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About The Ashburn advance. (Ashburn, Ga.) 18??-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1899)
Of Local Interest Things that Happen in and About the Town. Those who Come and Go. Per¬ sonal Mention etc. etc. Mrs. Dr. Gardner is quite sick. Frank Tison is on the sick this week. Mrs. Reeves is quite ill at the Pinnix House. Lee Betts was in Cordele Tues¬ day on busi ness. Mrs. Florrio Evans visited Syc¬ amore Thursday. Mrs. E. J. Hodge is quite ill this week. C. D. Bass of Sumner is here on a visit to his son Ed. Mayor Bailey of Sycamore was in town Wednesday. G. D. Peacock of Sycamore was here trading Monday. Miss Maggie Hadaway is the guest of Macon relatives. Phil. Everett made a business trip to Cordele Monday. Mrs. J. M. Gregory of Adel is visiting at the parsonage. Col. J. W. Powell attended court at Vienna this week. T. S. Betts attended county court at Isabella this week. Jim Reeves, a negro at the mill, died last Sunday. , Tom Shingler and Willie Bald¬ win went to Macon Wednesday. The prettyest thing in town are those Waist sets at Whidby’s. Mrs. C. F. Hill of was here shopping Wednesday. A little son of J. A. is seriously ill with pneumonia. Col. C. W. Full wood ofTifton was here on legal business Tues¬ day* Mrs. S. C. Collins has been quite sick tills week, but is now much better. Twenty-one transient guests registered at the Hotel Clyde Tuesday. Carlos W. Evans was among those who attended the Fitzgerald carnival. Col. W. H. Dorris of Cordele left his autograph at the Clyde Saturday. Col. Forehand of Isabella was in town Tuesday, registering at the Clyde. Mrs. Gilmore of Schley county is visiting the family of her son, J. II. Gilmore. Mesdaines Domer and Wickley of Worth were here shopping W ednesday. Mr. Collier of the News and im¬ migrant, was in Ashburn one day last week. Dr. W.' L. Story and wife, of Sycamore, returned from White Springs Monday.' Dr. G. VV. Cooper went on a tooth snatchin’ expedition to Woith Monday. Worth County Teachers’ Insti- tute convenes at the academy here today. Tiie public generally are cordially inyited to attend. The Ashburn citizen who does¬ n’t read the Advance is decidedly behind the times. Mrs. G. W. Grice has returned to her home in Barnesville, after a pleasant stay here. Claude Barbre attended the Fitzgerald carnival, and reports having a good time. H. S. Pate and wife of Sumner passed through here Sunday on their way to Arabi. H. B. Wliitsitt, and R. W. Hol¬ combe of Cordele were registered at the Clyde yesterday. The father'and sister of Her¬ bert Mullins are here attending him during his illness. H. A. J. Gorday and family, wlio live seven miles east of Ash- bnrn, are all down sick. Mr. Jay of Fitzgerald, father of Mrs. J. S. Clark, visited his daughter here this week. Prof, and Mrs. .1. B. Thrasher of Sycamore were here visiting and shopping Wednesday. W. K. Jenkins claims to have one of the finest strawberry patch¬ es in this section of country. J. S. Shingler returned from a business trip south Wednesday, and is now at home very sick. The many friends of Mrs. G. W. Cooper will be pained to learn that she is quite ill at her home. David A. Roberts spent Mon¬ day and Tuesday in town visiting liis neice, Mrs. J. C. Flanders. The many friends of Bob Law will regret to learn that he is seri¬ ously ill, a rid confined to his bed. Mrs. J. J. Gorday and daugh¬ ter, Mrs. Ashley, of Wilcox coun¬ ty, were here shopping W ednes¬ The building nntv n-rmiipfl liv by T. W. White will bs moved to the lot in the rear of Shtogle* store ' We are sorry to note that Un- do Joe Rainey, one of the oldest and besU-bzene of the • ■’ Mrs. J. S. Clark and threechil- dreu, and A. J. Clark and wife went to the Firzgerald carnival last week. Mrs. W. M. Bunch is expected home Sunday from Pelham, where she has been on a visit to her parents. Zealy Jackson of Sycamore has gone over to Poulan, where h e has accepted a position on the Stenogropher. ■ Jrana TT Hudson will go to Cuth- bert about the 1st of May to work with