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TIFTON,^ERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1895.
VOL. 5>—NO. 31
Mr. Edward McLeod, of Poulan,
ed Nov. 5th.
A Dooly county farnter made $1,-
)0 this year on 12, acres of sweet
otatoes.
The appeal of Mrs. Nobles for a
ew trial was refused by Judge C. C.
mitii at McRae last week.
The Presbyterians of Poulau, held
meeting or. Saturday last for the
urpose of calliug a pastor.
W. L. Moore has oharge of the
leorgia Southern office at Sycamore,
ice-R. D. Lee, who goes to North
’arofina.
lev. Dodge, from Atlanta, began
holiness meeting at Ashburu last
unday, which will run through the
resent week.
The Poulan Herald speaks of “Mr.
wearer, of Glen-Eden.” This dis-
ounts the old theory that Swearers
o not enter Eden.
A bill authorizing Thomasville to
3sne bonds to the amount of $35,000,
las passed the legislature and gone
o the governor for his signature,
A mass meeting of the people’s
>arty of Worth is called by fL E.
Eastman, chairman of the executive
ommittee. The date is not given;
Sycamore citizens are still feasting
Sditor DeLoach on ’possum _ and
tateis. As a result, he is telling
attleanake Btoriea eight feet long.
It develops now that no reward
A been offered for Dr. Ford, of
orth, as was at first repoi ted, but
le officers are confident that be will
:oon be arrested.
Tlie home of Mr. Joshua Jernigan,
lear Brushy Creek churdh, wus de-
itroyed by fire last Sunday night.
)hly a few of the household effects
yere savdd.—Irwin Co. News.
Mr. J. W. Tatum, of Worth,
aoughta handsome lot of mules
while in Atlanta last week and had
[hem shipped to Tifton, where they
were met and unloadeded by two of
irs foremen.
A man at Waycross says tnat honey
was used forty years ago for soap all
hough this B&tion. He says it will
snt the dirt off of a fellow’s bauds
ofRjfh when soap alid potash will fail.
A proposition to make the liquor
license for Colquitt comity $10,000
by legislative enactment, moves the
iMoultrie Observer to ask why the
iiatter is not ullowed to be settled by
be people.
■ ^Hiring the past six months the
Ounty court of Worth has paid $2,-,
: into the comity treasury, with-
wing for operating expenses $^,-
45, leaving a net balance
to its i
lit of $549.45.
“Pawnee Bill’s Wild
claims for the courthouse.
Worth’s grand jury find the books
of all the county" officers in good
condition, with $3,901.02 in' the
county treasury. They recommend
some repairs to bridges and jail, aud
endorse Judge Bower and Solicitor
Spence for re-election.
One of the-recent bills passed by
the Georgia Legislature requires all
persons between the ages of 16 and
50 to work the roads, and limits the
time for working to five days, in lieu
of working to pay $5. It makes ev
ery man liable who has lived ten days
in the road district, unless he. had
previously worked in the district
from which he moved.
Mr. McAuley, for the county, has
recently completed a new bridge
across the Alapaha at Hotchkiss’
mill, and also one across Grand Bay,
on the direct road from the bridge to
Valdosta. By this route it is almost
as near from Stockton to Valdosta
as by the railroad, and will be appre
ciated by many over in Clinch who
come this way occasionally.—Times.
Evangelist Morrell brought his in
tended ten days’ meeting to a sudden
termination yesterday at 10 o’clock
a. m., there being only four people
out to heivr him the second morning.
His style of pulpit oratory did not
take well with the church-going peo
pie of Douglas, and, in his own phra
seology, he has washed his hands of
us and left.—Douglas Cor. Tele
graph.
The members of the Methodist
church at Valdosta have arranged to
complete their new building through
out, and will do so at once. The
building only lacks windows, pews
and pulpit and these will be bought
at ohoe and put in. It is believed
that the building will be ready for
services by the first of February. It
is one of the handsomest
of its kind in the state.
