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{ TODAY’S PAPER J f CONSISTS or f | SIXTEEN PAGES f I 96 COLUMNS f ESTABLISHED 1887. TO EVERY READER A HAPPY NEW YEAR I SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK! When buying New Year Presents why not buy something useful ? Remember our is large and our prices are lower than the lowest. Handkerchiefs. It’s a superb dis play of handkerchiefs —a choice collection bought by Mr. Bass in Brussels and in Venice. Nothing is sweeter for a holiday gifts. Handkerchief for ladies, handker chiefs for gentlemen, handkerchiefs for the children, handker chiefs for ail sorts and kinds, filling all the vocabulary of quality and quantity. Colgate Toilet Articles. These goods have no equal. Choicest, most delightful odors —soaps unequalled. While willing to ma e a saving on your pur chases, buy your toi let supplies from us. For these goods or any thing else in our lines, if the heart would speak its love through the purse in a holiday, gift, come to see us. Men’s and boys’ clothing on the third floor; hats for all sizes of heads and turns of fancy. Best stock of trunks in town. We say again, if you’re going to buy anything in our line for a New Year preent dr to fill a requirement of a domestic want come to see us before buying it, and save money in the purchase. To the cost of the material used in the art work on the second floor will be added the cost of making only. It’s a royal opportunity for New s Year shopping all over the store. Come to see us for your wants. We are going to take $25,000 out of this business for Bass & Heard’s use. BASS BROS. & CO. THE ROITE TRIBUNE. wi : in ■ >/ I xSM Th.e Crowds! The crowds! The crowds! Every day last week it was throng—people rushing to our place a-Christmas buying. The picture above, taken last Thursday, hints at the stream of customers crossing from Crouch’s Drug Store to Thompson Hiles’ corner, then hurrying across Broad street to our store. The people have learned that our twenly-five thousand dollar withdrawal sale means a great saving to them. Watch the crowds and you’ll need nothing else to tell you where goods are sold cheapest. See? BASS BROS & CO. ROME. GA., SUNDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1897. I PART ONE. | | PAGES ITO B. > PRICE FIVE CENTS There Are Things and other things all over the store suited to New Year giving, and while you’d be a trifle generous in re membering your friends you’ll be wise enough to loose your purse-strings where there’s best results. The list of desirables in this great stock would require a lot of patience to read in full. Come and see. Woolens, silks, cottons for all sorts of apparel lining, trim mings and adornings; ready made sheets, pil low cases, blankets, bed comfortables, counter panes, lace curtains, table linens, towels and toweling, hosiery, ladies’ and gent’s furnishing goods, umbrellas (the prettiest assortment in Rome); and don’t forget the Krippendorf shoes— peerless and prettiest. If you would wear good shoes buy the Krippen dorf. Ask for what you want at our place, and ten chances to one you’ll find it here.