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THE DISPATCH.
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I INN DKI18: IN *. UANI.ON,
I'UOI'li! ETol'S.
M. Henderson, Unsincss Mnnnyvr.
J. W. Hanlon, Editor.
I’ltlilislicd every Friday and enlercd at
Hie Ocilla posloiliee a second class mat)
mallei, (irst-ctiss Hauling and a lllnh
grade udvertisins niedbun.
SuIiHcelj>( ion Kates :
One copy, one year.............. SI S
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One copy, six months.. £
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One copy, three months......... 3
Advertislii!? rates on application.
\ddress all business letters to Tut: lbs
PATOU, Lock box s, Ocilla, Oa.
oilici.ii Oevtan It-tvli Ooiiniy-
Kiiioav, Aimui. 31 , IS'.Rl.
inwnnM.vf'Mira
Two Flirto.
lit* srnilud :>i hue. I saw him \v!it*ii hu slyly
winked his eye:
lie spoke some Iovmi.iv words to lie»• as slowly
he passed by;
lie li;;ii :, d, runic buck fmvurd her. and he
ottered her his ha’id :
Fhe t<M)U it with a lU’idisty not, l.:u‘d 1,o im-
<!eir,t ;t :id.
He tvd fr r ton uetiriiy sent. t;iey sat, logethi v
t aere;
And .soon 1 saw him gently rue. his lingers
t hrough lo ; !mir;
She smiled and looked up in his iaee. the
t wiukle in her eye
{said plainly, ‘‘you eau kiss me now if you will
only try.”
lie must have read her thou?ids. tor presently
I saw him seek
An opportunity, a: id then he kissed her dainty
cheek.
He held her oft white hands in his; she
Resiled on his knee;
Hut suddenly sue left, him and came hue 1: and
sat with me.
He followed her and .smilingly he ventured
some remark
About, the pleasant sunshine, or the beauty
of the »>«• rk.
And then he boldly risked if he might have
one golden curl.
1 gave.^it. for my neighbor loves my llttU
baby girl.
— Law ret i- Poo'hcr He.vt. in t. lie Dolor dal
Maga/ine.
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Dr. G. II. Macon & Co. have put
■down a wooden pavement in front
of the handsome Fourth Street Drug
Store.
We regret to chronicle the serious
illness of Mrs. S. L. Hayes, who
has been sick since last Sunday. A
slight improvement was reported
yesterday morning.
F’ive hundred dollars worth of
Dry Goods and Notions added to
our stock this week. We are full
up to the ceiling. Come and see.
R. B. Allen & Co.’s Cash Store.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Palford, out
at Vic, recently welcomed a 13-
pound boy to their family circle.
He is tho boss of the family at this
writing and is a handsome baby boy.
Judge .1. I’. Sweat, who lives near
Ocilla, raised a pumpkin last year
that weighed 125 pounds. Addi¬
tional evidence of what the soil of
this section will do when properly
tickled.
Mr. L. F. Johnson got his hand
badly mashed Wednesday at Mr.
J. I). Paulk’s mill, He came to
town and had Drs. Macon & Luke
to fix it tor getting well. No bones
were broken.
The Fitzgerald people have rea¬
son for feeling proud of the success
of their carnival. There is a lesson
in this for other towns, and it is,
that unity, advertising and push are
essential to success.
Owing to the protracted meeting |
this week the Epworth League will
not hold its weekly meeting Friday
night. It will lie held Friday night
of next week at Dr. J. E. Goethe’s,
commencing at 7:30.
Vegetables are quite plentiful ]
hereabouts. Mrs. W M. Harris had
garden peas for dinner Wednesday,
and they did not come out of a can,
(
• either! They are the first of the
season, so far ns we have heard.
Mr. Bob Henderson has been
testing Elder Jack Vickers’ non-
choke weeder in his cotton and
pinders, and says he would not be
without it for a big sum of money.
Tt does the work thoroughly and
leaves the ground in fine shape.
News reaches here Tuesday of the
shooting of Mr. Tom Willis at or
near his home, in Worth county, on
that day by the Sinclair boys of this
county. Deputy Sheriff Oliver, of
Berrien, was here Tuesday in search
for them, but failed to find them.
