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The Ph H N O m ce > h-J o Leader. E/StablisHed 1896. VOL. II. CLOTHING! ■ e have a full and complete stock of Men I jBoys suits for Summer wear at lowest Is. Slimmer Coats 50 and 75c. Xice dark Vck ^pen and other grades at Cheap $1.00, Pants and good from Alapaea Coats $1.50. up, and the largest stock of Straw Hats in he town, including the imported Chinese Bam- Hat, tray or turtle shape, very desirable for sun protector, at 50 and 75 cents. Boys and Childrens Straw Hats of all description. Mens’ Working Shirts, good quality, 50c, and laundred Percale from 50c to $1.25. Our goods are all first-class, and if not found as represented, can return them and money refunded. D. C. McCOLLUM, (f! HARLEY k HOLMES.! 1 ■$ Good New Goods, Low Prices* f WE ARE THE LEADING DEALERS IN- /■ S Hardware, Builders’ & Shop Maria!, m v> Tinware, Stoves and Crockery. $■ We carry ail Elegant Line of PAINTS, Etc. Send for our $ m) Color Card. Our Specialty is Improved IMPLEMENTS, ’ i m $ In fact everything needed on the farm. Agents for OH ATT A- y NOOGA .’iLOWS, Planet, Jr. Cultivators, MeCovmiekmiowers, Mitchell Celebrated Ore and Two-Horse Wagons. Turpentine W : (m Mill Supplied, Steijm Mill Fitting^, Emery Wheels, etc. ^ All Goods Guaranteed to be just as represented at time of sale. f * HARLEY & HOLMES. I ^ssssssssssssts^s&ssssss^ I The Josey Drug Oo. g A full line of Drugs, Paten Med- £ t g icines of all kinds, Druggists’ Sun- || 'f dries, Etc., Etc. Toilet Soaps and Fine Perfumery. f* g The Finest Soda Fountain in Wire- & grass Georgia. & Prescriptions Compounded Day or Night. | The Josey Drug Oo. South Grant, Fitzgerald, Ga. -&L 4?:} 4N qiK i HELLO HELLO! * & s 4 -- f'F or the New Grocery’ i 4 ’ On Pine Av., between Sheridan arid Thomas Sts., * -\'. y XV. 4 A new and Fresh stock of G oods, and as good coming as the all best the can time. afford—none Please 7 * better to be had in the market more attention. Look lor the ft » ^ C call and and will receive prompt see me you of the building, ' name of the proprietor on the front * Yours Truly, V-V 4^ f J. E. BENTZ. m . : .X | ~-g, g wwwwtw -vgj -ocg -»-t> 4 * W -^-g. wwi* 9--^ 1^- f Grocery.!! v + iThe Corner ❖ f/Wl* l/*v *5* BRO.; Prop’rs. IS. W. WHITCHARD & We a full lino of Groceries. Feed and Fertilizers. Magic + * carry Poultry Food, tne only reliable Condition Powder. 4 * * Stock and magic We sell celebrated “ Atlantic Dissolved Acts like ! the price of cheap T .. *)T - + * Bone,” the best fertilzer on the market, at same YjQT * grades. Call and price our goods. M ftit Minij- Tlnai; 18 . c " r '” r ' ru “ m, “ “MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE." FITZGERALD, IRWIN COUNTY, GEORGIA, MAY 13, 1897. County Correspondence. To Correspondents—All Jotters tor publi¬ cation must reach us by Monday or Tuesday of each week. Unless the name of the cor¬ respondent accompanies the letter we will not publish the same. We will not print the name of the correspondent or tell who they are, but want the name as an evidence of Rood faith. Write news, and do not write anything- that reflects on the character of anyone. Ocllla llappeniug.s. From our Regular Correspondent. Dr. J. C. Luke 1ms a fine field of corn. We are glad to say that Oeilla is improving. A heavy fruit crop is expected this season, The citizens of Oeilla are getting plenty of vegetables. The Hon. Wm. Henderson’s cotton farm is looking nice. A good rain through this section would he of great benefit to the grow¬ ing crops. Smith, Thomas & Co. will soon have their saw mill completed, and Oeilla will not be scarce of lumber. Mr. L. L. Granbery and workmen are erecting a depot at this place for the