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PUBLISHE D EVERY THUR SDAY.
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R, DON. MoLEOD,
Editor and proprietor,
Ellaville Ga. Thursday July 11 1889.
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Reduced rates allowed on large contracts.
Ve il lv contracts will ne made with merchants
fora civ. spacefill our advertising columns, suject
to n res.
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after the first insertion, unless other terms are
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Voown Very to us mus t pay in advance or furnish
1111 reference.
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satpo* AU . business must be addressed
I* R. DON. McLEOD,
to Ellaville Georgia,
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Good crops are anticipated all over the
county.
Ellaville has some as pretty flower gar
dens as ever graced any city.
Our fox hunters came in yesterday
with the brush of two more foxes.
Mr. Charles B. Teale and Miss Leila
Harding were married last Sunday at
Lacrosse.
Dixon Brothers shipped a fine lot of
Se h!ey county hams to South Florida
yesterday.
The balance of our display type, rules,
W 1 other new material, arrived yester
,
day and the News office is now complete.
The High School Trustees will meet
next Thursday to select a principal.
Several applications we learn have been
received.
Sheriff Allen was out on Mr. Thomas
Pool’s plantation yesterday an d reports
geing there the finest cotton crop he ev
er saw.
Dr. Smith treated the News office last
Saturday to a water melon that satisfied
a me! on-hungry family of six and the en
tire News force.
Mr. A. T. Mulder turned off the water
from his fish pond, three miles south of
town, last Friday and caught German
carp 18 inches in length.
A farmer who passed over the south
ern portion of this county this week, says
cotton is looking exceedingly well, and
corn is better than he has seen it fur six
years.
From a half acre patch of watermelons
Mr. John Williamson had sold up to Mon
day, fifteen dollars worth of melons and
had about three hundred more in the
patch.
The Woman’s Missionary Society for
the Columbus District will meet in Bne
naVi faon the 27th. inst. and remain in
sesion for three days A large attendance
is desired
From the five young men employed in
the News office we have not heard an oath
ora ndgar expression since they began
" 01 'h and not one of them smokes,
chews, or drinks. Can another nevvs
paper office in the State say more?
Ahout one mile northwest of town,
Tear Mrs. Eason’s residence, is a tract of
Lind that one year ago was a dense for
jungle est of native trees, to-day it is a dense
| of beautiful green corn.
1 A queer freak of nature was sent us
this week by Rev. AV. B. Merritt, of
biuneville. it is a persimon bush with
b'o prongs very much resembling the
antlers of a buck, but with one or two
curls in each prong.
Lr. William Walters swooped do wn
j m the News office this morning with a
‘■"go water melon large enough to foun
( ^ r the entire force. On his place, a
" a,er melon smaller than forty-pound
is a
u thrown away with the
maypops.
EllaviH e has the broadest streets, the
smoothest drives, the fastest horses, the
' m,,st luvt’l.v shade trees, the most accom
modating officers and business men, the
cutest girls and most moral young
men of uny town in the South.
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TO 1 protracted meeting, announced in
JF b>n hist Issue began Sunday night at the
Methodist Church and is still progressing
i lie lll( ' r chants close their stores at 7
' ' h in order to give all a chance to
u *' n, L and quite lively interest is
,n a be
S manifested,
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
A commercial drummer remarked to
a News reporter. “The credit of the mer
chants of Ellaville rate with the best in
the state, they can buy any amount of
goods they want on time.” This speaks
well for the promptness of our merchants
to meet their obligations.
Mr. Homer Burton is gathering melons
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from his forty-acre patch south of town
and hopes to ship two or three thousand
this week; the quotations in Birmingham
and Cincinati were favorable Monday,
and he thinks of shipping some to each
place.
