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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1805.
VOL. 5-NO. 2
V
OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS.
G. T. Dickert has ' moved from
orth to Asbburn.
Look out for a white frost about
;bo 23rd, if not sooner.
fjfi; G. W. Spivey, formerly of Moul-
;'trie, lias moved to Waycross.
» Doerun is the name of a postoftice
about to be established in Colquitt
cottnty.
From all over wiregrass Georgia
comes the glad tidings that the
farmers are in good shape.
There is only one free silverite in
Coffee county who calls himself a
Democrat, says the Breeze.
Jeff Kirkland, of Pearson, and
Miss Berta Arrington, of Dawson,
were married in Pearson on the fitlr
instant.
Rev. W. J. Barton, of McRae, has
been called to the pastorate of the
Baptist church in Cordele for the
ensuing year.
\W. H. Cooper, former editor of
the Moultrie Observer, has gone to
Nashville, Tenn., to enter his broth
er’s law office.
The town council of Ashburn has
been petitioned to stop bike riding
on the sidewalks,'and it will doubt
less be granted.
The Worth correspondent of the
'Asbburn Advance reports the death
of little Jack Ford, son of John
; ; Ford, on the 7th inst.
G. W. West and Miss E. F. Ply-
mel, of Colquitt count)', were mar
ried at the home of the bride’s par
ents ou the 7th inst.
Prof. P. IL Askew, of Worth
v ‘county, is back in A ugusta attending
his second course faf lectures at the
7, medical college in that city.
7, The South Georgia Free Will Bap-
; tist Association is in session this
> week at New Prospect ctiurch, near
* ; Sycamore, in Invin county.
1 H. H.
hustling
The fourth quarterly conference! IRWIN IXKL1SGS.- where they are at. For all of which
of the Methodist church at Cordele ■ and for the hospitable treatment re-
was held Monday morning, 7th inst, superior court ami other items or inter- j ceived by its representatives, a car-
cst-sido Notes. load of select thanks are returned.
.Irwin Superior Court adjourned!
Elder Stubbs in the chair. The fol
lowing stewards were elected for the
ensuing year: T. X. Baker, M. II.
Hickson, W. R. Hall, 15. B. Pound?
Z. A. Littlejohn, F. E. Varnadoe j -vas transacted during the brief' ses-
itnd E. II. Bland. Prof. A. E. Ware I sion of court, and the attendance
was elected superintendent of the! "’as about as large as usual.
! on Friday of last week.
A considerable amount, of business
Sunday School.
Drummers who travel all over the
State say that times are better than
they have been in years. One man
said that he had "seen more ready
cash in the hands of producers along
the line of the Georgia Southern
road than ho had seen before in ten
years. And it is claimed that there
is greater reason to expect prosperity
next year than there is for this, as it
takes the wave nearly a year to reach
the South after it starts in the man
ufacturing districts of the North.—
Valdosta Times.
Brooks Bros & Co., Maxie Brooks
and the Chattahoochee Brick Co.
have been temporarily enjoined from
trespassing on 10,000 acres of land,
owned by Dyals, Upchurch, McLeod
and Dougherty, under a penalty of
$5,000, and requiring the defendants
to show cause why they should not
be permanently enjoined from opera
ting State convicts iii the manufac
ture of lumber and naval stores and
cutting cross tics in Churl ton bounty,
on the ground that the conyicts are
being used in violation of the State
law on convict labor.
The Ashburn
Irwin’s county officers will com
pare favorably with those of any'
county in the State. They are cour- 1
teous and prompt and faithful in j
the performance of every duty.
Commissioner 31. Henderson, one
of the best business men in the
county, is winning deserved compli
ments on all sides for the able man-
ner in which he is conducting the
financial affairs of Irwin. Xaa is a
useful citizen anywhere you place
him.
Invin easily takes rank with the
foremost counties in the State. Her
fanners are live and progressive, and
their hospitality is proverbial. Her
young men, instead.of seeking easy
but unprofitable places in the towns,
are for the most part tilling the soil
and enjoying its rich yields. Among
these is Mr. Joe Fletcher, who has
one of the best arranged places in
the county, lie owns a large tract of
land and that portion of it in culti
vation gives unmistakable evidence
of the work of the experienced
farmer.
Irwin’s county court lias proven
sun: notes,
Irwiuvillejneeds a railroad and sh,e
ought to have it.
Editor DeLoach, of the Irwin
County News, is popular with his
readers and his bright paper seems
to he prospering.
