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The Miller County Liberal.
vol. xvi.
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I COLQUITT j
.’NATIONAL
BANK.
I MONEY MATTERS I
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I We make it our business to take |
care of our regular customers as far |
as we can.
I Those who do their banking busi- g
ness in other towns should get their y
accommodations from them.
We live here and pay taxes here.
| Weave in the Banking Business. |
Every little movement has a mean=
ing al! its own so has every drink we
make has a meaning all its own.
Our drinks and cream is as pure as
childhood.
Give a cal 1 ?.?dyou will come again
Bush Bros Drug Store.
Walnut Bottom
A.'iei n kmg abseii'fliH i"'" us - ;
return for a few rem' rks.
We are now having some winter;
wea‘her, which is a drawback to
vegetation. Lt is extremely dry.
The Spring term of the Griggs]
school closed last Friday, reviews |
were the only exercises.
The prospects for a full yield of
all kind of crops in this commun
ity are gloomy just now.
The oat crops are cut short fif
ty’per cent and more in some places
on account of lack of rain.
Good many farmers have planted
cotton the second time and havn’t
a et gotten a stand.
Fishing seems to b ;.e order of
the day Fish, arc to be caught
with hook ai. I lin p . 'bat 1> ing the
only way legally. The writer is
not enjoying the sport as he tin-;
fortunestely has the appointment !
of warden oyer here The boys
surround us with their unlawful
means to catch and ent the fish and ;
leave ns wondering why they do us
so. B ys be careful as the enemy
doist/t always come up in front.
Mis W. J. Batclnlor is down on
a visit to her daughter Mrs Ella
Middleton near Union church.
Sunday Mr Benton Newberry of I
Kaney Head tn company with lit
tle Misses Maud and Mamie Glass:
visited his “bestesi”. Look out
old boy yon have some opposition (
1 shall not tell who attended a par
ty Saturday night aud after service
or sometime there after walked
home two miles or more and for
got or by some other means un
known to me left hid horse aud
buggy and sent back after s»tne.
If you wish to knoA anv more a
b mi. I’iiit- matter I r-far to Mr W.
J. Batchelor.
O.i“ day last week one of Mr E.
A. D. Sheffield’s boys were out
rabbit hunting. The dog tan a
i rabbit in a gopher hole, the boy
.cut a switch, and ran it in the hole
: when be heard a peculiar noise and
■cabed to his father who in compa
ny with Mr J. A. Sheffield went
and on investigation found the
hole to be about three feet deep.
They dug in and there found the
rabbit, a gopher and a very large
rattle snake which supported eight
rattles and a button The snake's
existence was Sion ended.
Mr and Mrs Arbert Batchelor ol
Early county visited relatives in
Bottom Saturday night.
Mr John Kirkpatrick of Lucile
I has sold out bis stock of goads tc
. Mr Frank Barbr-'e of Callihan win
I is now doing business
Mrs Bum is oft' visiting Mrs
I Clifton Bush near Lucile.
Mrs J. W. Batchelor visited hei
brother. Mr J. A. Sheffield Suri
day.
Mr E. D. Murrell is now enjoy
I ing a visit by uis brother froir
; Dothan Ala., who will return soor
I accompanied by Alias Edna Mur
■ rell.
Bum .
i .Mrs Drew Roberts of Cyrene i
enjoying a visit at the h rme of he
sister Mrs John A. Phillips thi
. week. Her many friends are glai
to see her here again.
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COLQUITT, GEORG?,!*- IWA)XEBDJV, APRIL 30 !913.
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Death, r
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Saturday mouung Mrs Lucy
Cook who lives in the eastern por
tion of tl.<> county nwokf? early.
She culled her youngest son, Mr
Roy Cook. He failed lonnsw-r. lie
| load been h little .-ick-nnd when she*
| ; locked at him shs feared that be .
| was alarmingly ili or that he wi
lead.
I MrsC-ikand R y lived alotn .
! it ihe< 11 home stead.
| She burned on her cloth', s
I vei.t to her nearest neighbor. MWi
; I uid Mrs Will C '<>k aud his nioiherj
j ‘l)“ neighb.'rs hastened back witft
■ >| rs Cook . .
Wlie i I lie bedside Was nncht
i Mr Will Cook found <l><- youefc 1
I nan lying on his aide. I’. 0 Cove;
was well up O’.er his slum dersanc f
ad not o-I ti rumpi d d-.riiig ll
I I Hight. ;
L Mr Cook took Roy’s wrist tryinj.
I i t> feel Lis pulse.
; ; He said 'be body of the young
i I nan was warm, and that be was
| I not stiff in death but that life was
| I extinct when he reicbed bis bed- I
’ I side.
No one knows at what hour Mr'
i Cook passtdnway. He was about •
twenty years of age.
He was intown Thursday and]
ye scribe when she noted that lie',';
d'd not appear well that he bad
been real sick with lagtippe.
Friday, bin mother says, be seem
ed some better and Friday
: he enjoyed his suppsr.
'idie mother and son retirtd ton
their respective apartments at tin ’•
usual bout and the motherdid notL
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bear any call or complaint from '
Roy during the night.
No one, not oven the boy him
self, considered the illness sever#;,
and Lin unexpected death io n-.I*JK 4.
-to io* mtmbera ot his a mediate ‘
family and is deplored by bis
triends and acquaintances.
