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BITS OF LOCAL GOSSIP.
Personal and Impersonal Hatters in
the City and Vicinity.
“Come Eve," uid Adam, eadly,
"From tlita plaeo we mu«t repair.
Because you ate that apple dear,
We must quit this icarden fair."
Then Eve looked meekly up at him.
And sprang this Eaglet rare, •
Which all her sisters since hare used,
"I’ve not a thing to wear."
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Mr. J. D. Calhoun has moved with
iiis family to his Colquitt county
home, near Debbie poBtoffice.
Mrs. T. S. Williams, of Sumner,
was visiting, friends in the city the
first of the week.
Hon. J. E. Williams, of Afton,
was visiting relatives in Tifton this
week. Glad to see him.
You mans' stables, Tifton, is the
place, to get first-class turnouts at
reasonable rates. Call on him.
Tift & Snow Co., are“liere to stay”
-—and to win.
Miss Ella. C. Bacon has returned
to Tifton and resumed her duties in
the music departinentof the Institute.
Capt, John A. Phillips, of Tifton,
will assist as co-administrator in set
tling up the estate of the late Walter
T. McArthur, of Montgomery conn
ty.
You can get a team at Youmans’
stables, Tifton, at any hour, day or
night. Hostler sleeps at stables.
The enterprising citizens of Tifton
will look after her interest in the
matter of securing one or more of
the numerous cotton - mills to be es-'
tnbllshed iu the South by Northern
mill-owners.
Bead advertisement of.“ii5 reward”
offered by Mr.AV.T. Ilargrett for the
return of a gold watch, lost some
where between Ilia residence ami
l’udrick Bros’, store.
Mr. E. H. Tift and family have
moved into their new residence, occu
pyitig rooms on the second floor.
They are taking their meals at Mr.
B. T. Cole’s for the present.
If you want standard goods at the
lowest cash prices, call on Gaskins’
in the Masonic building.
Mr. M. L. Purdom, of Sparks, pass
cd through Tifton one day lust week
on route to Wuyoross. He informed
ms he was opening a mercantile busi
ness on his own account at Sparks.
Prof. Thomas Cheonutt, of Tifton.
will teach school this spring on the
eastern side of the county—in the
vicinity of the turpentine works of
Timmons, McWhite & Co. Success
to him.
Quite a number of TiftoniauB went
to Albany Wednesday to hear Yaw
sing. They say that Nillson sings
high, Patti sings higher, but that
Yaw sings way up “out o’ sight,”
We didn’t “go up” to hear her.
Mr. F. M. Maugham has a large
portion of the material on the ground
for liis cottage home and it soon will
begin to assume shape under the skill
ful hand of Mi. Win. Jay, an experi
enced builder. The location is a
pretty one.
Mr. C. C. S. Baldridge left last
night for Pennsylvania to arrange
for the February homeseekers’ excur
sion to Tilton. He and his family
are now at home in the Ix>Te resi
dence, corner Love avenue and Sec
ond street.
Tifton is enjoying a jrery high
freight rate. However, take it as a
whole it is better than Cordele, Val
dosta, Wuycross and Thomosville.
She will have to get lower rates be-,
fore iier merchants can do much of
a jobbing business.
* The young men’s prayer tfteetingis
held eyarj Sunday afternoon, 4 o’clock
at the Methodist church. All our
young metv would do well to be regie
lar attendants, and visiting young
f art cordially invited to be pres
ent when hr the city.
Mr. Harold Wlhtfon, of the Mc
Keesport, (Pa.) Times, has been look-
iwg nt the country around Tifton,this
week, with the view of investing in
fruit, lands. He is a very pleasant geri-
and would be a valuaMe an-
j** community.
TIFTON, BERItlEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25,- 1895.
VOL. 4-NO. 40.
The Gazette is authorized to state
that Rev. L. A. Snow will one day
during next week, canvass the city
in the iuterest of a Public Library.
Let our people think seriously about
this enterprise and show their appre
ciation by subscribing liberally.
Elder W. F. Cox and family are
preparing to moye to Staunton, he
having traded his Tifton property to
Mr. Sim Harrell for a home at that
place. Staunton is more convenient
to his ministerial work for the present
year. Sorry to lose them us citizens.
Watch efut for the change in L. S.
Shepherd & Co.’s advertisement next
week. They propose to conduct a
lively “live and let live” business in
1895. Their customers will get the
best goods at the lowest possible
figures. However, they will tell our
renders about it next week.
