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Of Local Interest
Things that Happen in and About the
Those who Come and Go. Per¬
sonal Mention etc. etc.
Special Notice.
We will send The Advance
anv addressunt.il January 1, 1000,
for only 25 cents, strictly in ad¬
vance. The sooner yon subscribe
the more papers you will receive.
We want 800 new subscribers by
January 1st.
Silver thimbles 25 cents at
WMdby’s.
Miss Ethel Polhill is at Indian
Springs.
Mrs. Lee Pitts was in Ashburn
shopping Tuesday.
Will Ivers of Hawkinsville was
in Ashburn Sunday.
J. T. Smith of Vienna was here
on business Wednesday.
Gold filled watches, Waltham or
Elgin, $10.00 at Whidbys.
Mrs. J. D. Dorris is visiting her
brother, Dr. G. W. Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Smith
were here trading Tuesday.
B. F. Raney and bride were
town shopping Wednesday.
Mrs. Rouse of near
was here shopping Tuesday.
Mrs. A. D. Betts will move
her new residence Monday.
Dr. Williams, Oordele’s
tist, was in town Wednesday.
Mrs. Johnson returned to
home in Vienna Wednesday.
Mi is Ava Baker of
was hero shopping Wednesday.
You can now get 80 soda
tickets for $1 at O. K. drug store.
Dr. and Mrs. Walker of
more were in Ashburn Wednes¬
day.
\Y. A. and J. 8, Shingler
in Savannah on business
week.
Mrs. Johnson of Vienna is vis¬
iting her neice, Mrs. W. M.
groves.
G. M. Daniels and wife spent
Sunday with her parents in Syc¬
amore.
Dr. Grillin of Luke passed
through here Tuesday euroute to
Cordele.
Mrs. Jake Young of near War¬
wick was shopping in Ashburn
Tuesday.
N. McArthur is building a
st able on his lot, and otherwise
improving it.
You can for next 10 days get
soda water tickets for $1 at the
O. K. drug stere.
Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick were
the guests of their daughter, Mrs.
Comer, this week.
J. W. Evans and son Samraie
were at Indian Springs several
days the past week.
A new lot of silk bosom shirts
just received at Jeffrey & Roo¬
bin’s, 75 cents each.
Miss Mary Lizzie Lundy of Isa¬
bella was visiting her cousin, Dr.
G. W. Cooper, this week.
Mr. and Mrs. O. A.Bozeman are
on a month’s visit to relatives and
friends in Hawkinsville.
D. W Bellflower of the Little
neighborhood was a pleasant call¬
er at our office Tuesday.
Willie and Miss Flora Baldwin
spent Sunday at the pleasant
home of W. A. Shingler.
George Evans returned from a
business trip to Savannah and
Coffee county Wednesday.
John Hambrick of Colquitt,
formerly of this place, was here
visiting relatives this week.
Prof. FI. E. Gardner of I’ine-
luirst was here on a visit, to his
brother, Dr.Gardner, this week.
Jeffrey got in this week the
biggest lot of trunks ever brought
to Ashburn. They are fine ones,
too.
Misses Lillie and Mamie Horn
of Macon are visiting their
father, D. 1L Mears, at,
more.
The good poor de of Luke are
preparing ’"•“•-Apa to h|Te a grand picnic
at Cold th- Alapgt
River. 1 J"
J. W. Odum brought some
flue grapes to town Monday, and
says ho has many more on ' his
place.
Mrs. Cooper, mother of Dr. (J.
W. Gooper, arrived here last
week, and will make her home
with him.
E, J. Hodge is one of Ashburn’s
clever citizens, and we desire to
asure him of our gratitude for fa¬
vors extended.
The elder Mr. Zorn this week
brought to town a watermelon of
flie Primus Jones variety that
weighed sixty pounds.
W. B. Hall, who lives with H.
S. Dixon, is carrying his arm in
a sling, having had it broken
the kick of a horse recently.
Even the women folks have got
to killing snakes. Mesdames
Fogg and Hayes dispatched two
moccasins one day last week.
Rev. J. G. Flanders occupied
the pulpit at the Baptist church
last Sunday night, and preached
a highly interesting sermon.
