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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Railroad and Mill Supplies,
Rubber Belting and Packing,
Hardware, Cutlery, Guns. Rifles,
Ammunition, Rope, Tinware, Stoves,
Crockery, Fishing Tackle etc. etc.
Write for Prices. 9-11-13 1 Jefferson St,
Ga.
Of Local Interest
Tilings that Happen in and About the Town.
Those who Come and Go. Per¬
sonal Mention etc. etc.
Mr. Will Hargrove is clerking
for Betts & Co.
Don’t tell all you know; keep
a little for seed.
A rare painting is always said
to be well done.
The ’99 wheel of fortune will,
ofcouise, be a chainless.
Col. B. B. White will attend
Irwin Superior-Court, next week.
Andrew Forester is as faithful
and true as an;/ salesman in Ash¬
burn.
Mr. S. C. Collins is a clever gen¬
tleman, and is conducting the
Clyde on a high plane.
Several young people enjoyed
a musical enter!ainment at the
home of Mr. A. B. River one eve-
ning recently.
Mr. J. J. Mims, who was with
J. 8. Betts & Co., as woodsman
last year, has settled on a place
naar Mr. J. L. Sumner’s and will
try farming this year. Here’s
success to you.—Worth Local.
W. A. Murray, Ashburn’s pio-
neer merchant, lias one of the
finest and most extensive spring
st ocks ever brought to that city,
His business has been steadily
growing for years, and it now cov¬
ers the mercantile field in that
neck of the woods.—Gazette.
Mr. J. B. Fender left early in
the weel* for Abbeville, where he
will take a three month’s course
i.i the celebrated educational in¬
stitution re. Boatie’s friends
here . m well, and at least
eno kmo is ad and inconsolable.
—Tift on Gi zette.
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Ashburn, Worth County, Ga,, 1 1899.
The orchestra will begin prac¬
ticing again soon.
Make a thirty day note if you
want to see time fly.
Unless hotel guests put up, the
landlord must shut up.
E. J. Story, of Ashburn, was in
A raid Tliu rsday.—Jou rnal.
Some men who never forget
that they are gentlemen, fail to
remember that there are others.
Forget the good you have done
to others and the evil they have
done to you if you would be hap-
i>y-
Rev. J. Frank Culpepper left
Thursday morning for Savannah,
to attend the Southern Baptist
Convention m session there.
The work of opening College
Avenue lias been pushed almost
t.Q completion and it will soon be
one of the most prdmiuent thor¬
oughfares in the city.
Walker, of Ashburn, continues
a prince of grocerymen, and like
clever Joe Parrish, of Adel one
of the best walking, advertise¬
ments of his business you can
find in a year’s travel.—Gazette.
J. S. Betts A Co., are putting
in a finely equipped machine
shop for their mill and tram-road
a thing for which they have felt
the need many years, it will
keep many a dollar in Ashburn
that would otherwise be paid the
shops of Valdosta, Cordele, Ma¬
con and other places,
The Palmer Hardware Co., of
Savannah, is doing an extensive
business throughout South Caro¬
lina, Georgia and Florida. The
secret of their success lies in the
fact that they give the best val¬
ues any Hardware concern in the
South. They handle everything
from Railroad and Mill supplies
to fish-hooks and carpet tucks.
A trial order will convince you of
these facts.
Worth Locals,
CONTRACT FOR THE METH¬
ODIST CHURCH HAS
BEEN LET—OTH¬
ER NEWS.
Mr. R. E. Ruff has been quite
sick, but is improving.
Mr. J. C. Brecken of Lake City
Fla. visited Worth last week.
Mr. Satrf Cockrell, of Sycamore,
spent Sunday in Worth.
Mr. T. M. Scovill, ofOgletliarp,
visited relatives here last week.
Miss Nannie Thornton, of Pres¬
ton Ga., is in Worth this week.
Miss Lena Boland, of Worth,
will leave for her homo in llighs-
ton this week.
Mr. John Allen, of Ashburn,
was in Worth Sunday.
Mr."Harry Cockrell visited rel¬
atives at Ociila last week.
Mr. G. T. Gifford is in Ociila
this week.
Mr. McDtiff Bruce of Ociila vis¬
ited Worth Sunday.
Mr. I. H. Harrol has accepted a
position as clerk with Mr. S. W.
Lockhart.
Mr. 0. B. Cannon is among
Worths visitors this week.
The contract for the building of
the Methodist church here was
given to Messrs Miller & Cooper
Bros.
Messrs. Aikens, Ostpirn, and
Gifford visited Arabi Saturday.