* Dr. Story’s horses ran away Friday
with his buggy and created much ex
citement in the town. Little Perry
Grant wits run over and miraculously
escaped with but slight injuries. The
buggy was badly torn up and one of
the horse’s eyes was thought to be
knocked out. The horses were left
standing at Senator Wilcox’s gate
for a minute, where they took fright.
—News.
The man with lmy seed in his hair
will own the town of Albany (Ga.)
on Nov. 31. The town has pretty
nearly worked itself into an attack of
hay fever in preparing for tlw hay
festival. The committee of arrange
ments will wear hay boutonnieres,
and there will be some refreshments
structures
FITZGERALD IS GROWING
RAPIDLY.
Business Houses and Dwellings
Being Erected—New Arrivals
From Several States.
Cor. Macon Telegraph-
Business is growing to such pro
portions that none of the new enter
prises are overlooked. It is no un
common thing to see one or two new
“shacks” as they are called, going up
in a spot where two or three hours
previous there was no indication of
building. One day the writer was
busily engaged at u desk for several
hours and did not glance out of the
window during that time. At length
the. work was completed, and the
writer looked out of doors and behold
a new building, about twelve by six
teen feet had been erected ou a spot
so lately covered with weeds, the
building finished and the workmen
had gone. Visitors who come to
Fitzgerald at intervals of several
days in a week can scarcely recognize
the place.
A new barber shop is now in oper
ation here, several new feed stores, a
sash and door firm is now ready for
business, two men in the business of
boring wells are ready to begin work,
and the management received word
that two gentlemeu from South Da
kota, in newspaper business, had
shipped their equipment and would
engage in the business as soon as it
arrived.
Quite a little excitement was crea-
ted-here today when it was learned
that Mr. C. E. Melton of Abbeville
had received a telegram asking if
transportation could be had for 500
people from that place to Lulaville
this evening when that number ex
pected to arrive. How we will be
able to accommodate so many new
comers at one time is a problem that
is now occupying the minds of our
people. We are glad to have so
many people come, but rather doubt
our ability to take care of so many
at one time.
The management is besieged every
day by people clamoring to be al
lowed to buy lots and begin business
at once, and it is believed that when
once the lots are placed on sale it
will bo verydificultto make the nec
essary legal papers quickly enough to
satisfy the eager buyers. Many peo
ple who intend to build substantial
business houses liava placed their
contracts for building tnaterial in the
hands of dealers in various cities near
ns, Macon, Cordele apd other places
nearer us, and as fast as it can be
shipped, will he sent in.
Standing in the centre of the town
site four weeks ago the writer looked
in all directions, and, except for a
faint roadway, and perhaps a glimpse
West Show
taken through straws. Upon the
| whole, the occasion promises to be
^ Just, now we’re in some difficulty
about semiring sufficient water. The
few wplls are so constantly used that
they are nearly failing us and all are
somewhat anxious about the water
supply. Some new wells are being
made, however, and it is hoped that
a sufficient amount can soon be had.
Mr. Troup, one of the colony mem
bers, had the misfortune to lose his
saw mill and gin, and entire contents
by fire about ten days ago, but found
another colony company equal to the
occasion in person of Mr. Uharles
Fulton, who superintended the re
building of the mill and now it is
agpin in good order.
Mr. Joy of Albany is here Super
intending the shipping of the stock
of dressed lumber, sashes and doors,
aud nuking arrangements to remain
permanently. We are glad to seo ull
such enterprises succeed, and our
people hardly wait until goods arc
unloaded before they buy.
Monday, November 4th, the first
colony school teacher, Miss Cora
Fox, who is highly recommended
professionally, and is a most charm
ing young lady, began teaching in
the little school house west of the
village. Her pupils are bright and
eager to once more begin the year’s
work ns many of them have become
very tired of the enforced vacation.
Mr. D. W. Paula is in Atlanta this
week buying goods for the firm of J.
