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Dr. Pirkle spent- three days in
Alma recently, his former home.
We are glad to state that Dr Hall
is regaining his health very fast,
Mr. C. T. Latimer has been in
Florida on a business trip this week.
Messrs. BEugene & R B Williams
went over to Douglas Monday
morning.
Mr. H. F. Daniel, of Almo, was
in Hazlehurst a few days ago, visit
ing friends.
The addition of six more rooms
to the Pierce louse is nearly finish
od, thus enlarging the building. con
siderably.
Mr. Jarman, of the firm of Jar
man & Williams, this place, went
up to Atlanta on Friday night last,
returning home on Monday.
Mr, Ira Leggett, Appling county’s
vopular and efficient Superior
Court Clerk, was up here Funday,
part of the day, mingling with
friends.
There will be an election held
here on Wednasday, the 27th inst,
,')'-;-,':?».'L an alderman to fill the va
taney eaused by the regisnation of
Mr J J Frazier.
Mr. Roe Browning, of,near Scot
land, was here Saturday. He just
dropped down to shake hands with
friends and relatlves. He returned
home Sunday morning.
The co-partnership of Hinson &
Finley, deerlers in general merchan
dise, weas dissclved a few days ago.
Mr. G. L.. Hinson: will continue to
do business at the old stand, while
Mr. Finley will open up again in
business in the store house owned
bv Mrs. Swain. ‘
Mr. M. Able, the polite and affa
ble clerk at Mr. Wolfson’s store, is
very attentive to business, and some
of these days in the future will have
a store of hisown. You can’t keep
an enterprising, hustling young man
like he is down.
* Mr. Frank Crosby, who was born
ed and reared in this section, but
who has been living in Telfair coun
ty for the past 25 years, was in Ha
zlehurst Monday for the first time
sinee he moved away. He said that
Hazlehurst didn’t look like the
same town, and, really it is not. It
i 3 a city now.
Mr. Avera J. Moore, a former
citizen of this place, but now of
Douglas, was here a short while on
Saturday, shaking hands and ming
ling with his friends. He informed
the writer that Mrs. Moore was
still quite feeble. She has been down
a longtime withfeve,and friends and
relatives over this way will be glad
to learn of her recovery.
The Baptist Association will con
vene at the Baptist church, at this
place, on Thursday, Nov. 11th 1909.
This association embraces seventeen
churches. All will have representa
tives here. And, they are expect
ing prominent preachers outside of
the asssciation to be present on
this occasion. 1t is a settled fact
that Dr. J. J. Bennett, of Atlanta,
will be here.
We regret to announce the death |
of Mr. Lyman Wileox, which occur
ed at his home near Douglas on
Friday night last. He was stricken ,
down some time ago with typhoid!
fever, and everything was done for
him that could be done, but the]
disease soon got beyond medical
controll, and he passed awey. He
was a brother-in-law to Messrs.
Eugene and R. B. Williams, of this
place.
We regret, to learn that Mr. W.C.
Hinson, who lives near Manor, was
badly hurt a few days ago by his
horse running away with him. His
collar bone was broken, and a rib
or two. Heis recovering slowly,
and it will be several days before
he will be himself again. Hazle
hurst is Mr. Hinson’s old home, and
his many relatives and friends
throughout the county will regret to
learn of this accident. |
¢ Read LA Phillips & Co’s ad in
this issue. They are located at
Jesup, but this fact makes no dif
ference to a man who wants a fine
stylish horse, or a good pair of
mules. They don’t mind going a
hundred or two miles to get what
they waat. And it is said that this
firm can suit any man in mules or
hoes; | ¢ .
AND OTHER NEWS ITEM
OF A SOCIAL NATURE ,
| The most complete line of station
ary in town, at the Capitol Drug
stom, N . 3
The shoe and harnéss shop has
moved from the up-stairs, over the
Citizens Bank, to“fl-xst back of the
BanX of Hazlehurst.
