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S1.00 PER ANNUM.
TIFTON, BERRIEN COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1892.
VOL. 2-NO. 5.
■i-
to be
Annual
County
held at
10TH ANNUAL CELEBRATION
OF THE WORTH COUNTY SUNDAY-
SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Mnce Attendance—Memorable OccmIoh—
Htlrrlng Adtlrettseg—Cheering lleporta—^
Thu J’rJxe Content, Etc.
Ab lias banu “ye editor’s”
for several years iu
went up to Poulan Iasi
in attendance on the|
Celebration of tue
Sunday-school Ai
their tabernacle.
The special train was somewhat
delayed and caused him to be rather
late in arriving, but when he did get
there "he found that an immense
throng of people had already gather
ed and the preliminary or opening
exeroises were over.
The three most prominent officers
of the State Association were present
by invitation—President J. W.
Wheatley, of Americus; Secretary
Lott Warren, also of Americus;
■ Chairman of the Executive Commit
teo R. B. Reppard, of Savannah—
and the first thing we did was to eit
down quietly and listen to a solid,
bnt none the less entertaining, ad'
dress by Prciedent Wheatiy. He was
followed by Mr. Joe S. Davis, the
efficient superintendent of the Albany
Baptist Sunday-school, who never
fails to please his audiences.
Chairman R. B. Reppard acted as
muster of ceremonies throughout the
program.
He next introduced Maj. Peter
Pelham, the organiser and first pres
ident of the Worth Oouuty Sunday'
vein*)! Association, who made a short
i talk, serving as a fit prelude to the
\president's report'which was to fol
|ow. lfe said that when the associ-
|iou was first organised it consisted
three schools, and wua held in a
i not twenty feet square,
csident J. J. Williams followed
a verbal report, showing the
status of the Sunday-school
. in the county, and it was a
|g revelation to many of the
present and none wore so
i visiting officials of the state
bn. He reported thirty-four
ktli.o county, c.-nbraoiug a
|p of about '1,260, but be
that the reports from
iifter dinner would show
increase in the at
one hour wag then
|iar. As usual there
able the quantity of
^tantials and dellca-
> feed the large con-
“Yo editor”
the Poulan table
|t was » grand one
ewiyes mm expel
|g viands to sat-
-Wo heard one
uy say he was
unwell and
illiat inagnifi
Rio Oapt, John
. j. P. Wilson
im- dinner at
ness after
b t ho reports
^y-six re
ived the
|th ooun
laud
vari
Jthy
Leed
Infant, Ty Ty Adult, Poulan, Sum
ner Baptist, Friendship and Syca
more. The Sycamore class was de
clared vlotoriouB after a most ex
quisite rendition °* 9>* beautiful
ter Anthem “I am the Resurreo-
on.” The banner was presented by
Secretary Lott Warren with an appro
priate address. The singing of theTy
Ty Infant olass, eight little girls un
der twelve years of age, was excellent
and received honorable mention from
the jndges.
Dr. J. F. Wilson awarded a beau
tiful banner to, the MbeUaTfnion
school, of which Johur L/fterring is
superintendent, for/general merit.
Chairman Reppardfmade the presen
tation. f
The singing of .the benedlotion
hymn, “God be with you till wo meet
again,” brought the celebration to an
end. It was by far the grandest and
most impressive evei held under the
auspices of the Worth County Sun
day-school Association.
The Real Estate Market.
From May 1st to September 1st is
iroperly considered the dull season
n the real estate business, and about
ull that is done by real estate men is
to classify what they have on hand,
make oui abstracts of the titles to it,
and make contacts with the owners
desiring to se)rSo that it can be prop'
erly advertised by the time the sea
son opens. If you have anything to
pluoe on the market this fall.you will
lind it to your interest to place it
with Fnlwood & Alexander, the real
estate agents of Tifton, now that all
the little details of u proper prepara
tion for market may be attended to
betore the scuson opens.
The May Festival.
For some time post Prof, and Miss
Emma Lee Murphey have hi.nl the
pupils of Tifton Institute in training
with the idea in view of compliment
ing the friends, patrons and pupils
of the school by an evening's diver
sion, an entertainment which they
were pleased to cull a “May Festival.”
