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Official Organ Irwin County. VOL. IV. Powell, Bullard i Co Dealers in General Merchandise and Furniture. "J OCILEA, GEORGIA. HOME NEWS. T. i .jOCAIj SCHEDULE G. & A, H. 11. DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAY. Arrive at Ocilla.. II \00 a. m. and 8:25 p. m. Leave* OcUia..... .11 .*30 a. m. and 0:40 a. m. SUNDAY ONLY. Leave Ocilla...... ..11:05 a. m. Arrive at Ocilla... .. .4:50 p.. in. Close connections for north, east, south or west. Beach street is ahead on babies. Mr. R. V. Paulk ;has been eating -ripe tomatoes two weeks. Mr. John L. Mixon reports i Jctops as doing well in his section. Those who advertise in the Dispatch get the cream of the trade. McNatt & McBride are the peo¬ ple. Call on them and be convinced. Fruit Jars, all sizes, for sale here. Lite tfc Clint. 0-8-2t. Mr. and Mrs. Pipkin welcomed a fine boy to their family circle Tues- day. All the. Gcillians who are now in Florida tapping pine trees are well and doing well. Mr. I). J. Henderson, of the River Bend section, reports too much rain in his vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. McCall are enter¬ taining a handsome young lady, who arrived Tuesday. A substantial wooden pavement • and an awning have been placed in front of The Drug Store. About Monday week the big Ensign-Oskamp mill will resume work on full time, so we hear. The town council ought to make a law to prevent people from throw¬ ing broken glass on the streets. Colonel Hawkins was over from Worth Wednesday, and was a pleas¬ ant caller at the Dispatch office. Montgomery Monitor: “Mr. Herrington is genial and gifted— an able orator and inimitable hu¬ morist.”' Jim Henderson, already one of our most popular merchants, is not yet ready to tell the people what he has laid up for them. Mr. Richard Tucker says he knows a field of corn so near gone that the owner had to muzzle the grass between the rows. Would Russel R. mind telling' how often he struck the long bridge near Irwinville while crossing it recently, returning to Ocilla? Irwinville, Minnie and Brusy Creek will send strong classes to the convention Saturday and Sunday, and there are others. Hgrif any of our subscribers miss the weekly visits of the Dispatch after next issue, it will be their own fault. The Knights of Pythias and a number of their friends picniced at Bowen’s Mill Tuesday. They had a delightful time. Now, boys, Marshal Pollock will not do to trifle with in regard to the curfew law. If the law is disobeyed it is only a short distance to the ealaboos. Mr. E. J. Hogan owns a peach tree that is said, by competent judges, to have twenty bushels of peaches on it. Just think of the piles of pies on that tree. Mr. W. J. Mixon eat four wa¬ termelons at his home last Saturday. He may not have the first melon, but he had the most at one time. He ean go up head on that. The Ensign-Oskamp Co. are having the Ocilla and Mystic rail¬ road surfaced, making the bed first- class. When completed it will be one of the best roads in the state. ISF^All summer goods will be sold at such prices as will surely move them. These goods embrace some of the finest seasonable fabrics. Call, price and take them. Hyman & Co., Irwinville, Ga. . 0-8-41. THE OCILLA. MSPATOI. OCILLA, ISV/IIf COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1900. •the .g c * E l STo ^ I, R. TUCKER S COMPANY. OCILLA, GEORGIA. YYTE " BEG TO ANNOUNCE to the trading public that we have ’ opened up a nice and varied line of General Merchandise, We beg to announce further that we are here for the purpose of selling our goods and invite you to come to see us and examine our goods and prices, for we have some cracking good cash and promising you as nice treatment as can be accorded by two Country Crackers, endeavoring at all times to make our business perfectly satisfactory with you. We are here for business and can’t stay without it, hence we must and will sell our goods at very small profit. We do not propose to sell you one article at cost and double on another, but only want a legitimate profit all round on our goods, without which no man cun succeed in business. Yours, to serve, LYTE & CUNT J 3-10-tf Proprietors. Mrs. M. J. Grinev, of Alapaha, spent last week in Ocilla, the guest of her brother, Mr. W. A. Taylor, returning home Saturday. The farmers say this has been a hard spring with them, as to crops, the weather being such as to give the grass underhold on them, so to speak. Before selling your wool see McNatt & McBride. There has been very little wool in Ocilla so far. The wool put their wool together and it in bulk, buyers from a distance being invited to bid on it. Fruit Jars at lowest prices. McNatt & McBride. " Mr. Jesse Grantham brought us a six-inch limb of a sand pear tree that had seventeen half, grown pears on it. One pear had been pulled off, making eighteen on six inches of wood. Mr. J. O. Sutton has plenty of cotton blooms at his place. He brought us one to the sing at Brushy Creek church last Sunday. So far as we know, this gives Jim¬ my the first cotton bloom of the year. All kinds of text books used in the public schools of Irwin county are for sale at The Drug Store. 