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air line the shortest route.
Material for Extension Going Up
Daily Now—Future Possibilities of
the Road. *
The following is taken from the
issue of July 16, of the Waycross
Journal:
■•Two carloads of mules, a num
ber of men and a grading outfit
went up the Air Line railroad on
Sunday morning to Fitzgerald, to
work on the extension ot the road.
The work of clearing out a right
of way from the Colony City to
Cordele is being pushed and part
of the roadbed has been graded.
There are 15 cars of construc
tion material en route for the
Waycross Air Line which will be
coming in for the next few days,
and the work of extension is to
commence at once dead earnest,
and will building be pushed be just done. as rapidly
as the can There
is little doubt now that trains will
be running to Cordele by Jan. 1.
When completed, the Waycross
Air Line route will be the shortest
line to the West by many miles.
It will be the nearest route from
Waycross to Atlanta bv five miles;
it will be over an hour’s run the
shortest route from the West to
Florida, and from Waycross to
Montgomery will be 38 miles
nearer than any other route.
Thus it will be seen that the
Waycross Air Line has the advant
age that it is thought will bring it
into quick prominence with the
traveling public going to Florida,
an d from this end going to Atlanta.
Montgomery and the West.”
Dooly Campmeeting.
The regular Dooly campmeeting
will begin at the camp grounds
near Vienna on Saturday night
before the fourth Sunday in July.
The Tabernacle has been newly
covered and a platform built to
take place of the old pulpit. There
will also be added a number of
comfortable seats soon, which will
be quite a convenience.
Don’t forget the date and pre
pare to attend these services.
KILLING AT AMERICUS.
Several hundred negro excur
sionists from Macon were 111
Americus Monday and precipita
ted a riot resulting in the shoot
ing of two brave police officers
and the instant killing of Bill
English, a desperado and the ring
leader of the disturbance. Po
liceman Howell Albrittan received
a fatal wound in the abdomen,
and Policeman Glawson was shot
through the thigh.
All the ringleaders in the riot
citizens were placed under arrest. The
of Americus are terribly
enraged at the conduct of the ne
groes. It was the most desperate
battle fought in Americus in years.
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ought Every woman in the country
to know about
Mother's Friend
Those who do know about it
wonder how they ever got along
without it. It has robbed child
birth of its terrors for many a
SWisn young wife. It has preserved her
suffering. figure and saved her much
It is an external lini
nient and carries with it therefore,
the absolutely no danger of upsetting
ally system as drugs taken intern
rubbed are into apt to do. It is to be
and the abdomen to soften
are to strengthen bear the muscles which
the strain. This means
much less pain. It also prevents
morning other discomforts sickness and all of the
A druggist of pregnancy.
, of Macon, Ga., says:
J have sold a large quantity of
Mother’s Friend and have never
known an instance where it has
failed to produce the good results
claimed for it.”
A prominent lady of Lam
berton, Ark., writes: “ With my
urst six children 1 was ia labor
from 34 to 30 hours. After using
Mother’s Friend, my seventh was
born i n 4 hours. ’ ’
Mather’s Friend at the drag
•tarn, • 1 .00 y«r bottle.
flit BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.
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[Is i! k'i rdele Sentinel
Weekly Press Association.
The fifteenth annual session of
the Georgia Weekly Press Associ
ation which convened in Athens on
Tuesday and Wednesday of last
week was one of the most interest
iug and successful ever held.
About three-fourths of the edi
tors and their ladies met in Atlan
ta Tuesday morning and went to
getherover the Seaboard Air Line
road to Athens. About one linn
dred and seventy-five were in at
~
tendance.
Mayor I. E. Smith, of Athens,
delivered an address of welcome
which was responded to for the as
sociation by editor H. H. Revill of
the Meriwether Vindicator. At
6 o’clock p. m. an informal
tion was tendered to the editorial
party and other visitors in the
in parlors of the Athenaeum
Club House. At night the city
presented a beautiful scene, thous
ands of lighted Japanese lanterns
covered the streets and buildings.
while quite as many flags were
used. At 9 o’clock p. m. a public
entertainment was tendered by the
city all the visitors. "
to
The following was a program at
Wednesday “The morning’s session :
Newspaper as a Business
Venture”—Mr. A. L. Ryals, edi
tor of the Telfair Enterprise.
“Industrial Development vs,
politics”—Mr. editor J. W. Bivins,
of the Cordele Sentinel.
“Advantages of an Amicable
Division of the Official Printing
between Rival Papers”—Mr. P. T.
McCutchon, editor of the Newnan
News.
“What is Weekly Journalism
Doing for Popular Education in
Georgia?”—-Mr. Ralph Bardwell,
editor of the Talbotton New Era.
