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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1895.
YOL. 5-NO. 26
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OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS.
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The Bush anti-barroom bill is being
vigorously agitated in our neighboring
counties.
Valdosta's Chief of Police has pur
chased a fine pair of dogs to be used
iu catching criminals.
D. H. Davis, up at Ashburn, cele
brated the opening of the hunting
season by killing two fine deer on
the 1st.
Editor BeLoach announces that he
will move the Irwin County News
from Sycamore to frwinvile about
Oct. loth.
State School Commissioner Glenn
Miss , and on Wednesday of last" week
Judge J. B. Clements and Mr. Luke
returned from a trip to Mississippi
with the mule in their possession, the
negro having surrendered him. with
out legal process. The News says
the rifle has also been located, and
will probably be recovered soon.
The trade edition of the Valdosta
Times, containing 24 pages, is out,
and is a splendid advertisement of
our sister city', and of the capacities
of the Times’ printing establishment.
The work is first-class and complete
in every respect, except that it says
nothing at all about Tifton.
The store of Thos. Tipton, at Jsa-
CORRESPONDENCE.
Asliwood Notes,
Asuwoon, October 8.—The weath
er continues dry, and will be some
drawback to late crops, shell as rice
peas, cane, and the top crop of cot
ton.
Preaching service at Fiat Creek
on last Sunday, by Rev. George Mix
on, of Irwin county. From some
cause, there was only a small eongre-
| Louisville, Kentboky, where he goes
to finish up his course in medicine.
He will return in the spring a full-
fledged M. I). Much success m his
studies, is our wish for him.
Our prayer meeting was largely
attended by the young people last
Sunday night. Come to prayer meet
ing; you can find no better place to
pass away the time.
Air. J. K. Turner, one of Alapalm's
j former boys was in the city Sunday,
i Alapalia loses another of its bright!
gation.
Mr. li. II. Wheeless, of Ash wood, boys this week, in the person of Mr.
Mountain Rose and Ilale’s Early
sold last week all the way from 40
cents to one dollar a basket. They
were damaged and fit only for stew
ing.
Dealers insist that Southern and
Eastern fruits are crowding the Cali
fornia peaches out ot the market, but
the California fruit dealers deny this.
They say the demand for the big Cali
fornia peach is as good as it ever was.
The shipments received from there
have been about nineteen ear loads a
day, and will continue in that quan-
15th
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his office in Atlanta on October
and 16th.
The merchants of Moultrie have
petitioned the route agent of the
Southern Express Company to put
on an express cur between Moultrie
and Pidcock.
The Mercer Association will con
vene at Moultrie on the 16th, and
the Georgia Northern railroad will
give a rate of one fare for the round
trip over its line.
Telfair superior court has been ad
journed until the first Monday in
November, owing to difficulty in se
curing a qualified judge to try the
case of State vs. Dowdy.
II. II. Parker, one of Moultrie’s
hustling merchants, will move to
Levy county, Florida, about the first
of November, where he will engage
in the manufacture of naval stores.
visited his parents
last Sunday.
near
has called a meeting of the county beI1 "> was broken °P en antl robbed
school commissioners of the state, at | on Wednesday night of last week.
Forty pair of pants, two or three
cases oE shoes, and other merchan
dise, amounting to about 8150 was
stolen. Tracks and the placo where
the thieves divided their plunder was
found, but no arrests have been made
as yet.
The Cycloneta Farm, including
all crops raised thereon during the
year past, together with 03 town lots
in Sycamoie, are advertised for sale
in the last issue of the Irwin County
News to be sold on the 80th day of
October, 1$95. Said sale to take
placo at the farm, and sold by virtue
of a decree and amendments there
to from Bibb Superior court.
