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Local News. Tfcr n Son Cnirnri aai T*M fa *k»rl Pmrmerrmphm tm Waft tfcr Ti.lf »t Oar B»* 4 »r«. “And the and played on.” Well, we have moved to Still- more. Anti still Mr. Moxley keeps busy grading the streets. JF Five residence lots have been •old in Stillmore this week Mrs. Sal lie Edenfield, of Met- ter, was here yesterday on busi- ness. L. T. Lanier has commenced work on his large furniture store —40x80 feet. Judge John C. Coleman dame down from Swiinsboro on busi¬ ness last Thursday. How do you expect to get the news unleg • you subscribe for the paper that gives it? Mr. G. M. Brinson is making arrangements to put in a side track at Sectionville. We are now well supplied with stationery and can do your job printing on short notice. Miss Eva Edenfield, of Ca- noochee, is here on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Hattie Harland. Miss Clara Johnston, of MiMen, has been spending several with relatives and friends here. Mr. .- „ Brinson . , has a large , force , of , hands repairing trestles on the Air-Line road between here a r ■ Collins. > Bully for Stillmore f Two brass bands now and no telling bow many we may have, now the thing is started. Mrs. T. J. Kent is erecting a nice barn building on her lot re¬ cently purchased from F. B. Boyd, real estate agent. Mrs. Capt. Heath, of Swains- boro, is spending some time with her parents at Forsyth* and the Captain is oh, so lonely. The cotton factory seems to be the greatest thing for this town, judging from the intense interest that all our people show. Miss Lula Warren, of Corsica, is visiting Mrs. F. B. Boyd, and is also having Dr. Warren do some dental work for her. Judge G. S. Rountree, of Swainsboro, passed through Still¬ more Monday on his way to Mil- len and returned Monday night. Dr. J. R. Warren, our popular dentist, says he wants the public to understand all work must lie paid for when it is done. No more credit. ngaflTr Hi M. w ho 1*. now i 00 k - 1 the extensive business'<Ti Mrs Sallie Edenfield, of Mutter, was here on a visit to his wife yesterday. Stillmore real estate is still steadily advancing in price. Par- tie* desiring t?> purchase will find it to their interest to do so as soon as possible. Malcotnb Cox and Buster Her¬ rington have each purchased a new bicycle. Mr. Beale will have an opening for two more carpen¬ ters in a few days. Our Frankie has developed into a spring poet, but we think a tew more days of such weather as we have had for the last w’eek will nip him in the bud. The boys are all here yet. None of them have gone to hunt the war, or to keep the war from hunting them, but some ot them looking’mighty r wild. are If the person who exchanged umbrellas with Mr. Ed H. Milner at church Sunday night will re¬ turn it, he says they can get the old circus tent they left for him. Mr. E. D. Rountree is taking the school census of the 58th dis¬ trict. lie will canvass this dis¬ trict and others, too, for a differ- ent purpose between now and next October. Mrs. M. E Wanner purchased the this week trom F. B. Boyd nice corner residence lot just op¬ posite Mr. *V. A. Beals. Mr. Bovd also sold thirty-five acres of farm land near town. Mr. F. B. Boyd has had a large force of hands opening various streets and rights-of-ways in parts of the town for several days and is adding a great deal to the appearance of our town. If anybody should see anything of an old black sow and three lit¬ tle spotted shoats, they' will con- fer a favor by notifying Mayor Kent. They are thought by him to be somewhere between here and Corsica. The friends of Mr. Ben L. Rountree, of Summit, are talking him up for representative of Emanuel. Ben is a good man. well and we would like mighty' to see him in the legislature, but we fear he will not find it out till it’s too late if lie is nominated, if he dont open up his heart and subscribe for the paper that puts him before the public. Mr. E. D. Rotmfree has ! finished taking the school - of the town of Stillmore. are in the corporate limits of town 88 female and 64 male dren, making a total of 152 be¬ tween the ages of 6 and 16. It is a seldom thing that you iind as clever a postmaster as our Mr. Alltop. We have seen him meet people after he had done left his office and was on his way to his meals and go back and open his office and deliver them mail. We know' other postmasters who would not walk five steps to ac¬ commodate you. The Pine Forest has Mr. E. D. Rountree down to m-.ke the rai • for tax receiver. We had‘him down for treasurer; but it makes no difference, as he is fully com¬ petent to fill either of these very important offices, and the demo¬ crats are anxious to reward his past labors, and the, are going to do it with something like one of these offices. This weather is certainly tough on newspaper men, candidates, old cows and other things of like the nature They footing are all about on same when it comes to keeping warm. The old cows are out in the weather with noth¬ ing to eat. and the newspaper men are poorly' clad, no wood and little to eat, and the candidates have to be out taking things as they come. One morning this week a gen- tleman asked us “what kind of a devil of a mof #henffs we had in ,1 county, anyhow'?” We re- / that we did not know, and £d him wrh it he meant. ”Why,’ said ho, “the high sher¬ iff took a young lady and carried her to jail last year and at last ac¬ counts she was still in j iiJ, and now the deputy sheriff comes to Stillmore and carries away one of our young ladies and has proba¬ bly jailed her.” The Brewton and Pinora rail¬ road is being steadily pushed to¬ wards Stillmore. Track-laying is going rapidly on, and Mr, Bridges, the superintendent, ex¬ pects to get the track laid into Stillmore by April ist, and will then have the track surfaced and in good condition for the excur¬ sion auction sale, which occurs on April 2ist, 22nd and 23rd, He will bring from Dublin, Wrights- ville and Tennille and along the line of the Brewton and Pinora railroad hundreds of people, many of whom will buy land and cast their lot with us. Letters are being received daily from Mr. W. H. Nesbitt, of Day- ton, Ohio, the gentleman ap- pointed to advertise Stillmore in the North and West. He is cer- tainly a hustler, a perfectly never ceasing worker, and having be¬ gun to work fpr Stillmore we may writes that all resujts. the .61 jr. Nesbitt appearance* go to show' that he will bring a big party of home-seekers here on April 21st, 22nd and 23rd, at which time the grapcl’ auction sale of desirable city lots will be held. All lots will be sold with¬ out reserve to the highest bieder Professors G. H. Ratchford, VV. N. Smith, M. L. Lawson and Professor Geiger propose to im¬ mediately begin the erection of a large brick college on the com¬ manding hill just east of Mr. Whitfield’s place. This, will be strictly a Baptist institution, and with such a corps of well-trained and tried teachers cannot fail to succeed. Let the good work go on. Stillmore is broad enough to support two colleges, and will do it. too. We are already ahead of all neighboring towns in this line, and with the above college we will be simply “out of sdght” of competition. Some one around this place has a habit of loafing around the depot here and cutting up everything they can with their pocket knife when they can catch no one look¬ ing. There are several sacks of guano under the shed laterally riddled. Any person who is mean enough to be guilty of such devil¬ ment as this is mean enough to steal, and will, it if they get a favorable opportunity. Young man,vou had better take our ad¬ vice and stop right where you are. for some of these days before you know it some one who is looking out for you is going to have you off to jail for malicious mischief. Mr. M. A. Lindsay, an experi¬ railway passenger man. has appointed traveling passen¬ agent of the Stillmore Air Line railway, and will at once on his duties. His sole is to work up interest in the towns and iarin lands along the line of the Stillmore Air Line railway among the people of the outside world, and all parties having land to sell will do well to call on Mr. Lindsay and he may be able to find a purchaser for you. The railroad company will make no charge to its patrons for Mr. Lindsay’s services, the object being to build up the country by bringing settlers here. To ^ the members of f btillmore Lodge, No. 82, I. O. O. F.: You are requested to be present at our next regular meeting. Monday night. T. L. Cleary, N. G. Stilhxor" C<fljfc ge Notes. Colege is up-to-date. 8ni more j Caliege is moving right ■ aion g-,j f ; ■" Lake) is mad because be can ! part his hair in the middle. The boys have organized a base team and a re now practicing. ... " *Slad . , note that , Miss . e ar u r*': Catkins has returnd to BCh ° o1 * Pr >f. Driskell, we learn, is go¬ ing to teach a country school about four miles from here. Speaking every Friday evening begitting at 3 o’clock. We* want you to come out and hearts. Miss Emma Kennedy came in nleased to see us Monday and she was with our school. Come again, Miss Emma. Some of our boys are trying to part their hair in the middle, that’s ai! right boys, it