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Water meters arc b^ng installed
at IJawkinsville.
Tifton is to have a four-story $30,-
000 brick building.
Coffee county fair will be held
November 14 to IS.
The Ocifla Star says no more
street carnivals at that place.
Dublin merchants start the early
closing of business houses on April
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Monticello will entertain the dis
trict convention'of Odd Fellows on
April 24.
The Wrightsville Chronicle has
passed under the management of F.
A. Sinquefield.
Dr. F. M. Ridley, Sr., will be
the orator at the Memorial Day ex
ercises at LaGrange.
The Milledgeville primary for
mayor, clerk, treasurer and aider-
men will be held May 31.
About fifty young men between 10
mid 18 years of age have formed
the Jaspor County Corn Club.
A large amount has been spent,
this spring in buying fancy fowls
and fixing houses for Terrell County.
The following 825,000 capital
hanks have recently been organized
at Barnesville, Bowmand and Sylva-
nia.
Burton Henry, of Walker county,
shot himself through the temple
■with a pistol. The suicide’s act is
unexplained.
The telegraph office lit Perry,
which was discontinued for a week,
lias been opened after protest to the
rail road com mission.
Olivet Commandery, Knights Tem-
plrtr, will be instituted Wednesday
night at Dublin by members of St,
Timer Commdery of Macon.
H. E. Thcpn, of little Rock, Ark.,
may establish it cotton seed oil mill
at Brunswick. He is engineering a
scheme for others to put in $50,000
plant there,
The Sylvester Local says the peo
ple of that place will face the situa
tion and make up their minds for
another lwnd issue for municipal
improvements.
The Bremen Gateway celebrated
its ninth anniversary this week. It
has maintained the standard set up
when started, and has built up a
fine following by its good work.
Gordon L. Hight, of Rome, who
one time rode his motorcycle from
Rome to Savannah, will tour Europe
on the machine. He wants to find
another adventurous spirit for a
partner in the trip.
A meteorite picked up five years
ago on the farm of Clark Thompson
in Bickens qpunty, has been loaned"
to the State Museum by Messrs.
Park & Hunter, of Jaspor. It
weighed 14 ounces.
Ed and Claud Shelton, aged 15
and 18 years, were drowned in Sel-
man’s mill pond, four miles west
of Monroe. The older boy is be
lieved to have lost his life trying to
save that of his brother.
J. F. Wardlaw, of LaFayette.has
a monster egg, size of the usual
goose egg, 0 3-4 inches by 8 1-2
inches, weighing 4 1-2 ounces. The
egg was laid by a young Minorca
pullet only 11 months old.
Eating fifteen eggs at 40 cents a
piece was the expensvie luxury of
J. W, Glass, a citizen of Dawson.
Careless packing of some fancy
breeding hen fruit is responsible for
Mr. Glass’ $6.00 family egg supper.
D. A. DuPre, of Marrictta, re
ceived a fine 20- pound wild turkey
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gobler, caught on the banks of Sa-
tillo river, a few days ago, It was
trapped bv Damon Manning, who
has been on hunting trips with Mr.
DuPre for several winters.
Sam Baslmnski L. W. Tutt, who
are developing Bungalaw Circle,new
residence district at Dublin, are of-
ficring the prizes of $5 each for the
best names for seven streets running
through the property and much in
terest has been created by the novel
offer.
The Georgia Railroad had a man
stationed at every switch between
Atlanta and Augusta during the
time President Taft’s special train
was being operated oyer the road,
and held up all freight trains after
11 o’clock to give the special a clear
track. •
In Walker county, Walter and
Clarence and Chestor Hale, tvi rc
out hunting with a shotgun and in
some way the gun went off and shot
Chester Plale, penetrating the heart,
the shot entering the back just un
der the shoulder blade, killing him
instantly.
While out hunting birds near
Fitzgerald in company with friends,
Ralph Pope was seriously wounded
by the accidental discharge of his
gun. The sb«t tore the flesh and
muscles and shattered the bone of
his right ram and- tore the flesh
from his waist to his shoulder.
There are at least, 20 incubators
within the incovpirate limits of
Fort Valley, and several others
near the city. A considerable
number of citizens in and near the
city are raising thoroughbred fowls
There will be a poultry show there
last of ijext fall or in early winter.
Comity Engineer T. H. Booz has
bcen'instructed by the county board
of commissioners of Floyd county
at Rome to make additions to the
Floyd countv jail, consisting of a
hospital room and insane ward.
The board decided that this work
should have been done some time
ago.
Mayor Short, of Shollman, hap
pened to a serious accident while
tussling with E. R. Cheney on ti e
front porch of Anthony & Go’s.store
In some way he fell and fractured
his knee-cap. Although far from
a fatal accident, it may prove very
serious, as, in all probability, the
injured leg will be made stiff.
More than twenty pupils of the
high school department school de
partment of the Valdosta Colleg
iate [Institute will participate
a preliminary contest at Vidalia
to select a represent a'ive at the an
nual field day meet of the First Dis
trict Accredited High School Asso
ciation at Swainsboro May 12.
Dr. J. G. Harrison, of Mercer
University, addressed the teacher’s
institute of Gainesville on the sub
ject of “The Problem of Moral
Training in American Education.”
The News says: “Tt was the best
thought of a life’s study, and the
opportunity to hear him was ap
preciated by Hall county ’s teachers.
Wade Williams, a 14-year-old
boy, who was arrested as a suspic
ious character and later carried to
Blockshear for the theft of a bicycle
from D. Hinton, made his escape
from the Pierce county jail. The
boy had been sentenced to the re
formatory by Judge W. A. Milton
and was in jail waiting to be taken
when he escaped.
