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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 24, 1896.
VOL. 6-NO. 40
, CITY DIRECTORY.
Municipal.
Mayor-F. O. Boatright.
CIjKrk and Tbeabuii*h-H. 8. Murray.
COOMOU.KBK—H. H. Tift, E. V. Bowen, W. W.
Timmons, J. A. Phillips, L. G. Maynard St W. O.
Padrlck. Council meets first Monday night In
eaoh month.
Secret Societies.
Lodge. No. 47, F.&A.M.—W.H.Love,
W. M.: Dr. J. A. McCrea, Secretary. Meets third
Saturday night In each month.
Tutor Ckaptbb, No. 47, R. A. M—W. H. Love
Dr. J. A. McCrea, Secretary. Meets first Satur
day night in each month.
Pwey Woods Lodge, No. 80, K.of P.—E. J.
Williams, C. C.; H. S. Murray, X. of R. & S.
Meets every Thursday night.
Literary and Social.
Church Appointments.
Methodist—Rev. C. K. Crawley, Pastor. Serv
ices every first and third Sunday, at 11 ;00 a. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 7 ;00.
Baptist—Rev. P. A. Jessup, Pastbr. Services
every second and fourth Sunday, at 11:00 a. m.
and 7.00 p. in. Sunday school at 3:00 n. m. Pray
er meeting every Thursday night, at 7 3K) o'clock.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
C. O. HALL,
Attorney-at-Law,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business.
— laity.
—Collections a spec!
Paulk building.
.—Office over the new
V6n32-ly,
00R NEAR NEIGHBORS
DR. J. A. MeCREA,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to calls, day or night.
Office at residence on Love avenue.
gyTYPHOiD Fever a Specialty. s-3m
DR. J. C. GOODMAN
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON GEORGIA.
Office—Room In the Tifton Drug Store.
Dr. W. J. FARMER.
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Alt, KINDS OF SUUOXCAI, OPERATIONS.
Diseases of Females, Diseases of tlio Rectum,
Venereal Disonscs and Midwifery a specialty.
Office over J. J. Golden <Sc Co’s., Drugstore.
£ Hours:—9 to 12a.in.,2 to8,p.rn. 20-1804-ly.
Drs. J. W & D. J. WILLIAMS,
' DENTISTS,
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
Office—Hank Building, Room No. 1, up stairs
JOHN MURROW,
Attorney-at-Law,
TIPTON, - GEORGIA.
Office-Jtooms 1 and 3, Lpve building.
Collections, Commercial Law and Real Estate.
FULWOOD & MURRAY,
Attorneys at Daw.
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business.
EJfOFFioK in Tift Udii.uing, .
W. N PITTMAN,
• Contractor and Builder,
, f z TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Estimates on all kinds of building furnished.
DR. W. P. RUSHIN,
ALBANY, : : : GEORGIA.
Throat, Nose and Ear Specialist.
Will bo in Tifton every Tuesday afternoon
(from 3 p. in.,) to treat and operate
for any diseased condition of these organs.
CATARRH of these organs certain
ly cured whenever a cure IB POSSIBLE.
Patients inquiring at the Drug Store
of J. J. Golden .V Co., will Ira directed to the
Doctors offices. (n5v34Cm.)
C. H. GOODMAN,
WOODY ARP
Wood of any size desired, delivered In
all parts of town at reasonable rates.
no-vl6-ly.
Place Your Lands
—WITH—
Sibley & Company,
Beal Estate Agents,
IF YOU WANT THEM SOLD.
Some good farms and unimproved lands to
noil, also several bouses and lots In Tifton.
HTOfficb In Tift Building, Tifton, Ga,
vfcolMy.
•ft.
J. C. Fletcher, R. L. Scxrox,
Fletcher & Sutton.
and Feed Stables.
First-Class Me and Single Team to Hire.
Peices Reasonable. Rear Hotel Sadie.
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
The Call has been made the official
organ of Glynn county.
Fitzgerald has a brass band. Now
it can blow its own horn.
The republicans of Dooly hold a
county convention on January 29th.
Dr. W. L. Sikes will move from
S nmner to Sylvester, in Worth oonnty
The colony company at Fitzgerald,
is negotiating for 10,000 more acres
of land in that vicinity.
A democratic primary will be held
in Lowndes on the 29th. to nominate
a candidate for tax collector.