his father in the telephone exchange there. Di. Dr Storv Story and ana bride Drute or of bycamoro Sycamore were m town Wednesday receiv- ing the congratulations oi their many friends here. Dr. Turner of this place and Dr. Stoiy of Sycamore went to i aeon \» edne. .ay to attenc tie ‘hate Medica ss.,-.i«,. on. A. C. Forrester and S. C. Col- line went to Macon Ihursday on business. It is supposed that Andy’s mission was to buy a false mustache forj temporary * use. Bob Rogers returned Wednes¬ day from White Springs, Fla., where he has been on a pleasure trip for the past two weeks. Nearly every boy in town is saving every penny he can gel hold of so as to be able to attend the Beach llaven picnic in May. Betts & Co. are erecting sever¬ al new tenant houses in the quar¬ ter west of the mill. L. K. Beal and W M. Bryan are doing the work. Herbert Mullins lias been very ill this week at his room in Mrs. Hayes’ boarding house, necessita¬ ting watchers at his bedside night and day. Mesdaines Lawrence and Pel¬ ham of Ashburn came up Tues¬ day on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. .1. 1). Wrye.—Houston High School Journal. Geo. M. Daniel was on the sick list several days this week. Pa¬ tron’s always miss this popular clerk when he is absent from Jef¬ frey & Roobin’s store. Henry Miller, a journeyman plumber, who was evidently in¬ sane, committed suicide in Val¬ dosta Monday by cutting bis throat with a piece of glass. John Rice, a negro employed by Greer Bros, at Dakota, was run over and killed by a log train on the tram road Monday. His body was horribly mangled. J. S. Geoliagan lias a capon at his home which cares for and hov¬ ers 60 little biddies, equally as well as could the mother hen. H is a pretty sight to look upon. Ladies, have you seen those elegant flowers at the millinery store of Misses Hill and Jessup? If not, you should call there at once. They are certainly lovely. a .. . ,, „ letter .‘jZy’in ceivod a from Pidrock statins that a mooed was raging there which is doomed to entirely destroy the big mill. j. a Betts will » t 0 „ ce begin the erection of a nice six-coon, residence in the north-west part of town - Wm - Bryan has tho contract for the carpenter work. J. H. Allen informs us that he has a line stand of watermelons, We always did like John Allen, and from now until after the wa- termelou season closes we are just s b * The new and beautiful stock of milli »ery goods displayed by Misses JIi11 a)ld J ess,1 P are at- tractive, and ladies contemplat- ing purchasing anything in that liue6liould ivetheinacalli A general free-for-all fight took ]Adce among the negioes at W ° rth Monday > 8,1,1 vvljolesale arrestB were made. The accused will have a hearing before ’Squire McArthur Ur ,. next Monday . morning, . Clifford Hay returned from Columbus Monday, where he at tended the Epworth League con- f ercllce a « a delegate from here. ]£e reports having had a splendid time,'ami returns with renewed interest in League work. Clifford is one of Ashburn’s most ing young men, arid t oo many honors cannot be bestowed upon him. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. L. Phillips of Cycloneta were hero Tuesday. Mr. Phillips came to attend the Masonic meeting, while Mrs. Phillips had some dental work done, and also did some shop¬ ping. Charlie Teagle and Boyd Bar¬ bre returned from Fitzgerald’s Water and Lights Carnival Mon- day afternoon. They admit they were not the “only lumber on the yard if they wore block¬ heads.” Last evening Capt,. Alcorn of the Union Lumper Co. near Haw- kinsville, passed through here with 15 men, 42 mules and 11 wagons and carts, en route to Tif- ton lo work on the now railroad to bo built from Tifton to Tliom- asvillo. * The following named persons wore among those who registered at the Hotel Clyde Tuesday: J. E. Powell, V.' Hyman, K. M. Patterson, Arabi; P. L. l’hil- lips, I. ,1. Usry, J. W. Pale, Irby; C. E. Walker, 11. Hill, H. W. Hussey, Sycamore. On Friday last Dr. Gardner performed a surgical operation upon Ben Canty, removing from the outside of