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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1800
CITY DIRECTORY. OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS
I Munlcliv.il.
Avon—F. G. Boatright.
lkrk and Treasurer—H. £. Murray.
OUJiOlLMEN—II. II. Tift, K. P. Bowen, W. W.
anions, J. A. Phillips, L. G. Maynard & IV. O.
rick. Council meets ilrst Monday night in
i month.
Secret Societies.
ox Lodge, No. 47, F. & A. M.~J.S.Gaulden
LM.jB. T. Cole*. Secretary. Meets third Sat-
ay night in each month.
tiFTOXChapter, No. 47, K. A. M.—F. G. Boat
Jht.H.P., Dr. J. A. McCrea, Secretary. Meets-
Bt Saturday night in each month.
by Woods Lodge, No. 60, K. of P.—E. J.
Ill lams, C. C.; li. S. Murray, lv. of R. A' S.
j every Thursday night.
Literary and Social.
»**OX Literary Cluis—Meets every Monday
ht, at residence of Mr. K. H. Tift. airs. E. 14.
t, President; Miss Catherine Tift, Secretary.
youth League—Beligious services every
Inday afternoon at C :15. Literary meeting ev-
r fourth Friday night.
Church Appointments.
Iethodist—ltev. C. K. Crawley, Pastor. Serv*
5 every first and third Sunday, at 11:00 a. m.
aycr meeting every Wednesday night at 7:00.
Baptist—Rev. P. A. Jessup, Pastor. Services
lery second and fourth Sunday, at 11:00 a. m.
Id 7:00 p. m. Sunday school at .’J :00 n. in. Pr.iv-
I meeting every Thursday night, at* :00 o’clock.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
C. C, HALL,
Attorney-at-Law,
TIFTON; GEORGIA.
|l’rompt attention Riven to all leRal business.
(Collections a specialtv.—Ollice over tlio new
laulk building. vfin32-ly.
DR, J. A. McCREA,
hysician. and Surgeon,
■ TIFTON, GEORGIA.
ompt attention given to call#, day or night,
residence on Love avenue.
phoid Fever a Specialty. 5-3m
r^rvi
DR. J. C. GOODMAN
’hysician and burgeon,
TIFTON GEORGIA.
I Office—Boom in the Tift on Drug Store.
Dr. W. J. FARMER,
’hysician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
ALL KINDS OF SURGICAL OPERATIONS.
Diseases of Femlles, Diseases of the ltcctum,
venereal Diseases and Midwifery a specialty.
1 Office over J. J. Golden & Co’s., Drugstore,
fours:—9 to 12 a. m., 2 to 6, p. in. 20-1894-ly.
Drs. J., W & D. J. WILLIAMS,
DENTISTS,
CORD1JEE, GEORGIA.
Office—Bank Building, Room No. 1, up stairs
JOHN MURROW,
ttorney-at-Law,
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Oftlcc-xRooins 1 and 3, Love building.
Collections, Commercial Law and Real Kstato.
FULWOOD & MURRAY,
Attorneys at Law.
TIFTON, - GBORGIA,
rapt attention given to all legal business.
“'Office in Tift Building.
W. N PITTMAN,
lOontractor and Builder,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Estimates on all kinds of building furnished.
J. H. TIPTON,
Attorney-at-Law,
ISABELLA, • GEORGIA,
Prompt attention to all legal busi
ness. (v5n48-8ni)
Dr. R. T. KENDRICK,
Pliy siciari
anti Surgeon,
• TIFTON,GEORGIA.
Diseases of
women a specialty,
and with an
experience of more
ah;m 30 years,
ask a share of pub-
Ac patronage.
Office over J. J.
^WUUui <K: Co.
Drug store.
DR. W. P. RUSHIN,
ALBANY, : : : GEORGIA.
Throat, Nose and Ear Specialist.
Will Iks in Tifton cmt> Tuesday nftvrnoon
(from 3 p. in.,) to iu .it alid operate
for am ftigrnHCti comiiliuii of the.o organs.
CATARRH of those organs certain
ly cured whenever a vnve IS iJUT.F..
Patients inquiring at ;: <• Drug Fu -:v
of J. J. Golden lv Co., v ill l.C din < ted to the
Doctors ofih«s.
