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About The Knoxville journal. (Knoxville, Ga.) 1888-18?? | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1888)
TOWN AND COUNTY. What the People are Doing and Talking About. THE TIMES IN CRAWFORD. Society News and Neighbor' hood Notes—Personal lUenUon. Farmers are wrestling with the grass. Candidates continue to crop out in divers places. The Editor has. gone to Atlanta on business. Mr. Frank Hardempn, of Macon, was in town yesterday.. The old and silly question: “Isn't it warm ?” is now in order. Mrs. Charlie Spillers of Macon is i.^g relatives in Knoxville. Air. H. D, McCrary visited Macon in the early part of the week. Don’t he afraid you will contribute too much to the public dinner. In this issue Air. J. F. Grace announces himself a coudidate for sheriff. Parties who are hauling crossties gre .as busy as bees around a syrup mill. Dr. C. W. VanVaiben berg of Bibb Co. was in town a short time yesterday. Crops are growing and the farmers smile as though they are .filled with, gladness. Mr. C. T. Blasingame is now engaged with the construction force on the railroad Mr. B. W. Sanford, of Everetts, was in town yerterday shaking hands with friends. Fine rains this week have greatly im¬ proved the appearance of growing vege¬ tation. Dr. Sawyer is no longer a candidate. A carlin this issue shows where he i-tauds. Jesse Dent is improving at this time Jimmie his brother came out to sag him yesterday,. 0. P.,Wright announces that he is a can¬ didate for Ordinary’s office. Read his card in ; this paper. Mr.R, A. Hatcher has taken the con¬ tract to repair the bridge near the residence of.Jno, T.- Andrews. Mrs. Fannie McCrary left for Milledge ville the first of the week, and will proba¬ bly be gone some time. Miss Lizzie Long who has been, teaching, near Capt. W- J. Dents, .left Wednesday for her home in Fort Valley There was a considerable crowd in town Saturday and the temperature of politics went up about fifty degrees. Col. R. D. Smith says that he has in h : s garden a squash vine thirty feet in length. This flourishes as did Jonah’s gourd. Mr. S. R. Harrison announces himself a candidate for the Tax Collector's office. Fee hiscaid in this issue of the paper. Mr. J. W. Blasingame, who has been engaged in taking the school census, says that the Seventh district numbers up by hundreds. Any one wishing to buy a good building lot, convenient to the public sqnaro in Knoxvile, can get it by applying to How¬ ell, & Wrignt. Y'ork had a runaway frolic yesterday and ins buggy ar.d harness were damaged to ,some extent, but he brought in the rmiil on horseback... The rains this .week interfered with the brjck making business. Had the weather Van favorable, John Dent would have had up ip'g kiln by this time, We call attention to the announcement of Mr. L. C. Futrell as a candidate for Representative from Crawford. It appears in another column of this issue. The Journal's correspondent at Sandy Point has been unwell for several days which fact accounts for there not .being any communication from that place. Judge J. J. Clark was in town a few days since and reporttd some new candi¬ dates out in his section. A similar report comes lip from every part of the couuty. Mr. W. Hi Dent, who had been out from Macon several days at the bedside of his son. Josse, who has been very unwell a week or longer, returned home Tuesday. The. tax receiver wiJl soon close his !*** , t books. All who have not yet returned their property should bear this in. mind, and not complain, if they are put on the list of defaulters. Mr. IV. H. Harris of Macon was out Tuesday, wearing an expression indicative of fine health and prosperity. Will is one of our county boys, and one of whom we have reason to be proud. Gills and boys are generally very friend¬ ly, but there is a little fight between them ip school this week. The girls contend that the horse is more useful than the cow and the hoys are pulling for beef. What s.bqut-the road from town to. the railroad.? If tup town should be absolute¬ ly moved, root and branch, to the ,railroad the county cannot afford to allow the road to remain in.,its present eondition. The. edifor is absent this week*, and it need not be expected that the. paper will come fully up to its usual s aixlard. The one who is iu his place will do what ho cau to funish the readers with scinetning read¬ able. Zach Aultnwra reports that the Farmers Alliance iu his section of the county is growing daily, and is prospering in. every way. Ib is in. the , bands of good people and there is no reason why it shouldTit do well. Messrs. E. L.: Aiiltman, Z: T. Aultman and W. H. O’Neil came up from the Sixth distiict Saturday and stayed a day or two. Mr. O’Neil was somewhat disappointed after reaching hep,, -but he .didn't, refuse to laugh. On Saturday,,the 9th inat, the Farmers Alliance met at, this place, and eke ted Messrs. TI. D. McCrary and James Taylor delegates to the ,State Convention of.their organization which meets in Atlanta on tire 27th oi tl.ismonfh. The Cpunty Deproeratic Exe,culi_v,e Com¬ mittee met on Saturday last and appointed the dth day of ^uly,; next as the time for the. nomination