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GROCERIES
A merchant doesn’t generally
spend money advertising unless
he has Something worth
Advertising.
HE ISA FOOLISH MER
CHANT IF HE DOES
On the other hand if a merchant has something
as good, and perhaps better than others, why not
advertise it—
“The man who whispers down a well
About the goods he has to sell
Won’t reap the gleaming golden dollars
Like one who climbs a tree and hollers.’’
Aware of this fact—and quite positive that our
Grocery department will sustain everything good we
may sa}^ about it. We feel warranted in advertising
it. We carry at all times one of the largest stocks of
Staple Groceries in Dalton.
Salt, Meal, Meat. Flour- Sugar,Coffee, Soap
Soda, Matches, Lard, Etc.
Goods are fresh and fine, and we positively guar
antee that our prices will always be as low and on
many goods much lower than others.
On our FANCY GROCERIES we carry only such
goods as the best trade demands. You will find
what you want and want what you find in,our Gro
cery room—and bigger values and better goods can
not be found.
SPECIALS
THE STATESBORO MOB
NOT OF “BEST CITIZENS"
40 lbs. rice $1 00
5 lb. kit white fish . 49c
3 cakes caateel soap 05c
Ground spices (all kinds). 30c
Extra fine water ground meal.
4 lbs. salts 10c
1-10 lb kit mackeral 98c
3 dozen cloths pins 05c
Celluloid starch 04c
Extra choice country bacon.
Special values on fruit jars, jelly glasses, jar tops,
rubbers, preserving kettles, etc.
Don’t forget we are headquarters for Cooking
Stoves, Crockery, Tin and Enameled Ware.
Comparison is the only true test of values—com
pare our goods and our prices with others and you
will trade with us.
McWilliams Bros.,
Phone 116.
Rev. Whitley Langston, pastor
of the Methodist church at States
boro, has an interesting communi
cation in The Wesleyan Christian
Advocate in which he discusses
particularly the make up of the
mob. After describing the crime
of the negroes and telling, briefly
of their being taken from the
authorities, he says:
“It has gone out to the world
through the sensational daily
press that the ‘best citizens’ of
the town and county participated,
sympathized, aided, abetted, and
even led in this work of wresting
these negroes from the hand of
the law and burning them at the
stake, and the charge is made
that the mob spirit was universal.
It is this misstatement of the
facts with which we are now
concerned. The statement that
the ‘best people’ were all engaged
in this act is incorrect and untrue
and does hundreds of our people
an injustice that must not pass
unchallenged. That a few of our
property owners and ordinarily
law-abiding citizens were in the
mob is unfortunately true, but it
is also true, on the contrary, that
a great many—a large majority,
I think, of the men composing
the mob—were not our ‘best citi
zens,’ but were irresponsible boys
and young men, many from other
already condemned.
“Now, in conclusion, I will say
that I have just been reading the
inflammatory utterances of the
Northern press concerning this
deplorable act. They do not sim
ply condemn the act. I would
have no quarrel with them if they
stopped there. Nor do they sim
ply condemn those who partici
pated in the act. I could sanction
their censure of the lynchers
those who did the deed. But
they do not stop here. They
censure the entire people, good
and bad, the whole community
and the whole South. They use
this occurrence as a text to give
us a lecture on the negro question
In my judgment such utterances
as I have seen from the Northern
press are unwise, and many of
them untrue. They tend to in
jure rather than help conditions
in the South.
We people of the South make man
mistakes and sometimes, we
confess, they are grievious, but
our brethern at the North, before
lecturing us, must wash their
hands of the blood of those inno
cent negroes whom their o
soldiers not so long ago wontonly
shot down in cold blood for no
offense save a desire to do honest
work.
“We are willing to be lectured,
SIGNS OF SPRING.
If you watah a drug stora, you can always
tall whan spring i* earning. People begin
to buy aarsaparilla, garden seeds, and paint.
We don’t eare how aeon they begin te eoiee
now. We have all the various Spring
Medicines, a good assortment of live Garden
Seeds, and Paint enough ts paint the tewn.
TH SAHARA OF THIRST
Is quickly quenched at our Soda Fountain,
whieh is the best equipped of any feuntain
in the city. The range of flavor* is wide
enough to appeal te all tastea. The cele
brated Bukefzer Cream, which haa made ua
famous, will be served at our fount thia
season, with pure, crushed fruit flavor*.
Fincher & Nichols.
BLATIN, IEIRIIA.
Farrar Lumber Company
MANUFACTURERS OF
House Material of Every Descriotion.
