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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 31, 1S96.
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CITY DIRECTORY.
Municipal.
Mayor—F. <i. Boatright.
Clerk and Treasurer—H. S. Murray.
Councilhen—H. H. Tift, E. 1\ Bowen, W. TV.
Timmons, J. A. I’lillllps, L. O. Maynard & W.O.
Padrick. Council meets first Monday night in
each month.
Secret Societies.
TlJTOH Lodok, No. 47, F. & A. M.—J.S.Gauiden
TV. M.jB. T. Cole. Secretary. Meets third Sat-
. urday night in each month.
. Tifton Chapter, No. 47, B. A. M.—F. (f. Boat,
right,HJP., Dr. J. A. McCrca, Secretary. Meets
first Saturday night in each month.
Rxbv Woods Lodoe, No. », K. of P.—E. J.
Williams, C. C.; H. S. Murray, K. of K. &S.
Meets every Thursday night.
Literary and Social.
Tifton Literary Club—Meets every Monday
night, at residence of Mr. E. 11. Tift. Mrs. E. H.
Tilt, President; Miss Catherine Tift, Secretary.
Epwortii League—Religious service* every
Sunday afternoon at 6:15. Literary meeting ev
ery fourth Friday night.
CliuroH Appointments.
Methodist—Rev. O. E. Crawley, Pastor. Serv
ices every first and third Sunday, at 11:00 a. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 7 KK).
Baptist—Rev. P. A. Jessup, Pastor. Services
every second and fourth 8unday, at 11:00 a. m,
ad 7 if" — «-•- ——
HOOp. m. Sunday school at 3:00 p. i
cr meeting every Thursday night, at 7:00 o’clocl
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
C. C. HALL, '
Attorney-at-Law,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention givei
—Collections a specialty.
Paulk building.
iven to all legal business.
" .—Office over the new
v5n32-ly.
r
DR, J. A. McCREA,
Physician and Surgeon,
, f TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to calls,’ day or night.
Office at residence on Love avenue.
tyTvpnoiD Fever a Specialty. 5-3m
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.
ALL KINDS OF SUUOIOAL OPERATIONS.
Diseases of Females, Diseases of the Rectum,
Venereal Diseases and Midwifery a specialty.
Office over J. J. Golden & Co’s., Drugstore.
•: .Hours9 to 12 a. in., 2 to 5, p. m. 20-1894-ly.
Drs. J. W & D. J. WILLIAMS,
DENTISTS,
CORDELE, - - - - - GEORGIA.
Office—Bank Building, Room No, 1, up stairs
JOHN MURROW,
Attorney-at-Law,
Ti ETON, - GEORGIA.
Offlce-vRooms 1 ami 3, Love Building.
Collections) Commercial Law ami Ileal Estate.
FULWOOD &. MURRAY,
Attorneys at I
TIFTON, - GEORGIA,
cation give
Jffioetn Tift Building.
Prompt attention given to all legal business.
jjrow
W. N PITTMAN,
Contractor and Builder,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Katimates on all kinds of building furnished.
DR. W. P. RUSHIN,
ALBANY, : *. i GKOHGIA.
Throat, Nose and Ear Specialist..
OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS
Capt J. G. McPhaul is erecting a
still at Poulan.
Editor Wilcox is making a decided
inprovenient in the Arabi Star.
The Plant System is building a
new depot at McDonald’s mill, in
Coffee county.
Banker Ashburn, of Eastman, ex
pets to have a bank in operation in
Moultrie by April.
Rev D. F. Sheppard, of Belknap,
Ga., was married to Miss Ida McCor
mack, in Poulau, on Jan. 27.
Lowndes county Teachers’ Associ
ation will hold its monthly meeting
in Valdosta on Saturday, February
8th.
Samuel Purvis, of Kissemee, was
married to Miss Emma, daughter of
W. J. Clements, near Sycamore, one
day last week.
ABliburn and the Advance are
maintaining a very dignified atitude
astride the barbed wire fence on the
location of the county site.
The county commissioners of Col
quitt have let the building of a bridge
across Ty Ty creek, on the Tifton
and Moultrie road, to J. J. Willis.
Our friend Dan, down at Waycross,
•may Sweat a little in the collar, but
he can beat any engineer on the
Plant System running a hot Journal.
A. 0. Darling, a turpentine oper
ator at Moultrie, lost his dwelling
and its entire cohtents by fire last
week. Loss about $1,000. No in
surance.
There will be more boxes cut in
Colquitt this winter than on uny pre
vious year. Weather has been good
all this season and hands plentiful.
