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L blished 1850
in THE CITIZEN, and It Were Worth Publishing, It Didn’t Happen,
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1897,
$1.00 Per Annum,
The Doings Throughout the Country at Large run Through
the Editors’ Bolting Cloth.
EXCERPTS GATHERED HERE AND THERE FROM TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Still the Trade Center of North Georgia
ire thronged with customers
* s d crowded with
Boiled Down Briefs of Land and Sea Taken frpm the Past Week’s Cal
endar, and Sized up According: to their Length and •
Paragraphed for Your Hasty Reading
People Appreciate —
GOOD GOODS,
LOW PRICES and
FAIR DEALING,
<3reat Bargains
Mr. Er Lawshe, one of Atlanta’s early settlers, died. Sunday
The superior merits of my store as a trading place is con-
ceeded by everyone that comes to Dalton.
Here you always get the best quality of goods at the low
est possible prices. /
Buying of Tapp always means money saved, and this week
there are many special attractions. Great bargain sales of
all kinds of LACES, UMBRELLAS, HANDKERCHIEFS,
GLOVES, MITTS, BELTS and FANS. 5000 Fans at one
cent each. The biggest stock of Underwear ever in Dalton,
thrown on sale this week at money saving prices.
3500 Ladies vest, the regular 10c. kind, at 5c. each. The
15, 25 and 50c. kind at 10, 12-^ and 25c. Men’s summer under
wear at 15c. garment. Men’s fine, balbrigan suits at 35 and
50c. each. Men’s extra good at 48c garment. New stock of
Scrivenes drawers at 69c. pair—all sizes.
Queen Victoria celebrates the sixtieth year of her reign on June
Fifty-eight people were killed in a railroad wreck in Russia last
week.
Turkey demands sixteen million pounds indemnity from Greece
for the war.
W. O. Tift, of Tifton, Ga., began gathering ripe peaches from
his orchards last week.
The State Agricultural Society favors Atlanta as the place for
holding their next fair.
A dead negro was caught on a trot line in the Savannah river a
few nights ago near Elberton.
A hen at Norcross laid an egg nine inches long last week. She
belonged to Rev. C. V. Weathers.
Stephen R. Mallory was* elected United States senator by the
Florida legislature, last week. He is an ardent free silver advocate.
The Fifth regiment State troops of twelve companies and 400 men
will accompany Governor Atkinson to the Nashville Exposition on
June 23d.
Fifteen people were injured near Ardmore, I. T., Sunday by a
passenger train going through a wooden trestle. Two of them will
probably die.
The farmers of Bartow county have asked the co-operation of
guano companies in putting guano in bags made of cotton. The
movement seems to spread.
The new town of UnionCity, a few miles from Canton, Ga., was
started last week and promises to be a city shortly. Western capi
talists have the matter in charge.
Gen. Clement A. Evans has appointed Miss Wimberly, of Ingle-
hurst, Ga., maid of honor to Miss Middlebrooks, sponsor for Georgia
at the coming reunion of the confederate veterans at Nashville.
The Confederate grave yard at Resacca was appropriately deco^
rated Saturday. The memorial address - was made by Gen. C. A.
Evans, who was introduced by Col. W. R. Rankin, of Calhoun. Gen.
W. R. Phillips^ of Marrietta, made ; an address also.
A negro named Captain Lewis, who was arrested for burning
McCartherin’s barn at Lumpkin, Ga., last week and was released at
commitment trial, was taken from his home by twenty masked men
last Friday night and carried two miles to the county line. In at
tempting to place a noose around his meek, he escaped and was fired
upon about one hundred times, three taking effect in the neck, hip
and head. His condition is serious.
The Baptist ministers’ conference of Dallas, Texas, passed some
very flattering resolutions relative to Mr. W. C. Luther, district Bible
secretary of the American Baptist Publication Society, who has re
cently been transferred from Dallas to Atlanta. The resolutions were
sent in the form of an indorsement to the Baptist ministers of Atlanta,
and are signed by every prominent minister of Dallas. The ministers
speak in the highest terms of Mr. Luther and express much regret at
losing him from their city.
Wash Jackson, a colored hack driver, was
that is why we are always having a big trade
We selLthem close because we buy from
headquarters and get the best prices
from first hands.
We have just received a big line of Pocket
Cutlery, Table Knives* Spoons and Butcher
Knives that we are retailing at wholesale pri
ces. Don’t fail to see them.
Special prices will be made on all kinds of Dress Goods
and wash fabrics. Fine lawns at 3c. yard. Fine figured Sat-
teens 44c. yard. All 124 and 15c. Lawns will go at 10c. yard.
