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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY., AUGUST 23, 1S95.
VOL. 5-NO. 19
OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS:
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Brooks teacher’s Institute was in
session for five days in Quitman last
week.
Valdosta’s Chamber of Commerce
is making an organized demand for
better freight rates.
Worth’s tax returns show 1,275
whites against 920 colored; total, 2,-
195; giving the whites a majority'of
355.
A populist paper compliments Hon.
Bat Walsh by saying that he made a
regular populist speech at Griffin the
other day.
The South Georgian, Douglas’
populist paper, has temporarily sus
pended. Its publishers hope to re
sume soon.
A movement is on foot to re-orga
nize the Alliance in Colquitt county.
The Observer is inclined to discour
age the movement.
Valdosta is to have a cigars factory
in a few days, says the Times. It
will ,employ five or six hands until
the business increases.
Miss Minnie Itayson, of Quit-
man, and B. F. Kemp, of Arabi,
Ga., were married at the home of the
bride one day last week.
The telephone line from Sycamore
to Irwinville will soon be extended
to Minnie, in the same county. The
material for that purpose is in the
Sycamore depot.
Mr. Berry Hill, just over the line
in Worth county, was severely kicked
by a horse one day last week. The
injury is in the abdomen, and he has
suffered considerably from i t.
Worth is among the fourteen
Georgia counties tout have applied
for space at the Cotton States Expo
sition, in Atlanta, and her exhibit
promises to be a good one.
Tliomasville is shipping hosiery to
Philadelphia, the great center of the
hosiery industry in this country.
This is carrying coals to Newcastle
v
to have been sent from Valdosta, j SIGNALIZED SYLVESTEII.
stating that a water main on Hill
avenue bursted on Tuesdav and that
witli a vengeance. —Savannah Press.
“Mr.IsaacSloan caught with a hook
and line 523 red breast perch from
the Withlacoochec river in two days,”
says the Lake Park News, who
a child was drowned in the flood of
water. The Times investigated the
matter, but could find no foundation
for it.
Mr. li. S. Middletou is “bogged up
to his ears!’ now in gathering his
grape crop and making them into
wine. He expects to make one thous
and gallons of fine wine from his
present crop. He has also realized a
neat sum, already from his peach
crop, and has peaches still to ripen
for the next two months.—Vienna
Progress.
Our county speaks for itself as for
being healthy. This is a sample:
William Turner, aged ninety-five, and
Mrs. Marina Turner, aged ninety-
three, have lived together as man and
wife for seventy-five years, and at
this writing, both are enjoying good
health. Mr.- Turner split one thous
and fence rails lust winter.—Black-
shear Hustler.
The Local is about the only paper
in Georgia that has not laid claim to
having just the very location that a
cotton mill was looking for, yet the
lumber is being placed on tiie
grounds at Poulan for the erection
of a mill that will run 1SG looms to
start with and will increase its ma
chinery as fast as practicable.-—
Worth Co. Local.
Thomasville, Ga., correspondence
to the Morning News: More hogs
will be fattened in this country this
year than ever before. Large peanut
and potato crops have been planted
Home-raised meat will be a drug on
the local market another yearf unless
the hogs are shipped away by the
carload. There is little doubt now
that corn will sell at 20 to 25 cents a
bushel on the streets of this city this
fail.
T. B. Henderson, of Wayeross,
while in Tifton, Ga., wrote to his
daughter, Mrs. Westley, on Saturday
last to make airangeinents for him
and his bride, and that they would
be there on the evening train. Mr.
Henderson arrived—but, io, the bride
did not come. The children were
Tifton, situated as she is, the gate
to the fruit belt of Southwest Geor
gia, has for near neighbors, many
hustling, progressive little cities, who
bear on tlieir face the evidence of
thrift and prosperity, and an energet
ic, working citizenship.
Of these, there is none on which
wo feel more like bestowing the title
of sister than upon Sylvester, the
beautiful railroad outlet for Worth’s
county site, and, pre-eminently, the
town of the county.
It is surrounded by some of the
finest farms and most progressive
farmers of the county, and is in the
midst of one of the best farming sec
tions of the state. Her citizens are
live and wide-awake, and are taking
time by the forelock, keeping up with
the over advancing procession for
“Round about her orchards sweet,
Apple and peach tree fruited deep,”
with fields of waving corn and rustling
rice, drooping cane, and the ever in
sinuating, creeping, crawling, but al
ways getting there, pea and potato—
all making it
“Fair as a garden of the Lord,”
and one of the prettiest countries ohi
on earth, peopled with one of the
cleverest, most hospitable people.
Of such neighbors and sisters,
Tifton is proud. There is no cause
for envy, or excuse for jealousy be
tween them. The interests of «no
section are the interests of the other.
The densely populated states north
and west of us hold enough surplus
citizenship to people all our lands a
dozen times over. The gain to one
is a gam to both, for every
good first-class citizen secured
and prospering wonderfully', already
having built up an excellent medical
practice, and locating ( a handsomely
equipped dental office. Ilis good
looks have not mated him off yet,
but this is partly accounted for by'
bis having such close competition as
Polliill, Coram and liob Price.