O. E. Ringland informs the Cor-
dele Sentinel that lie has already cut
over ten tons of hay and peavines on
! his farm, and there is an immense
! quantity still in the fields and uncut.
states that
other, who is suffering with erysip-; promising young men, spent Sunday j , Jeac]lC8 f,. om the South, and grapes,
as. She, Mrs. J.-J5. Guldens, lives, j of last week in Alapaha with rela-! pear? nml p| unis are daily arriving
es ' from California, Delaware and New
The ice cream supper given at the I Jersey. *lt is impossible to glut the
market with good peaches
PAYING POSITIONS
i Upon a careful measurement lie finds i
Elisha Dorminy,a guard at .1.11.Al- j that he lias 5£ acres in cotton, from
lison s convict camp, shot and killed j which he lias already picked, ginned
Tobe
week, the result of an attack on the
guard by the negro.—-Irwin County
News.
Cordole has organized a volunteer
hose company. This is one of the
prime necessities of winch Trfton
should possess herself ere bitter ex
perience proves the cost of doing
without one.
Thos. McDowell, son of the judge
of the county court of AY orth county, j meeting of the association, to he held
passed through Tifton early in the J at Isabella on Wednesday before the
week on his way to Augusta, to at- j 8ec ond Sunday in November.
The Cordele Sentinel says that a
i firm of druggists in that place are
selling immense quantities of bi-sul
Brook's, a negro convict, last j ail( ] packed five bales weighing over
500 pounds to the bale.
T. R. Perry,president of the Worth
county Sunday school association,has
appointed three executive commit
teemen from each of the ten districts
in the county, instructing them to
make an active canvass of their dis
tricts, ascertaining the number -of
children in and out of the Sunday
schools and report same at the next
tend liis second series of lectures at j
the medical college in that city'.
The firm of Hayes, Smith it Co.,
at Sycamore, has been dissolved by
mutual consent, It. B. Hayes selling
his interest in the business to Wilbur
R. Smith, who will be bead and chief
owner iu the new firm of W.R.Smith
it Co.
Prof. YV. H. Hardin, of the Sylves
ter high school, was married on Sun
day last to Miss Williams, daugh
ter of AV. W. AY r illiams, of Ty Ty.
The young couple left next day for
Atlanta, to spend their honeymoon at
the Exposition.
,, , ,. ,, ,, r, . , titv for some time.,
Brookfield \\. R. Fnor, wlio goes, to Willaeoo-; .
! , , ,7 T Each day for three weeks Georgia
ehee to clerk for Mr. J.,1®1 nrner. , , , ,
' j alone sent ten to twelve car loads to
Mrs. j. E. B. Luke, was last Sun- Mr. T. M. Griffin, night operator; Y 0 ,-]< Glitv
day, called to the bedside of her ! at. Tifton, , one of Berrien’s most; 'p| )e , u . tR ,] L1 ‘ farther
mother
elus
in the eastern part of the county. • lives.
A destructive fire is now raging in i
the forest, five Or six miles north
west of here. Forest fires aro de
structive to property at this season
of the year, and especially so when
the weather is so dry. Every one
should guard against the letting out
of fire at these periods.
Your scribe paid Alapaha a visit
last Saturday, the first in three
months, and regret to say the prog
ress has not been rapid for the im
provement of the place, owing to
dull times and scarcity of money.
Thero are a few very substantial im
provements, notable among which is
the new store house erected by Mr.
J. S. Turner on Slain street. What
there is of Alapaha is as solid as a
brick.
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Mr. W: W. Griner reveled in the
enjoyment of sugar—no, syrup boil-i published a
ing ibis \veek, and oh, my! how we
would have relished a drink of that
juice!
Mr. W. E. Griner returned Mon
day from a visit to Irwin county,
whither be had gone to visit his sis
ter Mrs. R. F. Luke.
These are beautiful moonlight
nights—just, such nights as used to
he when Jon and Betsy sat upon the
front stoop and ate parched ground-
peas and whispered their undying
love to each other between silent to
kens of eminent satisfaction
Yum! IIow wo relish swoet memo
rics. “O.”
hall on Friday night last, for the
benefit of the church, was quite a
success.
M. J. Paifik is at White Springs
this week for his health. F. B. M.
Vnlclosta District 4th Round.
