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TRADE THE CHURCHWELL WAY—SAVE MONEY!
Do It Now!
Buy Your Holiday Goods Now.
-——DON’T WAIT! "
Our stock of holiday goods, and all other kind of
goods, is larger and better selected than ever before,
and all with a view to giving our customers
The Biggest Values
for their money, obtainable anywhere.
No Room Here For Prices. i *
come lo Thomasville. »
Come to our store; if we can’t
please you for your holiday pur=
chases its our treat to your ex=
penses in coming. <
A. F.
Churchwell & Co
Starke Corner,
v 'J Thomasville, Georgia.
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Woodland Items.
BY UNCLE JAKE.
As our friend forgot to mail
our little batch last Wednes
day we will got this off sooner.
Mrs. Jack Walker who had
been very sick for sometime
and was thought to be convals
cent, died very suddenly on
Tuesday of last week and was
burried at Bold Spring cemetery
on Wednesday, Amid a large
crowd of relatives and friends,
Rev. Jesse Ward performed
the last sad rites at the grave.
Our community will need a
register next year to locate our
people, there is going to be so
many changes made in January.
Mr. Joe. Harper who came
among us from North Carolina
last winter goes back to his old
home soon, He tells me
he will be at least a hundred
dollars better off when he gets
back home than he was when
he landed here a year ago and
that speaks well for old Thomas
when a man can come seven or
eight hundred miles, rent a one
horse farm pay his way here
and back and still be a hundred
dollars ahead.
The young folks had quite
a nice time at the candy pulling
at. the home of J. A. Sarrette
Wednesday night.
Miss Kate Hogg of Macon
county who has been visiting at
the home of J. T. Dixon for
several days left Saturday for
Pelham where she will spend
several days before going home.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Kelly of
Thomasville has been visiting
their daughter Mrs. J. Harper,
several days last week.
Mr. George DeMot and
ly of Colquitt county is visiting
at his brother-in-laws J. S. Ful
ford this week.
Mr. Wm. Mathis had the
misfortune of letting his mule
run away with him Monday
morning while he sustained
several bruises, we learn that he
was not seriously hurt.
Mr. F. M. Norton, Henry
Hughes and Wiley Massey
went down to Cairo Monday
morning. They declare that
Cairo was a wet town on that
day.
Mr. John Massey, who has
been spending some time in
Acre returned Monday to his
brother-in-laws Mr. F. M. Nor
ton.
Mr. James Massey was hav
ing the doctor looking at his
tongue Monday. We hope he
will soon regain his usual health.
Syrup boilings will soon be a
thing of the past in this neck
of the woods. Mr. Solomon
Scruggins and Mr. J. L. Abridge
have a few more barrels to make.
Whigham, Ga;, Dec. 6.—Miss
Mac Higdon is dead at Unadil
la, Ga., says a message just re
ceived by her relatives, She
was music teacher in the Una
dilla High School until sever
al days ago, when she contract
ed typhoid fever, that soon
proved fatal.
The young lady stood high
in social circles in this county,
where she was horned and rear
ed. Two years ago she was the
accomplished music teacher in
the Whigham High School.
Her remains were brought
this county for interment in
family cemetery.
it IDE 1 SECTION.
It may seem like boasting to
| claim that of the the South Union, is the but great- it
] est section
I may be within the bounds of even
| modesty to say so. In the first
place, this is distinctively the
American section of the Union.
that has its advantages, for the
East and West, however material
ly prospering by foreign immigra
tion, are becoming alarmed at
some features of it and dread the
ultimate results. The South re
tains, more than any other sec
tion, the fundamental principles
of the Fathers of the Republic.
This may seem, at present, a hol
low benefit, but, later on, the
advantage of it will be made mani
fest and the conservative elements
East and West, will avail them
selves of our practical solidarity.
The South is today the most at
tractive, promising, and, in some
important particulars, the most
prosperous section and her future
growth is boundless. It cannot
now be halted, even’by unfriend
ly Congressional legislation. The
most solvent railroad system in
the country, taken all in all, w r as
inaugurated in a Southern city
and is controlled by Southern
men. The par value of its stock,
estimated by the Raleigh (N. C.)