H. Harris & Co.
Mrs. J. H. Hams is over from Tif
ton this week, visiting her husband,
and getting acquainted with our city
and our people.
The management received word
that the allotments will be made for
city on add after November 6th, and
that of the five acre tracts* will soon
follow. The surveying of the city
will be finished by noon today, when
all three of our surveying parties
will go to work on the five acre tracts,
and it is expected that another gen
tleman will soon be ready to begin,
making four in all.
Today’s new arrivals are from Ne
braska, Michigan and Chicago.
Free PiUs.
Send your address to II. K. Bucklcn &
Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box
of Dr. King's New Life Fills. A trial
will convince you of their merits. These
pills are easy in action and particularly
effective in the cure of constipation and
sick headache. For. malaria and liver
troubles they have been proved Invalua-
hie. They are guaranteed to he perfectly
from every dcletorous suhBlanco, and to
bo purely vegetable. They do not weaken
by lliclr action, but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly Invigorate
tlie system. Kegnlar size 215c per box at
Paulk’s Drugstore, Tifton, or Crabtrco’s,
Sparks.
From the State of Worth,
Jim Paul, well known around Tif-
of a house in the distance, and tho j t 0 n, hq» eclipsed his farming this
scars on the trees cut tor turpentine, j y Par) i ms i,i 8 pop-corn improved so
v; Sells Bros. Circus on the 19th; J en j oyablC) jin ,l g00 j thing for the I one could imagine a primeval forest, that: he makes three ears to the stalk
It will spur the J the lofty pines, so tall that, as an ob-! jjjgtgju] 0 f one,'and the corn is larger,
n the 20th, and Ilav Day on the j farmers up to the saving of more j server said, one nniBt look three tituee j j would advise bis neighbors to get
hay.—Sav. News. to see the top, and so majestic t-liat j eeed from him» as Paul’s pop-corn
Node Rountree, who lives a few Rue feels very insignificant beside j can q bobcat.
miles above Valdosta, put two bales Rhem. A .very wilderness, indeed, The new Primitive Baptist church
j hut a very beautiful one, with the
neeting of melon and fruit growers j town count y
Day on ‘ u
8 t” is the way the Albany II-rald
its song of jubilee,
ol. J. O-.l’olhill, county school
121st,
Lee’s brother came to see him and
was in had health, but not thought
to be dangerous. They were making
syrup at Ike Hancock’s, and he w.as
around there at night. They found
out he was so bad off that lie could
not walk, and had to carry him home
in the buggy and he died that night.
Dan Powell, one of the best farm
ers in tho 8th district, says that it ■
has been proved to him this year that
four ft., and four and a half ft., rows
are a waste for upland long cotton.
That on his place, two of his crop
pers planted twelve acres each; one
planted four and a half ft., rows, and
the other three ft., rows, and the one
planting three ft., vows will make
five and a half bales of cotton, while
the ono planting four and a half ft.,
rows will only make four bales. The
land as near alike as 24 acres could
be got.
It appears that some one is trying
to get pork cheap from Jourd Han
cock. They let his fence down and
tolod all his fattening hogs off aud
left the fence down. He followed
them a piocc but lost the trail, and
two days after, the hogs came back.
Jourd growed six inches in as many
miuutes. They also got one from
John Kennedy the same night, and
crippled two moie, but Kennedy’s
has not come back yet and no pros
pect of it.
The Local man is fixed up in ap
ple-pie order. Ho has Ins office paint
ed a Bkv blue and looks as nice trn a
sixteen year old girl expecting her
beau. The girls, tell a bail tale on
his Devil. They say all they can get
out of him is to come in, then they
can wait on themselves or let it
alone, for he is done.
Robert Ford, or Llttlle Bobby, us
he is generally called, and Miss Kate
Varner were married Sunday, the
10th inst. May their path through
life be a happy one.
My opinion is that the members
of the legislature who want to make
themselves popular, had better pass
the law to put convicts on the public
roads, at least in this county. It.
would bo the most popular thing
they could do.