Mr. J. C. Cannon is in Atlanta
on business this week.
There will be preaching here
Sunday by Rev. Frank Culpepper
of Ashburn.
Mr. H. V. Waits visited Lenox
last week.
Mr. S. W. Lockhart visited
Ashburn Sunday.
Mr. Cleveland Scovill spent
last week in Worth.
Prof. J. (}. Oliver .spent Sunday
in Ashburn.
Mr. Frank Holoman who has
been quite.sick is able to be out,
again
Mrs. A. L. Walker, of Sycamore
was in Worth-last week
Mr. O. C Garnmage visited Ty
Ty last week. A certain young
lady seemed quite lonesome while
he was away.
Mr. Effio Osburn is quite sick.
She didn’t go to Arabi Sunday
Lutbur.
Mr. R. E. Winters who has
been quite sick is convalescent.
Mr. Jno. McDaniel, of Hailo.
was in Worth last week.
Some young men apparently
empty their sand-boxes on the
first grade.
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our [daughters
rea m fulfilled? . .
Have you purchased for her a Kings¬
bury Piano?
There are no better Pianos Made in
the world than the celebrated
Kingsloiiry and COnover.
These Pianos can bo bought on easy
terms. We manufacture more pianos
and organs than any other concern
in the world. Instruments handled
by us come from our own factories.
Save Dealer’s Droll ts
By buying from Manufacturers direct. Wo
sell on easy payments. Write for our
catalogues and prices before you aro
talked into buying inferior instruments.
Caloie Piano Co., -Atlanta, Of a
90-5)8 Whitehall St’
Among the Students.
The Ciceronians write Interestingly of the
Tilings that Transpire at the
Ashburn High School.
Bro. Frank Culpepper gave us
a very interesting address last
Friday afternoon at 51 o’clock.
The subject of his address was
“Have a pprposo.” lie very
earnestly exhorted us if wo had
no purpose, to choose one imme¬
diately. We are sure that no
pupil after hearing his address,
will continue life without one.
Como again Bro. Frank, wo will
gladly lay aside our studies at
any time to listen to you.
A small band, containing five
or six of our school boys went out
fishing one afternoon this week
during school 1 jours, Ask them
what they caught that made them
smile so. “ A int it the trat li.”
School is still increasing fast.
Five new pupils this week. Wc
are very much packed andjampd,
but vve are looking forward to, a
bright future hoping to soon have
our new building. We will con¬
tinue to hope even if we die in
despair.
’Master brightest. Walter Leo Bolden onej rc-1
of our Ciceronians
turned to school aft< r some weeks I
of absence.
'File girls prayer meeting met
at the M. E. church every morn¬
ing at recess last week and Sunday
morning at 5) o’clock. We feel
that these meetings have proven
to be bcnificial to those who at¬
tended. We will continue to
have them every Thursday at 10:
o’clock. Let us cultivate our af¬
fections as well as our intelect.
We welcomed our Ciceronian
arid school mate Master Sammie
Evans back in school again after
Official Organ
City of Ashburn.
NO. eJO. »> Si
t wo weeks absence on account of
sickness.
We are glad that the influence
of the meeting did not go away
with the preachers, but is still in
our school. It is both seen and
felt in and by teachers and pupils.
book OUt, Professor in drawing
the rope tighter. Mind or we
won’t get through.
Next week is examination week.
We look forward to it with great
expectut ion.
The school has decided to have
ihe picnic mentioned in last weeks
paper on the last Friday in jiext
month, April 2Stli. 185)0. The
appointed to arrange
program for that day, has agreed,
to challenge (he city of Ashburn
for a debate against the High
of Ashburn. We want
speakers from each side tin;
and school to take part in
debate. The speakers shall
on the subject. The < n
program will appear in next
Advance,
A wise man once said: “Boys
walk the streets with their
on the back of their Iv ad a
long; hair hanging over tlm>>*
foreheads, with cigarettes in their
are cheaper stuff than,
shoes; nobody wants them at
?,! W price. Men will not < mph.y
; sensible girls will not mar-
rythem; they are not; worth (heir
keeping, and they will never bo
able to keep themselves.
A California man named Moon
was presented will) a daughter by
his wife, which was a new moon,
says an exchange. The old man
was so overcome that lie went off
and got drunk; that was a full
moon. And when he got sober,
he had but t wenty-five cents h ft;
that was the last quarter, But
when the -Id lady met him with
a rolling pin, there was a
eclipse, with a comet in ■i i ie
tance.