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VOLUME XVIII.
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The New Gents’ Furnish¬
ings, Shoe and Hat Peo¬
ple, at the Muse & Cox
Co’s. Okl Store,
74 Broad Street,
Albany, Ga.
Have just received a full
new and up-to-date line of
and Trunks.
We ask the good people of
<?ail) 0 ur) <?oui)fy
For a share of their pat¬
ronage, promising in re¬
turn the very best values
for the amount of money
spent with us to be given
by any house in South¬
west Georgia.
Satisfaction Guaranteed
or Your Money Back.
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ALBANY, GA,
Hofmayer, Jones & Co.
Of Sflbany, Set.,
cordially invite tho people
of Arlington and vicinity
to attend the
Pfciy Day Carnival
and
Street Pair
on
9/ov. 2/st, 22nel and 23rd
Bring your friends and make our
store your Headquarters, Your
meeting place. Ample accommoda¬
tions provided for visitors and we
request you to make use of them.
Lunch rooms, telephones, desks and
stationery at your disposal. You
are welcome whether you wish to
buy or not. If you have shopping
to do, you will find this a splendid
Opportunity to select from our mag¬
nificent Stock of Dress Goods and
Trimmings, Wraps and Tailor Suits
Millinery, Carpets and Ladies and
Men’s Furnishings, in fact every¬
thing carried in an up-to-date depart¬
ment store.
Our 9?/aynificont linos of
Ptoliday Soods
will be on display and our im~
manse
Uoy Department
will be open (two weeks earlier
than usual) for the convenience of
visitors, giving them first choice of
our extensive lines of Christmas
Goods. We will put them aside and
deliver them any time before
Christmas and prepay express on
purchases of $5.00 and over. Our
displays are worth coining to see.
deduced rates on all
roads•
Hofmayer Jones Si Co.,
" ALBANY, GEORGIA.
* rfr/ington IPhcirmacy
Wishesto call your attention to
the following preparations which
are guaranteed SURE CURE:
Jfortcnse’s Sotden Cye jCotion,
for sore eyes. We obtained this
formula from an oculist in De¬
troit, Michigan, Remember it
cannot be excelled by any.
Our Pfrliny ton Corn Cure is an¬
other one of our S/Zosv Ci, /res. Try
it and he convinced.
Wc ha vs oihor preparations that wc wilt toil you about nxt u i {-
lifittch out /or the advertisement.
SPemember that our Or ttys ere ait pure and fresh. \A/ F~
MANUFACTURE a number of preparations that a
yreat many retaii druyyists in tho State purchase from tho whoiesaier.
2l7e do this because we have had 29years experience.
Pfbout the /st of January we iviii receive our handsome Soda < li/ator
fountain. Come and sec no.
RESPECTFULLY,
Uhe Zftrlington Pharmacy.
jCoccil aCacontcs 0 9 0 0
—Trade with Arlington mer¬
chants.
—A number of pecans are raised
and sold near Aldington.
—Tho “I told you so’s” arc in
evidence on every corner.
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—Squirrel and quail are reported
to be rather scarce in this section
this year.
-The Georgia Pine passenger
train makes return trips to Bain-
bridge on Sundays the same as any
other day.
—Oh, yes; we have one vacant
house in Arlington. We don’t think
the caliboose has been inhabited
some time.
—The wind mill at the artesian
well has ceased to run, we suppose,
on account of the need of a little
“slickum.”
—Judge J. M. Griggs is billed to
speak in Dothan, Ala., next Sat¬
urday. If nothing happens to pre¬
vent, this scribe will be present.
—There is not a vacant two-room
house in Arlington at present. Ev¬
erything is occupied by some family
or business. This speaks well for
our town.
—At last we have secured help
and we certainly feel relieved. Our
devil says we have sure worked the
d- •1 out of him for the past
three weeks.
—Messrs. Hofmayer, Jones &
Company, of Albany, have an at¬
tractive advertisement in The Cou¬
rier this week to which we direct
your attention.
—Last Sunday night cool spell
caused a good many persons to reach
over and pull up the cover before
day, and all day Monday an over¬
coat felt comfortable.
—The census just compiled shows
our total population to he 76,295,220,
an increase in fen years of 13,225,-
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464. Georgia’s population is 2,216,-
3281 a gain in ten years of 378,976.