Observer, as a court decision as
worth $3,100, is below the actual
fact. We can authoritatively
state that if when the first $1,500.
000 of Wilmington and Weldon
stock was subscribed Tor, in 1835,
some stockholder had. at the same
time, invested $100 at 6 per cent
and allowed it to compound to
the present day, instead of being
worth $3,100 his $100 investment
would have been worth $7,200.
The phenomenal prosperity of
the Atlantic Coast Line has been
made- wholly at the South, and
the prosperity of the great South
ern road, though owned in New
York, is dependent upon the same
region.
Even the Boston Commercial
Bulletin admits that U cotton is
the maker of our foreign exchange
for it is exported cotton that rolls
np for the United States tremen
dous credits in Europe. Cotton
towers pre-eminent above all other
American export crops. It is now
the basis of the dominant industry
of the world, and as three-fourths
of the world’s cotton supply is
grown in the Southern section of
the United States, the importance
of cotton to the American finan
cial and trade world can best be
appreciated by a few statistical
comparisons. ? 1
Reciting how this royal crop in
one year, is more than double the
value of all the gold produced an
nually in the whole world, the
Bulletin declares that the value
of all agricultural exports, except
cotton, amounted to less than
$600,000,000, while the value of
cottm exports was $850,000,000.
With the proceeds of one year’s
cotton and cotton seed exports,
and a safe mortgage given on the
next year’s crop, the Sothern cot
ton grower could buy the entire
animal and vegetable products
furnished to the outside world by
every farm, ranch and forest from
Maine to California and Alaska
to Hawaii.
We believe that ten cent cotton
has come to stay indefinitely and
it means an enrichment of the
South almost beyond imagining.
It means that the South will be
come speedily the most prosperous
section of the Union, and that we
can defy the political marplots
who, venomously or jealously or
fanatically, seek to depreciate and
humiliate us. It means that but
for the South’s cotton crop the
Republic, ir an era of extrava
gance, would become financially
bankrupt, and it means that the
Government and the captains of
industry know it and will tolerate
no foolishness to cripple us. It
means, as Mr. N. F. Thompson
says, in the New York Sun, that
i i the advancement of the South
today is of such magnitude that
it will soon become, like the stone
that was rejected by the builders,
the keystone in the arch of our
nation’s and prosperity. >1
■ progress
The South has many other in
! dustries and advantages in addi
tion to co tton, and the next land
j s na e will be Southern prosperity
0 f auc h a character as to open the
eyeg ail( j illuminate the minds of
many Northern brethren w r ho
need such information and edu
cation.
So we claim that the South is
the greatest section of the Union
and our people far from being pol
itically or any way discouraged,
have every reason to hold up their
heads and await the salvation of
the Lord with invincible courage
and cheerfulness. 'Ihe future is
theirs. • *
Congressman James M.Griggs
who has represented the Second
Georgia district in the national
house of representatives for a
good many yeais past, has de
cided that he will again be the
representative of that district.
He has so written Governor
Terrell. The letter is as fol
lows:
“Governor Joseph M. Terrell,
Atlanta, Ga Your Excellency
—I have your letter notifying
me of my election as congress,
man from the Second Georgia
district. After deliberation I
have decided to accept the elec
tion. Please forward me my
commission. Very truly yours.
James M. Griggs.”
Congressman-elect Thomas M.
Bell is rather uneasy about his
election, as an error in the gov
ernor’s proclamation failed to
state that he was elected. He
wrote the governor to that effect
Tuesday. Mr. Bell’s name ap
peared in one place in the pro
clamation, but it was not m the
part where governor Terrell de
clared him as one of the duly
elected congressmen of the
state.
The error will be corrected at
once so that there can be no
doubt as to Mr. Bell’s election
being regular.
Washington, Nov. 30.—Act
ing Secretary Oliuer today dir
ected the discharge “without
honor’ of Private JohnT. Smith
hospital corps stationed at Fort
Mott, N. J., who is said to have
married a negress, and whose
discharge was recommended by
General Grant, commanding
the department of the East, he
having acted upon the recom
mendation of the post surgeon
at Fort Mott. General Grant’s
recommendation was concurred
in by the surgeon general’s
office.
