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VOL. 13. NO. 46.
General Manager R. C. Harris
And The Tom 1 in = Harn's Machine Co.
There are many towns in Geor
gia even larger than Cordele that
tlo not possess the number of manu
facturing plants that our fair lit
tle city does.
In these different manufactur
ing establishments Cordele feels a
.rreat pride, and as they grow and
multiply, business is stimulated
and the people within her borders
are urged to greater achivements
in the business world.
The Sentinel feels a great inter
est in any enterprise in our city or
county that tends to upbuild and
promote the interest of the people.
To this end we will, from time
to time, give a write-up of these
different manufacturing plants
and the parties who have been in
strumental in their establishments
This week we are pleased to pre
sent to our readers a write-up of
one of our lagest and most prosper
ous manufacturing plants, The
Tomlin-Harris Machine Co.
The general manager and one of
the principal stockholders of this
plant is Mr. R. C. Harris. Mr.
Harris moved to Cordele from Ft.
Valley about twelve years ago,
when Cordele was only one year
old. Soon after his moving here
he put up a planing mill plant on
the location where the present
shops of the Tomlin-Harris Ma
chine shops now are. The firm
name at that time was Tomlin –
Harris. Mr. R. G- Tomlin, of
Butler, being connected with the
business. The planing mill was
operated successfully, being added
to each year until the mill was de
stroyed by fire in April 1894. j n
Miss Catchings Entertains.
Miss Boza Catchings entertained
last Friday evening at the home of
Mr. G. B. Wilkes, in honor of Miss
Laura McKinney of Sparks.
The pretty home was brilliantly
lighted and beautifully decorated and
the evening was delightful to all.
Games of different kinds were in
dulged in, which were highly enjoy
ed. In the flower contest Miss May
Hayes and Mr. NcKinney won first
prize an elegant puff box, while Miss
Julia McDaniel and Mr. G. A. Bal
lenger won the booby prize which
was a large stick of peppermint can
dy. Refreshments were served
about 11 o’clock. At 11:30 the
guests departed voting Miss Catch
ings many thanks for the evening of
pleasure. Miss Lillian Herring as
sisted Miss Catchings in receiving.
These two charming young ladies
can’t be excelled in entertaining, and
by their untiring efforts the occasion
was made doubly pleasant.
Miss McKinney is one of Sparks’
social sweetest young ladies and is quite a
favorite in that little city. She
has made many friends here, who
will regret to see her leave.
See us when you want firstclass
ob work, at city prices.
Hammocks. Hammocks.
ALL KINDS AND ALL PRICES.
Mexican hammocks $ 1.00
Eclipse hammocks $ 1.50
Quaker City hammocks $ 2.50
Quaker City hammocks $ 3.25
tt 66 66 $ 4.00
66 66 66 $ 4.50
FREE HAMMOCK, HOOKS AND ROPE FREE.
CORDELE HARDWARE CO.
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General Manager R. C. Harris.
addition to the planing mill the
firm had added a machine shop on
a small scale; the plant was esti
mated to be worth $80,000 at the
time of its destruction by fire.
In the fall of the year 1894 the
machine foundry was re-establish
ed by Messrs. Tomlin-Harris, and
in February 1895 a stock company
was founded and incorporated un
der the firm name of Tomlin-Harris
Maohine Co. New fixtures and
machinery was put in, new build
ings erected, until to-day it is one
of the best equipped establish
ments of its kind to be found any
where. On December 1st. 1900
this interprising firm purchased
the Wiilcox Foundry and Machine
Co’s, outfit together with their
buildings and _ dbmbmea ^ . the ,, two
plants, increasing the value of
Two Deaths.
Last Friday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock, Carlton Persall departed this
life. He had been sick only a short
while when death relieved him of
his suffering. He was the bright and
promising son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L
Persall of this city.
The remains were intered in Sun
ny Side cemetery Saturday morning,
Rev. E. H. McGehee performing the
funeral rites. We extend our con
dolence to the bereaved in their sea
son of distress.
Little Furman Dekle, the bright
and promising two-year old boy of
Mr. and Mrs, George Dekle died, af
ter a short illness, last Monday morn
ing at 11 o’clock.
