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The Oglethorpe Echo
Volume XXV.==Number 26.
nun TUC DCn (FTTFR In one copy of this week’s Echo there appears in this advertisement
_' a letter printed in red. The lucky finder will receive $1.00 in mer
candise upon bringing the paper containing it to our store. Read the advertisement carefully.
Ei 1 ISTER SALE A
DAVISON & LOWE
Will Have a Regular
CUT-PRICE EASTER SALE.
Of Dress Goods, Silks and Millinery this Week.
Large line Grenadines, Etamines and
Silk mixed Black Goods.
Large line Suit patterns in black and
colors, all at reduced price during our
Easter Sale.
Black Silks and Satins for suits and
skirts; best line ever shown in Athens at
reduced price during Easter Sale.
Black Silks in Armures, PoudeSoire,
Taffetas, China Jap Silks and Satin
Duches in the Easter Sale.
Colored Silk Waists ayd Suits in the
Easter Sale.
At Cut Prices.
We will offer our our entire line of
Fancy Wool Dress Goods during our Eas¬
ter Sale at reduced price. $5.00.
$3.50 for Dress Patterns, worth
4.50 for Dress Patterns, worth 6.00.
5.00 for Dress patterns, worth 6 50.
7.50 for Dress Patterns, worth 9.00.
8.50 for Dress Patterns, worth 10.00.
10.00 for Dress Patterns, worth 12.50.
12.50 for Dress Patterns, worth 15.00.
All new and up to date styles.
25 pieces Check Wool Dress Goods
1.75 for Dress Patterns, worth 3.00.
10 pieces Fancy Wool Dress Goods
2.45 for Dress Patterns, worth 3.50,
25 pieces Fancy Wool Dress Goods
3.50 for Dress Patterns, worth 5.00
Here’s a Big Bagain.
We have a lot ot Gent’s Furnishing
Goods, such as Collars, Cuffs, Ties and
Scarfs, White Shirts, Colored Shirts,
Drawers and Night Shirts. We need the
room for other goods and have decided to
place the entire line of Gent’s Furnishing
Goods on BARGAIN COUNTER this
week, and sell them at a reduction of
33 1-3 per cent.
Davison and Lowe’s
Is the place to buy Black Dress Goods,
Colored Dress Goods, Fancy Dress Goods,
Plain Dress Goods, Cheap, Medium and
Fine Dress Goods and Trimmings.
Davison and Lowe’s
Is the place to get the best Dress Lin¬
ings and Furnishings.
Davison and Lowe’s
Is the place to buy Black Silks, Mourn¬
ing Silks and Evening Silks.
DAVISON & LOWE
Clayton Street, Athens.
LEXINGTON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1898.
Good Tilings at extra LOW
Price for Easter Hale.
5c per ball for Crochet Silk.
5c for 3 cakes Butermilk Soap.
10c for School Hose, worth 15c.
8c for Ladies Hose, worth 10c.
10c for Men’s Socks, worth 15c.
71-2 for Dimities, worth 10c.
4 l-2c for Sea Island, worth 6c.
75c for Fine Shirt Waists, worth 1.25.
• 8e per yard Percales, for worth 12 l-2c.
5c for Check Muslins, worth 8c.
10c for Pants Goods, worth 15c,
5c for Ginghams, worth 8c.
3 1-2 for Printed Lawns, worth 6c.
5c for yard-wide Figured Lawns, worth
10c.
New Things
In Plain and Fancy Belts, Jeweled
Belts.
New Fringed Ties and Sashes.
New Ribbons and Laces.
New Silk Rufiiings, black and colors.
New Collars and Cuffs.
New Liberty Silk Ties.
New Shirt Waists.
Cotton Goods.
We are showing spendid values in all
the newest things in Madras Cloths, Per¬
cales, Ginghams, Zephyr Cloths, Dimities,
Lawns, Vellours, Crash and Duck Suit¬
ings; French Organdies, printed, lovely
designs and colorings, 15c, 20c, 25c and
40c per yard.