—The man who would send away
from home for anything that he can
secure at home is not worth a dog-
goned on a credit, when it comes to
his benefitting the town in which he
lives.
—Rev. J. I. D. Miller, pastor, filled
his regular appointment at the Bap¬
tist church here last Sunday. A
good congregation greeted this
divine at both morning and
service.
—The Courier is proud to see
hear of new enterprises coming
Arlington, because we know
more business will bring more
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1900.
Suyene’s t llform Syrup will do
the work each and every time.
This formula we have used for 20
years.
y Cure ft— For Headache, Neu¬
ralgia, etc. The formula is one
used in Berlin by specialists. Try
a package.
pie and the town will grow that
much larger.
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—Last Sunday was an ideal day
and very near everybody in this
nock of the woods took advantage
of it and went to church in the
morning and wero out strolling in
the afternoon.
—Sheriff Cold Weather closed the
j door to our office last. Monday, but
• our good old friends,Messrs. Oak and
Pine Wood came to our rescue and
stood our bond to enable ns to con-
tinue with The Courier.
_
—Thk Courier man made a picas-
ant and profitable trip to Damascus
last Saturday. Before we left our
poekets were made heavier with
j coin and wo also brought back sev¬
eral nice orders for stationery.
—Mr. Will E. Smith, of Albany,
was in Arlington last Monday ad-
vertising the Hay Day Carnival and
Street Fair, to take place in that
city on November 21, 22 and 23.
Arlington will be well represented,
rest assured.
—Don’t forget Arlington with
your last cotton. Our buyers are
still paying the highest prices, and
our merchants are selling goods
cheaper than ever. It will pay you
to pay a visit to the merchant who
invites you to his place of business
through The Courier’s colums.
—It was a woman—Miss Bremen
—who said that a wife should ho to
the domestic life of a man “like a
nightengale, like the sunbeams be¬
tween the treeswhile Mrs. Jam¬
eson describes the ideal wife as the
compound of the breadaf life, which
is love; the salt of life, which is
work ; the sweetmeats of life, which
is poetry, and the water of life,
which is faith.—Leslies Weekly.
—You can tell from the reading
of the following that Editor Jack
Powell, of the Blakely Reporter, is
not in love with the swine prome¬
nading up and down the side walks :
“Three children were, recently,
mangled by liogs on the streets of
Athens. A like occurrence may
take place on the streets of Blakely
any day. More hogs to a square
mile can't bo found anywhere else
in the world, we don’t believe.”
—A Morristown, N. J., man, who
had no confidence in saving banks,
some time ago laid his saving of a
lifetime changed into big bills.
These he tried up carefully in a pa¬
per package and secreted in his
house. The other day he wished to
add a bill to bis hoard. Where he
had left his treasure ho found the
cutest little mouse nest in the
world, with three or four little
squeakers in it. The hills were all
chewed up so fine to make the build¬
ing material for the nest that they
were of no use.
/ftST" The Pointer Brand Hats are
the lowest priced standard make.
All of the latest styles. Sold by
J. S. COWART.
Ltldison Ripplejj.
It lias been so long since. I've seen
any dots from our flourishing little
town, I concluded to write and let
the readers of the Coukikw know
just what is going on in these re¬
gions.
The weather is fine and the farm¬
ers are busy harvesting their crop
and making hay while tho sun
shines.
Miss Annie Maury is a pleasant
visitor in < )llr burg and somebody is
smiling all over his face.
Miss Celia Brinson and Miss Kat 0
Little were charming visitors here
last Saturday and we hope they will
come again and often.
Cane grindings arc strictly in or¬
der now and the young people will
enjoy life again.
You just, ought to come up to our
town Mr. Editor and see how she is
booming, hustling and building. If
it keeps on like it’s going now Ar-
lington will have to move to give us
1<M)l " s l n( ad out. Now stoics,
now dwellings and more good
schools thAn you can imagine.
W. A. Manry, from Arlington,
was at home Saturday night and
Sunday, visiting the home folks.
Allen is o clever fellow and his Ed-
ison friends are always glad to have
him with them,
To-day is election day ; will it bo
Bryan or McKinley? Will let you
know to-morrow some time, but I
can’t help but throw up my hat and
“hollow” hurrah for Bryan,
Our school is progressing nicely
under the manngememt of Miss An¬
nie Brinson, and predict a most, suc¬
cessful term both for her and the
pupils.