We are permitted to extract the follow
ing from a letter written by a gentleman
of New York state to a friend in Ella
ville. “We, until five days ago, had
constant raiss for a month and a half
and the State was fairly drownd out,
while a heavy freeze destroyed nearly
evey particle of fruit, people are now
planting potatoes hoping to make a crop
Southern —they may. It lies in the power of the
people to make the South the
most prosperous part of the United
States",
Some of our business men and wealthy
farmers a few years ago got up a joint
stock company and got a charter for a
bank in Ellayille, but for some reason or
neglect, the enterprise was never put in
to operation, and Schley county citizens
are still left to do all their banking in
Americus or elsewhere. The old charter
is still good, and we have heard some of
the largest subscribers say that they are
still willing and anxious to renew it and
start a bank here. A bank is very much
needed here, and would be a paying in
vestment for the stock-holders.
Mr. T. II. Wilkinson’ one of our sue
cessful farmers and leading Alliance
men has a cow some what noted for
jumping fences. Having heard that clip
ping the under eyelashes of a cow would
break her jumping habit, he procured a
pair of shears last week called up his as
sistant and went forth to try the virtue
of the recipe on his athletic bovine. A
few minutes later he returned, his man
ly brow over-shadowed by a cloud of su
preme disgust, the cow, his neighbors
inform us, remains chained upas before,
and on the subject of a cow’s under eye
lashes Mr. W. is as silent as an Egyptian
mummy.
Americus Recorder:—We are in recei p
of the lii’st number of the Schley Coun
ty News, Mr. Don McLeod, late of Flor
ida, editor and proprietor. It is a neat
five column quarto, well edited, and the
best looking paper that was ever printed
or issued in Ellaville. Mr. McLeod has
started out right, having paid cash for
his office and residence, lot he demands
cash for his paper, which is cheap at $1
per year. If he will stick to that motto
he will prosper. The Recorder wishes
him well, and doubts not that he will do
great good with the News in Ellaville
and Schley county.
The Northern and Eastern states have
their freezes and ^floods; the Northwest
their blizzards and grasshoppers; the
Southwest, their long drouths and ex
cessive rains, and other sections have
their peculiar checks, draw backs and
crop failures but Georgia goes on the
even tenor of her way, making each
year at least a fair crop, complete fail
uves are unknown here. Aa old farmer
who has lived in Schley ever since it
was a county, and many years before
informs us that lie never knew a com
plete 1 failure hive in his life, in fact has
never seen crops so short that the peo
ple could not have made out and live d
comfortably the succeeding year with
out out-side assistance. For even
straight forward, year after year sure
pop making a living, there is no section
under the Sun that will exceed Schley
County.
Schley county is naturally ve ry he alth
but it would be much moreso if the same
attention was given to i lie laws of sani
tation that necesity forces on sections less
favorably located. Persons who have lived
where the observance of the laws of
health is absolutely necessary, are sur
prised on coming here, to find that not one
thought is given to such measures. Pigs
poultry and cattle are kept wherever the
convenience of the owner suggests,
without the slightest regard to sanitation
many dwelling houses are densely shad
ed and the sun shine perpetually exelud
ed: dampness under the house, from
beating rains, and many other tilings go
unheeded, that in an uhealthy climate
would be productive of sickness and
death. If the people of Schley would ou
force the same health precautions that
in: my other sections do, sickness of a ma
la rial type would be unknown here. Sup
pose we try itl
Fox Hunting.
Fox honuds are kept by many of our
Schley county farmers, and the exhiler
ating old English sport of fox hunting
was extensively indulged in, and liberal
ly rewarded in this county last week
The pack of hounds followed by Messrs.
Tip Barnes, W. T. Lumpkin. J. T. Myers’,
and others, killed eight foxes during the
week and furnished lots of sport for all
who felt disposed to follow. The num
ber killed by the pack followed by Messrs.
James Gilmore, Thomas Boole, and oth
ers, we did not learn exactly. They
killed three Saturday, besides many oth
ers during the first part of the week.
There seems to be no danger of extermi
nating the sly little brutes. There are
still enough of them left to invade hen
roosts and make hunting interesting.
Mr. Gilmore, the owner of the pack of
hounds, and one of the foremost and
most reckless riders, is an old hunter,
has passed the allotted “three score y r ears
and ten,” but he seems good for another
score. He has an old gray horse that is
as fond of the sport, as the old gentleman
himself, and it is said that there is not
a lot in the county that will hold him
when he hears the toot of the hunter’s
horn.
