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Offiolal 'Organ
Irwin County.
VOL. IV.
C t Dealers In General Merchandise and Furniture.
J —-OCILLA, GEORGIA.-----
HOME NEWS.
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DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY.
vo atOKMHa. .wnd&Sft p. in.
Vo Ooilla.... .. .11:80 a. in. and (k40 a. Hi.
SUNDAY ONLY.
j Ionve OcllTa.... 11:05 a. m.
rriVe at Ocilla. .4:50 p. m.
(Mose connections for north, east, south or
West;.
E-SP'With this issue we send out
statements of the indebtedness of
■subscribers t© the Dispatch. A large
number are -several years behind,
and. we are desirous of having these
settle just as soon as possible. We
'do not wish to drop a single name
from our subscription list, but busi¬
ness is business, yeu know.
Mr. Seth Coleman’s crops are fine.
Ask Clint about the sew mail car.
rier.
Spring chickens are due in this
town.
Capt. W. Lennon was in town
Wednesday.
Mr. Jasper McRae, of Hazlehurst,
Was in Ocilla Tuesday on business.
Oranges, lemons aud bananas, at
C. L. Sibley’s. 5-ll-4t.
There is an old saying that
■“thricea bnidesmade, never a bride.”
Dotted Swiss, -35c. per yard, at
Hyman Co.’s, Irwinville.
All kinds of penny candies at C.
L. Sibley’s. 5-1 l-4t.
The Dispatch orphans had a mess
of home-raised cucumbers a week
ago.
Mr. Ranse McClelland has a field
of long cotton that is over knee
high.
Users of tobacco cannot fail to
■find what they want at Hyman &
Co.’s,
Remember to eat sparingly of
vegetables and plums, aad especially
plums.
The Ocilla public school closed
Thursday instead of Fr-ibay of last
week.
No building Is -complete without
trimmings from the Ocilla Novelty
Works.
Ocilla Lodge No. 374, F. & A.
M., meets to-morrow (Saturday) at
10 a. m.
Bedford Cord, extra width, 15c.
pea- yard at llyman & Co’s., Irwin¬
ville, Ga.
One of the Cracker Store boys
•seems to be in a Brown study most
•of the time.
Prof.. W. J. Royal w r as shaking
bands with his Ocilla friends Mon¬
day morning.
There is considerable sickness in
•the county just now, la grippe and
bilious attacks.
Buck Jones, Hwrap Woods and
Welcome Coleman, are nice farmers
and own excellent farms.
Read the changes in the adver-
disemutes of Powell,Bullard •& Co.
and It. B. Allen & Co.
Mr. R. B. Allen keeps swap
beans and Irish potatoes from hie
garden on sale at <b is store.
Mr. L. G. Whitley is trying Per¬
sian insect powder on his cabbage
•as an insect destroyer. Results later.
The genial commercial travlers
were here in numbers this week.
They know a live town when they
:®ee it.
It will be the latter .part of June
before the (Bone Pond picnic is pul¬
led off. Promise to he a grand
affair.
Mrs. Tucker, wife of Judge Dan
Tucker, was suffering with erysip¬
elas on the left side of her face, the
first of the week.
Prejudice is based largely on oon-
ceit and conceit is largely the re¬
sult of ignorance. This is as short
as we can put it-
THE OCILLA DISPATCH,
OCILLA, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1900.
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L R. TUCKER & COMPANY, I
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
\\rE BEG TO ANNOUNCE to the trading public that we have .3 =3
" " Merchandise.
opened up a nice and varied line of General 3
We beg to announce further that we are here for the purpose of 3
selling our goods and invite you to come to see us and examine our 2
goods and prices, for we have some cracking good cash bargains 3
and promising you as nice treatment as can be accorded by two 3
Country Crackers, endeavoring at all times to make our business im¬
! perfectly satisfactory with you. We are here for business and3
I can’t stay without it, hence we must and will sell our goods at a 3
very small profit. We do not propose to sell you one article at 3
cost and double -on another, but only want a legitimate profit all 3
round on our goods, without which no man can succeed in business. 3
Yours, to serve,
LYTE & CLINT
3-16-tf Proprietors. 3
Judge Marcus Luke, of Irwin¬
ville, attended the reunion at Louis¬
ville this week.
A negro woman dropped dead
near Cummings’ mill site Wednes¬
day morning. Heart disease, pre¬
sumably.
Candidate George Tucker is stay¬
ing awake nights trying to
some plan to get even with
boy, Clint Harper.
Mr. A. A. Hall has sold his
bershop in Ocilla, and
moving to b itzgerald to engage in
the same business.
The peach trees in this section are
heavily loaded with fruit, and some
of ft will have to be knocked off or
'the trees will be badly injured.
Corded Taffeta, 25c. per yard, at
Hyman A Co.’s Irwinville.
Dr. J. C. (Lake left Tuesday for
the reunion at Louisville Ky. Mrs.
Luke is wiring relatives at Irwin¬
ville during his absence.