The Eddison people are to be com-
mended for the manner in which
they pull for the schools and the
general interest in which they take
in them. Show me a good school
and I will show you a good town.
Miss Lula Jenkins has a fine school
a t Salem and the people are to be
congratulated on securing her vnlu-
a ;iq e services,
Mr. T. M. Wiggins is principal of
the Mars Hill school and Opened up
last week with encouraging pros-
peels,
Mr. Jenkins lias been on tho sick
list, but we are glad to stale, is
much improved and will be able to
be out in a few days.
Dude.
N OTIOE!
To all who are indebted to the
firm of J. S. Cowart & Bro : You
are hereby requested to come for¬
ward at once and make prompt set¬
tlement. All outstanding debts of
this firm must he closed up without
delay. This is fair warning.
Those refusing to comply with
this request will lie sued within the
next thirty days.
J. S. COWART.
A Viiledge Blacksmith Saved His Little
Son’s Life.
Mr. H. H. Black, the well known
villedge blacksmith at Grahamsville,
Sullivan Co., N. Y., says: “Our lit¬
tle son, five years old, has always
been subject to croup, and so bad
have the attacks been that wc have
feared many times that he would
die. We have had the Doctor and
used many medicines, put Cham¬
berlain’s Cough Remedy is now our
sole reliance. It seem to dissolve
the tough mucus and by giving fre¬
quent doses when the croupy symp¬
toms appear wo have found that tho
dreaded croup is cured before it gets
settled.” There is nodanger in giv¬
ing this remedy for it contains no
opium or other injurous drug and
may be given as confidently to a
babe as to an adult. For sale by
Reddings Pharmacy.
Lost, Strayed or Stolen.
Twenty-two head of unmarked
hogs, with- description as follows:
4 white, 6 blue, 4 black, 3 black and
white spotted, 2 red and black spot¬
ted, and 3 “listed.” All from 10
months to 1 year old. Ranged on
Rock Pond on Long Branch, 6th dis¬
trict of Early county. I expect to
catch them and if any one in
neighborhood misses any hogs,
will be glud if they will come to
house and probably I have taken
them up for mine. Come
to prove your identification. I only
want m.y hogs. PIERCE LEWIS.
Damascus Doings.
Mrs. Dr. Met flam and daughter,
Mrs. Walter Ray, of Arlington,
spent Sunday at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Keaton, of Damascus.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Pratt, of Arling¬
ton, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
John Hightower.
Dr. Ward, Messrs. Goorgo and
Tom Haddock visited Arlington last
Thursday.
Mrs. Curmo Griffin has returned
home, after spending several days
in Milford.
Mr. Walter Ray passed through
Kestlor Sunday on his way to Bain-
bridge.
ML John Coy Keaton is recover¬
ing from a light case of hemoragic
fever.
Little Ross Henderson, we are
sorry to say is sick in bed again.
Mrs. W. J. Webb spent Sunday in
Kestler, the guest of Mrs. John
Henderson.
Mr. Thomas spent Wednesday in
Damascus last week.
Wonder what Bohemian meant
when he said that for fear of “Iris”
and “Brown Eyes,” ho hud better
keep quiet-; say old follow ; tell us
won’t yon?
Mrs. Dr. McClain and daughter,
Mrs. Rollin Colley, of Arlington, re¬
turned home Monday evening after
spending a- while with relatives in
Damascus.
notice:.
Tho “Thomas Grove” school is
now in want for a teachor. The
building stands by the road three
miles northwest.of Arlington. Send
application to W. II. GOFF,
11-2 3t Arlington, Ga.
~* used Chamberlain’s Colic,
“I have
Cholera and Diarrlioer Remedy and
find it to be a great medicine,” says
Mr. E. S. Phipps, of Potoau, Ark.
“It- cured me of bloody flux’ I can¬
not speak too highly of it.” This
remedy always wins the good opin¬
ion, it - not praise, of those who use
it. Tho quick cures which it effects
even in (ho most severe cases make
it a favorite everywhere. For sale
py Reddings Pharmacy.
Williamsburg Words.
(HY DAISY BELLE.)
Messrs. G. B. Perry aml’J. R.
Wooten visited Morgan Sunday.
Mr. J. C. Price, Jr., of our city,
visited homefolks in Morgan Sun¬
day. Guess there's some attraction
up there for him.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Swords visit¬
ed Morgan Sunday.
