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VOL. 14, NO. 20.
The Rural fpee Delivery
An Educator and Civilizer
flAS MANY ADVANTAGES.
Appeals for Two Routes Leading
out From Cordele
Should These Routes be Established
Land Would Increase in Value 50
to 100 per Cent.
BY C. J. SHIPP.
I notice that a number of coun
try neighborhoods in Georgia have
secured free delivery of mails. This
is certainly a move in the direc
tion of education for the masses;
a daily mail is a great civilizer, a
great educator.
In conversation with our con
gressman, Hon. E. B. Lewis, a
few months ago. he said to me,
that if our people wanted it we
could secure two routes leading
from Cordele; but it seems that
very little interest is being taken
by our people to secure them. I
have been told that there were a
number of people who did not
realize the anvantages to be de
rived from the rural delivery and
had actually entered protests
against them, while a number of
others were simply lukewarm on
the subject. The result of this
opposition and indifference, I fear,
will prevent the establishment of
these routes. This is unfortunate
and much to be regretted. The
country could be made as desira
ble as the city as a place of resi
dence if we could give it the same
conveniences socially, religiously
and educationally. With free de
livery, public schools and good
roads, a country residence would
have a great many advantages over
city life.
A majority of the people on the
proposed routes, I understand, are
very anxious that they be estab
lished ; but it is feared that there
are hardly enough of these to get
up such a petition as the govern
ment requires in such cases. In
my apinion, should these routes
be established, land will readily
increase in value from 50 to 100
per cent, and farmers from less
fortunate neighborhoods will pur
chase lands and build houses on
this line for the sake of the con
venience.
A number of these routes have
been established in the north and
middle Goorgia counties and they
have given such uniform satisfac
tion that none of them have been
discontinued; but there is a great
disposition on the part of the
people to haye more established.
There is now an effort being made
to give free delivery of mails to
every farm house in one of the
north Georgia counties. I regret
to see our people so far behind in
this procession; we are just as
much entitled to favors of the
United States government as the
people of north Georgia, and we
have an equally as enterprising a
congressman as they have, hut if
our people sleep over their rights
they will have only themselves to
blame. If the people on these
proposed routes would call a u
meeting among themselves and
niake an organized effort to ac
complish something, 1 believe
that every stumbling block could
be removed; I hope this will be
done. This thing is too important
to be neglected: the civilization
and progress b of the dav demand
it. Our people , are , backwoodsmen ,• ,
no longer.
FOR SALE —For quick sale
bring me $500.00 for 50 acres good
land two miles Cordele, 85 acres
cleared, barn, stalls and dwelling,
A bargain. J. P. Highes.
Sentinel
NEW BRICK WAREHOUSE i
Opposite Bolton Building Just
Across Railroad Sidetrack.
Building to be Thirty-Five by One
Hundred Feet and to be Used by
Wiilis-Wiison Grocery Co. as
Wholesale Grocery House.
The Willis-Wilson Grocery Com
pany has leased the ground from
the Georgia Southern and Florida
Railway Company, has drawn up
the plans and specifications and
is nruv ready to let the contract
for a brick building 35 feet
wide by one hundred feet long, to
be located just across the first side
track west of the Bolton building,
fronting Seventh street.
The construction of this build
ing will begin as soon as the con- |
tract is let and is to be used by the
Will is-Wilson Grocery Company
as a wholesale grocery house.
Opera House.
Under the management of the
Cordele Lyceum Association,Robt.
J. Burdette, one of the most noted
lecturers on the platform, will ap
pear at the opera house in Cordele
next Monday night, November 18.
Mr. Burdette posesses wit and
humor that is always pleasaut to
everybody. There will be no super
ior attraction at the opera house
this season that Mr. Burdette and
a well filled house is already assur
ed to hear him
WOULD SMASH THE CLUB.
If members of the “Hay Fever
Association” would use Dr. King’s
New Discovery for Consumption,
the club would go to pieces, for it
always cures this malady, and Asth
ma, the kiud that baffles the doctors,
it wholly drives from the system.
