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VOL. 2.
ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS.
GATHERED FOR THE CORRE¬
SPONDENTS READERS.
The Happenings of the Week Pitt
in Short, Pointed Paragraphs—
What Has Happened and Is Go¬
ing to Happen—Points Political,
Personal and Social—Men and
Thinas.
Frost enough to spare Bruns¬
wick a goodly quantity.
Wes Dent and John Culver
house went to Macon this week.
Hot weather and dry mud in
town and in a few other sections.
Miss Emma Andrews is over
from Bibb on a visit to relatives
in Knoxville.
Some of our exchanges put it
that winter has come in. Isn’t
summer robbing winter of its
timet
Miss Leila Holmes, of Macon,
sister of Mrs. F. S. Hardeman, is
out in Roberta on a visit to rela¬
tives. We divinefor her a pleas¬
ant stay.
Will Pierce left a few days ago
for Macon where he will make
his home. Will is a good boy
and we are in bouyant hopes of
his success in this life.
Sewing machines adorn the
railroad track almost every day
of the week. Does the road in¬
tend to form a combination ?
Mayor Danielly has returned
with his party of excellent ladies
from the Word’s Fair. There are
some apprehensions that he will
exhaust his power of speech in
telling about what he saw.
We deem it good policy to
spend your money with home
merchants so long as they will do
the right thing toward you.
Creditors cry out to debtors to
pay their debts. If the debtor
class of this country had always
been paid the worth of their la¬
bor and products, this cry would
not now be heard all over this
country.
From every reasonable stand¬
point that inference can be made
our schools will soon be forced
into winter quarters. Buildings
are uncomfortable and unfit for
use during cold weather.
Jas. L. Dent, E. W. Cook and
W, R. Pierce made a big round
in the Gate City the first of this
week. These young men certain¬
ly enjoyed their trip for Jim says
it went ahead of the world’s or
any other kind of fair or fare.
Some of these August drones
who don’t know where the head
or mouth of Flint river is ought
not to say the roads in our coun¬
ty are in fair condition. They
have never been away from home
and can’t tell.
Read in this issue the big dou
ble column advertisement given
us by the Atlanta Constitution.
The Weekly Constitution and
Correspondent for one dollar and
a half, cash in advance. Just
think about this as you ought.
You need good papers in your
family—good readable papers
for your children. Here you can
get them dirt cheap and no kind
of excuse can be framed by you
for delay. Consult your interests
and subscribe.
Come in and pay your dues to
the paper. If your subscription
has expiied, give us $1.50 and get
the Weekly Constitution and the
Correspondent one year.
THE CORRESPONDENT.
ROBERTA, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER, 27, 1893.
Miss Bell Gibson, Miss Jennie
Bent, Mrs. M. B. Walker, Mrs. W.
J. Dent and A. J. Danielly re¬
turned from the World’s Fair on
the 22nd well pleased with their
trip. They were joined in Nash¬
ville hy Mrs. Mabbett, a very
pleasant lady and Masters How¬
ard and James Williams. This
accession added much to the en¬
joyment of the party. Miss Bell
Gibson now understands that the
walls of the Moorish Palace are
made of mirrors. Mrs. M. B.
Walker learned while at the Fair
that a person can get lonesome
although surrounded by twenty
thousand people. Mrs. W. J Dent
learned that to keep up with the
procession one must put in a
Nancy Hanks lick. Miss Jennie
Dent says that the pulse of the
Sleeping Beauty did not beat
while in her presence. Jack
Danielly says Tennessee and Ne¬
braska made the best exhibits.
Mrs. Mabbett, who joined the
party at Nashville, also Masters
Howard and James Williams
were from Anniston Ala. Mrs.
Mabbett thought the Streets of
Cairo very interesting. Master
Howard and James were carried
away with the Electrical display.
Altogether the trip was a delight¬
ful one.
Cotton is low at this time in
prices. Farmers are told that
prices will not be any better in
the future and this must certain¬
ly be held out to them in order
that they will sacrifice their
rights to the machinations and
steals of speculators. Some
pretend that a larger crop than
usual has been made. That is not
true, and sensible men will not
accept any such for truth.
