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About The correspondent. (Roberta, Ga.) 1892-190? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1893)
VOL. 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 arid Social—Men and Thinas. Time for tax paying drawing to a close. Miss Corine Dent spent Tues¬ day in Roberta. Elder T. J. Bazemore, of Chip ley, was in the city last week. Col. W. P. Blasingame was up from Fort Valley Tuesday. This immediate section awaits those good times so long promised. Wes Dent has on hand a fine supply of the finest kind of hams. LaVoscia Miller and Charley Rickerson went to Macon Satur¬ day evening. Plenty of good new sugar cane syrup in the country and it sells at low prices. Walter Dent has retired from the U. S. Army and is now in Crawford his old home. The present is not a time of ■unusual prosperity but it is fer¬ tile in humbuggery. Mr. T. J. Davis remembered us this week while m town, gave us a call and subscribed for the paper. Mark Carnes wants it known that he keeps on hand the best ■Oranges ever offered for sale in this town and we know this is a true statement. He sells at low prices. One hundred years ago affairs differed somewhat from what they show up to-day. Our belief now is that the same can be pro¬ claimed for our town one year from to-day and the change will foe for good. The town has been liberal in advertising in the paper. Thanks for this. Now is the time to ex¬ pect the coming in of all lines of goods suited to Christmas. Let us tell the people about them through the columns of the pa¬ per. It will cost but little and much will be derived from it. Mark Carnes has a lot of oranges tor sale at the post office. Come in and pay your dues to the paper. If your subscription has expi-ied, give us $1.50 and get the Weekly Constitution and the ^Correspondent one year. Misses Ida Grubb and Louise Jones while out driving on last Saturday afternoon had the mis¬ fortune to become the victims to a runaway Dr. Jones’pony did the running and scared both of the young ladies. Miss Ida was hurt to some extent, but was at her post of duty on Monday morning. The vehicle was a little disfigur¬ ed. No other damages. Come in and pay up your sub¬ scription to the Correspondent and save the extreme pleasant¬ ness (?) of receiving a smail pa¬ per usually denominated a dun, for it will certainly visit you if we don’t receive a visit from you, and we want a small quantity of something along with your visit. Almost, anything will be accept¬ able provided it is equivalent to *fbe money. Don't forget us. THE CORRESPONDENT. ROBERTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 17, 1893. thkentertainment At Mr. T. J. Martins’ on Friday Night. It was a Success. An Occasion of Merriment and Enjoyment. Tom Martin is of notorious fame for making excellent syrup and none the less does his notori¬ ety go out in giving an exceed¬ ingly enjoyable entertainment, for that is the report of all who attended the one at his residence last week and that verdict is truth. It was participated in by the charming young ladies of that community, the gallant young men and numbers of our young people from Knoxville and Roberta, and others from other beats. Mr. and Mrs. Martin look¬ ed attentively after the enjoy¬ ment of their guests on the occa¬ sion and it was therefore neces sarily a success. NOTES. Collector Jack Brown led the fiddling. Jim Dent says every other one in the whole county tried to help him. Wade Mathews was ten years younger than he usually looks. Each girl tried to look prettier than the rest. One thing is sure: Each one looked prettier than her partner in the dance. For all who attended we extend 23 hogsheads of thanks to Mr and Mrs. Martin. The Correspondent, had a rep¬ resentative on hand. His praises of Mr. and Mrs. Martin and John and Miss Minnie for the kind¬ nesses shown him—the royal manner in which he passed the time—have been sounded and go up still to the skies. DO YOU WANT MONEY? If so, come to me. Loans ne¬ gotiated on good and well im¬ proved land in this county. Gilt edge security required. Apply to me. 0. P. WRIGHT. LOST.—A set of artificial teeth in Roberta last week. Return to E. E, Dent and get $2.50 reward. — <l H.” B. Chapman’s stock is increas¬ ing every day. He says C irist 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. 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. Bond & Blasitigame 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. New goods coming in every day. Christmas is coming and we are preparing for it. Call on us. E. W COOK, with W. I. Powell. FOR RENT. In Roberta, the best town on the A. & F. Road, a new Twelve rooms. Business estab lislied. Good water. 20- yards from depot, Possession give i 3rd of Nov. next. Address McCrary & Walker, Roberta, Ga. Married, On Thursday, the 9th inst., Mr. J. J. Gualtney of tjiis place to Miss Mittie Hollis, of Taylor Co., Rev. H T Moseley officiating. Mr. Gaulfcney came a few months ago from Taylor and began business here and is numbered among our good citizens. We congratulate him upon the acquisition, his most estimable bride and extend to her a most hearty welcome among our people. Mrs. Lee Watson, of Fort Val¬ ley, is visiting the family of Col. R. D. Smith. W. P. Allen went to Atlanta Monday on business. Mr. Elisha Harris gave us a pleasant call Monday. He has just finished making syrup. He made 386 gallons. • The Post Office will be open every Sunday morning from 8 to 9 o’clock. So all who wish to get their mail can do so. M. H. Carnes, P. M. There was a big rush in busi¬ ness circles in Roberta last Satur¬ day. Meat at lowest prices, New lot of tinware this week, A full line of family groceries at prices to suit customers. W. H. DENT. Don’t forget that at this office you Constitution can get the Weekly Atlanta To do this at fifty cents a year. you mnst subscribe for our paper, the Correspondent. We can’t work for nothing at all and neither do we propose to live on a nonentity nor upon a few growls of a small squad of soreheads. We come to <D square and you must do O) same. Cotton comes to the gin. Wes Dent has a hog killing time every week. The pork is too fine to grumble at one single whit. Jim Bond can now gin five bales more of cotton per day than formerly, and the advent of one of the very finest of girls into his household explains the increased capacity. W. H. Dent went to Macon on business this week. Every one that got out of bed in time to see it knows there was ice yesterday morning. The best lot of good family Flour in town for the money and going at cutthroat prices and selling fast. W. H. Dent. CHAPMAN'S ENGLISH KITCHEN. MACON, GA. At 506 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. v 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 time 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 and attentive waiters; every reasonably expected service that can be tendered. When you come to the city call on me at 10 Whitehall St. Bring your friends with you. B. VIGNAUX, 16 WHITEHALL ST. ATLANTA, GA. The Second One Convicted. Macon, Ga., Nov., 12.