The orphan children of Mr. and
Mrs. C. A. Walker, mention of whom
was made in the Gazette two or
three weeks sitiee, were carried to
Laurens comity Wednesday night by
un uncle—mother’s brother. He lias
taken them to his own home and will
endeavor,bis best lie can, to raise and
educate them.
- Several tracts of land have changed
hands during the past week. Dr. N.
Peterson and Mr. R. E. Hall pur
chased the Taylor tract of land lying
south of the Tift & Snow Co. fruit
farm. Mr. J. J. Golden has bought
the Durham farm, which lies ,about
four miles northwest of Tiftou.
Both are splendid investments.
A Mr. Boren, representing the
“American Building, Loan and Ton
tine Savings Association,” of Mem
phis, Tenn., lias succeeded in organ
izing a local board for his company
in Tifton. It u the best institution
of the kind to which our attention
lias been called. It, works oil u dif
ferent plan from a regular building
and loan association.
Mr. K. W. Horne, a hustling tur
pentine operator of Colquitt county,
was in Tifton on business the first of
the week. While in the city he made
a plwteunt cull at the Gazette office
and not only subscribed for the paper
but left us an appreciated older for
the superior commercial stationeiy
for which our job printing depart
ment is justly famous.
The meeting of the Board of Stew
ards for the Cordele district of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
was held in Tifton Inst Monday af
ternoon—Elder Stubbs presiding.
The business of the meeting was
transacted in an orderly and satisfac
tory manner. Among other matters
was the assessing of the Presiding
Elder’s salary and apportioning
among the charges of the district,
and we learn that the Tifton ciiargi
or circuit, was assessed $100 of the
amount agreed upon.
Tim Conference between officials of
Worth and Berrien counties, last
Friday morning, in reference to the
bridge across Little river on the Tif
ton and Tv-Ty road, will result in
the re-letting of the work at the ex
pense of the former contractor und
his bondsmen. The Gazette has no
interest in the matter beyond that of
n private citizen, but it must confess
that the former contractor has acted
in yery bod faith in this matter and
it would not be at all surprised it
his rebellious disposition coBts him
something.
At the meeting of the Baptist
church building committee, held at
the residence of Mr. W. W. Timmons
last Mouday night there was present
Pastor Snell and Deacons Timmons,
Carswell and Allen. The sealed bids
for the ereotion of the new church
were opened. Tbe bid of Contractor
John C. Hind being the lowest was
accepted upon his giving the neces
sary bond for faithful and prompt
completion of the work- In defer
ence to the bidders and for other and
pvndential reasons the amount# of the
several bids received will not be di
vulged by tbe committee.
" Notice. . _
All parties indebted by note or ac
count to Jake W. Paulk, receiver,
will please come forward and make
proper settlement at once and save
trouble and expense of court.
J. W. Paulk, Receiver.
Tifton, G«.» January 21, 1895.
RECORD OF THE COUNTY
Items Which Escaped the Attention of
Our Special Reporters.
Whenever you fret (tad quarrel,
. Whenever you frown and cry,
There's a lino on your face that tolls it.
And will tell it by and by.
And when you fain would look pleasant,
The telltale marks will say,
“She or he may try to bo pretty,
But have been cross in their duty."
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Prof. J. II. Chesnntt will have
charge of the Cecil school this year.
Mr. J. Z. Elliott, of Sparks, has
gone to Savannah on a business trip.
Tift & Snow Co., have grown the
very varieties that is sqited to your
wants and your climate.
Mr. Zed Best was ordained a deacon
of the Adel Baptist church on lust
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Smith, mother of Mrs. J. Z.
Elliott, of Sparks, has just returned
from a protracted visit to relatives
and friends at Longview, Texas. She
is glad to get back home.
The naval store business at Adel
has managed to get into the middle'
of a big lawsuit, in whjcli Archie C.
McLeod is plaintiff and Wm. Mc
Queen & Co. arc defendants.
Don’t make your purchases of
general merchandise until you call at
Gaskins’ and examine his goods uud
prices. In Masonic building.
Tlie rainy Weather of the past two
weeks lias been dreadfully hard on
the roads of the county. It is hoped
the road overseers will have them
put in good order at once and not
wait aiitil just before superior court
to do so.
Youmans the liveryman. Tifton,On.
solicits public patronage. Reasonable
satisfaction guaranteed.
The Gazette joins the Adel News
in this opinion: “Berrien county
ought to get up an exhibit of her
products for the Cotton Suites and
International Exnosition to be held
at Atlanta next fall. Berrien could
furnish a most creditable exhibit.”