Thousands of once-hopeless suffers
from Consumption, Pneumonia,
Bronchitis owe their lives and health
to it. It conquers Grip, saves little
ones from Croup and Whooping
Cough and is positively guaranteed
for all Throat and Lung troubles.
50c, $1.00. Trial bottles free at J.
B. Ryals – Co.
Little Mary Seymour.
Exceedingly sad was the death
of little Mary Seymour, the 12
months’-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. B- Seymour, which oc
curred at their residence last Sun
day morning about 9 o’clock, of
pneumonia.
Little Mary was sick only three
or four days and one feature that
made the death more sad was the
fact that Mr. Seymour was absent
from the city in the North on
business when he receiv> d the
news. IIo arrived home on the
11 o’clock train Monday morning
and at 2 o’clock the family left
for Thomasville, the interment their took old home, place. J
where
Mary was the pride of fond parents
and was a perfect beauty. Her
short illness and sudden death
could hardly be realized.
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free medical advice given. Medicine j
sent at once, prepaid. J. B. Lvals I
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CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1901.
pTHE DISPENSARY aTallacyT] t
By bthel Xauthus.
The ouly safe position in
questions of moral reform is
of principle. If a matter is right
there is no half way house
a conscientious man can stop.
the liquor traffic is a moral evil
there can be no compromise with
those who fight it from principle.
Of coure if a man is honest
policy’s sake only, this
will not appeal to him, but the
fellow who is honest only
policy is at heart a scoundrel
no argument will reach him
cept one of selfish gain. It
not matter with him that
liquor traffic breeds
of the murders, the
the crimes and disorders of
country. The
ism insanity which follows in
wake appeals but little to
sordidly selfish if thereby his
pocket is a gainer. There is
one way under the moral law
deal with an evil and that is to
fight it outright.
1. To license the dispensary
to make the sale of liquor
and respectable. It is to
this low, disreputable, death
ing, sin accursed business have
sanction of government. Total
prohibition denounces this infa
mous traffic as a destroyer of
and a promoter of political
ruption.
2. A government ought to
tect the weak, young and
from abuse and misery. The
pensary exposes them to
evils. It will not furnish
to the drunken man nor to
minor without his parents’
sent. It is the sober,
man it seeks to debase and the
pitiable minor who has a debased
father that will give him permis
sion to purchase. Not so much
harm would be done if the miser
able drunkards alone were the cna
tomers, but the dispensary will
only sell to a man when sober and
will not take care of him when he
is drunk, nor even let him stay on
the premises to drink, but he must
go home and make life miserable
for his wife and children if he has
rn, There are no v beds , and j
one.
couches in the dispensary to , care
of the man that it makes drunk,
but he is turned out to make life
miserable ,, for f , his wife and , child- , •,,
of e whom , , he . making , • , beggars
ren is
and , criminals. • • i
3. „ The , dispensary . . unjust
is an
monopoly. If thetraffic.in
a good thing then all should
engage in it; if it be injurious
none should. For the sake of a
small revenue to itself the gov
ernment should not make paupers
and criminals and arrogate to
Warranty Deeds. The Sen
tinel has just printed and now
has for sale Warranty Deeds—the
correct form.
A COMPLETE LINE OF
Saddles and
Riding Bridles.
Cordele Hardware Company
Chattanooga Plows.
Osborne Disc Harrows,
itself this right to gain at a fear
ful cost to the poor and miserable
who most frequently purchase.
Virtuous people may well resist
this goverment monopoly that
breeds criminals and paupers at
so fearful a cost to society.
4. It Ii.ib been argued that total
prohibition laws do not prohibit
and for this reason a dispensary
should be established. This is
sophistry of I he thinnest sort. The
law against murder does not pre
vent murder, the law against theft
does not prevent thieving, it only
restrains in a measured degree.