Cane grinding is the order of the
day all through the county and long
sweetening is plentiful, for a while at
least
Dr. Sikes’ new building at Sylves
ter is tall enough to be seen a long
ways off. Hr. Crocket has pulled in
to his new residence. Gid Wallace
will soon have us taking his road
that he fixed over a year ago, from
| the looks of tlie lumber hauled
I around his piece of land.
There is an episootic of cold going
through this part of the country,
and it appears to he catching, for
nearly everybody lias it, and it surely
makes them sick enough for a few
days.
His neighbors tell a good joke on
Joe Stunner, down in the sixth dist.
They say he hits four long cotton
hmissionor, informs the Local that;
the money with ! over to a renter” to j gently hIo* ing ground covered
cotton on a wagon Tuesday night, j
iHms-Received, the money
eh to pay teachers for the 3rd ! bring to Valdosta the next morning I thickly with wiregiass, occasional j worg |,jp. It ought to have been fin-.
of 1895, and that he is ready' tose)1 Mr . Koun tree was in townW ’V»d flowers growing here and : ighed ]ong ag0 .
ay oat same on demand. ' early the next morning, and spent j there. Today from, the same point'
tRidosta realized $l{)2 in fines: tbe t j a y wa j lm g f or the renter to ui- : l lie scene is very different. Where ^ j, gctt j. j 0 t j, e woods,|
li the hoys who tried to imitate ,.j ve _ The day passed add Mr, Roun- before the ta 1 pints tow in. 1,1 ’ h " , lb out four miles below town, on the
west after Pawnee Bill’s! ttw returned to his homo to leitrn jB lor £»^ey now lie low m the ,lll8t ’' r(m g John Robert's.
gins running, and that he just stands
t Ty Ty is about completed at last,!‘ VC|> t]|em , ;l j Uu , , iln . wi(b IV monkey
, ve R I and they have a nice house for their, b b .
occasional iwiunun.w
1 jt them in order.
1 hear that old man Joe l’oivcll
has sold out, and is going to move
W. D. Brady has sold out, in Ty 1,;.,' ck to Randolph county.
hillMAt'L.
Lauds for Sale.
imitate ,.; ve The day passed add Mr, Roun-: bcf" r,! to wired 111 t ' K " about four miles below town,
after Pawnee Bill’s! tree returned to his homo to lekrn i8* or yt l bey now Be low m tie dust,
was q,ver. It is well enough . , bat the cotton hud been carried b‘and iool^igevery w»y one^ees the. lW j„ a genprftlgti , n p in tlw j.j \ Ve own 2,500 go.al farming
ihfdrce it oil the boys minds that • «4p )ir ks and sold, and that the renter j ground so thickly e ur 8 ,
Ilya of the'wild kst are gone in ]( \‘j p 0C k e tcd the money and skipped j that one is sure many hands must -
to parts unknown, leaving the mules been faithfully employed to
b raid. W
ibon A pol- and
the wagon to whatever fate
ii befall them between Sparks
tb -ir Home.- -Cor. Sav. New-.
i,i
die ad and clear
mrelowPs (.'sli
de at PatllkV
ci jvdiv a [Kill Drugstore.
been
n eat u change in so short a
lime. Ail visitors are at once ini-
prr-sed with the natural beauties of
Uu* p<>1. edec:.<*■( tor tb*' city site,;, nd
the new-comet is tore ;<■ be greeted
, wi* t ]; i,he query, -Have you
| town siteK" -
Kennedy settlement. Jim is going) lands, witliuhirty or forty tenement
to move buck to his old place, Tucker j ), ou8t . s AliTKSlA N V KLIi in the
seen
ie
is going to move where Kennedy
lives; old man Merideth will move to
the Jack Hancock place,and Jack is
settling over in Hie woo-L on a place .
Jjo got from Me Phan!-
There was atjudden death at l.eo;
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Meridefli’s nij Thursday of lust
week
town of Wi
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Atlanta.
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