G. & A. railroad, and the train is expected soon. Messrs. J. II. Powell and Reason Henderson, of Oeilla, visited Abbe¬ ville, Ga., on Saturday night last, and give ear to the Rev. Sam Jones. Sycamore Mutterings. From Our Regular Correspondent. Crops are looking splendid, with farmers well up with their work. Mr. II. D. Smith, editor of the Ash- bum Advance, was in a town a few hours last Saturday evening. A large crowd from this place have gone to-day to hear General Gordon on’ the “Last Days of the Confeder¬ acy.” Quite a large number of our people went up to Cordele to hear Sam Jones Sunday, and all united in reporting a very interesting sermon. Young Patterson shot and instantly killed a negro boy named Brown at Ashburn last Thursday. Patterson surrendered at once to Marshal Gain Hallman, was tried before a coroner’s jury, which returned a verdict of jus¬ tifiable homicide. Last Friday night while Rev. J. W. Tin ley was attending church at Ash¬ burn, bis horse, which was hitched to an and out^tandig escaped tree, Rev.Tuiley either broke thinks, loose or, as more probably was stolen. At any rate he lias heard nothing from him since. Mrs. Mary Pugh, familiarly known as Grandma Pugh, died at the resi¬ dence of her sou, Mr. D- II. Mears, in Sycamore on Thursday night last and was buried with appropriate cere¬ monies at Pleasant Hill church the following day. Mrs. Pugh was born and reared in Pulaski county, where she resided all her life until a few years ago, when she removed to this County, with her two sons, Mr. D. II. Mears and J. T. Pugh. The beloved relatives have the sympathy of the en¬ tire community. “ Omega.” West Fitzgerald Sparks. From Our Kegular Correspondent. Lute North is under the weather at this writing. Mrs. Brown, who lias be- n very ill is now slowly improving. Mr. Ilaggerman’s beautiful new house is nearing completion. Mrs. Cliapmiu leaves for her old home in Minneapolis, Minn., to-day. Clarence Bosworth and Miss Lucy Beck visited Mrs. Ettie Van Osdol. Sunday. W. Lloyd had his pocket picked of over eight dollars one day last week. He was in the postoflice, and when he got to the grocery store to order some groceries' pocket-book was gone. N. W. Van Osdol inis a grape vine which has grown twenty-seven feet this summer. Also strawberries bear¬ ing over a mouth, still blooming and all on new ground, without any ferti¬ lizing. The Epworth League decorated the grave of young Mr. Lyon, Sunday af¬ ternoon, the anniversary of his death. It will be remembered lie was the Ep¬ worth League’s dearlv loved presi¬ dent when he died, and our chapter of the League in Fitzgerald is named after him. This part of town w’as well repre¬ sented at the union gospel temperance meeting Sunday evening, and every one was well satisfied with the pro¬ gram. The duet sung by Professor Sussex and wife was the professor’s own composition, and the anthem sung by the U. B. choir was very beau¬ tiful and perfectly rendered. All the other numbers were interesting and entertaining. The collection was good. _______ Sparks From Wolf Pit From Our Regular Correspondent. Miss Alice Luke was ttie guest of Miss Bettie Gaff, Tuesday. Miss Annie and Sammy Cooper vis¬ ited Austin Lukes Saturday night. Miss Cleali Swafford attended teach¬ ers’ institute at Fitzgerald, Saturday. Mrs. Pollman and Mrs. Kettle vis¬ ited at Boss Coopers Thursday p. m. Miss Cleali Swafford was the guest (it Miss Etta Pollman Thursday even fng. Several of the people in this vicinity are having a siege with colds these days. | Mrs. Petscher was on the sick list the first of the week, but is better at i this writing. ' Field Mr. vicinity, and Mrs. attended Rainy, of church the Old at ! i Wolf Pit Sunday. Mr. Louis Blood