Georgia Historic Newspapers

    I Superintendent Gus Tarver spent
■ "PliF'Stlß.V liZT*6.
| Miss Eloise Brinson entertained
I some of her many friends with a lawn
ft. party 7 -Megiday night. Although it
rained, the young people spent the
I evening most pleasantly playing flinch.
M Bad weather 'can’t dampen Miss j
Eloise’s bright, charming spirit, and ;
I. the lingering and laughing company
I will ever remember the happy mo
ments that so swiftly passed. Among
I tV«e there were Misses Mittie Perry,
I Mamie Toney, Mary Palmer. Jessie,
I Emma and Mamie and Mrs. H. P.
Myers, Clifford Parker, Annie Neal
I , O’Conner, Messrs. W. YL Taylor,
I Jehn Johnson, W. E. Cheatham, J.
I .G. Eller son, J. H. Daniel, Jr., Hoyt
I Brinson, L. M. Davis.
I Rev. H. P. Myers is at Blooming-
I dale this week assisting in a pro-
I .racted meeting being held there.
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Mr. Charlton Hicks, of Savannah,
spent Sunday in town.
( Miss Ward Parker is visiting in
Waynesboro this week.
,' Miss Mag Hicks, from Savannah, is
visiting Miss Ada Belcher this week.
Mrs. F. 8. Cates spent last week
With relatives in the city.
Z Dr H. L Bell spent Wednesday In
Atlanta.
Z Judge Josiah Holland spent Tuesday
K*. Waynesboro.
Miss Ward Parker is to visit friends
and relatives in Sylvania and Rocky-
Ford soon.
’ Miss Cosey Eaves, a charming young
lady of Wadley, is visiting Miss Carrie
Hargroves.
Mrs. R. B. Brinson returned home
Monday after a visit to Sylvania.
The many friends of Dr. J. W. Pat
‘ terson will regret to learn that he is
seriously ill at Indian Springs.
Mrs. C. V. DeLoach and Mrs. Daisy
Simpson, are visiting in Statesboro
mis week.
/ Miss Abbie Blount, of Waynesboro,
is spending some time in Millen as the
guest of Miss Florrie Parker.
Dr. T. J. Belt was called to the
sick bedside of nephew, Mr. Inman
Belt, near Herndon, last Tuesday.
The,News must and will wave a cor
respondent in her territory at every
office. We expect to pay a geed cor-1
I respondent handsomely, for such ser-
i Now is the time to subscribe for
'' ? ' f be.News while it is new. A beautiful
' atery wMte will be run in thdsd col
umns is atone worth the price of sub
scription. After this issue The News
will carry Millen’s cotton and produce
market reports and tne correct time
table of the arrival and departure of
eveir train.
Z" Mr. George W. C. Lane, of Emma
lane, was in town Tuesday.
, The people of Millen are clamoring t
for free rural mail routes. They
Bseem to want to get near their coun
try friends, which is right.
I^' Mr. I. W. Gay, of Scarboro was
here Tuesday and directed The News
sent to him every week.
Mr. B. L. Johnson, of Thrift, visited I
us Tuesday and did likewise.
Mr. John L. Gay, of Thrift, heads
r the list for subscribers to The News.
He goes down in history as the first
subscriber.
Ask Uncfe “Dock” Godbee about
that wonderful invention (?) It beats
fishing in water “waist deep.”
Mr. Ira O. Parker returned Sunday
s from Kentucky where he purchased a
fine thoroughbred trotter. This will
add another to Millen’s team of fast
trotters.
Our chief has some nice things qf
Millen in short write up this week, but |
unless the property holders back him
| up, by letting loose some of their sur
; plus dirt, what will happen to him
I when the home-seekers arrive?
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I AH the combined newspapers in the
Lr*world can't build the city without
[ v ground to build upon. Now’s the time
’ for the citizens of Millen to organize
1 a land company.
