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iUue Spring ivoies.
[The celow i'i 'ch-duyU) lac to publish
1 . w ;k. Correspoadeni' will favor us by sending
ro e .o'u ns Wednesday. An it.'in of special
•icteres;- .• :.y be sent Thursday.
We are sorry to have kept sile: t
so long,but will try and make amends
by future punctuality (D. V.).
Mr. A. J. Gordon, of Birmingham,
formermerly of Mulberry Grove, vis
ited Blue Spring last week to the de
light o of his frtends and &.
We had the pleasure of listeniug
to Maj. Bullock’s intelligent flow ot
language a short while last Mond^f
afternoon as he stopped on his way
from Piney Grove to his home in
Chipley.
The party at Mr. J. C. Hodge’s
last Tuesday evening was one of the
most enjoyable ever attended by
yours truly. The crowd was large
but select, music (string band) < .e
and sweet, dancing spledid. s he
only unenjoyable moment of tiic c
casion, to me, was seeing my rival in
in the drawing room holding tete-a
tete with a young man who always
prove' himself very entertaining to
both of us; but I would not give her
Whit (a whit) for any of her beaus,
“no how.”
Chipley, why are you sosuspitious?
Two prominent Alliance men went
there from Blue Spring and report
having been eyed .nisirustingly by
some of Chipley’s best citizens. The
joke has oeen enjoyed as much by
Wisdom’s Store, your words are
very encouraging to us who have the
advantage of leap year, bnt vhat is a
young lady to do when she asks one
of her supposed admirers to accom
pany her to an eutertainment and he
replies with all the audacity of his
selfish nature: “A previous engage
ment forbids that pleasure” ?
permanent
He car
their loss will be his success.
Miss Christie Gordon, a Mulberry
Grove belle, spent a few days last
week with Mr. J. C. Hodge.
“Robie and her fair friend, “Pythi
as,” anticipate visiting “Sylvan Re
treat” next week.
What has become of the spring
poets while other sweet flowers are
blooming so abunuantly ? We have
rfot seen, so much as a bud of those.
J. O., N0.6 (Unity), we think you
are mistaken about the gentleman
of your settlement vvho visited Beech
$p r j n g You sain he returned with
T , Pis prevailing
OUt hlS tltMi t. tiie
opinion that he carried back his own
and another besides,
The very haudsomest young man
in Hamilton paid homefolks a visit
last Sunday at this place . It is un
necessary to add that the gentleman’s
name is Frank Hadley.
One of our girls received a pleas
ant visit from Dr Christian, of West
Point, a few days since,
Capt. Jenkins, of Chipley, is ex
pected at the Alliance lodge this P.
Robie.
Mulberry Grove bob.
[The fo ow : 3 otes reached u- last *week after
hejou na!. had gone io pri ss. Corr spondence
should i -.ch us not late; than Wednesday ni^ht,
uni ss it be an it m of special new . j
* -• . : j the dav
k . ■ t • 1 ehj.A
tcsi.t g their stiength, bui enj >v th.
dinner prepared by the good house
wives much better.
Mr. A. J. Gordon returned from
Birmingham last week. He is visit
ing Ins parents and relatives. He
return to Biimingham the first of
March.
A sad occurrence happened in our
locality Monday. Annie Culpepper,
a little daughter of Mr. Jeff. Culpep
per, was killed by a tree top falling
upon her. The tree had been cut
down for wood and a limb stuck in
to the ground. It is supposed the
little girl was on the log when the
limb that was in the ground gave way
fell and caught the little girl under it.
The child’s parents were absent at
the time and no one was there only
two other little girls, one of who ran
to Mr. Huling, the nearest neighbor,
for assistance, but was too late,
Though, if there had been help at
hand, she could not have been saved,
for her body was crushed. Annie
was one of a pair of twins anil was
three years and six months old. 1 he
der our sympathy to the bereaved
parents.
Guano u.i finance is the talk with
1 hey have org m
ized a emu in our oeat. One mai
that we heard speaking of it the otn
er day is so well experienced in the
secret says he can tell an alliance
as f ar as he can hear him holler. No,
* guess the secret is not so hard to
learn. •
Mr. Sam Hargett, of Columbus,
was the guest of his uncie, J. M. Hu
^sq., last Monday and I uesday.
The valentine drawing at Mr. J.
H. Brawner’s the fourteenth was quite
a success. All that attended had a
vciy nice time. \Ve could not ex
pect anything but a nice time, for
Mrs. Brawner’s pleasant face renders
every one happy at her home.
