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“Johnnic get vour haircut” at
Charlie Girtman’s,
Hon. Jno. A. Cromartie arrived
home Saturday.
Read the new town ordinances,
‘which appears in this issue.
The picture man will leave here
shortly. Better hurry up and have
“your “beauty struck.”
~ Farmers, attend the meeting at
Jthe court house Saturday morning
-at 10 o’clock, if possible, | 3
- If your shoes need reiaeiring car
- ry them to J. E. Huff, the shoe
and harness maker, upstairs over
the Cijizens Bank. |
Mr. T. S. Harrison and wife and
Mr. Holly Crosby, of Graham, spent
+Sunday in Hazlehurst, the guest of
- Mr. and Mrs. Henry Harrison.
After spending quite awhile here,
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J.M
Webb, Mrs. Hattie McCook return
ed to her Lome in Waycross on
- Sunday last. ,
About all of our legal lights are
ou; of the city th's week. Some
are at. Douglas, attending the Sup
- erior zourt, while others are ih Bax
ley attending the city-eOHurt.
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" Mrs. . B. Price ‘ahd baby re
turned home from Broxten Tues
day, from where theiy had been
since Friday last, visiting Col.
Price’s parents. »
We rise to remark, that iz is aw
ful dry in this neck of the woods
just now. The ponds and branchss
around are drying up, which makes
it bad on cattle.
Mr. Eugefe Willisms will leave
for Atlanta within the next, day or
“two to purchase a car-load of hgrfigs]
“When He retugls hé wilk-have sone
‘thing to say. té'the ~public through
The News. : _
Thare is nothing that beautifies a
home like nice pictur2s-on the wall.
T. H. Weatherly is letting every
one who tradss two dollars worth at
his store have a handsome picture
27 x 23, for 40ots. ;
Billie Searbrough, the reformed
drunkard and gambler, lectured
here on Tallahassee street, Tues
day mornjng. He tells his own
experience with booze and gamb
'ing, andit is, indeed; & very sad
one. SR ,
Every farmar in Jeff Dav's eoun
ty, who can, are requested to. meet
at the coourt house, Hazlehurst, on
Saturday next, 9th inst.-at 10 am.
This invitation is to all- T-»mers of
the county, whether they are union
men or not.
Messrs. R. B. Williams.and Jerry
MecDonald went over to Douglas
Monday with a drove of horses be
longing to R. B. and Eugene Wil
liams. As Superior court is in ses
sion in that eity this week, no
doubt they will dispose of many of
them.
Misses. Rubie and Hall'e Johnson,
the accomplished daughters of Dr.
“and Mrs. 8. W* Johnson, came down
from Mcßae TFriday afternoon,
where they are attending college,‘
and spent Saturday and Sunday
with their parents.
Miss Nellie Deal has been em
ployed again to take charge of the
Telephone Exchange through the
day. She has many friendsin town
who will be glad to learn this, as
she gave universal satisfaction to
the patrons when she was emp]u_\'ed‘
there in the spring.
Masters Gus Tippins and Tom
Pace decided that they wanted Lo{
jee some of the world, so tey
boarded the north bound passener
srain Sunday night for parts in
known. When last heard fram
they were at Adel. We learn that
the parents of these youni ¥is
have decided to let them Whan
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AND OTHER NEWS ITEMS
OF A SOCIAL NATURK
Mr. Leander Bateman, formerly
editor of The Douglas News, passed
through Hazlehurst Saturday en
route to Fitzgerald, to accept a
position on The Leader. He is a
good, all-round printer, and a very
ambitious young man. Success to
you, old boy.
Frank Pace, colored, was up be
fore the mayor on Tuesday last,
charged with drunk and disorderly.
He was asscssed $lO, and cost, or
20 days on the streets for getting
into this hilarious condition. He
s aid his fine. .
Irverson Lawrence, the erippled
negro who is employed at the Oil
Mill as watchman, was up_ before
your honor, Mayor Green, on Sat
urday last for shooting within the
incorporate limits. le was fined
one dollar and cost, which amounts
to $3.50 all toll.
Mr. R. C. Mallett, who has been
employed at the Southern depot, at
this place for three or four years, as
second-shift telegraph orperator,
left for his old home in Texas on
Friday night last. We have been
unable to learn whether he, will re
main in Texas or return to Hazle
hurst, after visiting out there
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NO\\", yoti m'ay talk about yous
heppy looking young men, but
Jack Wilcox wears the happiest
smile these days we ever saw. A
12-pound boy made its appearance
at his home on Saturday night last
and Jack i 3 so elated over the arriv
al of this little cherub, until he can
hardly retain himself. Mother and
babe are getting along nicely.
Mrs. J. N. Smith returned home
‘Sunday night from Montgomery
county, where she had been to visit
her married daughter, Mrs.. W: L.
Cill's, who had been ? sick for quite
awhile. - Mrs. Gillis roturned home
with her mother and will remain
‘here for a week or two, to see if
Ler health will not improve.
Last fall SIB.OO per ton was all
that our farmers could get for their
cotton seed. Last Saturday cotton
seed sold in this town for $23.50
lper ton. ‘lt does seem like every
‘thing is going the farmers way this
fall. Thirteen cent cotton and $23
59 per ton for eotton seed means
‘much prosperity for the farmers..
Hurrah for the tilers of the =soil
They work hard enough to be paid
well for their products.
