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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1896.
VOL. 6-NO. 9
CITY DIRECTORY.
Municipal.
Mayor—P. O. Boatright.
Clerk and Treasurer—H. 8. Murray.
COUNOILMEN—H. H. Tift, E. F. Bowen, W. W.
Tiinmqns, J. A. Phillips, L. G. Maynard & W. O,
rick. Council meets first Monday night In
each month. ,
OUR NEIGHBORS.
Secret Societies.
Tiftor Loihie, No. 47, F. & A. M.—J.S.Gauhlcn
W. M.; B. T. Cole. Secretary. Meets third Sat
urday night In each month.
Tnrrosr Chapter, No. 47, It. A. M.—F. G. Boat'
right,H.P., Dr. J. A. McCrca, Secretary. Meets'
tint Saturday night in each month.
Firry Woods Lodge, No. 80, K. ot P.—E. J.
Williams, C. C.; H. S.‘Murray, K. of R. & S.
Meets every Thursday night.
Literary and Social.
Tifton Literary Clo»—Meets every Monday
night, at residence of Mr. E. If. Tift. Mrs. E. H.
Tilt, President; Miss Catherine Tift, Secretary.
Epwouth League—Religious services every
Sunday afternoon at G :15. Literary meeting ev
ery fourth Friday night.
Church Appointments.
Methodist—Kev. C. E. Crawley, Pastor. Serv
ices every Sunday, at 11:00 a. m. and 7143 p. m.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday night at 7.00.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
Baptist—Rev. P. A. Jessup, Pastor. Services
every Sunday, at 11 d)0 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sun
day school at 3:00 p.m. Prayer meeting every
‘ ‘ it7:00 o’clock.
Thursday night, at7:00 o’clock
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
JONATHAN B. MURROW,
iAttornevat-Il<aw,
TIFTON.GEORGIA.
Prompt attention to all legal business.
- — jyCollections a specialty.
n8-v6-tf
«. c. hall.
HALL
&
U. A. HENDRICKS.
HENDRICKS,
Attorney s-at-Law,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business.
—Collections a specialty.—Office over the new
~ v5n32-ly.
Paulk building.
DR, J. A. McCREA,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to calls, day or night.
Office at resilience) on Love avenue.
5-3m
Eff“TYPHon> Fever a Specialty.
DR. J. C/GOODMAN
Physician and burgeon,
TIFTON GEORGIA.
Office—Room In the Tlfton Drug Store.
Dr. J. W WILLIAMS,
DENTIST ,
CORDELL, GEORGIA.
Office—Rank Building. Room No. 1, up stairs
Cotton in Lowndes county is bad
ly affected with lice.
Work has been resumed on the
Sparks and Moultrie railroad.
A nihe-foot shark was caught in
the river near Brunswick the other
day.
Mrs. Alfriend,of Lowndes county,
gave birth to triplets a few days ago.
All doing well.
Mr. Dan McGirt and Miss Florrie
Ousley, were wedded at Poulan on
Thursday of last week.
Miss Florence Hamilton, of Iluw-
kipsville, and Mr. D. A. R. Crum, of
Vienna, were wedded in Hawkins-
ville Wednesday.
A man has been sentenced to a
month in jail for kissing a girl.
—Poulan Herald. Maybe the poor
man was leap-yeared.
Waycrose i3 badly afflicted with
burglars. It is said th$t Judge Per-
ham changes the locks on his larder
and wine cellar every night.
Mrs. S. M. Cox will continue to
run the Hotel Clyde at Ashburu.
This meaus that the hotel will be
excellent in all its appointments.
At the adjourned term of Colquitt
court lost week, Wm. Isham, charged
with murder, was found guilty of
manslaughter and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary.
Walter Manning, a colored barber,
well known in Tifton, was shot and
killed by John Edwards, a colored
waiter in Ilorkun’s bar on Monday
ot last week. He is in jail.
Judge C. C. Smith has refused to
grant Jake Burney, now in Valdosta
jail under sentence of death, a new
trial, and it is not likely the case
will be carried to the supreme court.
JOHN MURROW,
Atto i’ n e y - a. t - La w ,
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Onicc-JioomB 1 anil J, Love building.