Being in a hurry for the building,
Messrs. Fisher Griiier and *M. J,
Paulk got on their fishing suits the
other day and went to work helping
to finish paint the interior of the
building. Their work was excellent
and they handle the brushes like
old hands at the business. j
ELDER MATTHEW SITES,
Didn’t Think.
Editor Pis pa tcli: Oh. how 1 could
have bettered much of my former
course if I just had thought at the
pr< por time! But.! “didn'tthink.”
When I was a lp>y my father, soe-
ing that 1 was but a physical dwarf
and would never amount to any-
thing, proposed to seud ma to school
'
a little more than b^ did his other
children: but 1 did desniso'to go to
school, and only went as he com-
polled me to go. And when 1 was
about grown he propc J t o send me
a whole year if 1 would go, but I
wouldn’t. I didn’t think what a
dull drag it would be through this
world without any education, but 1
wanted to get me a wito and settle
down like other men and go to liv¬
ing. I didn’t think what all was
involved in this one idea of getting
a wife and going to living. I .-.aw
not king but sunshine, fair winds and
sweet dreams before me. What a
dunce I was. i l Didn’t think.”
1 launched out in search of a wife,
and my policy was to go where 1
could have the most fun. Was there
over another boy so foolish? I didn’t
think that hunting fun and hunting
a wife is quite different. I never had
any experience with one of these
funny wives, but I wanted to go and
did go where the old folks would
suffer thoir girls and boys to sit out
in the hall or in the back way in the
dark until midnight. The old folks
would go off to sleep and would snore
until you could hoar them all over
j the place, and never knew when the
boys left or tho girls went to their
rooms. But they were not ail that
way. One old woman, especially, I
have in mind, who bothered me a
good deal. She would let me sit out
in the with her daughter
until dark aud even later, provided
another one of tho girls and her
“fellow” were out there', too. But
that old woman always kept a bright
light in the house, so arranged as to
shine on the baekway, and she
neither slumbered nor slept
we remained out there, and about
ordinary bedtime she would
to the door and say, modestly, but
in no uncertain tone, “time to go to
sleep girls.” This simply.meant;
the boys to begin to hustle, nor did
we stop to confer with Uesh and
blood. Of course the girls invited
us to Stay all night, but they knew
we would not do so. But why
couldn’t I think to leave without
being told? It was no pleasant task
for that old lady to tell mo to hus-
tie, nor was it .any pleasant sound
for me to hear it, and the girls felt
bad about it, and all could have
been avoided if I just had thought.
Lam ashamed of it now. and if 1
could call those good old folks up
from the tomb I would take off my
hat and apologize like a gentleman
i'or the trouble I gave them. But
wan giving them another source
trouble, as I have since learned, by
experience. It frequently occurred
that on Sunday dinner was a
late and it was expected to only
scrap up a little cold supper,
they had company; but here are
these boys. If they stay, supper is
to cook. The old lady is
with the headache and these girls
are about the only chance to cook it,
and they are cornered off in a jam
with boys aud there they stay.
family cannot afford to invite them
out to a cold snack, and the only
chance now fur the family to have
any supper is for these boys to leave.
Ah, me! and there they s'tay until
bedtime. If they could know
what is said about them they couldn’t
feel very proud of themselves.
I am writing this as a warning to
other youngsters to have more sense
than I had, and save themselves
some hard feelings. Courting should
only have its time and place, and
not engross everything. When the
boys corner the girls off (and they
like to‘be cornered), they should
remember there is a time to turn
loose, and by observing this they
will often save themselves the un¬
pleasantness of being invited to
leave. 31. Sikes.