The little fellow had been quite
sick from the measles, but as some
time had elapsed, he was thought to
be out of danger, when he was strick
en with dysentery which soon ended
his life. The little one had
many beautiful flowers, and
many friends followed him to the
last resting place. The funeral was
conducted by the Baptist paster Rev
J. C. Brewton on Tuesday afternoon
at Sunny Side cemetery. May the
Father of much mercy attend unto
the grief stricken parents in their
sad hour.
COKDELE, Or A., FJRIDAY, WAY 17, 15)01.
their already well equipped plant
$5,000 or more. They are now
able to cope with the large foun
dries of the cities, and can handle
anything from the locomotive re
pair work on down to the smallest
work usually done in a plant of
this kind.
They have recently erected a
two-story building in which they
have their offices located, and all
conveniences for storage of bolts,
taps, piping, paterns, and such
other articles as are carried in
stock by up-to-date machine plants
General Manager Harris states
that the plant is not yet as fully
equipped as he desires, and that
new machines will be added soon
that will place them in posi
tion to handle any work that might
be brought to them. Mr. Harris
is an experienced machmest, and
was for eighteen years locomotive
engineer on the Central Railroad.
The business has been a splendid
success from the first, and is due
almost wholly to the indomitable
energy and business acumen of the
directing head, Manager Harris.
He was elected an alderman of
the city in 1891 and served the
city efficientlly for two years. In
1898 he was elected clerk and
treasurer of the city council and
in the year 1895 was elected may
or, During his administration as
mayor he cleared the city’s skirts
of all debts and made an excellent
record as the city’s chief executive.
He is one of our most enterprising
citizens, and a man of unceasing
energy, high integrity, keen ir tel
ligence, prudent judgement ’and
fidelity.
Sunday Schools’ Picnic.
The union Sunday school picnic
will be held at Bowen’s mill, on the
Seaboard Air Line, May 81st. this
year. That was the decision of the
joint committee appointed by the
different schools of the city.
A rate of 50 cents will be charged,
for adults and children alike, for the
round trip.
The schedule of the trian will be
to leave Cordele at 8 o’clock a. m.
and leave Bowen’s mill returning at
4 o’clock p. m.
This is said to be an excellent
place for picnicking puposes and as
the schools here have never visited
this place they will doubtless appre
ciate the change.
The basket committee consists of
J. K. Smith, D. H. Ledbetter and
Mr. Orme. \
Let everybody prepare to go now,
and help the children to have a day
full of pleasure. Don’t forget the
date Friday, May 31st.
Georgia Weekly Press.
The fifteenth annual convention
of the Georgia Weekly Press asso
ciation will convene in the city of
Athens on Tuesday and Wednes
day, July 9 and 10, and the hospit
able people of that city will give
the Georgia editors an enthusias
tic and cordial reception. The
meeting promises to be one of the
most pleasant in the history of the
association.
President W. S. Coleman of Ce
dartown is arranging a suitable
program for the meeting, and
hopes to have one of the largest
press parties that has yet as
sembled in annual convention.
From Athens, President Coleman
will take the editors and their
ladies on tlieir annual outing to
the Buffalo fair, giving the party a
splendid opportunity to see many
points of interest in the country
while enroute to the exposition city
The party will travel in special
sleepers chartered for the editors
and the trip will be one of the
most delightful and planned interesting
which has yet been for the
weekly editors.
Bible Reading From A Literary Standpoint.
BY C. J. SHIPP.
Puritanism with its denaturing
precedents; encourageing cant, hy
pocrisy, s nctinioniousness, and
dullness; despising the pleasant,
contemning the beautiful, shun
ning the elegant, as an agency of
vice, and dreading the artistic as
the curse of Babylon affords the
foundation on which the super
structure of a great deal of our lat
ter dav churchiness is builded. It
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is unfortunate tnat duty should be
yoked with saturnine phlegm, and
the unequaled beauties of the
Christian religeon should be warp
ed by the galling fetters ot recluse
ness; this ghostly gravity assumed
by a large portion of the Christian
world, has been a deterent force,
operating to turn the minds of the
young and joyous, from accepting
Christ, whose teachings were never
intended to decrease our pleasures,
but rather to increase them by
raising them to a more elevated
plane, by counseling moderation
and by correcting vice and other ex
tremities which always bring un
happiness.