Hon. Tims. E. Williams, Berrien
connty’8efticientsohool commissioner,
is arranging for the teachers’ month
ly institutes, He also lias his mind
upon the joint annual institute of
the five comities of Lowndes, Ber
rien, Colquitt, Worth and Irwin to
be held during the month of June in
Tifton.
Gaskins’, Tifton, is the place to buy
tbe best goods ut rook-bottom figures.
In the Masonic building.
The monthly session of Berrien
county court wus held last Monday.
Considerable business, civil mid crim
inal, was transacted. This court is
a fixture in Berrien county, notwith
standing the strong effort mode to
prejudice the people aguinst it. It is
u necessity and will exist so long as
it ieniaiii8 so.
Tift & Snow Co., can sell yon fruit
trees better and cheaper than any
firm in 1000 miles of here.
The editor of the Gazette ac
knowledges the receipt of an invita
tion to attend the marriage of Mr. C.
R. Devune, formerly associate editor
and proprietor of the Adel News
and Miss Mamie Martin, at the home
of the bride’s mother, near Valdosta,
on Wednesday, Jannary 30th. His
congratulations have been extended
previously.
Be not deceived by unreliable agents
Tift. & Snow Co., can do better for
you than any other firm.
It is reported that Mr. J. Edwin
Peeples, of. Adel, has shook the dust
of mercantile life from his feet and
will try his hand at farming this
year. In pursuance of snch determi
nation lie has moved with his family
to his farm, two miles out from Adel
Quito a number of our mercantile
friends, could follow his example
with profit to themselves.
Hymeneal.
At the residence of the bride’s pa
rents at Ava, Berrien county, on
Wednesday evening of last week, Mr.
W. J. MeCranie and Miss Bessie
Parrish were united in holy wedlock,
Rev. B. W. Hnckubee officiating, in
the presence of u large gathering of
relatives aiid friends.
The groom is the popular and
efficient young agent of the Georgia
Southern and Florida railroad at
Sparks. He is u young man who de
serves credit for the manly manner
in which he has deported himself
from his earliest youtli to manhood.
The bride is the pretty and accom
plished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
W. Parrish" and much admired for
her many true womauly traits of
character.
Botli are very popular and have
many friends who, in connection
with the Gazette, wish them bon
voyage ou the matrimonial sea.
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There was a quiet wedding at the
home of the bride’s parents, at Nash
ville, on Thursday night of last week,
the contracting parties being Col.
Judson II. Gary and Miss Mattie,
tbe lovable daughter of Col. and
Mrs. Henry B. Peeplps.
The groom is a rising young attor
ney who was admitted to the prac
tice ut the last sitting of Berrien
superior court. He had made a suc
cess of school teaching before read
ing law and is now the principal of
MoPltorson Aoudemy at Nashville.
He numbers his friends by the scores.
The bride is u young lady of quiet
demeanor, yet very attractive, who
has made friends of ail her acquaint
ances. To know her is to admire
and'love her.
The Gazette joins their many
friends in tendering Col. and Mrs.
Gary warmest congratulations and
beat wishes for their prosperity and
happiness.
Fr<;« Fills.
Send your address to II. K. Bucklen &
Co., Chicago, and got a free sample box
of Dr. King's Now Life rills. A trial
will convince you of Uieir merits. Tlicse
pills are easy In action and ars particu
larly effective in the cure of Constipation
and Blck Headache. For Malaria and
Liver troubles they have boon proved in
valuable. They nro guaranteed to be
pcrfoctly free from oyery delcctcrlous
substance and to be purely vegetable.
They do not weaken by their action, but
by giving tone to stomach und bowels
greatly Invigorate the system. Regular
size 25c per box. Bold by J. J, Qunklen,
druggist. '
WEATHER ANDTROPS.
OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS.
Important Items of News from Ber
rien's Sister Counties.
A second hearth to the farmer is
The barn with its clustering memories!
Storehouses and castle, its old walls hold
Weapons of strength 'gainst winters cold,
Tonic and bracing its work and Its cheer,
Whtfn frosts are fell, and the days are dreoser.
And when summer walus, the pleasant forms
Their treasurers hide, In tho old gray barns.
Outs Killed
Id Iterrion
Heirloom.
County—An
$5 Howard.
