The correspondent. (Roberta, Ga.) 1892-190?, October 20, 1893, Image 1

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The correspondent., October 20, 1893, Image 1

About The correspondent. (Roberta, Ga.) 1892-190? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1893)

Page of 8

Prev Issue Next Issue

Text PDF JP2 (4.3 MB) Clip/Print Image

Page of 8

Prev Issue Next Issue

Return to Top

Newspaper Page TextVOL. 2. ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS. GATHERED FOR THE CORRE¬ SPONDENTS READERS. The Happenings of the Week Put in Short , Pointed Paragraphs — What Has Happened and Is Go¬ ing to Happen—Points Political , Personal and Social—Men and Things. Superior Court in session this w-eek. Every district in the county is represented in court this week. The days drag slowly by but a fine head of steam gives some im¬ petus. Gapt. Wms. Rutherford is at¬ tending court in Kuoxviiie this week. Col. C. B. Howard in the face of the long list of years behind him is still on the list among the young. An army of good people were in town this week. A large ma¬ jority of them speak up for us and our paper. Once more the jail is clear. To put things in that kind of sRapo costs courts and jail occupants some money. We have been b/essed with, two or three fine frosts. This part of the world moves up in good shape. From constant blowing round about here recently it may be in¬ ferred that the wind in these parts listetfi. Miss Laura Grubb, of The Rock, is visiting her sister, Miss Ida, and the family of Dr. J. W. Jones in Knoxville. Don’t be afraid to meet the man who has extended to you credit. An honest showing of your hand will never injure you in business transactioms. Judge Bartlett is among the very best timber in this good old state out of which we can choose a Judge for the Supreme court. He knows the law and he is in shape in every other particu lar. Everybody with any beard, at all, needed a barber in Knoxville this week,M. e., all that were in that town in that shape cuurt week should have a barber shop. Mr. Henry Saylor spent S.atur-, day and Sunday in Roberta, and went to see his Crawford county girl Sunday and reports a nice time. Rev. A. L. Moncrief preached two most excellent sermons at the Buptist church in Knoxville Sunday to large and apprecia¬ tive congregations. Our associate was treated to a nobby hat since our last issue and now he is a little inclined to be stuffed with an idea that straw hats under proclamation should be called in from wear and take a back seat on some old out-of-the way rack. We suggest that some fellow possibly is en¬ titled to a week more to get out the straw hat ring, and we agree to indulge to that extent by per¬ mission of the august chairman of the board of health. In this connection it is certainly admis¬ sible to go a little furthe and tell the owners and holders of dusters and something denominated “mother hubbard” garment that they should consult with the aforesaid sanitary board. ReadJ. G. Wilbourn’s adver „ tisementin this issue THE GORRESP Mm -> / ••• • ROBERTA, GA., FRIDAY, “Jim” Hammett likes to read “Good News.” ’ - Pleas of guilt do not entitle any man to clemency. Ground peas and suger cane on the streets at low prices. Ohas. McGee, of the Plymouth Rock Pants Co., of Macon, is on a visit to Knoxville. Bob Rutherford is shaking hands with his many friends in town this week. All the court officers have toed the mark this week and they have done excellent service all the way through. But a few idlers have been about court this week. Vagrants hunt different pastures on this especial week. We have been reliably inform¬ ed that the court house will be furnished with fire proof vaults. Wilson Wright, of Macon, is spending a day or two in Knox¬ ville. Wilson is a very popular salesman in the store of J. H. Hertz. Compliments for the Corre¬ spondent have come in this week and the end is not yet. It will go in advance of the most sangu me expectations next week, Will Powell, wide-awake mer¬ chant and proprietor of the Rey¬ nolds Hustler, was in town last Monday. Miss Susan Glover of Taylar county is spending this week with the family of Mr. B. A. Hartley. Col. E. B. Trammell is visiting home folks at Shiloh, Ga. This paper is still in the ring. Both editors fight men and things that get on the wrong side. Miss Hattie Sharp, of Ceres is visiting the family of H. F. Sanders. Sheriff Culverouse on a big run growing out of a sanitary injunc¬ tion has hurt his big toe. Then he stepped on a nail. The nail on account of superior hardness stuck into his foot. He is on the hop. Bob Avera is now in the mer cantile