The religeon of Christ is a bal
last to the soul, counterbalancing
the demoralizing influences of the
imagination run riot, moderating
excessive indulgences which pro
duce unrest rather than peace;
and liberating the soul from
sympathy with our grosser appe
tites which degrade, marr and un
make.
Puritanism has laid its cold
touch on the book of God, that
living fountian, dripping with
pearls of classic luster, in an effort
to change it to a stream of death,
sorrow and gloom.
VVe every day hear men of cul
ture speak of Bible reading as an
unpleasant task to be performed
merely by force of duty, who will
inthe next breath tell you howthey
revel in the beauties of Shakes
peare, Virgel and Byron; how en
raptured they are by the grandeur
and sublimity of Homer, Milton,
and Dante what a representation of
ecstatic excellance they make of
the productions of the phylosoph
ers, scientists and masters of bel
les-letters.
I cannot conceiva of any other
ground than the the one just given,
that any one of education and
culture, with a judgement improv
ed and strengthened by right read
ing, should place the Bible in the
category of dull books, it’s treas
ures of ancient learning has been
shining as a bright light through
Vienna News items.
Vienna is to have another news
paper, Mr. T. A. Atkins who was
formerly with the Progress will be
editor and publisher. It will be a
five column four page paper, will
appear twice a week and will have
an office up stairs in the Stovall
building.
Ordinary Hargrove is making
changes in his dwelling house and
when contractor J. Q. Shipp get
the finishing touches on it you will
hardly recognize his place, so ex
tensive are the changes being
made.
Rev. P. G. McDonald is now
moving away his dwelling prepara
tory to erecting a residence on the
old site that will be elegant to be
hold. He figures on the new home
costing him some four or five
thousand dollars.
Col. D. A. R. Crum has one of
the latest railroad maps gotten out
for the benefit of the Georgia Rail
road Commission which shows
that the new B. – B. road, if built
as the new map shows it, will pass
through Wenona and Coney,
Mr. J. A. Walden and J. P.
Powell are now occupying their
new brick stores while Jordan Bros
will in a few days move into their
the many centuries of the past.
The blank verse of Job, excelling
as it does in it’s clear, lucid style,
is fraught with a description of all
the * arthly woes of which the rich
est and most cultivated imagin
ation could draw a mental pic
ture-, it could possibly be said
that he did not strictly observe the
rules of prosody, or in vulgar deri
sion, that his versos were “lame in
the feet.,’ but this contempt for,
or ignorance of tec»iq»e-, tins in
dulgence freely in poetic liscense,
we see all along the line in profane
writing, both ancient and modern,
notably the verses attributed to
Ossian, the Gaelic poet, who never
studied tecnique an hour in his
whole life if < ne may judge
from his writings ;-t.ecnique lias
never made poetry, it only meas
ures, and to use a figure of speech,
civilizes it.
The psalms of David, those im
mortal Hebrew lyrics, possess pos
sibly a slightly different degree of
literary excellence; the hypercriti
cal could be justified in chraging
that the rhythm is merely a pul
sation of sense, seeking parallels,
periods, synthases and sounds, neg
lecting the metric measurement of
of syllables and accents, and dis
covering futher, lack of variety,
both of thought and diction; but
the musical melody of lus wave
like style,charm these defects away.
Solomon was wide, deed, broad
and long—the ocean to the little
streams of learning around him,
there is no calculus to measure the
many intelligences of this mrriad
minded man, he needs no eulogy
fro%.]»y poo^pe®, ' I am inade
quate to the task, so I leave
where I find him, on the highest
pinnacle of educated thought.
The book of Daniel deals with
the mysterious and the sublime,
excelling in description, narrative
and diction, never growing raon
otonous; the dream of Nebuch
adnezer and the interpretation
thereof is pictured in style almost
beyond compare, the beauty of it’s
imagery, the grandeur of it’s con
ception, has rarely been equaled
in the annals of classic intelli
gence.
What man of reading can call
the writings of Paul dull? The
classic purity of his diction, the
culture of his style will compare
favorably with Addison or Boling
broke, those masters of English
sentences.
Christ’s sermon on the mount
new quarters next to Vienna Drug
Co.