Col'H A King'is advertising his
plantation for sale in this issue,
which is situated about two miles
from Hazlehurst,” This' 'is a very
desirable place of three hundred
acres, Read the ad, then go and
see ('.‘ol‘King, ’ ML
Mr. Albert I'razier, who has been
clerkiug for Frazier & Son for several
months, is now with Mr. G. L. Hin
son--formerly Hinsoa & Finley. Al
bertis a very popular young man,,
and very attentive to business, and
The News wishes him well.
In this issue our readers will no
tice that The Bank of Hazlehurst
is advertising money to lend. This
i 3 something we should feel proud
of, es we don’t know of another
town in South Ga, in which there
is a bank that hoids ont this offer
to the people, Sueh an Institu
tion as this should be highly ap
preciated by our people, and we
know that it is,
Mr. W. W. Taylor, the linesman
forour Telephone Co., and general
utility man, has been here for five
months and we think that the Tel
ephone Co. made a good selection
when they employed him. He
seems very attensive to business,
and has always got the Dbest inter
est of the Compyany’s at heart. He
has made many warm friends since
coming to Hazlehurst,
Tom Pace is back home again.
He has a brother who lives near
Helena, and Tommie decided to pay
this brother a visit---and did---and
during the visit his parents were
notified that Tom was up there, so
the old gentleman boarded the train
and went after him. We are glad
on Mrs. Pace’s acconnt, that Tom
is homo again, and we trust that
he will never be so foolish, or let
any boy pursade him to again leave
as good a home as he has got,
Gus Tippins is still at Ambrose
working at a gin. Of course, he'll
get tired being away, and wili re
turn soon.
On Sunday night Oet, 17th inst,
the Pastor of thie Baptist church at
ilazlehurst, Rev J A Ansley. closed
a series of meetings of two weeks,
The membership of tbe church was
strenghtened and edified by the
strong sermons preached by him,
The congregation was large at the
begining and continned until the
end of the meeting, and the good
that was done will be reaped in the
to come, Brother Ansley commen
ced his pastorate o August Ist,
1909, and has endeared himself to
the people, He is a very able prea
cher and a lovable character.
It has been many weeks since
we have had anything like a rain
in this section. The branches and
ponds around are all dried up,
pumps and wells are running dry.
Fall gardens are a flat failure. No
rain has fell since the sxed were put
into the ground, hence they couldn’t
come up. A few, who have plan
ted in low, damp places, will have
turnips, and only a few. And
dust---oh my!its awful. Lord, we
don’t pretend to complain. But
wont you send us a little rain?
Birthday Party. ;
Last Tuesday was little Ellene
Grant’s birthday, She was just
five years old on that day, and
there is not a brighter, sweeter lit
tle girl in Hazlehurst than she is,
She gave a birthday party in the
afternoon and invited many of her
little friends, Willie Fackler -re
ceived the following invitation:
Next Tuesday is my birthday,
And my years will number five,
Come and with me play,
And for a good time we’ll strive,
Mamma says we’ll eat cake,
And perhaps cream and candy too
But sure a noise we’ll make,
And to help, I’ll need you,
Come to my little celebration,
And lets be glad we’re alive,
But ’scuse this littie invitation,
| 'Cause you know I'am just five,
G T RN GRANTY, "
30L M L R Gl bl e
~Gourt _Honse.
On Sunday morning last while
o Fack{er was out strolling
around he passed near the: conrt
house, and upon looking Ip, made
the discovery, that aswarm of bees
had made their home in thg,,(fime
at he extreme top of the ~building
and were diligently at work." =
The question is: Where ' did they
come from, and who do they'bblong
to?
~ The real dwner 6f thesk bees may
live many miles ‘from Hazlehurst,
and again, he may not. There are
many people living within a radins
of ten miles of this place who own
bees. * How can a fellow .designate
his boes from other people’s?. The
only way this bee question could be
settled would be; to give any fel
low the swarm who will go up and
hive them. However, we wouldn’t
undertake the job for all the bees
in the state, as fond as we are of
honev.
