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-Offiolal Organ
Irwin County.
VOL. ILL
FEED. J. CLARK, Furniture. Grant sum mm oa.
COST SALE!
^at the^
New York Bargain Store.
In order to make room for our Fall stock, all goods must go
-at once at New York actual cost, as per prices mentioned below:
•8c Dimity....................................... .-6c
0c White Lawn-......................... .3c
.V Muslin................................. 3K«e
He Pink Lawn............................. 4i-
Best Calico... ......,................... .4<*
Hea vy Checks......................... .4c
Yard width Sea Island................ ..AViV
25 Table Cloths........................ isc
Best Oil Cloth......................... 15c
25c Colored Organdies.................
40c 1214c Whi:e Red Organdies, Pink and (double Lawns...... width), 2;x* .9c
Blue
15c Yellow Lawns..................... 10c
HOC Fancy Lawns................... .7c
45c. ** .................... .9c
6214c Double Width c mm'Is.......... .Sl¬
15c ** ’* * .......... ide
.'de ** Wool Skirt Goods 15c
■50c Line Woo2 Skirt Goods.......... UOc
J1 Balls Tbrrad durkig sale........ .Ac
Come at once before the best bargains are gone. We agree
to save you 50 per cent, When in town look us tip before
-buying, and get our prices,
New York Bargain Store.
T. GOTTLIEB, FROP’R,
• 4th St, Oeilla. Ga. NATHAN L ORy, Manager.
HOME NEWS.
FOCAL SCHKDUI.K G. & A. It. R.
DAIl.Y, EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Arrive at Oeilla. ..11:25 a. m. and 8:25 p. ni.
Leave Oeilla.... ..11:55 a. m. and 6:40 a. in.
SUNDAY ONLY.
Leave Oeilla.... .11:05 a. m.
A-rr.i-ve at Oeilla. . .4:C0 p. in.
Close wnmeotums for north, east, south or
west.
Macon & Co. for fine cigars.
Macon & Co. for toilet setups.
’Ewery one is talking about the
(barbecue and picnic.
Pure ice-cold soda water at G. IT.
Macon ■& Co’s.
Next week we will publish some
(interesting wheat news.
See application for charter for
railroad from Augusta to Valdosta.
The Waycross Air Line will 'be
-built to Aids-city. Make a .note -o’
that.
-Eb Fldtdher lha's -a Tiild of com
(that is “silking.” llow is that for
forward?
Sec notice of Tax Receiver Paulk
in this issue, and be governed ac¬
cordingly.
Miss Sophia McMillan is the au¬
thorized agent of the Oeilla Dis¬
patch in Berrien county.
Clever Col. Horn, of the Ashburn
Advance, was a visiter to Fitzger¬
ald Tuesday.
Mr. John J. McMillan lias oats
enough in his big barn to last him
two years.
Mr Henry T Fletcher will thresh
-about sixty bushels of wheat, See
--sample at this office.
•Judge Pate, of Alapaha, is rapid¬
ly gaining in averdupois since he
mastered -Blackstone.
It might be to your interest to ask
•Col. M. J. McMillan, at Alapaha,
-about that -new inhaler. ■
Mf. John Paulk,down at H-cphaw,
e-wtos a horse that sports a pair df
weft-developed antlers.
’Oeilla invites the vMibie county to
.join with’her in a grand barbecue
■and,picnic om tbe &7 th il\st.
We hope'to .publish, 'nfeH 'week,
•the program -for the barbecue and
ipicftic. It w'ill be a skinner.
‘Botveh’s mill is now a favorite
tpicnic ground. Tbe bathing pool
is not the least of tbe attractions.
Mrs. Margaret Gaskins, who has
been reported quite sick at Mr. Jack
Fletcher’s, is now able to be up, we
arc pleased to state.
LzHJ OCJLLA MSPATCH.
OCILLA, IRWHSr COUF*TY, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1899.
60c Mtn’s Pants.. .. -40 ?
Sunday Wool Jeans............................ “ ........................ ...75c ...75c
$1 .$
Men’s lilne Serjro Pants................ 2.00
(’lay Worsted Suits..................... ..4.50
All-Wool Blue Serge Suits............. ..0.50
30c Men’s Linen Hats................... 15c
40c •** “ “ .................. .25c
50c “ ** " ................... .40c
Fine Ladies’ Oxfords, (tan and black). .48c
1.25 •* - ........ .75c
2.00 " “ 1.25
........
