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Official Organ
Irwin County.
VOL. V.
TO THE FARMERS ■yMaMPa TiBEBKMBn
AND GENERAL PUBLIC OF OCILLA AND VICINITY:
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On January 1st we will sell out our business to the Empire Mercantile Co., moving 'across on op¬
posite corner of Grant and Central avenue, and as soon as possible add Groceries and Farmers’ Supplies
to our already complete stock of dry goods, clothing and shoes. Mr. T. S. Price will be the Manager
of the new firsthand will be in a position to sell all the farmers in surrounding country.
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Supplies on Long Time The largely increased capital will place us in a position to buy goods at Spot Cash, saving enormous discounts of which we will share with
•: our customers. It will be a complete DCPSTtilflCFit* StOP6 Sll E>VGPiJ R6Sj}8Gt>, aiK ^ the largest in this section of Georgia. We will greatly
increase stock in all lines, and sell reliable goods cheaper than ever before, buying everything in Car Load Lots, We wish to thank our many friends in Oci’k and vicinity for their so
highly appreciated trade during the past five years, and we respectfully solicit f continuance of same. We trust our business relations in the future will be the same as they have in the past
A SATISFIED CUSTOMER OR YOUR MOREY BACK 5
When we move across on Errant Street we will make an earnest endeavor to carry with us every Customer we had in the past.
1-4-tf Thanking everyone for past favors, we remain your friends,
T. S. PRICE & CO.
HOME NEWS.
ISOCAIi SCHEDULE G. & A. K. R.
DAI DY, EXCEPT SUNDAY.
ArriT«a.tOclUa. ..11:00a. m. and 7:25 p. m.
Leave Ocilla_____ ..11:80 a. m. and 6:40 a. m.
SUNDAY ONLY.
-Leave Ocilla... $f>:4 0 a. m.
Arrive at Ocitta .7:25 p. m.
Close connections for north, east, south or
west.
Church Directory.
^Baptist. —Preaching ovei*y*4St and 3rd Sun¬
days, morning and evening. Conference on
Saturday before 3rd Sunday at lO o’clock a. m.
Rev. M. L. Lawscw,. pastor. Sunday School at
10 o'clock a. m. W. I). Burke Superintendent.
Methodist.— Rev. W. W. Stewart, pastor.
Preaching 2nd and 5th Sundays, morning and
evening. Sunday School every Sunday at 4
,'p. m.. J. F. King, superintendent.
OFFICIAL ORGAN IRWIN COUNTY,
Howdy, Mayor Walker.
The new town council is a safe
•one.
Bee list of grand and petit jurors
da this issue.
Senator Wilcox was in Ocilla part
of Tuesday.
The earth in this section is no
longer thirsty.
The new century came in weeping
over the death of the old.
Sometimes it stands a candidate
in hand to vote for himself.
The gins are still kept busy with
long and short cotton.
The president should be elected
"by direct vote of the people.
Ocilla-is now the horse-swapping
■center of wiregrass Georgia.
The Ocilla postoffice seems to be
'the bone of contention .just new.
The Dispatch is -trying to excel
as a newspaper, not as a public
■ censor.
Subscribe for the Dispatch, and
■keep posted on the Sews 'of the
■county.
Mr. Warren Paulk led the alder
mane ticket, and will therefore be
mayor pro tern.
Mr. Mas -Paulk’s little girl, who
was reported dangerously ill last
week, is playing about now.
Eggs are plentiful at 20 cents
-per dozen. Chickens, >20 and 25,
: according to size.
The Ensign-Oskamp mill at this
(place is now One-of the-best equipped
Bn the South.
Mr. Jake Grantham, son of Mr.
Wm. Grantham, was reported sick
with fever Tuesday.
O.eilla’s • merchants have been
•Tbusy this week taking stock and
'figuring up/their wealth.
•’ Mr . E. *J. Hogan has nothing to
say-about his race for representative,
but lie’s still ■ running.
Irwin county can boast of as pure
a set of politicians as any of her sis¬
ter counties.
