THE ASHBURN ADVANCE
Friday, April 2, 1897
ECHOES FROM ISABELLA
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Mr. and Mrs. George Price visited relatives in Isabella Sunday.
Will someone inform Judge Mc. And B. West how to set frogs in high tide?
Isabella has a judge for an editor of the M. O. K. club The girls
say he is a daisy.
Rev. Sanders filled his regular appointment at the Baptist Church here
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. M. A. Forehand, of Fitzgerald is visiting Isabella this week, the
guest of Mrs. Ovalo Joiner.
Jim Sly stopped in the city a short while Sunday. One would judge
from his appearance that he recovered from the trials of his recent date.
Col. Forehand says Piney Woods creek is knee deep to a tadpole and deeper
and deeper in different localities. He further states that he struck
it deeper and badly dislocated his head in the direction of the foretop.
Mrs. Ha. A. Tansey formerly of Marion speaks in high terms of our allmate.
He arrived here in January. Since then he has gained 19 pounds.
(It may be at the expense of the boarding house for ought I know).
And yet the heathen nation would bury this alyssum in oblivion: for what?
Bah! If some folks would go off to the lonely swamps in the wee small
hours of the night and vomit up their heels what a nation we would have.
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J. S. Shingler returned today from South Carolina.
Mr. R. Huckabee and lady visited Isabella Tuesday.
Mr. O. R. Sumner and Miss Caifford Royal were married Sunday.
Mr. J. R. English is not clerking for G. B. Gorday anymore this season.
Capt. J. P. Beltin visited here this week. He thinks of coming back
home.
Sam Henderson and Perry Leggett came up from Adel Sunday to see some
of our folks.
Messrs. Davis and Barbee have purchased the Strickland meat market and
grocery business.
Miss Canley stopped here with Mrs. W. J. Turner this week on her way
back to Cordele from Tifton.
Mr. L. D. Hamilton, of Macon, is operating while our Huckabee is taking
a rest in Macon and Atlanta.
Two wheels arrived for ladies this evening. One for Mrs. Sallie
Chapman and one for Miss Flora Baldwin.
Mrs. J. W. Powell and Miss Anne Powell will open a millinery store in
the storeroom of the Pinnix house.
The marriage of M- George Daniels and Miss Janie Smith will be at Pleasant
Hill Sunday instead of at Mr. John Smith’s.
Miss Maxie Gilmore returned this evening from the G N I college
in Millegeville. She is here for a rest to her eyes.
The young people and Jim Raney had an enjoyable social gathering and
turning the pan at Mrs. Cox’s Wednesday night. They had music and
Dr. Thrasher and everyone enjoyed it.
Mr. G. B. Williams of Isabella, has entered Staleys College at Thomasville
for a business course. Greene is a bright, young man and a long,
keen one.
Mr. W. A. Story has recovered from the very serious spell of pneumonia,
and is able to drive around in his buggy. He was here yesterday and
delighted many friends with his presence.
SCHOOL ITEMS
Miss Mand Domer was absent Monday.
Miss Mattie O’Kelly spent part of the day with us.
We had a very interesting debate last Friday evening. Subject:
“Resolved that city life is preferable to country life. Our leading
speakers were Le Grand Gardner on the affirmative and Clifford Hay on the
negative. Rev. J. c. Flanders was our president. The
decision of the president was in favor of the negative side. He was
in favor of the negative side. We had quite a crowd of visitors to
come.
THE BLIND TIGER
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Will Loving, the man who is charged with selling whiskey in Ashburn
is in Isabella jail.
He was tried in Mayors, court here Friday evening and fined $50, then
appealed to a hearing before the council and was released under a $50 bond
to appear Monday. Saturday a warrant from the state was issued and
Sheriff H. S. Story picked him up Saturday evening and took him to jail.
A commitment trial was given him at Isabella Tuesday before Justice
McArther, of this district, and Loving was committed to jail under two
charges in default of a $200 bond in each case.
A county court has been called and an a attempt was made to give Loving
a hearing before Judge McDowell. His counsel, Powell & White,
appealed to a jury and the case docketed for regular term of county court
on the third Wed. in April.
Eight or ten buggy loads of the first men of Ashburn attended the trial.
It seems that Loving is in a bad row of stumps, as the further he goes
the deeper he gets. When he left Ashburn he had only one case before
him, and if he had paid the $50 when the fine was put on him, he would
have gone free. But the state had two witnesses Tuesday, hence two
charges and therefore two bonds of $200 each. By the 3d Wednesday
the state may have other witnesses, and therefore other cases. The
man is subject to prosecution for every time he sold whiskey, and it may
cost him a handsome sum.
BRITT HILL
(Doles)
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We had a bad wind last Friday evening that did some damage, but served
J. W. Kilcrease little worse than it did anyone else. It blew down
between 3 and 4 hundred panels of fence and partly unroofed his corn crib
and smoke house. W. H. Geter also had a lot of timber blown down.
I am sorry to relate the sad news of the death of the little 4 month
old babe of Mr. and Mrs. James Rycroft on the 16th past. The angel
of death hovered about the bed of the dying babe, and, alas, taking him
home to his Father in heaven where we will be as the little babe if we
believe in Christ as our savior. ---Jacob
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