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ifton Gazette.
TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1895.
LOO PER ANNUM.
VOL. 5-NO. 32
OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS
Prof. L.OBtein is stndyiug law with
icey & McDonald, at Douglas.
The Advance man is having his
nual wrestle with the cbnroh spit-
.. -i
iffee county’s delinquent tax list
or 1894 is said to be not over $50, a
splendid showing. •
Mr. Williams, of Sumner, is now
neral manager of the Cowan, Usry
Co., mill, at Worth.
Mr. G. J. Wallace moved'his fam
ily to Sylvester this week, the health
of his good lady a lust permitting
her removal.
J. P. Brown, of this county, will
^ open a grocery business in the Al
liance store in Sycamore in few days,
says the News.
The mother, sister, brother and
sister-in-law of Dr. A. T. Ford took
dinner with him at the home of Sher
iff Nelson last Sunday.
Mr. J. E. Paulk has purchased the
mercantile business of M. W. Gas
kin & Co., at Ashburn, and continues
it under the firm name of J. E.Paulk
& Co.
Judge Bower refused to confirm
the Cowan, Usry & Co. sale pn the
6th instant, and has ordered the prop
erty re-advertised for sale on the first
Wednesday in December.
The sixth annual session of the
South Georgia Baptist Convention
was held at Rochelle last week, be
ginning on Thursday. It was inter
esting and largely attended.
V Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Buck gave an
' oyster supper and festival at their
| elegant home in Douglas last Friday
niglit, for the church benefit fund,
The affair was a most elegant one.
. Tbs first deed made by the Fitz
gerald Colony Co., was dated in In
dianapolis, Ind., Nov. 4th, and con
veyed square 7, block 11, m the city
of Fitzgerald to Jefferson P. Linger-
felder.
*»
Lowndes superior court is in ses
sion in Valdosta this week. Among
the cases booked for trial are three
negroes, John McDougle, Grant Bur-
,ton and Sam Johnson, charged with
murdqr.
Mr. L- A. Kelly, of Isabella, has
t the contract for bailing himself a
ilfw residence at old Sanguinard, a
mile east of Isabella. He has rented
jfts present residence to Col. J. J.
Forehand.
- Clinch, county’s last grand jury
forgot the injunction, “Blessed are
they that expect little.” They only
asked for a new $6,000 courthouse,
and bridges across Alapaha river aud
Arraba Bay.
Moultrie is congratulating herself
^Tvsqon being a railroad centre as
she is expecting a branch of the A.
& N. to be built to Albany and Tif-
ton, and the building of the Banks
road from Sparks.
J. H. Richardson, a former citizen
of-Berrien county, who '.tilled J. T.
at Tallahassee, Fla., during an
rcation a few pays since, was ac-
d by the coroner’s jury on the
d of self-defense,
wife of Mr. E. D. Fulgham, of
Miss Annie Cox, at Hotel yde,Ash
burn, at 10 a. m., Sunday, Nov., 24.
The fair bride-elect is the daughter
•of genial Host S, M. Cox, of the
Clyde, and the groom is agent for the
G. S. & F. at that place.
Bob Hooks, colored, charged with
assassination of Sallie Myrick, had a
preliminary hearing before Judge La
nier at Cordele last Thursday. The
evidence was purely circumstantial,
but decidedly against him, and he
was committed to jail.
Rena, the eight-year-old child of
Mrs. Emma Hartley, at Cordele, died
last Saturday morning, from the ef
fects of burns received the previous
day, from her clothing catching
fire. Her mother is a widow, and
works in the cotton faotory at that
place.
The Valdosta Times announces
that Col. W. E. Thomas, of that city,
is a candidate for solicitor-general of
the Southern circuit, Col. H. B. Pee
ples having declared his intention of
retiring. As announced some time
since, Col. Humphreys, of Brooks, is
also in the race.
Among a number of the Fitzger
ald colonists whom the writer had
the pleasure of meeting on a recent
visit, was a citizen who was on his
third booming expedition. He had
helped to boom Oklahoma and the
Cherokee strip, and is now hustling
things in old Georgia. .