DALTON, GEORGIA.
counties, who, under the excite-1 and, if need be, once in a while
inent, were drawn into the cur- abused by people who themselves
rent and joined with the crowd bear a clean record. But so long
without taking time for a delib- as lynchings and lawlessness,
erate thought. • riotings and strikes hold sway
“That many of our best men with such frequency at the North,
urged the agitators to desist and we ask iu fairness and justice that
to allow the law to proceed in its these vile epithets and unwar-
course, is a fact. This was true ranted denunciations of an entire
from the very day when the cor- people for the shortcomings of a
oner’s investigation was begun few be abandoned. I for one re-
until the final hour when the mob gret more than I can tell the re
surging around the court cent lamentable occurrence in our
house. A meeting of the citizens county, but our people, as a
held in the court house on whole, do not need nor de we de
the Saturday following the Thurs- serve the wholesale abuse that is
day night when the crime was floating down from the North,
committed, and many of us made “Let the wise help and counsel
conciliatory speeches, urged that us, we need it; let the Christians
the law be permitted to deal with pray for us, we need it; let the lov-
the case, and plead for our ing sympathize with us, we need
county to be spared the humilia- it. But as for those who would
tion of a lynching. In that meet- stir up strife, make divisions, in
ing the entire bar of Statesboro flame passsions and prejudices
went on record iu no uncertain and incite further violence, we
terms as being opposed to law- beg, nay, we command that all
lessness, and I’believe that every J such be silent.”
of the bar has acted
the right when it desires to have
only those use its property who
pay for the privilege, and it
ought to protect its customers in
this, and then when a sufficient
number take the service to justify
it, there ought to be a reduction
in the charges. On the 6ther
hand, I do know that their regu
lar customers have frequently
been cut off before they rang off
and in this the company is c<
tainly at fault.
The position taken here may
not he the popular one, it may
not please those who want to use
neighbor’s property without
paying for it, but how any right
minded person can take any other
view of it, I am at a loss to know
Respectfully,
A. J. Showalter.
Clyde, Texas, Aug. 22,1904.
member
good faith. Merchants spoke at
the meeting as did a number of
other citizens, and two or three
leading negroes wel-e permitted to
express their views of the situa
tion, and every one pledged to
bring the guilty parties to justice
and at the same time uphold the
majesty of the law. .
“For two hours on the day D f | completing it.
the burning, while the mob was
clamoring for the prisoners, many
of us moved from one portion of
the mob to another begging, urg
ing, pleading with the men to de
sist from their course. Among
these men who thus made a per
sonal plea to the members of the
mob on behalf of order and law
were the judge of the court, the
mayor of the town, various mem
bers of the bar and military, the
judge of our city court, a number
of our merchants and other busi
ness men, and a large number of
cool-headed, conservative farmers,
and all urged and begged that
the law be permitted to take its
Rev. H. A. Hodges,
Prominent Man in Town.
Mr. J. H. Carter, of Blue
Ridge, was in the city 3 esterday
and last night in conference with
Mr. Foote, of the D. & A. Rail
way, and it is rumored he v
negotiating for the purchase of
that right-of-way, either for him
self or a company with a view to
A Citizen reporter
undertook this afternoon to run
down the rumor, but all the par
ties at interest had left the city.
Mr. Carter is a banker and prom
inent business man of his section,
and it is hoped he will perfect
arrangements to build the D. &
A. Railway.
John Moreland, of Ellija-y, was
in Dalton Tuesday on business.
SYRUP BARRELS
A carload of barrels at
McCARTY’S.
Better Than Gold.
“I was troubled for several years with
obronic indigestion and nervous debil
ity,” writes F. J. Green, of Lancaster,
. N. H. “No remedy helped me until I
brother ot the muideied man, [ began using Electric Ritters, whieb did
course.
BRYAN TO AID PARKER
Nebraskan Will Make Several Speech
es For Ticket In nissouri.
New York, August 24.—Chair*
Taggart today received a
telegram from M. C. Wetmore, of
St. Louis, saying that William J.
Bryan would speak at Butler and
Lamar, Nevada and Springfield,
Mo., the last of August, and the
first of September.
An interesting feature of the
day at democratic national head
quarters was the appearance of
John T. McGraw, member of the
national committee for West Vir
ginia, and a number of hisjclose
political friends from that state.
Their visit at this time was to
discuss the situation in West Vir
ginia with the members of the
executive committee, and during
the day they conferred witli Chair-
Taggart, Vice Chairman
Nicoll, August Belmont and T. F.
Ryan. The}' urged that a vigor
ous campaign in that state be
started at once. They also said
that the one fear that the demo
crats of the state had was the
colonization of negroes from Vir
ginia and great care would be nec
essary to prevent this from be
done.
