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THE O.TT OP
Cordele.
YOL. 14. NO. 3G.
DOOLY COUNTY TEACHERS.
They Decide to Hold Institute
This Year at BarnesviHe.
Voted Down a Motion to Meet at
Arab!—Also a Motion to Meet at
Albany in April—Will Meet at
Barnesville in July.
The teachers of Dooly county
at their meeting in Vienna last
Saturday voted to hold their Ins
work at Barnesville this
year. They will meet there in
at the time that city holds
its Chautauqua and Institute.
The law forces the teachers to
some Institution for one
in each year and the teach
usually decide by a majority
where they will attend.
Some of the teachers at Vienna
Saturday favored holding a pri
county Institute at Arabi
year, but that proposition was
down; others favored going
Albany in April, as they did
year, but the contention that
schools of the county were
demoralized when sus
for this purpose, prevail
and the proposition to meet
Albany was defeated.
The motion to meet at Barnes
was finally carried, and the
of Dooly county will,
only hold their Institute in
city in July, but, at the same
will have the pleasure of at
the usual good Chautau
exercises held there each year.
Spinsters’ Fortnightly Club
" Tl >» Spinsters’ Maids’Convention” Fortnightly
be given at the opera house
Tuesday night, March 11th.
the auspices of the Ladies’
Improvement Association.
Hiawatha (Kansas) Democrat
concerning this entertain
“Over 400 tickets were sold.
was the general opini-n express
by those present that they had
seen a funnier home talent
A Paola(Kansas) j
says : “It was one of the
things I ever saw; de
from beginning to end.”
Clarendon (Arkansas) laughable in Sun the
t “It was
and an unusual success.”
Admission — Adults 50c; chil
under 14, 25c. Reserved seat9
extra charge. Tickets will
lie on sale at Ryals Drug Co’s.
SAVES A WOMAN’S LIFE.
To have given up would have
death for Mrs. Lois Cragg, of
Mass. For years she
endured untold misery from a
severe lung trouble and obstinate
“Often,” she writes, “I could
breathe and sometimes'
mu speak. All doctors and
failed till I used Dr. King’s
Discovery for consumption and
completely cured.” Sufferers
C"Ugh8, Cold--, Throat and
Trouble need this gjand lem
for it i ever disappoints. Cure
guaranteed by J. B. Ryals Drug Co.
50c and $1.00. Trial bottles
To The General Public !
Mr. C. Z. Turner, having recently purchased the en
tire stock of General Merchandise of S. J. Hill, He
will conduct a general mercantile store
AT THE SAME STAND,
on 7th Street, opposite T. C. Barge – Co., and will
keep on hand everything to be found in a general
store of like character.
For the next 30 days, until 1 can wind up my
business at Quitman, Mr. N. L. Hall, of 1 ennille, one
of the very best salesmen to be. found, will have
charge of this business, and, upon arrival in Cordele
I shall add to this already immense stock.
Your Patronage Solicited, and Satisfaction Guaranteed,
C. Z. TURNER,
General Merchandise. Cordele,
Georgia.
friele
- CORDELE’S WONDERFUL GROWTH
WITHIN PAST THREE MONTHS
Miss Benson Entertains.
The musical-entertainment given
last Tuesday evening by Miss Nan
nie Benson was a decided success.
Many invitations had been issued
and many of our popular young
ladies and young gentlemen were
in attendance
The parlors were bedecked with
evergreens and lighted with nu
merous Japanese lanterns. Each
guest was the recipient of a small
bunch of violets.
The splendid music furnished
for the occasion was rendered by
Messrs. J. I Cofield, Will Holland
and T. Mitchell Coker,
A unique guessing contest was
participated in by the entire party.
Cards with twelve blank lines each
were distributed, and on a table
there were wrapped twelve pack
ages in various shapes and sizes
for deception. Each person hold
ing a card was allowed two minu
tes in which to examine (without
unwrapping) the packages—and
to fill in the blank lines on the
card as correctly as possible. A
first prize and a “booby” were
offered. Miss Hallie Aycock won
first prize, and as five card-holders
won the “booby” a final drawing
threw that prize in the hands of
Mr. R. A. Dixon. Other games
were offered to amuse, and were
also enjoyable.
A . large , bowl , of (,,,•• delicious r fruit •.
nch „- ith lady-fingers caught
attention , the thirst and the
appetite ,, of the jolly party for ,
awhile,
At midnight the vouug folk
bade each other good-night after
tendering to Miss Benson thanks
for the enjoyable . offann „
A Guest.
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liorse power, and not less than 52
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Address P. O 12,
Wanted.
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For Sale -Saw Mil1 Timber
that will cut 1,500,000 feet lumber,
for $2,500. Cash for quick sale.
Hughes – Ethridge.
CORDELE, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1902.