The Pinnix House will receive
boarders for the next three
months at $8 per month. Nice
beds and rooms, and good
table;
The Freewill Baptists will hold
a protracted meeting at New Pros-
? ect ’ be « in,,in « 011 8aturda y bc *
fore the tlurd 8und »y in this
month. ,
J. J. Mims, formerly a resident
of Ashburn, but now living near
Doles, was in town Saturday
shaking hands with Ids many
friends.
Jeffrey has put up a big lamp
in the rear of his store, and bur¬
glars can see better wvat they are
doing when they visit him in the
future.
Bob Law and wife came down
from Cordele Saturday. Bob re¬
turned to Cordele Monday, but
Mrs. Law remains here on a visit
to her parents.
Miss Sadie Roberts is visiting
her sister, Mrs. J. O. Flanders.
Miss R. recently returned from
Dublin, where she lias been at
tending school.
Miss Russell, the charming
young lady who was married to
W. W. Cowan at Oedartown
Tuesday, is a sister of Mrs. G. W.
Cooper of this place.
Mr. Stafford now occupies the
Gorday House recently vacated
by II. J. Mahoney, and the latter
and Stanley Williams are living-
in the Hambrick house.
Farmers report the crops look¬
ing better than ever before in
this section at this time of year,
but the boll worms are reported
to be injuriug the cotton.
Mrs. Fogg, who is rooming at
Mrs. Hayes’ house, met with a
painful accident Friday by a
plank falling from the ceiling
and striking her on the head.
M. S. Cantey returned from
Foreston, S. C., Monday, where
lie lias been visiting las mother,
and is now at his post again with
t lie Shingler Mercantile Co.
Willie Fountain and wife, and
Miss Mary Warren, of Sycamore,
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. II.
D. Smith at Cordele Sunday. Of
course they were royally enter¬
tained.
Col. A. S. Bussey, stenographer
for the Oconee circuit, who has
been visiting his parents near
Sycamore, was in the city Mon¬
day shaking hands wit h his Ash-
burn friends.
Two pretty little daughters ar¬
rived at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Davis Saturday morning.
Mother and babies are doing
nicely, aud Willie is able to lie
on the streets.
John F. Howell and Lee Mc-
donald, two prominent business
men of Cordele, had a difficulty
the other day in which the former
was cut severely in the breast and
back, lie will recover.
C. F. Bolden went to Lake City,
Fla., Monday night, at which
place lie lias secured a position.
Mrs. Bolden will join her husband
in about a month. Ashburn re¬
grets to lose this young couple.
W’altef Cowan of Worth was
married at Oedartown Wednes-
moril i ng ftt 6 j x o’clock, and
Jeanc [y g )j 0nil j e t, n( _i,j arc . S pei]d-
ing a portion of their honeymoon
at Indian Springs. The Advance
joins the throng in wishing the
h^ppy couple bon voyage up life’s
tempfstons sea.
Ruper; 11. Stovall of Vienna
wns visiting relatives and friends
(especially friends) hero this
week. It is highly probable
lie will return again* soon, anil
tliat his visits will become quite
frequent in future.
ClilT Hndaway and Ott Lay
went to Arahi Sunday. On their
way home it is said they mistook
Worth for Ashburn, and stepped
oif the train there. But Charlie
TV agio told us, therefore vye don’t
believe it.
Messrs, l’adriek of Tifton,
Tucker of Albany, and represent¬
atives of other foreign wool buy¬
ers were in Ashburn this week to
bid on thirteen bags of wool of¬
fered for sale bv our farmers. The
white wool brought 20 1-8, and
the black Hi 1-2, a Baltimore firm
being the purchasers.
Our new job type and
ery have arrived, and we are
prepared to do all kin,' s of
mercial printing. Ashburn
has two well-equipped job
ing offices, the Holiness
offee conducted by C. B. .Brady,
one of the best printers in
South, and the Advance office.
Rev. J. B. Thrasher moved his
family from Sycamore to Arabi
Tuesday, and will occujiy
girls’- dormitory of the high school
there. The probabilities are that
he will have charge of the dormi¬
tory during the next scholastic
year.
Kiss Lila Napier, the brilliant
elocutionist, whose efforts add¬
ed so much to the success of the
Cordele chautauqua, was the
guest of Miss Vic Evans this
week. Miss Napier is a lady .of
exceedingly rare accomplish¬
ments, and Hawkinsville is justly
of claiming her as a resi¬
dent.
