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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