Fruit jars and extra rubbers at
R. R. Ali.kx ■& Co.’s
Dick Tucker sticks to it that Bob
and George divided the rabbits,
but he says George wanted more
than be got, to fatten his dogs with.
The Brushy Creek Vocal class
will meet at Brushy Greek church
Sunday morning at 9 o’clock for
practice. Every member should be
present.
Rev. M. L. Lawson will preach
at the Baptist church Sunday morn¬
ing and evening .atithe usual hours.
Subject, the Second Coming of
Christ. Public invited.
35 pounds good rice at
R. B. AmJkn -& Co.’s
Mr. and Mrs. Win. Rogers, of the j
northern section of the county,
visited Oilla Tuesday. U his was
Mrs. Roger's first visit to the town j
and she said some kind words about
it.
Mr. Tom Purvis’ wife became in-
same recently and was seut to the
asylum last week. Her many friends
•hope to hear of her restoration to
•health under the skillful treatment
at the asylum.
Yard-wide Sea Island Sets. ,per
yard at. R. B. Ai.i.e.n & Cf.’s.
Mrs. J. A. J. Henderton. Miss.
Pcafl Barnett, Miss. Mittie Berry
and Mr. D. H. Paulk, who have
been on a two weeks’ visit to Mr.
Reason Henderson, at Key Stone
•Park, Fla., returned Tuesday.
While there Mr. Paulk caught
eighty-five trout that weighed twen-
’ty-four pounds, lie must have struck
a trout nursery.
Mr. Fred. Smith and Mr. J. A.
McKay, of Neeley, Ga., visited
atives in Ocilla Sunday,
Monday.
Mrs. Macon now occupies the
store ‘room just west of her
millineryre, and has an
line of up-to-date millinery goods.
The washouts in the road,
Ocilla to Fitzgerald should
been repaired weeks ago. Such
lect of a public thoroughfare is
excusable.
R. B. Allen «fc Co. now
the elegant brick store west of
drug store and have it well
^ with an excellent stock of
merchandise.
, Silk, parasols, 75c. up, at Ilaymu
A Co’s., Irwinville.
A handsome young widower and
a S race i'd young lady from their-
winville section of the county at-
tended services L at .Brushy Creek
chureh Sunday.
Figured dimity, 12Ac per yard,at
Hyman A Co.’s, Irwinville.
Mr. R. L. 'Henderson, the hand-
some census enumerator for this
district, begins work today, “How
•old are you?” will be a hard 'ques¬
tion for some to answer, but it must
be done.
Capt. and Mrs. M. Henderson
P* 88ed ' hxou & Ocilla Wednesday
morning, going west. There was,
most likely, a sheep-shearing where
they stopped, though “Black - Nas”
refused to taulk.
Lightning has destroyed many -a
man’s property. Does it not strike
you that insurance is assurance
against loss? “Aetna;” “Sun;” and
-“Palatin.” T. D. Ross, agent,
Fitzgerald, Ga.
While some trees were being cut
down by the convicts, Wednesday
m01 . n ; Eg) Ae t0J) of olie gtmok
Frank Brandman, a young white
man who is serving time on the
gang for larceny, breaking his cob
lar b«*e a*d otherwise injuring him.
Mr, \V% N. Fiveash returned
Tuesday Right from Clinch county,
where he had gone to visit his sick
-mother, who is <eighty-five years old,
He left her improving. He says he
saw many crops in that and other
>Counties almost hopelessy gone in
grass.
Mr. Richard Tucker was in town
Wednesday looking for strychnine
•to send some aligators to the happy
hunting grounds. One of the sau-
rians devoured a shoot belonging to
Mr. Tucker a few days'ago, and he
intends to make war on the 'whole
tribe for the offense,
We regret to learn that Elder
John Vickers is suffering with nett-
ralgia.
When it comes to hustling over
the county for fine beef, Edwards
takes the cake.
Mrs. Jack Fletcher, who has been
very sick recently, is now about
well, we are pleased to state.
Mr. Lester Martin, of Sasser Ga,,
brother of our Col. (X II. Martin,
visited him several days this week.
Mr. Asa Young, son of Mr. John
Young, of this county, died Thurs¬
day morning at 6 o’clock. We failed
to got particulars.
The Mystic V ocal Class will meet
at Mr. I. J. Bussell’s Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock. Every mem¬
ber should be present.
Prof. II. B. Sutton went np to
Abbeville Thursday to attend the
commencement exercises at the col¬
lege there.
Messrs. C. K. Bruce & lire.,
the popular meat market men, are
finishing up a commodious ice house
adjoining ther meat market.
Mr. Baker, of Cordele, is in town
and will put up two lights on fourth
stree. The town council wish to
test them before purchasing.
Mr. C. L. Sibley, Jr., and Mr.
Geo. F. McGowen returned
day night from a fishing outing on
the Oemulgee. They report having
had fine luck.
Mrs. W. P. Vaughn, of
ville, arrived in Ocilla
morning or a short visit to
friends, Mrs. S. J. and Miss
.