Last Friday evening was the time
selected for the cntertaimeuL It
was one of those balmy, beautiful
moonlit evenings for which lower
Oeorgia is so widely colebruted.
gentle broese was blowing, temper
ing the otherwise too heated atmos
phere to a temperature that might
justly have been called a “golden
mean.” Not a fleck of cloud drifted
across the azure firmament to shut
out for a moment the soft, mellow
rays of tbo bright moon's light. The
weather was simply perfection.
The large south room of the In
stitute was brilliantly lighted, and
by eighto'clock-was filled with eager
spectators. The girls and boys who
were to participate in the program
and furnish the entertainment chafed
under restraint until the onrtains
went np for the presentation of
beautiful charade entitled “Crowning
the Queen of May.” The Uazkttk
is compelled to say the participants
in this charade acquitted themselves
most creditably. There were other
short charades, recitations, etc., com
pleting an entertainment of two
hour’s duration which, taken alto
gether, was as pleasing as any Tifton
has ever had. *
At the close of the entertainment
Prof. Murphey stepped before the
footlights and delivered an admira
ble address on the subject of edit
tion during which he reviewed the
history of the Institute from its
opening iu October last to the pres
ent
The exeroises closed at 10:80 and
all who attended went home pleased
with their evening’s diversion.
TEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.
GARNERED BY THE PENCIL
SCISSORS PROCESS.
AND
Batch of NOW* from Ketglilmrlng Countlci
Deemed of Rpoclftl Interest to
Gniottc Headers*
at
Fine Jersey (lows for Bale.
I offer a limited number of fine
vs, fresh In milk, for sale. For
prices write to N. F. Tift, Albany,
sjtrlen County Sunday School
L i\ Convention.
regretAcecdingly our Inability
I tiie fiunday-eohw)! nonveu-
d,m we fully intended to
Just m we go to press
. through tile kind'
The Coffee county Sunduy-sohool
association will hold its annual meet
ing at Pearson on the first Sunday
in June.
Mm. Wm. Henderson recently died
her home near Miimisy'Irwin
county. She died very suddenly and
leaves a husband, a number of chil
dren with other relatives to mourn
her departure.
The union meeting of Smyrna
Baptist Association will be held with'
Union church, Coffee county, oom.
mencing on Friday before the fifth
Sunday in Mny. An interesting pro
gram has been arranged for the oc
casion.
Messrs. J. S. Loti, J. B. Smith
and II. M. Tea ton of Shepherd, 1ms
introduced a new industry in Coffee
county,—the killing and plucking
the plumes from the “pond scoggin.”
It may bo u new industry for Coffee
comity, hut it is an old and profits
ble oue in Florida.
Irwin county was visited by a se
vere bail storm on Saturday Iasi.
Hon. M. T. Paulk lmd every house
on his place blown down, excepting
his dwelling. The bail was destruc
tive to orchards and crops. The storm
wus terrific and the ruin very heavy.
Coffee County (Janette.
The now famous Arrington-Lanc
cose, which lias been pending Brooks
county superior court for several
years, bus been flnully disposed of by
nolle prosequi.. Tlio former was be
ing prosecuted for killing the latter
who he had strong reasons to believe
lmd criminally assaulted his daugh
ter. The attorneys for the prosecu
tion consented to the dismissal of
the ease against Arrington.
The erratic young man, T. A.
Qimrteruiun. who suddenly unjlfiiys-
teriously disappeared, from/fJouglas,
Coffee county, on tha night of March
20th lust, 1ms ns suddenly and mys
teriously reappeureu, He tells a
“cock und hull” story about being
kiduiipped; of course no one believes
him. lie deserves a sound thrash
ing uml no doubt if lie goes hack to
Douglass lie will bo given one.
A mass meeting of the. democrats
of Worth county will convene ut Is
ubella on the Oth of June to elect i
new exeontivo committee and for the
transaction of an j and all other bus
iness looking to the good of the par
ty. The chairman of the county
executive committee, lion. Wm. A.
