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THE McDUFFIE-PROGRESS.
Vol. VIII.
THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1909.
•rt DRY GOODS AND FURNITURE -r «.
Dry Goods Department.
White Madress all stripes, plaids
and figures for the finest quality
white shirts, shirt waist or dresses
for ladies or children. Good pat
terns for boys waist or men’s
chirting.
White Lawn. These are in a
good weight for children dresses,
aprons, underskirts etc. Price
6-1-4 to 30c yard.
To get new things for your house
you must go to a house that has
new things. In our store house
you’ll find all of those things you
need to furnish your home and
make it happy. We never look
cross when we show our goods, be
cause we know when any one
looks at our furniture they will be
so please I, so we shall be pleased
to have you call.
A swell line line of clothing to
go cheap*. King duality Shoes.
Furniture Department,
Mosquito Oonopy $1.50 to $3.00
Art Squares from $5.00 to $15.00
Belmont Range. See us before
you buy.
Oil Stoves and Hammocks are
the things for summer.
We are headquarters for cook
ing stoves.
II MCCOMMONS-BUSH-BOSWELL COMPANY,
Main Street,
Thomson, Ga-
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Street in the building recently occupied by J. P.
Jones, where they will constantly keep on hand a
complete stock of
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They solicit a fair share of the patronage of the \|/
Georgia W- C. T. U.
M. Theresa Griffin, State Press Supf.
Beer As A Tonic. f systen, weakens and injures the facul
ties and hampers instead of assisting
1 low astonishing it is that the iden nature in her efforts to establish
that ale and beer have tonic properties : health,
still prevails to a great extent In spite i
of the revolutions of modern soicnoe to
tlie contrary. The fuct is thut many
of our older people do not know as
much about alcohol as the ordinnry
school boy or girl who is being taught
the truths established by modern
science. It is the old fashioned doctor
and the old fashioned gentleman or
public, and guarantee fair prices, correct weights
and first-class goods.
G. W. Sc G.
Railroad Street,
F. GRANADE.
THOMSON, OA.
Hut the doctors arc not all on the
wrong side. One wus consulted by ti
tippling patient who inquired:
“Doctor, do you think a lilt le now
and then would hurt me very much?”
“Why, no sir," said the doctor de
liberately, “I do net know that a little
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1 908 BANNER YEAR, j
Not-withstanding the panic and other business 1,
j drawbacks, our sales were larger than any previous
^ year. We are better prepared than ever to serve you
d and can give you your money’s worth every time.
Agents for Sucrene Food.
Arrington Bros. & COmpany.
LEADING GROCERS,
863 BROAD, ST.,
lady, who is most incorrigible on this i lt ow ami then would hurt you very
point—but the march of progress is in- much, but if you do not take any, it
cxorable and this superstition will give won’t hurt you ut all.”
way in time as others have done.
A total abstainer was recovering
from erysipelas and Ids doctor said to
him: “You have had a serious attack
and you are very much reduced in
health and strength; and until you re
cover fully 1 should advise you to take
a little ale or beer.” The patient said,
“Doctor, 1 suppose I am out of dan
ger?”
“Oil, yes."
“Well,” said he, “we’ll manage the
rest at home. How long do you think
Id take me to get quite well with
beer?”
“Three months."
The patient went home Hut did not
take the beer and was as well in two
weeks’ time as lie ever was in liis life.
He said: “If 1 can not live without
drink, l mean to die; and if I cannot
die without drink, I mean to live for
ever. When I talk like that to the
doctor they talk no more nonsense to
me.’*
J rest at.
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Boneville.
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lyen run
picnic
ground at tins place, a ml thrre is
a steady stream pouring out. of a
pipe at the same place it <li 1 be
fore the trough through which the
water formerly ran become choked
up. Boneville is nov. - the ideal
place for, and I hope that it will
become the objective point of ul 1
picnic parties m this section.
Is it not time our Progress band
was arranging for a picnic on a
mammoth scale.
Mrs. Homer Johnson left this
pace Saturday for Atlanta, to b«
the g-.est of her sister for several
uuys.
Miss Pinkie Walton, of Metas
ville, who was the guest ot Miss
Ada Stokes last week, left Satur
day for Augusta where she is the
guest of her aunt.
Mr. Berry Benson, of Augusta,
was in Boneville Sunday. I lean
that he was in search of Indian
relies,
Mrs. R. Paul ami her son Mas
ter Preston were guests of Mrs.