Men’s Full Stock Brogans.... .90c
Extra Fine Single Sole. Oil T an Creole
Shoe $1.25, now.......... ..08c
Dress Shoes................... ..99c
Fine $2.00 Soft I )ress Shoes.. ..1.25
Negligee Shirts................. . .25c
Finer (Quality Hoods Shirts............ Very Low Prices. ..47c
Other at
The present one is said to be
among the greatest revivals that has
ever been held here. Great good is
being accomplished.
Mr. N. E. Dry, the clever mana¬
ger of Mr. T. Gottleib in Oeilla,
visited Fitzgerald Sunday, returning
home Monday morning.
Mrs. M. D. Allen, of Moultrie,
who has been visiting relatives in
Oeilla since Thursday of last week,
-returned home Monday.
The Flat Crock section of Berrien
■county had a fine rain Monday, and
-planting peas was the order - of the
order of the day Tuesday.
Engineer Charley Jenkins, of the
T. & N. E. R. R., is one of the best
-in the State, and Capt. Hargrett'has
1110 superior as a conductor.
Mrs. John T. Carter, of Xaylor,
who has been visiting her daughter,
Mrs. R. B. Allen, for several weeks,
returned home Wednesday.
We are pleased to state that the
infant child of Mr. and Mrs. R. B.
Allen is now recovering, after near¬
ly two months of suffering.
Misses Lila and Lizzie Tucker,
the charming daughters of Judge
Dan Tucker, of Vic, attended the
revival in Oeilla, Thursday.
The Aquatic Club will now pro-
eeed to prepare for some lofty tumb-
ling in the raging Willacoochee, not
far from Elder Win. Paulk’s.
Capt. Cheslcy Williams, up at
Tifton, has housed about si-xty acres
of fine oats, and planted'fb'rty acres
of the land in coni this Week.
Miss Dora‘Paulk, 'Who has been
attending college at Milledgeville, |
returnedtfcome fi’uesday, to the de-
‘light of 'hermtimerous friends.
Fdll'line of Tube Paints and Ar¬
tists’ JhateriJl.
Watt & Holmes,
•lm. Fitzgerald, Ga.
They say Jim Clements and John
‘Paulk and Billy Rogers sat down
and wept when they learned that
Nas was “non est” last Saturday.
The many friends of Miss Martha
Hogan will be pleased to learn that
she has almost entirely recovered
(from a recent severe attack of fever.
Mr. E. T. James has contributed
a ton of ice for the barbecue and
picnic, and his hand is still partly ,
in his pocket. 'That s the way to
come up to the lick log! !
Macon & Co. for fine tooth
brushes. i
Mr. J. T. Austin and family, who
conducted the Austin Hotel in this
place for several months, returned
Wednesday to their farm near En-
igma.
Mrs. M W Burke and her accom¬
plished daughter, Miss May, of
Abbeville, spent several days in
Oeilla this-week, the guests of Mrs
M L Lawson.
Mr. O. II. Johnson, the clever
representative of Watt & Holmes,
of Fitzgerald, spent several hours
in Oeilla Saturday in the interest of
his popular firm.
Dr. L. C. Holtzendorf, of
gerald, has been in Havana for the
past three months and is doing a
large dental practice there. 1 re may
establish a branch office there.
If a girl’s best chap gives her the
grand bounce,' she should apt let
that worry her, says an exchange.
There are other and more highly
polished pebbles on the beach.
President John Lott was in town
Monday. While here he bought a
pile of curleycues from Lucius 'Tuck¬
er’s variety works to ornament liis
handsome new residence with.
Mr J J Exam, an excellent far-
mer who works one of Mr Henry T
Fletcher’s places, sent us, yesterday,
a knee-high sample of a twenty-acre
field of long cotton, blooming today.
Superintendent Haines, of the
Plant System, is doing lots of work
at 'l’ifton. It is said he will spend
forty or fifty thousand dollarsVn the
work, all of which will be first-class.
L T p to yesterday at noon there
j were forty-one--additions! to the Bap-
tist e h U rch. Baptising will take
place tomorrow ! (Saturday) in tbe
Henderson -Lake, just outside
-town.
Mr. J. L. Ensign is proving to be
a great factor in the building up of
Oeilla. But it is our belief that his
good work iri that direction has
scarcely begun. He is a developer
of the right kind.
Mr. W. T. Phillips, of the eastern
.part of the county, was in Oeilla
Monday. He says he made the fin¬
est-oats this.year he ever saw, but
he did not see John McMilLian’s
seven-feet-four-inch oats.
