson will also
dist greatly church missed from the Metho
here, where he was of
valuable assistance.
Wilkes Graham and W. E.Read
visited Grovania Sunday, they return
ed with a pretty white rose each
pinned on their coat, and it is needless
to say that they were put there by
some of Houston’s fair young damsels
Homer Mims of Cordele was in
the city several days last week at the
bedside of his sick wife whose con
dition we regret to learn has not
sister-in-law improved. She is at the home of her
A Mrs. Dr. Wooten.
of Mrs. candy P. pulling given at the home
night G. Wood last Friday
in favor of the Misses Riggie
and Mazie Crawford, was largely at
tended by the young people of the
town, and with the refreshments
served, the delicious candy made,
and the many interesting games pa
ticipated in, every one present had
a most enjoyable time. Misses Big
gie and Mazie Crawford left Monday
With their parants Mr. and Mrs. Wil
son for their future home in Cordele.
,r v - .• “ortlelle
monthly in our city for salaries alone,
and does not include any other ex
pense that might accrue in the oper
ation of the different business inter
ests within our borders,
As this money is paid to the era
pi 0 y ees 0 f {j ie different concerns of
the city who are residents, it finds
immediate circulation here. This
amount distributed monthly in our
city alone, acts as a continued stimu
lus to the city’s trade Besides this
Cordele enjoys an immense trade
from the territory contiguous to the
city which demonstrates the fact
that we have a live hustling business
all the year through.
The amount above refered to does
not fully represent the amount paid
out during each month of the year,
Visitors to Albany Chautauqua.
Among those who attended the
Albany Chautauqua from Cordele
Wednesday, we note the following:
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Fain, Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Murphey, Mr. and Mrs.
P, J. Willis, Mr. and Mrs. P. H.
Willis, Mrs. J. W. Bivins, Mr. and
Mrs. J. J. Willis, Mrs. L. E. Hines,
Mr. and Mrs. Robt.Greis, Mrs. J.T.
Hill, Mrs. L. C. Edwards, Mrs. J,
W. and Miss Bowers' Mrs. J. M.
Cox, Miss Morris, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Harder, Miss Lillie Ray,
Miss Dora Dennard, Miss Mellie
Rorberts. Miss Mary Roberts, Miss
Jennie Scott, Mrs. J. M. Nelson,
Dr. H. B. Roberts, F. M. Coker,
Olin Shivers, A. E. Mann, Frank
and Calvin Ledbetter, T. J. Aye
cock. J. S. Sheppard, T. E. Jen
nings, D. A. Pitts, W. E. Smith,
H. M. Campbell and J. T. West
brook.
News at Vienna.
The good people of the capitol
city of Dooly seems to be happy and
contented, and the city seems to be
on a boom from a building stand
point. We note that The Vienna
Drug Company occupies their new
two story brick building. B. F.
Forbs has his stock of drugs next
door in two story brick just complet
ed by Dr. C. T. Stovall. Jordon
Bros, will soon occupy two story
brick next to Vienna Drug Co., near
ing completion and owned by Col.
M. P. Hall. J. P. Powell will oc.,
cupy brick store being erected by
Dr. Stovall adjoining B. F. Forbs’
drug store. These are four new build
ings that occupy space recently burn
I e( j and fronting the public park on
the West> j. A . \v a M e n will move
his stock of goods into the new
brick store being erected by Dr.
Stovall just in rear of Rev. P. G.
McDonald’s store. J. P. Heard is
putting material on ground for two
brick buildings on his lots just south
of court house. Elihu Walden will
soon erect two brick stores betwren
Southern Hotel and court house.
We were glad to see Jake Roberts
up and out superintending putting
up awnings round his brick bloek.
The new home of Col. M. P. Hall is
nearing completion and it is both
beautiful and elegant. Rev. P. G.
McDonald informed us that he
would soon erect a handsome and
costly new residence.
The nine year old son of G. M.
Hall, who resides three miles West
0 f Vienna died Tuesday morning at
CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 26, IDOL
for during the months in the fall of
year larger forces are employed
by nearly every firm reperesented in
the above amount, and it would then
reach the thirty thousand dollar
mark or more.
Looking at the fact that our city
is yet young and her population not
quite 5000, it is a splendid showing,
and demonstrates to the world that
our business interests are by no means
a small affair.
Within the next twelve or eight
teen months when the new railroads
enter our borders, and other manu
factuiing interests are located in our
midst the “Magic City of the Pines”
will be noted as one of the largest
and the best towns in the wiregrass
belt.
7 o’clock of merabranious croup. The
interment took place Wednesday
morning at ten o'clock in the hurry
ing ground at Mt. Beezar church.
The entertainment of Vienna Athle
tic club which was posponed on ac
count of bad weather will be render
ed Friday night May 3rd. at Heard’s
Opera House, Vienna. The pro
gramme has been changed and many
new features added. The pugilistic
contest will close the performance.