The unquenchable Waycross cor
respondent gravely announces that
Hon. W. G. Brantley, solicitor for
the Brunswick circuit, will lock horns
with Hon. Henry G. Turner in the
congressional race. It is a pity to
use such good material to make
greasy spots out of.
A newspaper correspondent has
just discovered that Jim Freeman’s
“Captain Jack” story was a fake.
These enterprising gentlemen will
soon be graphically describing the
seige of Troy and the burning of
Rome, and making us weep over the
tragedy in the Garden of Eden.
South Georgia will make enough
syrup this year to sweeten the Mis
sissippi river from # source to mouth.
Syrup is hardly counted among the
products of this region, yet it is a
fact that the best grades hi the mar
kets of the world are made in the
wiregrass region.—Valdosta Times.
Among the most pleasant of my
acquaintances while in the colony city
was the talented young secretary of
the company, Miss E. T. Welch, on
whose fair shoulders a heavy load of
responsibility rests, and who is prob
ably the hardest worked member of
the colony, during its early days hav
ing frequently to work sixteen hours
out of the twenty-four.
There will be a stampede of the
wiiegrass counties to Ware as soon
as the facts are known, to borrow her
county treasurer. Mr. J. A. Jones,
who holds that responsible office, 1ms
paid all vouchers promptly on de
mand, although the county treasury
has been empty since July 1. When
is one of the handsomest locations iu
the county, and some of the cleverest
people and prettiest girls in the state
live there.' Smith ought to get bet
ter acquainted with them.
.The removal question is being act
ively discussed over in Worth, and
the matter seems likely to be left to
a primary, as advocated by this q. d.
two years ago. In a long editorial iu
its last issue, the Local urges the
merits of Sylvester, believing it to
be the choice of the people of the
county, assigning as a consequence of
such belief its own location there
Meanwhile, Ashburn says if the
courthouse wants to light down in
that bailiwick, she’s willin’and Ed
itor Smith shies his castor into the
ring.
Bruntley, of the good old Times,
keeps smarting under the imputation
that, for a few days, he was the big
gest eater in Berrien county, and bis
squirming, in his frantic efforts to
lay his achievements at another man’s
door, grow funny occasionally. Here
is his latest: “Speaking about appe
tites, Herring, of the Tifton Gazette,
says be ‘never refuses pens, potatoes,
corn, etc.’ ‘Etc.,’ with Herring,means
rice, tomatoes, fried chicken, fish,
soup, hominy, spare-ribs, and the
balance of the catalogue of eatables.
He mid Ashburn Smith own a col
lard orchard jointly, which promises
to make both of them wealthy.”
The trouble with Brantley is, he
wants to get into that collard orcharc
liisself.
Old People.
Old people who require medicine to
regulate the bowels and kidneys will find
the true remedy In Electric Bitters. This
medicine does not stimulate and contains
no whiskey nor other intoxicant, but
as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly
on the stomach and bowels, adding
strength and giving tone to the organs
thereby aiding Nature in the performance
of the functions. Electric Bitters is an
excellent appetizer and aids digestion
Old people find jnst exactly what they
need. Price fifty cents per bottle at.lako
IV. Paulk’s, Tifton, W. A. Crabtree’s,
Sparks.
Stick to your own town. If it is
only a collection of cabins, standby
it. Your share of the universe am
ounts to the place where your days
are spent. Your city is the bc-st of
all cities, your people the foremost of
all people. Talk it, preach it, teach
it till the world believes it, and if
you’re in any way doubtful you wil
soon get to believing it yourself,
Speak up for your city. No matter
where you arc pull for the place
where your homo is and your friends
arc. That is the Bccret of progress,
You can find objectionable features
about any city. Make yourself as
nearly oblivious as possible to the
shortcomings of your own.—Rome
Tribune.
. Our friend who asks about plant
ing black walnuts, says that if his
grandfather had planted such trees
50 years ago, an acre of them would
now be about the most valuable part
From Worth’s Metropolis.
