The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-19
A NEW WAYNE COUNTY TOWN.
Hortense Has Hopes of Becoming
the County Seat.


Waycross, Ca, July 1S.-Contractor
T. ]. Darling sent a number of brick
masons to Blackshear Monday for the
purpose of commencing work on a large
cottonseed warehouse for the A. p.
Brantley Company. The warehouse
will be located near the guano factory
and will be 70 feet by $50. 1t Will be
of brick, and nearly a quarter of mil
lion brick will be required to complete
the structure.
DR.. r. P. Izlar is having the plans
drawn up by Mr.. George Feltham, arch
itect, for "A handsome two-story resi-
dence to be built on Gilmore street.
MI. w D. Stark, who was recently
made agent of the Southern Express
Company al this place, has arrived ana
taken charge.
May Build n New Town.
1t is said that quite little town is
to be built at Hortense, in Wayne coun-
~, it being at the junction of the
Brunswick and Birmingham and the
road from Jesup to Folkston. b. Q.
Middleton G. Son of Atkinson own
about all of the land in that section,
and have already commenced business
there. They expect to organize
stock company in the near future, and
will aid a great deal in the develop
ment of the new town. A gentleman
from that section says that Hortense
is in the center of Wayne county, high
ana healthy, and the people generally
are talking of building the new Court
House at that place. He also says
that the county line between Pierce
and Wayne will be changed one OF
these days, as it was years ago, be-
tween the Big and Little Satilla rivers
to te lower waters of Cross swamp.
Frightened by IA RattIesnalNe.
Mr. Thomas Edenfield, near Buckley,
in this county, had a severe fright a
day or two ago by driving on to a big
rattlesnake. on seeing the snake, he
sprang from his buggy, took the har-
ness from his mule and got on him,
and went as fast as possible to Mr..
Dan Smiths for gun, leaving his sis
ter and little niece to watch the snake.
The reptile remained in coil until he
returned and when killed, he found
that il had eleven rattles. Reports
say that there are great many of
these reptiles in the woods this sea-
son.
Mrs. Wilson, mother of Mr.. D. A.
Wilson of west Ware. who is blind,
was badly hurt the other day by hog
sticking it's hoof into the body of her
foot making a very ugly and painful
wound.
Handsome Business Block.
Decidedly the handsomest business
block in Waycross is that now nearing
completion being built by Judge War
rem Lott and Hon. Simon W. Hitch.
1t is located on the corner of Plant
avenue and Alice street and will have
three stories. 1t viii be a strictly
modern office and business block, with
every convenience for tn ecomfort of
it's occupants. 1t fronts 1872 feet on
Plant avenue and 172 feet on Alice
street. The total hight on Plant ave-
nue. will be fifty feet, and 1t will cost,
when completed about 900 or $780, 900.
In the center of the building on Plant
avenue there is large rotunda 20 by
SO feet, in which is located an electric
elevator and storway. Brick were fur
nished by the Waltertown Brick Com
pany; the lumber was also a local pro-
duction, and the trimming is of Georgia
marble.
Sheriff T. ]. McClelland returned this
morning from Moultrie, where he went
after T. S. SIer, who was arrested at
that place Tuesday on a warrant
sworn out by the Murphy Whitman
Company, charging him with larceny
after trust Siler was lodged in the
county Jail.