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The Fitzgerald * Leader.
Established. 1806.
VOL. II.
AT COST!
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Below M!
COMMENCING
Saturday#Monday.
If you doubt what we say
come ancl ses - Ever y-
thing in our store must
g0 - We d0n ’* W “‘ t0
move our goods and are
bound to sell them. Look
at these prices:
No. S Stoves, regular price, S12.00. Now §10.00
No. 7 Stoves, regular price, $10.00. Now $.00
No. S Till Wash Boilers, copper bottom,
regular price31.00. ’Now.......... SO
Store Lamps complete, regular price,
*3.00. Now .................. 2 00
N o; 10 Imperial Plow, regular price §0.00-
Now........................... 7 00
Large size Russian Iron Heater, regular
P AN^)ther Goods in eroportionf W
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m) M MARIi co -
Bargains!
AT
POPULAR STORE ON
SSarch 28 .
Our New Spring Line of
LADIES SHIRT WAISTS
Have just arrived, and are of the very latest
shades and patterns; in fact are all round lip
up-to-date Waists.
' Fine Organdes at.......... 9c
Sea Island Percale, 36 inches Uc
Fancy Prints from......... 4@ 51c
Spring Outings at.......... 61c
Scotch Lawns, fast colors .. 4.1c
Bleached and Unbleached Muslin, 36 inches
wide, from 51 to 7c
A complete line of Gents Bows, Foiir-in-IIand and
Scarfs at prices that will puzzle any competition,
8 @“Reineinher you don’t have to buy to examine our
stock. Goods sold uncut can be returned and money
refunded if goods are not in every way satisfactory.
HURST BROS
Next Door to Postoffice.
FRFD L. BIGHAM,
Contractor # Builder.
Plans and Estimates Furnished on Short Notice.
Address Lock BoxJ8, Fitzgerald, Georgia.
“MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.”
FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 25, 1897.
DEADLY CYCLONE!
AT ARLINGTON, GA.
The Arlington Academy Demolished ami
Six Children Killed anil Many More
Will Die— Ilenrt-Keiiding
Scenes, Etc.
AUUNGl'dS', Ga., March 22.—The
Angel of Death swept over this com-
munity today and black sorrow marks
his awesome wake.
In liis most terrible form,the mighty
cyclone, he came, and his chosen ones
were little children. s ,
Few families in Arlington can thank
C.od tonight that no one of their pre
clou? ones have not felt Azrael’s fatal
t ouc | )
sky As a stroke the death-dealing of lightning froth blast. 1 f With clear
Came
no warning it caught up the Arlington
Academv, crushed the great building
with its inmates into an awful mass of
mangled, agonized human bodies and
splintered timbers and then passed on.
There were two teachers and thirty-
five children in the buildijig when the
cyclone touched it. less Eight of the little
ones are dead, not than a dozen
more teachers are beyond hope, one ot the
can hardly be saved, while
the other has been injured nigh unto
death. Of the others who were in the
fatal structure not one escaped grave
Kei « £ OSt “ “««
the dead ns far as can be now known :
5 S£r
Johnson, Maude.
M’Murry, Willie.
1 utnam, OlIie.
Roberts, Clarence.
ProfiWMke/hi received injuries
of suck serious nature that little hope
is entertained that his life may lie
saved, while Prof. Covington’s eondi-
tion is also serious.
The people were stunned by the aw-
fill calamity which lias fallen upon
work of rescue, which was carried on
with the energy of freenzy until the
iast suffering child had' been jua^ as
comfortable'as was possible, and tue
sarftJKJjtt “ b “"
A description of the scenes about
the place of the eatrastrophe while the
search was in progress is beyond the
power of words. Fathers and moth-
ers, from whom their children had
been ruthlessly snatched without a
moment’s warning, at first dazed, were
crazed when they realized the horn-
bie truth, mingled their cries with
those of the sufferers and spurred those
engaged in the work of rescue to
added effort.
Blakely and other towns within
reach lost no time in sending their
physicians and nurses to assist our
possible stricken lias people, been done so that alleviate everything
to the
suffering of those who survive.