In the official statement given
out at the war department in
disposing of the case today it is
stated that Private Smith mar
ried “a woman of bad character
whose previous marriage has
not been terminated by the
death of her husband or by any
form of legal separation.”
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Christmas Holiday Rates Via
Atlantic Coast Line Railway.
Superb train service with pull
man cars. Atlantic Coast Line
will sell Dec., 28rd, 24th, 25th,
and Jan. 1st, tickets from all
stations on its line with final
limit January 4th 1905 at a fare
of one and a third rate for round
trip, minimum rate fifty cents.
These rates will apply to all points
east of Mississippi and Potomac
River including St. Louis, Mo.
Rates for schools and college,
tickets will be sold Dec, 17th to
24th, inclusive final limit January
8th, where certificates are signed
by Superintendents, or Presidents
of schools.
For all information, see Ticket
Agent, or address,
T J Bottoms, T P A,
Thomasville, Ga.,
W H Leahy, D P A,
Savannah, Ga.,
W J Craig, G P A,
Wilmington, N C.
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Holiday Goods!
Our large and beautiful display
of Christmas Goods is now ready
and we invite you to call and in
spect them before the rush.
We have a varied assortment of
Fine China, Art Ware, Glassware, Lamps,
Pictures, Books, Bric=a=Brac
and many other things desirable for
HOLIDAY GIFTS.
In Our Furniture Department
we are showing an attractive lot of
Reed and Willow Rockers, Center Tables, Screens, Art Squares,
Rugs, &c
which make appropriate and useful Christmas Presents.
JglPWewill take pleasure in showing you through our stock.
Come early while the line is complete.
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HOUSE Furnishings
NEGRO HI JACKSONVILLE TELLS A HORRIBLE
STORY OF CRIME.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 3—
John Plummer, a respected far
mer, living at Densmore, about
13 miles from here, was shot
and instantly killed at his home
Wednesday afternoon while tun
ing banjo.
Jake Bradford, a negro part
ner of Plummer’s in the log and
tie business, was at once sus
pected and placed under arrest.
He was brought to Jacksonville
Thursday night and lodged in
jail. This negro told a horri
ble story of the crime, which
has caused the arrest of Mrs.
Plummer, who the negro swears,
fired the fatal shot. His state
ment is to the effect that Mrs.
Plummer has offered him large
sums ol money on various oc
casions if he woul'd make away
with her husband.
Bradford says that he was at
the house on the night of the
murder; that the wife offered
him many sacrifices if he would
commit the deed. She gave
him the shot gun, and he went
around to the front door while
the wife came through the hall.
She threw the door open and
he passed the gun to her and
she fired the fatal shot, then
passed him back the gun and he
left the place with it.
The authorities will give out
no statement on the wife’s be
half. The Plummer family is
well connected in this section
and have many relatives in
Jacksonville.
The authorities had consider
able trouble in getting the ne
gro away from the scene, as a
mob threatened to lynch him.
This murder is one of the most
horrible crimes ever committed
in this section of the countrv.
j
Morris Walder a white tramp
who was on the scene of the
murder, is being beld as a wit
ness.
Be Quick.
Not a minute should be lost
when a child shows symptoms of
croup. Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy given as soon as the child
becomes hoarse, or even after the
croupy cough appears, will pre
vent the attack. It never fails,
and is pleasant and safe to take.
For sale by Wight & Browne.
: FREE DELIVERY.:
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Ira L.Hurst
Headquarters for
GROCERIES
Delivered at your house rain or
shine. Cost you nothing to have
them sent.
If you are not a customer give
us a trial and be one.
Fresh Fruits, Apples, Oranges
and Bananas.
the best the market affords. Also
Canned, Dried and Christalized
Fruits of all kinds.
Grapes-'Malagas just received
Nuts of all kinds, new crop.
Candies—Conida’s Bon Bons,
Chocolate. Almonds, Ice Cream
Chocolate and Lemon Drops.
Peters’ Original Milk Choco*
lates, high as the Alps, in quali’
ty, irresistibly delicious.
If you are not customer gb’ e
us a trial
AMD BE ONE.
’Phone 31.
Ask and you shall receive.