—Observer.
About twenty-five people with ten
or twelve wagons passed through
town Tuesday oil their way to Fitz
gerald. They were Tennesseeans.—
Douglas Breeze.
The new dwelling of Dr. \V. L.
Sikes, at Sylvester, was struck by
lightning one night last weekend two
rooms badly damaged. The dwelling
was unoccupied.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Dr. W. S. Ilmvell to Miss
Stella Ray, of Arabi, the- ceremony
to occur on the 5th of Febuury in
the Baptist church at Arabi.
Tom Butler,a negro tinner employ
ed by J. T. Boyd & Bro., in Vul-
been well worked most of the lime zens of that town have been reared
and we have about *50 in the treas
ury.—News.
An election has been ordered for
Feb. 29th, in Lowndes county, to
fill a vacancy in the office of tax as
sessor. Theqe are seven democratic
candidates, one populist and one
republican.
The Fitzgeraldites are moving
from Shantytown to their new homes
in. the magio 'city, and the shacks
will probably all be vacant by Feb. 8
The postoffice has been moved to
new and and commodious quarters.
It is reported that among the ar
rivals at Fitzgerald, the new colony
town, is a man and wife, who walked
700 miles from their former home,
having no money to pay fare, but
grit to get there.
One of the most universally -be
loved men in this wiregrass metrop
olis signs his name: W. II. Scruggs,
and he is pastor of the Baptist church.
As quiet aud modest-as a school girl,
he is a most lovable character.—Way-
cross Journal.
A mail Darned E. J. Wright cut a
tree down across a hollow log at
Ashburn last week and caught five
fat ’possums out of the bursted log.
It is well to be sure you are Wright
before you can go five head in mat
ters of this kind.
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“We are informed that the Editor
of the Ashburn Advance used the
fact that the smooth streets of Wash
itig increased the population of that
city, as an argument in favor of a
better road to the cemetery,”—says
the Oordcle Sentinel.
The citizens of Poulan, in a pub
lic meeting held lust week, serve the
public with notice that their little
city is squarely in the race for the
county site. Poulan is the nearest
place on the railroad to the geograph
ical centre of the county.
The sale of the property of the
Macon Construction Company, along
the line of the Georgia Southern, was
confirmed by the court last week, de-
Wfll lie in Tifton every Tuesday afternoon
(from 3 p. m.,) to treat and operate ,
for any diseased condition of tlieso organs, i dosta, WHS 8tubbed llllu killed by ttll-
C ATARI til of these organs certain- I J
- iy cured whenever a sure is 1‘ossiBLK. I other negro named .Jake Burney, Sat-
Pat.lonfs inmilrlnir at tli« I)nur Store ° J
I’atlents inquiring at the Drug Store
of J. J. Goi(len it Go., will ho directed to the
Doctors offices. (nSv34-Cin.)
C. H. GOODMAN,
WOODY ARP
■ Wood of any size desired, delivered in
all parts of town at reasonable rates.
n5-v!0-ly.
i Place Your Lands
—wiTn—
Sibley & Company,
Beal Estate Agents,
IF YOU WANT THEM SOLD.
Some good farms and unimproved lands to
sell, also several houses aud lots in Tifton.
JJJfQFF-HF, in Tift Building. Tifton. Ga.
v8-nlo-1y.
JFletcher.
urday night last week. He.is in
jail.
The saw mill belonging to J. G.
McPhaul, in the southern part of
Worth comity, was destroyed by fire
on Saturday of last week. The en
gine and boiler and carriage were
saved.
Work wus begun on the new union
depot at Cordele and is being pushed
under different conditions from the
people of Georgia, and,therefore,have
different views, to be corrected by
time. “All good people have a right
to their views, Regardless of the views
of others. That is Georgia doctrine,”
says the Brunswick T-A.
Advance Smith says his girl shall
feed the collards to her cow. Hennery,
Hennery! we thought better of you.
Just think how many bowls of pot-
licker that orchard could bear os fruit.
You are too far gone on the girl,
Henry. We don’t hope she will go
bnck on you, but an affection that
causes you to waste what your breth
ren of the press are suffering for is
misplaced we warn you.
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 be
planted on tho plantation. Iinjfossi-
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 tho South,
visited my crop while growing and
pronounced it to lie the only one
he had over scon that did not have a
hybrid in it.
Tho Atlanta Constitution of last
summer said Branch’s Genuine Rat
tlcsnake Watermelons wero tho finest
over brought to that city.
