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CITY DIRECTORY.
ami othes familcs worth}' of mention
in the History of Berrien.
While I hope I- have given no of-
fense to any one, I am glad to know I
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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MARCH IB. 1896.
i. Municipal.
MAYOR—F. n. Boatright.
Clerk and Treasurer—H. S. Murray.
CousciLMEK—H. U. Tift, E. 1*. Bowen, W. VT.
Timmons, J. A. Phillips, L. G. Maj-narcl & W.O.
Padrick. Council meets first Monday night in
each month.
Secret Societies.
Tifton X.odoe, No.47, E. & A.M,
W. M.; B. T. Cole. Secretary,
unlay night in each month.
Tifton Chapter, No. 47, R. A. M —F. G. Boat
right,II.P., Dr. J. A. McCrea, Secretary. Meets-
first Saturday night in each month.
Piney Woods lodge, no. so, k. of P.—E. J.
Williams, C. C.; H. S. Murray, K. of K. & 8.
Meets every Thursday night.
Literary and Social.
, Tifton Literary Club—Meets every Monday
night, at residence of Mr. E. 11. Tilt. Mrs. E. H.
Tilt, President j Miss Catherine Tift, Secretary.
Epworth LeXqoe—Religious services every
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Sunday afternoon at 6:15.
ery fourth Friday night.
Literary meeting cv-
Church Appointments.
Methodist—Rev. C. E. Crawley, Pastor. Serv
ices every first and third Sunday, at 11:00 a. m.
Prayer mdetlng every Wednesday night at 7:00.
Baptist—Rev. P. A. Jessup, Pastor. Services
every second and fourth Sunday, at 11:00 a. m.
and 7:00 p. in. Sunday school at 3:00 p. in. Pray
er meeting every Thursday night, at 7:00 o’clock.
PROFESSIONAL. CARDS.
C. C. HALL,
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Attorney-at-Law,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business,
-Collections a specialty.—O'”
OUR NEAR NEIGHBORS
Paulk building.
Office over the new
vBn32-ly.
DR, J. A. McCREA,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention givepto calls, day or night.
Office at residence on Love avenue.
Bp-TvpnoiD Fever a Specialty. B-3m
DR. J. C. GOODMAN
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON GEORGIA.
Office—Room in the Tifton Drug Store.
Drs. J. W. &. D. J. WILLIAMS,
DENTISTS,
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
Office—Bank Building, Room No. 1, up stairs
JOHN MURROW,
Attorney-at-Daw,
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Offlce-yRooms l and 3, Love building.
Collections, Commercial Law anti Real Estate.
FULWOOD & MURRAY,
Attorneys at Law.
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business,
pyOffice in Tirr Buildino.
x W. N PITTMAN,
Contractor and Builder,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Estimates on all kinds of building furnished.
J. H. TIPTON,
Attorney-at-Law,
ISABELLA, ■ GEORGIA,
to
Prompt attention
ness.
all legal busi-
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Dr. R. T. KENDRICK,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON,GEORGIA.
Diseases of women n specialty^
arid with an experience of more
than 30 years, ask a share of pub
lic patronage. Office over J. J.
G.cflde.n & Co., Drug store.
~ DR. W- P- BUSHIN,
albant, : : : Georgia.
Throat, Nose and Ear Specialist,
Will be In Tifton every Tuesday afternoon
(from 3 p. m.,) to treat and operate
for any diseased condition of these organs.
CATARRH of these organs certain-
iy cured whenever a .lire IS POSSIBLE.
Patients inquiring at the Drag Store
f J. J. Golden ■£ Co., will he directed to the
Doctors offices. (n6v3Mm.)
C. H. GOODMAN,
WOODY ARP
Wood of any size desired, delivers In
all parts of town at reasonable rales.
n5-v!6-ly.
' Place Your Lands
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Sibley & Company,
u Beal Estate Agents,
ip YOU WANT THEM SOLD.
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Some good farms and unimproved landi to
sell, also several houses and lots in Tifton.
lyOkf-tCE in Tift Building, Tifton, Ga.
v5-nl5.1y.
