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Official Organ Irwin County. VOL. III. WE WANT YOUR TRADE. YOU NEED OUR GOODS! COME AND GEX THEM, Latest Styles In Spring Suits. Dry Goods and Dross Goods! Something to please the most fastidious. Shoes for all Classes. AVe have a large variety to select from. The people of Ocilla amt Irwin county are Invited to. call Monday and Tuesday and iaspect our goods. We'll show how far a little casli will go when, spent at the NEW YORK BARGAIN STORE, T. G0TTUEB, PROPER. 4th St., Ocilla, Ga, N. L Qf?y, Manager. HOME NEWS. LOCAL SCHEDULE G. & A. R. R. DAILY. EXCEPT SUNDAY. Leave Abbeville.. .7:00 a. m. and 3:20 p. m. Arrive at Ocilla.. 10:00 a. in. and 4:50 p. m. Leave Ocilla...........10:45 a. m. and 5:15 p. in. Arrive at Abbeville. .12:10 p. ru. and8:15 p. m. SUNDAY ONLY. Leave A bbevi lie.. ........ 8:45 a. m. Arrive at Ocilla... ........10:15 a. m. Leave Ocilla...... ...... ........ 5:10 p. m. Arri ve at Abbeville....... ........ 0:35 p. m. Close connections for north, east, south or west. March 24. Trade in Ocilla, Read— the Dispatch. Muzzle the barking dogs. Never bite your neighbor's back. Mckinley will not visit Fitager- aid. Attend all religious meetings you can. Boiling water kills fleas on town hogs. Too many big I’s in this world. Savannah News Stone was here Tuesday. What about the telephone system for Ocilla. The Dispatch favors expansion as regards Ocilla. 1 There will not be even a figment of a fig this year. This market is now well supplied with very fine lemons. Those who whisper in church for¬ get where they are at. ^ We’ll divide peanuts with you at ■•April court, W. Henry. Why don’t you bring a load of sweet potatoes to town? It is strange bow some people will persist in gnawing a file, A sunshiny person is a welcome addition to any gathering. The outlook in Georgia for a pros¬ perous year is very bright. A wise man will see a great deal more than he will mention» 4 figure in LeConte pears will not the fruit canning work this year. A dress coat of paint would not injure the Methodist church or acad- emj- Go to the academy tomorrow night and spend a few hours pleas¬ antly. Ocilla Lodge, F. & A. M., held an interesting meeting Wednesday night.. Musical homes are not happy homes if the mosquitos furnish the music. No news from Berrien this week The grippe or Cupid, may be to blame. An up-to-date town hog is the greatest thief outside of the pen¬ itentiary. Farmers are getting in work live¬ ly now. Corn planting is epidemic this week. Regular monthly meeting at the Brushy Creek church next Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Peter Troop, one of Irwin’s solid and progressive citizens was in Ocilla Sunday. THE m 1 J 9 OCILLA, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1899. If you want first-class job work, bring or send your orders to the Dispatch office. Dan P. thinks a lady’s hat trim- med with orange blossoms looks the sweetest. I yi! Mr. Warren Paulk’s residence is one of the prettiest and most com- modious in Ocilla. It is with sadness we announce that the late blizzard did not kill the flea crop in Ocilla. You lose nothing by patronizing home institutions. This is espec¬ ially true of hanks. When you visit Oeill call at the Dispatch office and tell us the news from your section. Orders for all kinds of job work promptly and satisfactorily filled at the Dispatch office. President McKinley will not have time to visit Fitzgerald. Too busy slate making, perhaps. It is not safest to eat coliards just now, especially cold coliards and “Pattysaw” yams for supper. If you take time by the foreliek and give it the right kind of a pull, you may he sure of good results. • Work on the addition to the academy is under headway and will be pushed rapidly to completion. Cashier Puckett, of the Ocilla bank, treats patrons of that institu¬ tion in a way that is quite “catehy.” Miss Emma Paulk and M. J. Paulk returned from Alapaha about noon Monday, delighted with their trip. Cholera swept away over seventy- five turkeys on Mr. Peter Troup’s place last fall. It did not leave one. The Dispatch predicts that the firm of Griner & Paulk will have a successful business career in Ocilla. This country is now practically controlled by trusts, and the Lord only knows where we are drifting to. Our young friend, Jim, up at the brick store, does not know whether he has the grippe or the grippe has him. “Little Bill” will