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VOL. 14. NO.. 1.
Dr. McArthur DISCUSSES
Public Road Question.
Editors Cordele Sentinel—
Gentlemen : In response to your
request, I will endeavor to offer
some thoughts on the public roads
question. I note, with pleasure,
that your recent editorials and the
discussion in your paper, have
aroused considerable interest, and
that the people throughout the
country are awakening to the
needs of our public roads. This
is as it should be. Dooly county
is fast forging to the front in more
ways than one. Its resources are
being developed, and it is becom
ing to be a populous and progres
sive county. In order to keep
pace with our progress, we will, in
a short while, have to have an in
dependent public school sj^stem,
and public roads that will compare
favorably with those of the other
leading counties of the state.
This is a natural result of the pro
gress of civilization, for nothing is
better established than the rela
tion between the progress of ciyil
ization and the improvement of
public, roads. This ha 3 always
been true. The Romans were
great constructors of roads among
the ancients. The four great Ro
man roads, Watline street, Ikenild
street, Fosse way and Ermin
street, in Britain, are among the
strongest evidences of the civili
zation and strength of those peo
ple, and so it is today. When we
see a community with its public
roads in a fine condition, we see a
community of intelligent, cultured
and thrifty people. There are, ac
cording to the last census, only
eleven counties in the state with a
greater population than ours, and
I venture the assertion that Dooly
excels the majority of those in
natural resources.
When our immense forests of
pine are exhausted, we will have
to look mainly to the development
of the farming interests, and noth
ing will help more to develop the
rural districts than good public
roads, which brings the farmer
nearer market,schools and churches
The postoffice department will
give a community free delivery
daily, provided they have good
roads. Next to having a sufficient
number of people over the route,
the main requirement is that the
roads must be good, Make the
roads good, so that the farmers
can get to market, church and
school more easily, and go that the
mail can be delivered daily at his
door, and you add to his comfort
and pleasure, and he not only gets
more out of life, but gives more
to the lives of others. It will
help to make him satisfied on the
farm, instead of causing him to
want to go to the already over
crowded town. It will help to
make him a better farmer, and
will enhance the value of his
lands. If this is not true, why is
it that farming lands near town
CORDELE HARDWARE CO.
Extends a most cordial invitation, to the
ladies of Cordele to visit their store
from 3 to 7 p. m. Thursday July
11th, and witness a practical
demonstratation of the
Wickless Blue Flame Oil Stove.
Refreshments cooked on stove
wil l be served.
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usually command a better price,
and produce more than lands
further from town T They sell
for more because they are more
accessible to town, good schools
and chinches, and have better
mail facilities. They produce
more because they are usually in
the hands af educated farmers,
who farm scientifically on the in
tensive plan. This is demonstrated
more forcibly in some of our older
counties than here, for obvious
reasons.
Now as to the plan. We cer
tainly need never expect much
improvement in the condition of
our roads as long as we work them
under the present system. I know
of no county that keeps their
roads in first-class condition with
our system. On the other hand,
the county that uses one of the
other systems, usually have good
roads. Either the tax or convict
system is good. Of course, it will
cost something. But anything of
value costs. We should not con
sider the cost alone, but should
consider what we get in return.
The old system probably was all
right wh en it was adopted, as there
were but few roads then and not a
great deal of travel. But now the
conditions are quite different, and
we must change the system to suit
our surroundings.
I trust, Messrs. Editors, that you
will continue to agitate the ques
tion until something is done to
improve our system.
Very truly yours,
Thos. J. McArthur.
Unadilla, Ga.
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C. J. SHIPP,
Who is contributing able articles
on different subjects weekly,
to the Sentinel.
Mr. Campbell, one of McRae’s
most substantial citizens, is visit
ing his son, Mr. Walter Camp
bell.
Misses Lula and Eunice Bush,
of Columbus, are visiting their
relatives here L. J. Bush and
sisters.
Miss Lillian Herring left Thurs
day for her home at Clinton, Is. C.
She will return to Cordele Sept.
1st. She will be greatly missed
wnile away.
Subscribe for the Sentinel.
CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1901.
Baptist Pastor Arrives.
Rev. J. D. Winchester, the newly
elected pastor of the Baptist
church in this city, arrived in
Cordele today, (Friday), and will
preach his first sermon Sunday
morning at 11 o’clock.
The church requests that all the
members who cun, come out and
meet Mr. Winchester and welcome
him to our midst.
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REV. J. D. WINCHESTER.
He comes highly recommended
as a devout Christian gentleman
and a forceful and eloquent pulpit
orator. He has served several
prominent churches in the state’,
and when the church here extended
him the call he was serving the
Second Baptist church of Rome,
Georgia.
He will not move his family
here until about August 1st.
We extend to this excellent
family a cordial welcome to otir
midst.
A GREAT DAY* AT VtlLNNA.
Thousands of People There Yester
day at the Veterans’ Reunion.
Yesterday ivas a great day in
Vienna. Seven thousand people
were there. They came in from all
parts and sections of the county, by
private conveyances and on trains.
The G. S. – F. shoofly was unable
to carry the people who went from
Cordele and who carae*into Cordele
to catch the train, and the swith en
gine had to follow the shoofly to Vi
enna and bring back a coach to get
the balance of the people,
The program was extraordinarily
fine, and was carried out almost to a
letter as it appeared in The Senti
nel.
