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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10. 1895.
YOL. 5-NO. 18
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OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS.
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Important Items of News from Ber
rien’s Sister Counties.
The Moultrie Observer already has
a stalk of sugar cane in its office over
ftve feet long.
‘.‘Coons” and raccoons are said to
G' . v ■ t
be decimating the corn crop over m
'Worth county.
Thomasville City Council lias ap
propriated $350 to advertise that I ,nse
progressive city.
her death is universally regretted.
The' funeral was largely attended
and one of the most imposing m the
derson says the bridge will be repair
ed without delay, which is a source
of pleasure to all those acquainted
with the. necessity of the work.—Mr-
win Co. News.
Miss Eva Payne, after an extended | history, of the Artesian City
visit to Ty-Ty and Tifton, returned
home last Saturday. Miss Eva is
one of our most accomplished and pop
ular young ladies and we are all glad
to welcome her home again.—Shell-
man Cor. Cuthbert Liberal Enter-
grandchildren some of the most in- He Came, lie Saw, He Testifies,
fluential citizens of the place, and
Georgia melon growers had better
drop the melon business and go to
raising peaches, says the official organ
of Colquitt county.
‘Capt. II. Holdaiie; advertises in the
last issue of the Worth County Local
for a black mare mule five years old,
strayed from his farm. (
J. J. Calhoun, of Colquitt, was e.x-
■ amined bdfore Commissioner Rod-
eebury, of Thomasville. one day. last
week, for illicit distilling.
* The big mill of J. S. Letts & Co.,
is idling an order for a million feet
of lumber to build a cotton factory
at Rome.—Asliburn .Advance.
“Douglas will have.a district »Sun-
. day school convention on the first
Last Sunday Sheriff Nelson arres
ted four colored boys for stealing
corn out-of a field near Willingham,
and they were given a trial Tuesday
morning and sentenced to twelve
months each in the chaingung. tfwo
claimed to be jfroin Americas, one
from Ft. Gaines and one from Jack
sonville, Fla.—Worth Co. Local.
The Lake Park News says that one
of the features of a recent fodder
pulling in Echols was three races be
tween a young lady and gentleman. In
| each race, the girl distanced her male
i competitor, too far to talk about, and
! as a result he has been laid up with
: backache for several days.
Mr. Peter Pelham, of.Worth conn
j ty, and a brother of the gallant John |
Mr. Tom Wilson, of Union county,
South Dakota, was one of the visi
tors to the Midsummer Fair, and
writes as follows to his homo paper,
A telephone line has been run j *^ 1C ^ l '' on ^ c ! un, 3’ Leader, eoncern-
froni Sylvester, in Worth county,' 11151 lt:
through Poulau, Sumner and Ty-Ty,
to Tifton. The .other end will con
nect with Albany, by way of Willing
ham and Acree. The parties fnr-
Conm,dicing on | Tel ham of artillery fame, accompan-1 ^
thering the enterprise are Albany
and Worth comity gentlemen with
means to nntrke it a success, and it
will probably be in operation in a few
days. From Albany, it is proposed
to connect with Dawson, Americas,
Macon, Griffin and Atlanta.
Editor Wilson, of Lake Park, re
cently wrote to a man in Lowndes
county, offering him a commission on
all subscriptions lie would solicit for
the News. This was immediately
resented by the party wifcten to us an
insult and attempt at bribery, and in
last issue Editor Wilson explains the
matter, and informs the gentleman
j that he is from South Carolina, and
| carries a chip on his shoulder. And
! tlie merry ring of the octagon-barrel
; may be listened for down in those
woods almost any morning at sun-
On the same morming 0. S. Lovee,
A. It. Weston and myself took the
7 o’clock train for Tifton. Wo ar
rived there about 10:30 o’clock, and
found a city about the size of Elk
Point, they claiming a population of
ATLANTA AND RETURN.
Sunday in August _ _... D ... ... ... , ,, ,, .
c, , , { e „ u ,, led by his brother-in-law, Mr. E. P.
Saturday before, says the Lreoze. I J ; I
L " „ , r , ,, , , jMcCaulev was m Valdosta tins
Deputy U. S. Marshalls arrested . ,. . •
T , 1 ; , , . week on a prospecting tour. Mr.
