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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 18, 1899)
Be Sure You Are ooo Insured, Represents the oest companies in the world; SSESSrKSSTi Net 6 YS Ph0eUl1 ' The H * rthrt - H “ Prompt and penect attention and settlements. Office at John H. Almand Bank. Conyers, Royal ^ ABSOLUTEOr^RE Powder Raking Makes the food more delicious and wholesome OOVAL BAKIN8 POWOtB CO., NEW VOBK. PERSONAL AND LOCAL Short s^ilihs about people and picked Up aroUud about town, Cotton is opening very fast, Salen Camp-meeting closed last night. Lackey makes a good street overseer.. The hum of the Cotton gin will soon be heard. Many business changes will cur next month. Judge A. C. McOalla was in lanta last Monday. What’s the matter with county correspondents ? Lewis McCalla is now the “devil” in this office. Mr. J. Frank McCalla of spent Sunday in the city. Mr. R. W. Parker of Madison, was in the city last Tuesday. Our old friend, Luther Still of Atlanta, was down last Sunday. A big barbecue will be had the paper mill next Wednesday. Mr A. J. Almand has returned Iron a visit to relitives m Mad¬ ison. Miss Lola Young, who has been the guest of friends here this week, has returned to her home in Atlanta. Little Miss Floy Almand is vis¬ iting her grandmother, Mrs. J. T. Adair. Mayor Woodward of Atlanta has reformed. He will not be im¬ peached. Marshall W. B. Smith killed a mad dog in front of onr office last Saturday. It is to be h< ped that Rockdale will have an exhibit at- the State Fair this fall • Rev. Brindle preached an able s rmon at the Christin church Sunday night. Floyd Plunket, better kuown as “Lugger head” went up to last Monday. Mrs. Copeland and children McDonough, are visiting in the city this week. We want bright and correpon dents from Sheffield, rain, and Foney Creek. Misses Bertha Waldrop and \ ie Liliott of Lithonia, spent day with friends in the city. Messrs. C. E. Reagan and C. D. Farrill left this Morning for "weeks stay at Indian Springs. Out cotton buyers are ed to make Conyers the Market this season. Rev. Mr. Brindle left last n-siav for North Carolina. wdl i-e absent about six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins of *h° have been the guests of a <i Mrs. M. H. Plunket, -! Saturdav. Mr. Mike Hudson has secured i with Mosers Atlanta dud * >’k lust. Tuesday. Mike is a t‘ -r. we besdeak himsucess. . ma 'e . oom ", we are “!” g T tUlnier goods , regardless of * » * voiir chance of the to or A, tin bargains K • . J. J. Langford .v Sons. K. OF P’S ELECT OFFICER. Last Friday night, at their ula weekly meeting, Mr. J. How¬ ard Turner was made Commander for the unexeired term, caused by the resignation of Major Almand. Mrs G. B. Almand after a pleas¬ ant visit to rslit.ives in our city, has returned to her home in Ingie side. Rev. John S. Tilley, after a pleasant stay of several weeks with his parents has returned to his charge at King’s Ferry, Fla. Misses Husketh, Davis and Black stick, three charming young ladies from Atlanta, attended camp meeting at Salem, last Sunday. Such goods as Organdies, Dim¬ ities, Lawns, Muslins and other summer goods must be sold in or¬ der to make room for our fall line These goods must go regardless of cost. J. J. Lanffobd & Sons. Clt ver and genial Joe Norman, train dispatcher of the Ga. rail road at Augusta, is at home for a few days, taking a much needed rest. Miss Annie L. McCord, who has been the guest of Mrs, H. Y. Mc¬ Cord, returned to her home in Jack son, last Monday. Mr. G. H. Hull, who has been in poor health for some two weeks, left last Monday for Indian Springs. We hope he will regain his good herltli. Messers J. J. Langford and W. J. Eakes will moove into their handsome new residences about September 1st. Misses Sadie Hale and Fleta Simpkins left last Thnrsday for a visit to Miss Clara Swords of So¬ cial Circle. The first new bale of cotton for Conyers was braught in last Wed¬ nesday by UJcie Horace Smith and sold to Tucker & Almand, for 6 cts. It weighed 483 pounds. We have labored under many difficulties this week, hence, the paper is not as good as we would have liked to have it. Miss Josie Hardin, a pretty and attractive young lady of Tocoa, is visiting in the city this week, the guest of Miss Ludie Everit-t. Miss. Hutchenson an attractive young lady of Madison is the guest of Miss Callie George this week. Mr. Lawton Moon of Atlanta is down spending several days with his parents this week. GLORIOUS NEWS. Comes from Dr. Corgile Washita, I. T. He writes: baffles of Electric Bitters has ed Mrs. Brewer of scrofula, caused her suffering . ha<l great years. Terrible sores would breu ou on k er head and face, and - best doctors could give no but her cure is complete and ” : health is excellent. ibis snow . what thousands liaqe proved, I Electric Bitters is the best pu^r known. It's remedy for eczema, tetter, rheum, ulcers, boils and | sores. It stimulates liver, i and bowels, expels poisons, digestion, ® builds up the ! 