for representative and county officers. This is the .time fixed foi nomination of Senator for thc,.2fh;4 senato¬ rial district., s In giving some meatpine a few days ago, Mr. L. T. :L^e made a mistake and gave a neg.ro woman.,., on., thet. placg. morphine, thinking, it^y-as.quinine. As .soon as the mistake, was discovered, Mr. Lee sent in haste for Dr., Jones who went at once and relieved the woman. SiieM. Mrs,, Mathews, wife of Mr. Ezekiel Mathews, died at her homo in this, county on t-be 9th inst, She was about seventy five years .of age, and was much esteemed by all who knew her. Mrs. Mathews, wife of -Mr.. J. : Wesley Mathews, of Culloden, died at her, home in. that place last Tuesday. Mrs. Mathews was a daughter of Capt. . W. \ W. Johnson, y of this county, and Mr- Mathews was a cit¬ izen of our county until ,a few, years ago when he moved to Culloden- To the rcla. tives and friends of the deceased we extend condolence in this time of bereavement, : e : weigh, KNOXVILLE, .- - - - GEORGIA. ■DEALER. IN' Filer ni Family Grocsries STAPLE m FANCY DRY GOODS HARDWARE. ETC. I keep an assortment of General Merchandise, and try to suit eveiybody both in. quality of goods Seeds, and also, in-prices. I haw of now V on hand a lot of Fresh Garden a variety . Farni, Tools of the best makes which X'selffcheap. Gall on me- . F. H. WEIGHT, Knoxville, Ga. Mr. John S. Sandefur has the finest hog irsall this country, and were he to futtcu him f 0 v p 0 rk, it would be safe.,to be(u>n his. weighing a thousand pounds. Iu the runaway yesterday York was thrown from the vehicle to begin with. Mrs. Julia Molton, who was in the hack at the time, was also thrown out,and hurt to some extent. Texas ponies never regard the value of life or. limb. . The scarcity of fruit throughout the county is not entirely chargeable to the weather in the early part of the year. There, are very few orchards in the county and.,a number of these .are not cared for as, they should be by their owners. A c hange for the bettor is needed along this line. Work on the Atlanta and Florida, rail¬ road is progressing finely, at this time. By the time this paper reaches its readers Atlanta and Kuoxviile will be united by iron and other strong ties. . We are right now on solid ground, and there is no rea¬ son why our town and county should not go-straight along up the hill. - 1 Mr. J, W. Blasingame furni.-hes the Journal with the number, of children of school age in three districts, which is as follows: Kpoxvjlle clist., white, 318; col’d., 286. Seventh dist,, white, 115, col’d., 322. Sixth dist, white, 226, col’d , 157, Total, white, 659; colored, 765. There should not bo any division among our people in the matter of getting up the dinner on the 28th of this month, A large crowd will be here on that occasion, and if all will do what they can to that, end, it will be a success. Don.t wait for a few to shoulder the entire burden and then say it was a failure and I knew it would be *5uic-i»c«. Bertha, a little daughter of Mr- J. F- .An draws, was burned on yesterday by some lrot water which was accidentally over turned while she and some of Mr. F. H. Wright’s little children were playing a round a little stove, We.liaye.pgt learned the extent of the hum, Ctau’t Swallow It. Here is the way the Editor of the Bron wood Reporter talks about the Editor-in-, obiif.of tho Macon Telegraph; “Editor Richardsrn, of the Macon Tele¬ graph, claims to have been robbed, while in St. Louis, of his watch and one hundred dollars, lie might have- had taken from him a Waterbury, but the story of an editor being rojp-bqd ,of.a hundred dollars at this season of the year—or any other season, as, to that—wont down at this office,” Dumber For Sale t ; Prices371-260 ctonerhandledOn u| ^^noxviUe the A F Rail Road, 2.1,2 mn^O E g 0 u O. P. WRIGHT, LAWYER, KNoryVignE, * ...» - GEORGIA. Office in the Court-House. fb2T W, P. BLASINGAME, Attorney at Law,., KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA-. entrusted Prompt attention given to all business - to his care. jj‘27 DR. JvW. JONES, KNOXVILLE, - - T. “ » GEORGIA Calls promptly attended day and night’,. GEO. L. SAWYER, Rhys i c i a n Surgeon, , KNOXVILLE, GA-, Patronage respectfully solicited. fb3 The JJntsmlle Drug 'Store & Is the placg where yon can always find , Reliable Goe 4 s» *. Besides .Urugs. and Medicines I keep ., GROCERIES, DRY "GOODS, NOTIONS, SHOES, HATS &3., Whenever you conic io town come to see .. J. W, BLASI^AME,: MONEY TO* LOAN fir I am prepared to log# money on improved of $200 farms and to tlte - amount liberal upwaids... I on most terms. rep- .. resent th^Georgia Loan & Trust ^ Co. Americu:, Ga.-, a char¬ tered institution of the State, T will guarantee that our com¬ missions are at least from two „ to tliree per cent cheaper than : that,pf any other ompany. Pay men ts-can be made at any time, and the loan may be taken up whenever desired. Quit the . warehouse and try us. We are cheaper and give you more lib¬ erty, and we don’t want your land. The, warehouses are get- . tingit. Walter P. Blasingame - THE OLD RELIABLE, THE HAEMSHOUSE,. kngxville Georgia, JS"to House. 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