The welcome address by Mayor
W. T. McDonald, the welcome ad
dress on the part of the veterans, by
Prof, J. M. Kelley, the response, by
Col. Pearson Ellis, were all to the
point, and we regret that space this
week forbids us to comment upon
them as they deserve.
Mrs. O. M. Heard was encored in
her solo. “Just Before the Battle,
Mother,” and was forced to reap
pear. recitation by Irma
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Editor Cordele Daily News.
Swearingen was well rendered and
much appreciated. and
J. P. Heard, Sr., is historian,
reported some deaths since the last
meeting. chorus rendered
The band and ex
cellent music.
Col. D. A. R. Crum introduced
the orator of the day, Captain S. T.
Kingsbury, of Valdosta, extracts of
whose speech appears elsewhere.
Dinner was bountiful beyond meas
ure, in fact, enough was left over Vi- to
feed the immense throng again.
enna covered herself with glory and
praise at the way she entertained and
fed 7,000 people who were at the
veterans’ reunion yesterday.
See us when you want firstclass
ob work, at city price*.
To Abandon Union Depot.
Unable to reach a satisfactory
.agreement with the Seaboard Air
Line railway authorities, it is ru
mored that the Georgia Southern
and Florida railway will tear down
the present shack, used fora union
| depot m Cordele. and will use their
present freight depot as a passen
ger depot also. Whether this will
be done or not remains to be seen,
but it. is said that the G. S. and
F. has grown weary in the effort
to reach an agreement whereby a
new union depot will be erected,
and that this road has now decided
upon this move.
Physicians Want (food Roads.
The Dooly county Medical so
ciety, the membership of which is
composed of a larae number of
Dooly county’s best physicians, met
in regular session in Vienna Tues
day.
Quite a number of important mat
ters are said to have come before the
meeting and were disposed of. but
by far the most important matter be
fore the meeting, so far as the out
side public knows, was a somewhat
spirited discussion of the condition
of our public roads. The physicians
are naturally compelled in practicing
their profession to travel a great
deal by private conveyance along
the public roads of the county, and
they realize that bad roads are, not
only hard on them and probably
more expensive to the patients they
visit, but, being citizens of Dooly,
and feeling an interest and pride m
their county's good, it is right and
proper that they express themselves.
After discussing the condition of
the public roads, a committee was
appointed from this body to draft a
set of suitable resolutions, to be
signed by anti the physicians of the
cminty, jury. present These them $b the
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it is are to cal! attention
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Editor Vienna Progress.
to the present condition of the roads
and ask that some measure be adop
ted whereby the present system of
road work may be greatly improved
upon.
A Complete Program.
Elsewhere in this issue will be
found a complete program of the
South Georgia Bible Conference to
be held in Cordele, September 9-13.
An excellent program has been
arranged, and some of the most
prominent divines of the Method
ist church are on the program, in
suring a treat to all who attend.
You should look up the program
and get yourself in readiness for the
event.
Pastor McGehee will soon begin
a canvass among the people for
homes for the visiting ministers.
Henry Maddox is visiting relatives
at Easonviiie, Alabama, this week.
Mr. B. B. Pound, one of our most
prosperous merchants, paid Moulltrie
a business visit Tuesday.
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Editor Vienna News.
El'S HELD A CONVENTION.
The consensus of public opinon seems to'be favorable
to holding a Public Roads Convention for the purpose
of discusing bettor roads for Dooly county.
The Sentinel, therefore, urges Judge U. V. Wliip
pie’s suggestion, that the ordinary and road oommis
who have our roads in charge seriously con
sider the matter, and, if they dee S advisable, call a
read e< nvenlion to he held at sot Z time during o t s - e
nmmer month v. wli i it will best yj it a majority o
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Marriage Was Solemlzed at the Presbyterian Church In This City
Wednesday Night of This Week.
THE SENTINEL FOUND THE HOLDER.
Mr. J. D. Smith, of Cordele says:
“I saw in the columns of The Sentinel last week where
409 was the lucky number in the contest for the beautiful
clock at Ryals’ drug store. I held that number and lmme
diately presented it to this enterprising firm and received
the clock. The notice in The Sentinel was the direct and
only source from which I received the information that I
held the lucky number.”
MORAL:
The Sentinel is the medium through which to accom
plish the best and quickest results.
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I EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS CORDELE SENTIXEL.
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Mrs. J. W. Dorsett, of Albany,
is the guest of Dr. J. A. Ward this
week.
Mrs. Dr. Dorminy, of Fitzgerald,
is visiting her brother, Mr. II. W.
Campbell here this week.
Mr. John Fenn nas accepted a po
sition with Peterson – Co., of Ailey,
and left Tuesday for his home.
Miss Evie Campbell, one of Mc
Rae’s sweetest young ladies, is the
guest of her brother, Mr.H.W.Camp
bell here this week.
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The Abbeville Star Band fur
nished good music for Veterans’ Re
union at Vienna yesterday .
Miss Pearl Mitohell, one of Abbe
ville’s prettiest young ladies, passed
through Cordele Wednesday, en
route to Vienna.
Notice the “ad” of the Hutchin
son Lumber and Supply Co. in thi.H
issue.
Quite a number of Cordeleam
visited Vienna to participate in tha
Confederate Reunion Thursday,