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THE DISPATCH
1U5\J>KKH<» * HAN LOS,
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M. Henderson, - -- Business Manager.
J. W. Hanlon, - - Kdilor
Published every Friday and entered at
the Ocilla post*>dire as second-class mail
matter, first -class refuting and a high
grade advertising medium.
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Official Organ Irwin County
Kkiiiay, Jri.v 14, is<i!i.
The number of suicides in the
United States last year is said to
have been 7,000.
“Most editors are so kind to new
writers that they refuse to publish
their articles.”
Non-residents of Florida will
hereafter have to pay §10 for the
privilege of hunting in that state.
In China many of the natives are
dressed in dog skin.—Ex. We have
some wolves in sheep’s clothing over
here.—Waycross Herald.
Mayor Herman, in a card in the
current issue of the Eastman Times-
Journal, accuses Dr. Clark, of that
town, with having vaccinated him¬
self and charged it to the town
council.
The Herald never takes any liber¬
ties with any man unless we have
them squarely down on our list of
friends or our list of enemies. We
try to steer clear of doubtful char¬
acters.—Waycross Herald.
The Elberta is the finest peach of
the year, as large as a man’s double
fists, and a deep, rich yellow, tinged
with red. Tifton will ship between
100 and 150 crates.—Tifton Ga¬
zette. Oh, John, can’t you send us
a setting of them peaches?
The generosity of some newspa¬
per men. is remarkable. For in¬
stance, the editor of the Hardeman
(Tenn.) Free Press announces that
he will, on the occasion of his
twenty-seventh birthday, give a bas¬
ket dinner to his friends, and adds
parenthetically that “each one
should bring his own basket.”
According to a local article in a
Savannah paper it is a foolish piece
of business to travel to the Klon¬
dike in search of gold when a man
can start a loan office in Savannah.
In a case investigated by the Press
a negro woman borrowed of a loan
office $5 two years ago, and has been
paying $1.80 per month ever since.
Up to date she has paid $50.40 for
the use of $5.
Over twenty governors have ac¬
cepted the invitation issued by Gov.
Sayers, of Texas, to attend an anti¬
trust convention to he held at St.
Louis in September. The delegates
to this convention are to be made
up of the governors and attorney-
geuerals of the different states.
We trust they will succeed in deal¬
ing the trusts an effective blow.—
Eastman Times-Journal.
The Fitzgerald Leader has been
misnamed. The Fitzgerald Mis-
leader would he more appropriate.
The Dispatch lias had no cause to
feel sore since its first issue under
the present management; in fact, it
has had no cause to feel otherwise
than jubilant over the good fortune
that has awaited it at every step.
If it has any enemies, they are such
through envy, and it is better off
without them. “Sore?” Not even
a little bit.
A ministerial trust is the latest.
The Iowa state board which controls
penal and charitable institutions,
has made a schedule rate of $3 per
sermon for all sermons delivered in
the institutions under its. control.
The protestant ministers of Mar-
shaltovvn have formed a sermon
trust, and true to the spirit of all
other truRts, are endeavoring to ad¬
vance the prices. They claim that
a $3 rate is too low, and that unless
they receive $5 per sermon, they
will do no preaching. The paid in
capital of the combination is not
stated, hut it is supposed to consist
largely of manuscript sermons.
Whether the advanced price will be
paid, cheaper preachers imported, or
the poor sinners denied the custom¬
ary amount of preaching, is yet to
be seen. Ex.
In Momoriftm.
Mrs. Sallio McMillan was horn
May 28, 1823, iu Irwin county, Ga.,
about five or six miles eHst of where
Ocilla now stands, and was married
to John McMillan in May, 1857.
She was the eldest daughter of J acob
and Katie Paulk. She departed
this life July 5, 1899, at 0 o’clock
iu the evening, after an illness of
three days. She was taken sick on
Sunday evening,and at times seemed
to he mending until Wednesday
morning, when she fell asleep, and
all the calls of “mother” by her
children, or “sister,” foil upon deaf
oars. She never even moved until,
just as the breath left her, she fold¬
ed her hands across her breast and
was with the angels.
She was the mother of fourteen
children—seven boys and seven girls.
