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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 17. 1896.
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VOL. 5-NO. 39
CITY DIRECTORY.
Municipal.
' Clerk and Treasurer—H. S. Murray
COUNCILIOSN—H. H. Tift, E. V. Bowen, W. W.
Timmons, J. A. Phillips, L. «. Maynard &W.O.
Padrick. Council meets first Monday night in
each month.
Secret Societies.
Tifton Lodoe, No. 47, F. & A. M.—W. H. Love,
IV. M.; Dr. J. A. McCrea, Secretary. Meetsthird
Saturday night in each month.
Tifton CiiArTER, No.47,R. A.M.—W. H. Love
Dr. J. A. McCrea, Secretary. Meets tat Satur
day night in each month,
No. GO, K. of P.—E» i.
Hurray, K. of E. & 8.
Meets every Thursday night,
Fleet woods lodge, n
Williams, C. C.; H, 8. Murray,
Literary and Social.
Church Appointments.
Methodist—Bev. C.K. Crawley, Pastor. Serv
ices every tat and third Sunday, at UKIO a. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 7 KM.
Baptist—Rev. P. A. Jessup, Pastor. Services
every second and fourth Sunday, at 11 KM a. m.
and 7 KM p. m. Sunday school at 3
er meeting every Thursday night,
3KMp.m. Pray-
.atfKM o’clock.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
C. C. HALL,
Attorney-at-Law,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business,
^Collections a specialty ^Office over the new
Paulk huUdlng. v5n32-ly.
DR. J.A. McCREA,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to calls, day or night,
tiptoe at residence on Loye avenuo.
jyTvPHon) Fever a Specialty. G-3m
DR. J. C. GOODMAN
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON GEORGIA.
OmcK—Room In the Tlfton Prog Store.
Dr. W. J. FARMER.
> hysician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA,
ALL KINDS OP BUROIOAL OPERATIONS.
Diseases of Females, Diseases of the Rectum,
iFPicE’over 4- t,
- to 12 a. m., 2 to 6, p. m
ours:
OUR NEARNEIGHBORS
The Sumner High School opened
last week with 54 scholars.
The Mioeola convict camps, in
Lowndes county, have been abolished.
Friend Charlie Kendall is building
him a. two-story dwelling in Moul
trie.
The first session of Douglas' city
court was held last Tuesday, Judge
Willis Dart presiding.
The county Commissioners of
Lowndes are taking steps to estab
lish a, county chain-gang.
The legal advertising for Coffee
county is published both in the
Breeze and Leader this month.
WaycrosB wants a paid fire depart
ment. Perham and Sweat have long
been firing the woods down there.
" 'fi jttf tS. . . is L.• 0—
An effort is being made to estab
lish a colored normal and industrial
school at Waycross, at a cost of
Drs. J. W & D. J. WILLIAMS,
DENTISTS,
CORDULE, - - - - - GEORGIA.
Office—Bank Building, Room No. 1, up sulrs
JOHN MURROW,
Attorney - at - Daw,
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Office-Rooms land 3, Love building.
Collections, Commercial Law and Heal Estate.
FULWOOD & MURRAY,
Attorneys at Law,
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal, ,
jy Office in Tift Building.
W. N PITTMAN,
Contractor and Builder,
TIFTON, GEORQU.
Estimates oh all kinds of building furnished.
DR. W. P. RUSHIN,
ALBANY, : j ; GEORGIA.
Throat, Nose and Ear Specialist.
Will be in Tlfton every Tuesday afternoon
(from 3 p. m.,) to treat and operate
for any diseased condition of these organs.
CATARRH of these organs certain
ly cured whenever a sure IS POSSIBLE.
Patients inquiring at the Drug Store
J, Co., will be directed to the
of J. J. Goiden _
Doctors offices.
(n5v34-Cm.)
C. H. GOODMAN,
WOODY ARP
Wood of any size desired, delivered In
all parts of town at reasonable rates.
n5-vl6-ly.
Place Your Lands
—with—
Sibley & Company,
Beal Estate Agents,
IK YOU WANT THEM SOLD.