Rev. Elam Culpepper of Oor-
dele preached an eloquent sermon
to an attentive congregation at
the Baptist church last Monday
night. The reverend gentleman
is an earnest worker in the Mas¬
ter’s vineyard, a good talker and
jirofouud thinker, whose every
act m life is worthy of emula¬
tion, and his friends in Ashburn
are only limited to the popula¬
tion.
The Atlanta Journal of Tuesday
announced the marriage of Wai¬
ter Cowan as having occurred on
Wednesday of last week when it
did not take place until the day
after the Journal published the
notice. That reporter must have
been short of '‘pin money” to buy
beer with, and rushed in his copy
ahead of schedule time.
Thev say that while the bur¬
glars were ransacking Jeffrey &
Roobin’s store Saturday night,
they discovered that the goods
were marked down real low, and
concluded that it. would be cheap¬
er to buy them than to steal
them.
G. B. Gorday went t,o his crib
the other day to get some corn to
feed his horse. Usually he rakes
up the corn with a tin pan, but
luckily upon this occasion he used
a long handled hoe. When he
put the hoe in the corn he raked
out a hug - moccasin three feet and
a half long, which lie succeeded
in killing with the line. It was
certainly a narrow escape for Mr.
Gorday.
The Live Oak school will have
closing exercises, consisting ol
speeches, dialogues, recitations,
etc, on Saturday, the 22nd inst.
A big dinner will be served on
the grounds, All are invited to
attend. Prof. Powell, the tencli-
er, has ever been faithful in his
duties, and as a consequence his
school has been a grand success.
We learn that reports have
been in circulation in Macon,
Helena, and other places lately
to the effect that there were forty
eases of fever in Ashburn. Noth¬
ing could be more foreign to the
truth. There is no fever here,
nor has there been since Lee Betts
recovered. We think we can
say without fear of successful
contradiction that there is no
healthier place in Georgia than
Ashburn and vicinity.
J. S. Clark tried to play a trick
upon a negro boy m Murray’s
store the other day, but while the
joke went through all right,
tables were turned on Mr. Clark.
He wagered Mr. Rogers that
secrete an eg-- about
of the boy that could not
be found. Mr. Rogers turned
his backto t^e scene, while Mr.
Clark placed an egg on top of
hoy's head under his hat. Then
Mr. Rogers came up, and
fumbling about the boy's
for n minute brought his hand
down heavily on the lad’s head
and found the egg. You could
toll he lm<l found it by the smell,
for it was a ripe egg. Mr. Clark
then had to apologize to the dar¬
key, and furnish him a bottle of
eau de colagne to remove the
scent. Next time lie plays that
egg trick ha will see to it that
the egg is boiled before hiding it.
Mrs. Dr. Cone, a former resi¬
dent of Ashburn and Sycamore,
died at her home in Cordele on
Wednesday, and her remains, to¬
gether with those of her infant
born on the day of her death, were
buried Thursday. Mrs. Cone had
had long been a devout member
of the Baptist church, and was
loved and respected by all who
know her. The sympathies of
this entire community go out to
the surving loved ones.
Recently the city council of
Cordelo passed an ordinance pro
hibiting the sale of anything on
Holiday except medicines in that
town. Saturday night, the pro-
prietor of the Holland House laid
in a supply of provisions to last
him until Monday morning. How¬
ever, during the night burglars
broke into the-house and carried
away the supply', leaving the
guests and family to live on
or hustle for another' boarding
house.
There will be an excursion
on the G. S. & F. to Macon July
2 and 51. Round trip tickets from
Tifton and Sycamore, $2.50; from
Ashburn, Worth and Dakota,
$2.25. Limit to July <>th. From
stations north of Valdosta tickets
will be sold for trains of July 8,
and forenoon trains of July 4th.
The Hon. William Jennings Bry¬
an will speak at the Barnesville
chautauqua forenoon of July 4th.
The round trip from Macon to
Barnesville July 2, 51 and 1 will be
$1.28, limit July 10th.
“Thank Heavings!” was ejac¬
ulated by every one when told
that Charlie Teagle and Claude
Barbre had actually gone to work.