0nl T °° CeDt - fe n ° ld , > . hy ^ > ' ' Your Cold Cured u. for 5c. Get i)fi mui#* jumnUive l W4 Cara* CLEARANCE SALE. Our new fall line of goods will be coming in pretty soon, and in order to make room for these new goods, we are going to make some sacrifice sales of our remaining stock of summer goods. If you want to get some real bargains, now the time. J. J. Langford & Sons. Miss Lehman Hightower, one of McDonough’s most attractive and accomplished young ladies, who has been the guest of Miss Flor een Austin for some time, returned to her home last Tuesday. Miss Hightower made many friends du¬ ring her stay here who will regret very much to know of her de¬ parture. A negro boy in Alabama shot another Monday with a gun loaded with pebles the size of mar¬ bles. It is thought the injured ne¬ gro will die. Dr. Henry Quigg was down at Hayston, Wednesday, and assisted in installing Rev. Joseph Clotfel ter as pastor of the Presbyterian church at that place. — Covington star. Four member of the Georgia leg¬ islature have died since that body adjourned last December. Out at Salem last Suuday, a horse belonging to Mr. C. Turner, fell in an old well twenty feet deep and was pulled out unhurt. A FRIGHTFUL BLUNDER Will often cause a horriblo Bum, Scald, Cut or Bruise. Buclineu’s Salve, the best iu the world, will kill the paiu and promptly heal it. Cures Old Sores, Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boiles, Corns, all Skin Eruptions. Best Pile on earth. Only 25 cts • a box. Cure guar uuteed. Sold by Gailey Drug Co., If anything was needed to that an era of better times had last struck Georgia in full the fact that a great majority the counties in the state show stantial increases in tax returns would furnish it. Yr sftdverhisemenbs. Georgia Rockdals County. To 'whom it may concern:— Whitaker, sr., executor of Jos. H. Smith, late of said county deceased, has in from applied for an order to sell the real estate of saiq deceased described in his petition, and I will pass upon said appli¬ cation on the first Monday in Sept. nsxt. Witness my hand and signitnre this Au¬ gust 2nd. 189t. A. M. Helms, Ordinary. Georgia Rockdale County. To whom it may concen; — Mrs Sa¬ vannah S McDaniel, widow of Geo. W. McDaniel, late of said county deceased, having applied for a twelve months sa¬ por ( for herself and six minor children out of the estate of said decesed, and the appraisers appointed having filed their return in my office, this is to give due notice that I will pass upon the same on the fist Monday in September next. Giv¬ en under my hand and official signitnre. This August 2nd, 1899. A. M ‘ Helms, Ord. FOR DISMISSION. Georgia Rockdale County. To whom it may concerc. D. N. Hud¬ son . administrator of the estate of Cbas. Hudson, deceased, has made his final re¬ turn and applied for letters of dismission from such administration and I will pass upon the same on the 1st Monday in No vember {899. Witness mv hand and ofle ial signature, this 7th o“ Aug., 1899. A. M-Helms, Ord. FOR DISMISSION. GEORGIA, Rockdale County. To whom it may eoucem:—Mrs Geor¬ gia A. Husou, Guardiau forJJas. Bryan and Maggie O. Bryan, has filed her final return in my office and made application for letters of dismission from her trust as such gnardian, aud I will pass on the same on the first Monday in September 1899. Witness my hand a"d official sig latnre, this, Aug 3, 1899. A. M. Helms, Ordinary. _---- - — ' A thousand TON ^ ph5a) Pa wheushefonud thatDr j^^jy f 0r ooasuuiptin had plete i y cured her hacking cough that many years had mvde life a harden, Curt .. l<it tbe pftiil * cheg( . and j cau uow 3lee p soundly, i C au scarcely remember doing fro*- I fee, like sounding its throughout .heanmrse.