Some good farms and unimproved lands to
sell, also soveral houses and lots in Tifton.
SSTOpkick with John Murrow. Lovo
Building Tlfton, Ga. v5-nl5-ly.
J. C. Fletcher.
R. L. Sutton.
Fletcher & Sutton.
Peir
TIFTON,
i Km,enable. Rear Hotsl Sadie.
Mr. Jack Gorday died at Moultrie
on Tuesday of last week. His re
tnair.8 were carried to Ashburn for
interment
Henry V. Walker, who killed
Lewis Peters in Lowndes county
some months since, was arrested near
Live Oak, Fla., a few days since, and
iB in Valdosta jail
We visited Tifton Monday and
found Editor Herring hard at work
getting out the best paper in South
Georgia.—Ashburn Advance. The
Advance excepted, of couVee,
The large mills of J. S. Betts & Co.
at Ashburn, have been dosed down
since the holidays, getting things in
shape for the new year. They will
probably resume operations this week.
A K. of P. lodge is to be organize!
in Fitzgerald at an early date. Gov.
Atkinson will accompany Grant
Chancellor Sobatzmau to effect the
organization, and a grand time is an
ticipated.
B. B. Gray, of Pine Bloom, Coffee
county, has bonght the land, tram
road and engines of the Empire
Lumber Go., and will operate them
in connection with his own after the
first of March. -
Willacoochee’s municipal election
last week resulted as follows: Mayor,
J. G. Roberts; counoilmen; B. F.
Summerlin, Gray Meeks, Gid Gas
kins, A. P. Padgett, D. E. Gaskins
and D. F. Shearer.
Editor Smith gives notice that his
religion won’t protect a man who
turns a cow into his collard patch.
He may even spit on the church floor,
but to open that C. O. gate to a town
cow is certain death.
T. J. McDonald and Julian Pick ran
had a preleminary hearing in Doug
las last week, and were committed to
jail without bail, charged as prin
cipal and accessory to the killing of
Rev. George McDonald.
The Georgia Northern railroad has
sidetracked eight or ten cars of heavy
steel rails at Moultrie for the exten
sion of its line in the direction of
Albany, at which place will be its
terminus for the present
Lee L. Floyd, under arrest on sus
picion of arson, committed suicide by
taking strychnine in Americas jail
Sunday. He left a letter directing
that his remains be carried to his pa
rents in Thomas county.
Mrs. Elsie Peters, an aged lady in
Lowndes county was suddenly strick
en with blindness one night last
week, while asleep. The Sight of
one eye lias been partially restored,
but the other is entirely out.
Kev. John IT. Taylor, Sr., one of
the oldest and moat respected of
and Feed Stables.
feMJaa. Double and Single Teams to Hire.
Sadie.
Georgia. Worth’s citizens, died on Saturday
ast. He goes to his grave respected’
oved and honored by all who had
the pleasure of his acquaintance.
A special term of Pierce superior
court has been called for Jan. 35th,
to try oases in which Judge Sweat
is disqualified. Judge C. B. Smith,
of the Oconee circuit, will preside.
Two murder cases are booked for
trial.
Mrs. Dr. Morris, in Liberty coun
ty, was instantly killed by being
thrown from a boggy against a tree
by a .runaway horse last week. She
was a daughter of Rev. P. H. Crump-
ler, of Ashburn, and was married
only last July. (
Six regular sheriff’s Bales, eleven
wild land sales, and forty-seven sales
under tax fifus are advertised in the
lust issue of the Worth County Local.
But all this does uot prove that
Worth is not one of the best counties
in the wiregrass.
The Valdosta Times very truly
says: “It is not advertising once a
year or once a month that does great
benefits to a business, but the con
stant, steady, never-ceasing poll
through the columns of a newspaper
that does the best work.”
Sheriff Nelson, of Worth, who was
shot by Dr. Thornton, at Sycamore,
last week, seems to be rapidly improv
ing. He was shot in the right arm
instead of the left, with a charge of
bird shot, and was saved by his heavy
olothing. Dr. Thornton has skipped.