is better to part it in the middle than not at all. We are having a “jolly” time now drawing maps, and we are bound to sueced, for wbat Prof. Ridley cent persuade us to do he will make us yo i may be sure. W e wish all the boys aud girls could c line and enjoy the privi¬ leges of an education that we do. But if you come here yon must study and obey the .ules of the teachers, Mr. E. L. Ken ledy one of our former pupils visited us last week. He began teaching Mond ly We wish him much success. Ephrani is a deserving young man, and is made up of th right kind of stuff. We expect great things of him. A Mt«rr K*t>twd in th. ||f«n of T.na. A startling find was made here this «f ter noon by Col. F. R. Dur¬ den and Mr. W. T. Comer. As is w 11 known, the stock of general merchandise lio is of Shoenig & Rose- advertised to be sold tumor row by order of court. To day Mr. Comer centered with Col. Durden relative to buying the entire sb ek and when they went to the store they found it had been entered through a hole made in the floor and a large quan¬ tity of clothing and jewe’.iy had been taken away. No possible evidence is lef whereby the rob¬ bers may be traced. A Visit to Summit. One of our force had occasion to visit Summit a few days ago. While there he saw evidences of and prosperity and unmis- takuble evidences of a coming wiregrass city. They have a splendid school, with an able in¬ structor in charge in the person of Prof. McClelland, and his school is the petof tlie community. B. T I f Rountree is doing a is that ay hospitable j MaMNMtntiki gentleman, bu,ri«e* John til B. Kingery, The Summit Mer* contiie Company is also active and to the front. J. T. Roberts has located one of the best tur¬ pentine quarters there to lie found anywhere. Other such .active business men are to be found there as J, E. Cowart, Jim Roun¬ tree, B. W. Durden, J. M. Roun¬ tree. | G. Brown, L. Butts and many others'of equal ability. In fact, Summit is the coining town along the line of the Millen and Southwestern railroad. This thriving little town petitioned for an election and will apply to the superior court at the April term in this county for a charter. This is a step in the right direction, and the Times wishes them much success. <Milltu«rr Hlrrrti. And II«» Ihrv are Haiti. A year ago, when the mayor anti town council saw fit and did con¬ tract with Geo. M. Brinson to have all the principle streets in the town of Stillmore graded, the idea was ridiculed by almost every tax payer of the town, and the contract was dubbed as being foolish, extravagant and the re¬ sult of what they pleased to call one man rule. THe work of street (toiiig on a year, and not regular, either. Less than $ 2,000 have been ex pended at this wftrk and almost all aoon'Agradec'v tiu.'principle*streets are now andtftmhed in m as good condition as is to he in our largest cities. This work has not been burdensome to any tax payers and the town owes very little on this work. These streets are easly put in first condition and at a nominal order to do this wrrk properly and as cheaply as posible Mr. Brinson subcontracted the work to Mr. M. H. Moxley, who is well equipped for the business of street grading and ts an experi- enced man at the business. Before the sum met is here we will not less than three miles of as good streets as are to be found anywhere. In addition to the streets in the business portion of the town, a belt street is being opened around the town, thus offering accommodation to the people, and offering a first class bycicle road to those who Ts choose to enjoy it. This work being actively pushed and is re ceiving new encouragement every day. Mr. Kral’i Trip Tkr»«k ikft'Mi trip Mayor through Thos. the J. 58 th, Kent 49 th. madj 69 districts 1333 rd, last and week, 1429 th and and madj 5 ^ close inspect! >n of the pul roads of these districts. Mr. says the roads of the 1333 rd; triet are in tip-top shape and as good as can be ? ouud in section of country. Mr. Keif visited Dr . B . L I« ne , ot and savs if you want to be ed right just go to Ben Bet this is nothing new, for body else who knows ubout th^dtS theS ° me »' LOAFERS’ COLUMN. . 