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Offiolal 'Organ Irwin County. VOL. IV. C t Dealers In General Merchandise and Furniture. J —-OCILLA, GEORGIA.----- HOME NEWS. schedule o. & a. h. r. 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. the 73 C^^ KE S, sr °^ 3 > = 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. ttoaiiOKTY- 330XJTE." I'OCAt TIME TAfetfe Nrv. *. l'I. K. TIFT, President. TiftoN, ,W. (?. 1WT, Vice-President. GknOra.1, Ofutckb-: UeOhcia. |i>Liles t No. 7. No. 3. No. 1. February Effective 27, 1900. Miles No. No. '4. No. 8. ! V- P. M. A.M. T.EAVE. XnniVE. P. M. M. w ,- 05 30 3 SO 8 00 0 .......Tilton, Ga............. 12 15 00 Cr o: 3 40 k or * .......Train Switch...... 12 'flu 51 a 24 M 42 3 45 8 25 15 '{...-.......'Harding, f. .......Brighton,X4av........... 12 qO 36 45 Zi 18 cc 51 3 52 8 8 Ga............ I 11 51 Si 10 10 4 12 8' 45 16 f ..... :.Pinetta','-Ga. .........-.. 11 31 09 vx 50 i*. 55 4 18 o 9 .01 ..... ..Mystic, Ga. ............ 11 ii 25 03 vr 45 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, — 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,