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OYftelnl Organ Irwin County. VOL. IV. FRED. J. CLARK, Furniture. Grant §w. mwm. Ga. HOME NEWS., ires , u - SCHEDULE O. * A. B. R. aroumi DAILY, KiCBPT SUNDAY. Artlr* £»&toOcU1u..... at Ocilla. ..11:00 a. m. and 8:25 p. ra. . .11:30 a. m. and 6:40 a. hi. SUZfHAY ONLY. L«av» Ocilla............ ........11:05 a. m. ArrlT* at Ocilla......... .........4:50 p. ib. Olcw# oMmectJons for north, «ast, south or w*«*. Briag us your job work. Wednesday was. a perfect day. Long, cotton, 17 13-16; shor, 8. , The country hens are doing their whole duty. Irwin has one of the best county courts in Georgia. The graphopbene at Ensign-Os- kamp’s store is a daisy. j Mr. E. T. James’ family moved to Fitzgerald yesterday. Good Mayor Andy Pat- : morning, tereon; over at Nashville. L. R. Tucker Co. bought two bales .of long cotton yesterday, for 17 13-16. Hon. J, A. J, Henderson went down to his Florida possessions this week. Willie Weaver is out for tax col- lector. Read his announcement in another column. Mr. E, E. Vickers, of Pekin, was a pleasant caller at the Dispatch office Saturday. Send us the news by telephone from Mystic, Drew’s Still and the Ensiga-Oskamp mill. Bob McD. begins to look as se- manrious as a who contemplates committing matrimony. A sample of the cork tree at Judge I). M. Hogan’s is now among the Dispatch’s curiosities. Clever Jack Garret, Tifton’s model baker and confectioner, vis¬ ited Irwinville Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Kirkland wel¬ comed a bouncing baby boy to their family circle Tuesday morning. St. Valentine’s Day passed off quietly in Ocilla. There were no valentines, oemte or otherwise, Mr. J. O. Sutton’* child, that wa* dangerously ill last week, is now out of danger, we are glad to state. Judge Roberts was shaking hands with his Ocilla friends last Friday. lie was looking after his political fences. Judge J. B.i Clement* threatens to give a big dance as soon as the new 25x90 stone building is com- pleted. There will be preaching at th® Baptist cbufch next Sunday morn- ing and night, at the usual hours, At 9:30 a. m. a Sunday school will b# organized. For everything in the General Merchandise line go to Powell, Bullard & 60 . Ocilla, Ga. THE OCILLA DISPATCH. OClIiIaA, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1900. Ocilla’s matrimonial market is very dull. One young man says he in not going to see his best girl in ten years. Mr. R- Y. Handley has treated himself, throngh Luke, Clements & Co., to one of the finest looking horses iu the county. There will be preaching in the Methodist church in Ocilla on the second and fifth Sundays, when a ; fifth Sunday occurs. L. R. Tucker & Co. are filling 0 up their store with seasonable goods, and there are some pretty wedding dress goods among them. The Luke Hotel at Irwiuville fed quite a crowd Monday, and they were well fed. In fact, the Luke jjotel never feeds any other way. Mr. N. A. Arnold, who has been j n Calhoun county a month or longer, looking after his farms, returned home last Wednesday, Judge Jim Lee and that superior clerk, J. B. D. Paulk, own two of the prettiest homes in Irwin connty, withinamile and a-half of Irwinvillc, In church and state the good and great shoot off their mouths the least of all; it’s puling wits who give folks fits with babblings that their lips let fall. It is true that Ocilla is not as large as Macon, but no town of its size san show larger, better or cheaper stocks of goonds. Come and see for yourself. The Royal singing convention will be held at Dornviney’s mill this year. The exact date has not yet been fixed, but it will doubtless be some time in June. Mr, D. J. Henderson brought us the boss turnip Wednesday. It weighed eight pounds and measured 28| inches in circumference. It was of the seven-top variety. That piece of road just outside of the western limits of town, beyond the branch, should he leveled at once. Two good hands with hoes could fix it in three hours. Messrs. Geo. McBride and Adam MeNatt, two popular merchants of Alley, Ga., have bought out the Good Luck store and will open up a large mercantile business in Ocilla. The Dispatch welcomes them, Mr. J, H. Woods brought in a load of collard-cabbage a few days ago that could not be excelled. The heads were as large, though not as firm as cabbage. He found ready sale for the load. Mr. R. B. Allen says merchants ought to advertise all the time, but should put forth extra efforts in this line during the dull season. His trade shows that he talks as well as acts wisely. Judge Daniel Tucker has treated himself to a fine buggy horse, and he already owns a fine buggy. The other day a young lady told a young man, over the ’phone, that she had something “sweet to tell him,” but he asked her who she was, and thereby lost the sweet some¬ thing. Ocilla lodge hio. 3<4, b. <fc A.M., held its regular monthly com muni- cation Wednesday. 