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2TTTZEe^X-X-CTZESS Of all Kinds and Prices. COUNTY GOSSIP. As it Comes to Us Over Our Grapevine Telephone. A FULL PAGE OF COUNTY NEWS Upon Which is Recorded all the Hap¬ penings of Local Interest as They Transpire Weekly. —Get your shaking hand in trim. —And November is borrowing from May. —Bird hunters having some lively '->-walks. —Interest in public clays seems to be lagging. —The Ordinary had a big court Monday. —The price of cotton seed climb slowly up. —A soaking rain is the need of early sown grain. —The rains this week was an impe¬ tus to hunters. —Water courses are lower than they have been in years. —Most of those in town Tuesday were intended buyers. —See change in W. J. Cooper & Co.’s advertisement this week. —W. G. Johnson, Esq., had business in Wilkes court Monday. —The farmers in this section are bet¬ ter off than the business men. —See what a large amouot of land is to be sold next first Tuesday. —A stock farm on a large scale is an enterprise promised the county. —Smith Bros.’ stock of goods excites the admiration of all who see it. —Dealers report guano notes being more readly paid off than usual. —Guy Callaway has been to Augus¬ ta this week with a drove of cattle. —A big batch of legal advertisements appear for the first time this week. —Many fanners report their entire crops gathered before the rains came. —Not more than half the cotton crop in this section has been marketed yet. —“Soote” Reed did up Athens with his presence Saturday and Sunday last. —Cotton a little up during the past week. A gradual rise is now looked for. —Petitions for several new roads were before the Commissiners Tues¬ day. —Much interest was manifested in the sale of the Thornton lands Tues¬ day. —That change of schedule did not take place lastlSunday but is promised next. —Air. W. B. Lester, of Atlanta, vis¬ ited his home folks in this place Sun¬ day last. —As will be seen the Sheriffs have begun that seige of levying mentioned last week. —Ordinary Bacon has appointed until Air. T. G. Lester to act as Clerk the election of that officer. —Dr. Bob Whillingham has been on the ailing list the past week, being a sufferer with neuralgia. —Air. O. II. Arnold has postponed his visit to Hot Springs which he con¬ templated making this month. —Two stalks of ribbon cane as fine as eyer grew in South Georgia were left at our office by a friend Tuesday. —Representative C. A. Stevens was in town Tuesday. lie reports the Leg¬ islature as moving along smoothly. —Rev. Air. Key, president of John Gibson Institute at Bowman, was in Lexington Wednesday and yesterday. —Mr. E. I. Reynolds is a severe suf¬ ferer with eresypelas brought on by a wound received in his hand during the Avar, WvwYTrJm •n, Vnnrur last" of Greens Fridav shaking hand* with his Lexington friends-and triends and they tney are many. —I’. M. Stevens, Jr., from devil. near Bairdstown is now The Echo s lie is also IHE ECHO S ladies man we beg to state. —Good congregations were out to bear Rev. E. A. Gray’s farewell sur mens at the Methodist church Sunday and Sunday night. —Twenty dollars an acre for land eight miles from the railroad won d indicate that lauds are appreciating in value in this county. —Mrs. Mrs L. V A. A Gray ora 5 went went to Winter V addri a<K1 L before the Woman’s Mis vi • onar Y Society • t „ of n f that ii„i nlw place. —Lee Callaway has taken control of his brother Jewett s large farming operations and Jewett has become a fullfledged knight of the grin -Mesdames Upson and Oliver went to Atlanta Saturday last Mrs. Lpson to , visit relatives and Mrs Ohver to attend _Capt. warmly f lim nrigni, ?reeted oi by jvilsbiss.fr*- « ? was wdl n spend .hfwimer the Winter at at Ms hi Woodstock home. —Judge McWhorter and Solicitor . itoward are winding up the riding oi the circuit at Wilkes court this week. They have a couple of adjourned terms to bold. _Mrs. King and two children, of Greensboro, and Mis*. Middle brook, of Oconee county, visited Mr. and Mrs. JJ. A. Gray several days lhe past week. Air. IviDg was over Sunday. _-yf r j Wallace, the sweet sin srer of Aucusta. will be here wi’h Dg Oui «2 at his