We have received many compli
ments on the appearance of the
last issue of The News, all of which
‘we greatly appreciate. We are
gradually getting in something to
work with. We will never be satis
fied until we give the people of Jeff
‘Davis county a weekly paper stcond
to none in the state. Just keep
your eye on The News. \
i Mr.J. R. Dyal, who lives six
‘miles from Hazlehurst, brought to
our office last Saturday the largest
pear we believe we ever saw. It
)was the Keifer variety, and was
finely flavored. We intended to
imeasure and weigh it, but our little
’ boys came into the office soon after
Mr. Dyal had left it with us, and
nothing would do, but it had to be
cut “right now;” so five of us de
voured the pear, and all had the
greatest plenty.
Charlic Langston, colored, the
porter at the Pierce House, lost his
house and all his household
goods by fire on Saturday night be
tween 12 and 1 o’clock. Two oth
er small houses close to Langston’s
were destroyed also. We have fail
ed to learn the origin of the fire.
The African Baptist church, which
was close to the burning building
was saved from going up in smoke
by hard work. If there had been
any breeze at all, coming from the
north_ that.' night, it would have
‘been impossible to have saved the
church. But everything was calm
ja.nd the emoke and sparks went
right straight up, Many of our
people were out at this fire. In
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1t does us (food_lll over to see our
stores these days filled with anxious
’b\?’qn}. Our merchants are. doing
a fine business now. ' The :farniérs
have learned long since that it ‘is a
mistaken idea to send away for any
thing that they can buy at home,
llf you want dry googs, clothing,
shnes, furniture, groceries hardware,
wa ons, buggies mules and horses, it
wul pay to travel many miles to get
to this place to do your trading.
You simply can’t buy goods, bug
gies, wagons and live stock cheaper
anywhere else than you can in Ha
zlehurst.
Creat interest is being manifested
in the protracted meeting which
begun in the Baptist church on
Sunday morning last. Rev. J. A,
Ansley, the "pastor, is a zealous
worker in his Master’s vinyard, and
he is laboring hard, both night and
day, to make this meeting a great
and glorious success. Large crowds
are in attendance atevery services.
The Atlanta Georgion, that most
popular and enterprising daily, is
going to give away soon a beauti
ful residence on Peachtree Heights,
the most fashionable residence part
of the city. This house and lot is
worth SIO,OOO. This is the largest
premium ever befcr : offered by any
paper in tbe world. Write to
The Georgian for particulars. You
are as liable to win this ten thons
and dollar prize as any on 2 else.
~ Evervbody in Jeff Davis- county
knows that T. H. Wearthly keeps
everything in stock that the human
family needs to eat or wear, and‘
they know also, that” his prices on
all classes of merchandise are mark
ed down as low as he can consistant
ly make ‘them. But they don’t
know that he is letting all custo
mers who buy two dollars worth of
goods at his storehave 4 beautiful
picture---27 x 23 for 40¢. Wehave
inspected the pictures eurself, and
pronounce them beauties. - It:seem
to us, like thé pictures ought to be
worth $2. alone. :
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Don’t Foraet
When in town to
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Cut Yoar Hair
and Sbuvgh You.
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Shos and harness
Repair Shop ‘
§ lam prepared to do all kinds
‘ of repair work on shoes or har
- @ ness, and solicit your patron
} ags. 1 guarantee satisfaction.
on all work.
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: A Warning. S
Love was born upon a day-=
All homeless at my door it lay
While as yet its new drawn breath
Bcarce divided life from death.
Would I had cradled it away
Unquestioned in my care to stay’
But “VVé!:t?" and “Whenge?’ I instant
cried, 3 AT g $
And when no answering volce replied,
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RIS SERTNR PRy TANYARY ook b o iR e
The First 'Centur’y‘?gg
- MMESSAGE
To T’Went‘ie"'f.h ‘C‘e'ntury oL : '
AME N S
O e e
SPECIAL MEETNG
- WarTe ’
Huzlehurts Baptist Churcn
October 3 to 17,
; C_onducted by Pastor,
i Heal‘the
| ‘OLD GCSPEL
| for the |
- NEW AGE.
Services, 3:30 P.
m., 7:50p.m.
Truth and Education will
ru an ® e °
Re-Create Citizenship.
A region over six hundred miles long and two hundred wide, in
this country, is covered by a range of Mountains extending from the
borders of Pennsylvania, to Northern Georgia and Alabama.
For vears the inhabitants dwelt almost apart from all other peo
ple, their life was secretive and suspicious, they were scarcely known.
With the onward march of civilization, brave souls carried God’::
word and the seedlings of knowledge to these benighted ones, and thix
influence soon changed the primitive shack to the more modera struet
ure, and to-day are to be seen throughout the Appalican Range, the
effect of truth, knowledge and development.
Paralleling the change wrought in this vast territory, is a pieture
in our own beloved Georgia, where until the advent of a class of me:
belong,ng to t}}e I.l6'\\' south, we depcn(led on the outside for aid anc
knowledge, while in truth the assistance given kept us on a parit,
with the inhabitants of the Appalacians before Gods word and educat
ion reached them.
Bright, true and honest men came to the front to direet the
destines of our people, whq soon learned to appreciate their efforts
and feslty to home enterprise, has buit in Georgia an organization that
for fair dealiug and conservativness has ng: competits: #M the EM
PIRE LIFE stands alone. i E‘r{‘
~ For particulars, write or see, &= . %@J :
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