Reunited
Mrs. Ann Askew, relict of the late Au
gustus Askew, died last Friday of natu
ral decay, being’eighty yrears of age. The
funeral took place Satuaday from the
Methodist church, of which she had long
been a consistant member, and was at
tended by a large concourse of friends
and relatives. Beneath the beautiful ever
greens in the little cemetery south of
town the remains were laid by the side
of those of her late lamented husband
who, had gone only a few years before.
Mrs Askew was the mother of Mrs.
Freman Dixon and grand mother of our
townsmen Claud, and Eugene Dixon: she
was the oldest member of the methodist
church and was among the earliest set
tlers of this section, coming here with
her husband from Green, before Schley
was organized. Together she and her
husband had climed the sunny slope of
youth, together they had glided down
the shady turn of age, on together they
had passed the misty portals of three
score years and ten’ in lifes ever varying
pathway, separated only at the end of
their journey by a few brief years. A
gain they are united in that home be
yond the tide.
The One To Tie 10 .
One of the most charming young la
dies of Schley county, we learn, has two
sweethearts. One is a nice little fellow,
who curls his moustache, parts his hair
in the middle, wears a No, 5 boot, and
has a hand like a wax figure. The other
is a great, gawky fellow with fists like
Dudley's sledge hammers, and the toe of
his boot looks like the cow-catcher on
a locomotive. Take our advice, young
lady; marry tile fellow with the big foot
and fist. In traveling all over this coun
try, we have never yet seen one of these
great, gawky fellows peddling peanuts
nor beating his board hills. George
Washington, the father of his country,
was six feet two inches tall, weighed
two hundred pounds, wore a No. 13 boot,
had a hand so large that lie could never
buy a glove to fit it, his eyes were as grey
as a gander’s, his nose large, thick, and
turned red in the wind, his finger and
wrist joints looked like bumps on a log,
and from the best description we have
seen of him, lie must have been as ugly
as a mud fence daubed with toad frogs.
Yet he married one of the nicest little
ladies in the land, and she never had
cause to be ashamed of him.
A Canning Factory Needed.
Suppose Schley county had a canning
factory, to put up and make marketable
the hundreds of bushels of fine fruits,
vegetables, etc., that go to waste or are
fed to hogs here. It would he a big pile
of money in the pockets of our farmers
and fruit growers. From a man who
has had experience in such things, we
learn that the machinery for a canning
factory can be put in for a few hundred
dollars, any where from three hundred
to it thousand, and upward according to
the business demand. A young man
with five hundred dollars and a knack
for such business would find a canning
factory m Ellaville a profitable invest
ment and would prove himself a bene
factor to his country.
Try It.
A wall and ladder are the same height.
Remove the foot of the ladder 12 feet
from the base of the wall. The top of
the ladder falls to aniche 6 feet from the
top of the wall. Now give the length of
ladder and height of wall.
One man in our county worked three
years before he got the answer. Send in
your answers.
Teacher Wanted.
A good teacher can secure a situation
hv applying Board to Ellaville. the chairman of the
School at
Mr. Ed Strange strayed off Tuesdyy
to Columbus on bussiness(?).
Mrs. W. II. McCrorv and children left
to day to visit relatives at Cusseta.
Mr. A. J. Hill of Schley, Ga. is visit
ing relatives in the city.
Mr. Lee W. Branch, of Americus, was
in town Saturday.
Miss Lula Murphy returned Saturday
from a visit to friends in Americus,
Rev. J. B. K. Smith of Columbus is
expected to arrive Saturday and Preach
at the Methodist church Sunday,
Rev G. B. Allison of Andersonv ille is
here assisting our local preachers in the
protracted meeting.
Mr. Will Keene, of Oglethorpe, was in
town Tuesday soliciting patronage for a
St. Louis drug house.
Victor B. Hudson Esq. of Bryan Tex.
is visiting his father, Hon. C. B, Hud
son, near Lacrosse. He is accompanied
by his wife and child.