• T.ifa deceased was the only child
V > f the late Bob Cook who lost bis
H life at a picnic in this county near
1’ I ly seventeen years ago.
e : R >y, for the last few years, has
‘ done much toward comforting and
■ providing’ for his aged mother who
*■ survives him.
e He also leaves an older brother
’• and sister to mourn over his sad
p death.
e His body was interred in the
* cemetery at Belleview Sundaa in
s ; the presence of many sympathiz-
j ing friends.
fi K.v. W. C. Cleiey conducting
n ' a funeral service at the open grave.
May the wounds caused by the
lads death be healed by Him who
notes the sparrow’s fall.
Returning To
s ‘ Colquitt
I Dr B. F. Hughes the eye sight
.[■ I specialist w ill return to our city
i.land can be consulted at the Dixie
| Pharmacy.
; If you have eye trouble or need I
glasses yon can bring your case to
IDr Hughes next Thursday May 8
and be properly advised. This is
r expert service right at your door.
Mrs Margaret Toole spent a por
tion of last week at tne lovely home
of Mr and Mrs Z. T. Williams
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=i J She is almost helpless tut she said
. I wbenshe returned home that ‘’Clarar
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.land Mr vVilliams have the most;
jconvenient home I ever saw, and
they made me have such a good
time.’’
|Court Proceedings.,
L’he suit of J . S. Cowart vs F. j
;E. Fudge and oihors, injunction.!
■has been di c> h d i n favor <. f t b<- ,
I defend ent s. Vi <• Lav ■mt 'car neu
,w In the? or not Mi Cowart of Ar- ’
bugtmi, tim plaintiff, inti uds at -1
()■ tiling the case.
Am ther cate . f much inti rest
’ »'>is decided Ld' y. .... 1 Lis was a |
' L.w suit in which J. M Built y ami i
I Id. C. Powell were tub r. sted. 1 L>
k| to be decided portaiui di
i to lhe p of a :
10l M .a. d. Toe 'erdicl ■
U’ 'st M r Bailey; but Im
\ N 1 wili appeal f<-r ■
i l\ v ' ! iutere-'t Ceuti red n i
t.i'e'w ik of th- G:m d di r rs.
I'iiat body ii.vi stignted 1 m si.ay ■
ijli ■ Lining in tin - place <f I Lar ►y |
* Ilium s, whose death > coin red tin I
iimt.
The dea 1 imn/» clothes, wuru|
;e night of the s;b mst , wl.eti 'e i
was sb t amt . umrtally wumled,;
.vere displayed before the lady.
After hours of c.msiderntiou a.
oili .was found against R. B. budge |
Irtinrging him with murder and |
..uoilier bill was foum. against him .
-‘or simoling on the public high-'
ways.
Since the night of the tragedy •
R E . Fudge has b“*n away from i
'the places where he is us ually seen.
; Superior Court is ius ’seieu.
Gvercoats w j re in evidence Mon
largo crowd is at tending court.
Farmers are afraid tba'. tne dry
weather will cause the oat cr >p to
bn ai failure.
His many friends will regret to
earn that Mr 'Dutcu 0> >k i- ill
ipiioidjcver.' A. ,
recovery soon.
Mi W.P. Dunn of Iron ( tty
was here Sunday spending awhile!
with Lis son, Pearl dr. The gen ■
tlemsn is always accorded a hearty]
welcome to this city.
Muy comes tommorrew. Hen-L
hoping it will bring refreshing
showers and that it will banish
cold weather.
ColJvs. Persons has sold the
vacant lot on which his r i i i<L nee
was burned last summer. Mr 1. G.
Chasou bought it and in the trade
Mr Chaeon sold to the attorney ai
automobile.
Many parents are urrauging to
accompany their children to the
Sunday School Convention in
Eldorendo Sunday. There will be
no reduction in fare but there is
to be a special coach brought np
here Saturday atlernoon for the
accomodation of those who go Io
ttre convention. It will be curried
down to Eldorendo by the regular
South bound morning train ami
the special coach will be side
tracked in Eldorendo and n main
there until time for returning it
the afternoon. The officers of the
convention have extended through
the papers of this locality an invi
tation to all interested in Sunday
Scilioot work to attend the conven
tion.
Mrs Henry Batt is a pleasant
guest today at the hospitable home
of her sister Mr« T. C. Nowdl.
; Miss Susie Dixon is convalescing
rum a few d ivs illness .
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g We hold it nothing short of a crime for a drug |
I stere to fill prescriptions with impure or old drugs ja
g which have lost their strength.
Absolutely none but the highest quality, purest
I K freshest drugs go into the prescriptions we com- ®
® pound or the remedies we supply, bring your pre- 9
Y scriptions to us. We make no mistakes.
Come to OUR Drug Store. K
g The Best Drug Store |
II DIXIE PHARMACY. |
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E. J. Hunter, Jeweler. ; i
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This is from a minister who ap
, preciates the editor. At an edito
rial convention he offered the fol
lowing toast: ‘‘To save an editor
from starvation, take bis paper and |
* pay fi r it promptly. To save him
; from bankruptcy adv rtise in his
paper liberally. To save him from
i di.-pair send him every item of
■ news of which you tan get hold.
J To save him from profanity, write
; your correspondence pla nly on
| one side of the sheet and send it
lin as early as possible. To save
I him from mistakes bury him, dead
people are the only ones who never
m ike mistakes.
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