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Dull Days Never Come to Merchants Who Advertise in The Citizen
DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1897.
$1.00 Per Annum
The Old Reliable
Foreign, National and State News Put Through the Condenser
and Sized up Accordingly.
FLASHES FROM THE WIRE CAUGHT AND LAGNIAPAED BYTHE CITIZEN.
Scissored Sayings—Days’ Doings—Weeks’ Wickedness—Things Thought-
Expected Events—Filtered Findings—Bits of: ItemsSWith the
Bloom on Them From Everywhere.
THE FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE STILL
Thousands of DoUars worth of
New* Fresh, Seasonable Mer
chandise thrown on the mar
ket and must; be sold before
Fall Goods arrive. The most
unmerciful Slaughter Sale ev-
known. Old time fogies have
commenced howling high pri
ces bn account of the tariff.
No such thing as high prices
have ever been known in my
stored and never will be.
UNDERBUY! UNDERSELL!
The hard Cash and plenty of it talks-
Wheat made a six cent jump yesterday.
Senator J. Z. George, of Mississippi, died last Saturday.
Four men and one woman committed suicide in New York City
Tuesday.
For the first time in years the supreme court of Georgia has a
cleared docket.
It is now estimated by experts that the coming cotton crop will
yield ten million hales.
becoming
We are fast getting in
our Fail and Winter Stock
A Big lot of
Divorce suits are becoming so frequent in Atlanta that it is the
subject of the state press.
The Atlanta city council has passed an ordinance against ladies
wearing hats at the theatre.
H. S. Perry, the Atlanta murderer, has been respited until Sep
tember 8th by Gov. Atkinson.
The steamer Portland is expected Monday from Klondike with
five million dollars worth of gold.
The special master in the Eagle and Phoenix Mill case has found
President Bigby due the mill $23,000.
Michael Golli, the assassin of Premier Canovas, of Spain, will be
executed today or tomorrow at Madrid.
All class journals for August report the outlook for business in
every sphere better than for five years past.
The coal miners strike continues growing. They are getting the
sympathy of farmers and other citizens daily.
The cily council of Atlanta has passed an ordinance against
check reins being hitched up on horses while standing.
The exports of domestic merchandise from the United States dur
ing July were over $5,000,000 more than for July, 1896.
Three men armed with Winchesters, robbed the bank of Pine-
ville, Mo., yesterday of $600 in silver and made their escape.
Mrs. B. F. Hood, of Hendersonville, N. C., got angry at her hus
band yesterday and shot him to death. She then killed herself.
Two of Athens’ most prominent and popular young ladies have
cases docketed against them in the police court for riding bicycles on
the sidewalk down Broad street.
James Felts, Caleb Hatfield and Joe Mallard played cards and
drank whiskey all Tuesday night near Pineville, Ky. It wound up
by Felts shooting both his companions to death.
An unknown man assaulted Mrs. Heathcock and her daughter
near Ringgold last week. The brute beat them into insensibility and
escaped. The country was thoroughly searched but failed to catch
him.
The report that Gen. James Longstreet was to marry Miss Ellen
Dortch, assistant State librarian, is denied by both of them and indig
nantly by Miss Dortch. She is a classmate of Miss Longstreet and a
frequent visitor.
Mr. Will Combs, of Ringgold, a well known W. & A. R. R. em
ployee, was killed in Marietta last Saturday. He got his foot caught
in the rail and the train ran over him, causing death a few hours after.
He was buried Sunday at Ringgold.
Rev. Dr. R. P. Farris, of St. Louis, startled the world at Toccoa,
Ga., last week by announcing to the premilleniai conference of South?
em Presbyterians that there will be two resurections of the dead—one
when Christ comes and one a thousand years afterwards.
Will Phillips, who is suspected of having assaulted Miss Sallie
Jones in Walker county over a year ago, has been arrested and brought
back. A crowd was made up to lynch him, but the young lady’s
father asked that he be given'a fair trial by law. He will be tried
next week.
Macon’s dog catcher has resigned. He said he could stand-being
whipped and abused by dog owners when in pursuit of his duties, it
was a part of what he was paid for, but it was too much to ask him
to calmly submit to seeing the dogs he had caught turned loose by
the authorities.
Bud Brooks and Grady Reynolds, who murdered T. C. Hunt, a
merchant of Belton, Ga., sunk his body in the river, stole several hun
dred dollars of money from his person android out his stock of goods,
have been found guilty of murder in the first degree by the jury of
Jefferson, Georgia.
Prince Henri, of Orleans, a Frenchman, not long since wrote a
series of letters to the Figaro, a Paris paper, reflecting on the Italian
army. Victor Emanuel, Count of Turin, resented and the two noble
men fouerht a duel with poigniards Sunday morning in France. Henri
Elegant Tailor Made
Clothing just received.
Don’t Buy till you see
them. We also have an
elegant line of Samples
from the
We have often heard that when the other merchants
get tired of looking at their empty deserted stores and won
dering where the people are, they make it a point to look
into our always busy stores and see the throngs of eager
buyers. They then return to their
and can take your meas
ure and guarantee a fit,
in [other words we are
headquarters for every
thing in the
sadder but wiser and the lone, lost wanderer can hear them
sadly humming, “I have seen better days.”
10-4 Shirting, 12^ cents per yard.
Fruit of the Loom and Lonsdale Bleached Domestic,
36 inches wide, 6\ cents per yard.
Good Calico, cents per yard.
Sox, 3 cents per pair.
Ladies’ Fast Black Hose, 6 cents pair.
Men’s Leather Belts, the 50 cent kind, choice of 50
styles at 19 cents each.
Men’s Fine Laundered Negligee Shirts, the $1.00 kind
at 49 cents.
Men’s Fine Ties and Bows, worth 25c at 5c each.
Men’s full length Suspenders, 5c, 8c, 10c, 15c and 19c
per pair, worth double.
Ladies’ Summer Undervests, 3 cents each.
Ladies’ Sailor Hats, Trimmed, 9 cents each.
Teaspoons, 4 cents set. Tablespoons, 8c, set of 6.
Pocket Looking Glasses, 3c each.
Children’s Hose, 4c per pair.
Thimbles, 2 cents each.
Needles, ic per paper. Pins, Ic per paper.
Knitting Needles, ic per set.
x Hoyt’s Dime Cologne, 5c per bottle.
Another big lot of those
Splendid All-Wool Pants
at 75 cents, just received.
is always full of good
things to eat and every
body knows we sell low
er than any store in the
State of Georgia.
Unmatchable, unheard of prices on the Miller and
Cruikshank $20,000 New, Clean Stock of Shoes.— No such
values ever before known.
Children’s Shoes, 15c per pair.
Children’s Shoes, 30c and 49c. easily worth $1.00.
Ladies’ fine Shoes at from 48c and up to $2.98, worth
wore than double.
Another big shipment of
CLOTHING
Men and Boy’s Clothing at prices that would not pay
for the cloth. . N
Men’s Suits, $1.98 per suit.
Men’s fine all-wool Suits, $2.98 and up.
Men’s fine Imported Clay Worsteds, $4-9 •
All kinds of
as you all know cheaper than the cheapest
The entire Clothing Stock goes
Price sale ever known.
Big Hotel Block;
Follow the crowds to the Big, Always Busy, Depart-
Stores.
. The Spot Cash Man.
“T" J\ K b £3 The Cut Price Stores.
1 ZA Wholesale and Retai
PROPRIETOR.
The Farmers’ Friend, the Square Dealing Store.
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