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Official Organ
Irwin County.
VOL. IV.
Powell, Bollard 4 Co Dealers In General Merchandise and Furniture,
■5 —OOIL/L/A, GEORGIA.
HOME NEWS.
LOCAL SCHEDULE O. Jfc A. It.
DAIRY', EXCEPT SUNDAY.
ArriveatOrvilla.....ill:00a. Odtltla..... m. and 8:25 p. m.
Leave . 11:80 a. m. and 0:40 it. rn.
SUNDAY ONLY.
Lerjwe Ocilla.... 11:05 a. m.
Httivu at Ocilla. .4:50 p. m.
Close connections for north, east, south or
west.
June 29th.
Bone PoikI picnic tomorrow.
Next Wednesday is the 4th.
Sand the Dispatch the news.
Tuesday was warm and clear.
.How’s youpTriumph watermelons?
Picnic at Bowen’s Mill Wednes-
day.
School closing at River Bend Fri¬
day.
Charlie Sibley visited Fitzgerald
yesterday.
‘•‘When I smile, you know I want
her mail.”
•Fruit jar rubbers and tanglefoot
at The Drug Store.
'Castile soap, long bar for 25cts.,
at The Drug Stei-e.
Read change in McN att & • Mo-
bride’s advertisement.
But little wool has been brought
■to this market so far.
Mr. J. Y. Paulk has no reason tc
complain of His crops.
Kiberta peaches are now on the
market in small quantities,
i -Mrs. L. L. Hail is visiting her
husband’s parents at Hahira.
An k 11 day sing hereabouts is be¬
ing talked of. Lets have it.
The cold diTiiks‘scT-veil at The
Drug Store are certainly delicious.
Candidates J, A. Branch and W.
J. Weaver were in town Thursday.
Ire cream festival in Alapaha to¬
night for benefit of Baptist church.
Mr. Joe Fletcher, of Alapaha,
passed throug Ocilla Tuesday,going
west.
The heated term is now here, and
•everybody should aid in keeping the
town clean.
There is and has been for several
months a frying-size chicken famine
in this town.
See change in advertisement of
Mr. John VvL N as worthy, then goto
him for bargans.
Fine stationery for correspond¬
ence is essential. You can get it at
The Drug Store.
Of course you want a nice crash
■suit. Powell, Bullard & Co. are
ready to supply you.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hogan’s in¬
fant child was reported Wednesday
ito be critically ill.
Prof Ilenry McMillan is filling
an unexpired term of school at Ruby,
-and has a large school.
Miss Gertrude Williams, a charm¬
ing young Jady of 'Pinetta, is visit-
dug Miss Mamie Arnold.
This is the time of -year when a
'few doses of medicine may work
‘off a long spell-of sickness.
•Judge Dan Tucker is said to have
'fine crops this year. He has fine
-crops even in bad crop years.
No matter-what-you meed, in the
•general merchandise line, Powell,
Bullard & Co. should be seen.
Mr. R. L. Henderson, who is cen-
.•gas ■enumerator for the Ocilla and
Minnie districts, is uearing the end
•of his-work.
Preaching in the Baptist church
Sunday, by the pastor, Rev. M. L.
Lawson. Subject for Sunday morn¬
ing: “The Stormy Voyage.”
Thbre are lively times ahead for the
rj ads and lasses gay, for the picnics
IKithe fish fries are coming, so
ay- needed
is considerable work
fereets just now, and the
loittee should see that it
THE OCILLA — s
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OCILLA, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1900.
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U R. TUCKER Jt COMPANY.
OCILLA, GEORGIA.
\\/ r E BEG TO ANNOUNCE to the trading public that we have
opened up a nic 9 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 bargains
anj. 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, henco we must and will sell our goods at a
very small profit. Y/e do not propose to sell you one article at
cost and double on another, but only want a legitimate profit all
round on oiir goods, without which no man can succeed in business.
Yours, to serve,
BYTE & CLINT i
3-16-tf Proprietors.
Send in your orders for all kinds
of commercial printing. First-class
work at reasonable prices.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harvey are en¬
tertaining- a' new little boy at then-
home near Mr. J). J. Hogan’s.
■ The first bale of cotton may come
from east of town, not far from
where Mr. -J . O. Sutton lives.
Will Edwards and an ice hook
ran together Wednesday, and Will
could now be easily mistaken fora
base ball “empire.”