business at the old stand so long occupied by his father. Bob is a good boy. He aims to have a good store and this paper bespeaks for him liberal patron¬ age at the hands of our appreci¬ ative people. When a party loses a case in court a kind of bad feeling crawls over him. Allow this statement: He is in just about as good a fix as the man who gets it on record and into his head that he has gained something. Many judg¬ ments exist; few are enforc ed. All patrons must be lenieut this week and excuse all short com¬ ings that can in any way whatev¬ er be charged to the paper. The paper still runs and goes with good weight. Our associate leads in the van. What is lost in this office is gained in court and will be answered for in the future and to the paper’s credit. Judge Holleman is an expert on mending broken vehicles. Driving blind horses and splicing shaftscome among his specialties. “Mr. R. E. Hollingsworth, was shaking hands with his many friends and loved onef in Fayette¬ ville last Sunday.’’—Fayetteville News. Our whole court wears an ex¬ cellent face. Neighbor towns boa'st of what they pay for cotton on 1 the mar- ket from day to day. Let Rober¬ ta come to the front. Mr. F. H. V/right went to At-, lanta a few days -since and col¬ lected a nice sum from good men in that city for the worthy and highly esteemed minister, Rev. A, L. Moncrief. Our partner in the newspaper occasionally meets with a little set-back. A few days ago he started off for Macon and was held under quarantine on the way for some time. They thought he was a victim to yel¬ low fever and came near dump¬ ing him. This thing worried Em¬ mett and he is now an avowed enemy to any such proceeding. Sheriff Hewell ci Fayette County was down to see our sher¬ iff this week. He had the buggy and the negro who had stolen same from Charley Hick,?. These were in soak at Fayetteville. Potatoes are fine hereabouts, some weiah as much as five or six pounds apiece. Ray says that bench-legged lice dogs bay them in the patch, not knowing what monstrously large affairs they have run across in their rounds. Don’t stand in your own light. Subscribe for the paper. Among visitors appear some genial fellows ard ones that can be set down among the very best in the land. After this order come Bob Rutherford, Capt. Wms. Rutherford,v r Dr. J. N, Smith, James Taylor and in short a whole thousand additional whose names can’t be given be¬ cause our time exhausted. Cool 4 weather helps in some particulars. Cool judgement is now in great demand. Be clear and cool about the head and let the coolness godn the lead. Sheriff Hewell from Fayette, is the right kind of material. He brings in offenders and is modest enough to never run a thnbbled cornered future arrangement. New goods coming in every day. Call at The New York Store. B. Chapman. The prettiest line of Dry Goods ever offered in Roberta. At the New York Store. The young ladies and gentle¬ men of Knoxville and Roberta and vicinity are cordially invited to attend a soiree at the Harris Hotel on Friday r.ight the 27th of this month. Come forward and settle your accounts. We need it and must have it. Jones <fc LeSueur Bond & Blasingame make a new offer this week. They offer the best bagging and ties suffici¬ ent for packing a bale of cotton for fifty five cents. Guaranteed. Come in and pay your dues to the paper. If your subscription has expired, give us $1.50 and get the Weekly Constitution and the Correspondent one year. * - Bond,and Blasingame’s gin¬ nery is the biggest thing that turng wheels in this section. They gin cotton cheap as anybody can—have all modern appliances and fixtures. They will give you more for Cotton Seed than any buyer* no matter what his offer is. Try them. Bond & £; j-ti t SUPERIOR kJ URT. Superior court at this writing is jn session. Court week is a big one for Crawford and Zack Harris always lends something on the occasion to the lasting commemoration thereof. Judge Bartlett was on hand Monday at the appointed hour with his right bower, Will H. Felton. The mill began its turn promptly and the initiatory grist was a grand jury of good, honor able, honest, fair minded men. These names show who they were to-wit: Hon. S. R. Harrison,foreman. E W Finney, W W Jordan, Jno L Harnson, W R Thames, R J Hancock, Jno I Champion, Jno J Britt, Sr W G Hancock, WGAultman, H C White. A C Arnold, J P Blasingame, C C Elliott, R E Bankston, Joel Bankston, W J Walker, JnoN Powell, J F Hartley, L A McCarty, Jno L Marshall, J M Hancock, J B Clarke, To this body our efficient Judge delivered an able charge—well directed and to the point. .This kind, and this only, could