The above reward will be,paid the
finder for the return of a gentle
man's double-case gold watch, lost
last Monday afternoon, somewhere
between my residence and Prdrick
Bros’, store, Tifton, Ga- There .was
no crystal.w tbe watch at tho time
it was lost. W.'T. Hawi«15tt.
Tifton, Ga., January S3, 1895,
Cecil, Jannary 21.- -Tho muroury
climbed the scale to 52 degrees Sat
urday, and the calm sunshine ad
monished the farmers to “sow more
oats.” That important crop has
been twice killed by excessive cold,
but the furmers, realizing the im
portance of hnving plenty of outs,
are resowing. Gardens were also
partly killed, and tho spring garden
will be planted earlier.
The outlook for meat is satisfac
tory, and with syrup and sweet po
tutors in abundunco the people start
out with exliuberunt spirits to the
battle of 1895.
Mr. W. M. Gibbon, of this place,
has an heirloom of interest in the
shape of a razor which was first used
by bis grandfather in 1791. It bears
the mark, “James Ear! Landown,
Echo.” It is of fine steel, weighs
about seven ounces, and has a real
tortoise shell handle inlaid with sil
ver- It shaves well, and a casual ob
servanoe only reveals a well worn
razor of heavy make. It was mode
in England some time in the eigh
toenth century, as Mr. Gibbon, Gu
elder, brought it there in 1791, be
fore he emigrated to this country.--
Atlanta Journal.
Melon Scot for Bale.
I have for sale about forty bushels
of watermelon seed, embracing Kolb
Gem, Jumbo Jones, Augusta Rattle
snake, Ivy or Little Gray and Pear
son. Price, 30c to 60c per pound.
Also a choice lot of Nutmeg canta
loupe.seeds. 1). G. Iwvf,
• - . Irby, Ga
Dr. Green and family, of Decatur,
Ga.; is visiting the family of Maj.
Pelham at Ty-Ty.
Maj. Peter Pelham has purchased
tlie resideuoe of Col. T. R. Perry of
Ty-Ty, which he is now occupying.
The press and materials for tbe
Lake Park News—newspaper num
ber two for Ljwndes couuty—lms
been received.
Prof. A. A. Webb, formerly witli
til# Adel News, is now teaching a
nourishing public school ut Iluliira,
Lowndes county.
See Capt. D. G. Irby’s advertise
ment, on this page, of melon
seed for sale. He lias a number of
yarieties from which to seleot.
Col. T. R. Perry, of Sylvester, lias
been appointed by Judge J. J. Mc
Dowell to be solicitor of the county
court of Worth county.
Tlie peoplo of Worth comity gen
erally is well pleased with Col. J. G.
Polliill’s administration of the office
of county school commissioner. He
is making a flrstolass official.
A Sunday-school mass meeting, of
the Ilomervillc Association, will he
held witli the Loiiaton Baptist church
embracing the fifth Sunday in March
and Friday and Saturday before.
The Brushy Creek school, In Irwin
county, will be taught this year by
Miss Mamie Hill, of Syoamore. The
teacher is a most admirable young
Imly and tlie community to which she
goes is one of tlie very bret in that
splendid county.
The Douglas High school is flour
ishing under the management of Prof.
Melvin Tanner, a graduate of the
Florida Normal Institute, ut White
Spring, assisted by Miss Maude Briggs
a first honor graduate of the Rich
mond (Va.) High School.
Mr. und Mrs. Oren Datchell, of
Leliuton are now comfortably quar
tered in their new und elegant resi
lience. They have now as guest, the
•Misgcs Empry, of Brunswick and Mrs.
H. it. Herring—1mlf sister to Mrs.
Gatchell—and children, of Charlotte,
N. 0.
The Board of Education of Irwin
county has decided to divide the comi
ty into school districts and to appor
tion the public funds to tho several
districts according to school popula
tion. The new plan has culled forth
many expressions of commendation
from tlie people.
At (lie preliminary trial of Miss
Rhymes for cutting the Misses Rob
orts, site wus bound over to the ad
journed term of Coffee county court,
on the 18tfi instant, to try this and
two other special cuscs. The wounded
Kiris are getting along nicely except
one, wliofti tlie attending physicians
say is not yet out of danger.
Borne of the Methodist of Sycamore
have organized an Epworth League
The officers are A. G. DeLouch, pres
ident, W. B. Dasher, first vine presi
dent: Miss Pear! Stubbs, second vice-
president; Miss Florrie Smith, third
vice-president; Mrs. A. G. DcLoach
secretary and treasury. It is a relig
ious, social and literary organization.