It Is Not Easy For a Cordelean to Write of Cordele
And Seem Guiltless of Fulsome Flattery.—-But
Pride in the Past, Joy in the Present, and Con
fidence for the Future are Pardonable.—Cordele
is at the i lest Time of Her History—Not a Boom
Bauble, but a Sure and Rapid Growth.
BY PROF. WILLIAM P. FLEMING.
Fifteen years ago, the future
Cordele rested on the baseless
fabric of a dream. Her pioneer
citizeu plod his solitary way
through avenues of giant “cum
berers of the ground” towards a
i « destiny obscure.” But, close be
hind him, the surveyors compass
traced out straight lines of pro
gress—and, lo, the soughing pines
sang requiem to departing forest
grandeur, yielding themselves in
sacrifice to ‘‘better times”—and
city lots were “knocked down” to
eager purchasers. The story of
magic growth has been told.
THE IRREPRESSIBLE “NOW.”
. Even a partial inventory of the
business enterprises that have
been launched and of the substan
tial improvements that have been
recently made in Cordele, affords
ample evidence of a pushing pres
ent and a promising future.
Within the last three months,
for instance, Cordele has fallen
, heir to , ... brick depot, .
a new union a
P 0810 , * „ 10 ®- “ national , , bank, , a
*****
brick Rosser building, the two
^ ^ marble . front PouaJ
building, the Willis-Wilson brick
^’ , h ° , es ^ , 6 , 3ulldin .... 8» til0 ( ^°
Methodist i parsonage the I, J.
Bush clothing establishment, anew
borber shoWj the w D wilson
^ ° ^ Clcments
t]i e^Dixon 109 re ,ai S rocer y> the ,,
U. Z. Turner general merchandise
business, the Scarborough <fc For
est wholesale grocery, a news
stand, the Willis-Wilson whole
sale grocery, the Stead – Whipple
drug business, the new Tripp livery
stables, the Speight – Killen re
tail grocery, the J. C. Tracy Co’s
general merchandise establish
ment, the Hughes – Ethridge in
surance aud real estate business,
the L. M. Altman livery, the
Cheeves retail grocery, the T. C.
Barge furniture establishment, the
Heard wholesale grocery, the J. B.
Ryals Co. wholesale drug feature,
the Wells general merchandise
business, the P cClegg whole
sale grocery and last, but not least,
the recently organized Board of
Trade ami Park Improvement
Association.
Several important firm reorgan
izations have been made within
the three months period, to which
no reference has been made, and
which will atone for the naming
of any enterprise above that is not
“new” in the strictest sense. In
addition to the improvements
mentioned, every section of the
city has witnessed the constant
building of residences, of greater,
or less proportions.
The recent investments in vari
ous business enterprises, by men
of successful experience-—that of
foreign capital, within about one
year, aggregating, approximately,
$200,000—afford the best possible
evidence that Cordele’s “boom”
period, with its uncertain values
and questionable results, is a
thing of the past, and that
dele now rests on a solid basis.
It will not be contradicted that
probably more titles in fee-simple
to homes have been secured in
Cordele during the last two years,
than were previously held, by the
nut. r
city.
AS THE PEOPLE—SO THE CITY.
When people sell their homes
and interests elsewhere and
invest their money here, it is be- j
cause of confidence in Cordele as
the best place in which to live and
in which to invest. Capital isn’t
falling over itself to go elsewhere,
through unselfish motives of
philanthropy.
The frequent returns of former
valued citizens of Cordele, from
trial of other places, are practical
demonstrations of the comparative
superiority of Cordele’s claims,and
of the excellency of the judgement
exercised in the first choice. Such
citizens as have recently re-cast
their lots with us, are valuable
ac< 4 u i a it'i°iis to any community,
He people that come to Cor
de J e and vicinity are not of the
shiftless mass that is drifted from
place to place by blind impulsive
longing for change. They come
for permanent residence, buy
homes, and, in all ways that may
be, identify their personal inter
ests with the common interests of
the community. Hence the per
vading spirit of harmony and
loyalty that characterizes our
citizenry, which is the best pledge
of a future unsullied by petty
jealousies, bickering and strife.
A chronic “kicker” is lonesome m
Cordele, and, provided he has
sense enough, soon “mends his
ways.”
Farm lands within the extensive
territorv tributary to Cordele,
have met ready sale and are being
rapidly developed by thrifty, in
dustrious and intelligent farmers
whom depends in large
measure the future of the city.
Happy homes, plenteous harvests,
and bank accounts provided
against a “rainy day,” evidence
their success, which Cordele gen
erously shares. According to the
last census, 25,(XX) bales of cotton
were marketed in Dooly county-
of which, were sold in Cor
Our churches—Baptist, Episco
pal, Presbyterian and Methodist—
each well supported by loyal
memberships and served by able
ministers. Our city public school
is under the direction of
fine a board of trustees as can
found anywhere. The present
of the schools is, by
far, the largest in their history, be
laudable educational in
on the part of our people.
