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TOWN TALK. "NilAT BUSINESS MEN AND LOAF¬ ERS FIND TO TALK ABOUT. ' ■ Short Paragraphs of Interest Pertaining Ic Persons and Things Pithed up on our Street Corners and Pensively Penned. .. Bees swarming. .. Chopping cotton. .. Corn looking well. Needing another shower. ..Fry-size chickens ripening. ...Some not yet through - plantidg. - ...Flower yards simply .. Ain’t these nights just too ly. . .Strawberries are the popular sert now. ...Uncle Jerry Foddrill improves "very slow. .. Englislr peas and Irish potatoes plentiful. . .Summer seems to have set in in earnest. . .Dr. Billups now makes his daily trips to Athens. toai^tL 1 ” moki "S auo,h ..Our town is right lively Saturday eveinnga EeV J. V. M. Morris. “ .. Mr. Davis opened his school un¬ der flattering prospects. ...We now re.-ort to the usual editor’s chronic begging. ...The picnic last Saturday was •certainly a grand success(7). . .Tax-Receiver Anderson has been at home most of this week. .. We are glad to see Dr. Billups so much improved in health. ...See notice of executors sale J. M. Veal in another.column. ..Our mail schedule has changed back to evening again. ..Prof. Davis is promised more scholars Monday morning. .. The sound of the old school be 1 re-calls many a pleasant incident. ...No Ordinary’s one from the,country attend¬ ed court last Monday. ..We will give after our readers while. more reading mattef a little * . .Advertising is as essential dur¬ ing the summer as any other time. ..Mrs 0. F. Johnston has the prettiest snap beans we have seen. - . .Farmerssay they are needing a little rain to make*cotton come up. ..Miss Laura Wilson reports an iexcellent time on her visit to Macon, .. Sonic pretty weather for fishing done. ■.this week but not miich of it ...We return thanks to our cor¬ respondents far their efficient help . .That serious trouble we spoke of : some time ago has not come to light yet. ...Mr. S. 0. Hutcheson is having an awning put to the front of his Store. ..Those large water oaks on square are the prettiest trees town. .. We manifested are glad to see so much m terest in Yhc school. .-Wonder what the done about Barnetts bridge .-last Tuesday. .. Our Sheriff and Ordinary had easy days of it last Monday Tuesday. ..We think the prospects for a bridge at Barnetts right away are very good. ...We are very glad to see Miss Annie Lyle so much improved as to be out again. .. Try a package of Rush’s Horse and Cattle Powders if you stock fat and healthy. ..We hope 0 «r 11 not forget US during the nmer days. ...Don’t bad^through forget that we will monuy sw ,ho as any other lime. .. Several fishers spent last .,o,d,,v without upon much .he luck. Oeone. ..Rev. Mr. Seay preached a right interesting sermon at the Methodist church last Sunday. ..Mi. nr \tr W. u B. Langford t ri- is for one of the best combination stocks we ever saw. .. Dr. Jno. Crawford, of Athens, visited ... little , last , , our town Come again, Doctor. | ...Since our Tax-Receiver has! Blossom” been on stands his rounds idle. the “Pansy! f . .Ed Hands, after a lengthy stay among the mountains, returned home last Wednesday. . .Mr. II. S. Anderson has secured ius which quite a number of new names, for we are thankful. • .Miss Moilta Durham visited Athens _ several days last week, re¬ turning home Saturday. . .Since last Sunday night Mr. O. C. Daniel has been as happy as a big sun-flower. It’s a fine boy. furni'ure ..Edge, Dorsey & Co., Athens, makers and undertakers, have , I„ll and congfa. ,«t. •. lhe blight smiles of two of our young ladies cheered ns in our sanctum ast ^ uesday evening, ..We had a sweet serenade from a < ^ staTICC hist Tuesday night, by sweet warblers of eventide. ...Several more hands passed day through their here last Sunday mid Tues¬ on way to the railroad. ..You can got your garden seed ,at Rush A Go's., drug store at cen « a dozen. Call and see them. ...We are glad to say that Mrs. Ii Jack sen has about entirely recov ered -from her recent severe illness. ..We hope ,hat troabl. «,H. A. CwJ* Son o o7^L7of U1« list oi iS’poSn.'l'ht land posters