Capt. R. W. Clements owns the
land upon which President Davis
was captured.
There is nothing small about Ir
win except tlie number of her un
bridged streams.
Mrs. 1!. W. Clements’ hotel is like
wine, it improves with age, and yet
twenty years ago and often since we
could detect no room for improve
ment. The building is a line new
one. The fare is the same ns it has
always been—strictly first-class.
Legal Matters.
RECORD OF THE COUNTY
On the first Tuesday in Novem
ber C. II. Cox, administrator of
Daniel McOranie, deceased, will sell
part of lot 426, in the ninth district,
containing 275 acres, more or less,
as the property of deceased, for di
vision. Terms cash.
Bailiff B. P. Peeples will sell, at
Nashville, on the first Tuesday in
November, two mules, one iron gray
mare mule named Pet, and one
black mare mule named Gal, as tho
to be of great benefit to the county, j property of Robert Jacobs in favor
correspondent of under the enlightened
the Valdosta Times talks in this! Judge J. B. Clements.
conduct of of J. J. V inkers.
A literary society has been organ
ized at Lois.
Mrs. 31. L. Griffin, of Bainbridge,
visited lie'r parents in , Nashville last
week.
31aj. .T. G. Crouch, a prominent cit
izen of Add, died on Tuesday of
last week.
Mrs. Dr. Carter and children, of
Nashville, are visiting relatives in
Jasper, Fla.
3!iss Bettio 1,. Cary, an accom
plished young lady of Adel, has
oliarge of a school at Frazier, Ga.
11 all reports be true, Berrien’s
farmers are housing the best crop
they have made in over thirty■ years.
Air. Robert II. Dent died suddenly
at’ Mined a on Thursday night of
last week, and was interred at Nash
ville, in this county.
Prof. A. S. Roberts and 31iSs Re
becca Peters, two popular young
people of this county, were united
in wedlock near Lois on Wedneday
of last week.
Win. Snead, who lives near Nash
ville, realized $176.00 this year from
five acres of hay, and has plenty left
to last him till next hay season.
Will liny pay ? Yay!
Toombs Shaw, who killed Ragan in
Mitchell county some time ago, and
who was badly cut at the time, has
been acquitted on the ground of self-
defense. Hi- has nearly recovered,
and is visiting relatives in this
county.
On the first 3Ionday iniNovcmbcr
happy strain about his town and sec
tion : '
“Our merchants arc prosperous,
because the farmers pay cash for
what they buy, and the farmers are
happy because they have been able
to pay for what they got. It is no
trouble to have plenty, because the
land produces it. Gus Wells, a mile
Parker, one of Moultrie’s from town, will make twenly.-five
merchants, will move to j bushels of corn or a bale of col ion to
Levy county, Fla., about tlie first of the acre. Alex Story has twenty
November, where lie will engage in i acres in rice that will bring him four
the.manulecture of naval stores. ; hundred bushels, and Ins corn and
Joe Strickland, near DuPont, with ; potatoes arc excellent. Hardy Story,
-five plows, VCtII make, this year, one j South Sale, has as fine ciops as lllltllll
thousand bushels of corn, fifty bales j com< ' expected from hummock j ca ^ c ], mU( j. 01
lands that would sell for five times
administrator of tho estate of Eliza-:
The Paulks, Hendersons, Fletchers,! Ordinary A. W. Patterson
Whitleys, Dortninys, Youngs, Clem-1 upon the application of A.
cuts, and other old settlers, deserve
great credit for tlyi work they have
accomplished in placing Irwin in the
forefront of agricultural counties of
the State.
Uncle Dave Hogan slicks to the
mail route story, but declines to tell
where he got the mail pouch-. When
Judge Smith was taken ill Friday,
Uncle Dave promptly volunteered I
to fill his place on tho bench, which j
shows an obliging disposition.
A certain county officer is in great
will pass
D. Yarn.
PAYING POSITIONS
FrO-urctl for Young Mon uml Womni With
out Chui’go.
rhero is no longer need of any young
both C. Mathis, lor lo&vq to sell the j man orvronnin remaining ifllu, if illsposeil
lands belonging to said deceased. ! to work, is clearly proven by the way in
Ordinary A. W. Patterson gives
notice that, after due publication of
citation, lie will appoint an adminis
trator for tho estate of Elizabeth
Knowles, late of this county, de
ceased.