please remember to keep his mouth out of the next wedding feast. He knows our con¬ tract. Fifth street ought to be opened next—or rather, graded, and the approaches from the country spliced onto it. Give your hogs powdered charcoal and sulphur in their feed, or burnt corn, if they are troubled with cholera. Two or three weeks hence, if Mr Hicks will treat us right, there will be plenty of garden truck in this vicinity. The entertainment at the academy tomorrow night will be rich, rafe and racy, and will be well attended. It is free. The modest violet was not killed by the blizzard, and violet hunting is now a favorite pastime with the young folks. It is not generally known that this section was inhabited ages be- fore the Indians came, nor do we know it yet. lie would be a wise man who could tell where Uncle Sam has been benefited by that $20,000,000 to be paid to Spain. Dr. W. G. Ford left Wednesday for a visit to his parents in Worth county. He will return next Mon- day or Tuesday. Lazy hazy, languid weather, and a person cares not whether people think him smart or not, so a place to loaf he’s got. Henderson’s Lake, near town, could be made one at the most at¬ tractive places in all this section, an( j at gma u cost The farmers who make the most hay for market this year will handle the most cash, Hay is almost as valuable as bread. Mr. Peter Troup made 500 bales of bay for market last year and sold it readily from his barn at eighty cents per hundred. Yes, we Lave heard of chicken pie, hut it has been so long ago that we can’t tell much about it. It’s made of pork, isn’t it? The semi-centennial meeting of the State Medical Association will convene in Macon April 19, and will he in session three days. All our merchants are ready or getting ready for the spring trade. The ladies will find awful pretty dress goads on sale now. Dr. Macon’s gold fish are attract¬ ing much attention. One of them is a silver-gold fish, being a combi¬ nation of the two colors. Miss Mary J. Harper, a handsome daughter of Mr. J. J. Harper, is vis¬ iting Miss Fannie Lott, at Shep¬ herd, Coffee county, Ga. Mr. 7’. B. Y’oung, of this county, is fattening beeves for market. This is a move in the right direction, as there is good money in it. The modest little violet is live and blooming yet, you bet, while flowers more pretentious far are dead as ancient Ilamilcar! Irwin county should not fail to be well represented at the state fair the coming fall. To do this, prepara¬ tions should begin at once. Mr. Wm; Henderson says he has not sold more than half the amount of guano he did last year, and other dealers say about the same. Dr. Ball’s elegant residence on Irwin avenue is to be completed by the latter part of next week, says Contractor Mark Anderson. See change in Mr. T. Gottlieb’s advertisement, then take some change to his store and exchange it for twice its value in goods. Mr. Archie McNabb, an aged gentleman of Berrien county, fell out of doors Tuesday night of last week and is seriously injured. The Literary Society held its weekly entertainment last Friday night at tjie residence of Mrs. Hobbs, on Irwin avenue. It was a success. The democrats should lay aside their differences and present a solid front in the next national campaign. To do otherwise would be suicidal. When fanatics wish to carry out a scheme of bloody conquest, they never lack for an excuse. It was so in the sixties, it is the samo to¬ day. Mrs. Lizzie Purvis, wife of Mr. Tally Purvis, who was reported very low with meningitis last week, was said to be much improved Wednes¬ day. It is said that the Ensign-Oskamp Co. have began preliminary work on a road from this place to Worth, on the G. 8. & F. railroad. More anon. The boys say if you suspend Con¬ tractor Crabb up by the heels two or three feet from the ground and drop him suddenly, he will catch on his feet. Fresh fish and oysters every 1* ri- day night and Saturday, at the Ocilla Beef Market, ('arson <fc Bruce. 