Collections, Commercial Law and Leal Kstatc.
FULWOOD & MURRAY,
Attorneys at I .aw.
TIFTON, - GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business.
tyOiTicr, in Tirr Huiiahnu.
W. N PITTMAN,
Contractor and Builder,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
Estimates on all kinds of building furnished.
J. H. TIPTON,
Attorney-at-Law,
ISABELLA, • OEOBOIA.
to all legal bust-
(v5n43-3m)
Prompt attention
ness.
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.
TIFTON LAND
-AND-
Iniptiot ('011 pin j,
Fruit, Farm and Timber
Lands. Write for Particulars.
vOnl-tf.
C. H. GOODMAN.
WOODYAED
ty they are-in fine shape and the out
look vya6 never better. If they have
suffered auy from the drouth, which
was very mgpli feared, they do not
show it—Valdosta Times.
An old oitizeu said yesterday, “I
have been living for more than half
a century and I have nevey before
seen a time when there were less rea
son for complaint among farmers.
The crops last year were good, barus
are full of grain and forage and it
has been possible for every farmer to
live altogether at hom6.”—Valdosta
Times.
The Baptist church house at Syl
vester, will be dedicated the first Sab
bath in July. RevB. P. A. Jessup
and W. O. Darsey will officiate at the
dedication. A series of meetings for
the deepening of spiritual life will
follow the dedication services during
the following week. They will be
conducted by Rev. W. O. Darsey.
—Worth Local.
The Mid-summer carnival at Val
dosta has been postponed from July
2ud, 3rd and 4th, to July 16th ,17th
and 18th. This will give our neigh
bors over there an opportunity to
visit the Empire Garden Mid-sum
mer Fair at Tifton on the 8th, 9th
and 10th of July. Conie over and
see what we are doing in agriculture,
horticulture and several other cul
tures.
Jim Wangrau a young white five-
man on the Live Oak and Gulf rail
road was dragged to death under a
train last week while coming from a
1 picnic at O’Brien, Flu. He was
dringiug freely pf‘whisky, autl was
acting the clown to amuse the merry
pienners. The passenger coach
wus crowded with passengers lor
New Branford. Wangran held on
to the rear platform, with his head
suspended downward in dangerous
The conduc-
TIFTON MIDSUMMER FAIR, j fruit growers from other sections de
clared it to be the finest display of
AND
The l’ineopolis Lumber Go. is look- proximity to the track,
iog out a location to erect another 1 'or warned him of his danger. Soon
large mill. It will probably be placed 1 WangrunVhead stuck a crosstie, and
within two miles of Moultrie. It is his body was dragged ft considerable
to cut 75,000 feet per day.- Moul- j distance. His . arms and head were
trie Observer.
The Masonic fraternity after offi
ciating at the burial of Lhc late S.
M. Cox, on Tuesday of lust week,
also performed the burial service
over the grave of the lute VV. J.
Ford.—Worth Local. _
Frank Walthons, a conductor on
the S. F. & W. R. It., met a horrible
death lust week, near the 74 mile
post, about twenty miles above Way-
cross, by falling between the cars.
Ilis body was badly mutilated.
The Gazette is among the best
newspapers printed in this section of
Gerogia; has a splendid printing out
fit, and is ably edited and conducted
by Mr. J. L. Herring.—Fitzgerald
Leader. Thanks,' Bro. Knapp. Same
to you.
Col. C. W. Fulwood wus here yes
terday on the interest of the Mid
summer Fair ut Tifton.—Ashburu
Advance. Yes, he’s donned Ins sev
en league boots and is doing tine
work for the falf.
crushed, and when the passengers
got. to him after the train stopped lie
wus dead. The corpse was terribly
mangled.
The passing away of Mr. S. G.
Williams Wednesday evening re
moves another of the few remaining
settlers of the pioneer days of this
section of country. Settling on the
place where he died, in his early
manhood, lie began the battle of life
bravely and lived to the ripe old ago
88 years. . lie was perhaps the oldest
white citizen and settler of the coun
ty and was familiarly known all over
this section as Uncle Griff, lie
reared a large family of rnanly sons
and modest daughters, some of whom
have attained to prominent positions
in the higher walks of life. IIo was
quite an invalid for some time be
fore his death at.d for several years
has been too old and decrepit to mix
and mingle witli the general public.