Don’t A<lvert isi* Your Rival,
Here is some good advice from the
| Moliticello ( Fla.) Constitution :
It. is not business. It will notwin. !!'
much. A great
to the
of long cotton and other crops in :
proportion. This sounds like farm-' 118
iug.
"Notice to trespassers'’ can be
seen posted numerously in this and
adjoining counties. Twenty-five years j
^ ago such a notice would have been ; Dyspepsia lor Twenty-five Years,
gi.v considered a curiosity. Nowit is a
77'necessity.
* 7 Moultrie hold her
! farmers of this section is in the fact
that hogs and cows are brought up
j in the woods at no expense to the
j owners.”
which scores of them i\re being placed by
tho Georgia business College, of Macon,
Ga,, through the Emplo'yment Hu ream
Eight were placed last week and four
this, in several different states; some, as
teachers, some as stenographers, some as
accountants and office men, and others as
operators-— the work in ail eases being
pleasant and .desirable.
Competent persons can register with
them on payment of small fee, under a
guarantee of position ormoney refunded.
Those so desiring may take any business
rouse on easy terms at. oiio-lmlf the
charge, in other institutions, and secure
positively guaranty of positions if wished
Their bonks and offices for drill of sttt-
detnand with those who wish to ; j )e j g unworthy vottr patrons will find
ffr“ iu the d!l >’ kimo. Ligo it oul quicker than your aid with it.
Young or Nun Paulk can tell, you j Lel 1)iln abllsoyou a8 muol , as ho wifi.
who he in and how black he is. ! Iln hurts himself more than ho (Inns i ‘
„„ , , . j I to inn ts nimsut mot e limn lie uous ^ elllg Itl Aclua i Business are declared to
1 he colony is moving in and work you. Recognize tho fact that it is ' , K . ns handsome mid comprehensive as
is in progress on their farms and j not possible for you to have the earth,; thoseof nay commercial bank in Georgia
houses. A large town link been Ihid and the other fellow bus equal rights-1 aud "'holly mmpproached by those Of
off, and it is stud a square has been ] with youieelf. Beat him if you can | any ^indents are ptesent
left in the center of it for
; this vi
colic;
■nr front
til
Mr \ V Shoots Kingston 1 “"“f f * *°!’ a co,lr( i Siting, more business, not by j 8CVt!nt , f ,, rei , n r!M .
.Ml. A. ...Items, Kingston, -a., ], ousc . Phis may be a joke,but it] abusing him. Do. not let other people I
| says, -May 31st, 1895: “I was troubled j 8 (■„],{ , w lt f acb
election on tliel wilh D J B FPi» twenty-five years,
of A uterine ami
Gfrtbinst. Dr. D. B. Crenshaw was i 111111 C0l,M ' S et 1,0 I^'miu.unt relief a i),,. ound clover citizen,
W li Dukes II T i from any treatment of medicine uu-1
■ elected mayor.
fey Crawford, J.
S len anti J. R
If leYnmu, and J. II. Collier marshal
till began the use of King’s Jioytil ;
It’
|abuse him to you, for (he sum
That old Con federal o veteran and j pie will abuse you to him
Capt. If. \Y.! that all you say about him attracts
(.'lenient.-, is good at everything hqi iitjention to him and his store. You
lakes a hand in. His crops are first- are really . advertising him free of
Ml intere ted iiTohtainiag employment
or imsiini:-', edacatioa, should avail iheni-
pco-ji
iemember *Myc» of the unrivaled opportunities and
write at. once to I’bs-.s't UcorutiA Busi-
.11 UC'
Governor Ciaake says Corbett and
l. Millsap', 31. D. Al- L** •■."'fa - — »
Hal! were elected al- GtntUteui, sum liv e years ■!,,<■. IC ; class,- oocl it is given np that he etui j charge—in fact you may pay jprutty I Fitzsimmmm slum t fight iu Arkansas
h ‘ ( ^ lta " UR ’ <llK a1ttl l1 "' ■ nuke more field tkhs to the acre than 1 well'in the end for ail you say against 1
The Cowan, .Vary & Co. null atj ,, , , e e \ the man who first discovered them. him. Kemcmber the world is large j
• „ ,j,| ■ j Guess he has to us tin ax in prepar-' eiiouglt for both of you and to use j
„ ... 'idling his potatoes for cooking, or it a backwoods expression,.“the longest I
[ :• — r— lease IS nut one out Of thousands j , . 6 , , .• * , b In Vww>i~Utni, III vivtnen nnimtins in
anent receiver and the property will i which prove that for imligestiou, ■ n,ii y ,J0 a cross-cut saw. pole knocks down the most per-i Vl.TL 1 '!!. 1 "" 1 1
|- „ T " ~ . -nr' " , 7 ’ i as tlie best medicine I Know of for
, Worth, m Worth conntv, has lieen L , ,
turned rfver to Sheriff Nelson as per- j ,0 b ut “ MC
It is estimaU'd that there are 3,000
marriages daily throughout the world.
