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CITY DIRECTORY.
Municipal.
Mayob—F. O. Boatright.
Clerk and Treasures—H. 8. Murray.
Councilmen—H. H. Tift, E. F. Bowen, W. W.
Timmons, J. A. Phillips, L. G. Maynard & W.O.
Fadrlck. Council meets tint Monday night la
each month.
Secret Societies.
Tifton Lodo e.No.47,F.*A. M.—J.S.Gaulden
W. M.j B. T. Cole. Secretary. Meets third Bat*
urday Bight in each month.
Tifton Chapter, No. 47, K. A. M F. G. Boat
right,H.P., Dr. J. A. McCrea, Secretary. Meets*
tint Baturday night in each month.
Finey Woods Lodge, No. 60, K. of P.—E. J.
Williams, C. C.; H. S. Murray, K. of It. it B.
Meets every Thunday night.
Literary and Social.
Tifton Literary Clue—Meets every Monday
night, at residence of Mr. E. K. Tilt. Mm. E. H.
Tut, President; Miss Catherine Tift, Secretary.
Epworth League—Iteligtoua services every
Sunday afternoon at 6:16. Literary meeting ev
ery fourth Friday night.
Church Appointments.
Methodise—Rev, C. E. Crawley, Pastor. Serv
ices every lint and third Sunday, at 11:00 a. m.
Prayer meeting 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. m. Sunday school at 3:00 p. m. Pray
er meeting every Thunday night, at 7 :C0 o'clock.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
IS C. HALL. B. A. HENDRICKS.
HALL & HENDRICKS,
Attorneys-at-Law,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business.
—Collections a specialty.—Office over the new
Paulk building. v5n32-ly.
DR. J. A. McCREA,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to calls, day or night.
Office at residence on Love avenue.
53^-TYrnoiD Fever a Specialty. 8-3m
DR. J. C. GOODMAN
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON GEORGIA.
Office—Room In tlio Tifton Drug Store.
Dr. J. W WILLIAMS,
DENTIST ,
CORDELE, GEORGIA.
Office—Rank Building, Room No. 1, up stairs
JOHN MURROW,
A11 o i* n e y - at -Law,
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Office—JtoOms 1 anti 3, Love building.
Collections, Commercial Law and Real Estate.
FULWOOD & MURRAY,
Attorneys at Law.
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business.
■^“Office in Tift Building.
W. N PITTMAN,
t Contractor and Builder,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
estimates on all kinds of building furnished.
J. H. TIPTON,
Attorney-at-Law,
ISABELLA, - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention to nil legal busi
ness. (v5n48-3m)
Dr. R. T. KENDRICK,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Diseases of women a specialty,
and with an experience of more
than 30 years, ask a share of pub
lic patronage. Office over J. J.
Golden & Co., Drug store.
C. H. GOODMAN, “
WOODYARD
Wood of any size desired, delivered in
all parts of town at reasonable rates.
no-vlO-ly.
Briggs Carson,
INSURANCE
Tifton, Georgia.
Office in Timmons building.
TIFTON
SALE STABLES.
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
C. 1. WILLIAMS. Proprietor
TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY 22, 1896. VOL. 6-NO. 5
OUR NEIGHBORS.
Fitzgerald will soon incorporate.
Lowndes superior court convened
Monday.
Brunswick’s population foots up
11,000.
Hawkiusville is * thinking about
bonding for waterworks.
James P. Bearer is about to start a
little colony in Ware county.
Mrs. Jane H Dupree, of Pulaski
county, is dead, aged 77 years.
Mrs. Aaron Moore,of Willacoochee.
has a quilt with 10,800 pieces.
The Statesboro Star has joined the
pops. It did not have far to go.
Mr. W. F. Symons has been ap
pointed postmaster at Brunswick.
R. R. Goin, a merchant of Fitz
gerald, died in that city last Friday.
The Fogle House, at Alapaha, is
one of the best in Southwest Georgia.