They began to haul sand 'Tues¬
day , and the first load turned out
to be nothing but common dirt,
'flie incident reminds us of the
old minstrel gag where the inter¬
locutor propounded the following
conundrum : “Bones, what is the
difference between a mule and a
lemon?” “J don’t know,” respond¬
ed Bones. “Well,” said the in¬
terlocutor, “you would be a nice
specimen of humanity to send
down town after lemons, wouldn’t
you ?”
On the 7th of July there will
be an entertainment at the new
echollhouse in the Little neigh-
I orhooil two miles from Sycamore.
Examinations, speeches, dia¬
logues, recitations and essays will
bo the order of the day. A bas¬
ket dinner will ho served on the
grounds, and it is expected that
the Ashburn string band will fur¬
nish delight,ful music for the oc-
casion. I’rof. o. B. Rackley has
taught a very successful school
the past term, and those attend¬
ing the closing exercises may ex¬
pect- a rare treat.
ii. J. Mahoney’s little son
Floyd, aged 8 months and 21
days, died last Sunday and was
buried Monday, Rov. .1.0. Flan-
dors conducting the funeral ob-
sequies. This makes the fifth
child Mr. Mahoney has lost since
he moved to Ashburn. Some-
thing must have gone wrong
with our cliaritably-inclined poo-
ple for wo are told f hat this child
was sick for eight weeks,
during that, time not, a person
visited the house to offer aid or
consolation to the overworked
and sorrowing family.
Saturday night burglars en¬
tered the store of Jeffrey & Roo¬
bin by boring holes iu the panel
of the back door large enough to
admit a band and arm and losse
t he fastenings. They then visit-
ited the money drawer, where
they helped themselves to a few
copper pennies, all there was
there. Then they opened one of
the show cases and took there¬
from two or three cheap pocket
knives and some brass rings,
which were the only things
missed. The thief or thieves evi-
dentlv became frightened and
ran away, leaving behind a
and bit, believed to have been
stolen, and which the owner
have by calling on Mr.
and praving property.
'esquire McArthur is always
iug something that gets his name
in the papers, hast week
went to Cordele, and in a trade'
secured a good horse, and a velii-
hide that nobody in these parts
can find a name for. After ex¬
amining the contraption wo have
concluded that any person who
can name it has our permission to
take it. Some call it a torpedo
boat destroyer, whileothers aver
that it is the wrecked Merrimac.
For our part we think it is a re¬
sult of a cross between one of
Henry Smith’s patent vises and
a Mexican carretto or a Chinese
bungalow—or any other old thing
on wheels. The ’Squire says lie
is going to take it to Fitzgerald
on the 4th and palm it oil' on tlie
yankees over there as George
Washing-Ion's “koo-pny.”
Don’t Read 1 nis.
We take great pleasure in
tifying our customers and
where they can save good money
in buying summer goods. We
went tlnoiigli all our stock of dress
goods ana mahkko down to very
low juices.
Our summer dress goods con¬
sist of fancy lawns, fauey dimi¬
ties, and fancy organdies. We
started to cut prices iu time, in
order to givo everybody a chance
before t he season is over. If you
need anything in our line, it, will
a J > ol| i° look at our goods bo¬
foro buying elsewhere. You will
get as near your money’s worth
iiy buying from us, especially at
our cut chicks as any where ’ you
can go to buy your summer goods,
as we have bought our goods di¬
rect from New York at romarka-
bly low prices, and we are will¬
ing to give the people the benefit
of it. Remember the place.
JliPBUKV & Roobin.
An Ashburn Miilonairo.
At last C. O. liarbre has struck
a scheme which lie thinks will
make him exceedingly wealthy.
He has found out that if a man
stocked an island in Florida with
2,000 goats, the natural increase
would run the number up to 7,-
500,000 in ten years which
would bring him $51,750,000, and
lie says that in case tlio market
should become glut ted he could
kill the goats ar.d sell their hides
lor $200,000. His scheme is a
good one. N i doubt if lie only
owned an Island in Florida, and
some one would givo him 2,000
goats, he could make Hie start
anyhow, provided his legs didn’t
give out while walking down
there. He would be pretty cer¬
tain to make money at. the busi¬
ness, for if tlio market, became
glutted with carcasses and hides
lie could sell the hillvgoats’
whiskers to whiskerlcss kids like
Charlie Teaglo for goat-eos.
millions in it, C. C.
