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VOL. III.
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t DAIf.V, KXCMPT SON Day.
.ftrrivu m »>«*iUsi . ...11;2&u. ni*. p. iw.
kLeave Ocilla..... .. 11:55 u. in. :imi 0:40 a. hl
1 SUNDAY ONLY.
r TiCavo Ocilla..... ..11:05 a. m.
.Arrive at Ocilla. ...4:60 p. m.
OIobo comw‘ct4ons for ■nortfe, cast, south or
FWOSfc.
Macon & (Jo. for fine perfumes.
SeeDrs. Holtzondorf’s locals in
this issue.
Mr. W. II. Dixon is now ‘located
in Cordelc.
Arcadia Ginger Ale, on ice-at G.
B- Macon-lc Go’s.
Doidt ask,.J)an P. .if -he ihas .any
'milk baskets for sale.
Just think! One dozen photo-
sgraphs for 87 cents.
Miss A. II. is an excellent as well
aa au obliging little p. m. -
, juices—not
t Pure fruit extracts—
i 1<V,UTlh Streefc Dra S Store
< -
<! Misses May and N<mie
returned to Rochelle Monday.
Hr. Jesse Grantham reports a fine
rain in Ms section last Saturday.
iB*.t one grade of work done by
Moose, and that is the highest grade,
s In a few sections of the county
forward corn is beginning to suffer
' .for rain.
Miss Bettie Luke, of Irwinville,
■ us visiting her sister-in-law, Mrs. J.
<J. 'Luke.
The editor of the Tifton Gazette
«itay as well be picking ^ out a place
»j 0 fall on.
' Go to T. Gottlieb's ami get a box
«•»» »"*•*•• “* for 15
cents. 7-14-tf.
Mr. C. W. Curry, after a stay of
several weeks in Ocilla, returned to
Cordele Tuesday.
You can get one dozen photo-
tgraphs for 87 cents at Moose’s gal-
ilery in Ocilla.
Judge J. B. Clements, at Irwin-
vtillo, will be ready to grind wheal
iu t Liree weeks.
Tire Fitzgerald Daily Leader has
•again suspended. It docs not seem
to lack suspenders.
Misses Mary and Dona Player, of
Ocilla, visited Miss Mattie Paulk a
few days this week.
Mrs. D. R. Henderson returned
Sunday from a visit to relatives
near Dorminey’s Mill.
Hon. J. A. J. Henderson and Mr.
T. W. Elarbee returned from Flori¬
da Tuesday afternoon.
It is aaid that Peter Troup -has
quit home and is spending his time
•with Bob Handley’s group.
| For several days past and the the wind tin-
as been from the east,
y tribe frowned at inducements.
Remember that T. Gottlieb, Ocil-
I
la, Ga., is still selling summer goods
'at first cost. 7-14-tf.
Ron. Wm. -Henderson has extra¬
ordinary fine -crops this year. In
fact, he is that kind of a farmer.
Guess our young friend, John
fife., down in Berrien, 'has been eat¬
ing new wheat bread several weeks.
I; Mr. J. M. Ashley, of Douglas,
yyisited his brother, Dr. J. C. Ash¬
ley, of Ocilla, a few days this week.
Mr. John Manning, of Douglas,
*tvas shaking-hands with his friends
n Ocilla Tuesday and, Wednesday.
Dr. W. 'G. Word, Ocil la’s popular
dentist, returned from a profession-
11 'visit 'to Worth county Saturday,
j Mr. T. W. Elarbee returned will to
Florida Wednesday, and visit
the St. Andrews Bay section of the
State.
Mrs, II. C. Mclnnis and her pretty
little daughter, Berta, are visiting
a Mrs. Mclnnis’ daughter, Mrs. J. II.
itPowell.
T1Sli OCILLA DISPATCH.
OCILLA, IK WIN COUNTY , S»A, PE IE AY. JULY 14, 1899.
Ice-cold sodawater with pure
•fruit juices, at fourth Street Drug
Store.
Mr. .1. L. Paulk is having bis res-
• idence painted again. It is now
one of the prettiost dwellings in the
county.
Mr. W. 11. Tygart, of Nashville,
• made a short visit ttoOcilla Tuesday
afternoon, returning Wednesday
• morning.