1 Owing to the inclemency of weather and the numorous tors who have been around our box, we have ered it our solemn duty to in doors • couple of ,«t, consequently have not been a to tell the people our a week or two, but it has rumored around here that Spa^F Battleship Viscaya of the ish Navy was headed for more via‘Jacks Creek and pected In every day, 0 Uf ef#di^? T are down at the landing w * their shot guns awaiting tht ,1 h”: £ u ar ALF HERRINGTON’S TIE He Is Not Opposed to Col. hW" ter for Congress. | Hon. Alfred Herrington ® AL W bwamsboro a ■ . arrivcl . , in . the , Ofty )«* might and registered at the I laski, Mr. Herrington ig i H known as the political gtainsf Etn'anuel county and has play** rather prominent part in the j itics of the First distric f* a number of years. Naturally first question aaked him was a his intentions in regard to tb«f greseional race. •‘Are you going to oppi *.• Lester this time?’ he was aske 1 - “No,” lie replied. “I have al U >ot made up ray mind to have m 5 h* ing more to da with politics, J ut should I decide to become a can¬ didate for congress I do.not t£»n- sider that J would be in the tudeof opposing Mr. Leete? or any one else. I consider the livid open and free to any one who wishes to enter. As for Mr. L«*- tor his friends assured my frills when lie was last nominated u »t he would not be in the racel ny more, and that this time would be no opposition to nW lU ' part of Mr. Lester and hisfriB^, t'fld Of course this settles it so , Mr. Lester is concerned.” * Wftlryt?tf-anM the race who would you sd Bort for congress?” Mr. HerrhigtT wfl8 asked. . “I have plenty of good fJe :nds both in and out of Savannaff^be replied: “that I would cheerfully support should any oftherqp’ecule to enter the race, hut I thi he race belongs to the eounin this time. Mind you 1 do not vant to be considered as arryitig- ef untry against city, but I do thin tiiat oace in every decade ean- nah should let the c . un _ ties have a w lack at ii tl! send one of there neigh lx 1 ’ n * gress now and then, jt t how it feels, you know B in this connection I desm tate ths t the woods ar fuj jf good material. For inetf nee ''.ere ie Col. Bill Clifton, Capt. W. A. Wilcox and H. A. Atwood ofMc- Intoah. Hon. W. W. tfheppard ^Liberty, and Col. E. P. Miller of Coi. McGee, Giles aftd Can-t M. D. McArthur of Tatnail, H(n. J. A. Braunen, SenatorGreenjohnson, Hoi. Sam Moore and Sol. Dan Grt*over of Bullock, CoL H. G. Wt ** . ’ * Kant, i nd Capt. of Effingham. , Oils, r lorn .. and J. W. OveiVtreet of Cols. Ed Brimon, Phi! Johnson, Johnson, William William Davis&Iaj, Davi Wil- . kms . a,ld , Mr ‘ of * Burke. Then m my owniounty are such men as Alf SmarL lob George M. Dekle, and if Col. ^ Will iams was not a can date for Judge fie would make tbout the ^ e6t for race Judge a '“ is Coi^rVV ojkhe iliiams rea- race one sons why I do not want p entei the rac# for Congrew. 1 mellow I , alwa , „ fouiitJ ,. _ . ieasure vs P » 151 assisting my fnen^j^han help only mg myself. The counT^^vho fr>^ are a lew in in the could tbe * bill ' I hen you would ,.. i^ot ., accept . the nomination if tendered you?” “I do not suppose there is a young man living who would ref * ' 1186 SUCh 1 ^ „ ^ But R f 1 T d ° n ot to ente ^ lnl ( ) ?_ scramble ^'hieh , "to the *‘ or *■ ffice ’ seems be only way it is done_ihese days l My ambition for official positions ^nas about oozed out of me. *> haven’t got the money to spend on an aggressive campaign. Besides 1 ^ live some creditors who are ' did to the products of my labor. These are the fruits of mv services h 1892 , from the shock of which I * ve hardley recovered. However, / k ave a few clients left behind he P ract,ce . of law and an occa * i io n»l lecture tour, I manage to a living and have a right smart of fun, which is more than kave heretofore gotten out of politics. The negro and the South the Moneyless Man are my srr * te l'got ^ on & iT man spi ration from the to political situation, M / “Then you wouldn’t support a Savannah marri?” he was asked, , T m- ““ . >» • Dot . w >*‘ , . , 1 “ ,d ., - 1 T have friennds in Savannah, who, if tkay were to Congress or any other offic^, I would take the stump for them if necessary. Mr, Herrington will leave this morning for Bryan county, where hi* will deliver a Washington’s birthday audress at the Bryan Academy, a few miles from Ella- **-*«-»* Just like the man. It will be from the foregoing that Alf Herrington is now ready to give nn the race for congress and sur- render a plum almost in his grasp, and all for the sake of ^ friends. We can’t believe that Alf Herrington f is a political wanJ or Iack ng in courage in other matter. But he would refuse to breathe, and let the other fellow have his breath, if he thought any of his friends would a single heart-beat by his living. There is no living man more loyal and faithful to a friend or trust than Col. Herring- 1, Of course he will be in the race for congress. The people of county are determined shall run—not only run for congress, but be elected. Since writing