W. A. Hawkins and Z. H. Little
john have formed copartnership in
Cordele for the practice of law.
Dr. W. S. Howell, who has been
at Mineola for a year, has moved back
to Dooly and is located at Vienna.
The ibacbinery has been shipped
for a canniug factory in Vienna and
it is said it will be ready for oper
ation in sixty days.
The Leader, published by B. F.
Knapp, formerly of Elk Poiut, S. D.,
is another Fitzgerald paper. It is
Democratic in politics.
The Arabi Star rises above the
ashes of the Express, with J. R.
Wilcox, son of Senator Wilcox, of
Irwin county, at the helm.
It is said that Dr. Thornton, of
Sycamore, has been put under a $250
bond which seems to be pretty cheap
for a shooting of that kind.
From nearly half the papers on
our exchange list conies news of a
band of emigrants passing through
their town, on their way to the colony.
Gilford Lee, formerly a farmer in
Berrien, was arrested in Liye Oak Fla.
last week for mortgaging property to
which he had no title to parties in
Valdosta.
The Abbeville^nd Waycross rail
road has be^i purchased by the Geor
gia and Alabama, which will, so it is
said, rapidly push its completion to
Fitzgerald.
be still belonging to J. G. Pace,
in Coffee county, was destroyed by
fire on Tuesday of last week, caused
by turning off a charge of rosin
vyhen to hot.
A $50,000 hotel, two brick yards
one witli 40,000 daily capacity; a
soldier’s home and two new ban ks»
are among the projects in the near
future of Fitzgerald.
Jule Pickren, under arrest for ac
cessory to the killing of G. 8. Mc
Donald, in Coffee county, was released
under $5,000 bond last week. T. J.
McDonald’s bond has been fixed at
*7,000.
The box-car that so long did serv
ice for a depot at Sylvester has been
carried to Willacoochee and agent
McCranie reigns on the throne that
was still warm from the occupancy
of agent Wilder.
Mrs. Penny Mathews, widow of
J. D. Mathews, who was killed by a
Georgia Southern train some months
since, was thrown from a buggy by
h runaway horse last week, and had
her ankle broken.
The citizens of Cordele will vote
on the question of a system of pub
lic schools for their town at an early
date. Also for the issuance of
$5000 worth of $100 6 per cent
bonds, to baud suitable houses.
Mr. Henry Morgan carried to
Americas a two horse wagon load of
excellent pecans, grown on his farm
in Dooly, *The nuts brought enough
to load the wagon with supplies and
net a good sum in cash besides.
Petitions are being circulated in
Worth county asking the Ordinary
for the removal of the county site
from Isabella to Sylvester. These
were the result of a meeting of the
oitizeus of Sylveter Monday night.
W. T. Paulk of Minnie, has pur
chased the interest of Dr. Dorminey
in the firm of D. W. Paulk & Co.
The new firm will continue to do
business in the old stand under the
style of Paulk & Paulk.—Fitzgerald.
Enterprise. ,
The Fitzgerald Leader is the name
of another new paper. over at the
colony, published by B. F. Knapp
& Sonjind is an eight-pager,with four
pages of home matter. It is bright and
spicy, and we wiBh both it and the
Enterprise success.
The Douglas Breeze says the exam
inations sent out by School Commis
sioner Glenn are to hard, and will
cause the people in several of the
rural districts to have no school at
all, as they are not able to hire teach
ers who are far enough advanced to
pass these examinations.
Editor Smith, of Ashburn, has iiis
patent non-choke plow on the mar
ket. It is a good invention, and can
eat up a collard orchaid and never
chcke nt the stubbles, lie now has
a new invention on hand in the shape
of an automatic air-brake coupler,
for railway trains. This is the inven
tion of Mr. Walter Spurlock, of
Worth county, and if it is a success
will revolutionize railroad couplings,
STRAY THOUGHTS.
How’s Tills!
^'e offer One Hundred .Dollars lie
ward for any case of Catarrh that^can
not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J.CIIENEY & CO., Props. Toledo O
We the undersigned, have known F,
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus
incss transactions and financially ablo
to carryout any obligation.made by their
firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo O. Waldlng, Finnan & Mar
vin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo Ohio.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is tnken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system. Price, 75c.
per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Tes
timonials free.
FOR SALE.
