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LOCAL AFFAIRS. Thifcg S Yhat Happen About Town. ■ Personal Mention Etc. ■Register. ■Phil. Everett 4: Co. now sport a Slew wheel. fcenrv Greene went up to Worth Thmursday. W>id Dewey pass Ashburn ? Ask Wilfll Hargrove. mfegister. fl)r. J. F. Gardner was reported on Btlie sick list on Thursday last. ^ffir. E. F. Mullins is on a visit to «h:s old home, Baconton, this frieind, My, It. Ernest S. Woodard Gannon, visited at Worth, his Thtijrsday. JL m|r. „ P. _ Royal, . the well-known ,, , bailMff of the Sycamore district, died* Wednesday night. M rs - rn T ; \ , J“dge, _ , ot _ Cecil, _ is . gues t of her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Boll! ' linou> R< gister. E oliday was much enjoyed by the vestlerday i Ashburn Academy pupils ] t* o ^ „ a r e we are sorry r ’ > to lomelsic announce, is confined to his . Thcwe is quite a difference in giving! a check for $5 and giving $5 Sheriff fory, check. H. S. Story was in the city with hist Wednesday, friends. shaking hands many Hon.\W. T , \_ _ N. T Spence, _ Judge , , of . Albany was m thfe ^Circuit city Wedfcgday, Superior Courts, _ EvangeRist Massey- vester Tuesday, mil attended vices at/the M. E. Church.—Lo- cal. Mr.r'W. E. Gannon, wife and baby, now of Worth, were down Sunda y afternoon visiting rela¬ tives ind friends. Doi Ft take our word, but come in an d see our fine samples of photo graphs. All the latest nov¬ elties. Bcbke & Bohannon. Henry Bohannon wears a “don’t touch” badge on his left arm,iabove the elbow. Scores of others wear slings. Mr. Holmes, who has been iting his daughter, Mrs. G. GoTday, returned to his Wednesday. We understand Ira Tcagle will, in the near future, go into jewelry business, and will found at the 0. K. Drug Store. Thd cornet band sennaded Dr. J. F. Gardner and bride Tuesday night.! The boys have been high¬ ly complimented by all who heard the music. Wi h every dozen of $5.00 Cab- inetsffthe finest in tbe South) we will give free of charge one nice 10x12 photo, with glass fame. Burke & Bohannon. Mr, N. McArthur and several menders of his family are on the sick st. Mr. Me. has been un¬ well Ur several again days. Hopq^Jiey may 11 be up soon. Thf music class that has been in sesion four weeks, conducted by Prff. E. J. Cheek, of Valdosta, closet last night with a concert at th* Auditorium, an account of whici we’ll give next week. Mfc,or George Butler, well knowt here, is on a fishing expe- clitioi near Morrieton, Fla., and is, foipass time, editing the Hust¬ ler, ajnewsy newspaper at that town. Quia a crowd of young people of tlj| city enjoved a most dj- lightlil picnic at Ross Lake yes- teeda 1 , a full account of which will ppear in next week’s Ad- vanc< Suiday sch »o: teacher: “When tlw lad chilu caffed the old man jbald-head’ the bears came out 4 the woods and ate them up. Vhat does that teach us? Smilboy: “To always climb a tre<before calling names.” MLCMWes D. Clifton, who for nae ime past has been in em- (T Betts & Co., being : >loy of J. S. mgaVd at tho planing mill de¬ partment, has accepted a position withHfe Steele Lumber Co., of TorTof which Capt. Doraer is supeMtendOnt, and left a few days ago to enter upon the dis- charavof bis duties at his new Post® labor. Mr. Clifton has majiKpends in Ashburn, whose * The 81st anniversary of Odd- follo\vship in the State of Geor¬ gia was celebrated on Thursday night lust by the Ashburn lodge. The Odd Fellows and their friends spent quite an enjoyab’ .youing, refreshments being served and speeches made. We hear that Sylvester has about half a dozen cases of geu- iue scarlet fever. And it is dreaded more by the average citi- zen tliau what 13 prevalent throughout this section of the State, known as small pox. We trust it is all a mistake. “Now is Your Time.” From now until May 25th we will make you six nice photo¬ graphs for 25 cents. Burkk & Bohannon. Sunday-school Picnic. ba ^ Sunday committees were appointed by the two Sunday- schools to