Sunday after next the IVillacoo-
chee Singing Convention meets
Flat Greek church, in Berrien conn-
ty. Quite a number of people from
Atlanta Not The State of Geor.cJa.-
Judge Candler, of the Atlanta
circuit court, recently found the
Fulton county docket so crowded
with divorce suits that he announc¬
ed that he would be compelled to
limit the rttin.be: of such oases to bo I
considered and tried to four a week, J
a '"' t!,e caU-.emcd Atlanta Journal, j
i_ts I' M from this action ol'|
the court, lioids up it>, hancs in hoi-
ror and laments this state of affairs*]
in Atlanta as something going t
; ' :10V> “Deorgist ret;''‘guided
to a deplorable degree.” The
mil’s lamentations escaped our notice
when it appeared in that paper, says
the Albany Herald, but we find it
(X qfied aud commented upon as lot-
lows in the New Orleans States:
“It is a bad advertisement for
G Lite Atlanta Jonnal,
go of the superior court
finds his docket so crowded with di¬
vorce suits that he is compelled to
limit the mu ! ■of divorce trials
four a week. There was a time in
this state when suits for divorce
were scarcely ever heard of. Now
they come in groups and droves and
gangs in all our. larger cities and are
frequent in most of the counties.
Something has gone wrong. Avery
sad and significant fact stares us in
the face from the records and dock-
ets of every superior court in Geor¬
gia and from the column:; of news-
papers almost every day, a fact
which proves that, however great
Georgia’s progress in some direc¬
tions may have been, in one very
important element of true civiliza¬
tion and the best prosperity Geor¬
gia lias retrograded to a deplorable
degree.
The States comments upon this
as follows:
“Georgia is a state which is much
given to boasting of its progression,
but in its progressiveness there is
reason to believe that it has import¬
ed considerable fresh blood and bad
morals. In the matter of divorce
cases it is evident from the state¬
ment of the Atlanta Journal Geor-
with a number of
Northern states where the man-
ta l u-, appear to run very lightiy.
^ - a - khe Atlanta Journal says is
a *^ vei T S°°d, but the mistake.; is
.
Iua(1e of charging up the sins of
| Atlanta to thq state of Georgia.
The lamentable conditions point-
ed Ciit by tl,e Journal exist to the
alarming and deplorable extent men-
Bouod in Atlanta or Fulton county
only, and it is a slander upon the
stato Georgia to make these con-
ditioES appty U- e state at large,
We have not the data and records
before ns to substantiate such an
assertion, but we believe it could be
said without fear of successful con-
tradiction that Fulton county fur-
I nishes more divorce suits annually
J th an the combined. 130 other The counties “bad of adver- tho
j state
tisement” to which the Journal ro¬
iers 80 feelingly should, therefore,
i Be applied to Atlanta, where it lie-
| longs. I ho moral and social atrnos-
pherc of Atlanta does not extend
j over the entire state, and divorce
-nits are the causes which usually
I underlie divorce suits are not so
! common elsewhere in the state as in
the Capital City. We have no de-
s i re to speak any manner of evil of
| Atlanta, but w do object to its
i moral sins being charged up to the
state at large,
I Among the curiosities of Southern
Georgia is a remarkable cavern, in
Dooly county, at a place called the
double-lirae-sink. The cave extends
from the bottom of a deep lime-sink
! to a depth that has never been ex-
j plored. About thirty feet from the
entrance to the cave is a bottomless
i well, into which, during the rainy
“, water is continual y pouring,
j and roaring like distant thunder, as
i it leaps over a rugged precipice and
, in its headlong descends
| course to
| an unknown depth below. It is
dark in the cave, and it looks very
dangerous, but hundreds of people
go in with lights to see the sights
which nature has so wonderfully |
carved. Large crowds very often j
visit the place to spend a day in
pleasure taking, and to enjoy the
wild and romantic scenery,-—Savan¬
nah 'News. This sounds a little
!lh ' i y> * mt lr “L !ruc *
The weather clerk is now behav¬
ing' vory nicely.
Pi no ILoval Pickups.
Several qf the boys and girls from
here attended the carnival at'Fitz¬
gerald last week.
Guess what young man got left
Sunday. Brother, don’t worry over
it, for such things will come.
Ml . aluI M re. G. E. McMillan
spent last Friday and Saturday with
^ D _ Garrison and family.
yj r Oliver Crane, of Alapaha,
visited Prof. W. J. Royal and fam¬
ily last Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. J. C. Fletcher and L. G.
Whitley, from Fitzgerald, spent last
Sunday afternoon at Prof W. J.
Royal’s.