come from the source that gave it. The traverse jury is in the court house and in the box when put in that kind depository. And when it receives them its contents in general make up amounts to a dozen batch at each time of good material. This is the com¬ position : J J Williams, W 3 King, Chas Aultman, A P Spillers, Robt M Lockhart, Monroe Newberry W E Champion, W J Brown, C B Spillers, Felix Hammock, Jack Hancock, L T Wellons, W E Myrick, W G Gordon, M C Mathews, L T Lee. W R Blasingame, J J Bowman, Geo F Brown, E C Mathews, Ed E Hancock, Z T Harris, Thos L Arnold, Jno A Fryar, Cicero Arnold, J T Cochran, D J Ross, R H Hancock, J F Chance, G M Andrews, W M Bond, Jas E Bryant, Joel E Gasset, .T C Hicks, O J King, J E Cloud, Some attorneys from other counties are in attendance at this term of our court. Among these we note some: From Macon, M. G. Bayne, L. D. Moore, Clem Steed, J. L. Har¬ deman. and the quill driver on the fast line, Emmett Barnes. Cols. W. S. Wallace and Char¬ ley West are over from Butler; Bob Merritt is here from Barnes ville and from Forsyth we have Judge W. D. Stone and «Jim Fletcher. v • Messrs H. A. Mathews and W. P. Blasingame represent Fort Valley. Judge A. S. Giles is with us and with all this host, and the local bar thrown in for good meas¬ ure, we are having a driving court. The criminal docket was taken up Wednesday and quite a num¬ ber of cases were disposed of. Adam Shealey who stole W. W. Wilsons mule was sentenced Wednesday. He goes to the penitentiary for ten years. Charley May son who was ac¬ cused of stealing and entered a plea of guilty to a felony was sent up for five years. Mrs. S. J. Raines lost two bales of cotton in the recent fire atCul loden. She is a widow and has a large number of children. We give the best advertising rates in the best advertising me¬ dium in this section. All com¬ bined make a go, NO. 04. When it consnmes about two days to dispose of a case that in¬ volves no more than twqntyfive or thirty dollars at a cost of two or three hundred dollars to the coun¬ ty, (and that about sizes the pict¬ ure of our present litiga'tion). we almost conclude that no man of sound judgment would under¬ take to oppose the institution of some method to relieve our over¬ burdened tax payers. This can be done by having a county court of the right kind. It is needless to say that the county should have one. The petty criminal cases that confront us right along on this identical road, are more costly than the little ones ©n the civil side of the court. Crawford boys will come to the front we can always talk for them and say bushels and barrels, and even hogsheads of good things, and tell the truth gll the way through the entire statement Lee Martin is a Crawford boy, is now in Macon at No. 310 Second St. in management of business for the Plymouth Rock Pants Co. We expect to tell more about it in the paper in big letters, but . ask you now to see Lee when you need nice and pretty fitting ciothes. The Co. exercised splen¬ did judgment when it put him in that place. J. G. WILBURN, MACON, AGeV5' GA V GENERAL home life mmm, NEW YORK. ALSO Fire and Accident. Now is the time to get this pa¬ per and the Constitution, both for $1.50 a year. ELECTION NOTICE! On November 2nd next, an election for Mayor of the town of Roberta, Ga., to fill the unexpired term of A> J. Danielly, resigned. By order of the council. A. J. DANIELLY, Mayor. Oct. 4th, 1893. NOTICE! NOTICE! To barter, sell or exchange for goods iu the town of Roberta on the Sabbath day is a violation of the law of this State and town or to fol¬ low any other daily avocation to make money. Therefore he that fol¬ lows it shall be fined as follows: $25. for the first offense and $30. for the second, &c. Also any liquor dealer who keeps open his place of business after the hour of 10 o’clock p. m. violates the law of this town and he or they does so shall be fined as follows: for the first offense he shall pay $10. and for the second $20. and for the third of¬ fense his license shall be revoked, unless party shows certificate from physician. A By the council, A. J. DANIELLY, Mayor. Oct. 4th, 1893. FOR SALE. Good Bedsteads, Spring Mat¬ tresses, Cloths for Tables, Tables and other good articles of furni¬ ture suited to any household, at low prices, next thirty days. E. E. Dent, Dent House. FOR RENT. In Roberta, the best town on the A. & F. Road, a new Hotel, • Twelve rooms. Business estab¬ lished. Good water. 20 yards from depot. Possession given 3rd of Nov. next. Address McCrarf & Walker, Roberta, Ga. Sow a full ctop of small grain. Fatten your hogs and put in the smokehouse your own meat.