confer with each other relative to having a Union Sunday sohool picnic in the near futnr J # Messrs. A. C. Forester and C. R. Bridgers, and Mrs. W. K. Jen- kins composed the committee from lbe Eaptist school, Messrs. It. L. Betts and J. G and Miss Willie McLen- composed the committee from tbe Methodist 8chool . The two committees decided to the picnic at Beach Haven, provided a convenient date and an rate could bo secured, and a committee wq^appointed to see Agent Huckabee and report at next meeting. The following committee was lted to solicit contributions fo , refreshments etc .. M5s8Ml ,g- gie Hadaway , Aurena Evans, Li- ■’a Green, Esnm Cox, Willie Mc- nciou a,ld Ilanlin, and Geo. I. Betts, A. 0. hor- ester, C K. Bridgers and J. B. Horne. We have been informed that it will be impossible for us to secure tho grounds on Thursday or Friday during the month of May. Wednesday, the 9th, can be se¬ cured, however, and we believe will be the date selected, though we can not say positively until next issue. We are positive of one thing, though, Sunday-schools) and that is that we burn’s are to have a picnic—a good old fash oned picnic! Republicans Send Secret Letters. The New York Journal prints a sensationai story that a secret let¬ ter is being sent from tho Repub¬ lican headquarters to ail the trusts in the country demanding imme¬ diate campaign funds as a price of protection. According to the story the letter was prepared at a conference betweeu Senator Hen¬ na, First Assistant Postmaster General Heath and the monied members of tbe Republican Na- Committee, and has been Bcnt out b y tbat organization, This letter calls attention to the profits the trust manufacturers have been able to secure under Republican rule in the past, and points out that to enjoy them in tbe future the re-election of Pres- ident McKinley is absolutely nec- essary. It is claimed that it is proposed to raise $6,000,000 in this way. A Strange Case. A white woman was arrested in Atlanta the other day for living in a house where negroes lived. Upon being taken to the police barracks sho told the following remarkable story: “I never like to tell the story of my unfortu¬ nate life, but I reckon I will have to. This is the first time 1 was ever arrested. I was born before the war, near Augusta, Ga., and m,y mother and my father were both pure Caucasians, hut they were not married. I have been told that my mother belonged to a most respectable family. I had to he got out of the way. I was a wa f aud they gave me away to a mulatto man and woman named Mitchell. The woman, Liza Mitchell, died in Atlanta, on Fort street. I was raised believing myself her clild, and, of course, I was raised as a negro slave. And that was not all. I was married to a black negro, and with him sold as a slave. Years after the war I learned the true story of my birth, hut I was uegress, and I had to remain so.” As she' had always been consid- emd a imvro she told the police not to hesitate to put her in the negro r< Ruff-Farren. Last Sunday night "the atf) o’clock, the home of bride’s pa- m Macon, the ceremony performed which made Mr. E. Ruff and Miss Minnio Far- husband and wife. The bride is a charming young with many lovable traits of which made her the fa- of hosts of friends Mr. Huff, the groom, is a hand- young man; one of the Southern’s most efficient trusted employes, and his friends are legion. They arrived in tho citv Mon- and are at homo at the resi- douco of Mr. R. Huckabee. The Advance joins in with of friends' in extending them a most hearty welcome, and wishing for them a iong life of unalloyed happiness. Georgia’s Increase in Wealth. The Picayune, of New Orleans, is publishing articles from tax as- sessors and others residii g in va- rious parts of Louisia showing the growth in wealth and tion there has been in ’ho last few veers in that. State. Tho showing is very gratifying. There has been a great in the material condition of the Southern States within tho five years. Unless we are