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VOLUME XVI.
JEW YORK. — The
proud name of Shee
dy, long identified
with riches in Colo
rado—banks, mines
and cattle —is to be
written on another
page of the social
registers of Newport
and New York, and
in brighter letters
than it now appears
in the blue book of
Denver. Florence Sheedy, who saw
her sister Marie start on her honey
moon in mid-February, had a love
secret of her own, declares a writer
In the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
She is to become the wife of Isaac
Townsend Burden, Jr. The formal
announcement of the engagement is
already In the malls. There were
negative head shakes when society
first began to whisper, but the maid
and the man bided their time. In the
meantime the young scion of fashion
in New York found the atmosphere of
Colorado very much to his liking.
Cupid’s western headquarters had
been under the Sheedy roof for good
ness knows how long. And he has
been busy, very busy.
First young “Bob” Livingston went
a wooing—young "Bob,” whose family
tree is as famous as the Charter Oak
in Hartford, and whose grandsires
Wrongly Reported.
“I have been told, sir, that you re
ferred to me in a speech the other day
as a ‘little crooked.’ ”
"I have no hesitation, sir, in brand
ing the man who told you that as a
malignant falsifier. I referred to you
as a little crook.”
Should Have Reason for Faith.
It is always right that a man should
be able to render a reason for the
faith that is within him.—Sydney
Smith.
Light In Ocean’s Depths.
Distinct traces of light have been
detected at the great depth of 500
fathoms below the ocean surface by
Sir John Murray’s oceano-graphical
expedition of 1910. More recently,
brightly colored organisms have been
dredged up from an even greater
depth, in the form of rose foramlnifers
with rose pink shells.
According to Grade.
Vessels larjge may venture more,
but little boats should keep near
shore. —Franklin.
Jnuiutmi lulktuu
NUMBER 31.
lived in a manor house after the fash
ion of moneyed Knickerbockers. He
had the choice of easy chairs in the
Sheedy home, and Marie was at his
side. He had met her first in Europe,
and by a quick consultation of time
tables managed to shape his itinerary
so that he could travel whither she
went. And somewhere along the
Mediterranean, where the skies were
blue, he proposed and she accepted
him. Later on, when good old Dennis
Sheedy slipped a deed for a fine dwell
ing in New York and a most attractive
check into his daughter’s hand with a
father’s blessing, he wondered why
his other daughter seemed so inter
ested in the transaction. Now he
knows.
Rivalry for Miss Sheedy.
Florence Sheedy had actually been
pestered with suitors ever since she
wore ribbons in her hair and her
frocks touched her shoe tops. She
grew up a most attractive girl, full of
breeze and life. Many a Denver cap
was set for her, but she danced them
all on the string of fancy and never
became serious until
Until “Larry” Phipps came along.
And the strange part of it is that she
didn’t become serious with Phipps, but
with young Burden. It was a choice
between a daring polo player and a
member of Harvard’s crack golf team.
She accepted the latter.
Not So Costly, Either.
She —I would like that lovely
pearl necklace. Look what beauties
they are.”
He —It’s better not to have such
large pearls, dear. People always
think they are false. —Journal Amus
ant.
London’s Enormous Rental.
The gross rental of London’s build
ings is £43,000,000, while that of all
the agricultural land in England and
Wales is under £27,000,000.
Fitting Procedure.
If you want money, go to strangers;
if you want advice, go to friends; if
you want nothing, go to relations.—
Lippincott’s.
Worth of an Idea.
God bless the man with an idea. It
may be visionary but it starts some
thing. That’s it’s glorification.
Beware of Staleness.
Because you have done it for forty
years is probably the best excuse for
changing your method.
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 191 1.
Os course one may not know how
earnestly and persistently Lawrence
Phipps urged his suit for the hand of
the Denver banker’s daughter. Liv
ing in the same social environment,
he met her first when he was in
knickerbockers, and the story is told
in Denver that he wanted her to prom
ise him at that early day to become
his wife when they were older. She
laughed at him. By and by she and
her sister were sent to the Academy
of the Sisters of Mercy and Phipps
was bundled off to boarding school,
where he continued to dream of her.