The county has more than value
received every cent she owes, there¬
fore she is in mo hole.
Ocilla enters the new century
with clean hands and face and a
clear conscience..
Till! OCILLA DISPATCH,
OCILLA, I2JWIN COUNTY,»A., FRIDAY, JANUARY 4,1901.
The railroad being built to Ir
winville by the Ensign-Oskamp Co.
ranks among the best in the state.
The Dispatch would be glad to
hear from Kbcnezer, Kissimmee,
Lax and Berrien correspondents.
Mr. G, M. McMillan and family
are now residents of Ocilla. They
occupy the Lott Harper cottage in
East Ocilla.
County Commissioner Tucker and
Ex-Commissioner Henderson spent
part of last Monday at Irwinville,
on official business.
The county property sold by
Commissioner Tucker at Minnie,
December 23rd, brought something
over $700.00.
Mr.S.J. Barnett has purchased the
Morning Star Saloon from Messrs.
Hail A Fiveash and took possession
Tuesday.
An immense stock 6’f winter cloth¬
ing, including best ready made suits
for men and boys, are now going at
astonishing figures opposite Paulk
& Co.’s 12-7-4t.
Mrs. Ferraby Henderson was re¬
ported quite sick Monday and Tues¬
day, at her residence on Irwin av¬
enue.
Mr. J. H. King has bought part
of the J. M. Pafford place, adjoin¬
ing Judge Dan Tucker’s. Another
■good family anchored in Irwin.
Mr. Beach, of Coffee county, was
©cilk Monday for the purpose
of making a deal with '-Commission¬
er Tucker for the county convicts.
The J. A. J. Henderson stock of
goods is fresh and up-to-date. Gnly
cash buyers wanted. They will se
enre.great bargains. Paulk & Co.
12-7-4t.
■The bill giving Irwin three com¬
missioners instead of one has not
yet received' the governor’s > signa¬
ture.
Mr. E. T. James, a popular citi¬
zen of Fitzgerald, was shaking
hands with his Ocilla friends Tues¬
day.
Mr. J. L. Causey, the new sec¬
tion master, has rented the Sibley
cottage on Beech street and will
move bis family here next week.
Regular monthly meeting at
WillacoOchee r chufth'Saturday and
Sunday. Preaching by the pastor,
Elder 'Joseph Mixon.
Mr. G. W. Hyman, Up at Irwin¬
ville, killed his pig the other day.
His pi gab ip was 13 months old and
•tipped the beam at 472 pounds.
Mr. C. L. Sibley is now conduct¬
ing the Hotel Ocilla, the parties to
whom he rented it for this year
having so far failed to take hold.
Miss Bessie Bruce, a charming
young lady of Rochelle, who has
been visiting her brother, Mr. Per¬
ry Bruce, dufing the holidays, re¬
turned home to-day.
Try a pair of our celebrated Clover
Brand shoes and enjoy comfort and
service. “Lyte & Clint.” 2t
Hunter, Pearce & Battey,
SAVANNAH, GA '•9
Cotton Factors,.
Manufacturers ot High-Grade , , ~ „
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Fertilizers. Experienced [and
pert handlers of both Sea Island
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and Upland A Cotton. aMoxey Loaned
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to cotton shippers on satisfactory
security. : 8-3-7m
Ordinary’s court Monday.
“Old Harrikane” is in town.
Cotton—--Long, 15 to 49. short, 8j
to 6.
'“Pap” and “G. June” haveinteT
esting letters in this issue.
Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Luke and baby
attended theChristinas tree at Irwin¬
ville.
Thin-skinned people have a hard :
time ife’ this world avoiding the net
ties.
Mrs. J. Y. Paulk was very sick
last Saturday and Sunday. We
hope she has recovered ere this.
The Dispatch will continue to
print the news of the county, and
do what it can toward fostering
good neighborly feeling between all
sections.
Tuesday night of last week a
pound party was given at the resi¬
dence of Mr. Seth Coleman, which
was one of the most enjoyable so¬
cial events of the holidays.