Notice has been given that an
election will be held at Moultrie on
February 12 for the purpose of hav
ing a vote taken to issue bonds by the
city authorities for public improve
ment, and to erect a public school
bui'ding and put water works in the
city.
The lands of the Joel Lott estate
in Coffee county weie sold recently,
the amount realized being nearly
$5,000. The old homestead sold for
$1,800 and was bid in by T. G. Lind
sey, of Colquitt county, who will
moye on the place at once.—Waycross
Journal.
The chuingang of Dougherty coun
ty has built a graded road from Al
bany to Acree, on the Worth line.
The road is equal to a turnpike, and
a splendid illustration of what we
could have in wiregrass Georgia if
every county worked its convicts on
the public roads.
There is wedding in the air up at
Ashburn. A young lady came down
from Macon county recently to take
charge of a school near there and
married before she could get it start
ed. She lias sent down her niece to
take her place, with what fate we
have not yet learned.
The extensive lumbering and rail
road concern, with headquarters in
Colquitt county, composed of IL P.
Smart, D. C. Bacon and others, pro
pose operating two large sawmills and
to build a railroad from Sparks to
that point ut once, and expect at
some future date to extend their line
to other points west.
Sycamore has broke out with wed
dings at last. On Wednesday of lost
week Mr. John Clements and Miss
Maud Wilcox were married. Sun
day morning Mr. Robert Daniel took
onto himself Miss Mary Pugh. And
Sunday evening Mr. William Van
Houton and Miss Ida Fountain were
joined together. Happy may they be.
—Advance.
John Williamson, a young man
about 18 years of age, who lives a
few miles cast of Cordele, sturted
hunting Wednesday morning and
placed his gnn with the butt end on
a log. The gun slipped from the log
and was discharged, the full load of
bird s|iot ploughing through tbc
r
boy’s head. The left side of the brain
was shot ont and the skull fractnred
in the back of the head. His right
side is paralyzed. Strange to say, he
has gained some strength since the
first shook of the wound, though un
conscious, and Dr. Smith, who is at
tending him, said Thursday that he
was far better than oould have been
expected ordinarily.
The depot at Willacoochee was
burned on Friday night of last week.
The fire was discovefed about 4:30 a.
m, and was too far advanced for any
of the contents to be saved. While
a crowd were at work trying to save
what was on the platform outside,, a
keg of powder inside the depot ex
ploded, knocking three men .down,but
injuring no one seriously. The loss
is estimated at about $6,000. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
P. H. Fitzgerald, president of the
great colony company, writing on the
prospects for the colony, says: “Mem
bers are satisfied and everything
working harmoniously. Over 500
dwellings are how in course of emo
tion, with 6,000 of the advance guard
now npon the lands. With a mem'
bership of over 54,000 people, we
have passed the question of success,
and the only question now bothering
ns is to know where to get lands
enough to place them on. Within
the next two or three years South
Georgia, within the domains of the
colony, will bo a perfect paradise, for
our people .are going at it with u will,
and with the intention of making
future homes.”
“The Common People.”
As Abraham Lincoln called them, do not cam to
argue about their ailment*. What they want ie
a medicine that will cure them. Tho simple,
honest statement, "I know that Hood's Sarsa
parilla cured me," ie the beat argument in favor
of tide medicine, and thle is what many thou-
sands voluntarily eay.
Uoood'e Fine are tho best after-dinner pills,
assist digestion, euro headache. 25c.
FOR HALE.
Branch’s Genuine Rattlesnake
Watermelon Seed.
These seeds are selected with great
care, and under a careful system of
cultivation have been kept pure for
the past thirty years, No other variety
of watermelon is permitted to be
planted on tho plantation. Impossi
ble to have pure seed where two or
more kinds are grown on the satao
farm.
Alexander, of Augusta, Ga., one of
the largest seed dealers of the South,
visited tny crop while growing and
pronounced it to be tho only one
he had ever Been that did not have a
hybrid in it.
The Atlanta ConRtitution of last
Bummer said Branch’s Genuine Rat
tlesnake Watermelons were the finest
over brought to that city.