Yesterday everything was put in
apple-pie order at Brushy Creek
church for the approaching yearly
meeting.
If you want to get the best pho¬
tographs ever made in.this country,
just have Moose to make them while
in Ocilla. •
Messrs. Wright Mixon, Tommy
| j Tucker and'Riehard Gray, who have
beeu down wit h fever, are up again
and about well.
Mr. and Mrs. McNamara, Mr.
Mrs. Haines, Mr. L. L. Hall
| an d others spent Sunday pleasantly
at Bowen’s Miff,
The Dispatch is fonr years old
to-day. It is now safely through
the teething period and is well and
hearty, thank you.
Mr. Moose, the photographer, has
the finest samples of work yet ex-
hibited in Ooilla. Bee them at his
tent near the postoffice.
Bertha Paulk, the pretty little
daughter of Hon. Warren Paulk,
returned luesday • roiw a visit to
relatives in Wilcox county.
Mr.. B. D. Go,v,„, rt. la. b«*
™ ,t, ” S r0 l , Q M ! f il
county , for the past , two . weeks, will
return to-day . . or to-morrow. .
Mr. Oliver Young, son of , Mr.
Richard Young, and Miss Ella Cole-
man were married . , on o bunday, i t) Rev.
Thomas Williams officiating.
J. T Herrington, Mark Mobley
and ethers went gator hunting ^
the ’Coochee the other day and
killed six of the “varmints.”
Mr. Sam Purvis, of the Kissim¬
mee section, was in town Thursday
and reported a fine rain last Satur¬
day and a heavier one Tuesday.
Wright Harper and Clinton Luke
say they are now squarely on the
carpet, and, come weal or come woe,
they’re bound to pass the altar.
Mr. J. B. D. Paulk, one of the
best county clerks in the state,
mingled with his numerous Ocilla
friends several hours Thursday.
Full line of Tube Paints and Ar¬
tists’ material.
Watt & Hoi.mks,
■lm. Fitzgerald, Ga.
If you want to hear the hum -of
industry, take a turn through the
Ocilla Novelty Works; and, too,
yeti will see 'first-class -work being
done.
.Superintendent Williams, of the
Ensign-Oskainp Co., will soon-have
the big end of town • up -his way,
unless lie holds up cn house-build¬
ing.
Tuesday -Deputy Sheriff Faulk
'moved to Fitzgerald because he
could not find, a house for rent in
Ocilla. Build hoascs for renting
purposes.
Our. young friend E„ down below
Alapaha, has to go fifteen miles to
yearly meeting before he can reach
the home of—well, find put for
yourself.
Mr. Need Whitley is the boss
quill melon grower of this section.
He brought several to town this
week that were from two to three
feet long.
Mr. J. A. McNeil, a merchant of
Sparks, made an assignment this
week. His assets are said to be
about, $5,000, which will cover the
liabilities.—'J’ifton Gazette.
Mr, K. B, Watson, last Tuesday',
killed a rattlesnake, south of his
field, that measured five feet in
length and woke the echoes with,
rime rattles.
The yearly meeting at Sturgon,
Creek church last Friday, Saturday
and Sunday J was largely ° t attended.
Quite a number went from Ocilla , n
and \kinity.
One dollar and a large waternael-
on will get the Dispatch
months. If the nrdon isn t
the dollar will get it the saia©
length of tirno.
Misses Carrie Sibley,Nenie Goethe
and Sall-ie Milliken went up on tfe
noon train yesterday to Bowen’s
Mill to join the party who left on
the early train.
•Right by the side of the postoffice
4n Ocilla you can find Moose’s -big
picture tent, where yon can get all
kinds of picturee made, from min-
dature to life size.
Mr. N. A. Arnold and.Mr.
Mixon took a load of new. wheat to
Mr. Aaron Metz’s.flour mill in Cof¬
fee county yesterday. That means
delicious biscuits.
Ocilla Lodge No. 374 F. .& A.
M. met Wednesday. Next meeting
will be on 4th Wednesday night in
this month and a full attendance is
desired. This is important.
Half a 'dozen cottages are needed
.in Ooilla to-day. Can’t some-of our
bloated bondholders erect tlds
ber and begin to draw forty or fifty
per cent, on the investment!'