Dry ain’t the name for Worth now;
all it needs is chunk of fire to burn.
t
A. Wishani and Katie Hobby were
married lalst week. This leaves old
man Jesse without a housekeeper.and
le will have to fly around. Lookout,
girls; when an old widower starts,
things have got to move.
Also, the same week, Sam 'Vil
iams, son of W. C. Williams, and
Georgia Ford, daughter of Madison
Ford. May their infair through life
be a happy oue, is my wish.
Turner Bess has a little daughter
that is very sick with typho-malarial
fever. Hope it may recover.
I don’t see why the owners of the
Vines’ mill don’t put it in operation.
With about $2,000, by hlostiug out
a place for a dam, it could be made
to staud, and one of the best water
lowers in Worth be put.to use. It
would be a fine place for u factory,
with a never-failing stream of water
to run it and anything else they
wanted to run.
Bobby Deriso tried his foot on a
mule last week, aud and the output
was that he has been wearing his foot
outside his shoe ever since. Keokon
he will think twice before he kicks
again.
I saw a large crowd coming from
the fisheries Saturday, John Rouse,
Jim Gay, Dave Culpepper and Jim
RouBe, all loaded with fish and report
a good time.
I see in the Local that the remova'
question is up again. It is no use to
try to move it with the present law,
for it can’t be done, and if they have
an eleotionmow, Isabella will be Bure
to hold it, and it will be two years
before they can try it again. The
best thing the Ordinary can do is to
go ahead and build a courthouse and
jail, us he will have to do before it is
ever moved, for if they start it in a
year or two, with the present law, Is
abella will be sure to hold it.
ISAM A El,.
Hq Needs The Money.
The proprietor of the Stillwater,
Democrat urges his delinquent sub-
scibers to pay up in the following
language:
“I desire to make one more state
ment to the patrons of the paper.
About four out of every five have
failed or refused to pay the last year’s
subsciption. They evidently think
I can live on the memory of the good
I have done and the hope of a bliss
ful immortality. I can’t do' it. I
appreciate the hearty way I have
been encouraged by a few, and the
cool way in which I have been dead-
beaten by many. It is not too late
for me to show my appreciation of
the former, and I take pleasure in
assuring the latter that it is not to late
for them to pay whatever they owe.
A man who will deliberately cheat a
printer out of a couple of dollars is
meaner than a horse thief and a
bigger coward than Judas Iscariot.
Of all times I need the money that is
due mo now moiothan lover did.
How many subscibers that know
themselves to bo indebted to the
paper will be honest enough to pay
up? I don’t expect them all to do so,
but I hope a few of them will. The
Democrat lias about one thousand
subscribers. Loss than half of them
have paid up what they owe. Al
lowing that half the delinquints have
good reasons for not paying, it is pos
sible that the Democrat has 250
thieves on its subscription list? Ndw ’
is the time to decide which classifica
tion you belong to.”—-Texas Siftings.
the county funds gave out, he paid the ^ ar,n - * is true. The
the money out of his own pocket. way to correct grandfather’s mistake,
*Ebe allotment of the city lots unJ ia t0 P lant thc tree * now ’ 80 thitt
five-acre tracts began U . Fitzgerald | J 0,,r Godchildren may reap thc
last Saturday and continued until beneDu Wh >’ nnt '<** ahead half a
county died one daylast week.! Monday. This was an event an x- cvntur - v ’ We may not the enjoy the
Christian, faithful wife and j ioue i y awaited bv the Colonists, us 01,1 fan "’ bwt our descendants will
ther bus gone to her re-1 they will now be in a nation to! 1 * 1 ’" P ,a " wme la8tin S for
i they will now be m a position to
; prov
:ere sympathy. j their Yankee enterprise and ingenu
ireezs* advises those who like’ity will not be slow in accomplishing.
ti e bereaved family we! nrovidc themselves with homes,which which coming generations will bless
us.- Rural Now Yorker.
Two Lives Saved.
