THE ASHBURN ADVANCE
Friday, August 13, 1897
Ridenhour tries hard to imitate the Arizona Kicker man in billingsgate,
But that would naturally be expected of him for all monkeys try to imitate
human beings.
Lord Beresford has skipped to Klondyke, and says he will return to Georgia
with enough gold to buy half the State, and settle with those who are attempting
to blacken his character. Whoopee!
Judge Z. L. Fryer, of Barnesville, who was in Thomaston last week, in
looks is the perfect double of Secretary of State John Sherman -- but entirely
different man politically, socially, and otherwise.
Maj. Hanson, manager of the Cordele Manufacturing Company, threatens
to remove the cottonmill to some other part of the State if the city authorities
attempt to collect taxes on the plant.
Another brute met death Saturday morning. Dr. Powell, of Glennwood.
a station on the G & A railroad, was called to see a patient Friday
night, and when he returned he found a negro in his wife's bedroom.
He captured and held him until daylight, when a preliminary trial was held
before the justice of the peace. During the proceedings a bullet
from an unknown hand struck the negro and he was dead in a few minutes.
-- Cordele Times
The Times says that Lovie W. Ridenhour and Carlton Cunningham have purchased
the printing outfit of the Cordele Herald. We are told that Mr. Cunningham
is an energetic young man, with plenty of brains and tact to make a good
newspaper man. If such is the case and he has a controlling voice
in the concern, the Herald may hereafter be conducted with a degree of
decency -- but evil associations corrupt good manners.
John Sheffield, a negro convict sent to convict camp at Kramer from
Terrell county in 1891, for a term of ten years, made his escape last year
from this camp, and all efforts to locate him were futile. Wednesday
he walked into the camp and asked for his stripe suit again. He stated
he was unable to secure work enough on the outside to make a living, and
he was hungry and wished to go back where he could get plenty to eat and
have a good home.
If Editor Ridenhour had money enough to buy the Herald, why didn't he
pay his printers? Perhaps it required no money to buy the plant,
and his mismanagement caused the stockholders to desire to unload at any
price and any terms -- even to giving it away, in order to relieve themselves
of present and future obligations. As they probably had a contract
with Ridenhour for a specified length of time they could not fire him without
entailing additional expenses, so they adapted the easiest way of ridding
themselves of that pestiferous barnacle. This last move is but the
beginning of the end. We extend our sympathies to Mr. Cunningham.
A clash between the State and United States authorities occurred in
Cordele Friday, says the Times, when Deputy Sheriff Sheppard levied on
the Cain planing mill plant, which is in the charge of W. H. Rugeley as
a master commissioner appointed by the United States court. A few
days ago a judgement which had been obtained by S. J. Hill & Bro. against
Mr. McD. Cain was affirmed by the State supreme court. The Messrs.
Hill demanded the amount of the judgement from the gentlemen who had signed
an indemnity bond pending the decision of the Supreme court. It remains
to be settled by the courts which lien has precedence, since the United
States court has appointed a commissioner to sell the plant for the benefit
of holders of mortgages in Alabama.
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Col. Z. Bass went to Doles Wednesday.
Dr. Gardner and wife are both very sick this week.
H. Jefferey made a business trip to Cordele Tuesday.
Miss Mary Warren, of Inaha, was here shopping Wednesday.
Col. W. A. Hawkins, of Cordele, was here yesterday.
Bob Thompson, of Cordele, was registered at the Clyde Tuesday.
F. H. Bland, of Cordele, was here Tuesday interviewing our merchants.
Editor Herring of the Tifton Gazette was a caller at our office on Monday.
Durham's & Co.'s new gin will be completed this week ready for business.
W. T. DePriest and L. Stewart are visiting their old home, Ellaville,
this week.
H. Jeffrey left for Savannah yesterday, where he will take a steamer
for New York.
W. J. Hancock and W. R. Paulk of Wilcox county were in town trading
Monday.
Mrs. J. M. Scovill of Worth was here Wednesday with her sister, Mrs.
Geo. K. Wilcox.
Miss Lilla Greene and brother, of Leslie, are visiting their sister,
Mrs. Wills Hargroves.
Gus Wells says he will have four bales of cotton picked from 12 acres
picked by tomorrow night.
Mr. White, the harness maker, went to Americus and Montezuma Tuesday
on a business trip.