Some of the girls in this commu¬
nity ray they like to ride with a cer¬
tain young man that .comes from
Fit;:, in a decorated buggy some
limes.
fir. and Mrs. 0. J. Luke, from
near Tifton, spent last Friday, Sat-
urday amt Sunday with their sister,
31 is Samantha Luke, who is very
sick at Mr. F. G. E. Paulk’s.
April 19. Little Bill.
Waterloo Woavlrtgs.
A much needed rain is falling ,to-
day.
Mr. T. 15. Young is on the sick
Ijst this; week.
Mr. S. M. Clyatt is suffering very
j much from the effects of a bone-
feioti.
Rev. Babe Gibbs was able to at¬
tend church at Hickory Spring Sun¬
day, but was not able to preach.
Miss Lizzie Bowen, of Stunner,
who has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. Oscar Olliver, returned home
Saturday.
You can’t guess what young mar¬
ried man, who lives-half a mile this
side of Chula, carried a'young (?)
lady home from church Sunday.
April 17. Pap. .
R. B. Allen & Co. are liberal ad¬
vertisers and they are selling the
goods. That’s the way it is with all
liberal advertisers.
The last grand jury recommended
a reduction of 40 per cent, in the
salaries of county officers.. This,
wc presume, is the initial step to¬
ward providing for better roads in
the county without increasing the
tax rate.
Parties owning lands advertised
as unreturned ought to know that
tie sheriff or his deputies are- the
only persons who can stop the ad¬
vertisement. The publishers of the
Dispatch cannot stop it without ver¬
bal or written authority from them.
Wednesday of last week the little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mat.
Feltes fell out off the porch of Mr.
Bass’ new building and broke
both bones of her right leg just
above the ankle. Drs. Luke and
Macon set the limb, and it is doing
nicely.
The old wolf pit near Brushy
Greek church should be fenced in
and preserved as a relic of the days
when wild beasts were plentiful
throughout this section. The pit
was dug by the late ( apt. Daniel
Henderson, in the’ early days of the
county, and many wolves met their
death in it.
We have it on the authority of
one of Ocilla’a aldermen that Hon.
R. V. Bowen was one clay slipping
along his mi’ll darn to where he
would have a better shot at a drove
of wild ducks, when his gun was ac¬
cidentally discharged, killing nine
ducks. Of course it could not he
ascertained how many were wounded
Exposure to rough weather,
dampness, extreme cold, otc., is apt
to bring on an attack of rheumatism
or neuralgia; chapped hands and
face, cracked liprs and violent itch¬
ing of the skin also owe their origin
to cold weather. Dr. J. H. Mc¬
Lean’s Volcanic Oil Liniment should
he kept on hand at all times for im¬
mediate application when troubles
of this nature appear. It is a sov¬
ereign remedy. Price 25c, 50c and
$l.a bottle. For sale by Luke &
Ashley,
Col. D. B. Jay, of Fitzgerald, was
in town Thursday.
A portion of the cemetery is be¬
ing cleaned up and fenced.
The old vets anticipate a great
at Fitzgerald on the 29th.
“A New Creed,”
“The University Congrcgational-
ist church, Rev. N. I. Rubinkain,
l>. I)., pastor, has adopted a creed
which reads as follows:
'•We, the undersigned, are asso-
obited together for the worship of
God, religious instruction, mutual
helpfulness in the spiritual life- and
for service to our fellow men.
“\Ve believe in the two laws of
love toward God and toward our
neighbor as proclaimed and ex¬
pounded by Jesus to be the funda-
mental and all-inclusive ideal of
every true life.
“In subscribing ourselves as men -
bore of the University Congrega-
tional church, we declare it our pur¬
pose to strive to make the spirit of
Christ dominant in our lives and in
all the relations of men to each
other.
“The creed is noticeable rather
for its omissions than for its affirma¬
tions. Nothing is said of sin or ol
the necessity of regeneration, of the
deity of Christ or of the nature and
authority of the scriptures. Dr.
Rubmkam thinks that the church
must recognize the artistic and
scientific movements of the day, and
that,as people are leaving the church,
it is necessary for it to follow them
into the world and furnish them the
religion which is the background of
all true life.”—Congregationalist.