Barn Burned.
Last Sunday night about 10
o’clock at Unadilla the barn of
Mr. J, Y. Netherton was burned.
Mr. Netherton had about 1500
pounds of fodder in the barn
which was a total loss, besides one
horse and a mule in a stable ad
joining the barn which was burned.
Besides he loss by the fire his bug
gy and six fine hogs.
When the fire was discovered it
was too late to save anything.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Arab! News.
Mr. John Cams from Ashburn
visited his sister Mrs. Dr. Harvard
last Sunday.
Mr. Will Rogers has the mumps
Rev. J. J. Hyman is spending
this week in Macon.
Mr. Jim Whitehead of Ashburn,
visited friends here Sunday.
Miss Ida D. Cherry, the accom
blished music teacher of Pinehurst,
visited Miss Ruth Clements Satur
an ^ Sunday.
Miss Sallie B owen, one of the
“L. L. C. girls left Sunday for
Luke where she will make her fu
ture home. We hate very much
to give Sallie up, but Luke should
feel complimented on receiving
such a girl.
Miss Willie Dudley is out again
after several days illness
Mr. Jim Brown returned Sun
day night after spending several
days at the bedside of Ins father
Mr. Brown in Cordele.
Mr. Jim Brown of Luke was here
Sunday.
Miss Lollie Henry returned from
Cordele Sunday night, where she
spent Saturday and Sunday.
The friends of Miss Willie Dud
ley sympathize with her at the
death of he pet cat- Neg
Those famous little pills, DeWitt’s
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impurities from your system, cleanse
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UNION OF CHURCH AND STATE
BY C. 1. SHll'l*
The recent move on the part of
the Baptist to coalesce with M<
thodist for the purpose of pollibit -
mg the sale of l quor as now car
ried on in the state has created
something of a furore among tl»e
polititions, the old cry that this is
the entering wedge looking to a
union of Church and State lnvs
been heard in feeble accents from
a number of the advocates of the
cause.
This contention if its conclne
lon was admitted would be effec
tive, and should be so, for I as
sume that it would be infinitely
preferable to have a grog shop at
every cross road, and a bar room
in convient distance to all our
homes where a congregation of
debauchees would daily gather,
than to have our country domin
ated by any kind of priestcraft,
entailing as it surely would the
compulsory payment of tithes, the
punishment possible bv fine or
imprisonment of all those who
were members of other than the
established church, and other evils
without ending to the subver
of the nations liberties.
But can we grant tins conclu
sion? Are we convinced of any
such dangers? Is there any rea
son to ba afraid? Is the assump
tion even the least bit plausible?
I can not think so; assertion is
not argument, and the giving of
judgment without appeal may
sometimes affright, but it doesn’t
even convncei the most timid :—
the Baptists and Methodists North
preached abolition of slavery just
before and during the civil war,
whilp their brother minister? of
the South were declaiming from
their pulpits ‘ ‘That Canaan shall
serve his Master,” and yet we see
no tendency to unite church and
state. So far in tact are the peo
ple of this country from any such
tendencies, that the name of God
has never been placed in our con
stitution, and there has been no
time since the American colonies
were planted, that the churches,
or rather the church people sway
ed by religious influences have not
entered politics when moral ques
tions were involved.
The Baptists have always fought
the union of Church and State,
even in Holland over two hundred
years ago when they held the bal
ance of power and were in position
to dictate terms, they refused it as
being contrary to their principles;
and in the early settlement of this
country before this question was
settled they planted themselves
against the union of church and
state, believing that this subver
sion of the peolpe’s liberties to be
a relic of Romish TyraDy.
Roger Williams, the organizer
of the Baptists in America, was
driven from Massachusetts in 1689
account of his denying the right
of the civil magistrate to interfere
in matters of religion.
Besides all this the people of
America are too inteligent and too
high up in the scale of intellectaul
thought to ever be lead by preist
craft as to lapse into barbarity.
Thomas Jefferson in a letter to
John Adams in 1816 said “We are
destined to be a barrier against
the return of ignorance and bar
barism.”
The Baptist and Methodist
church influence is by far the
strongest in the state when com
bined, there being about 190,000
white Baptists and about 160,000
white Methodists in Georgia, pay
ing as I understand about two
thirds of the taxes of the state. I
cannot think that there are many
clear headed men who will argue
against the propriety of these great
bodies uniting for the purpose of
ridding our state of the bar room
evil.
See us when you want firstclass
v*b work, at city prices.
A Visit to Quitman, Georgia.