Capt. Sikes, of Sikesboro. has purchased a new gin outfit which will
be in operation this season.
Miss Lizzie Jackson and her cousin, Miss Williams, were shopping here
from Sycamore on Wednesday.
Miss Pearl Stubbs, of Ochlochnee, who has been the guest of Miss Vic
Evans returned home Friday.
Miss Etta McDowell, daughter of Judge McDowell of Isabella, is visiting
the family of Mr. Huckabee.
W. M. Kennedy and wife of Dakota were in town shopping Tuesday, and
Mr. K. favored our office with a visit.
A. C. Smith, apprentice under Section Foreman Bloodworth, was here between
the trains yesterday.
Rev. N. M. Templeton, at one time pastor of the Presbyterian church
at Poulan, died at Lauren S. C. recently.
Mrs. Chapman and Miss Willie McLendon made an enjoyable trip to Worth
yesterday on their wheels.
J. C. Ledbetter of Cordele, lineman for the Cordele telephone exchange,
was in town Wednesday and favored us with a call.
The new residence being erected by G. B. Gorday in the northern part
of town for rent is being pushed rapidly toward completion.
Prof. L D Passmore and wife are expected to return soon. They
will be accompanied by a young lady who will enter school here.
Mr. McLendon has a new whistle on his gin, and the sound is only to
be compared to the screams of a small boy with a b-b-b-backache.
Mrs. J. C. Henderson of Hawkinsville, who has been here some time visiting
her sisters, Mesdames Evans and Betts, returned home Saturday.
G. L. McRae of Worth was in town Monday sending messages, although he
has a telegraph instrument and telephone at his command at home.
Greer Bros. of Dakota have one of the finest farms in this part of the
State, comprising 1400 acres. They expect to make 500 bales of cotton
this year.
If you want to see the Chattanooga plows and Monarch guano can do, go
out and see the corn on J. Lawrence's place two miles from Ashburn.
W. M. Hargroves met with an accident at the planing mill Wednesday morning
by a flying board striking him on the head. He was only slightly
injured.
F. M. Barry of Dooly is here on a visit to his brother, J. A. Barry.
He is a prominent farmer, and if he can find a place to suit him will locate
in this county.
Revs. Tinley and Stubbs are conducting a protracted meeting at Sycamore
which promises well. Much interest is manifested and the attendance
is large.
Prof. E. B. Walker has closed his school in the Deep Creek neighborhood,
and will open another near Cordele on the 1st Monday in September.
The entertainment given the young people at the residence of Mr. Hucakaby
one evening last week is pronounced by those who attended as highly enjoyable
affair.
Miss Mattie Clark has served more than a year as an attendant in one
of the halls at the State Asylum, but getting tired of that position she
resigned, and will make her home with Mrs. T. J. Shingler.
Section Foreman J. M. Jordan is doing some excellent work on the roadbed
between here and Sycamore, and if the good work continues bicyclists will
have a first-class riding path between here and that place.
J. W. Smith and D. Roberts of Sycamore have commenced the manufacture
of their patent thrasher, pea huller, pinder picker and fan. The
machine is valuable, and every farmer should have one.
Jeffrey & Roobin have left the contract to L. K. Beall for a store
house 30 x 70 feet on the lot joining them on the north. Mr. Jeffrey
will return from New York about the 1st of September with goods enough
to fill both houses.
O. L. Wadsworth, of Ashburn blind tiger fame, is now a deputy sheriff
in Madison county, Fla., and came to Tifton recently and took back with
him negro wanted in that State.
Miss Maggie Burke, who has been visiting the family of John Welch for
the past two weeks, has concluded to remain here. This will be good
news to the many friends she had made during her sojourn to Ashburn.
Mr. Tinely, of Screven county, who last week assumed the duties of compositor
and local writer on the News at Sycamore, was in town Monday, but probably
forgot there was a printing office here. He needn't think the News
is the only pebble on the beach.
A. H. Ross is laying the foundation for a good town; at least he is
doing the brick work for Ashburn. He went out last week and set a
boiler for Alford Davis. Mr. Davis is running a gin and threatens
to put up a gristmill.
A. B. Wells brought in the first bale of cotton last Saturday.
It was raised by him, ginned by J. T. McLendon, weighed on the new scales
by J. M. Rainey at his new warehouse and was bought by J. C. Hickman.