Mr. Joe L. Herring, an aged cit
izen of Dooly county, died recently
Mr. Sol. Waxelbanm, a prominent
Hebrew of Macon, is dead, aged 61.
Miss Minnie Cady and C. N. Field
ing were married at Leliaton Sunday.
Dirt has been broken for the fine
Baptist church to be erected in
Valdosta.
Mrs. A. L. Hobby died at her home
in the 2d district of Worth county
recently.
Miss Mollie Boring and Mr. J. E.
Godbolt were wedded in Valdosta
last Sunday.
Rev. J. B. Wardlaw, well and favor
ably known in this section, died m
Tennessee recently.
A postoflice named “Street” has
been established seven miles north
west of Blackshear.
Isaiah Sweet and Ben Cobb, col.,
of Mitchell county, shot, each other
to death last Saturday night.
The free and unlimited 1G to 1
Silvervesterites are rejoicing over a
new sidetrack at their depot.
Between two and three thousand
sheep were sheared recently at the
Andy Pitts place in Dooly county.
The Wayeross Herald is as bright
as its editor is true to democracy,
and that is saying a volume in a few
lines.
A ball park and a fine team gives
the lovers of that kind of sport in
Valdosta hopes of much amusement
this season.
There will be a union meeting at
Mt. Zion church, in Colquitt county,
on the 5th Sunday and Saturday
before in -May.
Ail Ohio Colony is to locate on
5,000 acres of land near Ashburn.
The company 1ms adopted the build
ing and loan plan.
The Hawkiusville Dispatch iiasdis-
covererd that caster oil applied to u
wart once a day for a month will
entirely remove it.
Valdosta lias some very graceful
lady bike riders. The Valdosta
ladies, like those of this town, are
graceful any where.
The Arabi Stur says “Mr. Morris
has thirteen acres of cotton knee high
all over the field.” Mr. Morris can
take the blue ribbon.
Dr. J. E. Overstreet and Alonza|
Carter had a shooting scrupe at!
Surrency the other day, in which i
both men were wounded.
Mr. T. M. Bryan’s little daughter,
Effie djed on Friday night last at
Moultrie, and was t,ik$» to the family
burial ground near Dixie.
Miss Jessie King, a sister of Mr.
; W. A. King, of llahira, died at
Quitman last Sunday. Heir health
I had not been good for a long time.
Mrs. Martha Corbett, of Clinch
county, died last week, of measles.
W. E. Kay is spoken of in connec
tion with legislative honors in Glynn.
Mr. John R. Cook, and old and
highly respected citizen of Brunswick,
is dead.
“Boss” Collier, son of Rev. Ned-
ham Collier, who once resided in Al
bany, is dead.
J. C. Wilcox and R. A. Wilson are
in the race for the legislature in
Wilcox County.
Jesse Paulk is making the race for
sheriff in Irwin county, and Jacob R.
Paulk for tax collector.
The Fitzgerald, Pine Bloom and
Valdosta railroad is capitalized at
$150,000. A charter has been gran
ted.
You Hen-e-ry 1 Those letters to
Diana may get you into a sea of bliss
yet. Bet Diana does not live at Sum
ner.
Mrs. Thos. Roberts, an estimable
lady of Willacoochee, died in that
town on Thursday of last week, of
measles.
George Rountree, a notorious ne
gro burglar, was captured at Val
dosta a few days ago and taken to
Bainbridge.
Basil, the thirteen-year-old son of
Mrs. Mitchell Mathis, of Cecil, died
in Cecil a short time since and was
buried in Adel.
The “Albany World,” a populist
paper published in Albany, Ga.,
comes to us, week after week, with
out a line of original matter in it.
A gentleman from Philadelphia
speaks of building a cotton factory
at Valdosta. But. he may visit Tif-
ton before coming to a final decis
ion.
Our old young friend, John C.
Lehman, down at Brunswick, lias de
clined to run for the legislature.
John alwajs was a mighty sensible
boy.
Dr. Sikes may yet sue the Local
for big damages. That picture is
enough to turn the handsome and
genial Doctor's hair white m three
minutes.