It was not so long ago that they
both returned to Denver, she in the
full bloom of maidenhood and he a
youth of athletic build, with an allow
ance in keeping with his position in
the world. He renewed his suit with
ardor. He gave sumptuous house
parties at Wagon Wheel Gap, Papa
Phipps’ mountain home, and had the
Sheedy girls as guests of honor. He
gave theater parties to Florence
Sheedy, and had her among his chosen
friends at dinners and on motor trips,
but he made no headway in his love
making.
Florence Sheedy's Engagement.
During the recent polo tournament
at the Denver Country club, in which
Phipps engaged with all the zeal of
a gallant in the lists of an old-time
tourney, a whisper went around among
the fashionable set on the veranda
that Florence Sheedy had lost her
heart. She did not deny it. Phipps
heard it. New hope came to him
Then the truth came out. She love
another. It became necessary, ac
cepting the ethics which Cupid long
ago established, for Florence Sheedy
to keep her romance a secret for two
until such time as her elder sister had
taken step to the wedding march.
After the Livingston-Sheedy nuptials
the family intimates received the news
that another New York youth had
been successful in winning a member
of the household.
Still young Phipps has not lost all
hope.
The Sheedy girls are not unknown
here. They had their social introduc
tion some time ago and with sponsors
whose word means much. Likewise
they have been presented abroad. In
Denver their social position has long
been recognized, albeit their father
counts other things of greater mo
ment.
Who Dennis Sheedy Is.
Dennis Sheedy is a type of the west
ern man of energy and thrift. He
began life as a cattleman and by
natural stages became a miner, a
merchant and a banker. He typifies
Croesus in the Rockies. His personal
fortune, it has been said, shows a mil
lion for every peak of the mountains.
He sits as a director in a dozen com
panies, and his property is listed on
many pages of the tax books. He is
vice-president of the Colorado National
bank and touches elbows with Stand
ard Oil interests in the International
Smelting & Refining company. His
home is as fine as a Pittsburg nabob’s.
Nabobs have the finest.
Mr.’ Sheedy makes no boast about
himself or his ancestors except to say
that his father was good Irish and
wore cowhide boots as a help to rais
ing the mortgage on his farm. His
family plate new and he hasn’t an
escutcheon. .
Dennis Sht dy’s present wife it the
second to bear the name of the pro
gressive Irishman. She is the niece of
Bishop Burke of St. Joseph, Mo., who
officiated at the ceremony which unit
ed the houses of Sheedy and Living
ston.
Career of Young Burden.
I. Townsend Burden, Jr., Is one of
the favored sons of New York society.
His parents have been leaders of fash
ion for many years, with a place in
the golden horseshoe at the opera and
a villa at Newport. The Burdens’
town house is at No. 2 East Ninety
second street. Andrew Carnegie lives
on the corner below. Young Burden
is a member of the Knickerbocker,
Racquet, Rockaway Hunt and Baltus
rol Golf clubs in New York and is a
Harvard graduate of ’97.
Not an Advertiser.
“Did you hang up any mistletoe las’
Christmas?" asked Erastus Pinkley.
“ 'Deed I didn’t,” answered Miss
Miami Brown. ‘T’se got a little too
much pride to advertise fob de or
dinary courtesies data lady has a
right to expect."
Doing the Best One Can.
Probably the best -way to manage
home affairs is to be straight ahead
doing the best we can, regardless of
other folks’ opinion.
Seaweed Eaten in England.
It is likely that a very few English
people know that the fisher folk along
the Devonshire coast are accustomed
to eat laver, an edible seaweed, and
so think it very odd that the Japanese
should use certain seaweeds as an ar
ticle of diet.
Found Goods In Demand.
The Moscow trade expedition to
Mongolia sold all the goods carried at
good prices. Water communications
between Russia and Mongolia are ba/
and railways very scarce.
To Our Friends
The Buyers
Our Mr. Myrick has just returned from New
York, Baltimore and Philadelphia, where he went
to buy
Our Spring and
Summer Purchases
We just want to say that this year’s offerings
are the best ever shown by us—if you have ever
dealt here you know what this msans—the best for
the least money. If you are not a customer of
ours, we would like to have you call on us. Let us
go over the same with you fully; let us show you
how and what it means to deal here.
THE “BIG STORE” IDEA
is different from others. We want you to know
this store as we know it. Come and see us when
in Milledgeville; we will be glad to see you; oui
welcome will be hearty if you only come to look us
over. Yours for big business.
W. S. Myrick & Co.
“Milledgeville’s Big Store’.’
SI.OO A YEAR.