Tifton, Sept. 28-29; AVillacoocliee,
Oct. 1; G’ordele, Oct. 0-7; Brooks,
Oct. 12-18; Quitman, Oct. 13(at
night)-14; Valdosta, Oct. 15; Adel,
Oct 19-20; Iiabira, Oct. 22; Lake
Park, Oct. 26- 27; Ashburn and S.,
Nov. 2-8; Milltown, Nov. 9-10; Crisp,
Nov, 1G-17; Invinville, Nov. 23-24;
Worth, Nov. 30, Dec. 1.
NFAVS FOIt F HU IT GROW HRS.
Secured for Young Men nml Women With
out Charge.
There is no longer need of any young
man or woman remaining idle, if disposed
to work, is clearly proven by the way in
which scores of them are being placed la
the Georgia Business College, of Macon,
Ga., through die Employment Bureau.
Eight wore placed last week and four
tills, in several different stales; some ns
teachers, some as stenographers, some as
accountants and oillco men, and others as
operators—die work in all cases being
plcnsnm and desirable,
Competent persons can register with
them on payment of small fee, under a
! guarantee of position or money refunded.
I Those so desiring may take any business
I rouse on easy terms al one- halt the
| charge, in other institutions, and secure
lines recently positively guaranty of positions if wished,
interesting story Their banks and olllces for drill of stu-
New | dents in Actual Business are declared to
According to the the Times, 1 1,0 lis Imndsome and comprehensive as
x, \- i i f ,, , those'of any commercial hunk in Georgia
New York has frequently in recent , , ,,
1 , ; and wholly tmappronehed bv those ol
years consumed two hundred car-. Iiny olllcr . college. Students are present
loads of poaches i day. They were dtls year from all pajts of America and
always disposed of at good prices, j several foreign countries,
ami were qf the New Jersey and All interested In obtaining employment
,, , • , ' i or business education, should nvall tliem-
Delaware varieties. , , , . , , . . ,
, , selves of the unrivaled opportunities and
J. Ins yeai the maximum receipts j xvrlto nt once to Puhs’t Gkohuia Best-
have scarcely reached 150 carloadsj m->s Com.kok, Macon, Ga.
in-one day. Usually tho number of r■ •»
cars received was seventy-five to one A Kansas girl, with four married
Thu ftcoiff!a Pencil Is mi KrttnliUfthcft Itlvui
of flic Californio Pencil.
The New
York
very
concerning the iruil market m
Yorl
phide of carbon to farmers for the
extermination of weevils. It is placed
with the corn in the crib, and is said
to be the best thing of tho kind ever
tried in this section. It was recom
mended highly about two years since
by a gentleman from Madison county
Fla., who tried it first as an experi
ment.
The prisoners in Worth county
jail, made a hazardous attempt at es
cape last Friday morning about 3
o’clock. They procured some match -
i'he Boyd Lumber Co., of Chatta- es from the cook at the jail, and fired
DysiiepsiaTor Twenty-live Years.
Mr. A. Y. Slieuts, Kingston, Ga.,
says, May 31st., 1895: “Iwas troubled
with Dyspepia for twenty-five years,
and could get no permanent relief
from any treatment of medicine un
til I began the use of King’s Royal
Germateur, some five years ago. It
gave me great relief, and after the
lapse of five years,I can recommend it
as the best medicine I ;cnow of for
Indigestion and dyspepsia.” This
case is but one out of thousands
which prove that for indigestion,
dyspepsia, and ail stomach troubles,
Germateur cures when all else fails.
nooga, have purchased the saw mill
plant and timber belonging to I. L.
Murray, of Sycamore. They have
also purchased the naval store busi
ness of Greer Bros., at Dakota, for
♦36,000, says the Irwin County News.
Editor Smith, of the Ashburn Ad
their cell on the inside, extinguishing
it with water when a hole large
enough for them to crawl through
had beon burned. Then, with one
of the burned timbers, thev were bat-
.tering down tho outside door of the
jail when the alarm was given and
hundred a day. New York will con
Atom! sumo all the good fruit that can he
obtained throughout the season.
The Now Jersey and Delaware
crops are barely ready to he sent in,
although tho Southern season has
closed.