Sale of Housefurnisliirig Goods.
We have enlarged this department and
increased the stock of Lace Curtains, Cur¬
tain Materials, Furniture, Damask, Rugs
Mattings, Shades and different kinds of
Floor Coverings.
We have some splendid things for
halls, offices and dining rooms.
Large line Moquet and Jute Rugs.
Large line Chenile and Damask For¬
tiers and Table Covers.
Large line Damask for furniture cover¬
ing, Portieres and Table Covers.
Large line Denims, Silkaline, and Col
ored Swiss Draperies. Ask to see Mat¬
tings at Davison & Lowe’s this week.
Ask to see Special Hall Coverings.
Full line Door Mats, Rubber and Jute.
Call this week and place your order for
Easter Dress and Hat. Don’t be late.
FIVE-CENT COTTON.
Will it Prove a Curse or a Blessing
to Its Producers?
It is a principal of economics, says
the American dinner, that nothing
will be long produced below the cost of
production; therefore, if col ton cannot
be made for o cents a pound it will not
long sell at that prict ; but if it be
found ihat it can be proti ablv grown
at that figure it is idle to expect any
greater increase in the price ot less tbe sta¬
ple. Cotton is getting to be and
less each year an exclusive American
crop; tbe Egyptian and Indian prod¬
uct is yearly assuming greater import¬
ance while Mexico and South America
are slowly coming to the front as pro¬
ducers of cotton. Still, for all practi¬
cal purposes, the crop of the United
States controls the supply and deraa d
and therefore the market.
Under existing conditions cotton
cannot be produced for live cents. It
is highly probable that less it will
be produced, with the logical ri
suit of a better profit for this dimit -
ished product. There are two good
reasons for this: first, the uninviting
prospect of a profit in cotton-growiug, which
and second lbe necessity, every
farmer feels, for raising on the farm, as
far as possible, all things necessary for
the conduct of the farm. Tbe acreage
heretofore given to forage crops will
be increased and that devoted to cotton
corrosspondiugly diminished.
This policy, if pursued, of will prosperity moan the
begiuning of a new era
for the South. Accepliug the estimate
of 11,000,000 bales as the crop of the
past year, it has bfought to the farmer
n )t more than $250,000,000; yielded lees than few a
crop of 7,000,000 hales a
years ago. The labor and material
consumed, therefore, in making four
million bales of cotton has been wasted
and the land on which it was grown
forbidden to yield anything of value to
its owner. But this is not all. It is
said that the South sends annualy to the
North and West $200,000,000 for food¬
stuffs which could just as well be raised
at home. Now if the land devoted to
that four million bales of unnecessary
cotton had been given to food crops,
we would not only haye kept the mon¬
ey for our cotton ci op home but we
would haye on haud supplies for anoth¬
er crop. Instead of haying a surplus
of $50,000,000, and empty barns and
smokehouses, we would have $250,000
000 cash and all the supplies that is
ueeded.
If fivc-cent cotton will compel the
adoption of a policy of raising the sup¬
plies necessary to the making of cotton
upon the lands hitherto given to the
staple, it will be a departure whose
economic significance and benefit can¬
not be overestimated, not only for the
farmer but for every Southern interest.
If, instead of sending away annually,
the proceeds of one cotton crop for the
means of making another, that money
is kept at home and devoted to the de¬
velopment of the countless resources
of this much favored land, in very
truth will this section blossom as the
rose and proclaim her financial inde¬
pendence of the rest of the world.
If (iye-cent cotton will promised, produce the
results that are just now then
ought it not to be hailed as a deliverer
of the people; for from it will be dated
the South’s emancipation from debt,
usurious interest and financial servi¬
tude to the East; from it will be dated
a new and permanent industrial pros¬
perity undreamed of in auy past expe¬
rience. There are forests to be felled,
mines to he developed, railroads to be
built, manufactories to be established
and the proceeds of the South’s cotton
crop will be utilized for these things,
giving employment to labor and turn¬
ing into marketable commodities the
yast stores of raw material that lie at
waste about us. With the advent of
five-cent cotton there is promised a
rich blessing for the South and her
people, and he is no friend of the
South who deplores the lesson taught
in last year’s experience, however un¬
palatable it may seem for the time bc
ing.
