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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 30,' 1S95.
VOL. 5-NO. 20
GUR NEAR NEIGHBORS.
A confederate monument is one of
Dooly county’s tie* enterprises.
timber for tlieir immense' saw-mill field that has produced 100 bushels
plant at McDonald.—Douglas Cor. per acre, and whose owner has ul-
Sav. News,. i reAdv disposed of his .crop at 75 cts.
Henry ltaiues, a son of a prosper-
OLl> BUCK.
, „ i ous farmer of Dooly county, corumit-
Valdosta received the first Georgia | te(J suicide Qne day la5t we , k by
bale .of Sed Island cotton last week, j fehooting 1)iuiself through the head.
per bushel, thus realizing $75 per
acre for his crop.
Commissioner Henderson has n-
warded the contract for supplying
lumber and doing repair work on the
Moultrie has a 20-room hotel in ! jj e bad beeu arrested on a charge of
prospect with fair chances for eecur-! seduction, which is ; supposed to 1 be J old Alapaha bridge to Mr. W. J.
the cause of his act. Clements. It will take about 30,000
The Abbeville Exponent says that j f'-'et of flooring and only a small
mg it
’
Bill G wines, over in Worth, comes
up with the big pumpkin.. It weighs
721 pounds.
colonists from'the west are arriv-;amount of framing to do the work,
ing there daily and living in rented ; Viv Clements starts immediately on
Old Buck was a big, red steer;with
long horns and a heart as full of
guile as the average Georgia mule.
One of his meanest tricks was to plod
leisurely and patiently along until he
got to the roughest and most danger
ous part of the road and then, giving
vent to an unearthly hollow, fan his
heels in the air, duck his head and
run aivay, never stopping until ho|
had got rid of every impediment.
$50 PER MONTH
D. R. Lee, of Lake City, succeeds houses in that town. ' Some will re-; the work of getting out the lumber |
Then he would turn and contemplate ,
VViik Till! Capital Four Hoys Started With
Fast Week.
•Iusr to show what it boy can do in
in spite of hard times, if he is only
properly qualified, the News woul^,
mention the fact that four boys who
had just graduated from the Geor
gia Business College were placed by
that institution last week, at an av-
'erage salary of $50 per month.
Two were from Spartanburg Co.,
South Carolina; a third from Pine
main
of i
lands
them.
[go
that have been bought for -sews.
Griffin as agent for the G. S. &
F. at. Sycamore.
C. P. Johnson a negro physician,
lias begun the practice of medicine
at Douglas, in Coffee county.
W. M. Bozeman, an old and widely-
known citizen of Worth county, died
at his home in Sumner
Miss Cora Lee Rouse,
won the scholarship in tL.
mal snd Industrial school f rom } th ey drank freeJy
Worth county. ' >eied.
Mrs. Joel Mercer, of Cordele, is! Q^te a sensational and odd wed
visiting hfffather, Mr. J. C. Sumner,; in 8 took P lace at tho residenoe of A -
and other relatives in Worth this! Bass last Tuesda y- ^hn Price
week.—Worth Local. M and Mrs * E]izabcth were j oined
aiu in town permanently, but most ai ’d the bridge will be repaired with |
: them will go to the countrv on the(the least possible delay.— Irwin Co. ' llcc
tho wreckage with the utmost com- j
! Level, Florida; and the fourth from
Macon, Ga.; and the College might
acence and apparent satisfaction. .
. , ,, , ,. place two more lo dav if qualified.
And tnanv were the scoldings we! • 1
A serious accident happened lo
□soli over the Brooks coun
boys got for allowing this piece of
In addition to students from every
animated cussedness to play such
! fantastic tricks.
j Southern and most of the Northern
Four members of the family of T. ( Simp
S. Deenof Douglas, together with | tjr Hne, about five miles from Yal- 0n(J d lbp old mnn bonght a
Prof. Tanner, of Douglas High I dosta, last Saturday week. She and |. m , wV;irt , 0 tho shafts of whlflll
States, it has representatives from
I Canada, Brazil, and other countries.
When it
remembered that
wagon and her hip joint, broken. She
is about (50 years of age, and the ac
cident has been very painful in its
results.
