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PAPERf ▼ consists Cl* r SIXTEEN PAGES ( , 4 9© COLUMNS ( ESTABLISHED 1887. BASS BROS. & CO. • i You’ll be out a buying for Christmas tomorrow, next day—every day till the holidays. In these days of 5-cent cotton you want your dollars and dimes to do their Full measure of goods-getting. Then come to our place, while our great cash-withdrawing sale is in progress. We are determined to take $25,000.00 ■out of this business for the Bass & Heard business as nearly at once as possible. Come to our store for things and things and things for Santa Claus. They are all over the house —they are in every department of the store, and you’ll find them here for Christmas, 1897, cheaper than at any other place in North Georgia. Special No. 1. 800 DRESS PATTERNS, EACH 25c Each pattern will contain enough cloth to make a lady a dress, either calico, ginghams, percales, or some other material suitable for dresses.* 40 patterns will be sold each day. The sale will go on 20 days. A good dress for 25 cents! Special No. 2. 200 Ladies’ C apes, braided and large sweep, each.... 40c Good Beaver Capes, fur or braid trimming, worth $2,00 78c Plush Capes, Soutasche and jet trimming, at $ 2.5 Genuine Salt Pluslf Capes, silk linings and fur trimmed, worth $5, at 3.75 The above garments are below the cost of manu- facturing. We will sell them between H and 12 o’clock, and 2 and 3 o’clock each day, to give all a chance. You never saw goods so cheap. We have 60 Ladies’ and Misses’ Jackets, last year’s styles, at 40 cents on the dollar. 40 new stylish Jackets just in. Almost every item in the following list is priced below what it cost us, but we are in the task of raising $25 000 out of our retail stock to put into the Tedcastle business. To raise the money quickly we are not considering the cost. Come and get the goods. These prices every hour in the day. Very best AAA 4 quarter Raccoon sheeting, nothing better made, worth at any factory 4%c —our price 37k One hundred bolts high grade lining cambric 2gC 9g 4° Cood wool Jeans 9c 10-quarter Pepperel sheeting, bleached 16% All-wool flannel * 9c ♦Staple Ginghams 4 i c DRESS GOODS-THE GREATEST SM IS ■. Dress Trimmings, strictly choice and up to date. Dress Linings, stock lacking in nothing. Notions to suit every notion of notions. Ladies’ wraps for every want and fancy. The Millinery stock too full, and to help in making quick work of the $25,000 raising, every hat, every bonnet will be sqld at cost or below cost, NOT ONE ABOVE COST J If you you want a hat or a bonnet, our elevator will carry yon to a place where you can buy from the most select stock in Rome at just what it cost us, or below the cash we paid for it. THE ROHE TRIBUNE. SPECIALS NOS. 5,6, 7 AND ON TO 28 I BASS BROS. & CO. ROME, GA., SUNDAY. DECEMBER 12, 1897. At 40 Cents On the Dollar. We have 40 Ladies’ Jackets of last year’s styles which we shall offer at 40 eents on the doll»r. Those priced at $15.00 we will sell at $6.00 ; those at SIO.OO we offer at $4,00; those at $5.00 you may have at $2.00 each and so on. Only a little, trouble to change them to the latest style. A splendid assortment of new wraps just received. Sixty imported Jute Floor Rugs at 30 cent s each. Large Jute Floor Rugs at 40 cents on the dollar—going to sell them out. Goods throughout our house at lower prices than those at which you can buy at any store in Rome, We want the cash to put in Bass & Heard’s whole sale business. Help us do it and wt’ll save you money on your pur chases. ' • ’ BASS BROS. & CO. I Krippendorf Shoes The Best. Double width worsted, black and colors 9c Men’s superior quality half hose - - - - 4c Misses school handkerchiefs .... 1c Fortv dozen pretty hemstitched handkerchiefs - 2c Ball knitting silk, all shades - - - 5c Imported hair pins, per package - - - lc Assorted hair pins, per box . . _ 5c Beldings embroidery silk, big stock - - 2c CLOTHING Go to our third flpor for anything in Clothing, Men’s Suits, Children’s Suits, Knee Pants, Overcoats, etc., lower than anywhere—we mean lower than anywhere, Get your Clothing from us, giving your pocket the benefit of a profit. MEN’S ALL-WOOL SUITS, WORTH $7,00 AT $4,00. Krippendorfs Shoes, the best —all shoes go into do their share towards the desideratum $25,000 so with everything in the house. Special No. 3. 80 Full size Bed Comforts, very heavy and service able 45c 5 Bales 11-quart«r Comfortables, reversible and lovely styles, worth as much as $1.50, at 79c Comfortables at SI.OO, $1.40, $2.00 and $2.50, worth twice the prices asked for them. Our buyer found a manufacturer winding up the sea son and closed out his remaining stock at half the usual prices. Beautiful Eider-down Quilts, worth $6.00 at..... .$ 3.30 Special No. 4. Very best Indigo Prints .•. 3 7-8 c Very best Dress Prints 3 7-8 c Very best Mourning Prints t 3 7-8 c When we say very best we do not mean the best of the kind, but we mean the very best created on any loom, nothing short of this. Os course they cost more-thanour price to make them. 1 Case of extra Mattress Ticking, would hold feathers, at - .... - 5c 40 Pieces 25-inch Checks, choice patterns - 3 l-2c 26 Pieces very heavy Cotton Flannel, a special pur chase, worth 12 1-2 cents a yard in any store. We shall make the price with the above goods during the hours named at ■ - . - -7 l-2c Red twill flannel, very wide - - ■ - - 12% Three hundred men’s shirts, all sizes • -25 c Nine cases 10-quarter bed blankets, heavy fleeced 19c Sixty dozen spools sewing silk . . _ . l c 260 dozen ladies Jersey ribbed vest, 35c grade, at 19c Two cases men’s undershirts and drawers, each 15c 4 Cases Alpine Hats, $1,75 quality, - •- -93 c j * — I J PAGES / TOB. > PRICE FIVE CENTS