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Oliver’s Ready-to-
Suits and Dresses %35.00 an
Every lady in Valdosta and this section, who is thinking of buying a Coat Suit,
our sale next week. We W* showing the largest and finest selection of Ready-to-
town twice its size, and this is an opportunity for you to buy and have fitted to
finest Suits and Dresses at prices that you arc usually asked to pay for the cheap co
We believe we sell nine out of every teri customers whp have been to our
sale and wished to buy.
Your Money Refunded For Any Suit or Dress We Sell You
That is Not Worth Twice What You Pay For It
W. M. OLIVER
Phone No. 13
Formerly Oliver & Grimes
Valdosta, Georgia
PERSONAL MENTION.
(From Thursday'* Daily.)
Mr. Frank B. Shield., ot Scotland
Neck N. C., apent yc.terday In tl.1.
city, baying been caltad ban by tb«
death ot bla brother, Mr. L. S.
Shield!.
Mr. C. D. May, ot Newberry, Fie.
wee among the Tl.ltori to Valdotta
yeeterdey.
Mr. L. Grier, ot Cordate, epent
yeeterdey In thle.elty.
Mr. and Mra. Randall popo,
Madieon, .Fla., warn among tba vie-
Itorn to thta clt, yeatardny.
Mra. s. I* Drawdy and Mien M.
Booker, ot Homerylllo, came over
yeeterdey end apent the day In thle
city on a ahopplng trip.
Mr. a I. Allen, of FiUgernld,
epent yeeterdn, In thle city.
Mra. Ebb Hnrrie and ltttla Ml.a
Jennie V. Morrow came up from
Madieon thle morning and epent the
day In thle city with Mrs. Tom Har
ris.
Mr. M. A. Brantley came oyer
from Quitman yesterday to look af
ter some business matters here.
The children are very enthuitae-
tlo oyer the outlook tor the Chrl.t-
maa tree on tho court house square.
The committee, are to bo named In n
short while and all art going to work
together to make It e great sucrara.
There la general complaint agatn.t
reckless automobile driver. In Val-
do.ta. Man, good cltliena are vio
lating the law every day and moral
auaaton does not aeem to atop them.
The police offleen have been In-
atrneted to make caeee agalnat fast
driven hereafter, though thta ought
not to he necessary. Thera le not
a man In town who own* an auto
mobile who doe* hot know whan ha
te violating the law.
Mia Theresa Dyer returned from
Gainesville, Ga., where she haa boon
attending Brenau College and will
(l>end tha bolldeya with her paroata
here. 8h* has been stek tor some
time and earns horns to recuperate.
Superintendent Taylor haa corn-
plated his work on tho Rocky Ford
bridge end he says that It ta the
best structure In South Georgia.
Yesterday hk^ entertained tho coun
ty commleslonera and eomo other
friends at a ttah and turkey dinner.
A eandtdnte tor mayor of VUMtti
• has bought a wheelbarrow load .of
apples and la asking bln friend* to
help themselves to them. A nleo
red apple weald eomv as near buy
ing the average vote u alntcat any-
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PERSONAL MENTION
(From Wednesday's Dally.)
Dr. B. 8, Burton wan able to sit
up awhll* yesterday but h* had a
alight ftvqr In the afternoon. His
general' condition ta better, but he
ta not woll yet
Mr. T. M. Livingston, of Ocala,
Fla., was among tha visitors to thta
city yesterday.
Messrs O, W. Best and O. 11,
Thompson, J. W. Hinson and R. K.
Taylor, of Haslehurst, wore among
tha visitors to Valdotta yesterday.
Mr. Lelapd Moor* and wife, of
Climax, war* among tha visitor* to
thta city yestorday.
Mr. J. B. Wall, of Waycrosa, was
among the visitors to Valdosta this
morning.
Mlsa Annie Caswell It (lowly
convalescing from n eorlout tllnesa ot
two or three woeka.
Mrs. Frank Glbaon and child, ot
Quitman, are spending a few days In
thta elty with Mrs. W. S. West and
ether relatives.
Superintendent Taylor la celebrat
ing the completion of Rocky Ford
bridge today and ta entertaining
some of hla friends at a fish dinner
there.
Mies Nellie Legge left last night
for her homo In Tennessee, after a
pleasant visit to relatives hare.
Mr. and Mra. Edwin Burdette,
whose marriage occurred In Bir
mingham last weak, are visitor* to
the city, and will spend the holi
days with the family ot Mr. W, A.