Capt. P. E. Boyd, of Leary, was
here Sunday.
Col. Boynton, of Dickey, was
here Sunday.
Dear Mr. Editor, will you admit
me back in your happy band of cor¬
respondents, after remaining a silent
reader of your newsy and prosper-
our paper for sometime? [Certain¬
ly. Our columns are always open,
and we gladly welcome you back
again.—Ed.]
Well, Bohemian, you said you had
a joke on me. I would like for you
to toll mo what it is. Iris and
Brow’n Eyes arc dozing now, and
they will not hear you. Probably
Brown Eyes is shaking hands with
another chill and Iris feeding the
chickens.
Mr. J. W. Jones, once of our burg
has move to Hartford, Ala., where
he will reside in future. He will be
very mueli missed in our vicinity.
Hartford’s gain and our loss.
Mr. F. P. Ivey paid Arlington a
visit Monday.
W. S. Swords, of our city, went
to Morgan Monday.
Mr. G. B. Perry and little boys
paid Arlington a business trip Bat-
day.
Mr. A. R. Monroe, our hustling
depot agent, visited home folks in
Morgan Sunday afternoon.
To remove a troublesome corn or
bunion; First soak the corn or
bunion in warm water to soften it,
then par it down as closely as pos¬
sible without drawing blood and ap¬
ply Chamberlain’s Pain Balm twice
daily; rubbing vigorously for five
minutes at each application. A corn
plaster should be worn for a few
days, to protect it from the shoe.
As a general liniment for sprains,
bruises, lameness and rheumatism,
Pain Balm is unequaled. For sale by
Reddings Pharmacy.
NUMBER 46.
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i o Cadies' Jfats. •
I have just received a nice I 9
p and well assorted line of Xu- 3
ga dies’ 77/edium friced Jfats at 1
* rare bargain. Can
a save *
you from 20 to 25 cents on
W them. 1
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* and inspect the line. You
gj can surely find something in
Z this assortment to suit you
and at prices unreasonably i s
~ low. I want
« Ttfore Urade. I
* i Consequently LADIES’ HATS I am at a selling very l £
® small profit. •
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iw. Jf moan this for you—-Sive
mo an often call. *
u I am not in the Milliner
nm and Dressmaking business m-mum
just for today, neither for
tomorrow. I am in it to
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i and there is one sure way m
*» succeed, and that is to sell m
s, at REASONABLE PRICES | f
1 and treat my customers 1
* RIGHT. See that
” they go away satisfied, afifl » |j
0 they are sure to make my
gj store ain their headquarters |j i
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S3 y invite all tadiea I
« to make my store their d
<s headquarters feel home. when in I town havfe j|
p and at |g
gg made all necessary arrange- n
w incuts for your comfort. *
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i Very respectfully, I
a m MRS. W. W. RAY, ■ a
gfl 77/illinor Tfrossmaker,
and |j
ARLINGTON, GA. a
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J. W. JOINER,
Watch Maker, Jeweler and Dealer
in Musical Instruments.
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0 Ciuin^ prices. STOCK
EXAMINE MY
BEFORE MAKING YOUR
PURCHASE. RELIABLE
GOODS AT LOW PRICES.
THE LARGEST & MOST
COMPLETE STOCK OF
JEWELRY
IN TOWN. NEW GOODS
STILL ARRIVING. CALL
AND SEE MY STOCK OF
Pianos &Organs
w ini- '.Wi:
W. JOINER,
27 Washington St., Albany, Gra
H. M. Calhoun,
Attorney and Councilor at
Arlington , Ga.
Office in Opera House Building
Practice in State and Federal
Courts. Prompt and persisteni
attention given at! business.
Bankruptcy matters a specialty:
DR. C. K. Sharp,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
ARLINGTON, GEORGIA.
B. W. Davis, Jr.,
Collecting Agent.
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Office with A. Or. & W. H. Pow¬
ell, Blakely, Ga. Prompt antl
careful attention given to all. coK
lections entrusted to me. 13-tf
R. G. Riley. J. R. WALKEb.
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^FIRE INSURANCES >
ARLINGTON : : ; GA.
We represent Old Reliable
QEORGE DALE, Arlington,
Make and Repair Boots and Shoes.
All work guaranteed or no pay