—(Special.)— The trial of Wash Boston, the sec¬ ond of the Braswell murderers, was concluded last night. The jury was out an hour and a half and returned a verdict of guilty of murder with a recommendation to mercy. At 12:20 o’clock Sunday morninv Judge Bart¬ lett sentenced Boston to the peni¬ tentiary for lile. Three of the crowd are still in Jail to be tried.—Consti¬ tution. WARRIOR NEWS. There is but little sickness in our community at present, hence Dr. Holley gets some rest. Mr. Tom Green treated the young folks to a fine dance and entertainment on Thursday night last. Quite a number of young peo¬ ple enjoyed a pound party one night recently. It was given by Mrs. Fannie Tidwell. Matt Tidwell came in on the sweet line and set up to a big candy pulling. Miss Minnie McCardle, the Warrior’s belle, has just returned from an extended visit to friends in Macon and reports that she en¬ joyed her stay to the fullest ex¬ tent. Bill Holley is placing the roads in the Warrior in good fix. Cotton is about all picked. Fat hogs to kill. Ira. Medicine Student—People don’t want young doctors. How on earth do they get started? Professor—It’s simple enough. They just sit in their offices and fret and worry over the rent, uutil their hair turns gray, and then the pa¬ tients come with a rush.—New York Weekly. Reporter (interviewing an aged negress)—And they tell me, aunty, vou are 110 years old Now, how does it happen you have lived so long? Aunt Sheba—Don’t know zae’ly, hut spect it’s bekase I uebeh died sah.—Brooklyn Life. Merited tewaras should be be¬ stowed. The simple fact that a candidate is an old soldier does not in itself alone make such a case. YV hen the moon ceases to give its light it may possibly be that moon-eyed people will cease their annoyances, but some few doubts are entertained just at this point. For a man to be really entitled to the right to give his opinion lavishlv and on every occasion he ought to carry about with him better head gea* than we see in every spot of this country. The Democratic platform declares protection unconstitutional, Con gress will have to get very close to free trade, to carrv out the platform deliverence in that particular. The closer the better. Free trade is Dem¬ ocratic doctrine.—Rparta Ishmae lite. The iniquitous tariff that bur¬ dens our people ought to go with¬ out condition or conditions. In its first and last analysis it is a curse to the verv people who claim to derive benefit from it. -— - Bon'd and Blasinganie'a gin¬ nery is the biggest thing that turns wheels in this section. They gm 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. Iry them. Bond & Blasingame. _ W. E. Carnes was in town cently on a hunt for lumber. NO. 68. A Reformation of the School System. We are now upon the threshold of a new year. It will not be long ere the morning sun of 1894 will rise and shed its radiance over everything as it has for ages and ages past; and beneath her placid face, in the dawning year, we hope to see marked changes in the school’system of Crawford —changes that will completely revolutionize every school in the county. Education should not be so nearly excluded to the cloister and college of our country, but it should be disseminated to a greater extent among the chil¬ dren in the rural districts. It is no singular fact that the common schools are retrograding annual¬ ly, not only in curriculum, but in the compensation of teachers, which is an immediate and con ponent part; for the kind of teacher depends always upon the salary given. If the salary is large, it authorises competent and efficient teachers to take charge of the children submitted to them for the shaping of their lives and future On the other hand, if the sal¬ ary is small, we are liable to get incompetent teachers and the re¬ sult would be, erroneous ideas and principles instilled in their little minds, which in futurity might tend to lead them where parents would feign call them their uwn. Our schools should be run dur¬ ing the winter months and to do it much attention ought to be given to building and remodeling of the various academies throughout the country; we should remember too, the fact that attractiveness is important to instruction. When we have arranged our schools to be run in the fall, winter and spring months it will not be so detri¬ mental to the interest of the farmers to put their boys regu¬ larly eight months. It is a la¬ mentable fact that the boys who are to fill our places when we have passed to another strand are being neglected to a degree^ if fully realized, would cause our faces to mantle with shame. Very few girls have to work on the farm, and in consequ uce they have unequal advar age over the bovs in attending school. We believe both xes ought to be educated alike, but it can’t be done by keepim; one at home and letting the her reap the harvest. Let us have an eight i nr, iths school by ail means—-to begin in the fail aud continue v util spring. We can have it. If we are able to app -date money to build ref6n;.a,(cries, normal schools. &c., we are able to have an eight months »1 in Crawford county where v-c can reform and give the chill r;: nor¬ mal training too, if we desire. Let us listen no lorn: * te the suggestions of indo c and have our vital wants. Y. - are greatly oppressed, but ;e i >uld never dispair until w h r - an eight months school; Y Y and remodeled every sci o c douse ( and put competent 1 Ycm in them. Oscar -: v>y. It appears that t > present Legislature of our sti > nore before it than can he ediad as circumstances reqm ..a the ittle ime now aik