Truly if there is anything in this
argument of a sale of liquor be
cause prohibition does not prohi
bit, the same may be applied to
every other evil in the land. Yet
no one will contend the govern
ment should establish a brothel
house because it cannot suppress
licentiousness, nor establish a
gambling hell because some law
breakers will gamble in spite of
stringent laws.
5. The dispensary corrupts the
men engaged in it. It is “evil
communications which corrupt
good morals.” The coarseness,
the profanity, the vulgarity of the
vicious, the thieving gambler, the
unprincipled and the sensual,
gather at its counter. The liquor
business is demoralizing and
nothing else can be made out of it.
6. If it be said that only the
higher class will patronize a dis
pensary, then is the reason more
argument against them. If only
one class must be injured in God’s
name let that be the criminal
class. It is less injurious to so
ciety to destroy the debased and
wicked than it is to wreck with
strong drink the lives of pure and
noble families.
dls J' But what ? I» good the can country come bene- of a
I* n8ar F
S “" d b * annual cro P of dr "“ k -
aI ; d “ . b,la " a S ood ma " vote tor
' vl,at he ; knows wllj fa8ten a mil1
‘° breed P au P etS a,,d cr,mlnal8 111
h “ CMn,n ' u “V For the sake of
a ^ P a,tr J dollars o( tMat,on .
will he vote to fill our courts with
criminals . . and our asylums J with
, lanatlos . and ... de ' >alu ! heM ? Does ^
‘ he ’•“P?”""? h8 ‘l>oh""* 88 ?
No all the churches oppose them
“
and the , dispensary . the natural ,
is
‘ ,r
foe of „ all ,, the religious .
f, orgamza- B
of . all religion .. . and .
tions as it ^ is
mom|jty . Th „ boot . black , the
j ddleri tbe washerwoman all do
gome g 00 ^ ( bu t the dispensary is
a devi |„, oom p rom i M wl th evil and
there ,s no more good in it than
- n other work ot his 9atanic
.
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„ d "° d kI o y n u/cureUiTkffiney^cor
rect8 the urinB) strengthens the sto
mach and relieves backache. Cash
Drug Store.
Christian Workers Conference
At the first Baptist Church
WITH PYTHIAN HONORS,
The Remains of Engineer Jones,
Who was Killed in the Wreck,
Were interred in Americus. Fireman
McDonald, Colored, also Died, While
Brakeman Wolf Still Lives and
May Recover,
Tiie wreck on the S. A. L. Rail
way last Friday afternoon about
1:80 o’clock, caused by the switch
of the ice factory sidetrack being
open and the incoming freight
from the east colliding with the
yard engine 100 feet from the main
line, was most disastrous, The
crew to the yard engine jumped
and were uninjured.
Engineer R. J. Jones on the in
coming freight, as did the colored
fireman McDonald and colored
braKemaii Wolf, stuck to their
post of duty, and all were so bad
ly injured and mangled that
Engineer Jones died in two or
three hours at Dr. H. M. Smith’s
office, Fireman McDonald died
during the night at Dr. G. W.
Shipp’s office, while Brakeman
Wolf, who was carried to Dr. W.
E. Edwards’ office, still lives and
may recover. Ylh
Engineer Jones was about 80
years old, was married several
years ago to Miss Mamie Lou
Cameron, of Americus. She came
to Cordele Saturday night, and ac
companied the remains of her
husband to Americus Sunday
morning. -
The funeral of'Mi*. Jones took
place at his late home in Ameri
cus Monday afternoon and was
conducted by Rev. G. W. Mathews,
pastor of the First Methodist
church of that city, and the ser
vices at the grave were conducted
under the beautiful ritual of the
Knights of Pythias. Fireman
McDonald was buried at Cordele
while, as above stated, Wolf still
lives.
Mrs. W. Rainbow.
At her home on 8th Avenue, af
ter three days’ illness, Mrs. W.
Rainbow died Monday morning.
Her husband was from home and
did not arrive until Tuesday
morning in time to accompany
the remains to Americus where
the interment took place. The
infant child of Mrs. Rainbow also
died.
