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Abbeville Chronicle m
VOLUME V.
Local and Personal.
w ? ,ers of Interest From Town-and
County--Concerning People
and Things.
l)r. J L Thigpen was in the city
Monday.
A D Burke, of Kramer, was in
the city Monday.
Sam Wilcox spent Sunday in the
city with his mother.
Bowen’s Mill is quite popular for
our citizens these days.
Mr. John Ewing, of Reidsfield,
was in the city yesterday.
Messrs. J T Dix and G C Wilcox,
of Bede were in the city Monday.
Mrs. J M Mixon, Jr., returned
from Americus last Thursday.
Ordinary Warren held an adjourn
ed term of his court last Monday.
If it . is anything ... in . the gioceiy ™
line, go to Paxsou Bros., they have
it. 10-4
.
spent 1 several''days o°f thm^ek’in
the city.
Miss Bessie Rogers left Tuesday
.fora visit of several days to friends
in McRae.
FOR SALE—A now one-horse
u wiiLa e Ji. fi l lP&ib -
6-0 tf McLeod & Co.
Mrs, M Haisfield returned to the
city Tuesday after a visit ot several
days to relatives at Douglas.
Our job department has been
crowded this week turning out sev
eral large orders.
Set back is a very,'.popular pas
time with some of the citizens these
dull days and nights.
Danger, disease and death follow
neglect of the bowels. Use DeWitt’s
Little Early Risers to regulate them
aud you will add years to your life
and life to your years. Easy to
take, never gripe. Cityjtrug Store.
FOR / SALE—i have an almost
entirely new saddle that I will dis
pose of at a bargain, E A Moody . tf
We carry a full line of stationery
and can turn out good job work on
short notice Give us your order.
Dr. J J Hendley left Tuesday for
Macon to attend a meeting of the
state Dental Association.
Misses J ulia Bell and Irene
Mcleod, who have been attending
school at Cuthbert, returned home
yesterday.
JVIr. G L Coleman, who has held a
position with Mr. L P W imberly lor
the past seven months, left Tuesday
for his home in Greenwood, S. C.
Messrs. J W Melton and A T Ba
k_pr spent a day or so of last week
fishjug at Bowen’s Mill. They re ^
port good luck.
The families of Messrs. T II Cal
houn and B J Reid, with several
visitors, spent last Saturday at Row
en’s Mill pickuick’iug,
we have just received a new lot of
white sailors, also libbons suitable
for children’s sashes, ladies’ neck
wear etc.
6-Gtf. Mrs. Mattie P, Hart.
Miss Ida Little received the first
prize on pronunciation at tae Teach
ers Institute at McRae this week.
Miss Lila McDowell-,• wbo has
been attending school at Orlando,
Fla,, is spending a few days with
relatives here before returning to
her home at Shiloa, Ga,
Several drunken negro- women
were carousing on the streets last
Saturday night, This is a very fre
queut occurrence and should be
stopped.
We learn that the Wilcox Gin &
Warehouse Company have made ar
rangements to put in a Lowry round
bale press. This will mean a sav
ing to the farmer of from 56 cents to
$1°00 each bale. They will be
gin C irection of their buildings in
few days and they will be ready to
go to work by the 15th of August.
Devoted to the Upbuilding- of Wilcox County and Abbeville.
ABBEVLLE. GA.. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1901.
Mr. Perry Fitzgerald, of Bede,
was in the city Monday and made
this otlice a pleasant call and while
hero had his subscription advanced
a year. Thanks.
Good appetite and cheerfulness
follows the use of Prickly Asii
Bitters. It purifies the blood, liv
er and bowels and makes life worth
living. City Drug Store,
Four negroes were lip before
££
lined ten dollars each and the coffer
of the city now swell with $42.00.
as they paid their fine.
Nothing equal to Prickly Asii
Bitters for removing that sluggish
bilious feeling, so common in hot
weather. It creates strength vigor,
appetite and cheerful spirits. City
Drug Co.
Mr. C. C. Curry and Miss Mattie
poster Hawkinsville. were married Miss kst Mattie Sunday is in a
former resident of Abbeville and has
many friends here who wish her well
Mr, Curry was a student of the Col
lege liere for several terras and
made many friends while here. The
Chronicle joins their many friends in
wishing them a long and happy life,
q'pgy will make Florida their future
home.
A surgical operation is not ueces
J Wfe" J ptte§: WDeWitt
Hazel Salve saves allj that expense
and never fails. Beware of counter
feits, City Drag Store.
The bilious, tired, nervous man
cannot successfully compete with
his healthy rival. DeWitt’s Little
Early Risers the famous pills for
constipation will remove the cause of
your troubles. City Drug Store,
Tax Books Now Open.