J.B. SCOTT, WRITES INTERESTINGLY ABOUT
ONE OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE SEC
TIONS IN THE STATE
-'hi. Enrron: Your correspondent has recently returned from a vis
^ Quitman where he went to visit his children, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
!,,1( i very much to his surprise he found one of the most thriv
' n fi little cities in Georgia in the heart of the best agricultural section
111 the state. The planters are up-to-date in everything pertaining to
agriculture. The fields are nearly all cleared of stumps, and improv
machinery is used in preparation and cultivation of all crops. The
Ia,1(!s H1 'e all broken m the fall and early winter, so deeply and
that you can scarcely see a vestige of the previous crop.
are then harrowed and raked until it is perfectly smooth, and
the crop is planted it looks like a nice clean yard laid olf and
The grain is the finest I ever saw at this season
year Your correspondent through the courtesy of Mr. Wade, the
editor of the Quitman Advertiser, and Dr. Wilson, rode over many
miles of the agricutural section of Brooks county, and at every farm
saw large droves of as fine stock, hogs and cattle as can be found any
where in Georgia. Then I found the secret of Quitman being called
the meat market of the South, her products being shipped to all the
Southern counties of Georgia. Every grocery store in the city is
filled with home raised meat composed of hams, shoulders and sides,
I was told that it was no uncommon occurrence for a planter to sell
10,000 pounds of meat which was a surplus. Mr. Edward Young told
me lie had already sold 16,856 pounds of home raised meat, still has
more to sell and enough will be kept to run his 15 horse farm the re
mainder of the year. He lives two miles from Quitman, has water
works, cold storage, and all other modern comforts all acquired from
the cultivation of his farm. He was raised a poor boy, and has risen
rapidly by economy and close attention to his farm, and to-day owns
1,000 acres of as fine land as can be found m South-west Georgia;
and there are a large number of others who have done the same thing.
Every pond or low plateau in that section are put to good use, by con
verting them into stock pastures, here is where they keep their hogs
and cattle through the summer months. I was told that not a pound of
western meat, corn, or oats, had been shipped to Quitman in a long
while. Every one I met seemed cheerful and happy, commencing
new year as heretofore with no increase in area of cotton, or
of commercial fertilizers.
Quitm'an is a beautiful little city of 8,000 inhabitants, wit.li water
works^fid efedtrtc ligh 1$5 owned and operated by the city at a cost of
50 cents for water and from 50 to 60 cents for electric lights per
month. Her city tax rate is 75 cents per $100.00. Street tax is nom
inal. Her streets are very wide and beautiful, shaded with large
oaks on the sides and centre of the streets. She has a splendid Public
School building, with graded school, run by the city entirely free.
The Court House is an elegant structure, situated in a large lovely
park well shaded, also an ice factory of sufficient capacity to supply
all the wants of that section. The citizens of Quitman and Brooks
county have built a large cotton factory, twice as large as the Cordele
factory, in which I found quite a number of our former citizens who
use to work in our mill here, and the enterprising editor of the Quit
man Advertiser gives every family a copy of his paper free of charge
so long as they work in this cotton mill. I found in Quitman, Meth
odist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Christian churches, and her people
are a religious, church-going family, all working together for the ad
vancement of the cause of religion. There are two Banks, both com
posed of home capital viz : Bank of Quitman and Merchants and Far
Bank.
The deposits in Bank of Quitman was $156,000.00 and the larger
part of those deposits belongs to the planters of Brooks county; the
planters owns a large share of the stock in the Merchants and Farm
er’s Bank. Quitman and Brooks county have built and equipped a
railroad from Heart Pine on the G. S. F. to Quitman, a distance of 28
miles, and have bought and laid down at Quitman enough of eight lb.
steel rails to complete the road to Greenville, Fla. 26 miles, to which
place they are building as rapidly as possible. When this road is
completed it will run a distance of 54 miles through the heart of the
finest lands in South-west Ga., and will develope a large area of coun
try heretofore in obscurity; all this has been done with home capita],
without issuing a dollar’s worth of bonds. This shows what a united
people can do, and Quitman has demonstrated what our people can do
if the people of Dooly county and Cordele will all unite in the build
ing of the Waycross Air Line and the B. – B. to Cordole. And judg
ing from the sentiment at our last mass meeting, and the general talk
on the streets, and through the section through which these roads
will come, it now seems that our people are a unit in this con
templated enterprise, and ere long I expect to wake up some fine
morning, and have the Waycross Air Line train come thundering into
Cordele loaded with friends from our sister towns and cities, coming
to Cordele to do their shopping, for you well know Mr Editor that
either one of these roads will develop the best section of Dooly and
other counties along the line, that have been hurried in obscurity here
tofore.
If sdme of our planters would visit Brooks county, and see the
thrift of the planters I think they would profit by Brooks county’s ex
perience, and our section would soon blossom like the rose, sending
forth its fragrance would stimulate the surrounding country. Asking
pardon for trespassing on valuable space in your newsy paper.
I am respectfully yours,
J. B. Scott.
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