He was affectionately loved by his
large family connection, admired
and respected by his acquaintances
The oldest man living bus been j and revered by the old slaves. lie
discovered and his home is a few j lived his allotted time in honest toil
miles south of Waycrose. He wasj and industry and was fully ready for
born in Virginia, so he claims, just | the final summons, the end coming ns
WILL BE HELD JULY 8TH 9TH,
. 10th AT TIFTON, GA.
The third annual Midsummer
Fair of the comities of Berrien,
Worth and Irwin will be held at
Tifton on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday, July 8th, 9th and 10th, and
it is expected that the display of
fruits, garden and field products will
bo the largest and finest ever held in
the South. As this fair is held in
the centre of the south Georgia fruit
belt it affords those who visit it an
opportunity of inspecting the mam
moth orchards and vineyards and see
the fruit picked packed and shipped.
On the second day of the fair there
will be held a convention of North
ern settlers, who will give their ex
perience m their Southern homes.
Visitors to the fair will also have an
opportunity of visiting the soldiers’
colony which is located only twenty-
five miles from Tifton, and excursion
trains will be run daily between Tif-
frou and Fitzgerald. The Georgia
Southern will run a special excursion
train from Macon to Tifton aud re
turn each day during the fair and
will give low excursion rates.
Major W. L. Glessner, commission
er of immigration, is advertising this
fair extensively throughout the
North, and having secured a very
low excursion rate from all Northern
points to Tifton, a very large attend
ance of Northern visitors is expected*
The initial Midsummer Fair was
held in Tifton four years ago, at the
residence of Oapt. II. II. Tift. On a
large table in the dining room was a
handsome and tastefully arranged
display of peaches '111111 grapes, for
the purpose of showing a party of
Northern visitors, brought by Major
Glessner in July, what could be. done
in fruit growing in south Georgia.
That little display suggested to Major
Glessner the idea of holding an an
nual fruit fair, and tho next year a
special building was erected and the
counties of Berrien, Worth and Irwin
united in holding an annual fruit
ful r, at which .there were over 1,000
entries und its success was so marked
that an additional building was erect
ed tho next year, both oLwlnch were
so filled tlrnl a third building may
be built for the fair to be held in
this year. 1 The Bouthjyyi Magazine,
in speaking of the second annual
fair, Buid :
“Much lias been said and written
regarding the wonderful advantages
possessed by Georgians a fruit grow
ing section, and especially to the Tier-
feet adaptability of its soil aid cli
mate in the production of peaches;
but it remained for the Midsummer
Fruit Fair at Tifton to give a living,
glowing illustration of these udvan-
tages—a picture painted by the hand
of the great Master in nature’s own
colors. Noone who saw this exhibit
could ever after accuse the fruit cut-
ulouges of exaggeration in color or
size, for here were peaches twelve or
fifteen inches in circumference, bril
liant with their red and gold, tempt
ing to eye and palate ; plums in red,
yellow and green, large as goose eggs;
grapes in purple, pink and amber, (lie
hunches weighing a pound aud over;
fruit, in color, size and quality
they had ever seen. Among the ex
hibits were a Chinese cling tree two
years old, upon which were 115
peachss; a 2-year-old Kelsey plum
tree with 350 plums; a peach seed
ling five feet ten inches high, from a
seed planted March, 10 last year.
The fruit was not only perfect and
in almost infinite variety, but it was
tastefully displayed. Among the
exhibits were a star-shaped pyramid
covered with a variety of grapes, the
base being festooned with grape vines;
a pyramid of punches, with an anchor
and diamond in grapes on the Bide.
a handsome display of canned fruits
by tho Tifton Canning Company
The display at this fair is the more
remarkable because of the fact that
five years ago this section was an al
most unbroken pine forest and the
oldest orchards and vineyars are but
four years old. Among the success
ful exhibitors were Northern men,
who have settled in this section with
in the past tiiree years. Excursion
parties from Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Dukota and other states
were in attendance, aud were so im
pressed by what they saw that many
of them purchased* land and will
move down in the tall.”