and Mr. Loufman were in Fitzgerald Tuesday on busi¬ ness with Uncle Sam. Several of the neighbors gathered at Mr. Pollocks Thursday ana helped him roll logs and fix up his house. Here is my Cat", brother or sister scribes, from Syeampre and West Fitzgerald, may we near from you often, with a good grist of items. & Mrs. Gaff, Jesse and Miss-Bettie and Annie and Fred Dunbar attended prayer meeting at Green Balls, near Dorminey’s Mill, Sunday evening, Mr. Louis Luke, who is working at Peter Troupes, was in this vicinity Sunday, calling oii his friends. Come again, Louis. Ilobert Colwell has been accepted as conductor on the Otter Creek’division of the 1. C. railroad. Regular trips with traiu^H. Miss NanCy Herton, who lias been on the sick list for awhile, was out to prayer meeting Tuesday night and lfciy looked happy. , Senator D. Foxworthy was on the sick list the first of last week. lie was not able to. take but train 56 either Sunday p. m. or Tuesday night, There is to be a picnic and outing party from the Wolf Pit vicinity to the Crisp Landing!-.Saturday, May 8. Full particulars of the happenings of the day in next issue. v There are several of the people of this vicinity afraid of getting their names in the paper, and think they have to walk pretty straight, but they will get there, by the by. There are arrangements being made to hold cbildrens’s day services at Wolf Pit the last Sunday in this month, May 30. The program will be given later on, when the committee on arrangements get it completed. One of Hie wonders of our corner is the traveling postoflice. It beats the airship that is going over the country through the air. But wonders never cease in the. piney woods of south Georgia. / The Wolf Pit ball club boys are get¬ ting very impatient waiting for some other club to cross bats with them. They say they will play the Tifton or Abbeville clubs, and would not stand back to cross bats with the crack nine of Chicago or New York. Aunt Laura Blood went huckle¬ berry hunting the other day, and it seems that she got turned around and could not find the way home for awhile, and did not know where she was, but she got home, just tire same. We will not say you got lost. Aunt Laura, for fear of that caiyng you promised if we said anything about it. Quite a coach load of picnickers from tire city went over the I., C. road Saturday, May 1. on an excursion to the river, and by the looks "I the pas¬ sengers they were nearly froze, and some of the boys prefered walking, so as to keep warm. Come again, young people, when it gets warmer, and we will have ice cream and lemonade for you at the way stations. To 1 !- ovor ;i tin’. The Boy With One Eye Open, Dealer in gophers and razor-back hogs. Enquiry. Having never had the privilege of visiting Fitzgerald and forming the ac¬ quaintance of its good people, of I Leaer, desire, through the courtesy The to make enquiry concerning the denom¬ ination of Primitive Baptists. If living there are any of its members or friends in or near the city, address I respectfully ask them to send their to me. I desire to correspond with, and if the Lord will to visit them. If there is enough wo would be glad for them to constitute a church there. Yours to serve, R. H. BarwicIc, Pavo, Ga. For bargains in farm lands call on J. A. Justice & Co. «‘l’hc First Battle.” Hon. VV. J. Bryan’s book, “The First Battle,” is now issued and is » lim speciman of the printer’s art. It is n most interesting political a history of the campaign with its im¬ portant events and issues and abound¬ ing in thoughtful reflection and sug¬ gestions. Any person may purchase the book with the assurance lie is get¬ ting the author’s best presentation of his views. The hook contains over 600 pages; is bound in three styles, cloth, half and full Morocco, and sells at the low prices of $1.75, $2.25 and $2.75 respectively. Mr. A. L. Gossett, of this city, lias been made the canvasing agent for Ii- win and adjoining counties and will begin the canvas at once. All voters should see or address him and secure the book when lie makes the delivery May 22 to 25. 