’ Let us have the news. All you know,
I hear, learn, see or can send us to.
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F Mrs. Jos. Lanier and son. Benja-!
I- a*
Miss Annie Neal O'Connor, of Au
gusta, is spending a few days In the
city, guest of Mrs,'J. H. Daniel.
I type. What have you? Trade or
t; anything.
Pu; an advertisement in The Millen
News. More people will -ead It in
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Swainsboro.
By Pat. "'- ■ \
COUNTY AND CITY DIRECTORY.
Superior Court.
B. D. Evans, Judge.
B. T. Rawlins, Solicitor General.
J. F. Price. Clerk. •
• G. F. Flanders, Sheriff.'
• Algie Curl, Deputy Sheriff.
City Court.
Hon. Frank Mitchell, Judge.
Ephraim Price, Clerk.
W. W. Larsen, Solicitor.
County.
John E. Youmas. Ordinary.
John C. Coleman, Chairman.
County Commissioners.
N„ L. Gillis, Wm. Connally, D. H.
Smith and E. D. Rountree. J. L. Mc-
Lenn. Clerk County Commissioners.
John W. Gillis, Tax Collector.
John Thompson, Tax Receiver.
J. D. Smith, Treasurer.
J. P. Pughiy, Surveyor.
E. Warren, County School Commis
sioner. L
Hon. R. J. Williams. President
Board. *
N. R Youmas, Rowan DttWlen, Joe
A. Durden and W. J .Aarons, Commis
sioners.
City.
Geo. Rentz, Mayor.
'J. A. Bell. Marshal.
S. G. Williams, W. W. Larsen and
J. F.' Sutton, Aidermen.
Societies.
F. &A. M.—H. L. Tolbert, W. M.
K. of P.—J. E. Meadors, C. C.
Churches.
''Rev. Bascomb Sentell, pastor M.
E. Church. Services every Sunday.
Rev. Barnes, pastor Baptist Church.
Captain E. H. Thompson's Swains
boro Guards are now encamped on the
sand hills of Augusta.
The army of Swainsboro may do
some sort of service before seeing
home again.
One of the local paper’s force has
gone off on an outing. He’s camp-ed
out.
New Law Firm.—Judge Alf Herring
ton and Colonel Gus Lee, from
Statesboro, have formed a partner
ship for the practice of Jlaw In
Swainsboro. Office in the court
house, same room occupied by Judge
Herrington ever since the building of
the new courthouse. Colonel Lee will
attend strictly to the office work. How
ever he is none the less a brilliant
courthouse attorney. He is strong be
fore the jury and has already won
many victories as an advocate.
Mrs. Georgia Marsh md Mrs. Emma
Thomas, of Waynesboro, are visiting
Mrs. R. Ella Rountree, of Swainsboro.
• Messrs. Larsen and Bell, of the For
est and Blade, will begin the publi
cation of a paper in Stillmore. News
papers ategeiiing to be as common
as railroad wrecks and lynchings.
Mrs. George Rountree, of Oakfield,
is visiting her mother in law. Mrs. H.
M. Rountree, of tms city.
Mrs. Judge H. R. Daniel is spend
ing some time at the Capital City,
while the judge himself is already
there engaged in law making. ,
Senator R. J. Williams was down
from Atlanta last Monday attending
ordinary’s court. Bob is determined
that politics shall not break up his
professional d Hies. >
Mrs. T P. -affold and little Ruth
will visit, relatives in Savannah this
week
Sylvania Locals.
By Lonesome Tony.
Mrs. Aaron Silon, of Augusta, and
Miss' Brilant. of Charleston, are visit
ing Mrs. Wolf Silon.
Mr. Benj. Waters and Miss Lena
Heath were married here last Sunday.
This wedding of these popular young
people was- something of a surprise
to their many friends.
Quite, a number of cases are docket
ed in city court for Monday.
Miss Etta Lovett, of Hillis. Ga.. Is
visiting Mrs. T. W. Oliver, this week.