<u5v3H'm.)
C. H. GOODMAN,
WOO Y^AHD
Wood of any size desired, delivered in
tell parts of town at reasonable rates.
n5-v]G-ly.
Place Your Lands
—WITH—
Sibley & Company,
Beal Estate Agents,.
IK TOO WANT THEM SOLI).
. Soma good farms and unimproved land* to
lull, also rnveral booses aud Iota In TIRon.
4fcrOmcii In Tift Building. Tifton, Ga.
v8^nl8*ly.
The Douglas leader suggests the
idea of a county fair for Coffee in
the near future.
The Pavo Quill has been {enlarged
to a 7 column paper, and is fitted up
with a neat job office.
The Enterprise advocates the es
tablishment of a public library and
reading room at Fitzgerald.
Ed Malian & Son, of Little Falls,
Minn., have contracted to establish a
sash, door and blind factory at Fitz
gerald.
Messrs. Jas. P. Cox and Jno. B.
Ilall, two well known young men in
Worth, liaye opened a livery stable
at Ashburn.
Hon. C. M. Hitch, who announces
as a candidate for the legislature
from Brooks, will make the race an
interesting one.
Dr. It. II. Pate, one of the most
prominent citizens of Dooly county,
died at his home at Unadilla, very
suddenly last Monday.
The Marie, Quitman’s principal
hotel, was sold on Monday to .T. W.
Ilopson. It was formerly built by a
stock company, and cost §20,000.
Mrs. Alary Griffin died at Cat
Creek, in Lowndes county, last week.
She had been postmistress at that
place for the past twelve years.
Aressrs. J. AV. Price, Jr., and It.
B. Price are now located at the col
ony, in Irwin, and are pleased with
their surroundings.—Worth Local.
The editor of the Pavo Quill
ought to be able to [swallow [a good
deal of„“garden*ij3ass”j; 4 thiB j |spring,
on subscription. His|narne is Gul-
lett.
At a meeting of the stock holders
of the South Georgia railroad in
Quitman Alonday, it was decided to
break dirt on the new road on the
15th of Alarcb.
A. blind man from Laporte, lnd.,
i3 putting up a broom factory in Fitz
gerald. Although lie can’t sec, lie
evidently knows the Alagic City
needs a clean sweep.
Several fires have occurred in
Fitzgerald during the past week, but
the principal loss was in household
goods, the houses burned being only
temporary shanties.
The Advance placed Editor
Smith in soak last week. At latest
advices, it appears that, although he
has been baptized, he is not yet
thoroughly converted.
The many friends of Capt. D. G.
Irby will be pleased to know that the
new owner of the Cycloneta farm
will still retain him as general man
ager.—Irwin County News.
The opera house at Cordele was
considered insufficient to withstand j
Sam Jones’eloquence last week, and
lie was allowed to lecture in the Bap-;
tist church, to a large audience.
Douglas is to have a §1,000 brick !
school building. Messrs. B. Peter
son and E. A. Buck have volunteer-j
ed to finish it, after all that is possi-!
bio }.as been raised by subscription.
A number of the five-acre tracts!
around Fitzgerald have already been
cleared up, neat cottages built there-1
on, and early truck gardens under
way, some ready for transplanting.
The gang of white men in Ifomer-
ville jail for larceny attempted to
break out last week by sawiiig out
with a case knife. They had nearly
succeeded when discovered by jailer
Newborn.
“Let your light so shine that peo
ple can Bee in the paper what you
have to sell or what you want, to
buy, „and„ we are glad to have some
of our old subscribers pay their re
spects to us; that is all they are pay
ing,” are two paragraphs that show
that Henry Smith is keeping up the
same old lick.
The Local is informed that a large
party of prospectors and home seekers
from Iowa, will leave their native
state on or about March 10th, for
Sylvester.
A little negro girl at Air. J. U.
Jones place caught a carp out the
pond there last week which tipped
the beam at sixteen pounds.—
Valdosta Times.
Albert Winter, well-known in
Georgia journalism, died at Austell
Wednesday. He went there from
Thomasville, hoping to get relief
from acute trouble.
Aliss Mamie Hill left Sunday
last for Brookfield, where she goes
to take charge of a school. The
patrons are fortunate in securing the
the services of Aliss Hill.—Syca
more Nows.
