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SoTtoS PatsM Lar S est and best selected stock of Woolens in OIIF $5 PIHtS
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f , you a pair of Pants ment of the latest style suitings and pants goods. Qp [arth
for $5.00 that will
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We buy more first-class Woolens than every firm in Rome combined, and hence
buy them very cheap, and will sell them the same way. Call and see our splendid stock.
I Our $35 Cutaway Worsted Suits are We want your trade and will get it if
L worth any man’s SSO. We are selling good goods, perfect fit and fine work is
I' out our $lO for $7.50. They are the any object to you. Come and see us
finest goods made. You will do well to and we will sell you. No one else will
get a pair of of these very fine pants. stand a shadow of a chance.
DISTRICTS OF FLOYD
PEACE AND PLENTY
ABeund In These Pleasant and Pictur
esque Country Places.
OF PROGRESS AND PROSPERITY
« A Happy and Contented People
Inhabit These Valleys.
* A NUMBER OF THEIR ATTRACTIONS
Olimpses of Their Environment and Points
About the People Who Make Their
Homes In Floyd,
On the Georgia Division of the South
ern railroad.
About twevle miles South of Rome is
SeEey, one. of the most prosperous little
villages of Floyd county. It has several
stores that do a fine business, four
churches that are well attended, a splendid
school, two char-coal stations, two saw
mills and several other important indus
tries.
Rev. G. B. Jenkins is principal of the
r school and is giving the town a most ex
cellent school. He is ably assisted by his
accomplished daughter, Miss Hattie.
The people of Seney are a steady and
progressive people and take great interest
in church and educational affairs. The
churches are well supported and this
■5 «juiet little town is enjoying great busi
ness and social prosperity.
VANN’S VALLEY.
r, A Fertile and Prosperous Community Near
Rome.
Vann’s Valley district lies in one of the
most fertile and prosperous valleys in
North Georgia and is the home of some
of our most progressive citizens. This
year its beautiful farms have yielded
abundant harvests and the farmers are
happy.
\ Mr. William Montgomery is justice of
/ the peace of Vann’s Valley and there is
not a better one in Georgia. He never
allows a case to go to court if it can pos
sibly be settled otherwise, and his rulings
are always proper and just. W. J. Walker
is his bailiff and is one of Floyd’s roost
dutitul. Prof. Barnett has a good school
at Six-mile.
Mr. D. B. Sanders is the postmaster at
Vann's Valley and also has an extinsive
mercantile business. Mr. Sanders is a
thoroughgoing citizen and performs his
| responsible duties well. He carries a full
line of merchandise and groceries.
F r W. J. Cooper, a railroad man at Vann’s
V Valley has been confined to his home for
I sometime on account of sickness. He is
ready for business again, however, and no
one attends to it more faithfully than he.
Mr. Packer, who lives near the M etho
dist church is a splendid farmer. He has
some of the finest cotton that I have
seen.
No farm in Georgia is more beautiful
than the fruit and vegetable farm of Mr.
W. 8. Gibbins. Mr. Gibbins and his
sister own 1,100 acres of the finest land
in the valley and they are converting
them into a lovely garden of fruitful
beauty.
Miss Lillian Montgomery has a good
school at Agate. School is not in session
now. Miss Lillian is one of Floyd’s
best teachers.
Vann’s Valley has four churches, Rev.
Mr. Moon, ot Cave Springs, is pastor of
the Methodist church and Rev. Mr.
Pullen of the Baptist.
Hugh. Montgomery is Agate’s very ef
ficient postmaster.
JEVERETT .SPRINGS
A Well Eqalpped Sem'nary 1b Located at
That Place.
Everett Springs is conspicuous for its
first-class school No school in the
country has held up better and promises
more in the future than Everett Springe
seminary. It sustains a full attendance
the year round and is giving entire satis
faction to all who patronize it.
The great success of this school is due
to the combined interest of all the peo
ple concerned, and the most efficient
faculty. Prof. J. W. Moore, principal,
is one of the most able and conscientious
instructors in the state. His brother,
Prof. G. Moore, his assistant, is a young
man of great ability for teaching, and
has a promising future. Miss Gaines,
the music teacher, is a brilliant young
lady, and is conducting her department
ment most successfully.