1 he lodge will have an adjourned communication next Wednesday night at 7 o’clock. Attend. Important work. Cols. Shipman, Kennedy, Cheney, Jay, Hyman and Henderson, of the bitzgerald bar; Col. Fulwood, of Tifton, Col. Z. Bass, of Ashburn, and Cols. Martin and Walker, of Ocilla, attended county court Mon- day. Mr. L. R. Tucker having movexl back to town, is again secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees of the Ocilla public school, his former successor having resigned, because of lack of time to fill the position, Mr. Tucker fills theplaee admirably, A telegram from Savannah yes. terday informs us that the two safe blowers had been captured and fully Identified. The stolen stamps were found on them. It is not known here whether Federal or state courts will get the first lick at them. Deputy Sheriffs D. W. M. Whit- ley and R. L. Henderson left for Savannah Wednesday in answer to a telegram announcing the capture in that city of two of the safe blowers who recently robbed the postoffiee in Ocilla. They were expected to ar- rive hero with the prisoners last night. Tuesday Capt. M. Henderson and lion. T B. Young had their team to run away with them, and the former was thrown out and pain- fully hurt in the right side. At first it was feared some rib. were broken, but fortunately this was incorrect. A’ bad shaking up and a few pain- ful bruises constitute his injuries, j Mr. W. H. MePhaul died of par- ; alysis at his home in Sylvester, \ Worth county, last Monday. In his death Worth county loses one of her best citizens. He was a native of North Carolina, but has resided in Worth county many years. He accu¬ mulated a fine property in naval stores and other lines of business. Peaceful be his rest. The pews in the Baptist church are completed, and reflect credit upon Mr MatFeltesas amechanie. In fact, they are the best home-made pews ever seen in this section, and are as comfortable and showy as if bought from some far-away manufactory. Mr. Feltes is surely a finished work- man in wood and is entitled to the j patronge he receives. ! Last Sunday was a dreary, dis¬ agreeable day from start to finish, | ! but it takes awful weather to keep ! some young men (and old ones, too, ■ for that matter), in-doors. . Two, handsome young men—one from Ir- 1 winville, and one from near there I -braved the inclement weather and | traveled about seven miles to one of ; the most hospitable Jiomes in the county, where the day was pleas¬ antly spent. Ou the return trip the giddy horse, while the buggy was floun'dering. in a mud-hole, began to kick up high-jinks, broke one of the shafts, broke several sections of the harness and then severed his engage¬ ment with the vehicle. After much wading, the young men reached dry land, borrowed a pair of shafts and a set <sf harness, captured the giddy horse and reached home some time after dark, so our Id tie bird told us Ins inville Monday. i at j THE MAW ABOUT TOWN. “Well,” remarked an old man at the postoffiee the other night, “I am glad I came through with whole bones.” “Why,what’s the trouble?” asked some one. “It seems,” he continued, “that all the old kids in town have congregated down here on the corner of Fourth an( j Cherry streets, and are having a reg ular Indian war dance. It , st! emed at one lime during their col- le()ian with „, e that I should lose my life, but am glad to say that there are no fatal wounds. It is somebody’s business to keep these boys away from the public pughfares at this time of night, run- ning in such droves. If their daddies won’t do it, the marshal should at least keep them scattered for the protection of pedestrians. Them’s my sentiments,” and he went in to his mail, I understand that some of the old bachelors have ordered a good deal 0 f woo d s t ovc wood, nicely got out, all the right size for a stove large enough for two—just two only, 