N. J. Fullbright Tuesday.
Mrs. Gertrude Warr was a guest
of friends here Tuesday'*
Miss Lizzie Fullbright and Mrs
skillrul treatment of Dr. S. Gib
son 1 hope that they w 1 11 soon re
cover.
Mrs. 0 W. ITsry was the guest
f her m it her, Mrs. Printup in
Thomson Monday.
Mr. Sullivan Usry was the guest
of his parents. Mr. and Mrs 1 C.
W. Usry Saturday and Sunday
lust,
Mrs. G, W Usry and family,
Messrs Fred and Reese Simons I
and Arthur Mathews were all
guests at the home of Mr. 0. W.
Usry Sunday.
Miss Annie Usry is the guest of
Miss Carrie Mangum this >\aek. in
Grove-town.
On Friday Inst Mr. Allen '
Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.
A. Young, of Thomson, died in
this community cn Friday last at :
the homo of h's grandfather, Mr j
E. J. Wilson. The bereaved have !
the heart felt sympathy of the
people of Boneville.
The Thrice A-Week World of
Now York asks this question:
‘ Is Democracy content?” How
could the party of discontent be
come content? And if it should
| Two friends who had been at college
i together met after a long separation.
| One had been abroad and the otiier en-
' gaged in professional work at home,
j To the surprise of the visitor a glass of
| bitter beer was poured out at dinner.
“Why,” said lie, “I thought you
were an abstainer.”
“Bo I was for some time, but I got
below par and the doctor said 1 must
have some hitter bee. - to get up the
tone of my system.”
“And do you feel any better?”
“Well, I fancy some times that 1 do,
but I am far from being well.”
I “How long nave you taken it?”
I “About seven years.”
“Well, if J had taken one sort of
I remedy for seven years and it had not
: effected a cure, I should make a
cliunge.”
j This absurdity, so often noticed, is
owing to the deceitfulness of alcohol.
It is a lying npirit.
Our Georgia doctors are all right on
this question—At least a large ma
jority of them. Last year the re were
sent out to the physicians of the slate
hy the W. T. U. through the stale
superintendent of Medical Temperance,
Mrs. J. H. Richards, of Thomson, 2551
letters asking that they abandon (lie
use of alcohol in their practice. Mrs.
Richards received a very large number
of most cordial replies endorsing the
position taken by the W. (J. T. C. Her
impression is that a large majority had
already reached the same conclusion
by their experience in practice as t lint,
expressed In the last work tf the scien
tists, that alcohol is the most insidious
enemy of tlie body, brain and soul of
man.
To show how little the physicians
are prescribing it, wc can cite Colum
bus as an example. Bince tlie proliibi-
liition law went into ctlect, January, |
1008, fifteen months ago, there have
been only 271 prescriptions for alcohol
filled by the druggists «f Muscogee
county, and recorded with the ordinary.
It is more than probable that lite.se
prescriptions were made by a very few
of the older physicians of the city.
The younger men keep up with the
time.
If your doctor that you love very
much and feel unwilling to give up
prescribes alcohol, just ask Him if there
is nothing else tliai will do as well,
and nine times out of ten lie wiii -give
you anollier and a safer remedy.
A Remarkable Will
The following touching and remarkable
document was left as his lust will
and testament by Charh s I.ounsburv,
who died insane in the Cook County
Asylum, Dunning, 111. :
“i, Charles Lounsbury, being of
sound mind and disposing memory, do
hereby make and publish this, my last
will and testament, in order as justly
as may lie to distribute, my interest in
the world among succeeding men.
“That part of my interest which is
known in law and recognised in tlie
sheep-bound volumes as my property,
being inconsiderable and of no account,
I m ike no disp-ji al of in this, my will,
“My right to live, being hut a life
estate, is not at my disposal, hut these,
tilings excepted all else in the world 1 !
now proceed to devise and bequeath : J
“Item—I give to good fathers and!
mothers, in trust for their .children, all
and every, the li nvers ol the fields, uiu!
the blossoms of the woods, with the
right to play among them freely, accor
ding to the customs of children, w arn-
ing them at the, same time against
thistles Hiul thorns. And I devise to
children the bunks of the brooks and
the golden sands benenth the waters
thereof, and Hie odors of the willows
that dip therein, and the white clouds
that float high over the giant trees.
And L leave the children the long, long
days to bo merry in, in a thousand
ways, and the night and the moon and
the train of the Milky Way to wonder
at. but subject nevertheless to the
right thereinafter given to lovers.