A Negro With a Kind Heart.
Tom Jackson is one of t lie many
thrifty colored men in this sec¬
tion. lie drives a drav of liisown,
and makes a good living, Bis
horso was purchased some time
ago in a broken down condition,
but is now sleek and in good or¬
der, and there is no finer ani¬
mal around here. Tom takes
excellent- care of tho animal, al¬
ways kind and gentle with it, and
as a result the beast, is very much
attached to its master, respond-
ir,g with alacrity to any com
maud given, and the use of a
whip is hardly over necessary,
When Tom was asked what meas-
ures lie adopted to so train his
horse. Tie replied m a single word
—“kindness.” Torn seems pos-
sensed of this commendable trait
of character so foreign to the
crag' 1 negro. Recently he found
a chicken t wo or three days old
lost from the mother hen, and he
took it home to care for if. Ev¬
ery day Tom can be seen from
this office hunting
for his feathered pet, which fol
lows him around as would a well
trained dog, and engages in
hunt, with a zeal only
by a prize pointer. Other
groes would piofit b,y
in the wake of Tom Jackson.
SEND US YOUR NAME
and address, together with the
names and addresses of a number
of your friends who are interested
in any sort of poultry, for a free
sample copy of the Georgia
Poultry Herald, a new, up-to-date
and interesting monthly poultry
paper. Send to
Tub Georgia Poultey Hkh\u>,
Blgkely, Georgia.
J. s. BETTS & GO.
DEALERS IN
(general ^Merchandise >
Ashburn, (jporgia.’
DRY GOODS, HARDWARE.
DRESS GOODS, COOKING AND
GENTS AND HEATING STOVES,
BOYS CLOTHING. SHOES AND HATS.
Up stairs wo carry a full lino of Furniture. Oak Suits from
$10 an; Willow Kockors, Dining Chairs, Baby Rockers and
High Chairs, Cradles, Children’s Beds, Carpets and Rugs,
Wo will take pleasure in showing you through whether you
buy or not. Family groceries of all kinds, frosli and good.
Tobacco, Cigars and Suuflf, 1 ig stock to select from. Furni-
iug and Gardening Implements. In fact, wo have a large
and varied stock of goods suited to the wants of the people
of this section. Bring us your country produce and got the
highest market juices for it.
J. 8. Bulls & CO.
O. 1 ■! nW ? r t%3
K. DgujJ Stef'o
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Wlmn ir/iil urn n f T"1»»ncrsi n n tl IVn.r Mi i n /1 *• i 5 Wealsoear-
.
ry a nice lino of Jewelry and Kellonq 2 Crystal
Lenses. Come to see mo and be convinc'd that I carry ev¬
erything that goes to make uj> a Firs.,-class Drug Store.
YOUKH TO BKUVK,
Pnil C. Everett.
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Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
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Railroad and Mill Supplies,
Rubber Belting and Packing,
Hardware, Cutlery, Guns. Rifles,
Ammunition, Rujio, Tinware, Stoves,
Crockery, Fishing Tackle etc. etc.
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tor Prices. 9-I1-I3 K. Jefferson St.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
KVEYTHING IN THAT bINfi
CLOOKS B THE DOZEN.
Right-day Clocks, - $ 2 . 00 .
Eight-day Alarm Clocks, - .‘(.Ik).
Nicklo Alarm Clocks, 7
-l } WtilitlqiiS,
a Nicklo I’late to Solid
Rings, Cuff Buttons, Watch
Chains, Etc. Etc.
When your jewelry needs ropairng or cleaning nj>, call on mo.
Banjo, Guitar and Violin String.
All work guaranteed.
' R. A. WHIDBY.
— IfcS
'four Daughters
rea m Fulfilled? . .
Havo yon purchased for her a Kings¬
bury Piano?
There are no better I’ianos Mado in
the world than the celebrated
Kings bury and COnover.
These Pianos can be 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.
Sa ve Dealer’s Profits ■V
By buying from Manufacturers direct. Wo
sell on easy payments. Write for our
catalogues and prices before you are
talked into buying inferior instruments.
CalDie Piano Co., Atlanta,
Capital $2,000,000.00. / Ott-98
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All Ki t ids *
A largo Assortment, of Spectacles
Can lit anybody. I also take
Orders for Watches,
Rings Etc., Etc