1-13-tf. Who was it that, in crossing a swollen stream in • buggy recently, tied two kittens to a pole and held them overhead to keep them from drowning? If your chickens arc dying with choiera, give each of the ailing ones pill of blue mass about half as U r ft e as a held pea. It is said to be a sure cure. Messrs. Jim and Will Pugh, of Sycamore, who went to Cuba to tight the Dons, are dead, one having died at Gauntanamo and the other M Santiago. Ex United States Senator Patrick ^ alsh, of Augusta, died at his h° I1,e ’ n f-hat city last Sunday, of nervous prostration. IIis death is widely lamented. Amos Brown, the barber, has bought a lot on Cherry street, next t0 Henderson & Youngs livery sta¬ bles, and is erecting a building for a barbershop thereon. Mr. L. R. Tucker has been suffer- ^ n § Hth the grippe for several weeks. We miss “Lite” very much, and hope to see him soon restored to his usual good health. Aunt Sofrony’s interesting letter and a column of “Society Notes” were crowded out this week. Aunt Sofronv will not thick hard of us, as it could not be helped. Mr. J. T. Austin, brother-in-law 'of Dr. Ball, has taken charge ef the Dormitory, near the academy, and is already being eormplir .ented on his manner of conducting it. Mr. ar.d Mrs. J. S. Lett, of Shep¬ herd, Ga,, visited relatives in Irwin- villo and Ocilla, dividing the time between the two places from Thurs¬ day of last week till Monday. Why shouldn’t Ocilla have a large town park? If some one will con¬ tribute the land, it could be fenced and gradually improved at such small cost as to be scarcely felt. The beautiful geraniums which adorn the piazza of Mrs. A. E. Hobbs’ residence are, so far as we have heard, the only ones in this section that escaped the blizzard. Part of the road from Fitzgerald out in the Dorminy Mill direction iis said to be so bad that a buzzard has to stop every now and then to pull his,shadow out of the mud. When you hear a newspaper pub¬ lisher claiming the largest circula¬ tion for his paper, it is well enough to take the claim cum grano salis until you see his subscription book. This is the best time of the year to get in good sanitary work. Everything calculated to breed dis¬ ease should be removed, and back¬ yards given a thorough cleaning up, Elder Harden was unavoidably prevented from attending Little River church Saturday and Sunday last. His physicians say he is now fairly on the way to perfect recov¬ ery. The job department of the Dis¬ patch ofliee is well supplied with the latest styles of type, and you have a fine line of stationery to select from. No botch work turned out here. Already “our crowd” is arranging for a first-class spring-board and other improvements at the bathing place in the ’Coochee, not far from Elder Wm. Paulk’s. Great fun there about smellmelon time. The addition to the academy will give that building a seating capaci ty of over two hundred, and the outlook is that further enlargement will be necessary before the end of another year. Mr. T. Gottlieb spent two days in Ocilla last week assisting his clever manager, Mr, N. E. Ory, in opening up an extensive and elegant line of spring and summer gdods, which are now ready for inspection. Go and see what bargains await you. I fra 2 1 c= WATT & HOLMES HARDWARE GO. I FITZGERALD, GA. £ XX I HEADQUARTERS i’OIt 3 a a £ Hardware, Plows, n £ Wagons and Buggies. £ | § V/e Sash, Make Boors a Specialty and Blinds. of sr A Full Line of £ Paints, Oils, Coloring's, 3 Hard Oils, Varnishes, a £ ■Wood Fillers and White Lead. We can supply you with the best Belting and Lubricating Oils tm 3 1 P factured. Semi to us for your mill and steam fittings. We can furnish W 3 t them. £ WITT § HOLIES HARDWARE 00. £ ——r it: BOYD'S ODD STAND. FITZGERALD, =rs ^ sr= GA. Harley Hardware Co. Stoves, Tinware, Grocery, Mouse Furnisffinfl Goods. Harley Hardware J. A. J. HENDERSON. i.. !> a ulH| D. H. PAULK. R. V. PAUL! HEND&RSON. PAULK & GO/ ) Dealers w General Merchandise, OCILLA, GEORGIA. Such as Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ready-made Clothing, Shoes, Hals and Caps, Family Groceries, Crockery, etc., Wagons, Buggies, Harness And Saddles. FURNITURE of All Kinds. • • • • Ooffins and Caskets • i mm Stoves, Cooking Utensils, etc., Farming Imple¬ ments of all kinds. In fact, we have a full stock of General Merchandise, which we are selling at prices to suit the times. 7-9-tf. .o p if WIULIAM MEHBERS0M. DEALER IN BEST BRANDS OF G14 0 n o © © ACID PHOSPHATE, K AIN IT AND MURIATE OF POTASH CONSTANTLY ON HAND AND AT LOWEST PRICES, ON TIME OR FOR CASH. OFFICE, WITH C. H. MAR- TIN, ON FOURTH STREET, OCILLA, GA. ' 1-20 H ', Official Organ Irwin County. We cany a complete line of Shelf and Heavy Hard¬ ware, Plows, Plow Gear, Harness, etc. We call particular attention to Chattanooga Chilled Plows and Planet, Jr., Cultivators. Close prices, fair dealing. NO. 36. Saw] IL Turtle 1 er* Wa" I 1 fla M