LOCKJAW FROM COWEBS.
Cobwebs put on a cut lately gave
a woman lockjaw. Millions know
that the best thing to put on infal- a cut
is Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the
lible healer of Wounds, Ulcers,
Sores, Skin Eruptions, Burns, Scalds
and Piles, It cuies or no pay. Only I
25 cents at J. B. Ryals <fc Co. drug
Bt-ore.
Oranges For Sale—* 2,00
per crate F.O.B. Send money or
der and how to ship, freight or ex
press. L. D. Vinson,
11-15 2-m Tarpan Spring, Fla.
For Sale, Cheap!
Two lots of land in Wilcox
county, on Hawkinsville, Florida
andSouthern Railway.
Address,
Ph. M. Berg, Cordele, Ga.
Old hundred. papers at this office 25 cents
per
DR. S. B. L1UGIN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Calls answered at all hours. I
can be found at home, U miles
northwest of Coney, Ga.
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Three Services Daily: 10:30, A M,
3:30 P. M. and 7 P. M.
To Close Friday Night.— Revs. Fitch,
Broughton, Miller and Small are
Expected to Deliver Addresses
During the Conference.
The Christian Workers Confer
ence at the Baptist church begins
next Tuesday and will continue
up to and including Friday night.
There will bo three services daily:
10:80 a. m., 8:80 p. in. and 7 p- m.
Such men as Revs. Fitch Brough
ton, Miller and Small are expected
to be on hand.
In point of the prominence of
the speakers announced, this con
ference next week promises to be
a meeting of unusual importance.
The purpose of the conference
as announced by pastor Winches
ter ought to commend it to every
Christian regardless of creed or
church affiliation. In a new and
growing town like Cordele the in
clination is to neglect church and
religious matters. The purpose is
not to discuss creed, but solely and
simply to quicken and deepen the
religious experience and interest
of all.
Not only are the people of Cor
dele urged to attend this meeting,
but a cordial invitation is extended
to the surrounding country, to all
who will, to come and enjoy what
promises to be a feast of good
things religiously. Free enter
tainment will be provided for all
who accept the invitation.
CAN’T KEEP IT SECRET
The splendid work of Dr. lving’s
New Life Pills is daily coming to
light. No such grand remedy for
Liver and Bowel troubles was ever
known before, Thousands bless
them for curing Constipation, Sick
Headache, Billiousness, Jaundice and
Indigestion, Try them. 25c at J.
B. Ryals – Co. drug store.
Pine Field Dots.
Rev. Isaac Hobby preached an
elegant sermou at Mt. Pleasant
church on the first Sunday in this
month.
Mrs. B. M. Bowen visited Mrs.
James Ilayes last week.
Mrs. Mary Hayes spent week be
fore last witli her son, Mr. James
Ilayes.
Mr. Walt McRae and Miss Don
nie Roland spent last first Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. J.as. Ilayes.
There was a joung man who failed
to see his best girl last Sunday, and
it gave him chills and fever. How
about it Billy Stand up like a raau
don’t give back so bad.
Mr. J. J. Wheeler spent Tuesday
out on his Fenn place.
Seed Oats
Grown by me. There is w> Johnson
grass in these oats. Price, F. O. R.
Abbeville, 95c. per bushel.
A. K. FtSHKK,
ll-15-2m] Abbeville, Ga.
Guard your kidneys; the health of
the body depends on those small but
important organs. They extract uric
acid from the blood which if allowed
to remain in the system would cause
dropsy and Bright’s disease. Prickly
Ash Bitters is a successful kidney
tonic; it heals and strengthens the
kidneys, regulates the liver, stimu
lates the stomach and digestion,
cleanses the bowels. It will prevent
or cure Bright’s disease. Cash Drug
Store.
1 can make a few choice loans
upon centrally located property and
for 2, 8, or 4 years, building
loan definite contract plan,
J. W. Bivins.