Dr. A. T. Ford is a Worth county
boy who has made the study of med
icine his life work, and by several
years experience thoroughly demon
strated that lie is both competent
and capable,
Tho legal firm of Perry & Polhill,
the senior member*of which is solicitor
for Worth’s county court,is one of tho
town’s fixtures, and one of its most
successful institutions.
Genial .1. X. Welch, so well and
favorably remembered in Tifton, lias
a ginnery’, grist mill, i ice machinery
I and variety works conveniently lo
cated near the place for the depot,
and is one of the busiest men in
the place. It has been maliciously
whispered that he always eats of his
own meal or rice, which accounts for
his being the feather-weight cham
pion of the town.
A real estate firm, Sinclair A Nes
bitt, Is one of the latest institutions
of that little city, and promises to he
a successful one. I heard it whis
pered while I was there that at one
time it was contemplated moving tho
entire professional business of the
town —real estate, medical and legal
—to Tifton. While this would have
been a most eligible location, still, on
the whole, it was better to divide (lie
tl
and numbers of others who have
made the citizenship of the place
what it is—one of the most desirable
in the state.
Largo tracts of lands are being
opened in and around that place and
set to fruit treess or vineyards, or
planted to cereals and cotton.
Among these is the large planta
tion of Judge D. II. Pope, which to
gether with his orchard and vineyard,
is the model faun of the wiregrass
belt of the county.
These people raise their supplies at
home, buy little, pay for what they'
get, and are making money. For
they have found the key-note of
success.
"Still achieving—still pursuinp:;
team to lalim- ami to watt."
II.
doesn’t care whether silver is free or j badly disappointed, but Tom enjoyed
not. J the eatables just the same. This ac-
Books are open at the News office counts f or the report Hint lie was
for subscriptions to ho taken to cs-1 married.-Blackshear Hustler,
tablish a canning factory in Lake!
Para; $200 has already been placed ’
on the books; shares $1 per share.—
Lake Park News. , r , T ,. , ... „
Mrs. Elizabeth King and Miss Dan
nie Branch professed faith in Christ
and were baptized, at the Overstreet
bridge, on Little Itiver, by Rev. Geo.
F. Clark. The occasion was the
92nd birthday of the first lady, the
second was about thirteen, while the
A correspondent of the Gazette
! calls its attention to an incident that
occurred on Friday of last week,
mg up.
Besides being connected by rail
mul telegraph, Sylvester, largely
in a profit to the whole seetibii. j throiiixli her own efforts, will soon
There is one settler
fad; If
there is a spark of jealousy in Syl
vester against Tifton (and wo sin
cerely hope there is not) there is
certainly only the most friendly feel
ing in Tifton toward Sylvester.
Sylvester’s growth for the past few
years has boon of the most solid and
substantial character, and of a kind
to be beneficial and lasting. Among
the most recent improvements, 1 no
ticed the handsome residence, of Mr.
W. H. McPhaul, costing something
over $3,000, the neat two-story resi
dence of J. W. Price; and the large
and commodious livery stables of
Tipton & McDowell.
The Baptist membership have pur
chased the former school building;
moved it, reseated it, made some
needed additions, and have a very
I
A Mr. Boyce, of Pittsburg, Pa.,
was prospecting m this neighborhood
a few days last week. He will prob
ably locate several families from
the north in Worth county this fall.
—Crystal Lake Cor. Local.
The Moultrie correspondent of the
News writes: “We now have strong
hopes of anothei railroad—the ex
tension of the Georgia Southern from
Tifton to TbotnasviMe and gives us
an outlet north and south.”
Dock Wade an aged soldier was
murdered near the outskirts of Abbe
ville on Thursday night of last week.
He had just received his pension,$50,
which is supposed to have been the
incentive for the brutal crime.
Henry Wilsou, a white man who
by bis Jbondsmen there
buried in Val
dosta seven or eight years ago, was
was proven
to be dead and
officiating clergyman was in the 32nd
year of his age. As cur correspon
dent says it is never too late to turn
“while the lamp holds out to burn.”
It is now a certainty that at least
‘250 acres of land near Ashbnrn will
set in peaches next winter. Air. J.
R. Patten has entered into contract
with the Southern Nursery Co., of
Winchester, Tenn,, to furnish 100
acres of land, the company to furnish
tho trees, set them and cultivate them
they to be equally interested in the
orchard. Air. J. W. Henderson will
furnish 100 acres on the same terms.
Mr, W. A. Hall bus 50 acres in con-
. arrested in that city Inst week for j sideration, but lias not signed a con-
corn stealing over in Alabama.
An altercation occurred in Quit-
! tiacfc Small bills of trees from the
different nurseries have been sold
I uinnigii hit own ollorls,
have telephonic connection with Tif-
ton and Albany and intervening
points, probably to ho Miplementcd,
in the hear future, with connection
with Atlanta and Brunswick.
W. 11. McPhaul, the father of the
city, wears his years and honors with
becoming dignity, and is endeavoring
to accumulate another fortune in
farming and fnut growing. Ilis
latest venture is 100 acres in peaches,
supplemented by dozens of recently
cleared farms. Ilis plan is to clear a
farm and put in a good state of cul
tivation, then sell it to a home-seeker,
and clear another. By this means,
lie is peopling that section with a
class of honest, industrious, live-at
-home farmers, of whom any county
may well bo proud.