appointment next and”there will he services Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. -Rev. t, John j , F. ,, Cheney was bere nere Tuesday and was his host of freicds see tiie marked improvement his at llot bpnngs had wron^m in h. < ! DORSEY & STERN, Broad Street, Athens, 0a. His Last Signature. The last time the lamented Mr. Les¬ ter signed his name was to a receipt for some money Deputy Sheriff A. J. Young had paid him a minute or two in before he dropped dead. No man the county had signed his name any¬ thing like as many tunes as had Mr. Lester, and Mr. Young will he extra careful to preserve this receipt be¬ cause it was the last of the thousands of tunes. • ------- Dividing the Twins. In closely Lexingtoh there have been twins as connected as were the Sia¬ mese twins, but they were not human. They were the two stores owned by Mrs. Roane on the corner of Washing¬ ton and Greene streets. Mrs. Roaue is having them separated by tearing down the hack store, the timber in which she will use to build a lot of cabins on some lots she owns near aud iu town. • ---- Peculiarly Hurt. A painful and peculiar accident be¬ fell Mr. W. A. Dozier the other day. While trying to manage an unruly mule the animal threw up its head striking him full in the face with the bit of the bridle it had on, making several ugly abrasions and blackening both of his eyes. The hurts were quite painful and will serve to remind Mr. Dozier that it is not safe to be in reach of ei¬ ther end of au unruly Georgia mule. Something of a Watermelon. Talking of our big potato the other day reminded Mr. Thos. J. Aycock, of the Big Creek section, of a monster watermelon he raised this summer. He did not weigh it but says he cut a riug from the rind through which he easily got his entire body; and Mr. Ay cock is above the average size man. He raised some melons that weighed sixty pounds and hundred says he is going to try to produe a pounder next year. ----.«»»-- They Did Not Meet. Owing to the large number of sales and the death of Mr. Lester, there was no meeting of the ex-students of Prof. Moss Tuesday last as called. Those who live in aud convenient to town are requested to meet at The Echo office tomorrow, (Saturday) evening to decide upon what shall be presented to the Professor. The subscription list is still open for all who wish to avail themselves of the privilege of being on the list of contributors. The Jail Clear. For the first time in a year or more our jail is clear of prisoners. Monday last six who had been sentenced to the chaingang before were carried that to that in¬ stitution and two or three other prisoners who were awaiting trial were bonded out. Jailor Wiun says he is glad he is without boarders for awhile as he wants to airing give the and jail a thorough cleaning up, out renovating. It is to be hoped it will remain empty for some time at least. Land Sold Well. The prices which lands brought at public sale Tuesday is good indication that the stringency is being relieved. The Thorntcu hundred lands at Sandy Cross, all, about nine acres in brought iu the neighborhood of eight dollars au acre. Some of it was im¬ proved and some was not. The only other tract sold was a small piece near Woodstock, it brought a fair price also. Messrs. C. A. aud J. 11. Stevens bought a greater portion of the Thornton lands. - Mrs. Yancy Dead. The many friends and relatives in taislcounty of Mrs. G. II. Yancy will be pained to learn of her death at her home in Athens Monday night last Lucy at 8 o clock. Mrs. Yancy was Aliss Dupree and was born aud reared to girl hot din Lexington, and many are the sad hearts of the friends of her girlhood who will sorrow at her decease. She leaves a devoted liusbaud and several children to mourn their loss. They have the condolence of this entire com munity. * j ----^ Who Will Run. Ag u j g necessarv / t0 hold an election at guch arl e , rly d te t0 name a sue ceggor t0 lhe i amen ted Clerk Lester, speculations are already rife as to who w j d offer for the position. So far the na mes of Messrs. T. G. Lester, Jno. B . Bell, G. W. Smith, Jno. W. Tiller, \V. C. Birchmore, E. I. Reynolds and R. M. Bacon have been