Ocilla’s merchants' are getting
ready for the fall trade. If no dis¬
aster befalls the crops, there will be
a fine trade this fall and Ocilla ex-
pects to get her full share of it.
Mr. W. II- Redock’s oldest son
is recovering from a dangerous spell
of typhoid fever. Mr. Redock lives
about three miles south of Fitzger¬
ald.
•Quite a crowd from Ocilla and vi¬
cinity will attend the Bone Pond
picnic above Irwinville Saturday, so
we learn.
Miss Fannie Paulk, the beautiful ;
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. j
•Paulk, was very sick Tuesday. We
hojre she has recovered ere this.
Watermelons are plentiful in this .
market and prices are pretty stiff, i
though a downward break is looked
for next week by the light-weights
—in pocket.
Miss Celia Bowen,daughter of Hon
R. V. Bowen, died at her father’s
home at Lulaville, Wednesday !
night at 8 o’clock, of typhoid fever,
aged about 19 years.
A number of improvements are
being made in and about the Euign-
Oskamp Mills at Ocilla. preparatory
for a heavy business the coming
fall and winter.
Judge Jim Clements has made a
fine record as Judge of the county
■court, and his friends all over the
county will make a strong effort to
keep him there.
Mr- Tally Sutton passed through
Ocilla Tuesday, en route to Irwin¬
ville, in search of a mule which
strayed from Kissimmee on the
night of the 17 th inst.
Mr. Scott Giddens, just east of
Brushy creek church, may have to
borrow some grass seed next year
to get-a'btart. His crops are free
from grass and are first-class.
When the new county, with Tif-
ton as the county seat, is organized,
it would be a graceful act of its cit-
izens to send the editor of the Gazette
to the legislature as its first rep-
resentative, and we hope this will
be done, though we know we shall
not live to see see it.
.
Don’t forget to see Joe Little, at
Powell, Bullard & Co.’s when you
want the most goods for the least
money.
Mrs. Clara Nasworthy, • aged
about sixty years, died at her home
about four miles from Ocilla Mon¬
day last, and was buried at Brushy
Creek church. Peaceful be to her
rest.
Mr. F. M. Taylor and his good
lady visited Ocilla Saturday. Mr.
Taylor brought with him
twelve pounds of as fine butter as
we ever saw.
Mr. Johnson of the Watt-Harley
j Holmes Co,, Fitzgerald, was shaking
I hands with his many Oeilla friends
Wednesday and booking orders for
his popular firm.
Before the next issue of the Dis¬
patch we will have telephone con¬
nection with Sycamore, Worth, Tif-
ton, Cordele, Valdosta and interme¬
diate points, if nothing slips up.
Already the good housewives of
the Brushy Creek section are begin¬
ning to prepare for the annual meet-
ing at Brushy Creek church, which
occurs on the fourth Sunday in July,
We acknowledge, with thanks,an
invatition to attend an ice cream
festival in Alapaha to-night, and re-
grot that 'sickness in the orphabage
will prevent us from attending.
The surveying eorps’of the Way-
cross Air-Line reached Fitzgerald
early in the week, and we expect
the Enterprise to.announce, in this
week’s issue, the arrival of the first
train into that city.
It is reported that all the candi-
dates who attend the picnic at Bone
Pond Saturday, will be cal-led
on lor a speech, and that those who
refuse to speak will be feeling
badly about ’lection day.
Mr. Scott Guldens brought us an
Irish potato Tuesday that is a curi¬
osity. It is a potato of medium
size with nine others growing out
of it. The ten would be as much as
a man would care to eat at one time.
Mr. J. B. Jones brought us a
curiosity Monday in the shape of a
cabbage stalk with -nine well-devel¬
oped heads of cabbage on it, and
four smaller heads, making thirteen
beads in all. Mr. Jones says he
has about twenty similar freaks
among his cabbage.
In Jar prief report of the singing
convention last week, we mentioned
only two young ladies, who sang
difficult parts. There were many
| others whose singing attracted
|'favorable attention. class In fact, well. every The
member of the sang
1 convention was a musical feast.
The fanners are waging a fieree
war against Gen. Green, with the
wort her clerk against them.
If you prefer linen to crash, why,
just go to 1 ’owell, Bullard & Co.’s
anti see how comfortable they will
make you for a little money.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey, the aged
mother of Mrs. S. J. Barnett, left
Wednesday on on extended visit to
her children ip. Decatur county.
Fitee'.'ald and Ocilla played a
match game yesterday afemooon,
at this place. The game was not
concluded when the Dispatch went
to press.