Archie, the oldest son, went to the
civil war in 1861 and was never seen
or heard of again. Mrs. Melissa
Walker, the youngest daughter, died
iu March, 1885, of fever. George
McMillan, the youngest sou, died
in Nov., 1990, of fever. Margaret,
the oldest daughter, died August
29, 1896, of erysipelas. All the
rest are living. She leaves ten chil¬
dren, thirty-seven grandchildren hnd
twenty-six great-grandchildren, and
one brother and three sisters to
mourn her sad death.
We can only say a good and true
woman has passed away, leaving not
an enemy in the world. She was a
member of the Primitive Baptist
church and had teen for forty or
fifty years.
The life lias .gone, the breath has fled.
And what has been, no mow sbail be;
The well-known form, the welcome trend.
Oh, wine re are they, and where is she?
—A Loving Graxddauohtek.
Alapaha, July 10.
AUNT SOFRONY SAYS
That she believes Cupid has taken
on new life in Berrien.
That wedded bliss is not to be
had in parcels, as we buy goods,
but is the result of constant, deter¬
mined and kindly effort.
That there is no use trying to put
old heads on young shoulders, not¬
withstanding the frequent and glar¬
ing need of such change.
That many a thing is said in jest
that is put in such garb merely to
conceal the sting until it is too late
for the victim to parry it.
That she wishes “Fanner Girl”
could hear all the compliments that
have heeti paid her articles that have
appeared in recent issues of the
Dispatch.
That she hates to hear people talk
so flippantly of marriage and of
those who are trying to brace up
sufficiently to move into that desira¬
ble state.
That she has nothing to say
against old maids and old bachelors.
They are miserable enough without
any help from her. As to widowers,
young or old, she’d rather not speak.
They do too much of that them¬
selves.
That lovers’ quarrels usually do
not last long, and the reconciliation
sometimes more than balances the
temporary misery; but such quar¬
rels, as well as all other kinds,
should he studiously avoided. There
is no sunshine in quarreling.
That she looks upon careless en¬
gagements as the great source of
work for the divorce courts. Sen¬
sible young men and women will
not engage themselves one to the
other unless they mean it. No one
can account for the action of weak
minds of either sex.
To Aunt Sofrony.
It is my duty to acknowledge tho
reception of your reply to my note,
in which your faithfulness and fair¬
ness as well as your honor, comes to
the front in an admirable degree,
and bespeaks your intrinsic value
more than all the flirtation that you
could have been mistress of under
other circumstances. So I accept
the position to which you have as¬
signed me with a degree of pleasure
unknown to the world of flirts. The
peculiar talents manifestly devel¬
oped in you point you out as a fit
and proptir matron, whose influence
should be used among all the chil¬
dren of your community.
ur influence roll, as the overflowing
Enriching and fructifying ground which is
dried; advise and
Admonish, instruct, reprove,
And thus all the tares and thistles remove.
Work on the young, the heart and the head,
Faithful on this line until you are body dead;
Then peace to your spirit, your the to dust.
Your soul to its God, who houseth just.
■ Farewell,
Uncle Buck.
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Yearly meeting at Brushy Creek
Sunday after next.
Is your residence nice enough tq
photograph ? See Moose about it.
Information was received in this
place yesterday that Prescott was
not expected to live. Barron is not
seriously hurt.
For some reason the Dispatch of
last week failed to reach the Gazette
office in Tifton, and we learn that
all business was at a standstill until
a copy of this world-stirring sheet
could he obtained—-by wire.
A protracted meeting began at
Bethel church, two miles north of
Irwinville, last Saturday. ‘Up to
Wednesday night there had been
six or eight additions to the church.
Itev. E. F. Register is pastor.
Way cross and Valdosta are the
coming towns of wiregrass Georgia.
This is the handwriting on the wall
and it is impossible to rub it out.—
Waycross Herald. Why in the
world didn’t you include Ocilla?
Those of our farmers who are
now turning their wheat into flour
will soon know how to appreciate
geuaine biscuits. There is no bread
in the world more nutritious than
that made from Georgia grown
wheat.
Mr. J. H. Little, one of the clev¬
erest young men in half a dozen
counties, arrived from Abbeville on
Friday of last week and is now
holding down a good position at
Powell, Bullard & Go’s. Success
to him.
The mention of forty-seven ears
to the stalk, in last week’s Dispatch,
was a reality, just as published.