the foregoing a mass meeting was held at Swains- boro last Tuesday by representa¬ tive citizens of this county, and repudiated the Savannah suggestion oon- tained in the inter¬ view. Resolutions were also passed urging Col, Herrington to make the race, such a demand thereby being made that he can¬ not honorably refuse to make the race. Hon. Alf Herrington will be a candidate for congress to succeed Col. Rufus E. Lester. The excursion from Dayton, Ohio, to Stillmore, Ga., and sale of Stillmore town lots to the high¬ bidder on the 21st, 22nd and 23 rd of April next means much for our county. It means that Stillmore will beat Swainsboro to tank. Will th * people who and"" JjtSvTnnsobYb George «tt rir sfr Brinson wipinely to aiiow build a city almost under the shadow of our court house steeple. The court house! -That’s what’s the matter, The court house is all that some people think is necessary to build up a town. Men and money is what tal Iks.— Pine Forest. Treip*« .Voice. We the undersigned citizens of j? raanue l county, Ga., forbid any person or persons, male or female, from hunting, fishing or in any way trespassing on any of our lands. We algo forbid hog hunt- ing on the same. Said lands sit- uated on east and west side* of Canooehe river. Ljvisoston Collins, A. I. Warren, M. A. Warren, Lovkl Lanier, A. Kirklano, P. H. Emjiitt <fc Co. THE ATLANTA JOURNAL. Daily $5 a Year—Weekly 50 Cents a Year. The Weekly Journal is a large paper, containing ten pages of sev- en columns each. It is filled with the latest NEWS of the day, both domestic and foreign, Owning its which own leased telegraphic wires, are used for 11-. other purpose but to bring the latest news to its edi torial rooms, the Journal is pre¬ pared to get ail the news up to the latest moment. In addition to trie news, it con¬ tains more special features than any other sou'hern weekly. Am ong other things it has a weekly letter or sermon from Rev. Sam Jones, a contribution from Hon. John Temple Graves, letters of favel, biographies of distinguish ed men, and m my other attract- ive features. The illuatraVd Weekly artist. fully by its own In fact neither energy nor money is spared to moke it the great SOUTHERN WKKXi.Y, And the price is only subscri- - fifty CENTS A tear To every sending tifiy cents for a year’s ; her subscription ahd a two-cent post- age stamp extra (to pay postage) a beautiful lithographed calendar for 1898 will be sent free, Specimen copies free, Address Ga, THE JOURNAL, Atlanta, 5 mss mire a kekkaby, j 5 ? 5 Millinery DRESS MAKING, HAT TBinnniO and Drawing 7 of the nto.farttntir and FASHIONABLE STYLHS Dealer in Feathers, Plumes and DressJTrimmings, Silks v-- N and Velvets. Cutting and Fitting done neat- ly. cheaply and accurately on sh ortest n otice. _ Q-IaASS FRONT E. A. MILLER, ALL ROUND STORE la SmXJttOBI. Go to E. A. MILLER for all your small articles. J. F. TANNER,. Stillmore, 6 a. ALL KINDS Gookiog Stoves OF and ROOM HEATERS at MANUFACTURERS’ PRICES, let that be much or little money A General Line of Farming Implements and Fancy Gro¬ ceries. Dry Goods and Notions, Tobacco and Cigars. J. A. WOODWARD &C0. Stillmore, Georgia. Dry Goods, Clothing, g A General Line of Far- Hats, Caps, Shoes and S mers’ Supplies and ev* and Notions Tobacso, 88 erything needed by the Cigars and a complete a consumer. Highest pri- liiteo*’groceries, and Bacon Flour gj ces paid for co ntry : : ® produce : : : : : : jS -x-STOCK -A.JSTJD POULTRY FOOJ>x- THE SOUTHIELA.ST Q-EOZE^GETA. Land and Immigration Co 8 nuM 0 », m, Can Sell all f he Lands you have for Sale. !l 3 r’Sales made through this Company cost the owner nothing. ALFRED HERRIRSTQN Manager. rierchants’ I M t Supply * -w: Company. W. T. COMER, iYgr. STILLMORE, GA- •^Stillmore Collegefl* PROF. G. BEN RIDLEY, President. MISS FLORENCE HINES, Assistant. MRS. CARRIE BURDEN, Music Teacher. Spring Term Opens January 3rd and Closes May 20th, J898 institution. No pains spared Special to attention afford every given literary to advantage that can be Lad at any firnt-alasa ELOCUTION and ORATORY- For Thoroughness, isjaisrs Th ■ lew rate at which board can be had in firstclass families, the exceeding easy terms of tuition, the healthfulness of the loca¬ tion and its accessibility by railroads gives better facilities for an education than any other place m * $ at H m M ■ PLANING jAILL and Novelty Works. iSMW San Dsns mmmm nmmmv am® MA/SQEMS, g HING LES AND ALL KINDS OF II USE AND BUILDING MATERIAL, BALUSTERS RAILINGS, POSTS, Turned and Latticed. Cornicing, Etc. All mail orders promptly filled and shipped on receipt of order STILLMORE, GA.