SW Georgia Newspaper Clippings

THE ASHBURN ADVANCE
Friday April 23, 1897

There it is again; the U. S. court has respited Mrs. Nobles, and she will live six months longer at least.

ECHOES FROM ISABELLA

Miss Ina Williams returned home Sunday.

Miss Minna Mc Dowell spent Sunday at home.

Charlie Collins is giving general satisfaction as solicitor in the M. court.

Dr. Thomas Tison is doing a lot of dental work in the caverns next door to knowledge.

Mrs. W. T. Sikes and children spent Sunday with relatives in Isabella.

Messrs. Wooten, Clarence Gleaton and several others whose names I failed to learn, attended the M. court here Sunday.

Capt’s John and Robert Fulton of Dawson, spent a few days last week with their sister Mrs. C. B. Ford.  The returned home Sunday.

Mr. Lunday and wife of Poulan attended services at the Baptist Church here Sunday.

Geo. F. Gober, Judge of the Blue Ridge circuit, will preside with Judge Spence at the regular term of Worth Superior Court, which convenes next Monday.

Clerk Warren and Bro. visited home folks Sunday and guess who else.

Rev. S. E. Blitch filled his regular appointment here Saturday and Sunday.

A TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
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Prospects are bright for a telephone exchange in Ashburn.

There is already in operation here a call line with twelve stations, and every owner wants an exchange.

The subject sprang last week by Mr. S. B. Hudson, one of our most progressive citizens who was about to put up a private line to his house from J. S. Betts & Co’s Store.  He mentioned the matter to several parties, and found so many in favor of it that he commenced taking subscribers.

The plan suggested by Mr. Hudson is to have a central office, and each person wanting a phone to buy the instrument and put up the wire from his station to the central office.  Each man will then own his part of the business and can use it as he pleases.  The cost of putting in the phone and making the connections is estimated at $15 each, and 50 cents a month for the central.  Mr. Hudson has written several companies for prices, and has inserted and ad in the Chattanooga Trademan for bids on putting it up.  In due time a meeting will be called and contracts signed for the work.

Twenty nine stations are subscribed and others are sure to follow.

Bids for putting up the line will be received by S. B. Hudson.

List of stations already subscribed:

OFFICES
Advance, Shingler & Lawrence, J S Betts & Co, J C Hickman Co, W H Mashburn & Co, H Jeffrey, Davis & Barbee, Dr. J F Gardner, Dr. W J Turner, J S Shingler (commissary) R. Huckabee.

RESIDENCE
J W Evans, J S Betts, S. B. Hudson, Dr. J F Gardener, Dr. T H Thrasher, Dr. W J Turner, A B River. E C Harrell, J R Patten. J T Mc Lendon, R Huckabee, R L Betts, J B Bozeman, J S Shingler, J. Lawrence, R S Woodard, L O Futch. 

Then we will be joined by the line now running to W A Shingler’s, near Doles, and the one to T J Shingler’s eight miles north-east.  The line to T J Shingler’s runs by Worth and has a phone at Steele’s Store.  A line is operational from Worth that connects that place with Arabi, Cordele and Vienna.  We may be able to hitch onto that line and talk all the way through.  Then we may conclude to run wire to Sycamore and connect with that to Irwinville and Fitzgerald.  Then it is not far from W. A. Shingler’s to Isabella where connections can be made with the line from Tifton to Albany.  We could mention other possibilities, but our people can not want too much property at once.

Take a phone!

M. Will Cobb’s – a girl.

A. J. Wells, of Tifton, came up to see somebody yesterday.

J. B.  Horne says he will call on someone at Tifton this evening.

Mr. & Mrs. O E Hurst of Cordele are visiting Mr. & Mrs. S B Hudson.

The many friends of Lizzie Bloodworth will be pleased to learn that she will visit our town soon.

Mrs. R. J. Bunkley, and Misses Kate Bunkley and Eula Hill, of Dakota attended church services here Sunday.

Mrs. and Miss Powell will move their dress making to the red house.

Col. J. A. Comer, of Moutrie, is dabbling his fat self around over his old hunting ground, and will stay in these parts till after superior court.

Mr. W H Jinkins, of Dooly County came Sunday to visit his boys here.  Our old friend is chief Justice of the (can't read) district of Dooly

capt. J. P. Belvin is here looking for a house – not that he has lost one – but he wants to come back home.

Mashburn has received his soda fountain, which is doubtless the most beautiful this side of Macon.  He has gone to  and expense of several hundred dollars to keep our people cool through the summer, and many will drinks he will hand out.

Don't forget the meeting will start on Sunday, and that Rev. J. M. Glenn will be there the first week and Rev. H. Stubbs the second week.
It promises to be a meeting that we have not had in four years.

Mr. J. Respess English, after spending a few months in the wire grass regions returned home last week.  Now we do not mean to insinuate, but Respess rattles off some good ones.  Genial Respess always wins the brass button for such --  Englishville correspondent to Macon County citizen.

Will Loving the blind tiger, was tried in county court Wednesday and fined $30 and cost in one case, and $20 and cost in the other, making a total of about $110.  His mother was there and said she would pay him out and take him back to Thomasville.  These are about the highest fines we have ever heard imposed in such a case.  Loving got  out exceedingly light.

SCHOOL ITEMS

Ola Belle Killebrew was absent from school yesterday on account of sickness.

Little Ethel Hadaway has been absent from school part of this week on account of sickness.

Misses Ninna Baily and Lela Tison were absent from school Monday.

Miss Maud Dommer was absent from school the first of this week.

Clair McLendon and Miss Clyde Shingler had their photographs taken Monday after school.  Clair had one taken by himself.  I guess he thought it would take better.

Clair McLendon says he hates the bush a rose grows on for they are the cause of two girls getting mad with him.

Herschell Futch visited our school Tuesday afternoon.

Miss Flora Baldwin and Miss Willie McLendon gave us a short call Monday afternoon.

Prof. Passmore wishes to present at the close of school the pupil who keeps the best record from April 14 with a five-dollar gold piece.  Mrs. Passmore will present to the deeper of the best record in her room with a silver dollar.

Miss Ella Bacon is going to give a musical entertainment for the music class June 4th.
 
 


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