Only two other buildings in this
Mr. W. D. Cowdrey and Dr. W. E.
Saunders. These buildings were both
completely wrecked, but none of their
occupants were seriously injured.
The business section of the city was
fully and 500 yards beyond harmed the but danger
line was not it is
hardly necessary to say that not a
soul in the city would give fervent
thanks to-night if every business house
here had been swept from the face of
the earth had the academy spared. and its in-
estimable treasures been
The Arlington Academy was a
handsome two-story structure, which
was built about two years ago. It was
in charge of Professors Covington and
Walker and was patronized generally
by the people of Arlington and the
surrounding country.
No news has yet been received here
of further loss of life or property, but
it is feared that when news does come
from the outlying districts that in addi¬ the
course of the mighty wind be
tions to the death list will made,
and that Arlington will not alone be
called upon to mourn for loved ones
who have fallen victims to the power
of the scourge.
Ablington, Ga., March 23.—Ar¬
lington, the scene of the disaster, is 40
miles from Albany Southwestern on the Blakely
extension of the branch
of the Central. There is one train a
day from Albany, arriving here in the
afternoon. It is an islated spot. The
town wears an aspect of the most ab¬
mourning. Crape hangs from a
dozen doors and every person seems
to be strickeu with a dull sort this of grief. little
There a eight families in
town bf 1500 people who are mourning
the sudden and violent death of child¬
ren. Some of them are now weeping
over the crushed and bleeding victims
in whose bodies the spark qf life still
It seems a dreadful freak of the
storm that all of its victims should
have been children. Only two the grown
people were badly hurt in town
and these wero the professors, W. A.
Covington and W. J. Walker, who
were in the academy when it was
struck by the cyclone. Prof. Coving¬
ton had a narrow escape and was res¬
cued from the debris with only a few
bruises, while Prof. Walker has a
broken leg and other serious injuries
alK i ma y die,
One of the most pitiful scenes is
presented tie by Amy Colly, a sweet She lit-
maiden of very tender years.
has a crushed skull and was otherv ise
badly mutilated by the falling timbers,
Dudley Ivilbrew presents a shock-
i«g aspect. He was literally covered
up by beams of wood and lias both
legs broken. He will be a helpless
cripple, even if he is spared from.
Uciltll.
. .....
The annual meeting of the Georgia
teachers’association will he held at
arm fo P rm q s th,s • vear ’ A 01le Iare
-
rate on all railroads will be allowed
the pedagogue.
— ■ ■
The _ Fitzgerald Leader learilJ!
that a movement is on foot to place
that thrifty city in direct boat con-
.. th the and , that ,
fudly ", 10I) w, Brunswick, sea, We essen- hope
means
that it is true. Brunswick desires a
closer connection with the hustliim *
^ ^Bnin.ick Adv. rtta ,
It i s said that Sam Jones, at one of
bis meetings, called „„ Ml tie men
" ll0 had “ever said an unkind word
about their wives to stand up. Two
men responded. Then the evangelist
asked all the women who had never
T’ ke " ““kindly to their husbands to
telx stood - “ Sit down!”
shouted Jones, “ Now, I want the
congregation ~ to pray for these liars!”
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-The Abbeville Chronicle has re¬
sinned publication. We quote the
u 1 exchanges will kindly
nia<ce mention , of our request, that sub-
scribers send in their names and ad-
dresses together with dates or sub-
«*•<•*-'>« •'» our
mallln g hsts were destroyed when our
office burned, they will greatly oblige
us and the courtesy will be iHlly up-
predated,
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1 / there ever was a time, says an
exchange, when the farmer who is
hard pressed financial!? could not af-
f 1 . , . o^ , teep jiooi stock, it is . at pres-
ent ' Hie poorer the farmer is the
more necessity there is for keeping
only the best stock, because it is the
only kind in which there is any - profit, 1
^ 111 1 ,nen can a drd to ^ ee P
'
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scrubs. It requires a bank account to
maintain a farm on which scrub stock
j s kept, and if the farmer does not
lifive i, balance to liis credit, l„ .....