Everybody in New York eats
peaches—the rich eat the costly kind,
the very large and finely tinted; while
the poor classes go more on quantity
and flavor.
The Elbertas outrank all others iu
price, and aru used largely by the
rich people. They retail readily at
$0 a crate. Each basket in the crate
sells for 81.25. A basket will hold
about two dozen peaches. There is
always a demand for Elbertas, but
their season is nearly out. The late
Crawfords from Delaware and New
New package large bottle, 108 doses,
$1. For sale by Tifton Drug Store! Jersey will take their place,
or Main Street Pharmacy. Through miscaldnlation in ship-
Alapnhu Notes. nlL ‘ nt ll "owotimes happens that
vance, has adopted the cash in ad- they were re-incarceruted.
vance system, and says he is not gq-
ing to run any more newspapers for
glory. Sooner or later, every coun
try newspaper in wiregrass Georgia
will be forced to adopt this course in
self defence.
Over a year ago a man by the name
of Heard stole a mule from Marcos
Luke,of Invinville, and a Winchester
rifle from Wiley Fletcher. He was
killed a month or so ago while trying
to commit; a robbery in Arkansas,but
the mnlc was located in the posses
sion of a negro near Old Memphis,
Rather an amusing incident oc
curred over at Acree, on the line of
Worth nnd Dougherty, last week. A
municipal election was on, and the
contest was rather warm. There are
about forty qualified voters in the
place, but when they marched up to
the polls to cast their ballots, behold,
only one of the parly had registered,
Alapaha, October 7.-‘-Alapaha is
on a boom these days; it lias two new
stores, property of Mr. J. hi. Turner,
and Messrs. Gaskins and Paulk.
Times are not quite so hard as
have been. We have plenty of sugar
cane and ground peas now.
many carloads of peaches haye to
stand on the tracks in the hot son all
day Sundays. This causes the peach
es to become soft and speckled, and,
of course, detracts from the price.
This becomes a loss to the producer.
Old dealers in New Y'ork say the
sisters, received a proposal of marri
age recently, and asked a week to
think it over. She went to see all of
her married sisters. One, who used to
boa belle, had three children, did all
her own work, and had not been to
the theatre or out riding since she
was married. Another, whose hus
band was a promising young man at
the time she married, was supporting
him. A third did not dare say her
life was her own when her husband
was around, and the other was di
vorced. After visiting them and
hearing their woes, tho heroine of
tins narrative went home, got pen,
ink and paper, and wrote an answer
to the young man. She accepted him
and said she could lie ready for the
ceremony within a month.—Blakely
Observer.
Two little girls were playing church.
One said: “Now wo are to liavo prayer.
Y'ou kneel down and be a real Chris
tian; i'll just sit down and put my
hands up to my face. I’m going to be
one of those stylish Christians.”—
Blakeley Observer.
city cannot be overstocked with first- ,
A good many of our young people ; c j at)H peaches. There have been re
attended a funeral at .Brushy creek CC ; VC( ] f ( - 0 n, Georgia this year as many {
last Sunday. as f orl y ear loads in one day.
We regret very much to state the j This year New Jersey makes only
illness of Mrs. F. I». Harris this, a half crop, while Delaware's crop is
week, but trust it will not provo se- only one-third. New York state will
and was qualified under the law. He! rious. i make two-thirds of a crop,
east his ballot, and by one votoelccl- We regret to record the departure The finest looking peaches are from
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> rv>- anil Bone (41 cures
i.i.iii-iii. Cuts, Sores, Burns and
lor JjC.
ed the mayor and board of aldermen j of our popular and brilliant young
So aays the correspondent of the j friend, Mr, Geo. A. Faulk, who left
Savannah News. j us on the 25th of September for
the South and California. They sell
from one to six cents each.
The New .TetSey nnd Delaware
it is the opinion of iiu exchange
that the coming season of the legisla
ture will witness two of tho hottest
fights over recorded in that body over
tho auti-barrbom and school book
bills.
Tho Turks over at Constantinople
are misbehaving themselves toward
tho Americans. They’re a bad lot.