,
pistol 1 \va>i tired in Mr. 11. D. Go.-
store. Jimmie . . Goethe , was
an s
fondling 38, when , one of „ the , , bul- ,
a
let8 in it went 0 ff_ t h ro « g h the waH.
Irwm . has ( been graded _ , to
avenue °
the hmlt8 . ^° kS
cor P orate ’
on to Henderson and Handley s
ike tQ Fitzgerald . Elisha
Bovakin knows how tobuild streets ,
*
.
Mr ' J(jshua Trou P has twel ve
acres in groundpeas that cannot , be
excelled in Georgia, so we -learn
from W. J. L,, who went out that'
way last Sunday with his best clothes
on.
Miss Margaret McMillan, daugh¬
ter of Mr. John McMillan, stuck a
needle in her thumb about two weeks
ago, and had to call in a •doctor. It
is now-improving, we are glad to
state.
Yesterday'Dr. 'Ashley tfrtd family,
lion. Win. Henderson and family
and Mr. J. L. Paulk and family
went out to Mr. J. R. Paulk ! s and
spent the day very pleasantly o(: the
river.
If our young friend, .John, down
in the state of Berrien, will let fts ,
know when he returns home, with*a
millin’-of new 'flour, we’ll let-him
know -when we’ll be down to borrow
a bakin’.
We regret to learn of the recerit
death of the infant child of Mr.
and -Mrs. Jeeins Paulk. The little
-sufferer-had been sick many months
When the angels took it to its eter¬
nal -home.
President L. was in town Tuesday
conferring with secretary Clint. II.
about the next meeting of the Clin¬
ton Clackers, a noted musical organ¬
ization with a tom-tom as the main
misery-creator.
Mr. John L. Mixon and others
were to have serit a lot of new wheat
to Metz’s mill, in Coffee county, to¬
day. We’d like to borrow a siftin’
of this kind of flour from some of
the wheat growers.
Some of the boys are still champ¬
ing their bits about John McMillan’s
oats. The trouble is, John is too
far ahead of them on oats for them
to catch up, and it seems to gripe
some of them powerful bad.
W.arriod.
At the residence of Mr. John J.
McMillan, about three miles south¬
west of Alapaha, in Boirien county,
Ga., o:i Thursday, July 13, 1899, at
? m L E Kegister
^ ^ M( . MiUan were
happily wedded.
Mhg McMillan (that was) U one
0 f thedoveliest young ladies of Ber-
r j en county. Graceful in form and
maimers, amiable in disposition,
n( j ar , ( ] considerate to all, her ina-
n y accomplishments fit her for the
manifold duties of hostess or hcuise-
keeper. .Fortunate, indeed, is the
young gentleman who lias wooed
and won her.
Mr. Register is an industrious
young farmer of Berrien count}',
and is worthy of the noble little
woman who has consented to march
adown the path of life w ith him.
The Dispatch .forwards warmest
congratulations to the popular young
and wishes for them hap pi-
ness beyond measure, and long lives
in which to enjoy it.
Yesterday morning a merry crowd
of young ladies and gentlemen went
up from Ocilla to Bowen’s Mill for
a day’s outing. Following is a list
0 f those who went, as correctly as
we could catch them on ilie fly:
Misses Emma Paulk, Mittie Berry,
Dora Paulk. Mamie Garrett, Matede
i and Befi Saxon, Donic James, Mabel
McCall and Bertha Paulk-, a®d
j Messus. C. II. Martin., Reason Heit-
I derson, Melvrn J. Paulk and Rus-
sell Roberts.
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Monday of last week Dr. J. E.
Goethe removed a cancerous tumor
from the back part of Mr. G. T.
Pipkin’s neck. The tumor was
larger than a silver dollar and the
work of removing it was skillfully
done. This kind of cancer is known
in medical parlance as epithelioma.
The place from which the tumor
was removed is healing nicely and
Mr. Pipkin expects to lie well in a
week or so.
Saturday afternoon of last week
all that was mortal of Mrs. Alice
Jenkins,'-neeiLoyless, was laid to
rest in Cedar Hi'll cemetery- at Daw¬
son. She died the day > before at
McDonald’s Mill, in Ware county.