The Primitive Baptists in the Adel
section of the county will soon erect
a new church building at that place
to accommodate their increasing
numbers.
The M. J. Young residence in
Adel was sold at commissioners’ sale
on Wednesday of last week, Mr. John
T. Roberts, of Valdosta, being the
purchaser.
Editor Greer,of the Douglas Breeze,
has notified his friends that he hasn't
tune to go to the legislature. .Our
private opinion is that lie also lacks
inclination.
The WaycroBS Herald says that
several of t.ho engineers that lost
their jobs during the late trouble
on the Plant System have been put
to work again.
The Minnie mill pond iu Irwin
county will be drained Monday, and
the people are invited to attend and
get all the fish they can scoop up.
■ Admission, $1.00.
Mr. N. M. Sinclair, of Tifton,
j spent several days in Worth during
the past week, in the interest of the
Tifton Lund and Immigration Com
pany.—Worth Local.
The executive committee of the
11th congressional district meets in
Jesup on Tuesday, May 19th, to set
n day tor holding the convention to
nominate a congressman.
The editor of the Irwin County
News is bragging about au Irish po
tato as large iisa lien’s egg. Pshaw!
The Gazette could fill its columns
with notices of culls like that.
The question is asked how long
girls should be courted. We should
say, just the same os short girls.—
Wayeross Journal. That’s the long
and the short of it
Dr. J. C. Wilson is located at Jew
els, in Hancock county, where he is
associated with Dr. George Heriot in
the practice of medicine. They are
both Coffee county boys.
It must be very trying to our young
friend, lb Giddeus, down at Will
acoochee, to sit down peaceably,
week after week, and hear the Cour
ier allude to him as “Abe” Guldens.
The thermometer climbed so high
in Wayeross last week that Judge
Perham was afraid to mention it
Better come to Tifton where that in
dicator is always just high enough to
be pleasant,
A “citizen” of Sycamore appeals
through the News, to the marshal
aud councilmen to put a stop to
drunkeiiuess aud rowdyism in that
town. Why, good gracious 1 Isn’t
Sycamore a "dry town?”
The Georgia Southern and Florida
railroad Co., is surveying a town on its
own line, in Dooly county, to be
known as “Gum City.” A large
chewing gum factory is to be the
chief enterprise, by gum!
Fackler, at Willacoochee, says a
long, keen, lying tongue is a “vice”
and the source of much trouble.
That’s a new name tor the organ of
speech. Next thing you know he’ll
bo calling the nose a monkey-wrench.
Last week J. F. Coney, the banker
at Hawkiusville, had his leg broken
in a runaway. Whilo driving out,
his horse became unruly and begun
kicking, striking and breaking Mr.
Coney’s left leg just below the knee.
An examination of applicants for
appointment from the lltli congres
sional district to the U. S. military
acudemy will be held ill Wayeross on
June Oth. Circulars of information
can be obtained from lion. II. G.
Turner.
A thief threw a brick through a
plate-glass window in Lanier «fc Son’s
jewelry Btore in Wayeross, a few days
ago, and got away with a lot of jewelry
and oilier things. Perhaps lie’s the
same fellow that invaded Tifton
recently.
The scarlet fever scare is on at
Americas and quite a number of peo
ple are anxious to go to the country
for awhile. Cases are reported at
Andersonville also, and rumors of
cases at Drayton und Rich wood, in
Dooly county, are afloat,
Janies Henderson, a young man
25 years old, was drowned in the
Alapaha river, about three miles from
Willacoochee, lust Sunday. lie, with
others, wus buthing, when he was
taken with crumps and was drowned
before help could reach him.
Jerry Dale shot and killed Jesse
Hall Sunday morning at Jasper, Fla.
Hall went to Dale’s house drunk forc
ed his way in. abused the fnmily und
strucx Mrs. Dale, when Dale shot
him. He ran fifty feet from the
house and dropped dead. The cor
oner justified the killing.