Harris, says emphatically tiiat every
democrat in the county has a right,
to participate in the meeting and is
urged to do so.
The Gazette notes from the
Southern Alliance Farmer that Dr.
J. H. Pickett, of Ty Ty, is a proba
ble congressional candidate iu this
(second) district on the third party
ticket. Agitator Daniels, when he
was down here selecting, could not
have hit upon timber more suitable
to represent the revolutionary ideas
of the politicians who compose the
party boin at Si. Louis. When it
comes to rueniug for office “the end
will justify any means” with Dr.
Pickett.
Rev. J. C. Wilson, of Leliuton
dropped dead un the streets of Wil
laooochoe op the fright of the 27th
of April. He preached a sermon in
opposition to tile liquor traffic at 8
o’clock, oftfr/which ho went to the
parsonage 4i>d retired for the night.
In oompan j/ with Mr. D. B. Sweat
Between 12 and 1 o’olook in the
morning he was taken r/ith cramp
colic; arousing Mr. Sweat they start-
ed to seek mediqgl akl of Dr, J«ff
Wilcox. However, he sank on the
sidewalk before reaching his destinsr
tion. Mr. Sweat ran for Dr. Wilcox
rot before they returned to the sick;
Mr. J. B. Davis, the clever livery
man of Sycamore, suffered' the tnis-
forture of having his right leg brok
en just below the knee. He was en
route from Sumner to Sycamore with
u wagon load of furniture and other
household effects. He was six miles
from Syoamore when the sad acci
dent to himself happened. The team
had started down a steep hill rather
briskly and nnthonglitedly he check
ed them np suddenly; this caused
the wagon to run against the horses
and one commenced, to kiok and tho
other to run. They soon became un
manageable and Mr. Davis jumped
from tlie wagon and broke Iris log:
At last accounts he was resting well
and getting along very nicely.
ty
Can bo UBed single or double. For
terms and prices apply to Fulwood
& Alexander, Tifton, (la.
TURNER7N IRWIN.
lMIvrri h Grand Expose of the True Iu-
wurdiiwi of iiiu Third l’urty.
Congressman Henry G. Turner
filled his appointment to speak ut Ir-
winvilte lust iSaturday,
The Gazette man, in company
witli Mr. C. It. Goodman and Capt.
Stone, of the Suvntmah News, took
passage, by way of one of Williuins’
iivery turnouts, for Irwinville to lis
ten to the wisdom of tho Groat Apos
tie of Genuine Democracy. Mr.
Turner lmd preoeded them via tho
Tifton and Northeastern railroad and
one of Mr. Elbert Fletcher’s lleetest
nags. However, they rcnchod their
destination in tune, but not without,
breathing many audible expressions
of admiration for the pure cuasedness
of tlie Texas jKinioa they were driv
ing. Capt. Stone insisted that
“Shop” had palmed off two third par
ty nags on us to try tlie temper of
our democracy, whether or not it hud
the ring of tlie right metal—a tem
per that would stick.
Promptly ut 11 o’olook the crowd
wus culled into the court-room, It
was not as large aii attendance us we
hoped would be there, still it wub
gratifying, thut the audience was
composed of some of the heat and
sturdiest yeomanry of tlie county
men of iniiiienoc in their resix-otivc
districts. Wc accounted for the
small audience by the fact that there
is a disposition among Irwin county
people to be charry of strangers and
Congressman Turner was a jierfcct
stranger to them.
The meeting was called to order
by Secretary Coleman, of tlie county
democratic executive committee, nud
the speaker was introduced by lion
Thomas D. Young, who took occa
sion to assure the people that Mr.
Turner bud not come there to create
wild enthusiasm by flights of elo
quence or tid-bits of political sopliis
try hut to talk to them calmly und
earnestly, to place pure democracy
before them iu a pluiu, common sense
way.
The speaker bowed nud expressed
his appreciation of Hie compliment
and then, after an explanation that
he wus nearly sick from the fatigue
of travel, said thut lie lmd prepured
no particular line of thought to pre
sent to the people of Irwin county
and asked tlie audience to suggest
line of discussion.