Jack Fulgtum and Abe thumb,on,ot j Uc wjn babl locate hei0
southeast A\orll, county, for running:^ a conSK i erable addition
an illicit distillery one day last week, ; . T . . , . •
J * to Lowndes county s solid citizenship.
The Moultrie coi respondent of the
Telegraph reports the following
■progress for onr sister city: Messrs.
H. P. Smart and D. G. Bacon, of the
$4.00 lor the Round Trip—Mon
day, August 10th, 1805.
We have arranged to run a special
personally-conducted excursion from
Palatka and intermediate points to
Atlanta and return at the extremely
low rate of four dollars for the round
trip, train to leave Palatka at 11:45
a. m., Monday, August 19th, 1895,
allowing four days limits on the-tick
ets; returning Thursday, August 22dl
This train will be under the per-
2000; and situated in Berrien county, | sonal supervision of Mr. G. A. Mac-
abont 105 miles due south of Macon donald, General Passenger Agent,
and about eight or nine miles south assisted bv Messrs. W. II. I.iicas and
of the southern line of our colony D.. G. Hall, Traveling Passenger
lands, or as Alson puts it, “Fitzie’s Agents, and no effort will be spared
Puddin’.” At Tifton we attended | in making the trip comfortable and
the district fair. This district eiM- pleasant. The cars will only be al-
braces Irwin, Berrien and, I think, j lowed to be tilled to their seating
one or two other counties. Inviti capacity.
being one of the counties in which ! Refreshments will be served on
our colony land is located, I paid par- the train under the direct supervision
ticulnr attention to our exhibit. It'
was equal to any one on the grounds
and that is saying very much, as the
whole exhibit was grand. 1 had
been led to believe before going
of this company, and any who do not;
desire to purchase sandwiches, etc.,
on the train are requested to bring a
lunch, as no stops will be made for
meals on route. We guarantee plen'-
there, that I would see nothing but: tv of ice water.
fruit and melons, hut there was an There are too many attractions m
i
excellent exhibit of all kinds of grain : the city of Atlanta to permit enumer-
and in fact, everything that you | ating them all. \\ c, however, beg to
would find at a northern fair, with call your particular attention to the
“Too much gossip hurts. If ufel-
—Valdosta Times.
the great fruit display as a sido line.
I’ll tell you, friends, it does a'north
western man gool to take in a few of
those elegant, Elbcrta punches after
Atlanta Lumber Company, wove, here I ^ (sonfinoil foi . tWPn ,. v . sis vcaM
last week negotiating for flic esfcab-
Hawkinsviile is making
prepara- , , ™ .. . ,,
, , . i this county. I lie Montgomery Goon-
tioi: for the second annual wiregrass 1
*d ,a lu
1 exposition,winch will be held in that;. , >
.... . .... mg a barrel factory Imre:
I city Oct. loth to 18th: This will be
good opportunity to exhibit the re-
low is going to marry let him marry 1
and don’t hack him out of the notion, j
Wait-til the deed is done,” cautions j
the Moultrie Observer.
Nearly every county in Gcor
shows a decrease .in tax returns, but sources 0 f this, the favored section of
Worth is an exception to the rule. It the United States—-wiregrass Georgia,
conies up with a net grin of 855,803, Tll( , re is $2,000 offered in* premiums
with but few defaulters. j and. $1,500 in purses hung on the
J. 11. Overman, of Coffee county, j wire for races. Oompetition isopen
writes a long letter from Santee | to all.
Agency, Nebraska, to his home paper regular quarterly conven-
the Breeze, descriptive of life and bon 0 f t; ie Worth County Sunday-
customs i inong the Indians. school association, hold in Sylvester
The Local is informed that Mes- 0 n Wednesday of last week, the fol-
srs. C. A. Alford, J. G. Polhill und j lowing officers were elected for the
T. L, Kitchens, are the regular ap- ensuing year: President, T. R. Per-
pointed Registrars for Worth county r y; Vice-president, P. Pelham; Secre-
under the new registration law. tary, W. A. Allen; Treasurer, W. C.