There is considerable talk nere of
Judge E. K. Overstreet for solicitor
general to succeed Hon. B. T. Rawl
ings. Nothing definite can be said as
yet, but should he consent to run, his
host of friends and admirers will see
that he lands in the office.
HOLM EB-GH EESLING.
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On the favored day of Wednesday,
3:30, in the evening July Ist. -at the
residence of the bride's father, near
Sparta, Ga., Dr. G. E, Holmes was
married to Mrs. Annie Mae Gheesling.
The ceremony was a Very quiet but
beautiful one, having been performed
by the groom’s father. Rev. T. J.
Holmes. Only a few close friends and
relatives were present and some of
Spri-
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best
'hile
emy
iual
auty
won many friends and admirers. She
comes not unknown to Millen people
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LIKE VENICE ON STILTS
IS NEW YORK SETTLEMENT I
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of Jamaica Bay; Jbd Tli . FeUcwship*
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Down by Jamaica bay. on the road
to Rockaway, New York, there is a
curious settlement of about three hun
dred houses which stand high and dry
on stilts on either side of the batjks of
Haw Tree creek. The creek serves as
a highway, speedway and boulevard to
the aquatic population, who each year
leave tne noisy city and join the col
ony. Known as Ramblersville and
with a summer population of about
one thousand, which is augmented on
Sundays by another thousand, this lit
tle colony is without government, poli
tics, police, churches or regulations of
any sort Sav’s good will to each other.
And it Is probably one of the happiest,
and most harmonious communities in
the" greater city.
This novel community has been
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“The Bridge of Sighs.”
fourteen years in building and getting
together. Gscar Rust was the pio
neer. He planted a small fishing sta
tion on the -creek, and now the name
of the station appears on the railroad
time table and trains stop at the little
platform station on their way to and
from Long Island City. Years ago the
community grew up to the railroad
track, where it was halted. Now the
place can only grow one way and that
is down the creek toward the bay, and
the tail end of the village Is now be
ing lengthened by the erection of a
dozen or more new houses.
Building regulations are unknown
along the creek and no regular style
of architecture was attempted. In
stead, the conglomeration of boat
houses, fishing clubs and summer
homes are thrown together in happy
confusion. Viewed from a distance it
seems as if the entlrfe three hundred
houses were thrown out along either
side of the creek in hit or miss fash
ion. But all the houses are built for
comfort. They are watertight, will
weather the showers of summer and
btoak Rtornw of winter. Every,
place is equipped with a camping out
fit of beds, cooking utensils and othe
nbcessary articles, so that when the
season opens hundreds of women and
children take up their abodes in the
apparently rickety buildings, content-,
ed and happy, and settle down to
spend the summer. Many of the
houses are owned by two or more fam
ilies and they either take turns week
about of staying at Ramblersville or
they‘all find accommodations within
the narrow limits. It speaks Well for
the community that the families thus
bunking together are just as good
friends at the closing as they were at
the opening pf the season. In the fall
they leave their summer homes with
regret and eagerly look forward to a
reunion in the coming year.
Just now Ramblersville is undergo
ing the usual spring overhauling.
Most of this work is done on Sundays
by the owners, who are occupied with
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Typical Architecture. '
' their business or work during the
! week. Families are already beginning
■ to take up their abode in the deserted
1 houses and the creek is resounding
■ with the soft voices of women and
- shouts of childish laughter.