Art Unfounded Rumor.
The report that the Tifton and
Northeastern railroad had been pur¬
chased by the. Georgia and Alabama
system is utterly without founda¬
tion. Just how these rumors origi¬
nated is hard to say, as they had
nothing behind them, and are un¬
irue for two good and sufficient rea¬
sons:
1st. The Georgia and Alabama
has made no effort to buy the Tifton
and Northeastern.
2d. The Tifton and Northeastern
is not for sale. 11 is earning a hand¬
some dividend on the investment, is
in good hands, and its business
steadily increasing. — Tifton Ga¬
zette.
The Dispatch has heard the rum-
ors floating around Tor several
weeks, but has taken no stock in
j them, preferring to wait till they
crystalize into facts or fade away
into the mama of oblivion before
immortalizing them with space, in
this palladium of human rights.
The Best in the World.
We believe Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy is tho best in the world. A
few weeks ago we suffered with a
severe cold and a troublesome cough,
and having read their advertisements
in our own and other papers we pur¬
chased a bottle to see if it would
effect, us. It cured us before the
bottle was more than half used. It
is the best medicine out for colds
and coughs.—The Herald, Ander-
souville, Ind. For sale by Dr. G.H.
Macon. & < '.o. druggists.
The Dispatch has been aware for
several weeks of the pleasing news
that Rev. Lawson, of Abbeville,
had purchased a lot in Ocilla, would
erect a handsome residence thereon
and would occupy it as soon as com¬
pleted, and is pleased to now state
that the building is well under way,
and that in two or three weeks this
popular divine and ‘his estimable
family will be part of our. little
giant of a town. That a hearty
welcome awaits them, there is no
room to doubt.
The contract to bu-ild a bridge
across tho “still” branch, on Fourth
street, has been let to contractor
Newberry, of Albany, and work is
to commence at once. When the
bridge is completed Fourth street
will be opened up by Powell, Bul¬
lard & Co.’s still, across the branch
and thence to intersect the present
road somewhere beyond the hill east
of the branch. The large number
of people cast of town, who trade
here, and the traveling public gen¬
erally, will read this intelligence
with pleasure.
A confirmed widower of Ocilla is
rcensed of falling in love with
everything that has calico on it,
even to the shelves in the stores.
An old bachelor in town says he
does not know whether to get mar¬
ried or commit suicide. He might
remove the doubt by iryitig suicide.
Tfie Protracted Electing.
The protracted meeting, whi/j
began in the Methodist church lai
Sunday, lias been well attendee
Rev. (.'has. Lane, of Atlanta, a>i
Rev. Williams, of the Crisp uimifl
have assisted the pastor, Rev. W.'M
Stewart. 1
•Powerful sermons have been'
preached at each service, and it, oan-
not: bo doubted that much good haK
been accomplished.
There w ere eight accessions to tine;
church Wednesday afternoon,
Amos Brown, the barber, bought
the Lott Harper 2-story store build] !
ing on Cherry street Wednesday.
The protracted meeting at the"
Methodist church will continue a'
'least this week, and perhaps longe
Attend every meeting you can.
When you see a handsome youn I
lady searching a catalogue for wedl
ding wreaths, you may fed satisfiel
that Cupid has finished his work nrfl
gone elsewhere. V
The Mutual Life, of New York!
lodest, largest and best company ifl
the United States. Cash policy] asset,!
$2“7,517,225.-37, Have paid
holders §487,748,1)10.00, which is
nearly as much as paid by any twol
other companies combined. For
titer particulars call on or write 11.1
( >. Snow, Special Agent, Abhe\ ille,
Ga. Dr. J. C. Luke, M. E.,()eil *
Ga.
Owing to several causes the
patch was not represented at the
Fitzgerald carnival, but Ocilla sontH
up a strong delegation each day, c«fl
the word is, that our neighbor
ered herself with glory on that
c as ion. For two days the city
crowded with people from in:|
parts of Georgia, and tfney retun
t® their homes highly pleased w
the lavish hospitality they re d>
and deeply impressed w ith all tl.V
saw and heard in the Magic
The carnival was a complete mm
cess from start to finish, and H
good results will doubtless be ftH
reselling.