•
An Enterpriing Druggist.
There are few men more wide awake
and enterprising than M. J. Little, of
Crawford, and W. J. Cooper, ifc Co. of
Lexington, who spare no pains toseeure
ihe best of everything in their line for
their many customers. They now
have the valuable agency for Dr.
King’s New Discovery for Consump¬
tion, Coughs and Colds. This is the
wonderful remedy that is producing
such a furor all over the country by its
many* startling cures. It absolutely
cures Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness
and all affections of the throat, Chest
and Lungs. Call at the above drug
stores and get a trial bottle free or a reg¬
ular size for fifty cents and $1 00
Guaranteed to cure or price refunded.
The farmer, the mechanic and the bicycle
rider are liable to unexpected cuts and bruises.
PeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is the best thing
to keep on hand, ft heals quickly, and is a
well known cure for pdes. W. J Cooper &
Co., Lexington, and Little’s Drug More,
Crawford.
The two year-old son of W. L. Fer¬
guson, of Bolton, Miss., had whooping
cough. “After several physicians had
i prescribed for him without relief,”
j | writes wife Mr. to try Ferguson, a 25 cent “I pursuaded bottle of
my
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. The
first dose had the desired effect, and in
forty-eight hours he was entirely free
from all cough. I consider your reme
times.” The 25 and 50 cent sizes for
sale by W. J- Cooper & Co.
Subscription $1.00 a Year.
WAR IS DECLARED!
On High Prices for Clothing at
CHARLES
STERN St CO M
CLOTHING,
Qlaytoi? St., ffffieps, (Ja.
Our stock for the Spring trade is second to none; all the latest
styles and newest novelties; come and see them.
BIGHT HERE IN LEXINGTON
You will Find as Complete a Line of
Choice Dress Goods
including till the latest novelties and find most anywhere stylish
fabrics and patterns, you will
ALSO FULL ASSORTMENTS TRIMMINGS TO MATCH.
Space will not permit me to speak in appreciated. detail of these goods, know
They will have to be seen anyway to ho I
fore nothing brought like such this a complete market. or See choice goods assortment was ever prices be
to the and get my
and I will guarantee that you will bo saved a trip to a distant
market and more besides. lean suit any customer and please
any taste. I have also the most complete lines of
SHOES, CLOTHING AND HATS
ever brought to them, Lexington. the size You will variety bo surprised, these ns lines is every- and
body the quality who sees goods. at My prices and surprise of
of the will you too.
Mattings, Shades, Curtains, Poles.
Something never before They sold in Lexington. latest I have full
assortments of them. are Lite newest and goods.
Frees way below what you have been paying. See them before
you buy elsewhero. I will also carry Carpets.
I have been greatly encouraged in my efforts to stop the
complaint of not being able to get what you want in Lexington.
See prices my spring stock I will and you bo outdone. will appreciate my efforts. In
and terms not
WM. G0TTHEIMER, 5
IMZasonio Hall,
J : v,77; SPRIN0 1898.
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V> , New Millinery.
New Styles 1
Cif iKi Fresh Goods!
•A Low Prices I
r gg inli m TOW
> Your attention is most respect
■■ fully invited to and select
m ►#? my new
>, stock of Fine Millinery, Hats,
P-l Bonnets, Ribbons, Laces, Feathers,
Flowers, in fact everythin# usually
Li found in a first-class millinery
C* store. The Ladies are cordially in¬
vited to call and inspect my styles
and prices fiefore buying.
MISS A. KNOX,
LEXINGTON, - - GEORGIA.
WE SAVE YOU MONEY
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Wagons, W7S> Buggies
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HAE1TESS.
TALMAGE HARDWARE CO.
ATHENS, Cr-A..
all kinds _ of _ __ job _ printing
Done with Neatness and Dispatch at this Office,