Barnett.
Miss Lillie Meeks, an
young lady of Millwood, Ga.,
ed her brother Mr. E. L. Meeks,
Mystic, from Saturday of last
till Tuesday of this week.
Wm. Mobley (Salty Bill)
guilty before Judge Clements
day morning to the crime of
tery and was sentenced to pay a
of $250 or serve twelve months ki
the chaingang.
T< n . Evans, colored, was ar-
rested by Deputy Sheriff Henderson
yesterday morning for trying to
carve a colored woman with an axe.
His road for some time to come
promises to be a rocky one.
The boys tell it on Black Nas
that he could not make much head¬
way shearing sheep after dinner, at
Jack Fletcher’s, last Wednesday.
The reason is obvious. They •say the
same about Judge C.
Mrs. J. B. Jones has now the
honor of bringing the first peaches
of the season to this market. They
were of fine size, fully ripe and
too delicious to talk about. They
were brought in Thursday.
Miss Katie May Long, who has
been visiting the family of Mr. L.
D. Long, at Mystic, returned Sat¬
urday to her home in Ockloenee,
Ga., leaving at least one 'Very sad
heart to mourn her departure.
Thieves bi’oke into Mr. Fisher
Baulk’s store at Alapaha las Monday
night and carried away his entire
stock of pistols and cartridges. They
also took a pistol belonging to Dr,
Moore, of that place.
Mayor Jimhas his hands abofit full
now, with a big mercantile estab¬
lishment, large turpentine interests
in Florida, the mayoralty of the
town, and otle of the most extensive
plantations in the county, yet Tre
rarely ever seems to be in a hurry.
Maybe it’s his feet,
The Dispatch orphans fetlirfi
thanks to Mrs. J. .13, Jones' for a
mess each of fine Irish potatoes-,
cucumbers, snap beans, green field
peas, well headed cabbage arid
squashes, Thursday morning. It
was a rare treat and was thoroughly
enjoyed.
ON HARDWARE,
Crockery, Hoiisefnrmshinjf Goods,
Farmers’ Supplies, Mill Supplies,
Turpentine Supplies, Big line ot
Fish i i lg Tack le a nd Sport i ng O*
Goods, Send us your orders and
we will please you*
WatMarley-ftolmes Go.. • i
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
Mi. »\ WVSAX, B. < I.KMKNTS. V\ ARBiCN J'-i: liTCIlUlt.
HMN & GOMPflNY.
dealers in
General * Merchandise
IRWINVILLE, GEORGIA.
AYE ARE NOW LOCATED .9 our elegant new store building and are
' ' Wi ^ wants ofthe people in all kinds of..
Farm Supplies, Household and Kitchen Supplies, v ?e
je He Dry Roods, I* ress Goods. Notions, Groceries, Etc,
Our stock was carefully selected, is ALL NEW AND FRESH, and our
prices will MOVE THEM. No suck stock of goods has ever' been seen
in Irwinville, in quality, euantity and ■ variety, and it will pay you to get
our prices before going '-elsewhere.
A trial purchase Is all we ask, 8
- j*. SV S. The goods 5na prices will do the rest*
HYMAN St CO »»
i-iis-ir High, Price Destroyers.
TIFTON & NORTHEASTERN R. ft.
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I'OCAt TIME TAfetfe Nrv. *.
l'I. K. TIFT, President. TiftoN, ,W. (?. 1WT, Vice-President.
GknOra.1, Ofutckb-: UeOhcia.
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10 4 12 8' 45 16 f ..... :.Pinetta','-Ga. .........-.. 11 31 09 vx 50
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4. 4 30 r; 20 f ......Fletcher, Ga.,.......... 14 50 Vt 34
4* 40 4 45 9 30 25 .....Fitzgerald, Ga........... 11 00 SO vr 20
I>. M. A. M. AlfUtVK. T.EAVE. A. M.
Trams Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 run daily, except Sunday.
Trains Nos. 7 and 8run on Sunday only.
{f* team's Flag Station-. Trails stop With only the.Plant on signal, arid UCorgta Sottthern
All make connection System & Florida
at 1'ifton, and the Georgia & Alabatna at Fitzgerald. F.'G.
llo.ltn'iGllT, Traffic Manager,
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Odlla Noveltu Works!
L. J, TUCKER. FROF’R,
Ocilla, Georgia
I aftt prepared to manufacture, on ‘short notice^ i,
Mantles,
Columns,
Gable Ornaments,
brackets,
Newel Posts,
And all other interior and exteriof hilisliittgs Jor residences, churches anil all kind
'Of buildings. My facilities for turning out work in above line are excellent, anil prices
Will be found reasonable for first-class work. Furniture repaired and made as good as
fiew. Orders from Irwin county and Southwest (Jetrgiit generally are respectfully so-
fkSitsit, and satisfaction assured. 7-7-2ui
Official Organ
Irwin County.
NO. 46
Balusters
Head Blocks,
Corner Blocks,
Base Blocks,
Mouldings,