greatly mistaken the census that will be taken this year will show that Georgia has made great strides in wealth and population since the last census was taken. There are many new towns, and the old ones have greatly improved, Hundreds of thousands of acres of land, which a comparatively short time ago were covered with forests, have been brought under cultivation. This is especially the case in tho southwestern part of the State. Tliero must lie a half dozen cotton mills now to every one there was a decade ago. The fruit orchards have increas- ed greatly in size aud number. The citios will show a very great increase in population, and the farmers are better oil than they have been since the close of the war of secession. It. would be imposible, of course to give even an approximately correct estimate of the increase in the State's wealth, but. we are confident that the showing that will lie made by the census re¬ turns will not be disappointing. At the rate at which the State is now growing, it will not be very many years beforo all of available lands will be under cul¬ tivation. Its villages will be numerous that no one of them will be out of sight of and in every village or town will be one or more factories. Georgia is maintaining its sition as the Empire State of South. Great as tho growth some of its sister States is, it is doubtful if tho growth of anv one of them equals that of Geor- gift. This is because of the pro- gressive and persevering charac- ter of Georgians, who, if given a half a chance, either in their own State or in some one of the other States, are sure to make their way in the world. There are many Georgians in the big cities the east, and in the States that have been carved out of the plains of the Wet, and they display the qualities which are keeping Georgia among most prosperous States of the News. She Visited the Widower. A special from Bearson dated the 17th says: A most ludicrous and amusing incident leaked out here to-day when Miss Beatrice A1 verson came to Pearson from the country place of Hon. Klijnli Tanner to take the train for her home in Atlanta. ITon. Elijah Tanner,representa- tive of Coffee comity in the State Legislature during the last ses¬ sion of that body, boarded at the Cannon hotel While there ho met Miss Alverson and her broth¬ er, a young man who clerks at the hotel. Between young Alverson and the legislator there sprang up quite an intimate friendship and, it is said, the legislator impressed young Alverson that lie was a man of more than ordinary wealth, As the sequel will show the leg- islator also became very much at* tached, if not enamored, to Miss Beatrice. He invited her to come down to Cqffsa»courty and spend the spring and summer with his family, but leaving her in blissful H’ ,|loru,u ' 0 of whom his family Cl,,,si8to ' 1 - Miss Aiverson, it, seems received the invitation very favorably at tlietiinenndnodoubt-tliouglit.it wouM h " n vor >' I’ 1ea,Bnt occasion a,ul ” li,! ' opportunity for her to K et !lwa T fro,u tho d,n » Lont aiul d "' t ° r tho '‘ ity 11,1,1 bav ° ft 0,1 r<9f d aud recreation amid the *t uiet of 11 coun,r .v village and tho P upp ba,8an,ic atmosphere of South Georgia. Sinp ” the adjournment of the legislature, sometime in Decom- ber ’ Mra ' Tann6r died ’ k ' av in * th ® legislator a widower.' Asa very lone 'y "’idower he has been forced to kt ’ ft P “ batch ” at bis country and have his meals prepared tbe be,st W:, ' r bl ‘ coubb In his lonliness the legislator ‘ouceived the idea some week or more ago. it i« s,,i<l, f ing his invitation (o Mi- A Ivor- son with the ultimate view of wooing and winning her for his wife, but kept it a profound secret even from his children, Accordingly he wrote and post ed a letter to young A Iverson mo¬ taining the invitation aud propos- ing to pay all expenses of the trip. The invitation was accept- od and the necessary expense money was forwarded. Last Saturday the young lady left. Atlanta with, doubtless, the most pleasurable