The editor of the Arabi Star
offers his paper and the weekly Con
stitution one year to the jierson who
will place in his office the largest
melon during the season of 1896,
All, Bud, that kind of watermelon •
| clioly accumulation played out in
Georgia several years ago.
Mr. John Baxter seems to bo the
most enterprising truck farmer in
Pierce county, lie made 198 barrels
of Irish potatoes on eight acres of
land. He expects to realize $600.-
00 on his potatoes and make a good
crop of corn on the same piece of
ground besides.— Blackshear Hustler.
A gentleman who has beep travel
ing through the Naylor and Cat
Creek districts says that crops are
better than he has ever seen them at
this time of the year. He says that
the farmers have good stands and
that the crops are well worked.—Val
dosta Times.
Bishop Granberry has appointed
Rev. T. B. Ivemp, of the Moultrie,
circuit, to fill the vacancy cansed by
the death of Rev. H. T. Ethridge.
Rev. R. P. Fain was sent to Moultrie
to take oliarge of that work in Bro.
Kemp’s stead. The people of our
town regret very much having to
give Bro. Fain up.—Irwin News.
A number of the Elwood Park col
onists passed through Douglas last
Saturday in carriages aud covered
wagons returning to their northern
homes. They expressed themselves
thoroughly disgusted with the place
to which they hod been attracted
through false representations and in
timated that it would not be healthy
for those at the head of the
soheme to keep up the practice of de
luding the people to a place where
they could not live.—Douglas Leader.
Mr. Win. A. Sharpe, of the lower
part of this county, brought to this
office last Friday, a curiosity that
would do honor to any museum. It
is the stuffed skin of a white lamb, or
pair of lambs. There are two com
plete lambs from about middle way
of the bodies, back to the tails
From tlicro forward they are united
breast to breast. It hasbutoue mouth,
two eyes, three ears, eight legs and
two tails. It was found a few weeks
ago on the promises of II. J. Gibtys,a
a neighbor of Mr. Sharpe’s. It was
dead when found, and the stuffed
skin is now on exhibition at the Mon
itor office.—Mt. Vernon Monitor.
Mr.Charles Clewis, of Snow,Dooly
comity, is sixty-six years oUl and has
been a farmer all his life. The fol
lowing is taken from the Cordele
Sentinel: At the close of the war
Mr. Clewis had 800 acres of land and
one mule, but no money and no pro
visions. He split rails to earn a lit
tle money, and with it bought the
provisions which sustained himself
mid family while lie made his first
crop. Since then he has never bought
corn, except one year, and with this
exception he lias sold corn and meat
every year. He now owns 8,000 acres of
land, runs 85 plows, makes each year
from 200 to 225 bales of cotton,
about 5,000 bushels of corn and from
6,000 to 8,000 pounds of meat. He
cleared $4,000 on his plantation lust
year, lie is neat but not extrava
gant in dress. He was once approach
ed by a well dressed young man who
asked,“Uncle Charlie, why don’t you
get a fine suit of clothes?” He replied,
“Because 1 would rather wear common
clothes and have money in my pocket
than to wear fine dollies bought on a
credit.”
How^ii This?
Wo Oircrtmu Hundred Dollar* Howard for any
rose of Catarrh Hint cannot lio cured by Hull's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO, I'roii*, Toledo, 0.
Wo, tin}undersigned,liavo known F. J. Clumey
(ortho last 15 year*, ami believe him perfectly
honorable In all business transactions, ami tln-
anclally able to carry out any obligation, made
by their llrm.
West .t Tiiuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
O. WALKING, KINNAN iY MAUVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo. ().
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood anti iuucuos surfaces of
tlio system, l’rico 75c, per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists. Testimonials free.
Hall's family Pills are the best.
The free silver organs are booming
Lon Livingston for the speakership
in case the silver men capture the
next house. With Tillman in the
White House aud Lou jn tlio speaker’s
chair,we might well exclaim with the
fellow who was yoked to the wagon
with a run away ox: “Head us, gol
darn bur fool son!, head us.”—Macon
News.