Briggs Carson,
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Tifton, Georgia
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A correspondent sayB that 700 ex
cursionists arrived in Fitzgerald last
Friday.
The Sale-Davis DrugCo., will be
gin work on Albany’s' new opera
house this week.
Mr. Drew W. Puulk bus been
elected Justice of the Peace of the
Fitzgerald district.
The Observer says that Mr.
R. L. Shipp will make the race for
the legislature in Colquitt.
Prof. Melvin Tanner has been
elected principal of the Douglas
High School for the present year.
Harry Stillwell Edwards, of Macon,
won the first prize $10,000, in the
Chicago Kecord’s “Stories of Mystery”
competition.
Ex-Editor A. G. DeLoach, of the
Irwin County News, left with his
family one day last week for Snap
ping Shoals, Ga.
Worth county is teeming witli rea
sons and unreasons on the removal
question. And often the sublime
borders on the ridiculous.
The Ryals Orchard Company have
just finished planting out 11,000
peach trees on their Worth couuty
farms, making 250 acres now in fruit
trees.
Love Young announces for treas
urer, R. L. Henderson for tax col
lector, and the friends of J. J. Lee
announce him for Ordinary over in
the state of Irwin.
Fitzgerald has begun erecting
brick buildings. The first one is the
Colony Rank, and Mr. P. II. .Fitz
gerald has placed an order for 1,000,-
000 brick to build a business block.
The latest railroad talk is now
that the Tifton and Northeastern
will take a straight shoot to Cordele
from Fitzgerald making it the most
direct route into this City.—Leader,
Talk. ' ^
The citizens of Fitzgerald de
nounce in manly and no uncertain
terms the com men ts on the Atlanta
Looking-Glass article in the north
ern and western press. Why not.
sue the Looking-Glass for libel?
“Evil communications corrupt
goods manners.” 0. O. Smith’s devil
did not stay in the office with him a
a month before he caught the mar
riage and removal fever, and eloped
with a girl.
Mr. P. H. Fitzgerald, the Colony
founder, says that if the people who
are continually asking him questions
had his duties to perform, they would
be “raving maniacs or in their graves.”
He is a wonderful man, or the others
pigmies.
The News says that the new town
in Irwin, on the Tifton and North
eastern, cannot he named Centreville,
because we ulready have a town in
Georgia of that name, and suggests
either Forestville or Bussell us ap
propriate names.
Theold mill on Banks pond in
the upper part of this county was
reported as burned this week. It
caught from forest fires and was
destroyed quickly. It is said to have
been one of the oldest structures in
the section.—Times
The Keystone Fruit Co., at Poulan,
are filling an order- this week for
80,000 grape vines which go to Al
abama. They have jnst finished
shipping 50,000 plum trees to vari
ous Georgia points. So much for a
Wire-grass Georgia industry.
M. B. C. Hancock, a very substan
tial farmer from near McNeill’s still
thiscohnty brought a pig to town
for exhibition lust week that proved
to be quite a curiosity. From the
middle of its body buck it was two
well developed pigs, while the head
part was only one, except it lmd two
tongues two sets of teeth and two feet
that came out jnst behind the left
shoulder and looked like the feet of
a puppy. The pig was dead but Mr.
Hancock realized two dollars for it
from a traveling museum—Moultrie
Observer.
The little child of Mr. D. II.
Willis, two miles east of Chula, in
Irwin county, was burned to death
one day last week. In trying to ex
tinguish the flames, Mr. Willis had
his hand and arm so severely burned
that it is feared blood-poisoniug will
ensue.
Despite all the advice given to
the contrary, southwest Georgia far
mers are going merrily along, put
ting in the largest cotton crop ever
knowu, anti next fall, what a howl
will go up against Wall Street, and
the money power and the speculators
who have ruined the price of cotton?
Stale School Commissioner Glenn
refuses to confirm the election of
county school commissioner Dixon
of Irwin. He holds that the elec
tion was irregular, as it was not held
on the day set apart by himself, and
also because Mr. Dixon did not
undergo an examination as is required.
—News.