Farmers, don’t allow yourselves
deceieved. Don’t believe that
you should, by receipts to-day
from the present crop, conclude
that there is a big crop. It is
false.
We give the presentments of
the Grand Jury in this issue.
From them we find out seme fall¬
en plastering in the court house
needs a kind of nailing back in
its proper place. Let this be at¬
tended to at once, if any one’s
services can be engaged to do that
kind of work. We can make no
germane proposal just here un¬
less we can find some Crawford
boy who will take lessons in such
nailing and then find for him a
teacher, Anew branch should
be added to our school of tech¬
nology.
At the court just closed a num¬
ber of little fellows, of the bench¬
legged variety jumped behind
court house doors to get revenge
as some people term it. There
have been a great many recom¬
mendations made recently, and
we take this occasion to recom¬
mend that a third class kennel be
constructed for those fellows and
that they be closely confined
therein, so that no more of their
progeny will hereafter curse the
Carth. It is futher suggested that
their place be provided in Oke
fenokee swamp m underground
chasm.
Bond and Blasingame's gin¬
nery is the biggest thing that
turns 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 <fc Blasingame.
The jail is clear at present.
Sunday school convention at
Benevolence church this week.
There will be some movi«g in
town shortly from one residence,
two or three, and possibly more,
to others.
Cotton is cheap on the market,
high on the make. The farmer
knows.
Miss Josie Williams, daughter
of our good friend, Judge A. F.
Williams, recently died m Pen
field, at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Sallie Boswell. Miss Josie
was a most estimable and much
beloved young lady. We deplore
her death. To the afflicted and
bereaved goes out our sincere
sympathy.
When you owe for the paper
don’t hunt about every where ex¬
cept at the place you ought try¬
ing to find some one to whom you
can hand over your dues. Come
to this office and settle for it and
get your receipt. Then, if vour
subscription to it bds expired re¬
new it. You will be placed bv
that kind of method in the right
channel.
Row is the time to get this pa
per and the Constitution, both for
$1.50 a year.
Once upon a time some silly
people made an effort to climb
into Heaven by a tower that they
had conceived in their folly and
presumption. Their fate is on
record. The great tower of Craw¬
ford is now going up, and a con¬
siderable number of Pharisees of
the narrowest sect have control
of the building thereof. The as
sininity of these selfsame fellows
far exceeds that of the misdirect¬
ed ones who were so zealous at
the tower of Babel, and they will
be confounded not only in lan¬
guage, but in every vile effort.
B. Chapman’s stock is increas¬
ing every day. He says C irisfc
mas is near at hand and lie is
standing ready, willing and wait¬
ing to furnish all customers with
an elegant Christmas present. Go
to his New York store and he will
verify this statement.
We give the best advertising
rates in the best advertising me¬
dium in this section. All com¬
bined make a go.
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.
Come forward and settle your
accounts. We need it and must
have it. Jones & 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.
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. Bossession give 1 3rd
of Nov. next. Address McCrary
& Walker, Roberta, Ga. •
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.
EXCHANGE NOTES,
Homer Reed, of the Atlanta
Journal, the State’s best daily,was
in Roberta this week, we have
been told. Mr. Reed was pressed
for time, it is reasonable to sup¬
posed, else lie would have called
a minute or two at the Corre¬
spondent office.
“Oliver Cleveland, whose home is
near Mount Carmel church in Craw¬
ford county, made three bales of cot¬
ton on an acre and seven-eights of
land this year. The cotton was
planted in his vineyard and in rows
eight feet apart. Mr. Charley Gfad
dick, a near neighbor of Mr, Cleve¬
land’s, picked 2,500 pounds of peas
from four acres.”- Colloden Journal.
The Correspondent, published at
Roberta, Ga., is one of the best
weekly newspapers in the State.
Messrs. O. P. Wright and R. E. El¬
liott, its able Editors should receive
a liberal patronage from the people
of Crawford and adjoining counties.
—Reynolds Hustler.