ae sold on’ the first Wednesday in
{■■ November, for tlie benefit of tlie la-
; borers, says the Ashburn Advance,
The Tifton Gazette will, after Jan-
,mry 1st, be run on a strictly cash
S basis. The Gazette is one of the
neatest, most attractive and pro-
essive papers iu Southwest Geor
gia. It deserves a {liberal patronage,
Ttnithfrilly reiharks the Moultrie Ofa
ll server.
Matliew Tucker, county surveyor,
* fell from a bale of hay on Ids wagon
^'recently and received dangerous in-
?. Ilia shoulder was dislocated.
; He is quite an old man, and the fall
' was a dangerous one. It was only
1 few ■wei:ks ago that his wife was
I bv fail mg out of doors.
i simmons.
which prove that for indigestion, I
j dyspepsia, and ail stomach troubles, 1 , Rice is now planted quite extern
j Germateur cures when all else fails. s ively up there, and Judge Clements Who weeps with you when you are
1 New package large bottle, 108 doses, ■ J 1 ' h t * J J
- . ■
There are 1 11 brandy distilleries
operation m sis
1 Middle Tennessee.
The Savannah Press estimates that
j, ca pat \,tge tugc 10 e, h i osis, -jj f j n t rice mill at, an early, so | sad, and laughs with you when you area the legal fees in, the Central railroad
SI. lor sale by L if ton Drug More 1 . . , ,, , will 'om,-ihiti--r I'ke^on -
or Main Street' Pharmacy. we were informed, which will be a glad,and swears with you when you j :‘ lj " 1 ■ 1 P ’ 1 tliin,, ukc vliii ,
‘ 1 *. I t ! , » .. rill -I.. i, r j , . ; 000.
or Main Mreet raarmacy
-— great convenience to the people. 1 are mad?—The editor. Who has to
Said a good sister in her testimony ' ^ T K y ounj? im thc couiroct i »>« ^th kind and wise and never
qt a carapmceting:3Iy husband oppos-j tobu) j, i!lbri(1 Cf0M m creek, |( hardly ever ) lies, when hr
ed my coming to tills sacred spot, but anJ ^ b i nfi . the , vork with | creates Burpme?-Tl,e Editor
I can,tj’iithfnly say that in coming meir]able e| . iergy>
here I have reeievcd a blessing, and I „„ , .
, , , i t i ' 1 here are three candidates in
I know that when I reach home my
One of the interesting tilings to be
does,! seen at Atlanta, outside the Exposit-
wiio
tion is a house said to be constriletod
husband will get a blessing.” None | ,iold for 1 ^ i8)l f ve , honorp ’ il,H ‘ j Editor,
seemed to doubt her -Columbus j were not ent.rcdy s.ieiit durnig court.
owns a heart, as well as cheek, is pos- j entirely of paper, irom tin* fomtda-
fbft j sossed of a spirit proud lint meek and j tioti to tho chimney,
lives on 40 cents a week?—The'
-Ex,
According to a report froui Wash
| iugton, Secretary Unity is eousider-
| They are all good men and the Ga- Colonel J. 31 Smith’ the big farmer i iug the mlvisability of somiing to Ga
zette wishes the whole -bunch could j of northeast Georgia, owns alitlo town | ba a confidential agent for the pur.
The man who plants his vine and j bo elected. which he calls Swuthonia lie is; pose of ascertaining the exact posi-
fig tree it' this section,if he be of the The Gazette added a goodly ntun- j making it more of a town than ever, : tion of afltars in the island, so that
Dispatch.
right stamp, will never live to regret
‘ it. Berrien is the garden spot of tlie
i South and Tiftmi *i« its metropolis.
her of now subscribers to its list at i lie is just completing.u largo ginnery j the stut,* department may determine
court, and several choice compliments 1 and lias already buiitau oil millgnmio | whether tlie t ’e!, .: ■ dmutd »»e recog-
were paid it by people who know works, a ch -ese factory and a dairy. tiixed as beMgereitv .