Burdctto.
Mias Ernestine Varn ta visiting
her sister, Mra. Simpson, m Tlfton,
thta week.
Valdosta's “greet white way" I.
going to he marred by the old un
sightly shade on Patterson street. If
the merchant, who have the shed,
would tear them down, It would not
be six months before they would tee
the advantage of being without them
and wonldPnot have them replaced
for any amount of money. Tho old
ihede an nnalghtly and they ought
to he replaced with cloth awntnee,
which tan be lowered or raised *a
the need may be.
Mint Beast* Spear and Mr. John
Spear, who are attending Ban-Ball
Institute at Weycroee. (pent the
week-end with Mieses & E. and
Aita* Scruggs.
Mias' Lell Anna Bitter, ot Wash
ington, D. C, arrived thta evening,
■he will .pend tha winter with her
father. Dr. George L. Bitter, at (AS
North Pattereon street.
PERSONAL MENTTO-.
(From Tuesday's Dally.)
Mr. W. B. Johnson, of Atlanta,
1a among the vtaltorn to Valdoat*
today.
Mr. J. F. Stone cam* over from
Cairo and npent tha day In Valdosta.
Mr. W.‘ s. McReo returned from
Tampa yesterday, having gone
there to visit Mrs. McReo and hta
new heir,
Mr. end Mra. J. J. Newman, of
Madtaon, Fla., war* among the vis
itor* to Valdosta today. -
Mra. E.''a. Dickinson came up
from Olympia to do her shopping
today.
Mr*. J. J. Howell cam* down
from Sparks this morning to con
■ult n physician In regard to lajh.
rlea which eh* received three or four
weaka ago, by a fall. Her (shoulder
was dislocated and she he* suffered
considerably dnoe then.
Mr. Austin Johns haa given np
bis position at W. R. Tonies' store
and baa opened a grocery end fruit
•tore on Hill avenue In the store
room formerly occupied by C. W.
Stuckey.
Mr. B. F. Camp,- Sr., pame up
from White Springs. Fla., yeeterdey
and apent the day in thin elty.
Mra. T. O. Cranford and Mra. Al
len Strickland left thla morning for
Barrett* to apend the day with Mra.
E. L. Moore.
Mra. C. A. Jackson and aon will
leave today for Cordel*. after spend
ing a week or two In this elty with
Mra. John T. Blalock and Mra. J. J.
Harris..
Mr. W. C. Vereen. of Moultrie,
was among the visitors to Valdosta
today.
State School CotAlseioner M. L.
Brittain, came do^f from Atlanta,
to attend the trustees meeting ot
the Normal College hofe today.
The next Improvement that ought
to be made In Valdosta ta to th*
elty hall. The building ought to
be extended aitd made double the
present «lxo and an opera houae
ought to be put on the upper door.
The work could be don* reasonably
and It would prove 'mot only a
rood Investment for the elty, but
it would draw high elate theatrical*
te thta elty and would bring many
people from adjoining towns to
witness them.
Mr. E. K. Hatton and wife, ot
Montgomery, Ala., were among tba
vtaltorn to Valdosta yastarday.
PERSONAL MENTION
(From Tuesday's Dally.)
Mr. and Mra. J. J. Coppage came
over from Cairo this morning and
■pent the day in thta elty.
Mm. J. R. Parrish, of Adsl, ta
visiting the family of Mr. H. M.
Mra. Newt Connell, of Balnbrldgo,
1s spending noma time with relatives
here.
Mr. June Parrish, of Adel, was a
visitor to th* olty today,
Mr. J. F. Crosby la able to alt
up after about two montha’ Illness,
and he expects to ha out again be
fore long, as h* ta on the high road
to recovery. •
judge Walter Peeples has beep
made chairman of the Christmas
tree committee and he will have
some able assistants to help him get
op a novel entertainment on the
court house square for the Valdoe-
ta children during the holidays.
Mr. C. H. Mathis, ot Blackwell,
8. 0., has been spending a day or
two here looking at the lands of
Lowndes county. He was brought
down by Mr'. 8am Wenthrook, the
assistant Industrial agent ot the
Georgia A Florida . road. Mr.
Mathis la a wealthy oanteloupe
grower of South Carolina and he ex-
pccta to get In the aame. line of
bualneee in South Georgia.