High tide from the bay sweeps the
salt meadows on which this quaint
cluster of houses stands. Waters
i surge back and forth under the floors,
• lapping the piles. When the tide re
. cedes it leaves a field of wet meadow
, grass and soft ooze, so that at low
, tide all eommunicaUon from one house
; narrow, raised footwalks that zigzag
•| th^pS^ 0 Instep of lockin?Xir
; | a^StXoTneighbor™^ ts^^
are free iom intrusion, at least by
land. ’
On the *-ater it is different. Worn
en and e^en children go calling in '
. boats, at, -which there are several , '
fleets of Hg and little crowding both
banks of the creek. What is more,
the w®nm handle the boats them i 1
selves. * Pushing off from the banks 1
of the cieek, they bend to the oars 1
like professionals. Even little chil-,
dren pec.ime experts in handling a
boat, an< as everybody at Ramblers
vllle ein swim, at high tide the nar- ‘
row creel is alive with a happy’ crowd
of women ahd children. They roll :
•out Os thsir homes right Into the fresh ’
salt ' rater and splash about until the . •
tide begins to fall. A drowning acci
dent along the creek has yet to be !
recorded
Spanning the creek at a nar- j
row point Is a home-made drawbridge,
which Is swung to and fro’ in opening
something like a door. This bridge,
which is built of driftwood, is about
four feet wide and will just admit of
the passage of two persons, not over
stout, going in opposite directions.
Ernest Gertlinger, an aged German (
and a veteran of several wars, is the 1
bridge-tender. He is kr-own as the
“Mayot m Ramblersville,” and bls .
word or4matters pertaining to naviga-'
tion of creek and bridge etiquette 1
is law. . •
Mayor ’ fiertlinger is one of the at
tractions and fixtures of Ramblers- -
ville. Byway of collecting toll he has
; a cash box posted on the bridge and j
passengers going to and fro make ;
whatever contribution they jleslre. On
s opening Jiis box following a busy Sun
day last Rummer the mayor found that
. somebody had perpetrated a joke by
’ placing several Brooklyn bridge tickets ,
1 in the box The mayor considered this j
. a Slight on his bridge and gave the
i colony fan warning the next Sunday
: that if any attempt Was made to re-
I peat the slight he would maroon the
. crowd on the opposite shore at train
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’ Just a Sunday Outing Party.
’ time by keeping his bridge open. Since
' then no further tricks have been at
’ tempted on his honor.
‘ Fanciful names are painted on dis
. ferent houses. The Alhambra Is a
modest one-story structure. Then
J there is the Silver King,. Fairmount,
Ramblersville, Frolics and the home
of the Ikey Boat Builders. “Pop’s
Home” is where the mayor resides, 1
and He is surrounded by the Trilby
1 Boat club, the Meadow View, the Ten
ny Bqat chib, Live Oak, Richmipd,
Fuchs^pau, Jack’s House, lolanthe, the
' Lone Star Boat club, Jolly Boys, Live
s Oak, Viola, Savoy, Atlas, Uncle Sam
1 and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
The principal families which make
up the e^my are residents of Brook
lyn, although not a few come from
Manhattan.
Recently, through a decision of the
courts, the greater city came into pos
session of the entire section of Jamal
ca Hay formerly owned by the old
town of Jamaica. This section has an
fmmdiise water front, fine waterways
and small islands. By proper dredg
ing irithin a few years tne greater
ci^igUthprities can build in the bay |
a Venice which will prove ope of the
wotMiers Os New York. At present
there are many fishing colonies scat
tered in and along the bay, but for
quaintness and real outdoor enjoy
ment Ramblersville leads them all.—
New York Bun.
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Temper Sign Boards.
In a Japanese temple there is fixed
a wooden frame filled in with nails.
When a man is vexed with anyone, in j
stead of going to harm the person he
pays the priest e certain sum at
money for a nail and drives it into the
frame. In this way he relieves his
tdmS®r without doing much harm. It
? would be* a good idea to have similar I
5 'fames fixed up in places here, ec
1 that when little boys and girls were in
» dined to be a trifle naughty they
1 could tike nome nails and hammer
I them into these frames till all the bad
11 totoper disappeared.
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Must U»e Home Products.
’ | Recently issued instructions pre
, i-scribe that, in the garrison kitchens
, and canteens of the German army,
, । bom? produce only shall be, so far a?