19-11 < IN MIND—SMtS to any address unless paid for in No cash, no paper. Editors i&d hHUn. NO. 19. * © Days. ~m AL if: HURST BROS., T 5K *4? -t 4 4' v' i - «T* .W ' <$> /A 4 I o K {DBY-SOOPS > 't m Jf you want BARGAINS that will ASTONISH X X YOU, come to our $ Special: Sale* • XL* OF x Dress • ■ • • Fabrics, T 4' X I . X And everything to be found in a First-Class Dry- Sf* Goods Store, on ■t* -k Saturday and Monday ¥ t ,-7 m *S:< t* . 4 MAY 8 and 10. , H e have - hand the up-to-date colors and styles. We if* on 4" don’t yourseh-es—-tliat as k you to take our word for it, but to come and see for -"p we have the largest, handsomest and best se^^ed stock of V 4- ly DressJJggdsy Nofions, Shoes, J ! v^y Etc., Etc., to be found in the City of Fitzgerald, and at prices wp 1 that will make our competitors green with envy. All we ask is *»* (hat you call and examine our stock and be Convinced of what V U *>* P we saw and advertise. -t ly / i K P Observe the Following Prices' X V r> n vi> 12 P eces pench Embroideries, organdies, worth 25c, at 20c y|> SO 12 Pieces Pieces "Figured Dimities, Organdies, all colors, worth worth 20c, at,12fc. mr* 15c at lie. X Fine Lawn's, 36 inches wide, worth 12Jc, at 9c. v t Scotch Lawns, 28 inchts. 4c. Pants Cloth—the very best Keosies,’worth 20c, at 121e. v f,, Cottonades, worth 25c, at 15c. ♦ P : i i 15c, at lie. m : 12Jc, at 9c. ■ n We have, besides these quantities of goods too numerous to mention P P vl K larg-e dervests and complete from line of Ladies, Gents and Childrens Hosiery. Ladies Ui • <>y at 4e to 25c. ik V VSILLIN the ladles to our gtoefc, it is conceded to . be ,. the largest and ,, best the , as C . m city. Our milliner, who learned her trade • >C afly^Yeral experience v»y » years in New York City, is far the most competent trimmer in Fitzgerald We always have on hand a large supply of the Cos- (i W * s f.,. mopolitan Patterns that we sell at the uniform price of 15c each. Yours to Serve, i HURST k! 'ti kS *.y BEOS ,P fl is Next Door to Postoffice. Fitzgerald. 1 Ga. *v|y >y * $ * & 4E M ± ^ SI ..................|..................*......j..................lUlUUlUUUiilU| Grand ^ | c 5 3 " *1*3 e i* I* c t.a > a OF |,Fa wm •M t v II | * | Harrison Bros ▼ i* £T I* ^ i m t^ a <)ul ' Spring Goods have arrived. They are exquisite, i a The Latest Styles and Cheaper than ever. Watch ^*a Every department is complete and t £^t. ; ready for your . a tiT. a inspection. We handle Dry Goods, Notions,’Gents = 14 . a Furnishing Goods of all kinds; Clothing for Boys, E -J. r 1*3 /\a /1 Youths and Men ; Shoes, Hats, Trunks and Valises, z EfiwS Come and examine. No trouble to show goods. Samples freely given. £ ti E/wi3 Having been amons the unfortunate, we were burned out, you remem- be on Pine Av. and Grant St., Dee. 22, 18%, but were not discouraged. and have come among you again better equipped than ever, and most Eyi\ 3 earnestly aslc a share of your kind patronage, and ■>vili earnestly en- deavor to please and guarantee perfect satisfaction. L *1* * T - ^ Yours Anxious to Please, 3 3 |1 tTa HARRISON BROS., E*; || 3 "• 3 Central Avenue, Next Door to Boyd Hardware Company. ^ t ^iiUtikiUiiLiUiiiUiiLiUUiiUUiUkUUUilkllUmiiUiiiiUUmkUiilUklUiiuuiiuuuiiuii Fitzgerald Bottling Works, North Grant St. All orders will receive prompt attention^ OLIN S. McCOY*