Regina.
Wavvrly Hall Happening*.
As you seem to have no regular
correspondent at Waverly Hall I
write you a short sketch of our status.
Waverly is not “booming,” r-*
j | she is steadily growing. Our mer¬
chants “thank God and go on their
way rejoicing” in a large and paying
business.
Our guano agents are as happy as
muddy roads will allow them to be.
They will sell fifty per cent more of
the odoriferous • substance . this . .
| year
^ it <1 i i t.ie\ disposed Ot last year,
J ( r school is the centre of interest
at present. It numbers eighty-one
pupils now and will run to one hun
bred just as soon as the residences
which are now in course of erection
are completed. We are proud of
our school and especially of its prin¬
cipal, who did not travel one rod to
i drum for a single pupil, His thor
ough work in the school-room does
his drumming. We feel that we
have the banner school of west Geor
ia and we intend for Calhoun to en
ter his long and last sleep at Waverly
Hall,
Bad as the weather has been and
muddy as are and have been our
highways, there has been but little
irregularity in the attendance of ^pu¬
pils of Waverly Hall school.
B.
Catania Chat.
Rev. R. H. Bullock made a pleas¬
ant visit in our community last week,
the guest of Mr. J. H. Lynch.
Mrs. Fannie Thomaston is prog¬
ressing finely in her poultry raising.
The merry chirp of the wee chick is
heard on her premises.
The Farmt-iV Alliance had a
meeting >atur<l.»7 with twelve new
n-l^ibers and several petitions to be
come members.
Mr. A. J. Ely and famil/ left a few
days ago to make their home in At
lanta for the present year. They
left their son in charge of their farm.
Rev. J. W. Wilson has had a call
to a church in Alabama, but owing
to the great afflictions in his family
we do not know whether he will ac
cept or not.
There is quite a craze among the
ladies of our community over fancy
quilt work. I have seen several
worsted quilts that were beautiful ’
—one in particular that was made
on the crazy order and worked with
zephyr. Miss Maggie Ely has near
completion silk quilt • that •
a crazy is
a beauty. She has u*ed kensington,
arocene and ribbon work on the
quilt with fifty different styles of crazy
stitches. She is prepa ing it for the
exposition.
Death has again visited our com¬
munity and taken from their fond
embrace a loving husband and father.
As heaven is to be peopled from
earth, it cannot be otherwise than
that some family circle must be bro¬
ken, some hearts mu it surrender the
objects of their affections. Rev.
Breen Wiggins died at his home
February ioth. He had been sic*
a long time, but after many days and
nights of intense suffering passed
peacefully away. We do not know
his age, but suppose he must have
attained to three score and ten. For
more than half his life he has been in
the ministry and he nbw rests from
h s labors and has entered on his re¬
ward. May He who guides and
comforts His children here comfoit
the bereaved ones, His remains
were interred at Glower’s church,
Rev. Mr. Brewton conducting the
funeral service.
IIlntM From Hardeman.
Miss Pearl Truett, who has been
visiting friends and relatives in Co¬
lumbus for the past two months, re¬
turned home last Saturday.
The survey of the railroad from
Carrollton is creating quite a sensa¬
tion at Mountain Hill. In passing
Saturday I found quite a group of
gentlemen collected at the little town
each with a collection of different
kinds of minerals and ores which they
claim are embedded in Pine moun¬
tain near the place called Askew Gap.
Mr. John Askew had on exhibition
several pieces of coal picked up in
the last few days. Mr. John King
had several rocks, one specimen
claimed to be copper, another uj>on
burning has the smell of sulphur, an¬
other claimed to be lead or silver.
And these gentlemen are ceitain that
ll those having the location of the
Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus rail
r0 ad w ,jj 5 u t bring the road by the
Askew Gap, which wid be on a direct
line with Columbus, that another
Tallapoosa will be found in Harris
county at Mountain Hill,
Mr. Charlie Brawner, of Mountain
, Hill, and Miss Mollie Askew were
happily married at the residence of
Mr. Jasper Askew, the bride’s father,
on last Wednesday evening. The
groorn is an energetic and successful
young farmer near Mountain Hill,
j and the bride is the oldest daughter
ot Mr. Askew, a young lady worthy
; the hand she has taken. May their
lives blended wind its way through
the flowerets of time and bloom on
the beautiful hereafter in the haven
nf rpc |
Mr. Alfred Blackmon has been tor
1 the past few days wearing a pleasant