. possible, used. American lard and fat
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British Antarctic Expedition Now
Holds Crte Honor.
The furthest point south ever
rosated by man is latitude 82.17.
longitude 163 west, only 250 miles fur-,
ther from the South Pole than Nan
sen’s furthest point was from the
Jorth Pole.
This point was reached last winter
by the exploring party on the British
Antarctic ship Discovery.
News of this Important achieve
ment has reached England through
the relief ship Morning, which found
the Discovery in McMurdo Bay, Vic
toria Land, on January 23.
The Morning returned to Lyttelton,
New Zealand, whence the news was
sent out.
The Discovery left Littelton about
Christmas, 1901. She made Cape
Adair on January 9, and thence skirt
ed along the edge of the great ice
barrier which runs eastward from
Cape Crozier as far as longitude
152.30, where an extensive glaciated
lend 'with lofty peaks was discovered.
Returning westward, good winter
quarters were found near Mounts Ere
bus and Terror, and the ship was
frozen in on March 24. When winter
had passed sledging began on Sep
tember 2, 1902, and a number of
sledge journeys were undertaken in
various directions, the most import
ant being made by Commander Scott,
Dr. Wilson and Lieut. Shackleton,
who traveled south until they reached
latitude 82.17 and longitude 163 west,
and established a world’s record for
the furthest point south.
The trip was made under very try
ing conditions, and the party had to
drag the sledges back to the ship,
all the dogs having died on the out-
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ward journey. Lieut. Shackleton burst
a blood-vessel in one of his lungs, and
almost died from exposure. He re
turned on board the Morning.
SHE MAILED HER TEETH. 4
Embarrassing Position In Which El
derly Lady was Placed.
A lady advanced in years stood
patiently though nervously for more
than tjj hour at the corner of Seven
teenth itueet and Monumental ave
nue the other' ta,';. It was apparent
that she was In very much of a di
-lemmn, and ,was waiting Ser someone
to relieve her embarrassment. Her
patience was Anally rewarded. It was
the postman whose arrival she had
; been anticipating, but neither to give
nor receive mail was the object of
he? wait Instead she embarrassing
ly explained to him that she had hur
ried to the box' to mail a letter, and
just as the deposit was about to be
made she sneezed violently, dislocat
ing her false teeth, which, catching
in the same hand that held the letter,
in her agitated absent-mindedness she
placed in the postbox by mistake. The
postman returned her lost molars and
told her it was not unusual to find
I many odd things deposited in this
way, which somewhat relieved the
mind of the old lady, who, replacing
her teeth in position and thanking
the carrier, hurried to her nearby
home.—Philadelphia Press.
TURNIP HAS HUMAN SHAPE.
Peculiar Formation of Plant Grown
Many Centuries Ago,
This turnip, bearing a rude re
semblance to a human face and form,
grew as far back as 1628, In a garden
in the village of Weidan, near Bonn,
in Germany, and for the illustration
we are indebted to a curious old book.
The leaves simulate hair standing up,
or the head feathers of ladies in
court costume. On the round part of
the root were fantastic imitations •of
I nose, eyes, and month; and by a very
’ slight stretch of the imagination the
entwined tap roots might bo taken as
the queerly shaped and disposed limbs
of a seated female specimen of some
stunted and mummified variety of the
genus homo.
He Punished Her.
