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Official Organ
Irwin County.
VOL. IV.
FRED. J. CLARK, Furniture. Grant street, razee raw. Ga.
WHAT’SUPNOW
•Nothing here, but the qualities’ pick
down, way down,—Our Prices
them up:
Well buckets sell at 25 cents; here at !.>cents.
#\v„-.li nans sell at 5 cents: hero at S cents,
in hulls ball tliread soil at tft cents; here at ec.
Hair brush rs sell at 10 cents; hero ill 5 cents.
Shoe brushes sell at 10 cents; here at » bents.
I .Julies hose sell at 10 cents; here at 5 cents
Heavy leans cloth sells at 15cents; here at We.
Homespun cloth sells at 5 cents; here at 4c.
iieavv liens’"tine leans pants sell sell at at “scents; f : l; here here at r.’ at ;sic.
lined coats here at is cents.
I .tulles vests sell at 25 cents;
Cloth capes sell at.fl; here at IS I cents,
t ine plush capes soli at here at $1.50.
There’s _____ no ... tat ____ shmlou
On vm our our ii iiguit.s oil res_thev tney ave are mere, merv skeletons, , withered . to a mcie .
Did von ever see prices so thin.
We oiler you ordinary bargains everyday that are more remarkable
than the extraordinary sacrifices of the kind labeled for a few days only,
J : * i; When you come to Ocilla, look us up.
The New York Bargain Store.
T. GOTTLKIB, Proprietor. N. E. ORY, Business Manager.
Fourth Street, Ocilla, Ga.
HOME NEWS.
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LOCAL SCHEDULE G. & A. B. B.
nvi lx, txcirr sonray.
'Arrfvd >1 r Ocilla ...JlcQO a. 111 . ai p. m.
ydlla.... .. .11:30 a. m. ai a. m.
SUNDAY ONLY.
LtMive Ocilla..... ,11:05 a.m.
Arrive si.fr Ocilla.. ..4:50 p.m.
Close connections for north, east, south or
west.
How’s your vac?
Come to Ocilla to shop.
Always try to be on the safe side.
Last Tuesday was salesday at
Irwinville.
Dan P. and his vac. were on bad
terms last Saturday.
Read the new legal advertise¬
ments in this issue.
Mr. Davie Hogan attended the
fair at Waycross this week.
The “scare” has subsided and the
people come to Ocilla as usual.
Col. C. H Martin, is court (ing)
in Randolph county this week, lie
may be abscut several weeks.
Go and get your teeth inserted at
Dr. IIoltzendorf’s for $16.50 for a
full set.
Money spent in advertising is not
thrown away. In fact, it is a good
investment.
You can get a full set of upper
and lower teeth at Dr. Holtzen-
dorf’s, Fitzgerald for $16.50.
Rev. W W. Stewart will preach
in the MeChodist church next Sun¬
day morning and night. Everybody
invited.
COMMON
on sale everything we advertise. ••
How do these prices fit your pocket bock
12yf lbs Green Coffee fl.Ou.
Kingham Shoulders . lOj-jC It).
S ltis. Farmer Girl Tobacco . $1.00
Gents’ Suspenders . 10c up.
Gents’ Shoes from . 25c to $6.0u.
Old Ladies’ Comforts * 1.00
A full Line of Childrens Shoes
at your own need price. of Furniture call
When in
and get our prices.
We carry 0110 of the iar^c-st and heat assorted stocks of funeral mer¬
chandise ever brought to Ocilla, and all wu ask is an inspection of our
goods aud an investigation of our prices.
The ladies are especially invited to call.
FOURTH ST„ OOILLA. GA
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OCILLA, IRWIN COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1899.
Advertise your holiday goods in
the Dispatch and you will sell them,
Have you tried Gowan’s apples?
jj not tro t down and test as fine an
appW as ever grew. ,
If you want to keep posted as to
county new's, the Dispatch is tbc
need. ,
paper you
Mr. W.N. Fivdash visited Alapa-
ha Wednesday and found that town
still quarantined.