anticipations of a splendid summer outing. She reached I’earson at 0:45 p. in. Mr. Tanner was here, dressed in his nobbiest, suit, and with his best team, to meet her and drive her out to his home. Miss A Iverson was carried that evening to the home of Mi-. Tan- ner’s son, Mr. Babe Tanner, man of atiiuence and good living, where sho remained until this morning. Yesterday [Monday] afternoon the ludicrous predicament she wus in dawned upon her and she burst into a Hood of tours. She was told that the legislatorwau living alone and was in need of a house-keep¬ er and she had been selected as the house-keeper. Site at once in digmintly demanded to be return¬ ed to I’earson and furnished transportation back to Atlanta. Mr. Tanner brought her to I’ear¬ son this morning and sin- took the 11:10 o’clock train for home. Crop Report for Southern Geor¬ gia. Berrien: A very good stand of cotton; fair stand of corn; gar¬ dens doing well. Brooks: Corn being plowed; sumo cotton being chopped out; poor stand of watermelons; gar¬ dens improving. Bryan: Prolonged and heavy rainfall; marked tendency to in¬ creased cotton acreage; farm work fairly well up. Chatham: Boil soak id; too wet for all farm work. ' a ^‘ 1 laiil ,J 1,1 " r ed W1 tl * farm work; second plnnt- H1 0 i corn l ’!b ,U1 > H *' aM ” > c °; ton P ,anl,n « l>ro~r^m, com ■ M< na , ' e n J \ '* ’ ‘ ‘ ’ " l '] a *', ftna ( ’_' lb ' ‘ r, ‘ loten.g up, ir- »' ianhn « oi corn necossy. I f ca l u r: Cotto " I'lautin-gem- era early , corn Sided out; sugar » '' ”‘ lUn ” u f' k k > a -taml chopping wHl soon begin; >n ' ‘ ^ ^ " ' ' H ’ Early: Good stands of corn and cotton; oats looking well. Irwin: C’orn mostly up, some ready to cultivate; cotton corning up well; peach and plum trees loaded with fruit. Laurens: Some cotton and wa¬ termelons up; stand of corn rather poor; peach crop looks large; gardens late. Corn, cano and sweet potatoes planted: cotton and rice planted: pear crop short to blight. Lowndes: Gats poor and thin ; grapes blooming; pears short; pinders planted; fairly good stand of corn and cotton. Marion: Corn ready to plow: cotton nearly all planted. Mitchell: Stand of melons fairly good; gardens improving; cotton coining up; stand of corn good: oats heading out. Randolph: Peach crop a tainty: cotton not. ail planted; some v "a being plowed; rains benefit. all cr >p3. htewart. ;otton planting push¬ ed; fruit promising; poor Stand of corn; gardens backward; wheat and doing well. Sumter: Sorghum going on: rains beneflfted crops; oats rather poor, but ini* proving; gardens revived, Tatnall: Com being replant- od; fruit abundant; Sea Island cotton planted. Ware : Great improvement in crops; corn growing rapidly, Wor,h: °ata are looking well; corn and cotton up, some corn be- ing sided; melons doing well; fruit unusually good. .1 . B, Marbcry, Section Director, Aunt 5ofrony’s Chat. From thoOolUa Dispatch 1 1 don’t think I will ever change my opinion of young men. They are not. half as conceited as most girls suppose them to be, but. all of them have some to spare. No, 1 don’t think if is a crime 1,1 drblk whisky, but it. is ft very foolish and often a very danger- ons habit, and should be avoided by those who are in danger of drinking to excess. Certainly, there are many days of anxiety an 1 doubt during courtship—more, 1 believe, than after tbe knot is tied; but there is much happiness before and much more alter marriage, if tho contracting parties U\ o up to t heir contract. I’d as soon have the “breaking out” as a slow, poky beau, who is too bashful even to try to enter¬ tain a female doll with moving eyes. And I’m the same way by mock-modest girls. What I like is for both sex to be natural and stay safely within the lines of propriety. J( is the simplest thing in the world to live right. If you treat everybody as you would have them treat you, yon will lmvo en¬ tered squarely on the path of right living. I admit that Eider M. Sikes is a philosopher aud a tine judge of human nature; but