“The Weekly Newspaper in the
Industrial Development of Our
State”—Mr. H. M. Stanley, editor
of the Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
Invitations were extended by
Dalton, Cordele and Quitman for
the next meeting. The selection
was between Cordele and Quit
man. Quitman had invited the
association last year and was
realy intitled to the honor be
fore Cordele and besides, Miss
Edna Cain, editor of the Quit-
ed the Quitman invitation was so
attractive that she would have had
no trouble in carrying the associa- Cordele
tion to Quitman, even if
had not withdrawn from the race
in favor Quitman, which city gets
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the convention next year.
The following officers for the
ensuing year were then elected:
President—W. S. Coleman, Ce
dartown Standard.
First Vice President—Miss Edna
Cain, Quitman Free Press.
Second vice President—J. W.
Bivins, Cordele Sentinel.
Secretary—W. A. Shackelford,
Oglethorpe Echo.
Treasurer—J. W. Anderson,
Covington Star.
After the election of officers the
editors adiorned until next year,
and were taken m charge and car
ned to the State Normal School
where speeches were made, after
which a barbacue was tendered.
At 2 o’clock Wednesday the
editors boarded the Seaboard Air
T Line . road , for . Atlanta Ail , and , at . 5 _
, clock , , Wednesday, .... , at , Atlan- ...
o p. m,
ta, 187 editors and ladies boarded
pullman cars with instructions to
“put me off at Buffalo,” which
injunction ,______ was carried out to a „
letter and the boys have been hav
ing a good time there for the past
several days.
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CORDELE HARDWARE CO.
CORDELE, GA;; FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1901.
BENEATH FERNS AND FLOWERS.
Fair Maid and Gallant Swain at
Alter Plight Their Troth.
The spacious parlors and broad
verandas of the handsome Tifton
home of Mr - uncl Mrs - Wm. Whit
held Timmons was filled Tuesday
evening with the elite of Tifton
society—friends gathered to wit
ness Hie nuptial vows of Mr.
Joseph the Peyton Carson and Miss
Isadoe, third daughter of J this
most estimable couple.
The verandas were brilliantly
illuminated with Chinese iateiqs,
a,:d Hie parlors and halls b auti
tull y decorated with palms and
ilovvers - These decorations were
the work of Mrs. Peterson, Mrs.
Kell, Mrs. Myers and Miss Wood,
At 9:15, to the strains of Wed
ding March from Mendelsohn, ex
quisitely rendered by Miss McLeod,
Hie bridal party, proceeded by
Ma nde and Nellie, sisters of the
bri de, spotless white, strewing
dowers in their path, entered the
southern parlor. The bride, petite
and fairy-like ’neath a flowing
vieh leaned upon the arm of her
father, while the groom was es
corted by his brother, Mr. Keith
Carson.
The attendants were Mr. C. L.Y
McWhite and Miss Kathrine Tift;
Mr. Keith Carson and Miss Jeddie
Timmons. The bride wore liber
ty silk and point lace over taffeta,
and carried white carnations; the
bridesmaids wore white organdie
°ver taffeta and carried pink car
nations.
Beneath a bower of palms and
dowers, under a drooping horse
shoe, R ev. Chas. G. Dilwortb
faced the young lovers, and in
sweet and solemn words, before
God and man, they pronounced
tbe vows that made them man and
wife. And, truly, the candles of
Hymen’s alter never shone on a
more handsome and manly groom
or sweet and winsome bride.
For ai1 hour an informal 4 rep
Hon . was held, and the kuppy
couple received the congratulations
of their host of assembled friends,
The bridal gifts were profuse, but
beautiful and appropriate, far too
numerous to be named in detail,
J be most valuable was a house
and lot, as soon as they are ready
J° r in Tifton, the gift of the
bride’s father; a $125-00 suit of
furniture, from the groom’s broth
ers; a handsome fish set from his
sister, and many pieces of cut-glass
silver, china, and handsome and
useful articles of furniture, not to
mention several neat checks and
sums in cash.
A splendid wedding supper was
served in the spacious dining room.
Here the decorative genius of Mrs.
Peterson and Mrs. Kell surpassed
itself, and the result, when the
wedding party assembled around
the board, was strikingly beautiful
After the supper, the couple
boarded the north-bound Georgia
Southern train for Buffalo and the
Pan-American Exposition They
Niagara an( j New York on their
trip. They were accompanied by
the former’s brother, Mr. Briggs
Parson and his sister-in-law, Miss
Bertha Pate, also their sister, Mrs.