The ears, of course, were small, but
were well shaped, and grew on top
of the stalk, where the tassel ought
to have been.
There are two old bachelors in
town who sit on their respective
store door steps every day and look
across the street into each others’
sorrow-laden countenances and sigh
with such force as to disturb the
dust in the middle of the street.
On Monday of last week Judge
Wiley Whitley, while walking
through Mr. E. J. Hogan’s fifty-acre
field of corn, found one stalk, near
a persimmon tree, that had seventy-
two ears of corn on it. This is a
fi lle yieh] for even Irwin county,
Mr. O. J. Luke, of west Invin,
who came over to attend the wed¬
ding of his sister, Miss Susannah
M. Luke, last week, returned home
Friday of that week, accompanied
hv Miss Betsy Luke, another sister,
who will spend a week over there.
Ladies’ tine skirt buttons, belt
buckles, collars, fine organdies, rib¬
bons, etc., sometimes cannot be
found elsewhere in town. Go to T.
Gottlieb’s; you will always find them
in stock and they ean he had at your
own price. 7-14-tf.
"Capt. Jack Anderson, Mrs. M.
A. Fountain, Mrs. Van Houten,
James Fountain and wife, Alfred.
Henderson, J. P. Brown, B. A.
Freeman and family, A. C. Lawton,
and Capt. Jackson and sons, of
Sycamore, attended the reunion at
Arabi Thursday.—Ashburn Ad¬
vance.
At an adjourned meeting of the
town council Wednesday afternoon
Mr. A. L. Hayes was elected mar¬
shal, in place of Mr. N. A. Arnold,
who resigned several weeks ago.
Mr. Hayes at once assumed the du¬
ties of his office. The Dispatch be¬
lieves he will fill the position ad¬
mirably.
The many friends of Dr. G. ]>.
Watson of Acree, who was recently
adjudged insane and sent to the san¬
itarium at Milledgeville, will regret
to learn that little hopes of his re¬
covery are entertained, hut that his
health is so shattered and broken
that death is expected at almost any
time.—Worth Local.
Mr. JesseT. Boyctt, of Milltown,
and Miss Leonie Crum were united
in marriage Sunday last, at the res¬
idence of the bride’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. B. H. Crum, near Tifton.
The groom is a popular young man
of southeast Berrien,‘and the bride
is one of Worth’s prettiest daugh¬
ters.—rTifton Gazette.
At a meeting of the board of
trustees of- the Ocilla High School
Wednesday night, Miss Tassie Over¬
by, of Richland, was elected teacher
of the primary department and Miss
Eva Smith, of Kicily, was elected
to preside over the music depart¬
This completes the of 1
ment. corps
teachers for the fall term.
Superintendent Boh Handley gave
th<! ehaiugaug a big dinner on the
4th. A tony white convict made a
little speech on that occasion, and,
among other things, said that he had
served time in ’other gangs, hut
could truthfully assert that in none
had ho been as well treated as in the
gang under Capt. Handley.
On the first Sunday in August
and Friday night and Saturday be¬
fore there will begin a protracted
meeting at Prospect church, about
two miles southeast of Mr. Joshua
Troup’s. At the meeting about two
weeks ago, there were twenty-four
additions to the church, three by
letter and twenty-one by conversion.
Rev. Mr. Marlow is pastor.
Master Willie Parkerson, who
lives with his mother about six
miles from Eastman, paid our office
a visit on Saturday last. "YY illie en-
joys the distinction of.being the
largest hoy of his age in Dodge
county. He is twelve years old,
and pulls down the scales at 1UG
pounds, this being 3 pounds less
than he weighed at one time a short
while ago. He is a bright, intelli¬
gent young fellow, and bids fair to
become a great big man in a few-
more years.— Eastman Times-Jour¬
nal.
Mr. J. ft. GemmilJ, of Little
Pennsylvania, has two acres of land
that was considered almost worth¬
less, which he sowed down in Flor¬
ida beggar weed two years ago. This
year, after turning the weed under,
he has planted the land and' the
crop on it is as good as if he had
used near a ton of commercial fer¬
tilizer to the acre. Experiments
made by Mr. Gemmill prove' the
state agricultural department correct
in its estimate that one crop of
beggar weed, plowed under, is
worth $20 worth of commercial fer¬
tilizers per acre. As a forage crop
the weed has few superiors, and
it possesses strong fattening quali¬
ties for stock, when used as pastur¬
age. Two full crops of it can he
harvested annually.-—Tifton Gazette
After the Wedding.