mentioned as probable candidates This is a good array ot citizens lo select from Others may enter the race before the election comes off. The King of Potatoes. at t f ' ,, ,f Con.u- ! ( ross, adds to the editors larder a potato which lays good claims to bein., the king or the potato tribe if size goes weighed ™= ht d mxWen l ^ lSunds P * Tubers or two pounds mwe than^a h a neck^ k J r -- It 1 meae ar »r\ ^ b ^" be r x be ” e was butthe one bevi ” un r has been viewed by many and all declare it the largest they ever saw. II ' 18 what k,)0WD as a red yam ' - Col. Smith s Condition. Much interest has been manifested j Q the conditon of Col Jas. M. Smith gince hig jj] ne8S wa3 reported in our iagt iggue? and many have befeQ lbe reports in circulation concerning his troubles. We are autboritively in formed that his condition is not a* serious as has been reported. The fe ;ght of one of his eyes is considerably impaired Ly iritis from which he is a sufferer, but the other is not effected much. He has been suffering some during the past two weeks with dis ordere d stomach, cut t ae trou >Ie not a serious 0 ^ a8r u ^ orka ® had This wth oe ra!.;\in j b *?- W9 *° “‘ e baye been deeply many fn ends who concerned about him. Seed live and Barley at G. W. * breaks’. CRAWFORD ITEMS. The News of Our Sister City Told in Paragraphs BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Things That Transpire in and Around the City Likely to Interest the Curious Public in General. —Dr. J. G. Gibson was among bis old friends here last Wednesday and Thursday. —Miss Lizzie Sanders, of Bowling Green, is visiting Mrs. G. W. Little this week. —Dr. Geo. Little is making visits to lion. Jas. M. Smith's every day during his sickness. —Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Hubbard, of Harmony Grove, are visiting Mrs. J. M. Foyner this week. —Mr. Royal Stokely is very We low at this writing {(Thursday). cau hardly expect him to get any better. —Dr M. G. Little attended the Grand Lodge of Masons last week in Macou. He reports as pleasant a meeting as he has ever attended. — Mrs. Martha F. Armistead is very low at her home at this writing. She has been sick for more than a year but has been a great deal worse the last few days. —Our people were shocked to hear of the sudden death of onr faithful clerk, Mr. Geo. II. Lester, last Tues¬ day. His family have our deepest sympathy. —Rev. J. F. Cheney returned from Hot Springs last Friday. He thinks he is greatly improved improve and we until trust that he may continue to he is entirely well. OFFICIAL MINUTES Of the Commissioners Court First Tuesday in November, 1893 . Lexington, Nov. 7th, 1893. The Board of Commissioners of Roads ami Revenues met pursuant to adjournmen. Present Hon. Thos. I!. Moss, Chairman; M. L. Raines, Geo. \V. Smith, J. D. Power. Received report of cornu, ittee iu regard to change of road near R. T. Turners. The change was ordered by the Board and the new road made public when opened. The following paid: accounts were audited and ordered to be Henry Smith, col., whitewashing and cleaning jail,...........................$ for blankets for jail, 4 00 Geo. W. Tirooks, 20 95 C. A.'Campbell, supplies lor palmers 45 87 »« W. A. Shackelford, publishing rain utes Com. court, grand jury pre sentments and printing.............. 38 00 John T. Young, special bailiff'for horse aud buggy three days and ,,, U -SixVay^:..10.^.. "ne/iight................................ 4 00 Urightweli, . . .I. 6 00 j. II. medical account at pauper farm .......................... 7 00 E. V. Arnold, lumber for bridge...... 2 93 J. D. Winn, Sheriff', one day’s serv J n S,9 rdi “ a f7'*f nr *-v"......... of 22 tv-. r Kartaxarr Lester, O 2184 8 Geo. II. account................ D. A. Pass, special bailiff, horse four 00 days................................... 4 P. M. Cheney, two days examining C0 u a &£ ecorlls ........1...............- 0 0t> T ,T . . ,» J. P. Armistead, two days examining county records......................... 6 00 R. F. Turner,roadway................. roadway................... 18 00 00 W. T. Patman, 25 Miss FJlen Brooks, roadway............ bridge,...... 25 00 Hrake Brou, for nails for 2 .