The city tax books are now open
for the return of advalorem taxes
for the year 1900. Take notice.
L 0 Goodin,
City Clerk.
Wooten-Dennard,
On Sunday, June 2nd, at the
home of the bride's father at Pine
view. Miss Dora Dennard and Mr.
P D Wooten were united in .marriage
» the presence ot a number , of . rein- ,
lives and friends of the contracting
parties, Rev. O V Fuller in a beauti
ful and impressive manner, perform
jng the ceremony. The bride and
groom are memoers of families that
have long been prominent in the po
ptj C al business and social life of Wil
cox county and they start life’s jour
ney together with bright prospects.
The bride is the daughter of Hon.
J J Dennard, State Senator from the
Fourteenth District, and is admired
by a large circle of friends for her
beauty as well as her social attrae
tions. Mr. Wooten is a son of the
late Mr. Thomas Wooten, for many
years a prominent and successful
farmer of the county. He has had
excellent educational advantages and
is a young man of the highest char
acter. He is engaged in farming
anf ] j s a member of the Merchantile
g rm 0 £ \Y 00 t ell Bros., of Abbeville.
The Chronicle extends its beet wish
estoMr, and Mrs, Wooten and hopes
tba £ they may have ap. abundant
share of happiness and success.
(The editor wishes to apologize for
the tardiness of this notice, The
marriage was written up for lust
weeks paper, but through an over
sight its omission was not discovered
until the paper had gone press.
A severe sprain will usually dis
able the injured person for three or
four weeks. Many cases have oc
eurred, however, in which a cure has
been effected in less than one week
by applying Chamberlain,s Pain
Balm. For sale by J L Pittman
ABBEVILLE.
Abbeville, the county site of Wil
cox county, has according to the
census of 11)00, a population of 1,152.
It is one mile from the left bank of
theOcmulgee River, a stream nav
igable for steamboats at all stages
ofi water, and is one hundred and
forty miles west of Savannah on the
Georgia and Alabama division of the
Seabootd Ai, Line K«,hv.y raining
from Savannah, Ga. to Montgomery,
Ala., aud is the northern terminus
of a branch of this road thirty-two
miles long running to Fitzgerald and
Ocilla,
There are three white churches,
Methodist, Baptist and Christian and
a number of colored churches.
There is an excellent school for the
colored children and the whites have
the Georgia Normal College and Bus
i ue ss Institute, a high class L
tlon . atro ... JS,
ar «°W P
°T South Georgia and Floiida
The swamp ot the Ocmulgeo River
has an inexhaustible supply of hard
woods and cypress which are being
utilized by a splendidly equipped
hard wood mill and excellent shingle
mill. The finest kind of brick clay
i u au unlimited quantity is found in
t h -g-tmrn'tmd'
part of it is being used in brick mak.
The outlook is anything but gloomy
and men who have money have faith
in the future, The soil arouud Ab
beville responds bounteously to prop
er culture. Fruits of ail kinds flour
ish. Lately a gin and grist mill
company has been organized which
will be ready for business by Aug,
15, This makes the second gin
here.
Abbeville offers an admirable loca
tion for a furniture factory, for the
Ocmulgee River swamp will furnish
an unlimited supply of material to
work up aud with water and rail
transportation the finished product
could be shipped at a reasonable ex
pense.
Labor is cheap, steady stid relia
ble and strikes are unknown. The
health of Abbeville is good and the
business part of the town is supplied
with artesian water. The people are
law-abiding and there has never
been any trouble between the races.
No man can work well with a tor
pid Liver or constipated bowels. A
few doses of Prickly Ash, Bitters
will quickly remove this condition
and make work a pleasure.
Came Near Drowning.
While a crowd of young ladies
were in bathing in Bluff creek, near
Cedar Creek, one day last week, one
of the young ladies, Miss Mae Mitch
ell, daughter of Mr. N. E. Mitchell,
while swimming across the stream
tired down and came near drowning.
Dr. John and Jean Thigpen were
some distanco from the party and
heard their cries tor help run up and
succeeded in rescuing the young
lady,
A Terrible Explosion,
“Of a gasoline stove burned a
lady here frightfully,” writes N E
Palmer, of Kirkman, la. “The
best doctors could'nt heal the run
mng sore that followed, but. Buck
leu's Arnica Salve antirely cured
her.” Infallible for cuts, corns,
sores, boils, hrulses, skin diseases
and piles, 25c at J L Pittman’s.
Mrs. Kellum and children, of
Savannah, are visiting Mrs, Welborn
Fuller this week.
If you want good job printing give
us your orders. City styles and
prices duplicated. We can please
you.