The Twiggs County Citizen
thinks it is about time, “in the in
dependent republic of Jeffersonville
for the hogs, cows, mules, to be re
moved from the public highways
and unfended fields. The sea on
of the year to plant corn is at hand
and if your shote is caught rooting
up a corn field, something is likely
to happen—to the shote.”
That passengers have a right to
choose tneir own routes through the
city over the street car lines arid
that the Savannah Electric Company
has no right to refuse them trans
fers because they might have taken
some other route at less trouble to
the company, or for any other len-
son, is the decision which has been
rendered by the city attorney.
Valdosta Times: Farmers in and
around Manor closed a lark contract
yesterday by v'hich 11,231 larks
\yere killed. The cash prize w s
won by Dan Henderson, Tom James
and W. D. James, the three killing
1,586. Corn crops about Manor
suffered so much that the farmers
contracted an organized fight against
them. The fight will be carried on
another year.
W. R. Jones, of Dawson was the
victim of a serious and what nar
rowly missed being a fatal accident
at Richland. While getting off the
rear platform of the Seaboard ac
commodation the train gave a severe
jerk and threw him to the ground,
his left hand touching the rail when
he fell and one of the wheels of the
car passing over three of the fingers
The two fingers next to the thumb
were cut off above the second j< i it
and.the third finger at the first
joint.
Hawkinsville Dispatch and News:
F. D. Wimberly brought to Hawk
insville this week 3,325 pounds of
home raised meat—2,625 pounds
of hams and 700 pounds of should
ers—for which'he found ready sale
at good prices, the total amount re
ceived for the lot being nealy $500.
This meat was raised by Mr. Wim
berly and his father, F. D. Wim
berly, Sr.', on their plantation near
Cochran, and was the finest lot of
hjime raised bams and shoulders
seen here in a long time. These
gentlemen are among Pulaski’s
largest and most successful farmers,
and make it a rule to raise in ad
dition to their cotton crop, plenty
of everything else needed on the
farm for man and beast, and sell
large quanities of meat every year.
The Tifton chamber of commerce
has called a convention of all the
towns and counties along the Cen
tral route of the proposed Atlanta
to Jacksonville part of the national
highway between Fort Valley and
MacClenny, Fla., to meet in Tifton
Tuesday. The towns are Fort Val
ley, Perry, Elko, Snow, Unadilla,
Pinehurst, Vienna, Cordele, Arabi,
Ashburn, Sycamore, Lenox, Sparks,
Adel, Hahira, Valdosta and Lake
Park, Ga., and Jennings, Jasper,
White Springs, Lake City, Olustee
and MacClenney, The county au
thorities of Houston, Dooly, Crisp,
Turner, Tift, Berrien and Lowndes
in Georgia, and Hamilton,Suwanee,
Columbia, Bradford and Baker
counties in Florida. The object is
to discuss the central route of the
national highway.
Savannah News: That the pros
perity of American cotton growers
is being endangered abroad by the
speculators, who are spurring the
foreigner on to cultivating his own
cotton, is the opinion of Julius A
Nelson, who has returned from i
trip through the principal countries
of Europe, including Holland. Ger
many, Bergium, France, Spain, Ita
ly, Austria and Switzerland. Aside
from business objects, he stu lied
conditions relative to the handling
paying to other people, in addition
to the money that can be drawn
from other places by shipping these
article^ to neighboring cities and
towns. It is time to quit working
fir other people in this line, and do
something for ourselves. Will not
some one awake to the opportunity?
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Spring’s Here
And the coming of Spring brings the detestable,
filthy, germ-soaked fly. Screen your home against
these invaders, who are armored with disease and
death. We have just received a large shipment
of screen doors and windows.
We have also received a car
of SASH and DOORS.
Come into see us and let us show. Our prices
are right and we’ll certainly please you.
Remember we handle lime and cement also in
carload lots.
Yours to Please,
Wight Hardware Co.
CAIRO, GA.
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Attractive
Buggies, that the prices and long-
wearing Qualities make more
Attractive
How many times have you accepted the deal
ers word about a so-called “Best-Made” buggy
to find that after a few months running it was
absolutely NO GOOD?
And you PAID good money for them too.
We deal in Buggies that are in strict keeping with the
words “ALL RIGHT’’, and it is NOT neccessary for us
to misrepresent them. In other words our buggies are
GOOD ONES and you needn’t take our word for it.*’
We’ll sell you wagons, harness, fertilizer and feed
stuffs too, if you’ll consider meritable values.
W. G. Baggett & Son,
Cairo, Reno, Cranford, Calvary.
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NYAL’s SPRING SARSAPARILLA
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For the Blood And Skin
It is better by far than most so-called
remedies. It’s better for the simple reason that
it performs it’s work.
It’s the most powerful remedy on the
market.
100 Doses $1.00
Wight & Browne,
Leading Druggists.
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Are Your Clothes Used For
DOG BEDS?
Did you ever have an occasion to “follow your clothes” to
the pressing? If you should have an occasion to do so at an
expected hour, you’ll find that the “‘nig’ pres’n clubz” are
no respector of persons, in their filth-reeking dives, and you
likely to find some big dirty buck (or a dog perhaps) at calm
repose on your best suit. You’ll find nothing of this sort at
our shop, everything is clean, sanitary *»ud your clothes will
found hanging on clothes trees.
BETTER BE SAFE. Patronize a white man, because
it’s safer in the end. ,
Phone 81 CITY PRESSING CLUB Cairo, Ga.
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