his right hand a wen which had assumed threat¬ ening proportions, and was a source of pain and annoyance to the patient. G. B. Gorday is having an ice house built in the rear of Raney’s warehouse, with a capacity of about two car loads, llo will be prepared to furnish all the ice Ashburn can consume, and keep it on hand at all times during the summer. A State warrant was sworn out here Monday by Maxie Pate, a young man from Worth, charging two of Ashburn’s citizens with an The case was ^ e ’ kg * “ ’ L f"' 0 "' Till Z came Dooly .Sunday. It is skid that the ob j ect of j liB v j g j t was to study t ho stylus with the view of pur- chasing a fashionable spring hat for his sister (?) Weil , ni u th „ , g „t theh . 0ld tin 1)a „„, cowbells, lard { (h it a „ j tr meats, and the way they did ser- euade Phil Everett and bride was a caution. Ashburn boys will have their fun, and if bridal parties won’t lake it, they just have it to take, anyhow. • 1 ax-Rc,ceiver D. A. McGirt was here Saturday on his first round. lie will be here again May 0th. For the ™nvenienee of parties concerned lie lias left blank rc- turn- wit!, McArthur, and , any time .. between , , now and May (5th those w iu wish to can eall on him, fill out and sign the W. II. Mashburn, a young man who formerly resided in Ashburn. but who for the past year or more has been clerking in a drugstore in Valdosta, will go to l itzgcr- aid and start a drugstore in his own light. Mr. Mashburn is a young man wholly deserving of success, industrious, honest, and straightforward in all of hisbusi ness transactions, a perfect gen Hainan, and wo can heartily com mend him to the good people of Fitzgerald. That he wii! n successful there goos without, saying. There is a mutual benevolent organization among the whit- employes of the planing mill, . when a member is taken sick each one contributes lOc weekly for lib support- until ho gets well. The beauty of this organization wa illustrated yesterday when non.: !' eight dollars won'sent to Horb-'G Mullins. James Shingler has about • pleted a neat residence in th south part of town, which w-i occupied by Mrs. Whidby. V Bryan did the carpenter worn, and that veteran bricknmson V Rose, the brick work, which • sutlicient guarantee that 11 - building is a substantial one. ’Squire McArthur field court last Saturday. In the case of tie Shingler Mercantile Co. vs. Mrs. E.Brooks, judgement was ren¬ dered for plaintil!'. Ajudgeni'. nt for plaintiff was also rendered >>■ the case of tho Imperial Fertilia . Co. vs. J. A. Brooks. Other rn - os on tin' docket were contin,:< Thc Macon News of Tuesday says : The new sleeping cars i cently ordered by the Georgia Southern and Florida 'railroa . have arrived, Tho cars were made by the Dayton, 0., car com pany and will bo used as lor sleepers between Macon and I’a lat ka. The many friends of R. A. It:. "Ml beglad to know that li improving rapidly, and the hope is entertained that ho will brought home from Miih-.g ^ and is being heartily greeted by his many friends. Chief Justice McArthur dain.s *• ■»« one of the iincst surd-, i" Uiis section of Georgia. T o,, he in giving it his best attention there is no doubt. This woo!; h - family enjoyed messes ot Hugh peas. He has I HOG'collatd plan, 1! V V.’„ aldtl,^'! Ins , ,l ° hisg.u o'-y ,| ... witll him next wi „ tor . . bio ol ,ho adnura »lo rai ol Ci . f'' M ‘‘ do 'V Nyoaiuore is a .ornmia. -•< to aceomphsa what' -ver ho urn . ; takes. A good story illustratm this trait is now being told oi. j)im# R, i :J 8a id that several wee: ago he went before the State p< itent,ary board and applied for ..option t Zkl ,s olivsirNu ou^' fur one fO’ me c convict camps, our, ui v- 10 that only married men were g en such places. The doctor h--t no time in getting back lion. and in short order led to the alt r one of Irwin’s fairest i'.owei . Now if the genial doctor will pc: sonally renew his application t he board, and take with him i. love-ly bride for that august, hoc to gaz4 up m, they will no dou- milo him (diief surgeon of tie. whole shootin’match.