1 . , .in marriage. Mr. Price is twenty-: C J F Monday and found subject for the j tbo b ju j 10 wcnt) at a ^..jq g a jt,
.„. 11CCU r °' V ‘ y , P | three while Mrs. Gravy is only seven-! >»sane asylum. This young man j rolIod ou( at thc back of lbo cart j llst
trial. Everything went well until tho!,, . „
, ,... , i . . ; there is no excuse for boj’s to remain
first steep lull was reached, and then ... , . . J , ,
,, • . . , , c . without education or prohtable cin-
the new invention provod detective,; , ,, ,,
, , , , ‘ , . ployment.—.Macon, (.a., News,
and the cart began to bump against ’ ,,
b j Tins excellent College, standing at
j tiie head of Southern institutions is
... certainly accomplishing a great work.
We [ • i » o
the hind legs of old Buck. This was
Henry brazier was tried for lumi-1 a jj tbe uxcust . bo wanted, and down ,
Still m Invin county, one negro shot , ,, n ;. ,
“ ty years old.—Crystal Lake
an instantly killed one of his com- ... . , ,
panions on Suuday last.
It is intimated that Prof.
Cor. has been off his mind fora number
Worth Local. j of years. It is said that when a hoy
. , n-i i -n .i laud hauling wood, some boys told
; A tram engine collided with the ° ’ J ■
W. W.;/ . c , . .. . him there was a bear in the woods
_ . „ Iir .,, , 'engine of a pay tram near Duponti
Lastinger, of Waco, Texas, will oc-1 , . , , ,,,, . that would catch him before he got,
° ’ I ram rlntr loot wont The eilgllleCr Oil > f
home. This so excited linn that
when he got home lie was in a bad
lion and has never recovered.
come a citizen of Irwin county in the
near future.—Cor. News.
The total shrinkage in thc tax re
turns of the state is over $17,000,000,
winch includes all the counties of the
state .except Irwin and Monroe,
against a decrease of $23,000,000 last
year.
Kearee, fiom Willingham, Worth
one day last. week.
tho tram and fireman on the pay l
train were killed and everybody on
both trains were more or less scalded ; 1 on<
and bruised
An open switch was I This 8,101,1,1 be !l les80n t0 a11 - vonn «
as it brought up at the bottom of the!
hill against a big red oak, completely
wrecked, while pieces of cart, oak-
bark, bellows, yells, dirt and ox-tail
obscured the sunlight. We went
back home crestfallen, and were met
with the usual rebuke for our care
lessness, but held our peace.
mid the above is copied as a pointer
! to our boys.
Old People.
Old people who require medicine to
regulate tho bowels and kidneys will find
tho true remedy in Electric Hitters. This
medicine docs nut stimulate and contains
no whiskey nor other intoxicant, hut
as atonic and alterative. It acts mildly
on the stomucii and bowels, adding
A few days afterward, the old man j strength and giving tone to the organs,
the cause of the trouble.
people who may he inclined lo scare (t , a four llu . bivos of bec8 from : «•«»»* XlUl, ’? in tho performance
a neighbor and concluded lie would
of the functions. Electric Hitters is an
excellent appetizer and aids digestion.
, T , .others. Ileisnbont25yearsold.-
llenry Wilson who was mentioned | ' t c \ •
in this paper as having turned up in , 8 °' S ' , . ! g° r, ' r ,,K ’ cru 'L ,1:u11 Old people 'find just eve tly wl.a’i they
i,i_ ui , i, , , 1 Tlinniasville Tim<;s-Kntcrprise:' been repaired, and show us how to • need. Price fifty emits per bottle at .Take
\ aluosta hist week alter naung ucen .... , , ; ‘ ’ ,
, , , ^ “l ie immense corn crop to be gatli- drive Old Buck. laulks, nfion, M. A. Crabtrees,
proven dead several years ago, was | | * 1 . ° auu. ^ ttparks
■ er around the big piles of corn and | front, with the ribbons, like Jehu of f' vay ap ovt -ryour head; or, more likely.
I’neath the shadows of the harvestL],l and did some line drivimq Old ' <y 111,1,1 l,vfl " ‘ Sl1 'jeels 1 ml, jott
...i, la i ™, ,imi umwmuiiii ulnl "o' Were familiar will; wimn a hoy. Any-
” j j L. nm..^ .,.,.1 I 1. 1 till .1 IM1 -.1 .