The 20 and 25c. Lappet Muls, organdies, swisses and other
wash hovelties will go at 15c.. yard. Big reduction in woolen
dress goods. Fancy spring novelties at 19c., worth 35c. My
entire stock of black Henriettas, Grenadines, Serges and Cash
meres at prices to please everyone.
A CAR LOAD OF
r JUST RECEIVED,
You can get it by the gallon at wholesale price.
Tinware by the car load.
Great sale of Slippers and Oxfords. My overwhelming
shoe trade has always been entirely satisfactory. For. the
next ten days my purpose is to make a “grand rush” on all
Shoes, Slippers and Oxfords. Never has there been such a
selling as this will be. Hundreds of special values in Shoes
and Slippers.
Children Shoes at 25c. Big stock of children Oxfords at
48c.; better ones for 75 and 98c. Ladies’ Slippers at 25c. La
dies’ fine Dongola Slippers in tan and black at 75c., worth
§1.50—those for $1.00 and $1.25 are worth $2.00 and $2.50 else
where. If yon prefer Ziegler Bros. ’ fine Slippers I have them.
I do not think they are near so good as Hamilton-Brown’s or
other choice makes that I have, yet if you prefer Ziegler Bros.
Slippers I have them; the regular $2.00 kind will be sold for
§1.25. Men’s Slippers and Shoes will be sold for § their real
value. • —
Granulated Sugar, 21 lbs. for
Light Brown Sugar, 24 lbs. for
Good Green Coffee, 11 lbs- for
Bulk Soda, 8 lbs for
All 5 cent Snuffs for
10 cent “ “
1 Full Gallon Coffee Pot for
FLOUR
■Well, everybody knows we sere headquarters
MATTING!
To close out my matting at once such prices
The 15c. Matting will go at 10c., the 25c. kind v
the 35 and 40c. kind will sell for 20 and 25c.
for everything to eat
We have a fewmore hundred of those elegant
All Wool Pants at 75 cents.
A few more dozen all-wool Men’s Suits $3.25,
worth $5.00 of anybody’s money.
SHIRTS a" d CORSETS!
Men's Negligee Shirts 19, 48 and 75e., worth 25, 89 and
Si.25. ' v
Big stock of new Corsets.
‘ 4 And thus the years new fashions bring.
Which flourish and decay,
The CORSET is the only thing ' v
That ever comes to stay. ’
I have many styles of the neatest fitting Corset at cut pri
shot and instantly
killed in a barroom last week at Thomasville, Ga., by W. M. Milton,
a white man. Both men were drinking, and were apparently on very
friendly terms a few minutes before the shooting. There were no
eye-witnesses to the killing, but the evidence against Milton, though
The coroner’s jury returned a
DRESS GOODS!
We have put the knife into prices in the Dress Goods
line. Don’t buy ’till you see them, we will save
you money. Hats cheaper than ever.
Ginghams . . . . . . 3c. yard.
Domestic ... . . . . 4c. u
iqc. Dress Goods for . . . . aic.
largely circumstantial, is conclusive,
verdict that Jackson came to his death from a gunshot wound by the
hand of W. M. Milton. Milton is in jail.
For some time Mrs. Henry Wallace, a widow living near Appa-
lachin, has been missing articles from her house, mostly small trinkets,
but some of considerable value. Suspecting a new servant, she locked
her room and kept the jewels securely locked in a bureau, but still
they disappeared. Three servants were discharged, one after the
olothingi
This will be a great -week for bargains
stock goes at a great sacrifice. This Daltor
iug Store. My stock is decidedly withoi
suits at 39c., 75c. and $1.00. Multiply my b<
suits «by two and yon get their value. Men :
prices. §1.98, $3.48, $4.98, $7.48, $8.98 ai
week, worth twice the money.
Well some people think it strange that we became
headquarters for Shoes so quick. Low prices and
good goods did it. Our motto always wins.
Millinery!
I sincerely thank the ladies for their
°f this department. It has been almost ii
^ith the orders, necessitating, at a grea
1Q g late at night. I have made a numb
that never bought hats in Dalton. This 3
Phuient. Such goods, such styles and si
tract. Lots of new goods jus
mystery was still unsolved. The night following a farmer who was
returning from a neighbor’s saw a white figure emerge from Mrs.
Wallace’s house and go towards the creek. Following it he saw the
figure lift Up a stone and deposit something under it. Thinking he
had the thief, he rushed forward and grasped—Mrs. Wallace. She
iad been wallring in her sleep and had a valuable necklace in her
hand. The mystery has now been explained, and one of the servants
sleeps outside her mistress’ door every night.
Don’t forget the place, same
The Spot Cash
The Cut price Stoie
Whole ale and Ret
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