> ” .....too 00 ^ ‘ j. court...!.’................................ Young, serving one day Com. 2 00 Adjourned, Geo. W. Smith, Clerk. _***__ ZUBER SPRINGS ' ' -Mr. Robt. Nicholson was in . this vicinity last Monday. —Robt. Griffith and Elma Nicholson attended preaching at Atkinson church Saturday night last. —Mr. John Howard says he got seven and one half pounds of fruit from one potato viue. _ Mr j T Burgess is netting alon<r fine with his hand that got cut in the „ a in we are "lad to state. ^heThe^an’t , f Geonre Porter is a smart man tefi how many in . . . . ‘ . M -Several from , here . to are going to see the wonders of Georgia and South Carolina at the exposition —Mr. J. T. Bursess lost a bushel of potatoes and one old hen Saturday bt bv 8ome tb j eve8 wbo are doing tbe coun t r y around. It is a pitv that ' guch ple are not overtaken. -“Some of the boys of this place are mad with us girls because we have forsaken them for some Moore boys, We think they have but little to do.” i " e er. -Mr J. T. Burgess has offered a rcward foT he u lhb raau ,hat the ca public " bx with I 1 !. 8 engine so can serve his gin. Several have worked od it. Even from John Howard down to the machinist of the Athens foundry and they can't get it to gin but twenty hales a <lay —There is one farmer in this vicini ty who is out of debt and has one bun-: dred and ten bushels of corn and |y of meat and wheat to feed two an -1 0 ther year; bat he is an old bach and bas no one to help eat all this produce, Now is your time ladies. Strike wb Be the iron is hot. —q- be Macedonian Literary and gocjgty j s t be biggest thing m this place. It affords plenty of amusement besides the benefit that is derived from it> Tb e society will meet night to fill tbe program that appeared in the last issue of Tin: Echo, and we invite everybody to ^ome and join us in the good work. DIES AT HIS POST. Geo. H. Lester is Taken While Performing His Duties. HIS DEATH QUITE SUDDEN. For a Half Century He Had Well and Faithfully Served as Clerk of the Superior Court Mr. Lester is dead! This exclama¬ tion spread rapidly from lip to lip among iho crowd in town Tuesday aud it awed all who heard it. He died, as he had often expressed a desire, in his office and in the actual performance of his otticial duties. For some months he has been quite feeble, but expressed himself Tuesday morning as feeling better. He had been busy in Ins office all the morning. He had just returned from his dinner at 1:30 o’clock. Deputy Sheriff A. J. Vouug, Treasurer W. T. Young and Dr. P. R. Bradford were in his office. Dr Bradford called for papers which had been recorded. Mr. Lester got them from his safe, had returned the bundle from which they had been taken to the pigeon hole and as he at¬ tempted to shut the safe door fell backwards to the iioor, gasped twice and was still in death. The immedi¬ ate cause of his death was heart fail¬ ure. We leave it to>n abler pen to r pay this noble man just tribute. Tuesday, November historic the 7th, 1893, marks a memorable day in the annals of Oglethorpe county. At about half past one o’clock in the af¬ ternoon of that day, iu front of the safe in his office at the court-house, in the discharge of his official duties as he placed away some papers in their prop¬ er position, Mr. George L. Lester sud¬ denly fell on his Lack upon the floor, expired. His heart ceased to beat, Maker, his immortal spirit returned to its and the body that had so long been conspicuous in a well rounded life was rigid and inanimate in death. Medi¬ cal aid was present when he fell, and additional medical aid summoned, but there was no life to respond to the skill of the doctors. Born at the place now owned by Mr. James Bushin, near Beaverdatn church, ill this county, Mr. Lester was nearly seventy-nine years of age when died. j-wW* Ilis parents combined that '<—» that marked so conspicuously the char acter of their son in his long life. 1 ass ing his majority at the age of twenty two years, he commenced business in Lexington by clerking for Captain 'phomas Andrews, then a prominent merchant in 1836, and continued to clerk with Captain Andrews and other merchants in Lexington until 1841, when the people, having learned his sterling worth and admirable capabili- the ty for the »«>• place, elected him to <*•*>*» thorpe With the exception of county. of the he two years aad a part time was in the army, he has filled the clerkship elec of the Superior Court from his first 1841 until his death. O..the 0 ,h of Jam.