“Item —I devise jointly all the useful
ideal fields and commons where hall
maybe played; all pleasant waters
where one may swim ; all snow-clad
hills where one may coast, and all
streams and ponds where one may fish,
or where, when giim winter comes,
one may skate ; to have and to hold the
same for file period of their boyhood.
And all meadows with the clover bios-'
soins and butterflies thereof, the woods |
and their appurtenances, the squirrels [
and birds and echoes and strange nois- j
cs, and all distant places which may
he visited, together with the adventur
es there found. And L give In said boys I
each it is own place at the fireside atj
night,, witli all pictures that may lie
seen in the burning wood, to enjoy
without let or hindarncc and without,
any incumbrance of care,
“Item—To lovers, I devise their im-
Even the "idle rich” of the Metro-j aginary world, with whatever they
polis are learning something about the may need ; as the stars of the sky ; the
real nature of alcohol. A man writer! red roses by the wall ; the bloom of
in Vogue says in a recent issue that the hawthorn; the sweet strains of
the younger men in society drink very music, and aught else by which they-
little wine or spirits; they occupy j may desire to Ague to each other the
Thomson Mercantile Co.
Announce to the people ot McDuffie and adjoining
counties that they have recently greatly enlarged their
business and are now better prepared than ever before
to furnish their customers, friends and the public
generally with every article usually kept in a Grocery
Store. At our store on Railroad Street you can al
ways find a large stock ot
Flour, Meal, Meat, Lard, Sugar,
Molasses, Salt, Tobacco, Bag
ging and Ties.
And many other 1’arm Supplies. The buantides in
which we will purchase these goods will make us buy
and sell at the LOWEST market prices. YVe solicit
the patronage of the trading public.
Thomson Mercantile Co.
OUR PRICES ON 1
Building Material
. . . Will Save You From .. .
10 TO 20 PER CENT
themselves with athletics; motoring
It stills the pain And open air pleasures: the drinking Is
Ly paralyzing the nerves, but it does
not remove the cause, nor efleet a cure.
Even in small quantities it clogs the
mostly c-.nlined to tue older men.
This is one of the straws which show
which way the wind blows.
An Untimely Death
Mr. Allen J Young was the oldest
child of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Young,
of Thomson, and hud he lived would
have been eighteen years old next
November. He was taken very ill
about threee weeks ago at the home
of his grandparents Mr. and Mrs
E. J. Wilson, of Boneville. All that
medical skill eould do was done, but
without avail.
He died May fourteenth and was
become content it would lose ona buried at Thomson cemetery the day
of its most notorious if not its following and the impressive funerai
most able champion. T refer to
services were conducted by Rev. Those
i , _ _ • j i. .u H. Timmons In tha presence of a
k, Samuel Compere; President oi me large congregation of kindred and
lriends.
Sarah Dupriest arc oil tile Bi _
list this week, but antler the] American Federation of Labor.
Mesena Sunday School.
The Mesena Methodist Sunday school
will celebrate the annual Childrens
Day service at Mesena Saturday May
29tii. Several good Sunday school ad
dresses will be made. Dinner on
the ground.
A full program will appear next
week.
Land for Sale.
I have for sale several small tracts of
land near Thomson. One twenty acres,
one 25 acres, ona forty acres, and one
fifty-six acres. Any one desiring a
small farm near town can buy from me.
4t, Il’A E. Faicuer.
lastingness ami beauty of their love.
,‘Jtein—To young men jointly, I de
vice and bequeath all boisterous, inspir
ing sjiorts of rivalry, and 1 give to
them the disdain of weakness and
Undaunted confidence in their own
strength, tiiough they are rude. I give
them the power to make lasting friend
ships, and of possessing companions,
and to them exclusively 1 give all
merry songs and biave choruses, to
sing with lusty voices.
“Item—And to those who ore no
children or youths or lovers, L leave
memory, and 1 bequeath to them the
volumes of the poems of Burns ami
Shakespeare and of other poets, if there |
ba others, to the end that they may!
live over the old days again, freely and
fully, without tithe or diminution.
“Item—To our loved ones With snowy
croyns I Ijequeath the happlnass of
old age, the love and gratitude of
their children until they fall asleep.”
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Lime, Cement, Plaster,
Doors, Sash, Blinds,
Screen Doors, Screen
Sash and etc. Mantels,
Grates, Tile, Paints, Var
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material of all kinds .. ..
Our services are prompt.
Our material is the best.
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667 Broad St. Augusta, Ga.
Long Distance Phone 473.