It weighed 5?2 pounds, and brought 8 cents.
Georgie Williams didn't go out calling Sunday as she would like, but
remained in the calaboose. It seems she had been violating the rules
in W. A. Shingler's quarter and got run in. They got sorry for her
Monday morning and would not prosecute her.
Newton and Jimmy Hargroves left Leesburg on their bikes Saturday morning
and arrived here early in the evening. As the distance is about thirty
miles, and the roads exceedingly heavy, the trip may be considered a quick
one. They came over to see their brother Willie.
The literary and social meeting of the Epworth League will be held at
the residence of Mrs. Futch tonight. A highly interesting program
will be prepared, but for some reason unknown to us it was not furnished
the Advance for publication.
Sheriff Story was in town on business Tuesday. He says there are
now five prisoners in the county jail. The first story of the new
courthouse is completed and the new jail is finished with the exception
of the cells. He also intimated that Isabella had a baseball team
that was looking some other nine to demolish.
Miss Mary Quinker, who has been acting as governess in the family of
Thomas Shingler, has resigned her position and returned to her home in
Macon. Miss Quinker is a most estimable young lady, highly educated
and refined, and made many lasting friends in this section who regret her
departure.
For a few days after the incarceration of Henry Rhodes in the calaboose
their seemed to be be general rejoicing among the colored population, and
singing, praying and shouting were indulged in day and night. Now
that Henry has been taken to Isabella, with a good prospect of getting
a long term in the chain gang, quietude is restored.
Mrs. Zack Gardner, who lives about twelve miles east of here in Wilcox
county, was struck by lightening last Friday evening and instantly killed.
She was visiting the home of her daughter, Mrs. B. B. Fryer, whose little
baby she was carrying about the room on her left arm when lightening struck
the house and ran down her right side, even tearing the shoe from her right
foot. Strange to say, the baby was unhurt. Mr. and Mrs. Fryer
standing near received a severe shock, but were not seriously injured.
Mrs. Gardner leaves a husband, one child and host of relatives and friends
to mourn her loss. She was a devout christian and a member of the
Primitive Baptist church, Mrs. Gardner was an aunt of the editor of the
Advance.
We glean the following from the Poulan Herald: The Mutual Building
Co. has been organized and first payment has been made on the stock.
With this payment a nice business lot has been purchased, and the deed
put on record. Sealed bids will be received on the work and the material
Friday night, when the contract will be lot and construction immediately
begun. Dr. H. A. Wall of Bronwood has rented the store, and
it will be erected especially for a nice drug business. The committee
on building composed of Messrs. Ketchings, Monk and Stewart, as well as
the committee finance, Messrs. Kimble, Davis and Adkins have been both
busy and are right up with their work. The building will be constructed
of Poulan manufactures. Timber, brick, and everything but the glass,
locks, nails and hinges made in our own town. It is a small beginning
but it is sure to bear excellent results.
G. B. Gorday is an enterprising and progressive merchant, and is always
up to some scheme to attract the eye of the public. His latest is
a handsome open buggy made by the Smith Buggy Co. of Barnesville.
The running gear is painted in imitation of silver, and the buggy is rightly
called "16 to 1," because if one young man owns it he will always have
sixteen girls anxious to ride with him. Henry Grady once said that
a man died in his State and the pine in his coffin came from Maine, the
screws and nails from Massachusetts, and the inside trimmings from Connecticut
and it was manufactured in Ohio. Georgia only furnished the corpse
and hole in the ground. The case is different with the Smith Buggy
Co. They use Georgia materials, and manufacture their vehicles in
Barnesville and Georgians should patronize them in any preference to foreign
concern.
The town council passed an ordinance down there in the woods one morning
in favor in the backset of some houses that stand where they want the street,
but up to the hour of going to press, the houses have not had there backset,
but still stand there where the council would like to have a street.
Wm. Bryant's house stood nearest to town and he generously slid his house
far enough back to build another in the same place. H. H. Sumlins
and W. T. Bass' houses are on that line, and no day has been set to move
them. The committee, however, gently glided eastward when they struck
the end of the row homes, and will turn south at the northeast corner of
the block and go out through Gabe Davis' quarter, striking squarely against
one of Gabe's houses that must surrender to room for a thoroughfare.
