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DYER&DANIELS
-—SUCCESSORS TO
LaJlliam Sons,
We make our best bow to the crockery buyers of Rome
and vicinity aud request you to write or call on us for
prices in our line before purchasing elsewhere.
We nave purchased the stock of Lanham <fc Sons at
such prices as enables us to offer big bargains in the line of
CROCKERY
Glassware, Tinware, Stoves, Etc.
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We must have room. Have more goods than space to
keep them, with new goods coming in. We carry the
choicest and newest prcductions of the leading factories of
the world. Our stock of high grade and medium class
goods is the largest and best selected in North Georgia.
We mean business when we say that we will sell you
goods cheaper than any other house, and a cordial invita
tion is extended to every one to call on us and look through
our extensive stock.
OUR WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT
will be kept up to a high standard.
DYER 4 DANIELS,
236 Eioati Street.
MAKING A NEW TOWN
GROWTH OF SHAWNEE, A LUSTY IN
FANT OF THREE MONTHS.
Fonnded When the Shawnee Country In
the Indian Territory Was Thrown Open
to Settlement—The First Settlers Were
Hustlers—Some Queer Characters.
Down at tbe apex of the Kickapoocoun
try, In the Indian Territory, is the town of
Shawnee, which has lately taken unto it
self the ambitious appellation of “city.”
It was founded when the Shawnee country
was opened, from which it took its name.
Lately it has assumed a very ambitious air
and proposes to be the metropolis of the
Kickapoo country when the latter has be
come covered with thrifty farms. It and
Choctaw will be the railroad points for
that country.
The Shawnee /of today is three months
old and is the “old town” moved north
two streets. It was at first situated on
parts of two claims and consisted of a long
wide street with a well in the center, and
one end of the street hated and despised
the other end. Along the street were scat
tered at intervals unpainted wooden build
ings, and all around were the stumps of
trees. The largest building in the town
was the “millinery store”—in a town
where the women wore sunbon nets in sum ■
mer and knitted hoods in winter! The
next largest building was the hotel —a
hideous structure unfinished everywhere.
Up stairs the windows were without glass,
and in its place thin cheesecloth was tacked
in the sashes, giving the rooms a dim re
ligious light. All the rooms were unlathed,
and the rafters in all their naked and splin
tery ugliness glared at the unfortunate
guests.
The hotel was kept by a man from Ken
tucky 6 feet 5 inches tall, his wife 6 feet
tall, three grown daughters as tall as their
mother, a girl 15 years old who was taller
than her mother and weighed over 300
pounds and was nevertheless graceful,
and a boy who was so young and big and
fat that he had been offered a handsome
salary to exhibit himself. The girls were
all exceedingly handsome in face and fig
ure, as was their mother also.
One evening, two years ago, two weary
travelers drove up to the hotel from a long
drive across the Kickapoo country. They
were hungry and grimy and had mental
visions of a good supper and plenty of soap
and water. When they asked for supper,
the host got down a long shotgun from the
rafters and walked silently out of the
house. A half hour later he returned with
some squirrels and a rabbit, and half an
hour after that supper was served. To be
sure, there was no milk for the tea and no
butter for the soda biscuits, but the girls
grouped themselves picturesquely around
the table to wait on the travelers, and the
younger man neglected his supper, to the
profit of his more practical and older com
panion, who ate the young man's squirrel.
There wore a grocery store, a saloon and
two bakeries, whereby hangs a tale. That
was old Shawnee, thriftless as a backwoods
town in Georgia, hopeless except for the
then very uncertain coming of the “Choc
taw road” and the opening of the Kicka
poo country. The town was full of “wait
ers," who starved along contentedly, pay
ing no rent and living off the scanty finan
cial droppings of chance travelers.
But nil this has changed. Ono day the
Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad de
cided to make Shawnee anointon its line.
tnereny leaving Tecumseh, which used to
laugh at and pity Shawnee, out in the
cold. The road secured 800 acres of land
near the old town, and the old town was
doomed. A new era had set in. Shawnee
had turned over a new leaf. All who
would consent to move over were given
lots, and in a week old Shawnee was no
more, and new Shawnee began to boom.
The railway surveyors came through, and
then the graders, and passing by the town
now is a huge embankment of the red
earth of the country. This was Shawnee’s
Infancy. It is now three months old and
a fine child for its age.
