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CHATTOOGA NEWS.
"FRIDAY MORNINGUPDY -7, 1888?
Ij W. Sturdivant & c|]
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DEALERS IJST
STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES
OF EVERY KIND.
BACON,
LARD, FLOUR,
MEAL, SUGAR,
COFFEE, TEA, RICE, GRITS,
CAN FRUITS,
MEATS, RASINS, CURRANTS,
BAKING POWDERS.
Also
—A FULL LINE OF
Drugs, Hardware,
Queensware, Tobacco,
Cigars; and Country-
Produce a Specialty.
. CHEAP
For Cash or Barter.!
Local and Personal.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
To the I’Kori.E of Chattooga Coun
ty: I am a candidate for re-election as
Representative of Chattooga county in
the General Assembly of Georgia, and I
respectfully ask the vote of each of my
fellow-citizens of the comity. Election I
first Wednesday in October next.
W. M. iIF.NHY.
July Kit 11, 1888.
W. D. Taylor visited Rome Tues
day.
Prof. Satu Jones was in town
Sunday.
NptAee change of schedule of the
' C., R & C.
Master Dick Maddox is conva-!
lenscing. . I
We had to leave, over some ar-1
ticles until next week.
Ice cold sodawatcr and lemonade!
at Buck Hollis’s Store.
Mrs. 11. M. Burkhalter has been
very ill for the past week.
t ome out to the Presbyterian!
prayer meeting Friday evening.
There is considerable complaint
of the rust having attacked cotton.!
Joe Cox is now on a business
trip in Northern Alabama selling!
bee gums.
Oliver L. Wyly returned from his
trip west this week, looking well
and hale.
The obituaries of Mrs. 11. G. Ba
ker and Mrs. J. R. Doster will ap
pear next week.
H. T. Evins has sold his steam
saw mill to J. J. Ross, the consider
ation being SBOO.
Miss Belle Steele spent some time
visiting Mrs. Margaret Close at
Raccoon last week.
The Baptist prayer meeting will
be held at Jesse Sewell’s Thursday
evening of this week.
For sale, at a bargain, one Zim
merman Fruit Dryer. Good one.
Hollis <t Hixton.
■WANTED —50 shouts; will pay!
the cash for them. Apply to John- '
son it Clemmens, Summerville.
Miss Tennie Pursley, of near
Trion, a charming young lady, paid
this office a visit Monday.
Woodbury Fruit Jars, quartsand
half gallons, best on the market,
for sale by Hollis & Hinton.
For sale, a milch cow, giving 14
gallons of milk a. day. Apply at this
oilice for further information.
J. E. Burns, of Chattanooga, was
in Lawn Tuesday. He will open up
a liquor house in this place the Ist
of August.
The Indian show nuisance visited
this place last Friday. We honest-.
ly believe the monkey was the besti
part about it.
We return thanks to Dr. J. M. I).
King, of Alpine for a box of nice
grapes sent Tuesday. They were
duly appreciated.
Misses Rhoda Bandy and Lois
Maxey, of Trion, visited the aunt
of the latter, Mrs. L. C. Johnson, at
this place last Sunday.
E. W. Lee has a cotton press
which has been in use only one
Vear for sab*, with fixtures. Cail
on him for particulars.
A peculiarity of Hood s Sarsa
parilia is that while it purifies the
blood, it Imparts new vigor to every
function of the body.
B. B. Coleman, of this paper,
went to Chattanooga Tuesday.
This was our opportunity for get
ting even with him for bad treat- I
ment when we went to that city
some time ago, but we forbear. !
Elam Johnson, of Chattanooga,
came down last week on a visit to
the family of S. W. McWhorter.
He returned Tuesday.
John W. Cain has sold his prop
erty in Broomtown, consisting of a
residence, mill and three acres of
land, to Dock Wilson.
J. T. Holland and wife and Mrs.
J. R. Clemmons left Tuesday on a
visit to relatives in Texas. They
will be gone several weeks.
Tom Butler in attempting to
mount a Texas pony last Sunday
was struck by the pony in such a
way as to break his jaw bone.