Price: 1 oz., 10c; 4 o/„, 00c; .V lb.,
00c; 1 lb. *1.20; delivered to any
part of United States. Remit by
registered letter to Bcrzclia, Ga., or
money order on Harlem, Ga. Ad
dress M. I. Branch,
Berzelia, Columbia Co.. Ga.
THE FUTURE OF FRUIT.
for handling and forwarding the fruit
crop to the markets mote reasonable.
The season by this time was far un
der way, the shippers were discour
aged, and the splendid results ex
pected from the great frnit crop were-
not realized.
Tho fruit itself made a profound
impression on the northern market.
It was universally decided that it
surpassed the fruit received from any
other seotion of the country, outstrip
ping oven the famous California
fruits. They were in greater demand
and readily brought tho very highest
prices.
With all of these favorable advan
tages, supreme success was hampered
and thwarted by the lack of such
transportation facilities and rates, and
co-operation on the part of the rail
roads, as were needed to place the
fruit industry in Georgia in the first
rank of her resources. The present
organization of Georgia fruitgrowers
is, therefore, one of tho greatest im
portance.. If it can perfect arrange
ments that will enablo them to utilize
to the fullest extent their great and
valuablo fruit crops, it will bring mil
lions of dollars to our people each
year, give profitable employment to
thousands, and help make the state
richer and more prosperous than over
before. It is to be hoped that tho
new organization will find ways to
realize all of their expectations.—Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun.
MOTHER’S VISIONS.
HV 88LVKT.
oft, win'll twillulil ninnies ave falling
O’or tlic minuet’* fading glow,
Form* <>f lost one* eotne, recalling
Sweetest sefenea of long ago.
How sweet tlio hopes then that thrill us •’
A* our darling’s faces rim;
How the glorious radlauco fill* us,
Reaming from those loving eyes, <
The Georgia Fruit Growers’ Asso
ciation met in Macon on the third
Tuesday in January, 1890, to take
steps looking to mutual protection
against commission men and exces
sive rates imposed by the railroads.
This meeting will doubtless prove of
tho utmost importance to the fruit
spite the objection of some of the j frowers of this State. The import-
Compuny’s attorneys that it had not
brought half what ir was worth.
The Gazette is in receipt of an
other letter from T. II. Kendall in
regard to the Salter case, in which
he reaffirms his former charges, and
6ays he can prove his statements. As
we have closed our coin ms to the
matter, we cannot publish anything
more. The case should he tried in
the courts,—not in the newspapers.
! ancc of it is emphasized by the ex
perience of fruit growers with last
year’s crop. It was undoubtedly the
largest and tho finest ever grown in
Georgia. There was among the
large number of people who had en
gaged in this industry the very high
est anticipations of not only present
successful results, hut of establishing
fruit culture permanently' as one of
the largest and most profitable intliiH-
II*iw oft do tlieso sweetest picture!
O’er our waiting mem’ry slid,
Filling us with heavenly raptures,
Buell ns wo alone can feel.
Sweet the thoughts wliloli thou Come o’er us,
’TIs a loving Father's will,
That tlieso forms thus glide before us
Wlilsp’rlng softly, "I’eaeo, ho still.’’
Unshod he then our solis of sorrow,
Contented gladly hero to wait
"fill the oft dream'll of to-morrow,
When we'll meet them near the gate.
Yes! Oh there wo know they'll meet ua,
Almost see each shining fueo;
Almost hear them laugh to greet us—
Almost feel their missed embrace.
I’oulan, (In., Dee. SB, W5.,
II. D. Smith itiiu Prof. Waldrop, i lrio8 1,10 stat0 ’ Thousands of poo-
of Ashburn, are going to establish a; 1^° connec tod themselves with it in
real estate agency at Ashburn, andj HOme ccapacity, scores of farms were
advertise that section extensively j turned into orchards, cotton fields
through the north and west. The ' vere P ut •" fruit < ll " <l corpora-
Gazette is at their service. After *’ ons invested largo sums in the im-
awhile, perhaps, Smith will hove j P rovcmeMt of lands . in South Geor-
enough irons in the fire to enable ;8* ft ^ 0I ^ ru ' t g row ' n 8' Everything
him to make a living running a
newspaper.