oven lie can not mark the pace for widows and widowers, as regards second mar¬ riage, because lie lacks one essen¬ tial—experience, if I was a vvid ow 1 am sure my lafost. counsellor would be my heart,, ami I suppose ir would be the same to widow¬ ers. Last Sunday as 1 listened to the golden words that, fell, like a ben¬ ediction, from the lips of Elder Sikes, I could not, help wondering if there would be Faster bonnets in heaven, and if mine was as pretty as those tlmt loomed up before me, shutting out nil but tho preacher’s voice. Ah, me! I’w afraid we’re all loo vain to hope for much in tho next world. If 1 was a widow and desired to marry again (an 1 I’m told most all of them do), I’d be mighty sure to make inquiries about how a man treated his mother and sin¬ ters before I’d even let, him hold my hand. If a man treats his mother aud sisters right, ho will treat a wife right, if sho is tho right kiml of a wife. 1 hear of no matrimonial prog¬ ress on tbe part of the widowers ci iiii- section. With one excep¬ tion they seem to bo content with their lot, Tbe exception lias tra¬ versed several counties within the [last few months, but whether in search of a wife or not 1 can’t nay. A UN I SoTItONY. Reflections of a Bachelor. When a woman wears a man’s bat she ought to be made to take it off whenever a man Inis to. The easiest way to convince a woman that she won’t always bo unhappy without you i.s to agree with her when she'says sho will. If the average married man held any other woman’s band as long as his wife lets other men hold hers, she would go home to J)( . r mothej , The atheists you meet are prob¬ ably the hoys who used to be so good that their parents never gave them anything but Jiiblcs and Pilgrim's Progresses for presents. If a woman loses a nice lace handkerchief around where there , any other women it is harder find than a box of combings in a photograph of a girl’s room taken by herself, Most women can change their minds faster than they can make it up. You can usually get a woman to talk just about as decollete as she wears her dresses. OUll STOCK OF New Spring Goods ARE Arriving’ Dally. We have made a careful Study of the Mar¬ kets and our DRESS GOODS include the Newest and Latest goods out. Our Silks tor waists and trim¬ ming are beauties. Our dress goods are all cut in short lengths™no two waist patterns alike. OUR CLOTHING Has arrived-Come and see. We bought a Splice Line and can tit you. Our suits with Double-breasted vests are attractive and up-to-date. Suits to fit the Large, fried?um size and Slim K/ian--Jet us show them to you before buying. 4 OUR SHOES. Shoes for the Ladies, Shoes for the Ba¬ bies, Shoes for men, girls and Boys, in¬ cluding all the toes, colors and shapes. We want the ladies to inspect our famous Zeigler Bros. Sine of Shoes, Oxford ties and Slippers. We are carrying the Hess’ fine shoes for men. HATS, HATS Of every description, Dress Hats, work¬ ing man’s bats, Derbies and straw, felt and cork hats. Let us show you through. GROCERIES, New and fresh. You will find no old goods on our shelves—we buy them, open up, sell out and replace with new goods. You should try SKieinze’s Pickles, Jellies, Tomato Catsup and India Relish—we know of nothing better. FURNITURE. Room Sets, CfoiLmeers, Dressers, Hat aeks, Book cases, lounges, willow rock¬ ers, golden-oak rockers, willow and reed Baby carriages. In fact a full line of furn¬ iture of all kinds. Carpets and rngs of all descriptions. Try us before buying—we’ll do our best to please you. Hardware-Crockery. Stoves, plows, wage# and plow gear, hardware©!all kinds. Dinner sets, water sets, toilet sets; most anything you can call for in Crockery and Glassware. Call and inspect. Highest market price paid for Country r rroduce You cannot over stock us with chickens and eggs Our trade demands more than wc can possibly so try us when you come to town. We want - all you can spare and will pay Top of market. ' YOURS.TRULY, J .5. BETTS SCO >•- Ashbdrn. Ga. .