™,1«, h. married to Miss Martha L. Gresham, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 1 homas 8 . Gresham, of Lexington. His married ]jf e , a happy one, continued until the death of his wife in 1881. Since then b j 8 home and domestic life has been surrounded by the love, the compau lonshtp aud society of childreu who have done all in their power to make his life pleasant and happy, During his long official career as Clerk of the Superior court, he was al¬ 80 clerk of wbat was known as the old Inferior court from the time of his elec tion in 1841 until this court was abol i8he(1 in I860. Then he was clerk of tbe County COU rt from 1806 to 1808. jq e was also clerk of the County Board 0 f Commissioners of Roads and Reve nues from 1872 to 1893. During this time he was the secreta ry and treasurer of the board of trus tees of Meson academy for more than twenty years. Fora long number of years he was also secretary and treasu rer of the Masonic Lodge in Lexing V ,n ' Fr m l he or S au ! i5atlon of S until uSS his u death , be He - ww^Kerk'Sf was tne cierK oi mat bal church. The records of these various . official positions Integrity, are monuments of industry, neatness, accuracy method and honesty that will pass his name and memory to the most distant ages. During all these public services there never was brought against him a single charge of official misconduct. The official papers, records and doc uments of all the offices he ever held were always ah order, and it was never the case that any of them were mis -j- ; What )t a record for one man hin| of Thou 8 an d 8 of things to be recorded in the minutes of the dif ferent bo dies he served, and thousands , recorded in other records ’and and ,, .. ’ w ; lbou t an y mistakes wllbout involving any one in any lrouble ( j ur i rjtr a ff this time by the complete perfection of his duties in eve Extravagant rv particular. Perhaps it is not to say that the same can \ )(i said of any other official in the fjjuted States for an official period ex tending past fifty years, In many of lbe8e places he was the custodian of large sums of money, and while per forming these duties" he, together with Dr. J. A. Hunnicutt, administered per haps tbe largest estate that has ever yet been administered in this county, that of Judge Lewis J. Deupree, with nearlv a half million dollars, besides administering other estates charged large with and small, and he was never the improper application of one dollar of any of these large sums of money. We Lead in Style and Price. His memory was absolutely ful. He could readily refer to recall in aD instant the letter or ber of the record book in which business of the courts had been ed of for long years past. Cotemporaneous with the great of all professions and occupations lived in Lexington and attended courts, taught the schools, in the different churches and nent in other pursuits he was ready to of impart the most features the genius, eloquence, skill aud characteristics of those persons in the most entertaining way. He was an encyclopedia of the lives of all those people from 1825 to his death, and in lawyers, speaking doctors, of Oglethorpe’s preachers, statesmen, merchants, farmers, and teachers, of all other pursuits lives he spiced the recollection of their with a fund of humor and anecdote rarely found iu one person. In war, in the defense of his own South, he made a brave and faithful soldier until physical disability com peled him to retire from active service. Many years after the Confederate war ended, with remaraable circum¬ stantial detail he wrote for publication in The Echo the military record of the Tom Cobb Infantry, the company to which he belonged. With all of his many public duties ho mingled the de¬ lights of farm life and horticulture. Gardening was the first pastime of Adam and