The Lovejoy Picayune is now
on the Correspondent’s exchange
string. We are supremely re¬
joiced that Bro. Grant is in a
good section of the good old state
of Georgia. We know he would
be happy if a few of those badly
abused silver dollars could come
along with his ’taters and
’possums.*
Some men who are only 4 feet
11 inches high in the eyes of the
world, are 11 feet 4 inches high in
their own estimation.—Fayette¬
ville News.
Don’t they sometimes stretch
up to four times eleven feet and
four inches?
The Reynolds Hustler is now
on our exchange list. It starts
out under the most favorable
auspices—a host of friends and
substantial patrons behind it.
We extend to it, and meet it over
half way in the road of exten¬
sion, the warmest of warm wel¬
comes. With W. I. Powell as
proprietor and J. C. Griffith as
editor and business manager its
success is an assured certainty.
When these names appear at its
mast head you need not read
contents to find evidences. Let
us Crawford folks subscribe for
it.
“The devil’s goats would starve
to death if they had to live in the
pasture with God’s sheep.”
Two truths.
An exchange condensed much
truth in the following: “The news
paper is expected to be always at
work for the upbuilding of the town,
but little is said about the town up¬
building the newspaper.”
Merit and persons and things
entitled to recognition and assis¬
tance go wanting as a rule.
The oldest man in Georgia and
even in the United States lives in
Emanubl county. He is 140 years
old and has lived for more than
one hundred years with the
Youngblood family of that conn
tv. He is said to be hale and
hearty. He is an old negro.
The Atlanta Journal sets the sil
ventes down as being away back
yonder in the rear and„claims for
them a surrender. Pat them on
the back and let them not be too
much ashamed for they have
made a hard fight.
J. G. WILBURN,
MACON, GA.
GENERAL AGENT
HOME LIFE IJiSWlAME,
NEW YORK.
ALSO
Eire and Accident.
NO. 65.
WARRIOR news.
Mr, John T. Bailey the un¬
fortunate young man who fell
from a third story window in the
Park hotel night before last was
buried yesterday afternoon at 4
o’clock from the residence of his
cousin, Mr, S. A. Bailey, on
Spring street, the services being
conducted by Rev. J. E. Wray of
the Vineville Methodist church.
Present at the funeral were
Mr. Bailey’s mother, Mrs. A. J.
Simmons, Mr. W. T. Simmons, his
helf brother, and Mrs. J. T. Mc
Ginty, his sister, all of Forsyth,
they having arrived on an early
train yesterday morning.
After the services at the house
were over the funeral procession
waB formed and the remains were
carried to the old Bailey home¬
stead on the Columbus road four
miles from the city, for inter¬
ment.
Coroner Hodnett (held an in¬
quest over the remains of Mr.
Bailey yesterday morning, and
the verdict of the jury was that
the deceased came to his death
by the accidental falling from a
third story window in the Park
hotel.
Mr. Bailey’s death was un¬
fortunate and purely accidental.
He went to the window for some
purpose, and the window sill be¬
ing very low, m some manner he
lost his balance and fell out.
Tom Stembridge has*put the
roads in good condition from Mc
Elmurray’s to Sandy Point.
Alex and Sam Jones, of Mon¬
roe county, have gone to Texas.
Preacher Ellis will give us one
of his fine sermons at Bethel
church to-day.
The farmers are digging pota¬
toes and making syrup.
Ab Curbo, of the Warrior,
was married last Wednesday to a
Miss Spillers, who lives some
where on Flint river. They came
to their future home in the W ar
rior last Saturday.
O the good times are a cornin’
No matter what they say,
You can hear them a humin’
jHumiu’ a hundred miles away.
They’re sailing through summer
And a’flitin’ through the freeze,
A ridin’ down the river
And a blowin’ in the breeze.
Cornin’
A humin’
Like a resrimenta drumin’
Lane has got a turnin’ *
So keep your lamps aburnin’
’Till the good times come. !
Ira.
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.
Ry order of the council. *•
A. j. danielly, Mayor, j
Oct. 4th, 1893. 5
NOTICE! NOTICE!
To barter, sell or exchange for
goods in the town of Roberta on the
babbath 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: 125.
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. By the council,
A, J. DANIELLY, Mayor,
Oct. 4th, 1893.