Wd Of | :
an acre about 40 bushels of rice, and | olber ," gl . 0 boyg , on Mr. T. r J\ Mor-I;
county, was a recent winner in ani cai , ric>d back to Brooks county last ! eml 111 Geor S itt . . tllis • yoar 8,101,1,1 . It was about two miles over to . —
Albany walking match. Hunting i week t 0 gerve 0 ut a sentence in the ! abouha. rc-viyal of the “old-timo f'nolo Joe's, where the bees were,; Periodical,
calves every morning before breakfast | cba j n „ a|) ' „j vcn ln pggp ]j c was j corn shucKing.” Let the neighbors, a n ,i this same hill had to be traveled! Perhaps you don’t get, much value out
has a good deal to do with a man’s j WillU( .j 0 ,j requisition papers in Ala- \ tl,e boys and 8 ,lds » be hivited to gatli- j over . The °Id man took his seat in ; ° r - vour farm P«per. It’s articles may he
'after life. ; bl nna for hog stealing.
Mill i'L-y of hi wick,; iiotfi'0 bov was drowned »mu; , , • . . .... —
Worth county,, gathered from f of w hill „ in tbo cree ‘ k with ., orom \ of i' n0on ,nin S !e . t ’ K ' ir voices »> song amJ Ituok ambled down the hill as easily j way, they don’t help you, and you have
I jest as they did in years a£one. And | and slowly as tin* elephant in a cir- i probably come to think that farm papers
cits jiroccssion, and we began to { aro Ditle m'cnunt.
,, . , , , Hilt just wall a moment. Did von eel
think we uist debt t, know how to /
•' I your farm paper with some gilded premt-
dnve, while the old man s counton-1 um y or , li(1 you juit lnkl . it for tria i for
anco took on :m “I told you so, ’look. | three months to got rid some agent? and
| yet forgotten, though they have sadly '
faded in the memory of many.
cakes will be p en , 1 and of fnl Tho Loca, thinks Worth needs a M oultri e church entertainment the
Size m this neck of the woods j new school cencsus. Under the census llu]|fB gold ki8gC8 ttt ten cc:Us ettcb
'' ° UKl 8 i of 18!,2 > the count y 1,0,1 3.182c!,ildren j ftnd lmjd off tbe cluu . cls debt Tho
tla* prize for shucking an ear of red
in’s plantation, in this county lasti , 4 * ..1,1 v .*<
] 9 J i corn not to be omitted. Yes, it is a
It see ins l ,c ‘; g 00( i ye*ar for Georgia to go back to
mt where it was over Iris head and,.,
Pi . i the old times, to tunes that aro not
u hen you ask a Coffee county far- couldn’t swim, and as no one paid j
from every 200 pounds of rough ncc
lie gets 125 pounds of clean vice,” | Saturday afternoon,
says the Local.
mer how his corn crop is he smiles a j much attention to him he was drown- i
great big broad happy smile. The j ed.—Arabi Express.
year,
The Brook
We reached Uncle Joe’s, and five I Hi either case, tnku it since liofiuise you
old-fashioned bee gums, with hosula | couJdn’t got it to atop cmini;?
... 1 1,1.1 if HUcli is the ease, von may until to
muled on, and a cloth tied over the , , J
I see 11 copy ol urn
mouth to keep tho hoes inside, wore j TllK ltru u , Nkw VoUKEU .
duly placed in the cart and we start- Von get no premium with it; and It
County News is
_d slowly on the rotnrn trip. ; will stop ns soon ns the paid time expires.
lu-j of school age, while the County j Ilera | ( , coniments IVS follows; "This! We boys hod taken tho precaution 1 11 iR R rnmer that tlmusands of farmers
thority for the statement that Col. | School Commissioner’s books for this nfiW und tica , osculutory ext , rciso j t0 t in t | R , bftok of the cart, lmt| | ak l c . , “ d pny for 1,1 “ ,lv “ nco
W. S. Humphreys, of Quitman, wil j year show that 4,973 children have. k , tt „ rig ht. but it must striae everything went well until wo read,. | J,* l.Tt h"^es Umm" "" "
hen candidate for Solictor-General attended the public schools of the j th / avcnige r eadef thitt. the Moultrie ed the hill. Then old Buck must wUL.v Oni.v *i oo't Tfvh,
of this circuit at the next election, county, to say nothing of the twenty ir , g luwe made a big miBtftke . A have been stung by a bee or some-1 uml your money back If you want it.