L. J. WHITEHURST. Editor and Publisher.
MILLINERY
At
CUT PRICES • J
Having on hand the large and we!! selected stock
of spring millinery purchased from Mrs. M. E. Wal
ton, also my large stock—1 will offer all goods at
. ©OT PRieLsS.
Call and inspect my stock and save money on all
purchases. Remember all goods are Latest Style
Spring Stock. Mrs. Q. H. MACON.
IT IS BAD ECONOMY
To wear a winter suit m Summer.
It hampers a man physically, men*
tall}’, socially and in a business way.
Some people are always behind in
the matter of elotluug, There is no
excuse for this with summer cloth
>r Mffaian
they can be obtained liere of us,
cheviots, sercjes and worsted
suits $7.59 to $25.00.
STRIPED FLANNEL SUITS, SERGE COATS
and VESTs-poptilar prices.
SICILIAN AND DRAP d’F.TE COATS AND
vests— all sizes, all grades.
CRASH AND LININ SUITS, LINEN TROUS
ERS, white vests— low prices.
Odd Trousers Stock
The largest and most complete de
partment of any trouser department
in the southern part of the state.
All kinds to suit all tastes, all
styles, all prices. Made as well as
any tailor anywhere can make them
and for about half the moriBy they
would charge you.
A Few Dollars
Will enable you to dress as well
as any man. Our clothing is every
bit as good, strong and stylish as
tailor-made clothing that costs
twice as much. It wears and keeps
its shape.
We will guarantee to keep you
well dressed for com para livlj- few
dollars a year and it will pay you as
well as us. It will pay you immen
sely just now.
IF YOU CAN’T COME
SEND US YOUR ORDERS
which will have our best and
prompt attention.
Wheatley & Ansley *
The leading Dry Goods. Clothing and
Carpet house in South Georgia.
415-417 Jackson street.
Americus, Ga.
A Good Cough Medicine.
It speaks well for Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedies when druggists use
it in their own families in preference
to any other, “1 have sold Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy for the
past five years with complete satis
faction to myself and customers."
says Druggist J Goldsmith, Van Et
on, N Y. “1 have always used it in
my own family both for ordinary
coughs and colds and for the cough
following . ,, . , la grippe, . and , find „ , it very
effaeious.’ ^For sale by JL
man.
NO. 21
DEATH OF J. B. McDUFFIE.
.
One of Hawkinsville’s Best Known
Citizens Passes Away.
Mr. damps B McDuffie, one of
Hawkinsville’s best known pitizens,
died at Ins home on Kibbee street
last Sunday morning at Seven o’elook.
Mr. McDuffie^ it is said, had noten
joyed good health since his return
from Cuba about a year ago, where
he went as au officer with Ray’s im
. munes7''t'fiougrr‘'he''3rJ J_
completely down and take his bed
until about a month ago. lie was a
son of the late Norman McDuffie ol
Wilcox couniy aud who for several
years was a citizen of this county.
For a number of years he was enga -
ged in the mercantile business here
and later in the cotton busines. He
always took a prominent part in pol
itics and served the city two terms
as mayor. He was a mason and a
member ol the Presbyterian church,
having united with the latter a year
or two ago. He married Miss An
nie Warren, daughtea of Mr, Josiah
L Warren, of Savannah, who, with
seven children, survive him, and
who have the deepest sympathy of
the community iu their bereav
ment.
The interment took place in Orange
Hill cemetery Sunday afternoon at
halfpast five a’clock, the funeral
services being conducted by Dr. A
Al Simms of the Baptist church.—
HawkinsvilleDis patch and News.
IIIS LIFE SAVED.
By Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy.
“I am sure that Chamberlain s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Reme
dy at one time saved my life,” says
A K Lafalette, of Gregory Landing,
Clark county, Missouri. “1 was in
such bad shape that the doctors said
I could not live. When 1 was at
the lowest ebb, one of my neighbors
brought in a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Reme
dy and I took it arid got instant re
lief. I soon got up and around.
That was nine years ago and I am
still in good health. Since then
that medicine has always been in my
house and always will be. It is the
best on earth.” For sale by J L
Pittman.
Mr. J T Dix was in the city one
day this week and advanced the sub
scription of his daughter, Mrs. Li
dia Whitley, one year.
A large crowd of teachers spent
several hours in the city Monday
enroute to McRae to attend the In
stitute which is m session there this
week.
A Keen Clear Brain,
Your best feelings, your social po
9itio " or !n,siuess success de P end
‘“S 61 * on thc P erfact action Y 0Ul '
Stouiacl * and Livcr - *> r - Kil T s
New Life Pills.give increased strength
a keen, clear brain, high ambition,
A 25c box wiU make vou fed , ikt! a
new being. Sold by J L Pittmau
druggist.