have t0 bo/ro ' v froni those who
v 0lu . home newspaper may charge
y ou a few cents more for your job
printing than the city offices charge
an d at the same time give vou two
d&llar loeal advertisements'free of 1
iar ^* -that , s one thing . a newspa-
;
per likes to do—advertise its patrons,
even though the editor knows he is
giving away • much more than he gets °
W . , ont , , somehow , or other , , he cant ,
f° r 1 */® of him get up the courage
to give free puffs to concerns that send
all of their job printing away never
’
advertise in the home 1 *, and
sometimes ,. do , not even subscribe. , A
newspaper is one of those reciprocal
institutions which never fails to help
those w ] 10 be ]p 1 j t _g x
The Dangers of the Grip.
greatest danger from La Grippe
is of its resulting in pneumonia. If
reasonable care is used, however, and
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy taken
all danger will be avoided. Among
the tens of thousands who have used
this remedy for la grippe we have yet
to learn of a single case having re¬
sulted in pHeumonia which shows
conclusively that this remedy is a
certain preventive of that dread dis¬
ease. It will effect a permanent cure
•in less time than any other treatment.
It is pleasant, safe and reliable. The
25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by J.
H. Goodman & Co., Druggists.
House and lot, deeded, and furni¬
ture for sale at $110, corner Altamaha
and Jackson streets. Call on J. C.
Martin, Lee house, 12-tf
GET all our kinds prices Job Work’ on
B. K. KNAPP, i fkQl fljjj
J. G. KNAPP,
12.
The Corner Grocery.
W. WHITCHARD & BRO.. Pron’rs.
We carry a full line of Groceries, Feed and Fertilizers. Magic
Stock and Poultry Food, tne only reliable Condition Powder.
Aots like magic ! We sell the celebrated “ Atlantic Dissolved
Bono,” the best fertilzer on the market, at same price of cheap
grades. Call and price our goods.
Free Deliver?' Thoms 13 Corner Thomas and Oconee.
lies • finwmaa iw> ...... ........................
Cordially Invited i
Everybody to come and inspect our New Stock
we have just opened on Pine Av., near corner of
Grant St., full line of
f
Etc We are prepared to furnish close estimates
for niaterial in large quantities.
In Tinware, Crockery, Lamps and House Furnishing Goods, we
arc ASPThe positively headquarters for this section. will find it
farmers of Irwin and adjoining counties to
their interest to come to us for all kinds of Plows, Hoes, Rakes,
Shovel, in fall kinds of Farming Implements. We are agents
for the Chattanooga Plows.
STO\ ES.—We sell from the cheapest to the best. The World's
Best—THE GARLAND—is our leader.
Harley O Holmes.
Turpentine and Lumber Jlill Supplies
Hie .Josef Drug Co •
16 to 1 That Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons bo% get vvhippecl by •
rgiapugili V, t.
rt. ‘
to-date Di C 1
a-
South Georgia. We carry everything found
in a first-class Drug Store. If we should
not have what you want we will get it for
you -
We carry a full line of Drugs and
Chemicals. Call ancl see us. We want to
get acquainted.
Prescriptions carefully compounded Day
or Night.
We are headquarters for Toilet Soaps ^
and . r, Perfumery. r
The Josey Brag Co
SEEDS! SEEDS!
't£8S8®8Z
Have You Planted Your Gardens ?
Have you secured vour Seeds? If not, why don’t for-
get to get the best. We carry nothing but the freshest of
Seeds for planting. No 3 or 4-year-old seeds on hand.
All of our seeds are last year grown and are absolutely
fresh, pure and free from dust. Call and sifc our new
stock of Seeds. We are located on
PINE AVENUE, NEAR GRANT ST.
Look for the big sigu,
for Seeds. . ’
3S«- BTJICK7
Fitzgerald Bottling Works,
North Grant St. Ail orders will receive prompt attention.
OL1N S. McCOY