Everett Springs is a pleasant locality
and is the home of some of our most
prominent and worthy citizens.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Residence of Some of our Most Substan
tial Citizens, w
North Carolina includes Coosa, Ore
burg, LaVender and several other pros
perous towns as well as some of our most
excellent country communities.
This district is thp home of Capt. Dean,
A. B. McArver, Dave Shelton and others
of our most substantial citizens.
Mr. McArver is postmaster and mer
chant at Coosa and does a big business.
J. L. Hardin is justice of peace and
Will Van, bailiff. The Baptist church
at Coosa is one of the most prosperous in
the county.
OLD LIVINGSTON.
Altown With a Hjatory That Is Older Tian
Rome.
Livingston is a quiet little place where
one could dream his life away amid broad
TBADJE EDITION—HOMK THIBUNB, DECeMBEH.
fields of plenty and in the golden sunshine
of peace.
N. C. Sanders is a leading merchant
and post master and Tom Shipley has re
cently opened up a very good mercantile
business.
The lands about Livingston lie as level
and pretty as a garden and have yielded
average goop crops this year.
Livings on district is one of the largest
and wealthiest in the county and has
some of the cleverest people. Its churches
and schools are all prospering and its
farmers are hard working and honest.
Mr. John Webb is justice of the peace
and A. M. Shipley is notary public W.
W. Huffman and J. M. Johnson are
bailiffs.
CHULIO DISTRICT.
A Brautlfal Country In the Southeastern
Portion of Floyd.
Chulio includes that rich and prosper
ous country lying in the Southeast por
tion of Floyd county.
In this district is found some of the
best communities in the county such as
Wax, Chulio, Silver Creek,
others.
Prof. A. H. Yarbrough has a splendid
school at Wax.
Mr. Butler is the justice of peace and
makes a good and consciencious officer.
This is one of the most prosperous dis
tricts in Floyd.
PLEASANT VJLLEY.
The Sp’endid Regeon Known a« the Flat
Woods of Floyd.
Lying just West of Rome is the beau
tiful country generally known'as the
Flatwoods
This is a valley district and has many
pretty farms. It is rich in timber wealth.
There are three churches in this dis
trict, two Baptist and one Methodise
They are well attended.
Mr. Geo. D. Anderson, the justice of
the peace, is an earnest and judicious
officer and serves his people good and
well. _ usraec sm t
Mr. John Rice makes a most; efficient
notary public.
FLOYD SPRINGS.
A Pleasant Place in Which to Locate a
Beautiful Home.
Another place that always makes one
one feel at home while visiting there is
Floyd Springs.
Its people are hospitable and thrifty
and take great interest in social, religious
and educatifnal affairs.
The Methodists and Baptists both
have splendid churches here, and the
Sunday schools and church services are
well attended.
FOSTER’S DISTRICT.
The Home of Capt. John C. Foster, Com
missioner.
Foster’s district has some of the finest
farms in the country and some of the
most progressive people.
John C. Foster is postmaster at Fos
ter’s Mill and runs a large country mer-
cantile business as well as millling and
ginnery. He has one of the best milling
establishments in the county. Mr. Tom
Watsons is the miller and has one of the
finest old, ante-bellum homes in the state.
C. M. Williams is justice of peace of
Foster’s district. The Baptists have a
fine and prosperous church at Foster’s
store Rev. W. M. Bridges is pastor and
R. B. Simms is superintendent of the
Sunday school which is in a very flour
ishing condition.
TEXAS VALLEY.
And Crystal [Springs, its Thrifty and At
trac ive Capitol.
Texas Valley is one of the oldest settle
ments in the county and has some of the
finest farms.
Crystal Spring’s a pretty little village
with a number of pretty homes.
Mr. Ben Wright is the coming mer
chant of the place. This district has a
number of good churches and schools.
George Milun, post master at Fouche is a
prosperous farmer.