Col. M . P. Hall will soon have
his elegant new residence ready to
move mto.
The missionary meeting at the
first Methodist church this week
has been full of interest, several
visitors and preaches being in at
tendance.
The Vienna Sabbath Schools
will picnic at Beach Haven , on
Thursday May 28rd.
Vienna Public schools will not
close until July 11th. and 12th.,
but already the pupils and teachers
are making ready for the close.
Mr. D. A. Taylor will take ad
vantage of the cheap rates to Sa
vannah next Monday from Cordele
and several others are talking of
doing the same thing.
Judge D. L. Henderson made
Dublin a business visit the early
part of this week.
Mr. James R. Kelley who has
been sick for some two or three
weeks is now looking about as well
as usual, to the delight of his
friends*
The Hand Painted Miniatures
mounted on gold frames now be
ing given away by the Seniirei.,
BEST EQUIPPED
JOB OFFICE IN
SOUTH GEORGIA.
J\PPLY FOR
PRICES
$1.00 A YEAR.
and his prayer, teem with literary
merit, »nd are not to be compared;
in approaching a criticism on
these, “take off your shoes, for
the ground on which you stand is
holy.
Space forbids that I treat ex
haustively on the literary merit of
each book, but l wish to add that
one of the advantages of the read
of good books is that the young
are spurred to the emulation of no
ble deeds; the Homan youths were
taught that they should 'read his
tory, and Ceasar’s legions conquer
ed the world.
The kings and warriors of Israel
were the prototypes of Cromwell’s
captains, and their army was vic
torious both on land and sea. An
other benefit derived from the
study of good literature is the im
itation of thought and style; exa
mine the writings of great men,
such as Bacon, the sermons of Bos
suet, the essays of Montaigue, the
history of Maccauley, the speeches
of Edmund Burke and Daniel
Webster, and will any intelligent
man doubt that their style was
formed from reading the ancient
classics. Cant you discern the
thoughts of Cicero, Plato, Quinti
lian, Senaca, Plutarch, Thucy
dides, Lysias, Aristotle and even
Homer and Virgil dressed over by
these master hands? Read the
writings of Bunyan, Dean Swift,
and later James G. Blaine, William
Jennings Bryan and Robert G.
Ingersoll, and should you fail to
discern the Saxon touch, modern
ized since the St. James transla
tion, your meditations, have been
of doubtful benefit.
’'Even in the blaziDg diction of
Lord Bolingbroke we find more
words of Saxon that of latin or
Greek or origen.
But I do not intend to place Ii>
gersoll among this galaxy of great
men except as an exquistite—; a
persistant flower gatherer, a man
of fastideous taste, and fertile
imagination, exburant though rare
ly meretricious, splendid in dic
tion and rarely turgid; he coukl
cull the most beautiful flowers and
weave them in a dress. I read all
of his works when yonnger, charm
ed by his rounded periods, and in
my humble judgement, he is noth
ing but a literary fashion plate—a
man of superficial learning and
half digested reading—a phrase
makes rioting in the garden of
rhetoric.
those delivered in Vienna give the
utmost satisfaction and Mr. M. E.
Rush in says he must have one
sure.
Mr. J. P. Heard has torn away
the old wooden building where he
will at once erect two new brick
stores. Mr. Heard was to have
built 150 feet front brick building*
in Cordele this summer, had pur
chased much material for same, but,
as mayor and council of Cordele now
refuses to allow him use of a spur
railroad track as previously practically granted
him by them, he lias
abandoned the idea of building in
Cordele, at least, until Cordele gets a
council that will stick to what they
do.
Col. M. A. Fleming is attending
the Baptist Convention at New Or
leans this week.
Think of This.
If a doctor writes a prescription
you it costs two (2.00) dollars
your druggist fills it lie wants
(50) cents or one (1.00) dol
We offer you a prescription twenty
and ready for use at
five (25) cents a box, that isguar
to cure Eczema, Tetter,
Itch, Salt Rheum, Barber Itch,
Itching Piles, Scald Head and all
Skin Diseases. Fatts’ Eczema
Ointment, Twenty-five cents a
box. All druggists.
Taylor – Peek Drug Co.,
Macon Ga u