Misses Feddie Rackley, Alice Hiilis
and Mrs. Polly Cates of Burke County
Ga. are visiting the family of Messrs
Murray – William's.
Misses Maiy Chapman and Mittie Cas
tleberry two charming young ladies of
Cusseta who have been visiting relatives
in Ellaville left to day for their homes.
Mr. P. H. Williams, one of the leading
merchants of Americus Came over Sat
urdav and spent Sunday with his brother
Mr. Henry Williams.
Prof. Merritt left Tuesday for Colum
bus but is expected back this week. He
has made maiyy friends in Ellaville and
seems as reluctant to leave as his friends
are to have him go.
Miss Mamie Butt one of Buena Vista’s
brightest little tlowers. passed through
our town last Saturday evening on her
return from a short visit to friends in
Americus.
Misses Rosa and Emmie Baldwin are
visiting their sister, Mrs. G. W. Chipley,
of Columbus. The former is expected
home Saturday, apd the other will prob
ably remain and attend college*.
Prof. Gardner, of Andersonville, came
over Monday and and put in his applica
tion for the pnncipaJship of the Ellaville
High School, but withdrew it on hearing
that one of its patrons had indulged in
some unpleasant remarks regarding him.
Miss Kate Merritt bid adieu to her
many friends this week and left Tuesday
for her liotne near Draneville. During
her two years here as a teacher slie made
many warm friends, who regret to part
with her.
Miss Helen Rogers departed Monday
for her home at Barnesville. The citi
zens of Ellaville -ere much pleased with
her as a teacher of Music and are busy
making up a ckass for the coining School
term, with a view to getting her back.
Rev. John Henry Mather, a young En
glishman, who for the past two years
lias been attending Emory College, pay
ing his way by couvassing hooks at odd
times, is here fora few days and wil
offer some very excellent religious
hooks for sale, tie is said to he a very
worthy young man and deseryes pafcron
age.
Will P. Hornady, who represented the
News at the Georgia weekly Press Asso
ciation held last week at Cartersville,
came back Tuesday delighted with his
trip to the mountainous regions of North
Georgia, deeply impressed with the
magnitude of the grand old “Empire
State of the South,” and cliuck full of
poetry. Read his account of the trip.
An Atlanta special says there was an
exciting time in the Greston camp in
Dodge county on the 25th of June, notice
of which has just reached Principal
er Towers. On that day six convicts de
cided they would leave the camp and all
together made a dart tor the roads. The
guards began firing us soon as the squad
moved off, but their shots were wasted,
none of the convicts being hit, Before
night Andrew Williams and William
Matthews, two of the convicts, were
caught near the camp. Pursuit was
made for the others, Dan Michell, Ed
McNeil. Win. Robinson and James Strip
ping, but no report of their capture has
beenrecieved here.
CM EA REST MONEY VET.
Money to loan on improved farms at
6 per cent, interest.
J. J. Hanesley,
Americus, Ga.
Barlow Block, Room No. 5.
A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
Will be held in this county cm the last
Saturday in August by the County
School Commissioner, to determine who
shall he entitled to the scholarship in the
Georgia School of Technology. Each
county is entitled to as many scholar
ships sis it has representatives. For par
ticulars apply to C. H, Smith, County
School Commissioner.
A big lot of fruit jars at Peacock –
Arrington’s; Cheap.
Good lot of fruit Jars at.
T, A. Collins
Remember, the place to buy millinery
is Mrs. Allen's. "
at l-2t
For the next 80 days I will sell men’s
shoes at cost. J. B. Williamson.
Fifty Collins'. pounds Pearl Grits for $1 at
T. A.
Buy your Ice tickets at J. A. Rowland’s.
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Buy your clocks from J. B. William
son 1—2t
The Old reliable Shelsroad Tobacco
50 cents per lbs.
T. A. Collins
J. B. Williamson is offering cottonades
at, and below cost.
Lemonade every day at J. A. Rowland’s.