Mr. J. C. Clements,of Sylvester,one
of the B. & W’s oldest and most ex
perienced engineers, received the dis
charge last Saturday that seems to
be the lot' of the brotherhood these
days. Mr. Tom Wells, who has been,
hostler in the Plant System yard, qt
Albany, for the past, twenty years,
was discharged Sunday.
Some one wrote to the editor of a
country paper and asked him how he
would “break an ox?” The editor
answered as follows- “If only ono ox,
a good way would be to hoist him by
means of a chain, attached to his
tail, to the top of a pole forty feet
from the ground. Then hoist him
by a rope tied to his horns to another
pole. Then descend on his back a
5-ton pile driver, and if that don’t
break him let him start a country
newspaper and trust people for sub
scriptions. One of the two will do
it sure.”
Valdosta Timps: A gentleman
near Sparks sends us this, his profits
on turkeys raised last year and shows
that, in proportion to the amount
invested the returns were really
astonishing. He started the season
with four hens and a gobbler and
during the season he recieved three
litters of eggs making a total of 131
eggs, lie set 116 eggs and raised
to market size seventy-three turkoyB,
which averaged twelve and a half
pounds each, bringing on the market
$43.56. He kept thirteen hens, val
ued at $12 and sold ten eggs for $2.50,
making a total for his year’s raising
of $58.06. It cost him just $13.50
to raise the entire crop, leaving a
clear profit from the four hens of
$43.95.
THE MeCUANILS.
Two Ltvps Saved,
Mr*. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City
111., was told by her doctor* she had con
sumption and that there was no hope for
her, but two bottle* Dr. King’* New Dis
covery completely cured her and she
say* it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggcrs,
189 Florida *t., San Francisco, suffered
from a dreadful cold, approaching con
sumption, tried without result everything
else then bought one bottle of Dr. King’s
New Discovery and in two weeks was
cured. lie is naturally thankful. It is
such results, of which these are samples,
that prove the wonderful efficacy of till*
medicine in coughs and colds. Frco trial
bottles forsale by J. J. Golden, Tifton,
or W. A. Crabtree, Sparks.
I am well acquainted with tbo merits
and methods of the Valdosta Business
College and heartily indorse the institu
tion. The highest grade business col
lege in the state. G. R. Glenn, State
School Commissioner
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I have heretofore written of Ber
rien’s Pioneors, not so much as to any
priority of talent displayed by their
offsprings, nor yet of wealth, but to
group the “clans” of Scotoh-Irish
people who came here in the long-
ago twenties, anil selected the Ninth
and Tenth districts of Original Irwin
as a permanent home, a place where
their generations might dwell for aye!
Ilence, not because they were in
ferior, but were somewhat later m
getting there, I come to the McCra
nie?, a people who chose the region
around No-man’s-friond as an abid
ing place.
Certainly, old Uncle Daniel did not
come singing—
"1 am bound for tlie Promised Lund."
That is, if he had seen the place before
he commenced to move from a land of
“Civilization, sweet botheration, and
Shelala Law,” to the hanks anil
bides of No-man’s-friend, a land of
swamps and reed-brakes unlike any
part of Georgia.
Daniel McCranie.
I select the above as the bend of
the family, because I know more of
him and his offspring, and because
lie had the distinguished honor of
being a Master Mason, the first of
that honored fratornity who inhab
ited BorrUn. That Daniel McCra
nie was a good citizen need no fur
ther evidence. There were at least
three other oldtimers of this family
whom I know, but whoso genesis I
am unable to record, namely, John,
(Jack,) and John and Nicl. They
were all pure Scotch-Irish, bravo
honest and truthful.
Mr. MeCrunio had six sons and
two daughters to-wit: Mai coni, Archi
bald, William,' Daniel, John and
Niel and Mrs. S. G. Williams and
Mrs. R. N. Parrish.
My space will only premit me to
write briefly of this numerous fam
ily a people whoso kinship holds
some of my most cherished friends.
Liko the Parrishes, there are few
Colonel and Doctoi MoCranies, and
yet their lives are thoroughly inter
woven with the progress of the Ninth
district. Today, - John It. McCranio
stands among Berrien’s brightest anil
best sous.