Clarence Blair and George Slussie,
was wonderfully propitious. The
season was favorable for all kinds of
j fruit and the crops were prodigious.
rapidly, a large force of bunds have {two young white men, were arrested | At t,K ; bcglnn,ng ° f 1,10 8CaBOn t !\ ere
been employed and the builders hope j und tried before Justice Hickson, at
to have it completed within a few!
weeks.
was the greatest activity In making
Cordele Saturday, charged with! Prepamt. 0 " 8 f or the rapid shipment
larceny from the person, it - of tUe vast C,0|1K of fruils to tllc
R. I.. Sutton,
Fletcher & Sutton.
Elijah Paulk, a prominent mer
chant am! citizen of Willacoochee,
died on Sunday last, after a linger- crate soldier, of $29
iug illness. He was a young man
highly esteemed and his death is
deeply regretted,
The ordinary of Worth county re*
wus
j charged that Blair and Slussie rob
bed John Williams, an old confed-
while he wus
drunk. They were bound over to
the county court under a $100 bond.
The little son of Math Thomas
oyer the line in Lowndes county was
ports thirty three Soldiers under the! shot in tho-face, near the bridge of
jolt! act of tiie legislature, nine under the Hose, by the accidental disoblige
1 the act of 1891, and forty-two wid- of a pistol last week. The little fel
ons of confederate soldiers receiving; low and a negro boy were playing
; with the pistol, which, as usual, “wits-
- {tensions in the county.
and Feed Stables,
Fust-Class Double and Single Teams to Ilk
The town of Sycamore has not - 111 loaded, with this result. The!
ops
northern and eastern and western
markets in order to realize tho etyly
high prices. At this happy juncture
a wave of disappointment swept over
the entire fruit territory at an unex
pected failure to secure that co-oper
ation on the pari of the railroads
which was absolutely necessary to
, secure for the growers the benefits to
which they were reasonably and
justly entitled. There were innu
merable complaints of excessive
charges by the railroads, mid these,
charges were fully established by a
TEN DOLLARS FOR A NAME.
Tho Georgia Southern & Florida By.,
in addition lo their famous l’ullmuu
BulTct trains, “Quick Step" and “Dixie
Flyer,"have inaugurated the fastest Full-
man line in 1 lie South between Mucon
and Tampa, the route bolnpf Uoorgia
Southern & Florida lo Jasper and Plant,
systen to Tampa, leaving Macon daily at
11:28 p. m., arriving in Tampa 2:00 p. m.
next afternoon; returning, leave Tampa
10:15 n. m., arriving In Macon nt I a. m
As tho names of its two Jacksonville
Pullman trains lrnve bdeomo household
words, it desires to christen its new
route with a name that will bo ns appro
priate and popular as its two sisters. Mr.
G. A. Macdonald, General Passenger
Agent, Macon, hns therefore offered a
prize of ten dollrrs in gold for the most
appropriate name, hearing in mind that
the train passes tlie famous Smvance
Bivcr by daylight. All that is necessary
is to send in thl* clipping, giving name
of paper and date, together with the
name and address of one or more per
sons who expect lo visit Florida this
season, to G. A. Macdonald,
G. P. A., G. S. & F. By,
Mucon, Ua.
Vnlitnsta District—First Bound.
Crisp, February 1st ami ’2nd.
Irwinville, February 8th anil 9th.
Sumner and Ty-Tv, Feb., 1' & Hi.
Willacoochee, February 22 A 2d.
Lake l*ark, Feb. 20, amt March 1.
MilHown, March 7th ami 3th.
Brooks, “ l lh ami 15h..
Add, “ 21st amt 22nd.
Hahira, “ 28h ami 29h.
Worth, “ .‘list.
11. Stuiuis. F. U.
C. 0. 8. Baldridge has some 10 and 90
k l’eic>* Reasonable.
’VlFTON,
Rear Hot«l Sadie.
(JEORfilA.
....... ™.... ... ... uiiiMgvn mu., vruvuiiniieu 1 M .1 v , vj. o. imnmngc mis some U 1 :U!tl
collected a cent of ad valorem tax or! acci< * cilt 18 not thought to be falitl, carc ful investigation of tlie facts by aero farms within 2 miles of Tifton
years. Is there a! t* 8 bal1 ranging downward. ! the Georgia Railroad Commission,! • 3 - 00 ami * 8 ‘°° P er W. Also onetra^
ih,,t /-uni mu I/,, in The Filzeerahl V.nlornela,i roti.m-i/aj ,t.. —:i..a...l. ... of 500 acres, excellent frnit laud., miles
licens in three
(own in the stats
that can mukc an The Fitzgerald Enterprise remarks | and the railroads were directed by j
equal showing? The streets havcjw if by way of apology that the citi- j that authority to make their charges!
out, offered for a short limo only at
per acre.