Mrs. J. S. Lott andtWo youngest
children spent Christmas with Mrs.
Lott’s mother, Mrs. Marcus Luke
at IfwinVille.
If it is all the same to the weath¬
er clerk, we’ll take a little'sunshine
now. It has rained eVeify day since
Friday, and—
Mr. Joe If. Young and his grace*
ful {fritter, Miss Mary, of Waterloo,
among the attendants ht 1 the
were
Christmas tree at Irwinville.
If you want bargains ift'-crvercoats,
mens’ and boys clothing, see us be*
fore buying. “Lyte & Clint.” 2
Saturday night befofe Christmas
some one lifted Mr. R. B. Allen’s
$15 overcoat from a Counter in his
Stofe and forgot to return it.
There will be preaching in the
Baptist church in Ocilla Sunday
morning arid evening at the usual
hours, by the pastor, Rev. M. L.
Lawson.
The circulation of the Dispatch
has steadily and solidly increased
siuce its first issue. ■
There are at least five firms sell- >
ing stock in Irwin county, I
J- R - and J - L - paulk being the last
to enter the business, If you need
stock, come to Ocilla. ;
Mrs. M. G. Hogan and her nephew
Mr. David H. Hogan left for Coffee
county Thursday of last Week, on a
visit to relatives. They were ex
pected home last Tuesday.
Paulk & Co. will move the J. A.
J. Henderson stock of goods into
their store just across the street m
a few days, thus concentrating their
immense business under one roof.
YV hen business is dull, you need :
advertising to make it brisk; 1
when it is brisk, you need adver- :
tising to make it brisker. Moral: j
Advertise continuously. It pays.
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There was no excitement over
the municipal election Tuesday. ,
The main-trouble was finding men j
to fill the places, our people being
peculiar in that they do not care
for office.
Xmarf candies, Utits, raisins etc.,
at “Cracker Store.” -St
By glancing over this paper a
liotiCe will be 1 found conveying the
intelligence that Ordinary Lee has
also changed the advertising ema- !
hfiting from Ins office to thfe Fitz- |
gerald Enterprise. j
The people-of Intfin cdftnty ahh |
in better shape, financially, than !
they have ever been. This is espe
eially true of • the farmers—the
men upon whose success the pros
parity of the'Country depends. !
Dr. arid Mrs. J. E. Goethe aim ( l j |
their two youngest children, George ,
arid Mamie, spent part of the holi- ^
days visisting relatives in South I
Carolina. They will return next j
week.
The Brunswick and Birmingham
Raikkoad Company has benn or
ganized with Col. Maehen as presi
dent. This means that the road will
be built as fast as men and money
can do the work.
Judge Lee, Irwin’s popular Or
dinary, was to have been down
Tuesday to try a negro on Mr. Ed.
Howell’s place for lunacy, but was
too sick to come. Hope he is bet¬
ter ere this.
The church hells 'rang out the
old and rang m the new century
Monday night, some who did n 0t
not‘Understand the purpose of the
tho ^ ht itwtea fire
ataa.
; FAe ^ wto ^ officer8wCTeswom
in Wednesday morning. Mr. T.
B - ra ' k,,u *nd
treasurer and Mr. Jake Young was
“ mcd
“Ocilla is a nice, clean town,”
remarked a lately arrived citizen to
a Dispatch man Tuesday. “The
streets are not the common dump
ing ground for all kinds of trash,
and most of the residen ces are real
P rett > T -
At the residence of Mr. Jas. Rob¬
erts, last Sunday, Mr. Wren Rob
erts, of Irwin, and Miss Mattie Yur
ner, of Berrien, were united in mar
ria S e > Jud S e Wm ' Henderson offi
eiating. May they live long and
lives.
There Was a delightful 'social-fen
tertainment at Mr. J. E. O. 'Guy’s,
oh Irwin avenue Monday evening.
Quite a number of ©cilia’s eharrn
ing lassies and handsome young
men attended, and the evening was
spent very pleasantly.