this week ...lhe rpt reading v club , . propose , . an entertainment next Monday hut we can’t say whether they will ot. ...Mr Sam Harris is buying n ( [sheep will to take <o the mountains. go into the sheep raising busi ess' . .That safe of T. & R. Booth , s is . a Herring . patent instead a Mosler, bahman, as we had it ..Chicken thieves . have ra ^ s ^ r * Boh Washburn 0 ^ sevea ^ ne hens one night ..One more month and the house contract will be let. when hope to see work commence upon 1 at once . .We regret to note that Mrs. A. Wilson has been quite sick for era! weeks past and is but slowly im¬ proving. ..Prof. R. T. Durham, with erai of his scholars from Flat gave evening. us a pleasant call last ..We are very sorry that trouble has been brewing some of our citizens over a little nancial affair. .. J. W. Reaves felt so good die birib of liis fine boy that be extravagant and had his store washed outside. ...There was a pleasant picnic the old pulp mills, about three from hove, last Saturday. But went from here. ..Wouldn’t it be better for to set a certain the consideration-of the bids he court house. . .We see from the that a project is on foot in to-extend the N. E. li. It. 0 *^ e > Tenn. . .Messis. Claunde Bishop John Stovall, two excellent 111011 from near High Shoals, 0Ul ''t°wn last Sunday. . .Pi of. Ii. I. Durham keeps young walking men supplied w ltk dude ory canes. He some very pretty ones. ..Call on Edge, Dorsey & Alliens, who have {lie largest best wlecfed stock of furniture in state at prices to suit all. xr r c T„,l,rp Wikon A spending Ws* this week with F-niniimtfoi her j’ Tim Price y of 1 j , . v ...Mr. John Ivnott, wuli his au ® 1 1 ‘®° 1 1,1,110 ') n< ^ ® ..Miss Beatrice Booth, n , we are , , . , . . may cause lier to entirely recover. , ...Mr. Fielding Dillard and wife, j Oglethorpe, spent . a day , or two t le f;j. s p 0 f t j, c W eck with their ( i. UH?httr Mrg j. y. M. Morris, of . . .Rev. L. W. Dk’wns preached an sormpn at the Me hodist church Inst Sunday night. He is a splendid preacher and we are glad to know he will preach for us every first Sunday night. Successful Fishing. We are told that fishing at -tskull has been very profitable th's season. traps and other modes they have tfver a thousand pounds this season; are still catching them. * The FirstT Mrs. Dr. Billups iB the first we hear of having Irish potatoes from their garden this year. She gathered a nice mess of them from her garden on Thursday of last week. of them were as large as guinea eggs. She atoo has English peas plentifully. Lookine- FWiv Mr. H. E .». that in his rounds over the county he finds that wheat and oats were-never looking teet ter. We for one am glad 'to hear this, and do sincerely hope that no disaster will be¬ fall it and that we will have an abundant harvest this year, for the first in several. The First to Chop. The first we have heard of, and we about the first in the county to chopping cotton was Mr. J. C. Matey, who laves only a few miles from town. has been chopping-more than a week, we presume is nearly over by now. Mr. Maxey is a hard working young man and a model farmer. A ~y- Prodiga l. WS„„d w ..»ia g f ' M more than a week before. He not . lus .. ...... but said hi» parents g'^e liivnie, Madison county and that he was .return as did the Prodigal of old. No PiGnic. We guess our readers will begin to alter awhile that we are a regular if we don’t stop fooling them about We can’t blame them much, but we will the fault was.not ia us. The last 0 t, e a certainty up till a day or two whec fromtome my8terious cause to “be er b9.” Themext time we tey pic may bet there will be some gum it. Commissioners Court. ^ e Mnmandi “S heaJs of oul ' m . la8t Tl regU 5esslon >ent . , , he regl,la , mi,,e ot ’ r r ° The usual amount oi t orders wert passed and the petition for a new road They took some action an object of charity near Hodges but we did not hear what they made. Our Authorized Agent. Mr. H. S. Anderson has kindly services as our agent on his rounds Tax-Receiver, for which we return and hereby give him authority to receip ,or a 1 subscri P