J. W. Bivins, of Cordele.
The Gazette 101 . ns the ,, , host , ot f
f nenc j 9 0 f these popular young
people in wishes for a bright and
properous future; undimmed by
greif, the rugged paths of life
made smooth, ^ its trials lightened ‘
and it8 burde 8 le8soned b mutn .
j ovej ma y they, in its noontide,
realize all the bright dreams of
happy youth.—Tifton Gazette,
VAGRANTS
BY C. J. HHIP1U
A few years ago when the late
ex-governor James M. Smith was
judtre of the superior court of the
Chattahoochee circuit, he gave the
grand jury of Muscogee county a
charge against vagrancy. In this
charge he stated that nearly all of
tile crimes that, came before the
county were committed by va
grants; that these people having
no jobs themselves and desiring
none naturally drifted int o crime;
hr spoke of the number of worth
less negro men who were fed from
the kitchens of our citizens our
he charged the grand jury
to ferret out all cases of people
living in idleness, who are able to
work and who do not work and
find a true bill against them, he
futher charged to find bills of in
dictment for vagrancy against all
professional gamblers who had no
other employment, as there is a
statute in our code making this
class vagrants; he spoke of the
great difficulty of procuring evi
dence to convict, and suggested
that they offer a reward of ten
dollars to any informer who fur
nished evidence to convict one of
these criminals; the jury acted on
this suggestion and in a few days
the judge had sentenced about
forty of these worthless idlers to
the chaingang and a much larger
number had decampted for parts
unknown, thus the town was rid
of a very useless appendage.
Just previous to thi 9 charge a
number of chicken roosts had been
raided arouud the city; chicken
raising had become so unprofitable
on account of these depredations
that a number of people had quit
trying to raise them at all; the
good effects to the chicken fancier
was immediate, there was not an
other hen roost raided in that
community for twelve months.
The most of the whiskey selling
in Cordele has been done by this
class of worthless negroes and
whites, people who could raise a
few-dollars and expend it for bust
head liquor, which they would sell
in small quantities for a hundred
per cent, profit, and thus eke out
a miserable existence. While I
was solicitor of the county court
out of a large number of prosecu
tions for violating the local option
law, there were only one or two of
the accused who had regular em
ployment; they were usually a
class of deadbeats and vagrants
who made a precarious living by
swindling and criminal practices.
When a man without means lives
in continued idleness, hejis con
the substance of those
who work, either by begging, steal
ing or some other doubtful prac
tice ; the charity of our people is
frequently imposed have upon by travel
ing beggars, who some pre
meditated tale of woe to enlist
the sympathies ; these cases should
be turned down, for, if they were
genuine objects of charity, the in
stitutions ot their home counties
would take care of them. Dr.
Samuel Johnson once refused a
tramp’s appeal for alms, when the
tramp said to him, “you know I
am obliged to live.” “I see no
good reason for that,” answered
the gruff old Englishman. This
was perhaps taking a too extreme
view of the matter, as there are
numbers of worthy objects of
charity, but they are rarely of the
professional beggar class, and
good judgment should be used in
finding them out, or else we lend
ourselves to the encouragement of
vagrancy. Judge Scott,
A few years ago
when he was mayor of Cordele,
had his policemen to arrest all va-
grants ; the was an
of this class from the city, and
the criminal courts had very little
to do during the following year;
just previous to this a lot of petty
thieves had been operating in the
town, and this was the plan hit
upon by the judge to break them
up; his success was remarkable.
It has been urged that it takes
all classes to make a town, and
that these people pay rent and
grocery bills. My own experience
and observation of this class are
that, they move out of a house
after dark without paying their
rent, and get their food from some
white man’s table through the
good graces of the cook.
There are many of them in Cor
dele, they should either be made
to leave or go to work for an hon
est living; if everybody would
would work, living would be easier,
as the honest people are contribu
ting to the support of the worth
ier*. The tax is not only unjust
but burdensome.
Unadilla Notes.
Miss Nellie Thorpe has returned
home after a visit of several weeks
to friends at Arabi.
Mr. L. R. McArthur, accom
panied by his little neice, Mary
McArthur, left for a visit to his
sister, at Dover, Georgia, Monday.
Mr. J. A. McLendon visited
Vienna Monday.
Mr. W. L. Hooks attended
court at Vienna Tuesday.
Mrs. H. V. Baird and children
will leave Thursday for an ex
tended visit to relatives at Au
gusta and Grovetown, Ga.
There will be quite a large
crowd, consisting ot' members of
church and Sunday
school to accompany excursionists
to t,he Orphans’ Home VVednes
day at Macon, Ga. A delightful
trip is in store for all who attend,
Mr. J. R. Lockermau visited
Cordele Saturday on business.
Mrs. Dr. Wooten and little
daughter are on an extended visit
in the northern part of the state.