There is here, as hearty co
with “the powers that
be,” on educational and religious
lines as any city can boast.
advantages of location.
Cities do not build by chance.
Centers of population and capital
are determined by fixed principles.
Cordele meets the requirements.
The government mortality report
recently issued from the depart
ment at Washington, D. C.
gives Cordele credit for having
the lowegfc death rate 0 f any city
in Georgia. Cordele’s climate is
satisfactory, her artesian water
will do, her lands are cheap, fer
tile, and easily cultivated, her
railroad facilities are such as will
inevitably contribute to hereon-
tinued growth and enrichment.
All olasscs of freight can be
shipped, at same expense, to Cor
dele, from New York, Philadelphia,
Providence, Baltimore, and all
points east, as to Atlanta, Chatta
nooga, Spartanburg, Birmingham
and other cities of like importance.
Towns and cities located on water
routes lmve, of course, great,
vantage in shipping rates, hut
Macon, with water rates, has only
five cents on the hundred pounds
the advantage of Cordele. Cordele
being t. basing point, all points
intervening between Cordele and
other basing points, must pay the
Cordele rate with freight from
Cordele added. Cordele can, for
instance, buy cotton at points
towards Savannah, ship it, to Cor
dele, compress it and re-ship to
Savannah, at less expense than
the original owner could have
shipped from his town to Savan
nah
The freight rate, from eastern
points to Cordele, is 87 cents, per
hundred pounds, less than to Fitz
gerald ; 82 cents, less than to La
Grange; 22 cents, less than to
Quitman, and 55 cents less than
to Moultrie.
Cordele’s location gives it great
commercial importance, being lo
cated upon three trunk lines of
railway—the G- S. – F., the S. A.
L., and the A. – B., which is now
graded to the city limits. The
proposed extension of the Albany
– Northern toHawkinsville, would
give us the fourth—affording bet
ter connections with reference to
all eastern points, and to all west
ern points, by way of New Orleans,
to Los Angles and the “Golden
Gate.” If Cordele does not be
come a city indeed, it will be be
cause existing conditions do not
produce their logical results.
From Nine-Year-Old Boy.
The following original is hand
ed in by a nine-year-old boy in
the fourth grade of the Cordele
Public Schools. At his request
it is reproduced verbatim in the
Sentinel:
“See the stars of Bethlehem
Shining through the believe night,
Upon Jesus whom we in,
Shining bright.”
“Oh, Jesus Christ who is so good.
Who was so good to beautiful make us,
Who made us for this world,
And now we live for Jesus.”
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FROM THE SEVENTH GRADE.
Houston High School Student Writes
it up in Good Shape.
A few weeks ago, there appeared
in the Sentinel, a prophecy of
grade of the Houston High
School, and perhaps some would
be pleased to hear from another
one of its factions, although it is
not us important as the 8th. and
their future may not be foretold
as brilliantly as that of the eighth.
The seventh graders have not
yet reached such heighths as to
boast of a Fussel with the map of
Greece visible on his face, yet wo
can boast of a J. Richmond Brown,
who will make a name in the
literary world. He has a strong
imagination, and" often indulges
in “day dreams.”
He will always live in the coun
try, in order that his poetic fancy
may have full sway.
Miss Ida Bacon is by far the
most intelligent ladj r in school.
She will aspire to the chair of
languages in some of our leading
southern colleges. She is not an
ordinary young lady by any
means, and yet she is on ly human,
and she can’t restrain her love for
oranges.
Another of our seventh grade
girls, Nettie Simmons, will some
day create a sensation in the
musical world with her wonder
ful compositions.
Miss Laura Harris, a most dig
nified young lady, will grace a
school room with her presence,
and after several years have past,
she will assist some promising
young representative in his politi
cal career.
Jule Reynolds, who will in the
near future be a second Walter
George/ will'With htif' eToqhmice
thrill the senate, Or perhaps win
the critics praise. He is as fond
of a fair face as Mr McDerinid,
although his face is*not as well
trained.
J. L. Aniason is a young man of
business principles. He will some
day be a cashier in a bank. lie
has only one weakness, that is a
deep reveration for young ladies.
Oscar McKenzie, generally
known by his classmates as
“Baby,” is exceedingly fond of the
game crokonole. He is an adept
in this game, and wins oranges by
the dozen and bon-bons by the
box. He will go into the mercan
tile business in Cordele, when his
career as a school boy has closed.
Don’t be suspicious if he pays
more visits to Vienna than seem
to be necessary. Of course he
goes on business.
Sidney Jones will some day as
pire to the pulpit of a country
church, and will don his spectacles
( Concluded on 8th page).