Shawnee is a typical new town, such as
are born of booms and unusual happen
ings. Wide streets have been cleared by
axes and scrapers. All over their surface
crop up the roots of trees, which trip horses
and pedestrians. Down the street on both
sides are brand new buildings, many un
painted and some, more ambitious, cover
ed with a priming coat of paint, plenty
for the prevailing weather. On every hand
is the sound of hammers and saws; every
one is putting up a building in town and
sleeping in a tent or a covered wagon on
the outskirts. There are four hotels and
another with a mansard roof going up.
A dozen saloons seem necessary to the
town, some of them very ambitious and
one of them very humorous. ZTho humor
ous one has a sign in all the primary colors
depicting the antics of two clowns In the
letters spelling the word “saloon." The
most ambitious house in town is a saloon
with polished hard wood fixtures and mir
rors and red curtains on the up stairs win
dows.
There are two banks, two newspapers,
one variety theater, 25 business houses and
two bakeries. Two years ago, when the
town numbered less than 800 people, there
were two bakeries. One of them was in a
tent and was conducted by a widow, the
other in a little wooden shack. They are
now in new Shawnee, housed in good
wooden buildings. The widow’s bakery is
in a neat cottage with an annex. These
bakeries have hated one another for two
years without abatement. Two years ago
they out prices on one another, and each
claimed to make the best and biggest loaf
for a nickel. Even then they got out hand
bills sneering at one another’s bread and
tacked them to the trees. Today they are
getting out frequent handbills calling at
tention to the size of their loaves and oth
erwise insulting their “loathsome contem
porary."
The people of Shawnee are a bustling,
hustling lot. They hustle about all day,
whether they have anything to do or not,
just to keep in touch with the times. Ask
one of them, and he will tell you that
Shawnee is going to be the greatest town
In the country; that the railroad is going
to make it its division headquarters, with
a roundhouse, a machine shop and a mas
ter mechanic, and incidentally a branch
running off south into Texas. In a year
or two the town will settle down, provided
if in that time the rain falls and lays the
dust for a few hours. It is the dustiest
town anywhere just now, and when you
eat in a restaurant pie that looks like
blackberry proves to be custard after you
get down through the dust. But it’s a
good town and will be a better.—Kansas
City Star.
An Old School.
It is certainly an unusual thing for a
school in this country to be able to cele
brate such an anniversary as the Koxbury
Latin school celebrated on Wednesday.
June 19 Two hundred and fifty years is
•■•deed a goodly age for a school -Bostoi
Transcript.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, FRISDAY, JUNE 21, 1895
ELECTRIC WINNIPEG.
The Atmosphere Full of the Fluid —Some
of It* Curious Keeulte.
A very-odd thing and one that not on
ly astonishes but startles the stranger
is the peculiar electrical condition of
everything in Winnipeg during the win
ter. If you reach out to touch an elec
tric bell, before your finger is within
three inches of the enunciator there is a
flash of lightning that goes up through
your arm and will probably make you
jump six feet. If you touch any metallic
substance, there is a flash of lightning.
When yon get into bed the clothing
crackles, and one would think that the
landlord had provided you with .a blank
et adorned with fireflies.
After aw-hile one gets so nervous one
is afraid to touch anything. I have
stumbled around my room and bruised
my shins rather than take chances light
ing the gas or turning on the electric
current If you reach for the gas jet,
“crack” it goes. If you shuffle your feet
along the carpet, you can light the gas
with your finger. It is really one of the
most startling phenomena in the whole
northwest. Imagine turning over in
one's bed and having the quilts emit
sparks or reaching for a bell and being
immediately answered by a flash that is
apt to make one howl. I saw my travel
ing companion, who had grown some
what careful, wrap his finger up in a
piece of paper to touch the bell. He
jumped back with a shriek, and the
whole paper seemed on fire. The people
of the effete east who want to become
electrified and have their systems filled
with electricity should go up north.
They will get it in proper shape and will
learn to avoid radiators and every other
metallic substance.
The fact remains, however, that in
that climate one feels wonderfully hope
ful and able to work, and no task seems
too hard to be undertaken, and I am
firmly convinced that the great men of
Canada will be developed there. It is a
remarkable fact that Ontario, the most
blessed of all the sections of Canada,
has developed proportionately to its
population fewer brainy and energetic
politicians and business men than the
provinces by the sea or the great west
ern stretch of laud with the wonderful
electricity in the air and the greatest
difficulties of money making in the cli
mate.—Saturday Night.
BACK FROM THE DEAD.
Husband and Wife Reunited After Being
Apart For Thirty Years.
A happy reunion of a husband and
wife after an estrangement of 80 years
has just been effected in Somerset coun
ty, Pa.
Emanuel Beck and Sarah Beck, nee
Irwin, were married half a century ago.