Mr. Bussey, of Sycamore, luggwst-
ed that the speaker tell the people-
what he knew about the third party.
Mr. Turner bowed u polite assent
and began in a quiet manner, elo
quent in its simplicity, to unfold the
history of the thml party—giving
its origin, its birth. Its composition
and exposing the fallacy of its
heretical arid ruinous platform.
It was a great speech and won for
the speaker man j friends among tha
people of Irwin comity. Next week
we will endeavor to make room in
LOCAL HOTCH-POTCH,
WHAT BUSINESS MEN AND LOAFERS
FIND TO TALK ABOUT.
Paragrapha PI k« l Bp und Pen-
lively Penned-All Pertaining to
Persons and Things*
Go to Dr. J. C. Goodman’s for
sporting goods.
Capt. H. H. Tift returned from
his trip to Key West last Friday.
Petite Miss Caasie Tift accompa
nied her grandmother, Mrs. Hansom,
to Conneotioutt,
The light of onr humble den lias
gone out for a season. The return
is looked for earnestly.
Postmaster Futoli, of Cecil, has a
good barber chair for sale. See his
advertisement elsewhere.
President Bedgood, of the Arahi
Lumber Company, was in the city
Monday afternoon on business.
Don’t forget Contractor Himl
when yon have building to do.
Mrs. C. A. Ransom, mother of
Mrs. K, H. Tift, left 'Tifton tho first
of the week for her home in Myslio,
Conn.
Padrick BrvM./hayo moved to tlie
Parks bnildrilg' on Main street and
are carrying^ large stock of general
merchandise.
Mr. John McKee mid wife, for
merly of Sparks hut more recently of
flaxleliiirst, luive moved to Savannah
their old home.
mr paper fir a synopsis of this publication,
ugh expose of the rottenness of
B in time fair ladies, be t ull these
lovely (lowers ure gone.
Padiiick linos.
Several of the Tifton merchants
went to Savannah tlie first of the
week to take in tlie city and enjoy
her lioBpitalitics during inercliant’s
week.
Mr. Dun Vudon and wife, of Wll-
hicoooliee, ure enjoying tho hospital
ities of a Berrien county home this
week—that of her fattier, Mr. M. B.
Clyatt.
Mrs. B, T, Allen left Tifton Inst
Friday night for n protracted visit
to her parents and other relatives
and friends in Madison county,
Florida.
Con tractor J. C. Hind has for snle
a large supply of first-olass lime,
shingles and laths.
Hon. II. O. Turner left Tifton lust
Sunday for Washington, 1). C., where
he arrived 11 o’clock Monday morn
ing. He resumed Iris seat in tlie
house of representatives thut after
noon.
Mr. Maitison and daughter left
yesterday inorniug for their home in
Mystic, Conn., after having spent
the winter in Tifton. He superin
tended the building of tlie Baptist
church while here.
The Tifton Baptist church is com
pleted with tlie exception of making
und placing the pews in position und
finishing painting, This work could
be done within u week if the materi
als were all ut hund.
We offer gicat inducements to
bring U to our store. We offer
greater ones to keep you there.
Padkick linos.
The drug firijl of Peterson & Paulk
him been dissolved. It is now J.
W, Paulk Jt Co. Mr. J. A. Tomber-
lin, of Irv/n county, bus taken an
interest iu the business. Read tbo
new firm's advertisement in another
column.
It in a fixed and Immutable law that to
have good, sound liraith one must have
pure, rich and abundant blood. There
J« no akortor nor surer route Iban by a
ooUrse of tie Wilt’s Sarwperllla. J. C.
Goodman.
An informal meeting of tlie exec
utive committee of the Brunswick
and Western, or Sixth division of
the Georgia Lumber Association was
held iu Tifton ou Tuesday afternoon.
The meeting furnished nothing for
tlie public exeroises at the University
on the evening of May 18th and Jn
3d.
Capt. W. H. Snow, of High Point
N. 0., ami general manager of
Snow Modern Tobacco Barn
pany, spent lost Friday in Tiffl
lie was pleased with the progress ol
the work at the Snow tobacco farm.