Mr. M. G. Selman makes a most effi
cient justice of the peace and Bob Reeves
a splendid notary public.
GARLOCK PACKING COMPANY.
Endorsement of the Firm by Their Exhibi
tion at Atlanta.
Included in the manufacturing inter
ests of Rome is the Garlock Packing
Company, who manufacture packing for
machinery, including engines, pumps,
etc. The Rome branch of this company
has been established for eight years.
Mr. A. D. Hull, the present efficient
and genial manager, has been in charge
four years, and has won many friends in
business and social life.
Sales are made by the company all
over the southern states, and a force of
salesmen are constantly canvassing the
territory. They have greatly increased
their sales in the past two years, notwith
standing the general depression of all
business.
Two tons of Garlock packing wasjsold
for the use of engines and pumps at the
World’s Columbian exposition.
All engines and pumps in the machin
ery hall at the Atlanta Cotton States and
International Exposition are packed ex
clusively with Garlock packing.
Aside from the packing that they man
ufacture, they carry a line of engine
room supplies, such as sheet packing,
gaskets, boiler compound, belt dressing,
etc. They are now manuracturiug a new
hydraulic, water-proof packing that is
meeting with great success, and also a
special “Garlock” brand of red sheet
packing.
The factories of the firm at Palmyra,
N. Y., and Rome, Ga., are by far the
largest of the kind in the country, sup
plied with the very latest improved ma
chinery. Their many years of practical
experience in the manufacture and use of
packings of every description, enables
them to provide packings of standard
quality for steam, gas, water and ammonia.
They are the owners of numerous patents
and secret processes which, together with
the superior quality of the material used,
enables them to maintain the high stand
ard of excellence in their manufactures
and most favorable reputation which
their packings have established among
engineers, consumers and dealers.
They invite correspondence from all
who are interested in the best quality of
packings. All of their goods are guar
anteed.
THE SIN EATER.
A Curious Funeral Rite Which Formerly
Obtained In Wales.
The principality of Wales has within
living memory possessed an official
known as the “sin eater," says a Lon
don journal. It was the practice for a
relative—usually a woman—to put on
the breast of a deceased person a quan
tity of bread and cheese and beer, and
the sin eater was sent for to consume
them and to pronounce the everlasting
rest of tbs departed. It was believed
that in do.ug this he absolutely ate and
appropriated to himself the sins symbol
ized by the viands, and thereby pre
vented their disturbing the repose of
the sinner who had committed them.
Such an arrangement would obviously
leave nothing to be desired on the one
side, but bow it worked on the other
we are not told. What was supposed to
be the coudition of this spiritual under
taker after the ceremony was concluded?
Did his “appropriation” of the dead
man’asins imply a sort of moral assimi
lation of them, answering to his phys
ical assimilation of the bread and
cheese? Tbe question would obviously
be one of some importance to a sin eat
er in large practice If the responsibili
ties of his profession were as great as
they would appear to have been on this
hypothesis, he would need to retire
from it early and to devote a consider
able portion of his closing years to re
pentance and good works.
Again, it is natural to ask what hap
pened at the decease of a popular or
“fashionable" siueater. Would anyone
among hie professional brethren under
take to eat his sins, even in the first
flesh cf satisfaction produced by step
ping into his shoes? If so, then, indeed,
has the epithet of “gallant” been right
ly bestowed upon little Wales. It is as
though one doctor succeeding to anoth
ei’s practice should consent to assume
the moral responsibility for his late col
league’s treatment of all his deceased
patients in addition to his own similar
burdens.
We yield to none in admiration of the
quiet and homely heroism of the med
ical profession, but we doubt whether it
would enable them to face such an or
deal as this. As to the Welsh practition
ers to whom we have compared them,
we shrink from pursuing the analysis
further. It is evident that, as in the
scnooiboy game cf "conquerors,” where
a stone which can smash the smasher,
of, say, 43 other stones takes over all
its conquests, and becomes itself a
“forty-fourer, ” so the responsibilities
of these unhappy men might accumulate
at an alarming rate. ' «■ - - -t-
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