Col. Humphreys cor firms the rumor 'percent, that did not attend. ! klgg t]|at 18n > t wortll lll0re than a thing, we never knew just exactly | fr, "\ The Sural Now Yorker,
A statement given out at I honias- j \ new public road is to be estab- pound of cotton isn’t worth having, how it happened. We rolled out at (Subsniptione received Imre.) N. 5 .
ville as to the profits in grape culture j Jjg b ed from tlic- new Alapaha bridge | Ten cents is a regular bargain conn-! the start, the old man and one of If you will take the trouble to ex
claim that a net profit of $43.70 per a t the Columbus foul to intersect the 1 ter price and should have never been 1 the lice gums about half way down, amine the mortality reports of Wire-
pn
acre was made on shipments this! Sycamore and Lutterjah bridge road set. This kind of a caper for the
year. On a vineyard of twenty-dye' at the new home of Mr. II. W. Bus- relief of a church debt may spread,
acres a clear profit of $1,004.85 was gey on ] 0 t 0 f land No. 11.2, and will It may become a fad, and if it does
ma de. | be extended from there to the Worth j and strikes Albany, the young ladies
A negro named Steve Butts died in county line and intersecting the Syc- of Moultrie will be shown a thing or
the Dooly county poor house last.amore and Asliburn road near the two. In the first place thc“kissableg”
week who claimed to be 140 years of j residence of Mrs. Bailey.—Irwin Co. will be classified just as cotton is.
age, but whom the Sentinel says was; News. , , Sixteen-year-olds will be worth some-
really 117. Another negro is in the
same poor house who is 110 years
old.
M’-'
Rev. II. V. Golden, well known
throughout this section of South
Georgia, and a brother of Rev. E. Z.
If F. Golden, of Cnthbert,, died at his
The Irwin County News denies thing like $5 a smack, and so on up
the rumor that Judge Smith liusji» age until the old maid class is
called a special term of Irwin Supe- i reached. Those in this class will
rior court for tho purpose of grunting I have to hustle for themselves, that’s
a charter to the Fitzgerald land col-; all.”
ony. the News is mistaken in the
rumor. The Gazettk said that it
and the balance of the outfit brought grass Georgia, you will find it away
up against that red oak a conglom- j below the average. Not that
crated mass of ox, cart, bees and we claim that people do not
honey. Old Buck tore loose from!die here, or that they dry up and
tho wreck and ran off, pawing tile blow away, hut we do claim that they
air and rolling over and over, utter- will come as near to it as any section
ing the most heart-rending bellows, on the globe. So we would ask those
trying to rid himself of the bees, j who hear these stories detrimental to
while the old man was going through our country’s health!illness or otlier-
about the same manoetivers. We wise to investigate and satisfy them-
had our revenge. selves before making a decision. We
This was about eighteen years ago. I will be satisfied with tho verdict.
The old man has long ago left off the ,
! mush poultices, but even now we are j
j almost afraid to laugh about it.
To the Cotton Growers.
, . , , I will run two Euglishgins through.
W 10 ’wi' i. t 811 ? ty .i ° r 1 the coming season, having placed or- The Gazette joins the Telegraph
der for the second oiu*, making my ; in this view of some of tho recent
plant one of the best equipped in the! Chinese outrages: “China seems to
haye a very convenient way of lay
ing the blame for every thing on lo
ll, G. Irby,
home in Cordele on Sunday last
His remains were carried to Dough- statement that Judge Smith would
erty for interment. call a special term of the court at an
E. A. Buck and family left for In- <*r\y date, which it has. , gtate< prompt uml efficient seryice.
Uian Springs yesterday. He will The .Valdosta Times has an ear of tbem a tr j ab
leave Mrs. Buck and Miss Ethel at corn which lias 1,300 fully developed
the Springs for a few weeks. * * * : grains, grown by a farmer of Lown- a!3-4t. Cycbneta, Ga.
J. S. Bailey & Co., are laying down a des county. A. S. xYudlcton, a mer- j Ramon , B ^ WhT^onlc PCIeU
branch Irani railway within two., chant of the town* has in his Score il *j- c a Perfect Treatment for Constipation
miles of Douglas to cjit the Peterson) bunch of Spanish peanuts from a j “d BiUou*u««. B6r One pill a dote.
cal officials. When a few Chinese
towns have been knocked into brick
dust the Emperor will probably find
time to reflect that some changes in
his local officials are necessary.”
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