Wednesday wo received a cotton
bloom taken from Mr. W. H. Red¬
ock’s forty-three-acre field. lie is
farming on Dr, Julian’s place, and
his cotton is said to be knee - high
all over. It is in fine-fix.
Col. John Herring, of the Gazette,
always manages to get the best that’s
going. Last Tuesday he had blaek-
berry-pie for dinner. 11 e had the
same kind of pie for supper the
same day in the same county.
Capt. Flagg, of the Soldiers’ Col-
ony, returned from St. Simons Is-
land, Wednesday. Mrs. Flagg and
their charming daughter will remain
on the island sometime longer, for
the benefit of the latter’s health.
Capt. A. C. Lawton, a brave Con¬
federate veteran, accompanied a
dollar for the Dispatch with this
appreciated expression: “1 shall
always want the Dispatch. I con¬
sider it an indispensible paper.”
A charming little Miss of about
sixteen summers, who lives in a
neighboring county, has promised
us enough blackberries to make a
big pie, and this leads us to conclude
that life is not a dreary void, nohow'!
The writer spent a few hours very
pleasantly in Fitzgerald Tuesday,
The city is moving forward at a
healthy pace, and evidences of in-
creased and substantial growth are
not lacking. There is not a better
c ity in the State to do business with)
and though we go there btlt seldom,
the will to go oftener is strong.
Watt & Holmes, the hardware
men, of Fitzgerald, received a car-
load of bttggtc-s the other day, and
notwithstanding they are first-class
vehicles, the firm has decided to get
rid of them, if popular prices will
! move them.
Mr. Jesse Grantham, who lives
about five miles southeast of town,
preached his first sermon last Sun-
,,a y> at Spring Hill church, to an
unusually large congregation. Those
"'ho heard the sermon speak very
highly of it.
Misses Minnie Killingsworth, Xel-
lic Riggins and Ella May Wooten
came Oeilla Wednesday to
aWc,ul th ‘- ^vival services, and re¬
tul ' ned to Fitzgerald Thursday morn-
ing. They were the guests of Miss
Carrie Sibley.
Baptizing will take place at the
Henderson lake Saturday morning
at 8:3 «- Services will be held at
church immediately after the bap-
tizing, and thus will close a success¬
ful revival. Sixteen or more will
be baptized.
lion. Jim Henderson rightly says
that the people should come together
eftener and thus get better acquaint-
ed, and that is one reason why he is
working so hard to make the ap-
! preaching barbecue and picnic a
towering success.
We will not mention a certain
crop over in Coffee, not a thousand
I miles from clever Dennis Vickers’
that is to be shot for, grass and all,
Saturday. But if you want to find
out more about it, you will have to
ask George Merritt.
Charlie Strobell, aged twelve, son
of Mr. J. F. Strobell, while playing
with a pistol last Sunday let it drop,
which caused it to fire, instantly
: killing his brother Bennie, aged
nine m S trobeH lives about four
miles east of Tifton.
The sermons preached here during
the week by Evangelist Martin, of
Ozark, Ala., have been both power¬
ful and convincing. He has been
preaching twice a day to large aud¬
iences, and quite a number of ac¬
cessions have been made to the
church.
Nas Paulk says last year he sold
his cotton crop early and thus glut-
- ted the market, causing prices to
fall too low to be profitable. This
year he will hold till late in the sea¬
son, and to this end has arranged
with a merchant here to “run” him
to the amount of 50 cents.
Farmer George W. Handley is
supplying the Oeilla market with
onions. He planted what is called
the “nest onion)” and one day re¬
cently he went out in his patch and
scooped up eight bushels^ He gets
one dollar a bushel for them and has
no trouble in parting company with
them.
The matrimonial rush has subsid¬
ed and very few are hitching up for
life nowadays,—B. C, News. That
may be true of Berrien, but 1 it dices
not hold good up here. Subsidence
is not in sight here, b-ttt Chpid is 3s
hard at work as if the 1 thermometer
was in the thirties. Queer boy,
that Cupid!
Elisha Paulk, soryof Tax Receiv¬
er, “Speed” Paulk; on Thursday of
last week killed‘ft rattler five and a
half feet long, with nihe rattles.