6-15-3t. Mrs. Ann Paulk and Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Paulk spent Sunday and Monday at the hospitable home of Mr. Sam Brown, in Wilcox county. Bob says he does not remember to have ever had such a good run of fine eating, and Bob knows what fine eating is. McNatt & McBride pay highest market prices for wool. Prof. W. N. Smith has bought Dr. G.H. Macon’s interest in The Drug Store. Dr. John C. Luke and Prof. Smith will make a strong team in the drug business, and the Dispatch wishes for them abundant success, while its best wishes go with Dr. Macon. The Brushy Creek class will wear badges to and at the convention Sat¬ urday and Sunday. It is said the chorister of the class sent to Paris, France, for his badge. The other members of the class were satisfied to have theirs printed at the Dis- p atoh office. Church Notice. I desire all the members of the church to he present Saturday morn¬ ing at 10 o’clock. Business of im¬ portance. M. L. Lawson, Gents’ straw and light colored fur hats going at 25 per cent, discount. McNatt & McBride. Saturday last a large, luscious watermelon reached Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Paulk from Mr. Tom Elarbee at Oxford, Fla. Come to think about it, we wouldn’t mind a few relatives in South Florida self. Manasseh Thomas Henderson, son of Mr. R. L. Henderson, s perhaps the youngest merchant in I Irwin county. His age is ! His store is at his father’s place a j I mile and a half from town and his stock consists of family groceries. He sells strictly for cash. Twenty convicts escaped from the chain gang in Chatham county the other day. It seems there was a premeditated plot, for one of the more trusty convicts at a signal struck the guard over the head with a shovel, felling him to the ground. His rifle was then taken from him and the whole squad broke for the woods. The guard was not serious¬ ly wounded, but when he came to* the birds had flown. A negro burglarized eight or ten dwellings in Abbeville Tuesday night, taking' $10 in money, and watches, pistols, jewely, and cloth¬ ing. The burglar was captured and all the stolen property recov¬ ered except the ten dollars, lie gave his name as Will Edwards, an escape from Chatham county chaingang. He is also wanted at gome point in North Carolina for murdering a policeman. -— m m -—— In his conduct of the county court, Judge Clements has earned a fine reputation as an able adminis¬ trator of the law and a staunch, un¬ tiring friend of the tax payers of the county, His methods of con¬ ducting the business before his court are such as to reduce the time of court to the minimum, and this is especially true when a jury is drawn. While his dispatch of business is rapid, yet it never interferes with a fair and impartial administration of justice. And, too,he has the courage of his convictions. Evil doers both dread and fear him, and he has done more, perhaps, than any forty men in the county ever did to lessen crime within its limits. We have watched his course with both pride and pleas¬ ure, and are glad to learn that he will be a candidate to succeed him¬ self. Three thousand women are help- ing to tiikk 7< the oensus. County Court. Following are some of the cases tried in county court this week: State vs. II. S. Johnton, cheating and swindling. Guilty. Stale vs. Yiucy Dykes, adultry and fornication. Guilty. $50 or ten months in chaingang. State vs. F. A. Bowen, cheating and swindling. Not guilty. State vs. J. M. McDonald, assault and battery. Not guilty. State vs. Martha Burthnot, forni¬ cation and adultery. Guilty, $75 or eleven months in chaingang. State vs. Willie Fussell, fornica¬ tion and adultery. Guilty, $50 or seven months in chaingang. State vs. 11. L. Long, compound¬ ing drugs without license, -Guilty, $15 and costs or three months in chaingang. State vs. Susie Johnson, larceny from the house. Guilty, $75 or twelve months in chaingang. State vs. L. D. Bright, libel. Guilty, $60 or eight months in chain- gang. State vs. Bert Blubaker, cruelty to animals. Bill quashed. State vs. Win. Brantley, et. al., rioting. Not guilty. State vs. May Shandrew, keeping lewd house. Guilty, $15. State vs. L. I). Bright, libel. Not guilty. State vs. Rev. J. A. Adams, cheat¬ ing and swindling. Not