Mrs. LeOne T. Peary and little
daughter, Ethel, of Randolph coun¬
ty, will arrive in Ocilla to-night on
a week’s visit to her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Green.
Ocilla’s telephone system received
its first shock Monday afternoon,
Lightning struck the wire between J
Gciila and Mystic and damaged the
switch board slightly. Manager
Peacock repaired the damage Mon¬
day night.
Mr. E. J. Hogan, his charming
daughters, Misses Martha and Mil-
lie, Davie, Braska, Frank and Asa
•Hogan,'and Jimmy Fletcher, of the
Watershed Section, attended the lec¬
ture here last Friday nigth. E. J.
will not need any more laughing in
%ix months.
It is reasonable to suppose that
Monsieur Agumaldo hears with
much satisfaction that a universal
•war is about to be precipitated by the
pig tails.. In the event of such a
war Ag. would naturally expect to
run.
rgrSTKAV!.;!). — One iron-gray
horse mule strayed from Kissimmee
Sunday night, l.tb inst. Informa-
t * 0,! mn ^ c w ^ , ' /0 l -i.mkl ullj,
reived by me at Kissimmee, Ga.
The mule had a halter on, without
rein, and has scar on point of left
;
shakier. Tarty Sutton.
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lion. Alf. Herrington,of Swaynes-
boro, lectured in the Baptist church
last Friday night to an appreciative
audience. Front the opening to the
closing of his lectureOthere was the
liveliest interest manifested, His
delineation of the negro character
was excellent, his eloquence was
soul-stirring, bis anecdotes were
mirth-provoking, his facial contor¬
tions were inimitable, and—well,
Alf. Herrington is a genius and
higher flights await him.
A negro “Indian Corn Doctor”
struck the town Tuesday morning,
and after extracting three corns for
ail afflicted individual, was arrested
for “practicing medicine and sur¬
gery,” and committed to. Irwin-
villc jail to await trial before Judge
Clements. The negro’s name is
Mathew Pslams, and he says he’ has
extracted corns in Atlanta, Macon,
Albany, atul other places, and at
none of these places was he required
to have a state license. He claims
Missouri as his native state, and said
he learned to extract corns from an
old Indian with whom he used to
live. He is sailing under two bib-
bieal names, which no doubt belong
to him.
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IliQCILLA I DRUG CO. | i
—Garries a Full Line of—
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§ 2 iY' School Books, Tablets and
all kinds of writing material ab
I ways in stock. When in need $
!§ of anything in our line, come in,
:? and if vou don’t see what you s I
ll want ask for it. •6-22-tf
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ON HARDWARE,
Crockery, HotisefurnisliiiJg Goods.
Farmer s' Supplies, 31 ill Supplies,
Turpentine Supplies. Big line ot
Fishing Tackle and Sporting
Goods. Send us your orders and
will please you.
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PITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
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HYMAN 5- COMPANY-
DEALERS IN
General ?- Merchandise 5
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Farm Supplies, Hteiiseliold and Kitchen Supplies,
jz ?c Dry floods, Dressfloods, -Minns, 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 soon
in InvinviJle, in quality, quantity and .variety, and it will pay you to get
our prices before going elsewhere.
A trial purchase is ell we ask.
/** ■ g; SI; The goods and prices will do the rest,.
HYMAN St GO.,
4-13-tf High Price Destroyers,
TIFTON & NORTHEASTERN R. R c
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M. 7- M. ARRIVE. REAVE.
Trains Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 run daily, only. except Sunday.
Trains Nos. 7 and 8 run on Sunday only signal.
(f) Flag Station. make Trains stop on
All trains connection with the Plant System and Georgia Southern & Florida
at Tifton, and the Georgia & Alabama at Fitzgerald. Manager,
F. G. lidATRlGiTr, Traiile
Ooilla Novelty Works!
L. J. TUCKER, FROF’R,
Ocilla, ■a Georgia.
/ am prepared to manufacture, on short notice, ..........’
Mantles,
Columns,
Gable Ornaments,
Brackets,
Newel Posts,
Alut all other interior anil exterior finishings Jor 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 first-class work. Furniture repaired and made as good as
new. Orders from Irwin county and Southwest Georgia generally are respectfully 'so-
licited, and satisfaction assured. • 7-7-2m
Official Organ
Irwin County.
NO. 50
Balusters,
Haad Blocks,
Corner Blocks,
Base Blocks,
Mouldings.