The snake-had bitten a dog about
half an hour before he was found,
and staggered to where his master
was cutting'bats and died in great
agony. The snake was traced by
the dog’s tracks. Hus makes three
monster rattlesnakes killed tylthin
Duse'S the St Uvo monthst'and
a p near j„ ; n t j ie same ,,lace.
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Arcadia Ginger Ale, on ice, at G.
H. Macon & Co’s.
Mr. Otis Guy and Miss Nora
Goethe, the beautiful and accom¬
plished daughter of Dr. J. K. Goethe,
were united in wedlock at the homo
of the hi?<Ie‘s father
evening,‘Rev. W. W. Stewart, of
AbbeviKe, dating. This and-
some y onc-goou pis.are- very p-rfflilaij
and have tee sincere wishes of a host
of friends for their welfare and hap¬
piness.
Last Sunday Hon. Witt. Hender¬
son and his good lady entertained a
few of their friends at dinner.
Those who were so fortunate as to
, be present . speak , . , high . , terms , ot f
1 1 in J*
the least. In the evening some de-
lightful vocal and instrumental mu-
sic was enjoyed. Mr. Henderson is
justly elated over his fine crop pros-
pects, but his greatest elation is over
the presiding genius of his heart
and household.
Macon & Co. for fine perfumes,
WATT & HQLMbS HflftDWrlKEiEGO.
FITZGERALD, GA.
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HEADQUARTERS FOR
Hardware, Plows,
Wagons and Buggies.
We Make a Specialty of
Sash, Boors and Blinds.
A Pull line of
Paints, Oils, Colorings,
Hard Oils, Varnishes,
Wood Pillers and White Bead.
We can supply you with (lie best Belting and Rubricating Oils manu¬
factured. Send to ns Cor your nrSJl and steam fittings. We can furnish
them.
WATT & HOLMES HARDWARE CO.
BOYD’S ODD STAND. FITZGERALD, GA.
Harley Hardware Co.
Stoves,
Tinware,
Crockery,
House
Furnishing
Goods,
H&dtey H&yd wdrub ‘Go.
R U ft (BUYER?
a IF NOT, fW NOT? u
S&kxXX
"THE DAIRY ikdHEA^fa in our business is ptoaf enough
that our customers approve of, and ate profiting By, odr omth •
od of doing business. They haVe long since learned that
the cash buying system is the otity Bafd rdad tb success.
We frequently hear the cofiiplamt df Ibe tillich pride at the
(credit houses. This old world is getting full of fehalks anil
dead beats, the credit tnan losing more and fiiofe evdry year.
This hieans higher prides fot gorids, and the dhbt^paying
toonsurhers are the ones that suffer, dne dollaf btiyS more
goods for cash than one dollar and twerity-flVe dents will
buy at the credit prices. You Sho'dld start the dash buying
system tiow. We have a beautiful Hire Of aidely geledteli
^odds; and carry eVefythifig usually kept itl A gduefal mer¬
chandise store. r i’be public Is invited with to call at our herekdord store;
examine our stock, and compare prices those
paid the credit houses. Yours fof Lower Priced;
R. B. ALLEN & CO.
IRWIN AVENUE, OCILLA, 01 ,
Official Organ
Irwin County.
The Macon 'Telegraph haw secured
the services of an excellent corres-
pondent at Oeilla, and that already
popular newspaper will be more pop¬
ular still. It may bo as-well to re-
„iark, just here, that our young
friend, Col. C. R. Pendleton, is
editor..® A. facetting out one of the
host daV-mst ever , published in the
State, which is saying a great deal.
County Commissioner Henderson
is justly elated oxer the success of
his chain-gang work, and many oth¬
ers are, also. The gang is now
within less than live miles of Oeilla,
and it will not be long before the
town is reached. It is pretty eer-
tain that the gang will then be
moved , , to the western . portion .• ot .... the
coun ty and work commence there,
Mr. Henderson says he will give
every section of the county g«dd
roads, but it cannot be done ir :ia
J a y, nor can l )c build tee rorids - :iS„
at once. 'The workhidisteefog will
outlast the present geueraliiea anlci
will be a blessing -to tbhe .people
adown the coiuieg
We carry
a complete-line of
Shelf sml Seavy IJawl-
ware, Plows, Plow Gear, Harness,
etc. We call particular attention
to Chattanooga Chilled Plows- and
Planet, Jr., ’ CtrMV&HSfrs.
Closei prices, 1 fa'ir
NO 47.
cSartHI,
JurDenJiiBe
Still Supplies.
Wagons,
Heavy
Haims.