-’ So one who tries Dr.Kmg 8 New for any trnble of the Throat. Chest Lungs. Price 50c. and 1100. at The Dru ,, BRIEF AND NEWSY Roberta has started a to secure a bank. There are 112 dry counties Georgia, and 25 wet. Misses Annie and Claire ford of Atlanta, are visiting Miss Sara Sue Langford. Prof, John A. Saye, school emmissioner of county died at Rutledge last Thurs day night. Only5$ cents per pound is be¬ ing paid for the first bales of cot¬ ton in many of the South towns. Prof.J. B. McLendon, of Birm¬ ingham, Ala., who was recently elected principal of our school in the city. E, O. Morgan the great cattle j king of South Florida, has recent j ly sold 28,000 head of cattle to Cuba buyers at $18 per head. ! According to the figures given I out by Secretary of State Phillip Cook, there are 3,806,000 acres of I land in Georgia. I All the prisoners in the Fay I etteville jail, twelve in number and including one murderer es oaped last Sunday night. - Capt. Sigsbee has confirmed the report that his daughter recently | j married a yomng artist in New v ’ orlt . 0lt Y where ehe herself was studying art. At Thompson last Thursday, Mrs. Fannie C. Roberts, a widow 72 years of age, was united in marriage to Mr. S. R. Weathers, a widower 76. Miss Myrt Ozborn, the young woman whom the coroner’s jury accused of the murder of the in¬ fant found in an old well at Chaun cy, was given a preliminary trial at that place, and for lack of ev¬ idence the warrant against her was dismissed. Dr. G. W. Dawdy of Jessup, has some corn so high it takes two men and a boy to see to the top of it. He measured one stalk which was 7 feet 8 inches to the ear, the full length of the stalk was 18 feet 4f inches. Dr. Len G. Bronghton, the fa¬ mous Atlanta divine upou whom severe attacks were made on ac¬ count of his denunciation of Sam Hose lynching, rather startled a Brooklyn congregation on Sunday by declaring that the ballot should be taken away from the negro in the south until he is educated to a point where heis competent to vote The latest suggestion looking towards the negro problem, comes E. J. Young, secretary of a color¬ ed relief association of North Caro¬ lina who proposes that the neg¬ roes be colonized upon unoccupied tracts of land remote from railoads “where they may thrive by hohest toil-” The track of the new railroad to Porterdale was completed on Satur¬ day, August 12, 1899, and the first shipment of freight was made on that day. machinery for Four car loads of the new factory were hauled out Saturday afternoon.—Covington Star. The grant of land included in the estate of “Dungeness. 1 J (ill Greater Comber Island was finally made to Miss Lucy Coleman negin Thursday morn inn by t, ary 0 f State Cook. Aside natuar] interest felt in the on Cumberland which.hasbeen the possession of Mrs. Carnegie, -ather of her people, for nearly years, the grant by the state ^ es terdav is unique for the ^ . ( ^ f[Jvt ()f (he kfnd to ™de ^ the fftccia . . act of t , loy.-hitu r.* firovernimt the control AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND ••TITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK. /. DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of ffyannis, Massachusetts, nas the originator of “CASTORIA,” the same that kas borne and does now bear on every the fac- simile signature of wrapper. Thu: is the original “CASTORIA” which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. L.OOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bough t on the and has the signature of wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President March 24,1S9S. Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in* gredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought" BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF & Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. THC «SMT«un OOMPHNV, >f MUMMr ITIlilT, NKWVOHK OITV. GALLEY DRUG COMPANY. Center street fronting Commercial, Conyers, Ga. The most RELIABLE GOODS, and the Most REASONABLE Prices. It matters not what you want in the Drug line, call and see them. Summer Drugs now ready. Watch for their special weekly offerings. GAILEY DRUG CO. Conyers, Georgia. J. LANilnli «yii SONS. EnmmercE Si, CnnijErs Ca. Sell for Cash or on Time. Furnish Supplies to Farm ers, Buying Cotton, etc, stocK is alwas in good shape, thev handle the best goods and have a reputation for fair, honest Healings surpassed by no house. When You Want Dither DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Clothincr, etc., for cash, go and see 8z Sons. The Cure that Cures Coughs, GftMs, Grippe, Whooping Cough, Asthma, BrortohlUo and incipient Consumption, is olios The cJURar; REMEDY* CtRMAN CuTwWm’t wad Vuuu umdcxjaSirag and 1 am prepared to give prompt satisfactory attention to all v u need my services I Supply complete. of Undertaking Jo ods Hearses furni hed without ex¬ tra char:- e. oM v r > i ■«?»»»■• urn a \> \ \ ! ; 1 i wee . . Office ai Umand Hdw Co., i CONYERS, GA.