Miss Lena Bridges is visiting at
Indian Springs this week.
Mr. John Peacock has returned
from Indian Springs looking much
improved.
Whenever you want the correct
time, call on Col. J. Y. Netherton.
He has it.
J. T. Wood left for Okolona,
Mississippi, last week, where he
goes to accept a position with the
M. and O railroad. We think he
was a little disappointed, however,
before leaving, and is now probably
singing, Me.’’ “The Girl I Left Behind
The prospects for a good cotton
crop in this vicinity are very
bright, and farmers seem to be
happy. We are needing some
raiD now, however, especially for
the corn crop. Taken as a whole,
however, all crops are very prom
ising, This, with a fair prospect
for at least 8 cents for cotton, is
encouraging.
Shops to Move.
The Seaboard Air Line railroad
authorities have practically closed
their shops in the city of Ameri
cus, and it is thought will move
their shops from that city alto
gether. In fact, it is said that
quite a good deal of the machinery
has already been moved.
If the shops are moved it will
be quite a blow to Americus, as
thousands of dollars are turned
loose there monthly, and the bulk
of the money is spent in Ameri
cus.
Artificial Digestion?
Is that all that you want? It is
not all that you can get. T. –
P. Stomach Tablets contains the
best digestive agents. These di
gests the food, but if this was all
they would not and could not cure
you. They have combined with
these digestive ferments tonics
that act directly on the organs of
digestion and laxative that regu
late the liver and bowels, perform putting
the systen in condition to
its own work. This means that if
you will half way take care of
your stomach a cure is certain.
T. – P. Stomach Tablets are for
sale by all druggists; 50 mail cents if a
box. Free sample by you
will write for it.
Taylor – Peek Drug Co.,
Macon, Ga.
COTTON--COTTON--COTTON
To My Former Patrons
and Friends.
I thank you most cordialy for your liberal patui
ronage since I have been in the Warehouse Business
in Cordele. I will still be in shape to handle you*;
cotton the coming season, but at another stand. I
have fixed up a warehouse in rear of Julien Perry’s;
old stand on 12th avenue; Bring me your cotton and
I will see that you get highest market price for it!
Wagon yards and stables free. Thanking you again
I am the farmers’ friend.
G .H. T0MMEY Cordele,
$ Georgia
BEST EQUIPPED
JOB OFFICE IN
SOUTH GEORGIA.
/{PPL Y fOR
PRICES
$1.00 A YEAR
Pinehurst Notes.
Hot weather yet.
The crops are getting to the
place where a shower will do good.
'The cotton crop will bo short.
Corn prospects are good. Wheat
yield Postmaster good. Oats were poor
J. A. Williams and
wife huve returned from the
springs. Mrs. Williams was taken
ill the day after her return with
fever, and is now quite sick.
Mesdames Adams, Edenfield,
Speight and Bearden were on the
sick list the past week* but all are
better now.
L. M. Mashburn is sick,
Miss Ella Speight is visiting her
V. T. Sheffield is sick with fever,
Master Julian Pate, from Haw
kinsville, is visiting friends and
relatives here. Mrs. Pate, his
mother, will visit here the first of
August.
Mr. Mercer Edenfield has left
us, to make his future home near
Sylvania. Mr.
Britt, of Cordele. spent the
day Sunday with one of our charm
ing ladies. We are expecting to
hear the clinking of bells soon—
about the fourth Sunday, Now, we
are somewhat prophesying,but look
out, and see how far from it we
are. Well, what’s our loss will be
Cordele’s gain. So, here’s in ad
vance of the procession— a long
and life to
We expected to have a show
here last Saturday, But the
cap’n came, he saw, he went. The
did proprietor went up to Macon, and
not return until Monday, and
when he did return he gathered up
that which he left, and the “one
horse” show departed, without
telling us farewell.
H. L. Palmer has returned, and
in good spirits. We suppose he
went on business.
Several of our people took in
the orphan excursion to Macon
this week.
As yet we have not heard from
any editor in regard to our new
academy. wise” We thought a “word to
the was sufficient. We are
fully determined, however, to have
a good house for the business, and
if any one wishes to get his name
in the paper, now is the time.
To Appeal to Railroad Commission.
The new union depot for Cordele
that was and is to be, looks like it
will not be. Cordele has been
played with and kicked about in
this matter until she is kiud’o
bruised and used up, and now it is
said that the railroad commission
of Georgia will again be called
into the game in’order to stop the
railroads from knocking profes
sional fouls, but whether this can
be done remains to be seen.
Mr. A, Kirland, of Valdosta,
came up on the shoofly train business Tues
day morning, Hutchinson transacted Sup
with Lumber and
ply Co., and returned home on th®
noon train.
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