guilty. State vs. Haver, adultery and fornication. Not guilty. State vs, Mollie Taylor, adultery and fornication. Not guilty. Brushy Creek Vocal Classs met at the church Sunday and had an allday practice sing. The singing was fine. At noon a bountiful din- ner was spread and was thoroughly enjoyed. The class practiced at the church Wednesday afternoon and will also practice there this af¬ ternoon. “Perfection” seems to be the motto of this class, The town council at its meeting Tuesday night elected Mr. T. M. Pollock marshal. The electiongnves general satisfaction, as Mr. Pollock has for several weeks filled the posi¬ tion very acceptably. The council also passed a curfew ordinance, which requires all hoys under six¬ teen to be off the streets by 8 o’clock p. m., unless they have written au- thority from their parents. This " law meets the approval of the whole town, so far as our information goes. ___„ , _____ H The picnic at the Bono Pond, above Irwinville on Saturday, June 30th, promises to be a very enjoyable event. There will be a large crowd present from different section© of the county and from other counties, and if the weather clerk will do his part the people in attendance will do theirs. “Correspondent” has our undivided thanks for an invitation to be present on that hap¬ py occasion, and we will be there, basket or no basket, if not provi¬ dentially prevented. Gosport (Ind.) News: “The ’Negro and the South,’ by Hon. Alfred Herrington, of Georgia, delivered here last Thursday night, is one of the finest lectures before the foot-lights. The lecture was full of anecdotes, not a one that failed to bring down the house, many had to he repeated in answer to the tremendous encore of the vast audience. At the end of the lecture a rising vote was taken, in¬ viting the speaker to remain over and till another appointment. Not a man, woman or child in the house but what stood up. All who heard him w ill always have a warm place in their harts for the Georgia orator. Henderson, Purvis & Purvis Kissmmee, Ga., will be ready to grind corn Saturday, 23rd inst., and will thresh oats the second and third week in July. 6-15-2f ON HARDWARE, Crockery, Housefiirnishiii<>* Goods, Farmers’ Supplies, Mil! Supplies, Turpentine Supplies. Bi<^ line ol Fishing 1 Tackle and Sporting Goods. Send us your orders and we will please you. att-Harley-Holmes Co.; . FITZGERALD, GEORGIA. \y. nvMAS. J. It. CLEMENTS. WARREN FJ.ET1 11ER. HYMAN & COMPANY. DEALERS IN General ?- Merchandise J IRWINVILLE, GEORGIA. W ARE hH .9 our elegant new ~ t=g. are P- to 3 ,© p Farm Supplies, Household and Kitchen Supplies, x x x x Dry K.tods, DressHoods. Notions, Groceries. Etc. Our stock was carefully selected, is .ALL NEW AND FRESH, &nd our . prices will MOVE THEM. No suck stock of goods has ever 1 b9en seen in Irwinville, in quality, quantity and .variety, and it will pay you to get our prices before going elsewhere. A trial purchase is all we ask, S. ST- & sr- ^ The goods and prices will do the rest. HYMAN St CO., 4-13-tf High Price Destroyers. TIFTON & NORTHEASTERN R, R. “SOXjI3IEI7S’ COXjOjST'S' IR.OTXT'IE)-” LOCAL TIME TABLE No. «. II. 11. TIFT, President. W. O. TIFT, Vice-President. General Offices: Tifton, Georgia. No. 7. No. 3. No. 1. sanre February Effective 27,1900. Miles No. 2. No. 4. No. 8.. KSsgSSSSSgjS poccaaccocaf 1 - LEAVE. ARRIVE. P. M. | P. M. OK ............Tifton, Ga...... .... 25 12 15 7 00 ............Tram Switch.......... 22 12 00 6 51 “ f..........Brighton, Ga............ 20 12 00 6 45 18 5K f..........Harding, Ga............] }7 11 11 11 31 51 6 6 36 09 50 10 33|S I .......Pinetta, Ga. . .......Mystic, Ga.. 9 11 25 0 03 f ......Fletcher, Ga. 5 11 14 5 50 84 .....Fitzgerald, Ga 0 11 00 5 30 5 20 ARRIVE LEAVE. A. M. P. M, Trains Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 run daily, except Sunday. Trains Nos. 7 and 8 run on Sunday only. signal. (f) Flag Station. Trains stop only on System and Georgia . Southern _ & Florida . . All trains make connection with the Plant at Tifton, and the Georgia & Alabama at Fitzgerald Traffic Manaeer , Ocilla Novelty Works! L. J. TUCKER, FROP’R Ocilla, Greorgia. I am prepared to manufacture, on short notice, --------- Mantles, Columns, Gable Ornaments, Brackets, Newel Posts, And all other interior and exterior finishings .for residences, churches and all kind of buildings. My facilities for turning out work in above line are excellent, and prices will be found reasonable for lirst-class work. Furniture repaired and made as good as new. Orders from Irwin county and Southwest Georgia generally arc respectfully so¬ licited, and satisfaction assured. 7-7-2m Official Organ Irwin County. NO. 48 Balusters, Head Blocks, Corner Blocks, Base Blocks, Mouldings.