, Mrs. Faulk, of Elko, N.C., dropped Thompson; Member board of Trus-
dead at the home of her daughter, tees, J. H. Pate. Isabella was select-
Mrs. W. H. Davis, in Coffee county, 1 ed as the place for bolding the No-
Wednesday of last week. Her re- j vember convention.
carried home for inter- j Mr. W. A. Hawkins, with his wife
lishment of some huge sftw mills in
sruge
i to wild plums and gooseberries. Our
I party remained in Tifton aboutthree
days, each day meeting scorns of
great, progress of the Cotton States
Exposition buildings which are now
practically completed, and through
which wo have made arrangements
to go. Among the many attractions
which are open to visitors, might, be
named the following:
State Capitol Building. Voting
Company L^t ffNfffiWS'Rr<5f the colony who Imd boon Men's Christian Woeiatibn Rooms,
mains were
ment.
.. The tax returns of Colquitt county
show a net gam of $200,000 over last
year, says the Observer. A grand
showing for a grand old wiregrass
county. There arc no hard times in
Colquitt.
At district conference in Asliburn
la8t week, resolutions were adopted
strongly endorsing the Bush anti-
bafroom bill, and recommending that
petitions be circulated asking tor its
speedy passage.
and mother, of Macon, was a visitor
here last wees and this. Ashley is a
Worth county boy, and lived some
time with his grand-father (Uucle
Jack Story) in the oak grove where
Asliburn now stands. He is a law
istudent now under Judge C. 0. JCib-
bee, and happens to be one of the
braniest young men our country has
ever produced. His future is as
bright as a new dollar.—Ashburn
Advance.
Albany is to have a six hours go-
Thoy will
make turpentine barrels for the local
trade. This concern will work fifteen
or twenty skilled laborers and will be
another acquisition to Moultrie’s en
terprises.
A dispatch from Camilla to the
Atlanta Journal under date of Aug.
12th says that on Friday of last week
Mrs. J. F. Monroe, of Colquitt coun
ty, a lady about sixty years old, was
assaulted by a negro named Will
Harris. The timely appearance of a
neighbor attracted by the woman’s
screams, frightened the negro, and
saved her from further injury than a
few scratches. Harris was arrested
in Camilla Saturday, confessed, and
was carried back to Colquitt and
identified by Mrs. Monroe. About
two o’clock, near the scene of the
crime, he was shot to death.
As a sequal to the murder of Mr.
Horn, a country merchant at Boston,
Ga., which occurred several years
ago, a negro named Bully
Williams was arrested here on Tues
day. 11 is said lie has made a con
fession to negroes around here and
his arrest was asked for by Sheriff
Doss, of Thomas county. It is be
lieved that other evidence besides his
confession to the negroes .here has
been gotten 1 against Williams and it
is also believed that he will be con
over* the land, and each and every corner X.Pryor St.,and Auburn Ave.,
one told us the same story, and that! Voting Men's Library on Marietta st,,
story was short and straight to the contains 20,000 books, Chamber of
point. They simply stated that our; Commerce, II. W. Grady .Monument,
and was the nicest tract ot land m opposite P.O.,Grady Hospital Square.
the state of Georgia, either as to soil,
lay of the land and climate. While
at Tifton wo had the pleasure of
mooting Mr. Fitzgerald and his son,
who were down in that country to
make a payment on our colony land,
and, let me say here, seemingly, two
nicer men I have never met. I had
a long talk with “Fitzie” about col
ony matters, lie informed me that lie
had options on some land as low as
81.25 per acre, while other tracts ran
from 82 up to 810, and some even
higher. These high priced lands are
improved lands, some of them con
taining nice peach orchards. lie
thought as a whole the lands would
not vary much from $3.50 per aero.
Is Your Baby Pretty?
The publishers of Ladies Every
Saturday, of Philadelphia, Pa., will
deposit One Hundred Dollars (8100,-
00) to tho credit of the prettiest baby
whose portrait is received by them
t
Senator Wilcox recently took' a as you please walking match on- the j victed of the n]urd(!r , w |,j c h was al-
trip to Atlanta for treatment of the j 15th inst. There arc now ten en- 1 togetbpr unprovoked, having been
Asthma,but appears not to haye been ! tries, seven Albanians, two from Lee ! eomm itted while the' rnerchunt was
relieved. His friends will grefctiy re- j county and one from Worth. The
I ' gret to know that the old camplaibt oldest man that Jias entered for the
is as bad as it ever was.—Irwin Co. 1 race is Mr. James Garret, Sr., of Al-
News. * bany, who is 66 years old, and the
waiting upon a customeri-
Tinit-s.