Tha Singing Convention.
We feel hurt, and hurt with our
people in Hazlehurst, too, for the
slim attendance out at the Jeff Da
vis County Singing Convention,
which convened at the Methodist
church on Saturday morning last at
10 o’clock. In our honest, candid
opinion the sweetest music on carth
1s voeal musie, and we had rather
attend & singing convention and
listen to the fine music that is ren
dered on these ocecations then to
hear the best orchestra on earth
play.
This occasion was advertised and
why more of our people didn’t turn
out to this singing convention is
strange to us.
Most of those, who did attend,
and take part in these exercises,
live in the country, and we are con
fident that they feel like their ef
fortsin trying to givethe people here
a real treat in vocal music,was not
appreciated, by the very few of our
citizens who attended this conven
tiou, and we are satisfied that they
left here, with anything but pleas
ant recoilections of Hazlehurst and
its people and the extremely small
audiances that greeted them, and
we dare say, it will be a long time
before another singing convention
will take placein our town.
The Wreck at the “Y” Llast Friday.
On Friday last, about the noon
hour, when the passenger train on
the G. & F. R R was nearing Hazle
hurst, the engine run into an open
switch at the “Y,” and turning on
its right side, landed at the bottom
of an embankment five or six feet
high, tearing up pretty bad. And
strange to relate, Engineer Strick
land escaped with only a few scrat.ch
es, likewise Mack Miles the hosler
at this place, who wason the engine
at the time, came out of the wreck
with whole bones. The regular
negro fireman on this engine was
scalded quite severely.
The baggage car was partly turn
ed over, but no one on it was hurt.
They were running at the rate of
about 25 miles an hour when the
engine struck the switch, and its
nothing short of a miracle that the
engineer, Mack Miles and the fire
man, all, didn’t get killed.
Who opened this switch? ~ Was
it some mischievous boy, who didn’t
stop to think what damage, or loss
of life might occur by tampering
with 1t? Or, was it some
one who had a grievance against
the road, and who wanted to even
up matters by wrecking a train?
We trust that the party who
tampered with the switch, on the
G. & F. R R, and caused a wreck
last Faiday, may yet be captured
and be made to suffer.
Strayed.
From the Bill Hinson place, four
miles from Hazlehurst about two
months ago, three head of . cattle.
One cow white, with little dark
specks on back and sides and dark
about the head. The other cow is
white and yvellow pided. The third
is a steer with white back, brindled
sides, They are marked swollow
fork and underbit in right ear, and
swollow-fork in the left ear, I will
pay for any information about these
cattle, - R, RowLaNnD,
Bill Hinson Place, | 2-m-p
Ex-MaXot Bennett informed us
on Saturday last that the City Coun
cil had already ordered a thousand
feet of hose, and that i was of the’
very best quality, paying 75cts per
foot for it. ~We aré” certainly'gr:di
to learn this, zor there isnot a town
in the state that needs fire protec
tion any “worse than Hazfehurst
does. \ LA
The thing to be done now, is Yor
the City Council to'select their fire
company. A town this size is not
able to pay firemen any salary, so
it will have to be a volunteer comp
any. They will be exempt from all
street working, and will be entitled
at all time, to the ride-of-way. And
they will be vested with the author
ity to seize onto the nearest vehicle
in time of fire, and make it carry
the reel of hose to the place of the
fire as fast asthe animal that might
be hitched to it can get over grouad.
If no vehicle happens to be near
the place where the reel and hose
are kept the firemen will have to
pull it to the place of fire them-|
selves.
We feel confident that the City
Council will have no trouble in rais
inz this volunteer fire company |
among our young men. '
Woman's Couference of the NMcßae
District.