Among the callers toda)' vt
former Secretary of the T t ,isury
John G. Carlisle, who ha a con
ference with Mr. Belmont, Wil
iam B. Gourley, member of th
ational committee for New
Jersey; John P. Frenzel of In
diana, and Perry Belmont, who
had just returned from West Vir
ginia, where he has been the
guest of the vice presidential
candidate. Mr. Frenzel was one
of the strong supporters of the
gold democratic candidates in
189b and today he assured Chair
man Taggart that his time and
money would be devoted to the
success of the democratic candi
dates.
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Furniture
When you Skimp Quality for ^
Price, you invite good buy
ers to go elsewhere,
But we have both
Qualify and Price
and have
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COSTS NOTHING
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^ DR. TICHENOR’S ANTISEPTIC
Is a great blessing, and heals the wounds, injuries, and
ailments caused by the former. Good also for COLIC
CRAMPS and INDIGESTION. lOo BOo <Sfc JjU.OO
For COUGHS, COLDS and SORE THROAT, use
BRON*CHO*DA
No Oplatas, Narcotics, nor Poisons. It Is Laxative, Expectorant, Antiseptic
a«o a bottle
SHERROUSE MEDICINE C0„ Mfrs. and Props, New Orleans, La,
was present, and did all in his
power to avert the lynching.
•Bulloch county is known as
one of the best counties in Geor
gia. Statesboro is noted for its
good schools, ils chu ches, its
business enterprises and the mor
ality of its citizens. Along these
lines I daresay no town of its size
North or South surpasses it, and
but few equal it. In face of this
fact, it is hardlyr easonable 10 sup-
p< se that even a majority—much
less the whole, as is reported in
the North—of the substantial
citizens, the bone and fiber of the
co'mraunity, participated in or
sympathized with the lynching of
these negroes whom the law had
me more good than all the medicines
ever used. They have also kept my wife
in excellent health for years. She says
Electric Bitters are just splendid for fe
male troubles; that they are a grand
tonic and Invigorator for week, run down
wemen. No other medicine can take its
place in our family.” Try them. Only
6#c. Satisfaction guaranteed by Finch
er & Nichols. aug.
Stove Wood.
I want to make arrangements
with a few parties living out of
town, to send their children to
Dalton Female College, and pay
for it in wood. Please apply at
once. Thos. L. Bryan,
Dalton, Ga.
FOLEYS KlDNEYCURE
Makes Kldneya and Bladder Right
ft* Fair Offer Made by H’iglitow'ei'
Drug Go- to f¥ll Sufferers from
Catarrh.
Hightower Drug Co.,^ue selling
Hyomei on a plan that lias caused
considerable talk amongst thei
customers.
The plan is different from that
followed by other remedies, but
the remedy itself is different also
This treatment for the cure of ca
tarrh has such an unusual record
of cures to its credit that High
tower Drug Co., offer to refund
the money if it does not give the
desired benefit. This is certainly
one of the fairest offers that can
be made and any one who has ca
tarrh and does not take advantage
of it is doing himself or herself an
injustice.
Do not suffer any longer
tickling, smarting, burning, eye
watering troubles that afflict those
who have catarrh. Hyomei will
cuie}ou, but if you should not
find it adapted to your case, High
tower Drug Co. will return your
money.
with
Nearly Forfeits H*is |Jf e .
A runaway almost ending fatally
started a hoirible ulcer on the leg of J
B. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill. F or four
years it defied all doctors and all reme
dies. But Bucklen’s Arnica Salve had
no trouble to cure him. Equally good
for Bums, Bruises, Skin Eruptions and
Piles. 25c at Fincher & Nichols Drug
Store. aug.
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Lovely Bed Room Suits $18,00 to $9000.
Quartered Oak Dressers and Dressing Tables
$17.50 to $22.50.
We are After the Business.
See our Iron and Folding Beds $3.50 to
$40.00.
All Good Sellers.
Our splendid line of odd Dressers $5.00 to
$25.00.
Perfectly Lovely,
Sideboards $10.00 to $65.00.
Rockers, Rockers I Rockers
For Men, Women and Children,
$12.50 each.
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from 5Hc to
Fancy China,
American and Japmese Mattings 1254c to 4oc.
Splendid line of Rugs,
Simrna, Moynette, Wilton Velvets, Brussels.
Sewing Machines,
$18.00 to $50.00, also
bers, etc.
Bands, Needles, Rub-
Window Shades,
Lace Curtains and Portiere 30c to
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tresses,
All cotton and cotton top, from $1.75 to$i2.5o.
Linoleum, Art Squares, Baby
Buggies and Oo-Carts.
Extension Dining Tables, Kitchen
Tables, Center Tables and Table
Covers, all at lowest prices.
our line call on us and save time.
WORRY and MONEY.
Pictures Neatly Framed.