My friend Hamilton McCranie, of
Nashville, also is worthy of“well done,
good and faithful servant” of Berrien.
Judge A. W. Patterson, of Nashville,
and H. A. D. Patterson, of Moultrie,
belong to the clan.
But I can only write generally of
this family. There many others worthy
of special mention, whom I must skip
for want of space. W. l'\ Mattlus,
a merchant “Sans reproche,” is the
representative in of this connection
in Cecil, a man who esteems his in
tegrity above money. These people
have, by their progress under diffi
culties, illustrated Berrien.
I cannot close this without a men
tion of few facts in contrast with tho
Parrish family. Tho lattor family
were and are democrats, politically,
and religiously, Baptists. Tho Me
chanics have shown their right to in
dependent thought by affiliating with
Methodist, Baptist, Whigs, Democrats
and Freemasons whenever they chose.
Without any disparagement of the
other clans, I must be allowed to ad
mire the personal individualism of
the MeCranicB. Engaged in all the
pruBuits of life, we find them allied
with all the schemes for the better
ment of society in general, and all
striving to reach a higher round on
the social ladder.
As a rule, tho men are bravo atul
courteous, while the women are fair
and intelligent, I regret, that being
unable, financially, to meet the few
old men yet living, I cannot write
intelligently of the Bakers, Gaskinses
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, |
Lucas County. y
Frank J. Ciienky makes oath that he
is the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Co., doing business iu the
City of Toledo, County ami State afore
said, and that said firm will pny the sum
of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each. and every case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by the usoof Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this flth day of December,
A. D. 1880. A. W. GLEASON,
( —--—■.) Notary Public.
|Seal t
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and nets directly on the blood and mu-
cons surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY &
CO., Toledo O.,
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are tho best.
Program.
Of the Sunday School Convention of
the Moll Baptist Association, to
Convene with Antioch church,Sat
urday beforo the fth Sunday in
March', 1896.
9:00 a.ni. Educational service, by
Elder G. F. Clark.
9:30. 1 st Query—Should tho 3. S.
convention adopt an universal text
song book for their bounds? Dis
cussion led by V, F. Norman.
2nd.—Do the parents and heads of
families give the proper and sufficient
religious'training to the rising gener
ation? Led by .T. L. Kinard,
3rd.— Have we scripture authority
for Sabbath school Leaching ? Give
the uvideneo of it. Led by Elder II.
T. Dowling.
•till. Miscellaneous business.
5th. Sunday school mass meeting
Sunday morning, by Elder W.F.Cox.
All S. S. workers are respectfully
invited to bo present at the first ser
vice, and the anti-workers aro moro
than especially invited to bo on the
time of opening.
1>. E. LiNDSEY, 1
J. B. Green, }• Com.
J. D,Calhoun, J
Do Not Do Tills.
Do not lx> Imlucetl to liny any other If you have
made up your mind to tako Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Remember that Hoo,ls Sarsaparilla cures when
all others fall. Do not give up lu despair be
cause other medicine have failed to help you.
Take Hood’s Hursaparllla faithfully and you may
reasonably expect to be cured.
flood’s pill* are purely vegetable, carefully
prepared from the liest Ingredient*. 28c.
have placed :s few facts on record with
out prejudice, reward, or the hope
thereof.
Education has dawned on these
three brainy'familics, aud I hope by
tho imperfect sketches I have been'
able to write, while almost blind,
I liavo added a link to the chain, a
stone to the building which will be
appreciated by the 2,000 people in
terested directly in the early history
of Berrien county.
If I have unwittingly offended
sonic one, remember I was making
a free-will offering to Berrien county
history, and not engaged in personal
matters. Bohemian.
O. L. Winks, Ezar MoClnftin and
G. W. Prwtsman, three prominent
capitalists of Williamsport, N. Y.,
were in the city lust week for the
purpose of buying eight to ten thou
sand acres of land near Fitzgerald for
the purpose of settling some 600
people from their section who wish,
to locate here. The party left
Friday for Tifton, where they will
meet some more Of their delegation^
—Enterprize
Thu Valdosta Business College offers
the most liberal inducements of any col
lege in die siute to those Interested In
securing a business education.
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