Price: 1 oz., 10c; 4 oz., 30c; % lb.,
GOc; 1 lb. 61.20; delivered to any
part of United States. Remit by
registered letter to Borzelia, Ga., or
money order on Harlem, Ga. Ad
dress M. I. Branch,
Berzelia, Columbia Co.. Ga.
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Public School Regulations, Ber
rien County.
1. All public schools must com
mence during the month of January,
or not later than the first Monday in
February, unless otherwise ordered,
and continue in session until the
sohool term is completed.
2. Teachers of public schools will
be paid according to grade, per diem
per pupil, or at a stipulated price per
month, as the Board of Education
may direct
8. All teaohers and assistants must
have a license, and make oontract
with Board of Education, to be rec
ognized in the distribution of the
public school fund.
4. No person under 18 years of age'
will be contracted with as principal
of a public sohool.
5. More than one public school
cannot be taught in tho same vicinity,
(nearer than three miles) unless by
special order of tho Board,
6. The maximum number of pupils
for one teacher shall be forty-five.
.
7. Children of public sohool age,
having shools conveniently near in
Berrien oounty, will not be paid for
when they attend sohaoU of other
counties.
8. No teacher shall receive any
compensation for less than the full
time for which, he of she may bo em
ployed, unless prevented by providen
tial cause from teaching out his or
her contract.
0. At the end of eaeh calendar
month teaohers must report to the
CountySohoo! Commissioner statistics
as to enrollment, attendance, etc., are
required on blanks furnished.
10. That the payment of teachers’
claims may not be delayed, quarterly
reports must be filed promptly, and
all final reports must bo filed within
ten days after the dose of the sohool
term.
11. The names of pupils must be
reported’ alphabetically — surnames
first.
By order of tho Board,
Tuos. E. Williams,
Seo’y and 0. S. C.
How’s This!
ia'c offer One Hundred Hollars Re
ward for nny case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J.CHENEY & CO., Props. Toledo O.
Wo tho undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be-
lfove him perfectly honorable In all bus
iness transactions and financially ahlo
to cany out any obligation made by their
Arm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo O. Welding, Klnnan & Mar
vin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo Ohio.
Hull’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
noting directly upon tho blood end mu
cous surfuees of the system. Price, 75c.
per bottle. Sold by nil Druggists. Tes
timonials free. •
Wo will send the Gazette and the
National Tribune, Washington D. C.
one year for $1,75.
Afflicted for Years.
Mr. R. B. Goodman, Marietta, Ga., says:
"I was troubled with rheumatism, which
tho doctors called sciatica, for a number
of years, doctoring with everything I
could hear of, without benefit, until I
commenced with Dr. King’s Royal Ger-
matuer, which cured mo sound and well.
I was at times, for several months, so I
could not walk at all. I have now been
thoroughly well of It for four years, and
think there is no medicine that can equal
Gcrmetucr," Write to the Atlanta Chem
ical Co., Atlanta, Ga., for 48 page book,
freo. Now package, large bottle, 108
doses, 61. For sale at Tlfton Drug Store
or Main Street Pharmacy.
Weather for December.
Report of J. F. Wilson, voluntary
observer, Piney Park Observatory,
Poulan, Ga.:
Temperature: Maximum, 70; mini
mum, 10; mean, 48.
Rainfall—Total precipitation, 2.22
inches.
Number of clear days, 20; cloudy,
3; partly cloudy, 8i
Dates of Frost—Light, 14, 15,10;
killing, 3, 4, 29.
Prevailing wind direction, north
west and northeast.
Lunar halos, 25.
Not a few who read what Mr. Robert'
Rowls, of Hollands, Ya., has to say below,
will remember tlioir own experience un
der like circumstances: “Last winter I
had lagrippo which left nio in alow"state
of health. I tried numerous remedies,
none of which did mo any good, until I
was induced to try a ltottle of Chamber-
Iain’s Cough Remedy. The first bottle-
of It so far relieved me that I was en
abled lo attend to my work, and the sec
ond bottle effected a cure. For sale at-
85 to 50 cent per bottle by Tifton Drug
store.