They settled on a farm in Wisconsin.
When the war broke out, Emanuel Beck
enlisted in the Thirty-third Wisconsin
regiment and served until the close of
the conflict, when he returned to his
family. He moved to Dakota, but hard
ly had the family settled when Beck
was caught by the gold fever and start
ed for the Black Hills.
In a short time word came to his fam
ily that Beck had been found in his
cabin murdered by outlaws, who had
carried away his gold, and Mrs. Beck
and children returned to their former
home near Johnstown.
A few months ago she heard that her
husband was living at Montrose, Colo.,
and the husband and wife are together
once more. —New York Journal.
A Clever Gang of Sharpers.
A gang of sharpers, with headquarters
in Cincinnati, is practicing one of the
cleverest swindling schemes that have
been devised for many a day through
the states of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky,
Illinois and West Virginia. The scheme
has as its foundation marked cards.
A member of the gang first enters a
town and sells a stock of marked cards
at a price that is next to nothing under
the pretext of “introducing the goods. ”
The rest of the gang follows, and for
days the unsuspecting innocents are bled
and cheated. The strangers send out and
buy the cards they can read so well, and
there is no suspicion. It is said that at
Indianapolis the gang cleared over
|15,000 in a few weeks.—New York
Herald.
An Albino Trout.
An albino trout was the name given
to a peculiar white fish which the Rev.
A. H. Gessner of the Methodist Episco
pal church of Milford caught some time
ago in the Beaver Dam creek near Port
Jervis, N. Y. It was caught on a Thurs
day, not on a Sunday. Such a fish had
never before been seen in that section,
so it was preserved in alcohol. Pure
white, except for dark brown fins and
tail, with indistinct spots of a delicate
lavender color, the strange fish has been
regarded as a freak.
Willie Adams, a small boy fishing in
Beaver Dam creek with a bent pin, a
piece of string and a young sapling,
caught another albino trout. It is a
gamy fish. Little Willie’s specimen is
to be submitted to some piscatorial ex
pert.—New York World.
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ease I had spent hundreds of dollars
trying various remedies and physi
cians, none of which did me any
good. My finger nails came off ana
my hair came out, leaving me
perfectly bald. I then went to
HOT SPRINGS
Hoping to be cured by this celebrated
treatment, but very soon became disgusted
and decided to try S.S.S. The effect was
truly wonderful. I commenced to recover
at once, and after I had taken twelve bot
tles I was entirely cured—cured by S.S.S.
when the world
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Shreveport, La. •
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3,000 Merchants sell Hawkes’ Spectacles wit
great success.
2,000 of them bandied other Spectacles withou
success, shewing tbe great popularity
HAWKES’ GI A-BEB over all others.
His Optical Plant »nd Factory is one of the
most comulete in the U. 8.
Established Twenty-Three Years Ago.
These Famous Glasses are fitted to the eye at
D. W. CURRY’S, ROME, GA.
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at small interest. If you
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ts Geo. F. Chidsey.
Fruit jars and jar rubbers.
W. H, Steele.
SAMUEL FUNKHOUSER,
Real Estate Dealer.
STOCKS AND BONDS,
315 Broad. S"tr*eeti, - Rome G-a>
JOHN M VANDIVER.
Wholesale Liquors
BEERS, WINES, CIGARS, TOBACCO, ETC. r I
Agent for Joseph Schlitz and Budweiser Bottled Beer
Pure Mountain Corn Whisky a specialty. Jug orders
promptly filled.
24 and 26 BROAD Street; - Rome, Ga
O’NEILL MANUFACTURING CO
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SASH DOORS, BLINDS,
Flooring, Ceiling, Weatherboarding, Brackets,
Moulding, Mantels, Stairwork.
Yellow Pine Lumber.
GENERAL BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES.
Office and Factory foot of First Avenue. Telephone No. 76. ROME, GA„
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REAL ESTATE AGENT
230 EROAD ST.
Renting a Specialty and Prompt Settlement the Rule
John R. Clemmons
SUCCESSOR TO J. S. WYATT,
No, 505 X3HLO.ZX.X3 STREET
Handles the finest liquors, brandies, cigars, etc. The very best
whiskeys for medicinal purposes. ,
Eeei JLlways on ZDra-vigrlxt-
We have Mr. Samuel Hawkins, one of the best mixers of drinks in
the south. Jug orders promptly filled. may2B-lmo
JOHN H. REYNOLDS, Preaident. B. I. HUGHES, Caahies
P. H. HARDIN,.Vice ’’resident.
First National Bank.
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