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VOL. 2. ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS. GA THERE D 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 . Thinas. JMiss Ida Grubb visited relatives in Upson county last Saturday and Sunday. E. S. Lee came u p from Fort Valley Monday to attend Ordi¬ nary’s court. W. E. Carnes came down from Jonesboro Sunday and spent a day or two on business. Jno. L. Saunders came in from Byron this week and gave us a pleasant call. Roberta means to, and is going to, in the near future have a masonic lodge. John S. Sandefur has gathered the biggest pile of peas in one hundred and thirty-sgven coun¬ ties. Emmett Elliott went to Macon since our last issue. He reports that he was not quarantined on this trip. Mr. A. T. Simerly and Miss J. R. Underwood’ were united in marriage on last Sunday. Judge A. J. panielly officiated. Fat hogs and fine potatoes along with plenty of corn. Something to eat in these parts and we ail with one accord rejoice over this fact. Migrafcory birds going South and cold weather comes along with them. However, the weath¬ er stops here. Dick Lockhart with the Corre¬ spondent to read and a team to pull him says that he can stay in the ring all the time. W. H. Dent is a fine carpenter and a good blacksmith. Oc¬ casionally he works at both trades. Gov. Troup Howard passed through Roberta Monday. He has been in the hotel business at New Holland Springs during the summer. Mr, W. P. Carr’s corn crib, to gether with four or five hundred bushels of corn, was burned a few nights ago. The fire was thought to be of incendiary orgin. 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. Missionary agent, Col. C. B. Howard went to Atlanta a few days ago <m special business con¬ nected with his office. He is now special missionary from this coun ty to look after the Georgia legis¬ lature. One of the impossibilities of this life is for any man to under¬ take to live unto himself and think that he can be successful in the undertaking. He cant do this and neither can he live to much advantage with a gang of cranks that go on cranksided style. The Dannenberg Co. is doing a driving business in Macon this Fall. Their stock of clothing under the management of Geo. W. Morgan, is the largest and most complete ever brought to Macon. Call on Mr Morgan when you go to Macon. THE CORRESPONDENT • ROBERTA, G A., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 10, 1803. We are still on hand running the paper and it is standing high up in popular favor. It costs but a little to read and keep posted in this world but numbers of us fail to use as we should our opportunities. At this writing the Roberta hotel is unoccupied, hence it pre¬ sents a rather deserted appear¬ ance. Mr. J. H. Nolan was on the sick list a few davs of the very recent past. The ten per cent tax now im¬ posed upon state banks should, by all means be lifted. Our gov¬ ernment should not resolve itself into any kind of machine to rob the people. The Correspondent was repre¬ sented in Macon last Saturday. George Morgan remembers Craw ford folks. He gave gifts to our Junior. Rob Smith had a big round with some of his Taylor pets. Others who went passed through the different degrees of jolly and enjoyable trip as good as the very best. Capt. Wms. Rutherford and Bob Rutherford Col. R. D. Smith, Sam Long and O. P. Wright went over m Taylor Thursday of last week on a big fish. Joe Harvey was on hand as chief cook and bottle washer. The party went to Ficklen’s and netted a few fish & shared in the hospitality of those good people at and around the mill and store. Wade Mathews was in Roberta Thursday Our popular citizen and pro¬ prietor formerly of the Roberta Hotel has changed bases. As a housewarming and opening in general, he tendered to our young people on his debut at his new place the biggest reception our part of the world ever knew, ever saw or will ever hear of unless they put money in travel. It was not a starvation arrangement. Oysters for a supper and a gen¬ eral spread met our kind people and they met and greeted it and possibly devoured it. Hundreds of people and thousands of people were at Ed Dent’s entertainment. Mr. and Mrs. Dent, and no one could conceive ot any other kind of word or line to be put in print, did their part and their good friends extend thanks for same. This house -will and must pros¬ per. Reason and right demand it. CHAPMAN'S ENGLISH KITCHEN. MACON, GA. At 500 Mulberry St., next door to Cheatham’s Drug Store, is the very best place in the city to get a first-class meal at low figures. Ladies are accomodated at my place and this is the only restau¬ rant of this kind in Macon. Call and see me. WALTER CHAPMAN. VIGNAUX'S —IS— THE RESTAURANT And the one to go to for a good meal and best of accomodations when you are in Atlanta any day in the week and any tune of the day. It is run on the European plan and comes square up to the notch, tip-top on the scale. Plenty to eat, polite, prompt ana attentive waiters; every reasonably expected service that cen be tendered. When you come to the city call on me at 10 Whitehall St. Bring your friends with you. B. VIGNAUX, IE WHITEHALL ST. ATLAHTA, GA. Considerable business came be¬ fore Ordinary’s court Monday. Judge Danielly and Mart Walker went to 1V1 aeon recently in attendance upon a Masonic meeting. They agree a lodge is needed at this place. Mrs. 0. H. Marshall died last Saturday. She was one of the very best of good women. Tip has the most extreme condolence from our source. A good woman has parted title to this life. We put in trust the eternal hope that her inheritance surpaseth that of the pure among the purest. B. Chapman’s stock is increas¬ ing every day. He says Cirist mas is near at hand and he 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. Chickens come home to roost. Forest Goodin is here. He is a good boy. has a good place at the store of B. Chapman. Both pro¬ prietor and clerk are our friends. We are willing and ready to do more for them than to make this little statement. Mr. E. F. Harris has the thanks of the junior editor of The Cor¬ respondent for several stalks of delicious sugar ea^ie. Cicero Blasingame is now at home. He went to Butler Mon day night. 