1 his is encouraging, very much so. j around I hear the it frequently that rumored of on streets some the old bachelors are discussing among themselves the propriety of organizing a society of some kind just for the satisfaction of keeping up with the times. No name has j been selected for it. j forgotten It seems that that there the authorities is such street have j a ■'ically | in town evident as Cherry. when This it is emphat- to comes street working. They probably have ! also forgotten that about one-half ; of the city’. revenue is collected | from this street. That portion of 8 * ;ree I leading out towards the mill should be opened up. I see the rooters are still packing down the streets, If this 8mall p0I 8pre ads much more among lhe w hite people of some of our neighboring towns, it geems as if we had better i ook after thia carter for our own protection. We don't want it among the white people this summer, if it i# possible to avoid it. “The man whose success in life depends upon the downfall of some other man, sooner or later expe¬ riences the downfall himself.” This is a very old maxim, and one which our experience justifies. The same rule will hold its own in enterprises a8 we n as individuals. Weekly newspapers for an example. Old mother earth has again been wet, and in many places she has be¬ come too soft for farmers to even get into their fields. Mayor Hen¬ derson, however, has uo fear of bogging down. Too much of his physique touches the ground for anything like that. I heard a man say on the street that Mr. Dixon is the best county uchool commissioner this county has ever had. The board of education hist Saturdy must have thought very much the same way. Wo are sure election wiU S ive S eneral 8aUs ’ faction. < The Man About Town. T. J. LUKE, Attohnet at Law, Irwinville, Ga. Offiee in Court House. MAT FELTES, GONTR&GTOR AND BUILDE.R, OCILLA, GA. fiLSO agent P«in<s, Sash, Poors, etc. A (’«U ami sw ms. 1 ivirsire you money, Im, JAMES WATT. J. H. IIAULEY, I). HOLMES, President. VlCE-PttESIURNT. SKC’Y A.VU'l'BEA WflTT-HflRLEY HOLMES GO.. DEALERS IN X T—T A. J. A -v. i T3 V T""') jmmmS TA K if J -*"V. T~? X V T— ^ ^ riTZGERALD, GEORGIA. Stoves, Tinware, Arnf VpPII House Fiirnisiiing Goods, AND Sale LUKE, CLEMENTS & CO„, PROP’RS, OCILLA, GA. i D C HORSES and MULES TURPENTINE BUSINESS Always on hand and at prices that will change their Our stock are all young, well broke and ready for work. Call, see them and get priees befc>Ke buying elsewhere. 9-23-tf. TIFT0N & NORTHEASTERN R. R. “fcSCiDiDZiEjELsr coxaco^rr bouts.” LOCAL TIME TABLE No. C. U. H. TIFT, President. W. O. TIFT. Vice-President. Ukskkal Offices: 'Tifton, Georgia. No. 7. No. 3. No. 1. j * di ne LEAVE. ARK1VE. * K* fS, x S 3 3 3 4 4 sagissss 03 03 io CC w ►fk. O^CGOOOOOOO C Pi W o •- M o y m o w m h 20 25 is 14 0 5 8 t f ARRIVE. f...........Pinetta, f ........Fletcher, .......Fitzgerald, .........Mystic, Harding. Brighton, ■ Titton, Ga......... Ga......... Ga........ Ga........ Ga........ Ga........ Ga....... LEAVE. 35 20 a 17 OC/ttC ^877^2285 to O »-* t-* OMOtHHCW 5 5 ssaasss Trains Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 run daily, except Sunday. Trains Nos. Station. 7 and 8 run on Sunday only only. signal. (f) Flag Trains stop the on Plant System and Georgia Southern & Florid® All trains make connection with at Tifton, and the Georgia & Alabama at Fitzgerald. F. G. Boatright, Traffic Manager, _____ciias a i Ocilla Novelty Works! L, J. TUCKER, PROF’S, Ocilla, Oeorgla. I am prepared to manufacture, on short notice, __________; Mantles, Columns, Gable Ornaments, Brackets. Newel Posts, And all other interior and exterior finishings for residences, cbnrehss, prie. My facilities for turning out work iu above line are excellent, and priees will bo found reasonable for first-class work. Orders from Irwin epunty and soothwast' [ Georgia generally are respectfully ^oiiritgd, TF/tflin and satisfaction is assured. We carry a complete lino of Shelf and Heavy Hard¬ ware, Plows, Plow Gear, Harness, etc. We call particular attention to Chattanooga Chilled Plows and Planet, Jr., Cultivators. Close prices, fair dealing. 'l*s» ii&m xjj . e Miles” Official Organ Irwin ©ounty. Effective December 19, 1807. It Balusters, Head Mocks, . Corner Blocks, Base Blocks, Mouldings. {mil NO. 31. Saw Mill, Turpentine. !Still Supplies. waooos tan Harness. t o I ttd No. 3. No. 4. No. 8.