Capt D. G. Irby requests the Ga
zisttb to state tef the Irwin county
exhibitors ut tbe Dixie fur, Macou,
lust year, that the premiums awarded
haye not yet beer. paid, lie may
collect them soon and when he docs
lie will report to them in a state
ment showing expenses and balance
on hand in cash, if uny, und will see
that al! will get his or her portion.
Messrs. L. & Shepherd & Co., of
Tifton, have the stock of goods, at
Ty-Ty, belonging to the late firm of
Coleman & Parke. They will re
plenish tlie stock and carry a petit-
pin.- 'In. of .jgspn! merchandise:.
Mr. J. A. Ganlding, lately of Griffin,
Ga., will be in charge and will be
pleased to have the people of the
town and vicinity to call and see
him.
The beautiful farm of Messrs.
Wright & Scandrett, at Inaho, was
sold last week to an Ohio syndicate
who will divide it up into small farms
and in the near futnre, more than
two hundred westerners, noted for
their thrift und enterprise, will make
their homes among ns. We welcome
them to Georgia and to Irwin county
and suggest that they invite their
neighbors und fellow citizens in Ohio
to come down and be neighbors to*
them in the -‘New South,” and join
them in them ir. the development of
tho most favored section on the face
of the earth.—Irwin County News.
Attention Tilton Horticulturist.
All growers of fruits and vegeta
bles are requested to meet at the of-
fioo of Capt. II. H. Tift ou Wednes
day afternoon, 3 o’clock, for the pur
pose of organizing a Tifton Horticul
tural Society. Be on hand “Little
Pennsylvania.” L. A. Snow.
Dentil of Airs. Dowling.
Airs. Ardelin Dowling, relic of W.
W. Dowling, died Saturday morning
nt tho home of tier son, Mr. 8. L.
Dowliug, near Cherry Creek. The
deceased hud been ill only a week
witli pneumoniu, and in age was
within u few days of her seventieth
birthday. By a sad coincidence, the
day of her death came on the anni
versary of the birth of tlie yonngesc
son, now a young man of 24. Ten
children now survive her. Mrs.
Dowling bus been a life-long consist
ent member of tlie Missionary Bap
tist church. Her true Christian
character and many friends and ac
quaintances, who now mourn sincere
ly with tbe immediate family for her
loss. The burial took place Sunday
ut New Bethel church.—Valdosta
Times.
Tim deceased was the mother of
Elder Henry T. Dowling, of near
Tifton.
Carlton Cornwell, foreman of tbo Ga
zette, Middletown, N. J., believes that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy should be
in every home, llo used it for a cold and
It effected a speedy cure He says: “It
Is Indeed a grand remedy, I can recom
mend to all. I havo seen It used for
whooping cough, with the best results.’'
25 aed 50 cent bottles fur sale by the
Tifton Drug Blur*.
Tho Lenox Murderer.
The negro who murdered his fore-
raau, a while mutt, near Lenox, in
Boriien county, a few days ago, ao-.
counts of which appeared in all the'
papers of the past duy or two, is now
in the..Thoinaaville jail, having been
brought Imre for safe keeping. Tbe
murder committed by tiie negro ia
caid to have been a most brutal one,
and tbe whole country lias been
muoli excited about it. The negro
was captured by Sheriff Sharpe, of
Colquitt county, a duy or two ago,
and put in jail at Moultre. While
the sheriff was carrying his prisoner
to Moultrie a largo orowd of men
came upon him and demanded the
negro. Mr. Shurpe, however, was
not easily soared and he refused to
deliver his man to the crowd, und
they finding tlie sheriff meant busi
ness, let him and his prisoner alone.
The jail at Moultrie, where the pris
oner was confined, is not a very safe
one, uud in view of the fact that
there was talk of taking the negro-
out and lynching him. Judge Han
sel 1 issued an order Friday to briug
him to Thorausville for safe keeping.
He was brought here on tbe two
o’clock train. Sheriff Dosb met the
train and took obarge of the negro
and put him securely behind the
bars, where he will remain upROfrr-
rien court meets
ThomusviUe Times.
thia
Wanted
, i. r . w - l‘
By a young la<ty—a recent graduate
of Gordon Institute, of' BarnesvilSv,
Gm u position as assistant teacher in
a graded school or to teach as princi
pal of a private or public school. ^1
Competent to teach all English .
branches, Algebra, Latiu and French.
Testimonials furnished on reque* f
Address: “Tescue*.”
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