Mrs. Jenkins had many warm friends
here, who will learn of her death
with deep regret. To Mr. J. M. R-
‘Jenkins, her grief-stricken husband,
we tender sincere condolence.
Monday night about midnight
Lawrence Prescott, N.P. of the 4tl)
district, and Oscar Barron, bailiff
of said district, had an altercation, 1
in which both emptied their pistols
■at each other, Prescott receiving ni
dangerous and probably fatal wound
Itl the neck, while Barron received
a flesh wound in the left side, not
serious. There is a vomuTi at the
bottom of it.
‘Last Sunday afternoon about 4
o’clock a house on Miss Della Whit¬
ley’s place, about two miles north¬
east of Mrs. M. V. S. Whitley’s,
was burned to the ground. The
“house was occupied by George John¬
son, a worthy colored man, who was
absent at preaching when the fire
occurred, and lost everything. It
is not known’how the fire started.
Mr. Mitchell Paulk, son Of Mi's.
Rhoda Paulk, who lives in Worth
county, will, with his son, Charles
Edward, visit relatives in this coun¬
ty next week and will be at his
brother Jim’s on Wednesday, 19th
iristarit, arid will be glad to meet as
many of his friends as possible.
Full sets of teeth at Drs. Iloltz-
endorf’s for only $10.50.
Mrs. Needham Purvis, Miss Mol-i
lie and .lake, of near Kissimmee, |
visited Ocilla Wednesday. Mrs. |
Purvis brought iu the largest mid- j
tiling of bacon yet sold in Ocilla.
It weighed sixty-one pounds.
also brought in beeswax, lard and
•eggs, for all of which she found
ready sale. .That kind of farming
pay's.
There are ’gator hunters in the
’Lophaw river who are playing havoc
with the •saurians. One day recent¬
ly they killed ten in one lake not
far another from lake Mr. eight J. If. bit’Us* Fatiik’s, dust, and in j
to speak. They are being killed for !
tbeir teeth and hides. I
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FITZGERALD, GA,
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| gE 4HEADQI1VIRTEUS 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,
fc Wood Fillers and White Lead.
tffiecan -supply peu w.Wh five beet Belting and Lubricating Oils manti- ~
fe; factwred. Send to us lor jour milt anti steam fittings. We can funiUh 3 ^
tUeua.
m WITT & HOLMES HARDWARE CO.
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Harley Hardware Co,
Stones,
Tinware,
i-6mekPT.i!,
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Ftirnisfiino
Goods,
Harley Hardware Co.
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I9\ •It mean cash on delivery; not 8(1 days nor la months’ tinie. Consequently, vv i
have no book-keepers arid collectors to pay, nor any bad accounts to add to .
'T* prices. Our customers that have Ute assunuttie Unit they pay nothing but their y.u
ovvli bills here, and they get tltb
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m We carry a complete line of Oehtral Merchandise, elsewhere. and invite the exchange public ‘
... .fr to goods visit at out store and get prices before purchasing of kinds, Touts We ’
easlv prices for country produce a!! to serve,
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Official Organ
.Irwin County.
Mr. John Clements (Pis' Johi),)
ami family moved to Ocilla yeRter-
day and are now domiciled in their
excellent 2-story residence near the
-The ii-ispatth welcomes
them, cud wiskos-for'them a long
and prosperous,-stay in the “magic
city'.” Mr. 1 0»irfc.ieiitw has eight chil-
dreo “mostly boys and girls,” to
U'. stjiool.
The ehaingang is working a road
from Fitzgerald in the direction of
Dormihey’s Mill. They will worjc
it three or four miles, -. 3 .E.J the gang
will tiicn be moved t bo ti-c western
portion of the -oc iw.ty, to build a
road perhaps from Sycamore to Ir-
wiviville.
Wewatmy
■■a eomnlote-line of
Shfelf and * -Heavy *Hard-
> ware,! Flews/ Plow "Gear, 'Harness,
etc. Wc call! jft’rtJriul'af' htfeh^&a
to Cha't’tBnobga Chilled Pld\Vs ;il and
Planet, Jr., Cultivators.
f Close! prices, fair
'dealing.
NO. 52.
Saw m\h
TurpentlRS
Still Supplies*
^•Wagons.
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Harness.