-Valdosta
The Cordele Sentinel publishes last
t week two applications for charter for
home institutions. One for the Su-
youngest is his 18 year old son, James
Garret, Jr. The Shortest one is ILL.
Palmer, of Albany, 5 feet 7 inches,
wanee Hotel Company, with a paid- while the tallest one is W. D. Morgan
up capital of $15,000, and the Chens- > of Lee county who is C feet 5 inches,
jeal Fertilizer Company, with a paid-.' Mrs. Nancy Mariah Tift, widow of
the late Nelson ffift, of Albany, died
on Thursday morning of last week,
in the 73rd year of her age. She,
with her husband, was one of tho
founders of the city, and lived in the
first house ever built there. She
numbered among her children. and
up capital of $10,000,
Commissioner Henderson assisted
by Judge Clements, went Tuesday
l morning to inspect the old bridge
across Alapaha on the Sycamore and
Irwinville road, and to make out a
for repairing same. Mr. Hen-
Girls and Boys Make Money.
We want an energetic and ambi
tious girl or boy, in each city or town,
to assist’us in introducing our high
class, illustrated newspaper for wom
en. Yon can make money fast, or
secure any article from a tent to a bi
cycle, for a few hours’ work each
Saturday morning. If your parents
consent, enclose stamp for list of arti
cles given, sample copy and full par
ticulars. Address: Ladies Every
Saturday, Circulation department,
36 Sooth Seventh St , Philadelphia,
Pa.
Little Switzerland adjoining Grand
Park and Little Tyrol on Ponce do
Leon avenue, are charming pleasure
resorts, having rare flowers, lakes
with lilies and lotus plants, mineral
springs, etc.
Grant Park is justly called the
pride of Atlanta, and comprises 144
acres of land—seven miles of wide
graded drive-ways,six miles of shaded
walks, lovely lakes; the Gross Zoo
logical Exhibit is situated near Lake
Albann; the Cycloramio painting,
“Battle of Atlanta,” is here also;
Fort Walker, as left at the close of
the war, with cannon still standing,is
in the southeast corner of the park.
Fort McPherson, the second larg
est U. S. A. Post and military reser
vation, having military band concerts,
dress parades and guard mount daily
is only four miles out.
Ponce do Leon Springs, lake and
pavilions near Piedmont Park.
This will be the only apportunity
for publication; Fifty Dollars (850,- . . ‘ , . . . ■
1 ’ i ' „ tor a long time to come to visit the
00) to the next prettiest; Twenty-five
Dollars ($25,00) to the third; Fifteen
Dollars ($15,00) to the fourth; Ten
Dollars ($10,00) to the fifth. The
name and P. O. address of the parent
must be plainly written on the back
of photograph before forwarding.
Enclose three two-cent stamps for
full particulars. Address: “Photo
graphic Contest," Ladies Every
Saturday, 36 South Seventh street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
An editor is a man who is Ruble to
grammatical errors, toothache,
typographical blunders, and lupse Of ‘Discovery’’ in \taT houwand“hi*
memory, and usually he has ninety-j family has always found the very best re
seven thousand people watching and suits follow its use; that he would not be
criticising him on features of his J without It, If procurable. <1. A. Dyke-
paper. He is a man of sorrow, ac
quainted with grief, and frequently
the woods are full of people who
are liable to get ragged hungry , and
Gate City at such a low rate of fare,
and we hope you will oppveeiato the
fact that we arc trying to meet the
means of all by making such a rate.
Yours truly,
G. A. Macdonai.d,
General Passenger Agent.
Special excursion trains will leave
Tifton on August 19th, at C p. m.
Returning, special train leaves Atlan
ta at 6 p. m., sharp, August 22,
A Household Treasure.
ini
I). W, Fuller, of (,’nnajoharie, N.
says that lie always keeps Dr. King’s
thirsty for u long period. And yet
want to be un editor.”—Blakely Ob
server.
man Druggist, Cntskill, N - \’., says that
Dr. King’s New Discovery is undoubtedly
the best Cough rciuudy; that he has used
it in Ids family for eight years, and it has
never failed to do all that is claimed .for
it. 'Vby not try a remedy so long tried
and tested. Trial bottles free atiJake
W. Paulk’s, Tlftou, or W. A. Crabtree’s.
Sparks Ga.