Friend Tom Kitchens, up at Pou-
lan. is advertising for a white shawl,
lost between Poulan and Sylvester.
Now, Tom is a confirmed bachelor,
and we’d just like to know what lie
was wearing a shawl for.
The end of Betts & Go’s, tram road
is nearer the center of the county
than Poulan or Sylvester either, but
that place is not available. To those
who would put Ashburn in the race,
we say hold off. —Advance.
The election for county school
commissioner, which was to have
been held last Saturday, was post
poned until Saturday 22d, inst.
on account of the absence of a mem
ber of the board of education.—Ir
win County News.
Air. W. B. Aloore eaves next
Thursday for Fitgerald, Ins future
home. Air. Aloore will make a com
plete abstract of all titles in Irwin
county, and will open an abstract
office at Fitzgerald. The task is a
difficult one, but Air. Aloore is fully
competent to succeed.—Brunswick
Times-Advertiser.
A man who gives his name ns Wil
liams came to this comity from
Alacon county the first of this year
and got a school at Isabella,claiming
to have a first grade license. Com
missioner Pol lull detected a llaw m
the license nnd put a move on the
teacher. The license was issued a
third-grade, and had been changed to
a first-grade.—Smith’s Paper.
Stale School Commissioner Glenn
says that Irwin will have to divide
her regular appropriation of the
school fund the best she can among
the school children of the county,
colonists and all, as no special appro
priation can be made until the next
legislature meets. This will cut
down the pro rata of each child to
about one-third of what it was last
year.
Consolidation of the election returns
for the office of tax receiver of
Lowndes county to fill the place made
vacant by the death of Rev. F. R. C.
Ellis show.es that the democratic
nominee, Huff Harrell, was elected by
385 majority in a vote of 805. The
democrats increased their majority
of two years ago proportionately 50
per cent., making increases in .every
prccint except one.
One month ago, Judge Dart, in
Coffee county court, fined several
lawyers and jurymen for tardiness.
The jurors paid their fines, but sever
al of the lawyers refused to do bo un
til the next term of court, when the
Judge told them to pay the $5 or go
to jail, when.all paid up exoopt two
young lawyers named Quinoy and
McDonald, who were. oept to jail
thpre hours each for contempt of
court.
THE GIDDENSES.
gree of red in his calm
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Sonic Reminiscenscs of the Long! I ho Guldens family isono of the
Ago. | oldest in Berrien county, and have
In the allotment of teachers at the :,lwa y s lived 0,1 tlieir own labor ;
Teachers Institute, held at Cecil on I ,ho y ilre a " honest, candid set of
the 15th of February, Professor C.! l ' lr i ft y farmers, savo Professor
AY. Giddens was sent to my bouse Charles AV, whom I had the pleasure
to be entertained and ted. Aly wife entertain, who is one of Berrien’s
My
had simply said “I will take two,”
when bewitching Aliss Lizzie MorgaYi
came around making up her jewels,
and knowing the stuff Berrien boys
and girls are made of, I cared noth
ing for it farther.
At noon my surprise and pleasure
was full when Air. Giddens was an
nounced. I began at once to trace
his genealogy, and found he was
the son of Air. Alathew Giddens, and
the grandson of Frederick Giddens,
one of Berrieu’s “Old Timers,” and
of a family which has boarded at
home for fifty years, at least. I do
not know whore the slock sprung
from, but they came to Berrien in
the thirties, or perhaps before.
AA T hon my father came here in
1820 lie bought of old man Tom
Giddens a draw knife, and a grub
bing hoe, the latter of which is still
extant; which Guldens, the only
blacksmith in Lowndes, made in his
shop. Think of it! one blacksmith
to a county forty miles square, and
that Smith Tom Giddens ! AV’liat a
responsibility. Then, in 1850 I be
came acquainted with Messrs. Isbin,
Frederick, and Duncan Giddens, and
beautiful Mary, blue eyed Mary Gid
dens.