Any mention of Sylvester would
handsome church edifice, while the | he incomplete did it not include its
citizens of tifc* place have purchased j bright little paper, the Worth County
a site and erected a most handsome
academy, probably the largest build
ing in the place, which will provide
accommodation to 150 pupils. The
school is in charge of Prof. Hardin,
one of the best principals in this sec
tion of the state.
J. S. Westberry & Bro., are the
leading merchants, and have a trade
that warrants them in carrying one
of the largest stocks of goods in Wire-
grass Georgia. G. T. Ford, Ford A
Hollamon, Tipton & McDowell, and
Last week, (Sheriff (f. S. Nelson, of
Worth county, arrested a negro named
Toni Young, for gambling, who was
afterwards convicted and sentenced.
In tiie mean time, he tried to com
mit suicide by hanging himself and
acted otherwise in such a way as ' to
arouse Nelson’s suspicions of his be
ing an old criminal. Looking over
his papers, he found that the negro
tallied exactly with the description
of one wanted in Alabama for the
murder of deputy sheriff .McLendon,
of Henry county two years ago, and
for whom a reward of $700 was off
ered. Nelson wrote to Alabama for
the Sheriff of Henry county to meet
him in Albany or. Thursday of Inst
week. He started for that point with
the negro, who confessed enroll te
that, he was the man wanted, and
that lie had committed the murder
in cold blood. In Albany he met
t.lio Henry conntv official, who at
once identified the negro nr.d was
anxious to carry him to Alabama,but.
Sheriff Nelson rightly refused to give
him up without the reward or
guarantee of it,and the Alabama offic
ial had to go home without bis prize.
He immediately applied to the gov
ernor of his state for requisition (vi
pers, but Gov. Atkinson notified
Nelson to hold to his prisoner until
further orders.
The man who likes to suffer with
Yellow Jaundice ought not to take
Dr. Westmoreland’s Culisayu Tonic.
Her many friends in Tifton will be
glad to hear that, Miss Ella Bacon
will have charge of the departments
of music, Latin and rhetoric at the
Ashbnrn academy this year. Prof.
Fain is principal. Concerning his
retention the Advance takes this sen
sible view: “It is a fact well known
that the Advance opposed the eni
ployment of Prof. Fain for this term
and in doing so it had the welfare of
the town and not, llie antagonism of
the school in consideration. We op
posed him on general principles ns
Local, which is one of tho must pot
ent factors in tho growth of the place
and one of tho county’s institutions.
Its genial editor, Walter Alien, has
built up a fine business by persistence
and porserverance, and has hundreds
of friends among tho Georgia press! we saw it. The paper spoke the
boys. ] opinion of one man. The. trustees
The depot problem, liko Tifton’s | spoko the opinion of live men.
dwelling-house problem, seems likely j Therefore it would appear to the cita
to remain unsolved. Like a relic of
the early days of railroading, before
the'invention of passenger coaches,
J. Wegodncr are all young and bus- Pullmans, or tickets, with a live,
progressive, up-to-date to tv ti growing
up around it, the old box-car substi
tute stands as a momimentto official
red tape and corporate contrariness.
Sylvester is paying but little alien-
tling merchants, carry large and
well-assorted lines of* goods and are
contributing no small share to mak
ing their city one of the strongest
trading points of the section.
Dr, Al. J. Crokclt, a “reformed j tion to tho removal question. Ithe-
ynnkeo,” as lie styles himself, is doing j lievcs that more lies in developing
a good drug trade, as well as a luc- the wonderful resources at its doors
rative office practice. He has giveuo than in pursuing illusionary and
farming, corn ami fodder and po-j chimerical will-o’-tllb wisps. There
H mar. one day last week between A. P.. here to set probably 50 acres. This j litieal prognosticating, arid settled I is but little doubt that, sooner, or la-
Hatcher, a liveryman, and John ■ in addition to the 80 acres belonging j down to a business that is making ter it will bo tho county site, but
Hampton, a funner of Brooks county, j to Betts, Shingler & Co-, and the; him an excellent living. j until that day'comes, it will spend its
which resulted in Hampton being hundreds of smaller proportions. It ; Dr. T.-C. Jeffords is a scion, thins- j energies in adding to its growth,
seriously cut with n pocket knife, j if only a matter of a few years when :■ planted from the soil of Ware, t'lmti Next to Fanner McPhaul
comes
;ram was printed in
the I Aabbnrn will demand attention as a ! has naturally acclimated itself lo the! Contractor and Farmer Charlie
Morning News of Friday, purporting | fruit center.--Advance.
Wm-‘
section ot his choice, and is thriving Iltljhause, Wash Roper, John Priest
ual observer that the Advance stands
only one chunco to five of being cor
rect, Leaving the two sides for the
linger of time to point out the cor
rect one, we go over and lend our aid
in making this term a success. We
have not changed onr mind, but will
help tho winning side. (That's de
mocracy.)”
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