If your neighbor’s chickens in¬
vade your garden, don’t forget the
scriptural injunction, but
the chickens sumersaults just the
same.
Suppose we call it the “Cuban
Itch?” Capt. Jeff Wilcox, of Cof¬
fee, who took part in the Cuban
war, says it is a Cuban product, so
we learn.
Miss Vida Hunt returned from
Atlanta Monday anil reports hav-
ing had a most enjoyable time at
the state fair.
Mr. Willie Weaver handed us a
five and a half pound sweet potato
yesterday. It came just in time and
was placed where it would do
most good.
Mrs. E. J. Hogan was in town
Tuesday, shopping: This was her
first visit to Ocilla in a year. Like
most good housewives of Irwin,
she did not come in town empty-
handed. One of our merchants
b„„gh. of ber thirty poumta
feathers, for which he paid ntiy
cents a pound.
Sense tenches us that no Merchant
will setl goods at a loss to hiutself.
We advertise just what wo can and
Will do, and that is, give our .custo¬
mers full value for every cent they
over our 2 anti
Ladies' Plush Capes . 83.50 up.
A complete Silks. line of Ladies' Dress
(ioods. Embroidery, Kibbons,
Opera Flannels, etc., always on
hand.
Boys’ nice Caps 20c.
$1.00 Boys’ School and .Sunday Suits
Cents’ up.
.Nice Suits $4.50 up.
Rev M. L. Lawson preached
Sunday morning and Sunday ,
evening to large congregations. 1 iis ,
sermon in the evening was one of
rare merit (We did not attend the
the morning service. | Our people
recognize the masterly logic, the
polished language and the deep.
earliest Christianity of the eloquent
young pastor of the Baptist church,
and good congregations meet
at every appointment.
Mr. L. K. Tucker killed a fine
turkey gobbler one day this
lie was bird hunting and his p’inter
set the gobbler under a log, the tin-
tier part of which had been burned,
as the gobbler was decamping
Mr. Tucker assassinated him.
()ur J n f rien d, Alex Drew,
was vaccinated some weeks ago and
the only effect it has had on him
has been to make him merry at the
j expense of the unfortunates who
cringe if you even look hard at their
! left arms.
The Ensign-Oskamp Co. have
purchased the telephone franchise
j j from the the town fathers paid being for twenty 1100,
years, sum
j and are now putting up a line from
] their mill to Mystic.
Thanksgiving day falls on Thurs-
day, November 30th. But we have
no idea where our turkey will come
from this year, unless we can trap
one in Speed’.; wild turkey patch.
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1 Mr. Tim Paulk took , . the , state , .
in
fair in Atlanta last week.
The chaingang is nearing Satilla
! creek, 011 the central road, and will
reach the Coffee line in eight or ten.
days.
The Shoo-Fly, between S»
. aud Ocilla, which vacated s run on
! account of the small pox scare, goes
on again to-night.
Nas Paulk has a pecan tree on his
place that bore a small crop of
fruit this year. It is fourteen years
old.
Hon. J. A. J. Henderson, failing
to get all his cotton ginned here, sold
abont 50,000 pounds in the seed to
A. P. Brantley & Co., at Black-
sher, and it is now being shipped.
A possum having gotten dates
mixed, marched into Elder button s
dining room a few nights ago to
offer himself as a sacrifice on the
thanksgiving altar. He was sacri-
Seed.
j A drummer from Texas was in
Ocilla Thursday night, and speaking
of the “breaking out” in Georgia,
said they were never without it in
San Antonio and that it is known
as Mexican small pox aud never
kills.
Why isn’t ill' li.ipt.igtchurch Inll
rung for f services the Methodist
church?
Mr. C. L. Dickens, of
town, Emanuel county, has bought
a Binal] farm in Worth county from
Mr A E BasS) of 0c illa, and will
move to it about January 1st.