Gabe is a good old darky and owns valuable property here, but he ought
to have known where the street was going to be.
Marshal Hall and Bob Law arrested a couple of hoboes Tuesday, but not
without an exciting chase. The conductor of the south-bound local
freight requested the officers to arrest the men; who has just boarded
the train. Bob Law approached them and asked them where they were
bound for, and they replied they were going to Tybee Island to attend the
grand concatenation of Hoo Hoos. Bob told them that affair was over,
but that there would be a grand concatenation of hoboes at the city calaboose
that night, and to come along with him and they could concatenate to their
hearts' content. To this they demurred and broke and ran, followed
by Bob Law, Marshal Hallman, and a score of more citizens on foot, on horseback
and in buggies and pursuers and pursued fairly burnt the wind in the mad
race, while onlookers urged them on with Indian yells "Ki-Yi" and catcalls.
One of the hoboes was caught at the stock pen, but the other ran a mile
before he was overhauled. They were placed in the calaboose, given
their supper and turned loose. If they kept up the gait they started
with they are somewhere in the neighborhood of the north pole by this time.
Hoboes had better give Ashburn a wide berth.
Clarence Woodard is a bright lad, but he gets into scrapes just like
the young men. He came home the other evening with a crick in his
neck and would not tell how it cam. Even girls get too affectionate.
Few people in this part of the moral vineyard take as much interest
in fine stock as J. S. Shingler. He has just registered in the American
Jersey Cattle club of New York four of his fine Jersey heifers, and will
soon register others, the grandsire of once sold for $10,000. He
is offering two of his 7-8 Jerseys for sale.
This week our office was visited by Kit Carson, once famous in printistical
circles, and who has been and is yet a veritable globe trotter. Kit
has abandoned the stick and rule and is now engaged in repairing umbrellas.
If One-eyed Jersey, Col. Hargitt, Matchett, High-toned Brown, Peggy Ford,
Bill Cunningham, Scotty, Hy Hand, Maj. Beebe, and a host of other "old
rounders" could see Kit in the capacity of a "mush fake" they would hold
up their hands in holy horror. But such is cruel fate. The
old timers are fast passing away, or engaging in other callings, humble
though they may be.
W. A. Murray is selling 10 lbs. of good coffee for $1; package soda
5¢ per pound; fresh canned salmon 10¢ per can; Yard wide sheeting
5¢ per yard. New goods arriving every day. No shoddy stuff,
but good goods, and no man can or will undersell him. Everything
that people need, from the cradle for the baby in " swaddling clothes"
to the last thing you need. Coffins and caskets cheaper than you
can find them anywhere. He is brushing up for fall business, and
prices are being cut to the core. Try him and you will be pleased.
The little 11-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Mahoney died
Saturday and was buried in the city cemetery Sunday morning. As the
tiny casket was borne to its last resting place, silent tears trickled
down the brownest cheeks, and then a quiver played on lip of pride, for
it contained a priceless jewel, the pride of a fond father's and mother's
heart, pure as the snowflakes that waft in mid-air between heaven and earth.
At the grave a short but impressive and appropriate talk was made by Rev.
J. Lawrence, after which a regular old fashioned Methodist prayer meeting
was indulged in, and sorrowing was turned into rejoicing.
The air was cool, the breezes gentle, the moon beamed softly, the town
was quite, and the music sounded well on the air. Indeed if Ashburn had
been on the seashore Saturday night the music rendered by the string quartet
composed of Sam Betts, Oscar Futch, Ed Horne and Jim Bohannon, would have
sounded well on the water. Starting at R. S. Woodard's they visited
several houses and serenaded the inmates selections of a waking, yet dreaming,
nature, and passed away as the katy-did, to perch on another branch and
sing for others who sleep. At J. B. Shinglers they got too near the
beautiful pool at the spray where the gold fish swim, the Horne dropped
in and the band played on. Sad to say, they got nothing in return
for their music until that got back to Mr. Woodard's. There they
receive "kombination of a kompliment from Miss Kora in the shape of a kake,
kustard, kreme and (can't read)." The beautiful is not only
observed by the eye, the ear, and the nose. Woodard Betts a mule
that he can take a Bohannon and a Horne and a Futch more music to the surface
in one night than any other ten men on the globe.
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