The Woman's Foreign and Home
Mission Societies in the Mcßae Dis
trict will have their conference for
the District in Hazlehurst, bezin
ning 7:30 p m Thursday, Oct, 28th
and continuing through Sunday 31.
The opening exercises will be inter
resting, Rev J B Thrasher, from
Savannah, will preach Sunday
morning. Miss Emma Myers, one
of our Vice Presidents, will have a
meeting for the children Sunday
afternoon. Other parts of program
not complete yet.
We expect a number of delegates
to be present. Come, everybody ~and
enjoy these interesting exercises,
open your homes ‘and hearts and
make these guests feel weltome.
Mrs Hal Lawson, of Abbeville, and
Mrs John A Harrell, of Eastman,
will be in charge of the meeting,
Mgrs H G MoORE,
Mgrs J S JORDAN,
Presidents.
NOTICE.
s VERY TRULY YOURS, \
75¢ BANK OF HAZLEHURST,
T.R. KNIGHT, Cashier.
THE STORE
QUALITY.
While our trade has been exceptionally good all the
year,we wish to increase it, and if First-Class Goods,
Rockbottom Prices and nothing but square honest
dealings with our customes will do this, we ate sure
to in ctease it.
Extra good coffee
15¢ 1b or two lbs
BV. vy 25¢
Flour, per sack, 82
g shd 0 e
Thanking our patrons for past patronage, and soliciting
a continuance of same, we are yours, bidding for your trade
GRANGER & SON.
To our friends and customers,
we wish to say that owing to the
most excellent business we have
been enjoying we have accumulated
several thousand dollars of idle
money which we would like to loan
out on well secured notes.
If you need money and can furn
ish us a well secured paper we will
take great plessure in extending
vou a loan. We heartily appre
ciate this business and are now
ready to reciprocate.
GRANGER & SON.
- Lats Fenc The Gemetery.
I hope all those subseribed to help
out the fencing of our cemetery
have not forgotton their promise.
Our cemetery is needing fencimg
very bad, but.'on, account, of the
dfiliytimes through the summer, )
have not been carrying the: list
around. But I want us all now to
wake up.to the fact, that it i9mot
only the duty we owe to ourselves.
but to our. friends and loved ones
t; Mt%we been laid to rest im:
p&ccfhfl' is uncared for and ‘un
protected from the stock. Hoping
that I will not have to look eacl:
indivudual up and call his atgen
tion to this duty. lam yours,
TR J. M. Wegs,
City Marshal,
+ First Round. |
I will he at the following places
for the purpose of collecting state
and county taxes, on the following
dates. Bridgeport Monday Oect.,
25th, Handtown Tuesday the 26th,
Denton, Wednesday 27th, Snipes
School House, Thursday mornmg
of the 28th, and Paceville the same
day, in the afternoon. Oecmulgzee,
Friday the 29th, Hazlehurst on
Naturday, the 30th, On Tuesday
Nov, 2nd, 2t Craham, Wednesday
3rd, will be at Altamvha in the
forenoon, and at Hatton's still in
the afternoon, ‘
L W SpeLL,
Tax Collector Jeff Davis County Ga
v NOTICE.
To the Tax Payers of the City of
Hazlehurst the Tax Books of the
city of Hazlehurst will be open on
Saturday Oct. 23, 1909, and will be
open on each Satuaday thereafter
until December the 20 1909 for the
purpose of collecting the oity and
school Taxes of said city.
H. E. DeFoor,
City T. C
The last link of the Georgia &
Florida Railway, batween Augusta
and Madison, is now being rapidly
pushedto completion between Vida
lia and the Atlamaha river. Only
a fewmiles of rail areyet to be laid.
It is expected that trains will bein
operation by Novemher 15th from
Augusta to Madison, Fla.---Nash
ville Herald.
Eagle Brand Trous
ersfrom $1.50 to $5.00
Plantine, per pound -125 c
M
Puritan Shoes, none better
THE (I')I'OUSB
BARGAINS