At the Fountain-Luke wedding
on Wednesday of last week, at Mrs.
S. J. Luke’s, an elegant wedding-
supper was served, after which there
was some fine singing. This was
followed by a serenade by the young-
men about 1 a. in. After they had
retired—to be more exact, about 3
a. m.—a number of young ladies
who were present, gathered up the
“musical instruments” used by the
young men and gave them a sere¬
nade that was first-class, This
brought everybody out again, and
from then until day all sat up and
sang, making some delightful music.
Mr. J. A. .Royal treated the as¬
semblage to an original and side¬
splitting piece, entitled “Apple
Dumplings.” This has to be heard,
as delivered by the author, to he
fully appreciated. This was fol¬
lowed by a “sermon” by the same
gentleman, which furnished carloads
of mirth.
About 9 o’clock a. m. the bride
and groom and attendants drove to
and over the principal portion of
Fitzgerald, thence to Mr. W. T.
Whitley’s, where another sumptuous
feast awaited them. After this had
received earnest attention, the party
went over to Mrs. M. V. S. Whit¬
ley’s, where several hours were spent
joyously in singing and conversa¬
tion.
Keep ths Profits at Home.
It was shown in the Times a week
ago that the cotton which the farmer
sells at five cents a pound returns to
him in the different fabrics for
which he has to pay about sixty-four
cents a pound, About fifty-six cents
of this amount goes to the railroads
for transportation, to the foreign
manufacturer and to pay profits to
the different men who handle the
staple between the cotton fields and
the retail dealer in manufactured
cotton goods. is
What was said about* cotton
true of almost, every ii • I ner nrodnrf
raised in the south, Wo soli our
hides to northern tanners at 15 cents
a pound and buy them back in
er at 40 cents and in shoes at from
$1 to *;> a pound. We soli our svr-
up for 15 cents a gallon and buy it
hack in Sugar at three times
amount. Our fruits and vegetables
rot in the fields one half of, the
and we pay northern packers high
prices for the goods in cans during
the other half. Our forests are full
of every kind of timber, yet we
have to send away from home
all of our household furniture ami
farming implements. In almost ev¬
ery instance the manufactured arti-
ele returns to ns with from three to
five hundred per cent, added.
To save this profit and keep it at
home is the problem for this section
of the country. The south can
never hope for the highest degree of
prosperity so long as she is forced
to pay four or five times as much
for manufactured goods as she gets
for her raw products. She must
continue to build factories and her
law-makers must encourage capital,
instead of trying to legislate against
it. She must patronize her own in¬
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Mantles,
Columns,
G-able Ornaments,
Brackets,
Newel Posts,
And all other interior and extdfior finishings for residences, churcheBj
etc. My facilities for turning out work iu above line are excellent, and
prif.es will be found reasonable for first-class work. Orders from Irwin
county aud southwest Georgia generally are respectfully solicited, and
satisfaction is assured. 7-7-2m. (*
d<!«tries and protect. them toth
tint. It'is ohiv hv tl lit ; ■rote
of industries home patronage will that our <|
become able to
pete with the older manufuetj
centers,
V aldosta lias made a great st
the last week in raising money
large cotton factory. The ct
prise will be worth thousand
dollars to the city and will he J
investment for the stockhel
There are other fields equally I
viting for men with money.
took into them; stwdy the prpl
factories of -different sorts, ail
UR invest in thorn. Diversity
dnstfies and diversity of cm)]
save transportation ex pens*
keep at home, the heavy tribe
ha ve had to pay to other secti
Valdosta 'Times.
Rev. J.J.F. Goodman, of S
man, was shaking halide wi(M
Ocilla friends yesterday. fa
Judge J- B. Clements and Shi)
Fletcher were in these parts ye6'
day-
come and Cet It. 1 ]
I hand. have six or seven and tons it ot high the earliest grade go )j
on Come get at Henderso.]
si hie moment. Wm.
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Balusters,
Head Blocks,
Corner Blocks,
Base Blocks,
Mouldings.