Our prices tell the people and the
people tell the price. Result: quick
sales, crowded store and customers
happy. Hollis <fc Hixton.
Miss Mattie 'Williams, a lovely
young lady of Atlanta, is visiting
her cousins, Misses Ellen and Lizzie
Hawkins, of this place this week.
M iss Lily Shropshire, after spend-,
ing two weeks in Rome very pleas
antly, returned to Chattooga coun
ty yesterday.—Rome Tribune, 21st.
W. C. Johnson, formerly of this
place but now of Chattanooga, was
in town for a day or two this week
sharking hands with his many frjends
Will some one of our subscribers
j who possess it kindly send us a copy
of the News of date of June Ist!
’88? It will be a great favor to us. |
I Grill' Harper, six years old sen of
!W. R. Harper, of Broomtown, was
kicked by a mule last Saturday
and hurt very badly : not danger
ously, however.
Eugene Smith brought to this
office last week a sweet ’tater of
of this year’s raising which meas
ured 5 inches long and large around
.in proportion.
D. W. Smith organized last week
| a regular Farmers’ Alliance at
Chattooga in Walker county, the
first one in that county. It began
with 33 members.
J. W. Pitts calls the attention of
Alliance men to his prices on all
articles ’of merchandise. He will
sell you your goods at prices as low
I as goods can be sold.
I Mr. W. 11. Owings, of Dirttown,
I found in his garden recently on
I one of his pea vines a pea hull 304
I inches long filled with peas. It was
; of the cow pea variety.
| A. B. Rhinehart sent to this office
! Monday a cluster of nine peaches
ion one limb. On these peaches and
I the potato Eugene Smith brought
in we have been faring sumptuously
| this week.
| This week’s edition of the News
i numbers 1,130. Next week it will
number something like 1,300. Be
ware of advertising anything in
next week’s paper unless you want
to sell it.
B. L. Knox, the popular proprie
tor of the Knox House, has a new j
title now. It was given him by one j
of the darkies whom he helped ar
rest last Saturday. He called Mr. !
Knox the “eatin’ boss.”
Children will freely take Dr. J.
11. McLean's Tar Wine Lung Balm; i
unlike cough syrups, it contains no :
opium, will soothe and heal any dis-! I
case of the throat or lungs quicker I ]
than any other remedy. j:
Our young friend Robert Beav-! ;
ers says the picnic at Alien’s Spring 1
last Saturday was a perfect success.;'
There was plenty to eat, good mu
sic, dancing, some love-making, in !
which he took a full hand, etc. He
wants to have one every week.
Sheriff Worsham lodged Mack!
Russell in jail Monday. Russel!
is a young white man and is wanted
in Pickens county on a charge of
assault and battery. The sheriff
of that county has been notified of
the arrest and will come after the
prisoner.
True to appointment the moon
gave one of her semi-occasional,
total-eclipse performances last Sun
day night to a large and mystified j
audience. The performance began
:at about 10:20 and at 11 thceclipse
was total. It was a beautifully i
clear night and the eclipse could be
seen to perfection.
The county is entitled to a free
scholarship in the state school of
Technology and it will be awarded
to the one who before School Com
missioner J. D. Taylor stands high
est in a competative examination.
Applicants should address Mr. Tay
lor as the time for admittance to
the examination expires the Ist of
September.
Mr. L. B. Ramsaun, the clever and
genial represent;.live of the Consti
tution, is in town today in’ the in
terest of that paper. He will make
I arrangements to have the daily!
I Constitution brought on the C., R.
•fc C. railroad and thus reach its
: readers here on thebaine day it is
published. This will be a great
! point in the Constitution’s favor ■
and ought to increase its circulation
I here.
Master Ed Lovejoy, son of John
11. Lovejoy, of Atlanta, is visiting
his relatives, the family of Judge
Hawkins, this week.
J. M. Barnard has bought a fruit
dryer with a capacity of 10 bushels
per day and proposes to try what
virtue there is in fruit drying.
T. IL Berry went off last Sunday
on a visit, but he was so quiet about
it that no one knows with certainty
where. We suspect though it was
to Gordon county.