Eve, and Mr. Lester was intensely fond of gardening vegetables and the rare and luxurious and fruits in his garden attested his love for this first occupation of our first pa¬ rents. This workman is dead, but his works and memory will go on. the On 8th Wednesday of November, afternoon 1803, for at 3 o’clock last the of time his body was and in the that Baptist church after Lexington, at hour, singing and some appropriate remarks by Rev. M. S. Weaver, his funeral ser¬ mon was preached by Rev. John G. Gibson, D. D., who from 1809 to 1802 had been Mr. Lester’s pastor. The sermon was preached from the Oth, 7th and 8th verses of the 4th chapter of 2nd Timothy. Dr. Gibson stated that he was almost overcome by the death of one to whom he had been as pastor for twenty-three years. The sermon was one of Dr. Gibson’s appro¬ priate, ed able, eloquent'and fittingly well applicable round¬ discourses and to the life of Mr. Lester. The sermon concluded, the body was borne to the Baptist cemetery and there laid to rest beside his wife who died many years ago. The very large concourse of peo¬ ple who attended the funeral and buri¬ al services and the decoration of his vacant seat in church and the covering of his grave with flowers attested the love of this people for this good man. Ilis surviving family have the sym¬ pathy of all who knew him. He sleeps in his grave to await the resurrection call. That grave will be a veritable Mecca, a truly pilgrim shrine, where the people of his town and county will love to visit in the years and ages to come and recall bis great virtues and Christian character. lie was a model officer. lie was long never absent from a court during ab¬ his official career. He was never sent from the meeting of any of the va¬ rious bodies or organizations to which he belonged. During the forty-six years be was clerk of his church he was never absent from its conferences, meetings or Sunday-schools his death until when with¬ in a short time prior to his failing health forbade his going. To his family he was all that its head could be. As a man, neighbor and citizen he was universally esteemed. No one ever His applied hospitality to him in vain for assistance. was un¬ bounded. Even to the tramp he would give something. A very largo number benevolent of subscriptions to public and enterprises were headed with his name, and to his own church be was always liberal and to other churches and religious calls he never failed to respond. Body of Geo.ge II. Lester: Buried and resting with the silent majority. In the roll call of the ages to come with all who have ever lived in historic called old Oglethorpe, in the roll there of time will never be a name of more true honor and unquestioned character than yours. Immortal spirit of George II. Lester: At your depart¬ ure from the body you were welcomed on a brighter shore by the saintly spir¬ its of Chief Justice Landrum, Joseph Henry Crawford, Lumpkin, Kylvanus W. Brantly, William N. M. T. Williams, L. R. L. Jennings and Pat¬ rick II. Mell and others whose names cannot now be recalled, to recount with these the happy hours of your society with them on earth and felicitate in the glory of your present bliss. May the mantle of your soul and body fail and rest worthily on each of your chil¬ dren and grand-cbildrcn. “A land of monuments and statues is a land of memories” is a sweet sen¬ timent uttered by Father Ryan, the gifted South Irishman, who adopted the as bis home. Monuments and statues mark the worthies who are to be emulated. Oglethotpe county will never place a brighter garland upon her brow than to embalm George II. Lester in a statue of marble or bronze with a scroll in one hand and a pen in the other, and place that statue on a base of Oglethorpe’s own granite in front of the court-house to point the living and the generations £to come to the life, the character, and the record of a man worthy to be imitated by all men, and whose Integrity was honored of by this people for more than fifty years this uninterrupted and confidence. Here at statue, at the mention ot his name, the generations to come could learn this lesson, ’ That honor and