Groceries of all kinds, cheap; Fancy
candies a specialty; J. B. Williamson.
Straw hats at cost.
T. A, Collins
Highest Market price Paid for all coun
try produce.
T, A. Collins.
Rowland’s. Ice crream every Saturday at J. A.
Bandanna Tobacco 33J- cents lbs. at.
T. A, Collins
”i\' OIA N BLOOD SYRUP”, Cuimall kin t
cf blood anrl skin diseases’
For sale by S. A, 15. WILLIAMSON
At J. it. WILLIAMSON’S Store,
WHY IS IT
That people linger along always complaining
about; tlmt continual tired feeling’/ One bott.e
HEGGS’ BLOOD PURIFIER and BLOOD MA
KER will entirely remove this feeling, give
hem a good appetite and regulate digestion.
Dr. C. 11. Smith Druggist
OLD UMBRELLAS
Repaired and made almost as good as
new. Call on Dock Weston at his bar
ber sh op.
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should
always be used when children are cutting teeth •
i—it relieves the little sufferer at once: it produc
es natural, quiet sleep by relieving the child
rom pain, and the little cherub awake* as
‘bright as a button.” It is very pleasant to
taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bow
ls, and is the best known remedy for diurrhan
whether arising from teething or other eau sei
Twenty live cents a bottle.
YOU CANNOTAFFORD
At this season of the year to be without a goo !
reliable diarrhoea balsam in the house, as
cramps, colic, diarrhoea and all inflamation of
the stem ache and bowels are exceedingly dan
gerous if not attended to at once. One bottle of
BEGGS’ DIARRHOEA BALSAM will do more
good in cases of this kind than any other medi
cine on earth. We guarantee it.
Dr. C. II. Smith Druggist.
A DMIN1 ST RATO It’S SALE.
By virtue of an order granted by the court of
Ordinary of Schley County Ga. May term 188th
will be sold be to re the Court house door, in the
town of Eilavilleon Tuesday August the <!rh
within the legal hours of sale, the following de
scribed lands to wit:
One hund red acres off of lot No. 201, one hun
dred acres off of lot No. 202, being South half
of said lot. Ninety acres off of South half lot
No. 205. One hundred – ninety acres off of lot
No. 215. Fifty acres off of lot No. 235. And one
hundred and fifty acres off of lot No. 214, all in
the thirtieth Dist. of Schley Co. containing in
all, seven hundred acres more or less, bounded
North bv lands of S. M. Cottle and 8. W, Smith
deceased, and East by lands of S. W. Smith de
ceased and South by S. W. Smith deceased and
J. C. Carter, and Vest by A. H. Wiggins. Sold
as thed roperty of Mrs. M, L. Hart deceased, for
the benefit of creditors and legatees. Terms
cash. 1-im A. T. Hart, Administrator.
THE PRIDE of WOMAN.
A clear pearly and transparent skin is a! -vnys
a si * n of P ure bloof, ‘ ,inchl11 trouble,!
with dark, greasy, yellow or blocked skin can
rest assured that their blood is out ofordcr. A
few doses of BEGGS, BLOOD PURIFIER v
BLOOD MAKER will remove the cause and
thesklH wiU become clear and transparent.
Try it. and if satisfaction is not given it will cost
you nothing. It is fully warranted.
Dr. C. H. Smith Druggist.
LOCAL LAW
Notice is hereby jr iven that applications wil
be made to the Georgia Legislature, at the i
pr< s.
ent Session, asking that a Stock J..;w be p is ' ■ 1
for the Seven hundred and eightv fifth (7-5)
and Nine hundred County and forty sixth (Uti) district f
G. M. of Schley Georgia. Battle
i ’. L.
Robert Patton
GENTS ANTED
TO SELL AN EN
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real value ar.d every-day use lor the reopl ev
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it, Thousand - of beautiful, helpful engravings,
shr xvir.g ju st how to do everything. No compe
tition; nothing line it In the universe. When
you select that which is of true value sales are*
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and looking for something thoroughly flrst-clas*
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ST. LOUIS orl’HILADEFHIA