Branch's Genuine Rattlesnake
Watermelon Seed.
These seeds arc 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 bo
planted on the plantation. Impossi
ble to have pure seed where two or
more kinds are grown on the samo
farm.
Alexander, of Augusta, Ga., one of
the largest seed dealers of the South,
visited my crop while growing and
pronounced it to be the only one
bo bad ever seen that did not nave a
hybrid in it.
The Atlanta Constitution of last
summer said Branch’s Genuine Rat-
tlcsnako Watermelons were the finest
ever brought to that city.
Price: 1 oz., 10c; 4 oz., 30c; lb.,
60c; 1 lb. *1.20; delivered to any
part of. United States. Remit by
registered letter to Berzclia, Ga., or
money order on Harlem, Ga. Ad
dress M. I. Branch,
Berzelia, Columbia Co.. Ga.
Valdosta District—First Round.
Crisp, February 1st and 2nd.
Irwin ville,. February 8th and 9th
Sumner and Ty-Ty, Feb., 15 & 16.
Willacoochee, February 22 & 23.
Lake Park, Feb. 29, and March 1.
Milttown, March 7th and 8th.
Brooks,
Adel,
llahira,
Worth,
14h and 15h.
21st and 22nd.
28li and 29h.
81st
H. Stubbs. P. E.
For a pain In the chest a piece of flan
nel dampened with Chamberldim's Pain
Balm and bound on over the seat of the
pajn, and another on the back between
the shoulders, will afford prompt relief.
Thia la especially valuable in case where
tho pain Is caused by a cold and there is
a tendoncy toward pneumonia. For sale
by Tifton Drugstore.
Editor Smith, “Uncle Sam” and
others, of the glorious old county of
Worth, hare advertised removal, so
iresistentiy, (There is nothing that
mugs such good results as advertis
ing) that we concluded to try a
sample package.”
Boarding a car at Sylvester we
were soon moving down the B. & W.
en route to Florida, arriving at Way-
cross just in time for the Jacksonville
train. We had now a run of fifty-six
miles, which was covered in seventy
minutes. The Plant System is a
hummer, and hard to catch. When
we found ourselves on terrn-firma,
and the rear lights on the sleeper
were flickering away towards Jack
sonville, we began to realize that we
were in the picturesque (?) lown of
Calahan, with Crawford, on the F. C.
ifc P., five miles sway.
Wo love, at times, to take a moon
light stroll, and there was now an
abundant opportunity, so we strolled
alone down the track, which is a fine
track to walk upon,a bod of that white
Florida sand, which is usually con
sidered worthless, makes a fino pedes
trian track and lighted by the soft
rays of Luna it reminded ns of a
snow bank.
The snow white sand brought up
memories of the past, sleigh bells and
merry laughter,forgetting all the hob
gobling, until a diabolical laugh and
a stern Whoo! Whoo! emsed us to
stumble upon a trestle and to rcalizo
that we were in the heart of a dense
Florida swamp. Wo felt so far from
home, all the romance was gono and
stern reality surrounded us and we
did not have any more pleasant rev
eries before reaching , Crawford, the
junction of Dial & Upcliuch’s
road with the F, C. & P.
Crawfish would bo a much more
appropriate name for this place or
spot where the placo is supposed to
be. Diat & Upchurch arc build
ing a link to connect with tho S. F.
& W. at Jasper, Fla., for the purpose
of reaching hundreds of thousands of
acres of fine timber land, that lies
along the St. Marys River and Okoe-
tenokee swamp. Camping in Craw
fish, until four a, in., we engaged pas
sage on an engine and sped away ten
milcB, where wc got off and wore
directed to the house of “old man
Hatton” where wo ato a hearty break
fast of baked potatoes and wild tur-
<ey. Mr. Batton is eighty-four, but
says lie can sco to shoot a rifle as
well as lie could sixty-fivo years ago.
Late in tho evening, wo again
boarded an engine and ran out to the
end of the line on the St. Marys,
then eight miles into the heart of the
woods, where we found a camp on
the line of entension of tho road.