The engines of the Knsign-Os-
Co. passing and repassing a
number of times each day through
Ocilla with food for the saw.
creates the delusion that this town
is a railroad center, when in fact ii
is only as yet a railroad geenter.
At least three-fourths of the new
skin disease in Ocilla has been in
Powell, Bullard it Co ’s negro
quarters, out on the . edge , of , town.
and yet Mr. ovvell , his . ,
t says
bill is so far only about a fourth of
what it was last year. ,
Mr. G. J. Harper, administrator
Oil the estate of his father, H. S. C.
Harper, sold yt public sale at the
c0llrt house last Tuesday 1,720
at . re8 0 f j,j ne timber for turpentine
purposes for *2,790.00; 2,020 acres
i timber for saw mill purposes
f or $3,000.00; 3,090 acres of land
without the timber privilege for
*4,080 00. Total amount of sale,
*0,870 00. The timber for
tine and saw mill purposes was sold
for spot cash, the land on
months’ time.
Mrs. J. B. Jones, who has had a
severe spell of fever, is rapidly ini-
proving.
There have been three or four
new- eases of the “breaking out,”
all negroes, since last report.
Several of our citizens say tliey
would swap their “vaccinate” for
the small pox, if they could do so.
Some of them have been real sick.
Fitzgerald has raised -her quaran¬
tine, and Abbeville has done the
same thing. This is sensible. It
would have been more so had they
not quarantined at all. Some folks
are quick to “lose their heads.”
Elder Sikes need have uo fears in
visiting Ocilla. The quarantines
have all been lifted between here
and his place of residence, and the
way is wide open. No, he need
not fear small pox, but we can’t
say as to the. widowers.
Bob McDermit went possum
driving recently and frightened
something into a hollow tree. After
vainly trying to smoke it out with
his pipe, he tried a split stick. He
in in in„ dovv '
succeeded bi n n a w 1
hair six inches long. He then hur-
riedly took the back track, keeping
one eye well to the rear, asheakeet-
ed for safety. '
HarJey Hardware Co.
Stoves,
Tinware,
Crockery.
House
LMisliing
Goods.
Harley Hardware Co.
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Feed AND Sale Stable, «g
& LUKE, CLEMENTS & CO,. PROP’RS,
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Our stock are all young, well broke and ready for work.
Call, see them and get prices before buying elsewhere. '$£9'
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Trains Nos. 1. 2, 3 ami 4 run daily, cxi-o|)i riumlay.
Trains Nos. 7 ai»i 8 run on Sunday onh signal. .
(fl Flag-Station. Trains stop with onlv the ok Plant, System ami Uwrgta Southern * Fieritla
All trains make connection
at Tiftoii, anil tile tjcorgU & Alalfauia at Fit'/geraltl. Uoatrioht. TraflUt Manager,
P. «.
Odlla Noveltu Works!
L. J. TUCKER, PROP’R,
Ocilla, ax Georgia.
I am preparer! to manufacture, on short notice.
Mantles,
Columns,
Gable Ornaments,
Brackets,
BTewel FostC,
And all other interior and exterior finishings fof residences, churches,
My facilities for turning out work in above line are excellent, and
| ^ from Irwin
)rj( , M , vl |j be< fonn d reasonable for first-class work. Oniers
oounty and southwest Georgia generally are respectfully soliojted, and
aatisfnction is assured. t i-2m
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We carry
a complete line «f
Shelf and 11 envy Hard¬
ware, Flows, Plow (tear, H'nrne<s,
etc. We call jc'rliculnr Attention
to IhaUanoegu Chilled Flows and
Planet, Jr., Cultivators.
(•lose prices, fair
dealing.
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Mixes;
Official Orpun
Irw>n County.
Effective
Decemlter ID. 1SUT.
Balusters,
Head Blocks,
Corner Blocks.
Base Blocks,
(tl Mouldings,
\Miles 1"
1 TO. 2.
Saw Mill,
Turpentine.
Sttfi Sullies
Wagens
Heavy
Harness.
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Mill
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