Mrs. Plioebo Thomas, of Junction City
III., was told by her doctors she had con
sumption and that there was no hope for
her, hut two bottles Dr. King’s Now Dis
covery completely cured her and sho
says it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggcrs,
189 Florida st., San Francisco, suffered
from a dreadful cold, approaching con
sumption, tried without result everything
else then bought one bottle of Dr. King’s
Now Discovery and in two weeks was
cured. lie is naturally thankful. It is
such results, of which tlicse arc samples,
that prove the wonderful efficacy of this
medicine in coughs and colds. Freo trial
bottles for sale by Jake W. Paulk, Tifton,
or W. A. Crabtree, Sparks.
Good butter is regularly advertised
for sale at 15 cents a pound m New
Albany, Indiana. Some very poor
butter is sold in Georgia at 25 cents
a pound. Why this difference.?
—.—
An effort will be made by the
present legislature to put tho Sheriffs
and Clerks of Superior court on sala
ries, and let thc cosIb they now re
ceivo be turned into the county
treasuries.
Mention newspaper advertising to
some men and they will say that not
many people read thc papers. But
let him be caught kissing his neigh-
LiukIh l’or Sale.
We own 2,500 acres good farming
lands, with thirty or forty tenement
houses ARTESIAN WELL in the
town of Wenona, Oa. Will sell en
tire holdings cheap for cash. Ad
dress Foote & Znber Lumber Co.,
Atlanta, Ga.
That dispensary bill which the pro
hibitionists are howling so lustily
about provides that counties in which
the inhabitants want liquor sold shall
have but one place of sate and in that
it shall bo sold only by the pint and
quart and at cost, i t allows liquor to
be sold if tho people by yote ask
for it, yet it cuts off all revenue to
the state or county from such sale.
Jt has all the bad features of Till
man’s law iu South Carolina and none
of its good ones. Vet there is such a
strong sentiment in the legislature
for it that many conservative people
fear it will become a law. Whether
it does or not it bids fair to become a
great political issue in thc state.—
Atlanta Constitution.
“I do the heaviest advertising in
dull times,” says John Wanamakor,
in writing on that.subject. “Then it
is when people look most keenly for
bargains, and arc anxious to know
how much things cost and where they
can save money. 1 advertise partic
ular things, give prices and take as
much pains with my announcement
as I do with my stock. One big din
ner don’t, keep up the reputation of
tho house—but steady, good cooking
does it. 1 never permit interest in
my announcements to lag, and never
miss an issue in my chosen publica
tions. Advertising has made my
bor’s wife one evening about dark, ono tbf ‘ !,ie
and if the paper mentions it lie willj r ' ’
coun
think tho whole country knows
says Smith, of the Advance.
“ It is observed that in Atlanta the i Some of tho Florida
it,j The Blackshear Times has he n
furnished with the information that
1,08- barrels of pear - were shipped
i papers nrer, .. , . i f
‘■ashioned, rough and tumble.! Ere another moon, Fitzgerald will no -pyrotechnic display out at the expo-si- j trying to devise ways to keep the- );i 1‘ K '' reiglil during the
down and drag out affair, to longer be a camp, out a city. (ion grounds K advertised as “An ; tramps out of that stato this winter.
glas justice court on the :
iTtnrday. i’eoph- must by warm
their Coffee, down there.
O v. r." ackno'-vh-ijgos with
V mvitiftiou to present at
of-Mr. ft Iiockabee to-
Editor Smith, up at Ashburn, evening in Pared A
seems to-havo soured on Isabella. ! to be drawn is tbs:
Gtiess sonic of those charntiiir: girls ' place- where ther.*
over- ihcre must have put a spider fp
hi', dumpling luring court week, lie
should not harbor malice. Isabella
An inference They claim that the backset by th
an evening in a! freeze last winter left that state tm
:>r: firework is poor to support an army of idle hum'*
Paradise in comparison with • >1 ; and (ramps will not receive a v. r
evening in the city of Atlanta.’’ -uys; cordial ivvleom then: during the cel'
the sedate Savannah News. -nays to come.
; last season, aud fully
jlmve b.'eu sent bv ex
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