Wo will be at big court next *001;
prepared to receive every cent due
the Dispatch. We are now closing
up the first year’s work of The Ir
Win County Publishing Company,
and hope those indebted to the
company will respond promptly.
Mrs. Ina Clements, Mn Tan
brough, Miss Bettie Luke,Col. Slater,
Judge and Mrs. J. B. Clements,Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Hyman, Judge Lee,
Mr. J. B. D, Paulk and several
others attended the Davis-Pletoher
Wedding Dec. 23rd.
Mr. Leon Vickers-, sOn Of the
late Elder John Vickers, and Miss
g 0 phvony McMillan-, wefe tharXied
ftt t ^ e h ome 0 f th« bride’s parents
j n t hi s county last Wednesday.
Their host of friends wish for
them, long* happy 1 'and prosperous
lives.
Y. S. Price & Co., the leading
merchants of FitzgCrald, hiive great
ly enlarged their business recently
ahd are now ‘better prepared than
ever to supply the wJnts of
P atrc *hs. When you are in
Fitzgerald call and see them. Ihey
are safe men to deal with.
Yes, we got ’em, old papers 20c a
hundred.
Commercial
JOB PRINTING
■A Specialty.
NO. 25.
4W“Our subscribers will not
j lose anything by the change of the
legal advertising from the Dispatch
to the Fitzgerald Enterprise, We
will publish, each month a synop
sis of all the legal advertising eroan
ating from the ordinary’s and sher¬
iff’s offices, except the tax sales,
which will be given in still more
condensed form.
Mr. Clark Gaffney, who owns sev¬
eral 10-aore tracks in the colony,and
Who has been in Irwin-about four
years, killed two hogs recently that
weighed respectively 832'aikl >827
pounds. They wetd'nineteen months
old. Mr. Gaffney came south from
Illinois.
Warren Fletcher, so fir "as we
hatJ'been able to leate, 'has made
an exclient sheriff, arid ’ therefore
deserved the compliment of re-elec¬
tion. When an officer serves his first
term faithfully and well, it is a sort
of unwritten democratic law that he
j have a second term.
Mr. Oscar Purvis, of Irwin, son
of Mr. Jake Purvis, of Coffee
county, died Wednesday evening at
6 o’clock, afterra brief illness. He
leaves a wife and two small children
and many relatives and friends to
mourn his death.
ffaek Powell, the Blakely -Repor¬
ter man, must expect to keep things
moving his way, as witness the fol
j j°™ng: lhe “T wo'or SchefRe three individuals
« a “ “*?. '™ k >
ut the y never-get their snouts
_ the ublic cnb
m P a S aln - The Re '
P 0ltel rejoices to know this fact.”
An exchange says; “In State Or
| in church, it is rule 6r be ruled;
in courtship Or marriage it is fool
be fooled; in gambling or trade
it is trick or be tricked; in peace 6r
in war -it is beat or be beaten; in
politics it is crow or eat 'brow; in
newspaper it is hoe your own how.
Mr. Walter II. Harper, of‘This
county, and Miss Fannie Gaskfcs,
of Coffee county, were united in
wedlock Wednesday. Mr. Harper
is the junior member of the Irwin
County Drug Co., of this place,
and his numerous friends here arid
elsewhere wish for him and his fair
bride long years of wedded bliss.
Wo tried to get a write-up of
the Irwinville Christmas tree, but
failed. We 1 leafn 1 'that the " douft
room whs filled ’with a godcM'U
mordd tirchvd from varidus pSSWbf
the eoiinty, and that the occasion
was Ohe of rare enjoyment. Ir
winVille never does anything by
halves.
Mr. Dave Clements killed foVty
hogs Tuesday that averaged 236
pounds. He has twenty-seven
more to kill. This reminds us that
Uncle Dave has been constable "of
his district thirty-two yearir arid - is
still in the sama harncjs. He has
perhaps setved more papers than
any man in Georgia. -His clever ’son,
Abe, is now justice of the peace of
his district. . -V : . itvlyi;
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