tlons . faot| i new and old, and we ^°P e Y° u wiI * see b * ul in our interest when he is at your precinct or in your neighborhood and let him give you a receipt for the Enterprise at least one year. Don’t fail to see him. .An Industrious Old Lady. Mrs. L. W. Branch, who lives in our town now eighty-seven years old and is quite industrious yet. She came to ,own t0 live with Mrs. 0. F. Johnson on the Stb day of December last, and up to thi , - late sbe lias knit seven pairs of gloves, of socks, and eleven pairs of 8he ,eaT0S f or Atlanta in a few days to visit lier daughter, Mrs. Dr. Richardson, Quite a Compliment. While in Athens last Saturday we heard man saying, who had traveled front to Athens through the country and in „ way t0 notice c i 0St .j y . t ] )at Oconee coun was the garden spot of Middle Georgia. into consideration that Georgia is-the :4nnel . sta t e 0 f the South, and Middle Georg a most choice portion of the State.we take as quite a compliment. Nevertheless it s true. ' -—— f . ^ llght Breakdown. 1 r St , ues ay as i!essrs K K - - - and J - R ’ Crane wereou thei *'way to k ‘ USTi lle they lmppene ' i ,0 the accident 0, l,reakin . b' one of the sprmgs to their was taken to the shop of W. J». Lang aud mended and they started on iheir lrip all whol0j but before th town the same spriug **Mte in three «v « « wait to have it mended but went on as it wa . B the y got home all «fc. Off to the Railroad. Mr. T. C . Hampton, of the firm of k Crawford, Athene, hss eold interest iu this firm and is now en upon the A. & M. railroad. Mr Wehb, dbrmorly of this firm, bouglit his Both Messrs. Crawford and Webb ate excellent gcutlomon and we ask our readers to always sec them when they any can dies of any kind. They it themselves and always have it Forty of Mr. Hampton's hands passed through here on their way to the one day last reak. GRAIN CRADLES, BLOOD'S GRAffi and GRASS BLADES CRADLE FINGERS, FLEMING & Sens, » m *■ * Athens, Ga, COR RESPOI'fiDENTS, COUNTY LOCALIZED BY TIONS. ,__ Neusvnd Happenings cf‘Interest.from ent Parts ofthe'Countg as Taker. Down Sent in by'Our Special Correspondents OAK GROVE DIXIE. —r-l-,*, ,,, Mr. J. , ,, M. Stovall ,, paid ., Greenwood _ , a „ visit last Sunday. A few B1 °™ warm days aad farmers Mrs. W. P. Fulliiove was badly hooked a no-horned cow one day last week, Miss Minnie Eider and Claude Fuliilove a few days last week at this place. Mr. W. Y. Elder has one of the grandest P lo * s " e lia,re seen in the shape of a culti Talor ' Mrs. M. A. Elder has returned home from an extended visit to friends and relatives in Athens. Our handsome little friend Tommie Ful i ’° ve received a severe kick from a horse D.^EUer says be'wilUoonte enough to go to see the girls again. - FLAT ROC*:. STRAGGLER. Farmers plowing this week. The wind blew down lots of ^ Iiow ceuld anybody sow cotton seed last , Thursday and Friday. ,, Mrs. t>. B. Wray „ . visiting .... , her . , is Krs - B - P - Gregory, this week. Mr. Editor, is it not curious why some people will try to have their way ? Our f urme.'s arc complaining very about their wheat being no acouut. Mr. Charlie Willoughby pe ; d this neigh borhood a f-ying visit last Saturday. Rev. ,T. V. M. Morris preached two very interesting sermons at Johnson’s last Satur¬ day and Sunday We hear of some girls who ore fixing the picnic at Barnett’s bridge on the 14th May. This is very soon. We would be glad if some one would up a^ame of base ball. OH Big Springs can play three times and beat any nine the comity. We bear of some boys who have got brave. They took a man's daughters s, a rteJ t0 a Certaia place, but to iheir 51 ise ' le °P eue ^ t “ t Gate. Mr. WillMaxey gave an entertainment his residence last tSatnrday night. 'Hie enjoyed * oasion was much by all present If you want to hear some good music go WKl’s. We stated in onr dots some weeks that the girls of Flat Rock had more every Sunday than they couid manage, the most of them were scrubs. Seme taken exceptions at it It is like so a Jones says, if you halloa somebody's dog is hit. CROSS ROADS. fox. ijKmtnei-has J „ eedlng f““ . set. T'“- m at ,, last. , Ask A’die Bishop what his motion is. Allie Winn is -chopping cotton this week Didn't (he wind blow, though, last Mr. J. \Y- Davenport has a two-story bl *gSY If no disaster befalls the wheat we can eit cake bread next year. ^ hat has become of ‘’nrohe, “hrank ‘^ost.’