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. Our county commissioners sent in bills to the county treas¬ urer Tuesday. Uncle Frank was able to pay off in left money. Jno. Gurr was up Tuesday and subscribed for the lucky Corre¬ spondent. My offices, numbers one and two, are now in the double bar¬ relled town of Roberta, in the county of Georgia and state of Crawford. O. P. Wright, FROM THE SIXTH. A good friend in the good old Sixth gives us the following items of news: Jim Russian died on the 4th and was buried at Union Church cemetery on the 6th, the following Monday. Mr. Wayne Russian is very un¬ well at this writing. Mrs. Giles was married to Mr. Wright of South Georgia Sunday before last. We congratulate these good people and believe each has entered into a first rate bargain. Crops and good crops gathered and put in the garner and these O. Iv. receptacles are all over the district that floats the blue rib’ bon. Plenty of hogs in the Sixth for meat the balance of this and next year. W. E. Champion has ten hogs that will now weigh four thous pounds. Eight thousand pounds to kill. Jno. R. Burnett will teach at Wesley Schoolhouse next year* He will have a fine sceool. Mrs. W. E. Champion has been sick^a gmonth. or more but her health is now improving. TEXAS LETTER. Tyler, Smith Co., Texas. Oct. 2nd ’93. Special for the Correspondent. It feels good to be at home a gain, in Tyler, after two months touring in Georgia, That is a grand old state and the old red hills looked very natural and the good people made me feel like I was at home, but the plains of Texas look doubly charming to my eyes. Texas has not felt the money panic so seriously as most of the other states of the south. She has had but‘few failures and take the state over, it has many advantages that other states have not. It has more different mines and a rich fertile soil that will grow" most anything that is pro¬ duced in the world. Texas can boast of as clever and nobleheart ed, hlghminded and talented peo¬ ple as any country and in the near future is destined to be one of the grandest states in the Un¬ ion. The scenery trom Tyler via Texarkana, Mimphis, Nashville and Chattanooga to Atlanta is beautiful. Texarkanna is namad in honor of Texas, Arkansas and and Louisianna. The first three letters cf lexas, the first three of Arkansas and the last three of Louisiana the name, and Texarkana is situated in the corner of those three states- Mem¬ phis is situated on the east bank of the Mississippi River and has an elevated iron R. R. bridge that spans the river and in passing over it on the cars is worth look¬ ing at. It is a large town with paved streets and is noted for its rail road center. Nashville is the capital of Tennessee and is a large town and is situated near the center of the state. In pass ing from this town to Chatta¬ nooga comes the prettiest and most interesting senes of all. Passing along sometimes in a val¬ ley between two high mountains and then again the Tennessee River 200 feet below on one side and Lookout mountain on the oth¬ er. The train glides aro-nd the mountain on the high banks of the river makes a fellow feel like he wanted his life insured. Next comes a tunnel through the mountain just big enough for the train to pass through. All of a sudden it seems as though the sun moon and stars had gone down and left you in the dark. Last but not least, Chattanooga and Atlanta are both good busi-. ness and enterprising towns. If any Crawfordites want to come to Texas this is about the cheapest route for you as they run fast trains and make close connections and do all they can to make you comfortable and happy. I would be glad to see more correspondents from some of the readers of your valuable paper. Write friends and help build up your paper and it will help build up your town. J. F. Parker. 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 & Blasingame. NO. 67. The Third. Attributed to the recent frost the trees and herbage of every kind are being divested of th°ir foliage and the leaves scattering everywhere is giving the earth a hue of perfect brown. Everything seems almost desolate as if the dead of winter had settled down upon us, and in consequence of the bareness of the woods, the squirrels and rabbits and the doves and partridges are destitute of a hiding place and the hunts¬ men can be heard all day long shooting and killing the defense¬ less little birds and animals which in due time are served around the dinner table in great revelry. Could Daniel Boone the great hunter, hear the incessant shooting by the hunters in the Third, he would indubitably be¬ lieve hunting in Ga. in its incip iency. Is it for sheer want of meat, that drives them to this in¬ humanity, or is it merely for a rest from the arduous farm work? To exonerate our Dist. from pub¬ lic criticism will say that pork is more plentiful than it has been for many years and as most of fleecy staple has been ginned and sold, the long ears of corn and the mos t abundant yield of potatoes housed, there remains nothing to do but hunt. If there are any of the young folks meditating a conjugal un¬ ion this fall, we verily believe there will be plenty of hog, homi¬ ny and Hasses” to give them an unevcelled dinner table—a table that would cause the most fas tideous epicure to enjoy. From the mines of Ga. in the north to the resinous region of the south, we believe there is no p i aee better than the Third Dist. its lands and its people. It is a model of a country, but it is no less than amazing to see our pco-. pie manifest so little interest in their schools. It is evident and clear to all, that our school fund does not authorize the best teach¬ ers, though we have a corpse fully competent to take charge of them. Now let the patrons, not only in this district, but in every other in the county, contribute some¬ thing more to what has already been appropriated by the state and county and have an eight months school. The lower schools of our state are not favored with philanthropic donations and be¬ quests as the high schools winch are excluded to the towns and cities, and in consequence of the fact, we can only look to the pat¬ rons for the promotion and mam tainance of the common school. We would not devise any artifice to build them up, but we do sin¬ cerely believe the patrons should sacrafice no meager sum for the education of their children. For the children here in the 3rd will all have to compete in futurity with the graduate allumni of the various high schools and college^ of the state. The Legislature will no doubt arrange to pay off teachers quarterly. Now patrons contract with your teacher for an eight months school and what the school fund does not pay, pay it yourself. Oscar Kennedy. ■4 «?>■*»**■ 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.