Brown went to Scotland for his hol
idays last summer, and, wishing to
let a friend know of his safe arrival,
he entered a sub-postoffice and in
quired if .he could send a telegram di
rect to London, and how long it would
take. The young lady, who was in
clined to be snubbtsh, cut short his in
quiries with: “I am not paid to an-
I swer silly questions.” Imagine his
feelings, however, when she found
herself compelled to wire the follow
ing: “Arrived safe. Girls here ugly
and bad 9f
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"V—Sir «I «•»*. «a b ~ ■
^mbiSon a » circle toea nm. ' ■
*“ Fecb baprne to tto leeding piece asr fisd. ■
Sect beCkirard gtana «Siow« bio tto wiaaiag one: ■
Each forward ksk.teße him to k behind ■
He qnefia betiaace the red wise tA r.cceee, ■
And then aside he casts the empty ogh- B
Another TOond. end in his eagerness
That which h^flang away to woold kto apt
^mbitioo is a circle where
Etch fancying MmeeH inav bold the fmrt"
A nee with prised guerdon new wm; I
Where no me is contented with hie meed: K
Where men go, suieing ceuelessiy, tto round. K
And think al lest their effort! arc oomptete. B
When, following, they bear the warning aomd— B
Tto failing o< a nearing rival’a feet ■
W'S BARABBAS A PUBLISHER?!
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Incident That Recalls Jest of George ■
Augustus Sala. ■
The recent news of the arrest at ■
, Budapest cf a notorious gang ofß
thieves, whose chief turned Out to beH
a publisher, recalls the story of George B
Augustus Sala’s presenting a Bibleß
to a certain London publisher whoH
bad handled some of his books. saysH
Harper’s Weekly. The publisher was®
at a loss to understand*just why heH
should have been singled out for this®
peculiar gift, until some t|me after he®
discovered a slight change in the®
wording cf John jtviii.. 40, where the®
phrase, “Now, Barabbas was a. rob ®
her,” was made to read "Barabbas®
was r pubdsher.” When Miss Cor-H
Uli's Barabbas” appeared with the®
text.g|^he title page a fevitwer.®
words in his review, evi-®
^®9PKBKMi’'rily written, received®
R'ith the amazing state-®
■ was a ratter.” Cor-®
>t wise t<,
the reWW throucn to a finish in printfl
and asked tor another proof. Eithefl
the prcctreader was not. given ufl
’searching the Scriptures, or his zeal®
for truth led him to overconscientious- B
news, for the writer his cor- B
rectfon gar!led to r ^^^tHßarcbL as V
was a rott< r ' 3HFI
CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE. J
Ootible Catfish Captured on N^rt- I
Carolina Shore. °|
The -acc&toP&BytiiK cut iota I
tion represents a I
many yea-aXto tojflk SilA-esffi. an ,1
captured alive in a shrimp net at the
mouth of Cape Fear river, North. Car
oline. It took the form of two com
plete bodies, joining at the breast,
Siamese twins fashion, the point ot
i union being marked with a dark
streak. Between the viscera of the
fishes there was no connection at all,
but the joining integument was hol
low and flexible, and the two could
swim easily together. The bigger of
the oddly united couple seems to have
had the start of the other in the battle
of life, and to have annexed the lion’s
share of the good things which tell
to their joint lot.
An Ominoua Phrase.
“I hope you will excuse what may
seem to you to be a liberty,” said the
young man.
“Certainly,” replied the merchant,
“I am sure that you will not presume
on your position as a trusted em
ploye ”
"It is just that that I desire to men
tion.’ 1 heard you speaking of me to
one of your friends the other day as
a ‘trusted employe,’ and I wanted to
Ask you as a sp'ecial favor to call me
something else. After all that has
been happening I can’t help feeling
that it causes me to be regarded with <
suspicion which I do not deserve.”—
New York Times.
What the White House Is.
To the American people the white
house represents the personality of the
president of the United States. To
the politician the magic words may
stand for the goal of an ambition too «
often associated with the deepest and
most poignant disappointment, while
to the historian the name may typify
decisions that have marked epochs in
the affairs of nations. In the mind ol
the people, however, the- official ctaFA
Meter of the building has always been
Bubsidlnate to its domestic uses. Pop.
ularly speaking, the white-house is the
place not where the president wwks,
but where he entertains.—Charles
Moore in Century.
To Warm Railroad Cars.
A new system of warming the p**?-
enger compartments en an English
railway is being tried. It consists &
oyus argea wita eaemlcals.