> Would like to hear ... .. . . .. , Suudav. Mr. and Sunday Mrs. B. S. Thompson wturned home last from a visit to relatives in Walton county. We were glad to see our friend John Middlebrooks out at Buys Sunday walking under a white derby. Some farmers are complaining of of cotton while others say they for two stands. The Hide corn that was cheeked by lias shaken the dust from its blades has at. last taken a start to grow. John Biggs gays if you want to keep fat mules and horses amt net plenty of milk butter, raise plenty ot rye to feed. He it is corn, foddsr, oats and rye, too. We learn that ottr young friend, was so high that his girl couldn't ln it Without the aid of a ladder, has swap¬ ped it for a lower one to save the trouble of carr y> n g a ladder. VYe accepted the invitation of a friend to preaching last at Rays, near High Sunday, and was rewarded MaVch'mam^SK Marchman Is awaadml' a good preacher, FARMINGTON. hope. Mrs. Tom Middlebrook, who has been quite ill, is better. Mr. Sanford 'Williamson has returned from Washington. Mrs. J. H. Middlebrooks, we are glad to say, is convalescent. Mrs. G George Anderson . . is . again . troubled bleeding at the no«e Mrs. J. V. Price has teen seriously ill. to say thjt she i- much bette Our successful .physician, Dr. Hester, been in our midst for some time minis to the sick. Miss Minnie Middlebrook left for Atlanta Monday to visit her aunt. Mrs. Winship, and other friends. Hope she will have a pleasatt visit and safe return. We think this about the s*xth or seventh this month that John Middlebrook baa to see (so he says) Jack Jackson, but we must think some young iady is the attraction. things wanted. A goed rain to bring tbe cotton up. We want everybod to be friends and not enemies. The next generation to help build the [court house. four do! , ars extra added to the poll tax pay the interest on the county bonds. # ’ we > l ve ., to . . * cce U^ » r , fa..n r and know tnat , we have had n or intention to wound anybody. Want it said of our little paper that it k four pages of solid truth. We want it to contend for truth, honesty and wholesale Our coi respondents to write farts and mortify tbe subscribers by paying trulb oil' in falsehoods when they nay'fo; ie - Schemes Started. There have been schemes started which were to illuminate the world, but not a spark remains. How is it about Athens’Citv Clock with its illuminated Dili* Goto S! . iff . jewelw , for the best spectacles * made, , anything want in the jewel* ana you ry line. Lemonade at Barnett’s. I hereby notify the public that I will fur-. Difh 5 «nonade at Barnett’s bridge on the I4tii. cool and nice. Remember the time be on band with vour nickles. Yery respec.-fully, David Oseokn. The First Quarter. With th's issue expires the first quarter the publication of the Enterprise ar, l we have been lenient with our sttbscrib* in the beginning we hope those who not already done so will show their of the favor by coming prompi up and paving all tviok dues and also re turn onr confidence by renewing in advance fur the y -,r. T’ae dull -season of summer wiU S0P!1 «P°“ «« wh 'n « e will need el the f * sb we can K® 1 to o*rry on our business. ' Vc vou th!s "eck. all wi.ose time* - expire this month, with a cross mark eppo site tout name, which we hope you will note and consivie^ favorabhv. We thank vo” such libera! patronage in the past a..d only ask for a continuance of the same in CRAWFORDS tCZEMA 7 riyu uiacl. WA SH Will CURE Eczema, M, Scaldhead, Tetter, And all Eruptive. Scaly and Itchy Humors of ^ Gte ssin. Young children often, in so weather, livable with the afflictions relieved by one application. Free from and Grease, and wilt not stain the skin nr clothing. Jno. Crawford & Co., Droprietors and manufacturers. Athens, Ga. For sale by all Dealers, sale at S. O. Hutcheson's Watkinsvilte.