In fact he was pleuaed with the out
look generally.
Col. Jas. M. Griggs, Solictor-General
of PAtaula Circuit, says: "Mlgratlnohas
always afforded me prompt relief in cases
of headache." At Dr. J. 0. Goodman’s.
The ice cream and strawberry fes
tival Tuesday night under the au
spices of tlie Ladies’ Aid Society of
the Methodist church, was quite a
pleasant ns woll os successful affair
notwithstanding the tremendous
rainstorm that prevailed jnst after
nightfall. About $30 was realised
from the Bale of button-hole boqttete,
strawberries, ice cream and cake.
Mrs. 1,. R. Patton, llockford, III,,
writes: "From personal experience 1 can
recommend De Witt's Sarsaparilla, a
cure for Impure blood and general debili
ty." J, 0. Goodman.
The young ex-editor of the Adel-
News, Mr. II. D. Smith, was united
in marriage with Miss Sallie Foun
tain at the home of the bride’s par
ents in Sycamore on Wednesday of
lust week, Rev. S. W. Brown officiat
ing. The young couple will make
Adel their home for tho present.
The Gazette extends congratula
tions mid best wishes for their future
liappiiie«8 and prosperity.
Wc truly believe De Wltt’e Mule Ear
ly Kisers are the most natnral, most ef
fective, most prompt and economical pill
for biliousness, Indigestion and Inactive
liver, J. C. Goodman.
Hon. Henry G. Turner was a
guest of Hotel Sadie last Friday und
Saturday nights, and went over to
and from Irwinville Saturday by way
of the Tifton and Northeastern rail
road. It was lus first visit to Tifton
ami lie was surprised at her growth
and her energy und enterprise. Ha
did not expeot to find a bustling lit-'
tie city where only two years ago
was a pine forest. IIo was particu
larly pleased with Tifton’s elegant
public buildings.
Blight people are the quickest "WYec-*** -
ognlio a dood thing and buy it. We aelt
thorough ex,
third partyism.
We ate overstocked with baby
rlages and lmll trees. Special
thescgoodi for a few i
1 on ns for anything
H dull, splr
Wood h thick ti\
tile Is cttprlcky.'
y i m
lots pf people the Little Early Risers. If
you are not bright these pills will make
you so. J. 0. Goodman.
Jupiter Pluviiis opened his flood
gates and let the rain fall in torrents
Tuesday afternoon. It rained ubout.
oue hour uml a half us hard as it was
possible for it to rail). It was a
source of great rejoicing among the
tobacco planters and they put a
“hump” on ull uvuilahlchelp to com
plete the work of transplanting.
Ollier planters also had aJrrorni smile
on them and have eat no idle bread
oti their farms. There was consid
erable hail us well us rain.
Thesnu burns tip one's feet in
summer time. But by wearing light
shoeB or low Oxfords you get on so
inueli better. Padrick Bros, make
a specialty of cool footwear, their
stock is more varied than ever.
Mr. C. L. Ashley, of Tifton, went ’
up to Atluuta hut week to be iu at
tendance ut tlie marriage of hia-
hrotlier, Mr. Henry P. Ashley, and
.diss Lillian II. Cleveland, daughter
of Ilev. T. P. Cleveland, pastor of
the Fourth Presbyteriuu church,
Wednesday afternoon. He noted as
best matt with Miss May Cleveland,
sister of the bride, as Maid of Honor.
The ceremony was most impressively
performed by the bride's father, as
sisted by the Rev. Dr. McDonald, of
the Second Baptist church.
Some of tlie Grand Amy boys may 5>*
Interested in the following from Alex B.
Pope, A. D. 0, Commander Dep’t, Teen,
sad Ga. He says: "We bate bid at*
epidemic of whooping cough here, and
CbamhUfa’s Cough Remedy has bet4tk*$j
only medicine thut baa dose uty gaoil.’^.
There Is no dugsetrem whooping mtr*-
when this l» fwsdy glvewt
completely control* l
bottle* f