Deafness Cannot to Curud
by local applications, ns they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There Is only one way to on 0 deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Denfnoss is caused by an inflamed condi
tion of tile mucous lining of the liustach-
inn Tube. When this tube gets inflamed
you have a rumbling sound or impcrfact
bearing, and when i( is entirely closed
deafness is the. result ami unless the
Inflammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
eases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing hut an Inflamed condi
tion of tho mucous surfaces,
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
- any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot he cured by Mail's Catarrh
| Cure. SeffiT for circulars, free. .
F. J- CHENEY & (JO, Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Mali's Family Ellis are the best.
A Xonli’s Ark-er.
Last week several of Irwin’s good
citizens, while fishing in one of the
large lakes in the Alapaha river,
naught tho largest loggerhead turtle
ever seen in this region. It measured
five feet from tip to tip and thirty-two
inches across tho back. On its back,
in plain letters was the name of “John
Alexander” and “1838” out in tho
shell.
The old inhabitants remember
John Alexander. He died about
forty years ago and his grave is not
over one hundred yards from tho
lake where tho turtle was caught.
This is supposed to be tho identical
turtle Noah turned out of the ark,
but there is no positive testimony on
the subject.
The Ideal Faaaoea.
James I*, Francis, Chicago, says; "I
regard Dt, King’s Now Discovery as an
Ideal Panacea for Coughs, Colds and
filing Complaints, having used It in my
family for tint lust live years, to tho ex
clusion of physician's prescriptions oc
other preparations.”
Kev. John Hurgus, Keokuk, Iowa,
135 years ago, on the plantation of; quietly umLpeacefully as a jpteasttnt! peafg all(l app ] e , in gret , n> y - L ,]| ou llm i j writes: "l have been a Minister of tho
his illustrious master, George Wash-; dream. The interment occHrred j rU8ge j 0 f n || 8 ; ZCB am j varieties; mol-; Methodist Episcopal Church for ,10 years
Wood of any size desired, delivered
all parts of town at reasonable rates.
nS-vlG-ly.
Briggs Carson,
INSURANCE
S-Ittw Tifton, Georgia. .
The interment
lugtou for whom he was named. Thursday afternoon ut the Wilkes 1 ^ 8 ' we i 2 btog from fifty to seventy-1 or more ’* nd ^"werfound anything
shooting affray occurred last j burial ground, a large funeral cortege j fi v0 p 0nn( ] g , with great red hearts of j JeltoTn^Dr. 'k i m-'s^Nrnv' Discovery.”
attractive j Try this IdealColigh Remedy now. Trial
me lit of Geor-, Mottles Freo at J. J. Golden's, Tifton;
uutuges has nnrt A* Crabtree’s, Sparks.
; ever been made. Those to the manor i | t i 3 quite true.that the people etui
| born were surprised at the mhresour- be depends I on. Many of them can
•Scholarship in Porter's Business! 00s of their native state, while the bo depended on to cut the fool whon-
; College, Valdosta, and Georgia BuW j visitors from other sections were for- ,. vev opportunity occurs.- -Way*
. v. « m -1 t a . ,.,1 In nrttritAiiilnilnn. itwll- 1 hn Lnl f inwl ' t
JD | week between Sidney Clare aud j osing present although the woatliv-r; coo ]i t) g j tt jciness. No more
»I II. Wiuas. Both were quite crit- j WH ® threatening. Peaceful sleep to the i an( |, powerful tulvertiaemeut
38. | ical during the early part of the j nshes of 1.nek* t.iiff and consolation g j a > g horticultural advuut
week, but are progressing toward re- j 1° bereaved. Adel News,
covery as we go to press, a„d it isj por Sale.
! thought both pasties will ultimately 1
►mi;——
lice in Thnmcfcs building.
1 recover.—Fitzgerald Leader.
Crops in Lowndes county are bet- ] ; n cM College, Macon, See ns before > ced to acknowledge that tho half had! cross Herald, For proof, watch the
ter than ever before at this'seaeon of; buying; vve con save you money, j never yet been told in the reports j j^ T ( in3W icksitveri(c8attiie St. Simons
the year. In every part of the conn-1 Gazette office. ■ •’ . which they had heard. Experienced | convention.
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