ADM]X ISTKATOK’S SA LE.
Georgia—T rwin County..
Will lx 1 sold in Ocilla. Ga., on Wcrtncsda
May iKtttt.thc following ]irojM»rt.
1 ini/'’to flic estate of S. It. i’aulL. late of
county, deceased, to-wft: One law
several encyclopedias, one type-writer aiSL
one desk, sold for the purpose of winding
estate, of said deceased. Terms made knowi
on day of salt 1 . 1 f
This April .H, ISM. J. li. 1'AUtjK, > \
ADDIfi AND
t-Si-tt Administrators.
Tax Receiver’s Notice.
1 will be at the following places on the dates
named, on my second round, for the purpose
of receiving state and county tax returns for
the year IdiU. Do not wait til lithe last round
to nia ke your returns: district (Roberts).
Mon <luy. May 1st. 1421st
Tuesday. .May May ind, lt-V'tli district (Harding).
Wednesday. 3rd. liMltii district (ChuhC.
Thursday.' May 4th. tlttd district (Sycamore).
Friday. Ma y all). Wist, disnict (Irwtnville).
Monday. .May stli. Ctwtli district (Minnie). (Dorroiny’s
Tuesday. May 8th, 4;tind district
Mills). 'Wednesday. May Kith, ai.st.li ....... district (Old
Fifth). Thursd; and Friday, May 111.lt and 12th,
iy (Ocilla).
!s:J!)Ut district fi
JACOr. .J. PA rr.K.
4-22-1f I!. T. li.
C R A PS S3 AND TRAVERSE JURORS
Drawn for November Term, 1899,
Irwin Superior Court.
GRAND JURY.
W. J. Dorminey-., Dorminey,
Jacob
.1. 11. Goodman,
M. G. Hogan,
Jus. P. Brown,
J. V. Paulk.
G.E. Kicker.
W. A. Kobe its,
•V. '1. Mull. Paulk,
I), K.
G. S. Graham,
Hrper.
•P. Li. I.TiiW.
Lucius Fletcher. Paulk,
51. T.
TRAVERSE J TltiY.
Daniel Sinilh, Gray,
II. (A
J. M. P:HYord,
\V. <'lenient s,
A. P. 11 amons,
M. Dickson,
K. I*. Smith.
Wiley McM i l l an,
J. 11. Schaffer,
G. J. Harper.
Vv m. Grant ham,
.). ii. Gcoghagan, Harley.
G.S.
\V.*!\ M. D. Gay.
\S hit ley,
A. T. Barber.
,mo. D. DJotclier, Sioky,
E. G.
IlKALKIt IN'
Fins Whiskies, Brandies, Wines,
Beer, Tobacco and Giaars.
Prices moderate. Your patronage is re-,
spcctfully solicited. 4-21-tf
T J. LUKE,
Attorriey-at-Law and Chancellor in Equity*
Irwisvit.le, Ga,
OFFICE IX COURT HOUSE.
t-r.’My
!
MQS r
EAS1EE,
CHERRY STREET,
OCILLA, - GA.
First-class Work, reasonable prices, polite
ivt.ention. t-M-ly
vJoliuo Flctoliev,
W. A. Clements,
I. . D. Taylor. Paulk,
H. D.
II. S. Gum mi il#*,
.1. M. Gibbs,
\V. A. York.
J. A. .1. llcndoraoih
A .!. Wooten,
\ S. Bauiler,
»lno. McMillan,
(!« Oscar n. \V. Paulk.. Fletcher-,
•i. If. ILitrper, Branch*
.1 no. A .
M. A. Zorn,
S. A. Burns*
K. T. Mauldin,
(K. Gottthe,
Yv\ K. Faulk.
K. T-. F. Thompson, M Fletcher*,
G.
4* no. ‘K. Clements*
Jus. Paulk,
r !'. M. Hunter,
Dorrniney,
A. 1 , Chamblesri,
D. T Paulk. .lr.,
•fGsiiua 'l roup,
T. P*. Koss,
A. S. I )orminey, Luke,
.lessee
\V. If. Oliver.