We do not like camp life, but there
is some pleasure in it And being
tired we sat down upon a log and
watched the clouds break away until
the last one was buried from view
beneath the horizon. The air was as
■oft as a maidens breath, and as the
evenings wanes, the zephyr seems to
have sighed about ail it wants to and
dies away to rest The pulse of tir
ed nature seems almost to still, and a
pleasant sense of rest is upon the
faco of silent world. The god of day
drops slowly down the crimson west,
as though he relaotantly bade adieu
to the giant pines and waving moss;
the scarlet west becomes intensified
and the softened east takes up tho
reflection; tiie landscape adorns itself
in honor of nature’s wonderful diur
nal spectacle,
Such was our thoughts when we .
went to sleep—that is, advertised to
sleeep-but “ads” in the islands of
Florida swamps are too unusual to
work, so there we lay on the lap of
mother earth, on onr backs, until
about 2 a.m., looking at the clear blue
sky; while the stars above were
twinkling. When they had about
twinkled their light out, we conclud
ed not to try wooing the drowsy god
any longer, so got up and made a pot
of coffee, and drank a cup of it so
not onr alimentary oanal rolled up
like a shaving from a carpenter’s
plane, and we felt like wo had swal
lowed a slice of sizzing, melted, con
centrated infernal regions.
Then we Bat up and waited for tho
sun to rise, which it did after awhile
—so did the coffee. Everything was
wrong—all nature seemed shrouded
in gloom. Wc were homesick, wc
needed somebody to pity and love us, t
as the Indians say, “heap much.” In
short, wo had a case of the removal
fever,that was developing rapidly. It
may suit some folks to rough it in
Florida flats, slushing through pal
metto swamps, but we were not
built that way.
■ A boy don’t know until after life
what pleasures are slipping by iu
school-boy days, when be tries to
crowd to get bcbin,d the Bame desk as
that darling little girl (all of us had
one) and alternately masticate the
same piece of chewing-gum.
But she, too lias changed, and per
haps is this minute trying to whale
eternal punishment out of one of those
Bismarck blondes of the male gen
der, or worrying out her sweet, girl
ish nature trying to work her hus
band's old trousers into a rug. It
seems hard at times, but such is life.
And when all things in old Worth
shall be made right, and the retnov-
alists will have built the courthouse
at Sylvester, wo will forget all our
troubles. For wo will have tho best
little town (wo already have tho best
county) tho cleverest people and the
sweetest girls in tho state, or any
other man’s state— Tifton excepted.
We will write you when we take
another dose of that samplo paokago
of “Removal.” Cam Rialcts,
Sylvester, Ga., .Tan. 16, 1890.
"The <lav I* done, and the darkness
Tails from the wings at night,
As a feather la wafted duwnwanl
Train an eagle in its flight.”
Then,
"Silently, one by one, In the infinite meadows of
heaven,
Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of
angels.
TEN DOLLARS FOR A NAME.
The Georgia Southern & Florida Ky.,
in addition to their famous Pullman
Buffet trains, "Quick Stop" and “Dixie
Flyer,’’have inaugurated the fastest Pull
man lino In tho South between Macon
and Tampa, tho routo being Georgia
Southern & Florida to Jasper and Plant
systen to Tampa, leaving Macon dally at
11:38 p. in., arriving In Tampa 3:80 p. m.
next afternoon; returning, leave Tampa
10:15 a. in., arriving In Macon at 4 a. m
As the names of Its two Jacksonville
Pullman trains have become household
words, it desires to christen its new
route with a name that will be as appro
priate and popular a* it* two slstera. Mr.
G. A. Macdonald, General Passenger
Agent, Macon, has therefore offered a
prize of ten doilrra In gold for the most
appropriate name, bearing in mind that
the train passes the famous Suwanee
Itiver by daylight. AH that is necessary
is to send In thia clipping, giving name
of paper and date, together with the
name and address of one or more per
sons who expect to visit Florida this
season, to G. A. Macdonald,
O. P.A., O. B. 3s F. Ky,
Macon, Ga.
Tho special offer of the Gazette
and Atlanta Journal for *1.00 was
limited, and is now withdrawn. They
will tioth be sent one year for 11.25
and that is cheap enough for any
body.
«——
0. C. 8. Baldridge has some 10 and SO
aero farms within 3 miles of Tifton at
*5.00 and *8.00 per acre. Also one tract
of 500 acres, excellent fruit land, 5 miles
out, offered for a short time only at *3
per acre.
U -I tv- snd Bone < it cures
Khciimutumi. Cuts, Bores, burns and
Itmisrs, for Jjc.