* * * *
A funny incident occurred at
Lowndes Superior Court, when tlio
county was a very young lady, and
the courts were held at Sion Hall’s,
now in Brooks county. Holt was
judge, “and a merry old soul was
he.” I.evi J. Knight was foreman
of the grand jury, and John Folsom
was then bailiff. Along in the shank
of the day, when many of the bar
and jury, and perhaps His honor,
had appeared at John Hall’s lmr,
the only store in town—the boys
got up a foot race between Jack
Sweat and Isbin Giddens nnd Fol
som bad frequently appeared boforo
tlio bar, and bad treated and re
treated until Giddens felt like a colt
and Folsom could dance a jig with a
bottle on his head.
The race started, and Sweat was
in the lead, when Satan entered into
him, and tripped Giddens, who fell
and sprained his arm. Gen. Knight,
an old Indian lighter, fixed it up, and
Giddens was carried to the hospital.
Now, there was only one house in
winch to dispense Alcrcy and .Jus
tice, 10-wit—Hall’s dwelling; ami
while the court sat at a table at
end of the 20 foot room, a bed
made and the wounded man
placed thereon, in tlio other end
brightest young teachers; and who
will always find my door open to
him. Bohemian.
one
was
was |
From Worth’s Metro pi is.
Dr. Crockett has decided to quit
the farming business entirely. Says
that it is all vanity to bo a proud
farmer.
Marion Sumner has been for a
long time trying to get on a public
road, and as his house will not move
to the road lie has decided to move
the road by his house. They turn
off by tlio hill at the now church and
go right by his door and strike
tlio road to Ilorkans, about a mile be
low the old still. It outs.off about a
quarter of a mile, but the road runs
through some bad ground.
Thu Maulden boys are fixing up
around tlieir place, and it dont look
like the same place. Jim ought to
have married ten years ago. If Bill
will marry and his wife has things
fixed np like Jim’s, nobody will
know the old place. Old man Maul
den carries his ninety-six years as if
ho was not more than sixty.
I am sorry to announce the death
of AA’ilse AVillis. Ho died suddenly
last Saturday of heart disease. An
other of the old land marks gone,
and a good man gone with it. There
was one thing about Wilsc, if he did
you nogood, ho would do you no
harm, and the only nmn I over saw
that could play two fiddles and
two different tunes at the same
time.
Jim Taylor’s wife is very sick at
this lime, and the measles still hold
its own, 1 don’t know which is the
thickest, measles or log rollings.
Jim Green only lacks his saw to
commence cutting lumber again at
the MoPImul mill, that was burned
a few weeks ago.
AVell Jim Stephens is married to
Betty Ross, daughter of Uncle Jim
my Branch. They have a fino snart
in the world. There are thirteen
children in both families.
I am sorry lo soo Undo Jimmy
Branch down with tlm rheumatism.
Lott Brandi 1ms moved down to his
father’s, and is making things hum
around there.
Robert Sinclair lias put up a nice
new house, and is improving his
place so that it don’t look like the
same one.
The new road that is cut from
Collie’s mill across Jim Lady’s and
.Mrs. Win. Hobly’s and crosses
I Briar creek at Hancock’s old mill is
Anon the pain would lull, and Air. a great convenience for people down
Giddens would quiet down, resigned in that corner who waul to come up
to his fate, but on the return of the; to Isabella or this part of the
paroxysm, lie would break forth ; county.
afresh -“I’m ruined! when Folsom | Notice is hereby given by Mrs.
would command silence Uiusly | John Giddens tint if any per-im
“Hush, Giddens, hush! bo God, meets old min John they are not to
don’t you see you disturb the! stop and talk with hinV It they do
Court ?”
The comic feature ruled the
hour, and iiis honor adjourned, be.
can so ho could not master the cere
monies. •
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Those were the times when men
lmd souls to try, and. were not
found wanting, when the church
had more membors than tho peniten
tiary. However, I would give my
secondhand socks to see snob a trial
corns over our well beloved Hansel).
I’d bet a pint of peanuts his ample
beared would torn three degrees
whiter to countered with a like de-
they must abide by the consequence,
for it lum got mi lie nn’t go t .i TV i-
lan or Sumner and get back before
night and start soon in the morning.
She is going to have the court
house moved up to the end of the
lane, so that when court is .over she
can step up there and get John and
put him to work. As it is, he has
got to stay over a day after court
before he can get homo.
ISTtMAKL.
Col- J. G. polhill was elected
County School Commissioner for
Worth county without opposition.
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