fame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies.” W. G. Johnson. --- try BLACK DBAUQHT tea tor Dyspepal*. The cores of the Tobacco, Opium and Drink Habit, wrought by Ilill’a Chloride of Gold Tablets, iaone of the marvel* of modern the¬ rapeutics. All druggiata aell them and you need no longer suffer. - ------------ -- McEirse'k WiNE OF CARDUi for iemal* Oi A NEW FIRM. W, P. Vonderau & Co. Succeed Vess, Vonderau & Co. READY FOR FALL BUSINESS. It is But New Life in the Old Body that will Inspire Greater Induce¬ ments to Customers. Having bought Mr. Vess’ interest in the business, we will contioue at our old stand to give our friends and cus¬ tomers honest goods at living prices. Our fall aud winter stock ha3 arrived, and a more complete, elegant or cheap¬ er line of dry goods and notions you will not find. Cloaks. —Everything new, fresh and stylish iu this department. We buy these goods in the piece, hence they are the very newest styles, tailor made and guaranteed to fit perfectly. A big stock on hand, all grades and styles, for ladies, misses and ehildrou. Come to us for wraps of every descrip¬ tion. Dbkss Goods Silks and Titm mings. —In this, our pet department, we have lead iu style and beauty of combination since the first season in business, aud the line now on display at our store surpasses anything we have ever shown before. All the new¬ est things in fancy corded, aud figured silks, changeable silks, suras, India, China and heavy grograin silks l'or fall and winter wear. Fine wool dress g'oods in all the new¬ est weaves and shades. The prettiest line of dress flannels in this mar¬ ket, 30, 40 and 54 inches wide in plain, mingled, plaids and stripes. These are new styles, elegant, serviceable goods, and selling cheap and fast. Many new ladies’ things in homespuns, hop sackings, cloths, broad cloths, serges, henriettas, etc., with full lino trimmings of the newest styles to match every Co.’8 piece. We keep the Priestly & eolebrated black dress goods, which is a guarantee that in this line we are second to none. When in search of dress goods don’t fail to examine our line. Notions. —Here are thousands of articles of every-day-use in every well regulated family. Kid gloves, wool, Jersey aud silk gloves, Ilermsdorf stainless hose, the R. & G. Fealherbone corsets, hand¬ kerchiefs, belts, ribbonB, ties, laces, embroideries, etc., etc. An elegant line wool and merino underwear for men, women and children. Staples and Furnishings.— Hero you will find quilts, comforts, spreads, 10-4 and 11-4 California blankets, cur¬ tains shades, drills, bleachiugs, tickings, sheet¬ ings, etc., and the best line jeans ever offered in this market. We have the goods and will make the prices to suit you. Don’t fail to see them. We desire to thank our Oglethorpe friends for past patronage and by fair dealing, polite attention, honest goods and close prices, hope iu future to re¬ ceive a liberal share of your trade. W. P. VONOKKAU & CO., Cor. Clayton and Jackson sts., Athens. -------------- ....... To My Friends. Having accepted a position with E. M. Bass <% Co., dealers in dry goods, notions, etc., at 37 Whitehall|st., I will be|gratified to have my old friends call on me when in the city. Willnlso give prompt personal attention to orders by mail. Very Respectfully, W. J. Wish. With E. M. Bass & Co., 37 While hall st., Atlanta, Ga. --- WE ARE DRAWING The attention of the best dressed men in Athens to our Stylish Well Made and Perfect Fitting Garments, our “Regent” Cutaway, and “Peekadily” Sack Suits, will coax the most dogmatic believer in merchant tailoring out of his faith—you will never leave our store without purchasing, after trying one on and referring to the mirror—a mirror,is very truthful and very impartial. NOT like the usual ready-to-wiar things these Men’s Suits, more care in the choosing, more art in the making, more of the little things looked to that lift merchant tailoring work. Not much more to be said except that if you are particular about securing tbe b< st returns for the money you invest, you will certainly inspect onr line this sia son. CIIAS. MORRIS, “Popular Price” Clothier, Hatter and Furnisher, 218 Broad Street, Athens,