We understand that 11. P. Wil
liams and T. F. Maxey, of Trion,
left Wednesday on an extended trip
west. Mr. Maxey goes on business
for Mr. I). F. Allgood.
Oct Wyatt and Thos. Holbrook
left Wednesday on a month’s visit
to the Indi.in Territory. W. M.
Rich .and James Majors loft the
same day for Arkansas.
Mrs. Cannon, of Trion Factory,
who bn« been visiting her sister, |
.Mrs. Rounsaville, returned home!
yesterday via. the ('., R. <t C. rail-:
road.— Romo Tribune, 21st.
Call on J. M. Barnard for nice J
apples and pears. He also buys ;
apples, peaches, pearsand Irish po-1
tatoes when not bruised. Don’t
want less than three bushels at one
time.
E. W. Sturdivant and E. C.'
Adams, Jr., have the contract to i
grade the side track at this place. '
I Work was begun last Monday, and
j will be completed in about two
■ weeks.
D. W. Smith organized recently
in this county in one day three sub-
Alliances: one at Chattoogaville,
one at New Hope and one at South
Carolina campground. He will or
ganize another at Foster’s Store
next Friday.
J. Mack Henley, formerly of this
place but now of Chattanooga, was
in town last week in the interest of
a grocery house of that city. His!
many friends hero were glad to see l
him looking well.
Again we take pleasure in calling!
the attention of our readers to the
bargains to be had in all lines of
goods at the store of that clever
merchant, J. W. Pitts. Try him;
he will treat you right.
Miss Rena Berry, after spending
a week here, returned to Rome Wed
nesday, accompanied by Miss Lena ;
Hiles. Miss Lena will return Sat
urday and Miss Rena will probably:
return Monday and spend some fur- j
ther time here, to the delight of her
many friends.
Col. T. Munroe Lee, a popular
commercial tourist, traveling from
Baltimore, engaged the attention
of Dalton merchants last week. He
is so charmed with Dalton and
surroundings that he intends to
bring his family here to spend the
summer.—Dalton Citizen.
An ex-member of the Georgia
legislature was among the convicts
who were ballasting the railroad j
last week through this place. He j
■ was a colored man and had helped
frame laws fifteen years ago, being!
elected from one of the counties in ;
the lower part of the State.
Last week it was rumored in Rome
that some citizen of that place held
a tenth of ticket No. 47,843 which
drew the $50,000 prize in the Louis
ana Lottery, but inquiry failed to
find the lucky holder. It now trans- j
pires that Jailer J. M. Jenkins held |
a tenth of the ticket. He received i
$5,000 for it last Monday.
There will be a re-union of the j
6th Georgia Cavalry Regiment at I
Sardis church, in Floyd county,!,
Aug. Btb, 1888, fifteen miles west of!
Rome. Fare from Rome for the!
round trip, -10 cents. All membersl
aie specially urged to attend. Fori
further information, address J. A.J
Bale or J. A. Glover, Rome, Ga. j
Air. W. 11. Williamson, a brothel®
of President ■Williamson, of the C.J
R. & C. railroad, has been appointed
agent of the road at
!Ga. The new appointee is a
roader of experience, a young intM
l of sterling business qualities anil
will make a capital officer for thß
new and progressive road.—
tanooga Times.
Richard Abercrombie returM
from South Carolina recently
his persistent wooing during
moons culminated in winningjV .
bride. .Mr. Abercrombie
ably take up bis permanent I
deuce in this county :asit is T -y
known that nowhere on
can a newly married couple h<
better or happier time.
D. S. Pharr, formerly
county but now of
was in town Monday.
Mr. Pharr has * traveled over
rati at a greater rate of speed
any man low living.
! was on a car on the incline
■ which has a grade of one foot i.W
i every four and the cable to whiclfl
the car was attached broke, precip-1
itatiug the car down the incline for I
about two thousand feet at a rate
of speed of probably 300 miles an
hour. Mr. Pharr now shows few
traces of his swift ride, although he
' received injuries which was thought
at the time would prove fatal.
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