Mr. J. C. Williams has returned
from Mobile and New Orleans,
where he ha* been spending n few
deye. He says that cotton In Missis
sippi and parte of Alabama look ay
It the Holds had not been touched.
Mias Clyde Cranford left yester
day atternoon for her homp at Jack
bonvllle, Fla., gfter spending two
or three weeks with Mra. W. 8.
West.
Mr. J. F. Holme* left last night
for Mahon on n business trip.
Mr. C. P. Kelley, or Madison, Fit.
spent yesterday In VaiuosU.
'Reporters very frequently get
things wrung In the papen, but
.alas times out ot ten it la because
people do not take time to tell
the reporters what he want to know.
People who do not give out Informa
tion have ao right to kick If the
paper happens to get things a lit
tle different from what they would
like to have them.
Ur. W. ,W. Balnbrldgo, of Jasper,
Fla., spent yesterday In thta city.
Mr. J. W. Moo*, ot Natevllle.
Os., came down and spent yesterday
In thta city.
MAY OWN CTXV ICE PLANT.
High Prices Influence Albany Conn
ell Toward Project.
An Albany dtapatch lays: Hav
ing made a brilliant success ot mu
nlclpal ownership of waterworks and
electric lighting Instltutlone and
voted bonds for the eonstrnctlon of
a municipal gas plant, which will he
built during the coming year, there
ta now a probability that Albany will
alio try the experiment of making
municipal Ice. .
Member* ot the city council
charge that the price* which the lo
cal. manufacturers ask for fee are
(oo high, and that th* service ta not
satisfactory. The movement to build
n municipal ice plant Is a serious
one, and a committee of council hae
been aifoolnted to look Into snch
matters aa the cost of an up-to-date
plant and (forage facilities. A re
port to council will be made ns soon
the desired Information can he
seenred.
WOMAN GETS TWENTY YEARS.
Waycross. Dec. 14.—Sobbing pit
eously, Mrs. R. L. Robins was sen
tenced to serve twenty years In the
penitentiary by Judge Parker In eu
portor court here yeeterday for the
murder of tier neighbor Mrs. Gelle
Smith. After the evidence,was in
and before arguments begun coun
sel for the woman offered for her
plea of guilty to a charge of volun
tary manslaughter. Neighborhood
quarrels caused the killing, which
iccurred last July.
Times Want Ads
STRAYED OR STOLEN—-From,
niar Raye Mill on the 27th of No
vember, a black mare mule four
yearn old, weight About too pounds,.
In good order, haa email white spot
under one ear. : If traded for tho
Innocent party who gets.her will be
protected fully from any lock or
be refunded the amount Invented
In the animal,- provided he can give ’
name of party from whom he got
her.. Notify c. t>. Shaw, Raya Mill,
12 1« w tf
St
FOR SALE—Two vary fine brood
sows and pigs, also one Jersey bull,
l'hls ta youc chance to bny some Hn*.
•took. T. E. Goodwin. 12rl6d2w2.
FOR SALE — A good . 260-acre
farm; 3 tenant houses, 8-room dwel-
llug, at a bargain. See J. J. Dasher
Qt'ek. ,12-13d6sw2t..
'''^ANTED^T^T^
fore Christmas. ' Large supply Just
arrived. Prices to suit. Give u„ a
call. Southern Motor Supply Co.
Doekle'a old atand. 12-12 w2t.
WANTED—To rent 8 heavy one-
drum ground akldder with privilege,
of buying. Give price and sulpploe
point. A. Smlthgall, Council, Ga.
a-12 wtf. < -
SAWYER WANTED for smoll
mill; prefer one who can set and
handle- planer. J. B. Cowart. Sara-
sota, Fla. 12-7w2t.
Cotton
There
on th*
staple ae
than It -wa*
there la a better
The average price I* much he
than It was two or three weeks
because the staple 1s better.
Yesterday Mr. George Corbett
sold two balee ot cotton to Ray and
Smith for 22He a pound.
This morning C. J. James brought
In three bale* from Clyattvtlle and
•old them at A. J. Strickland for
31 He and 22c n pound.
WANTED — Position at farm
sneer. Competent and experi
enced. T. S. Griffin, Adel, On.
11-lTdlnwltt.
SEND—your orders and 'nqulrieo
to Strlagfellow A Doty Company,
Jacksonville .Fla., for No. X North
Carolina Seed Peanut* and 90-day
seed oat*. 11 2 2m
NOTICE —Will aell or exchange
farm, 60 .acres, about SO in fins cul
tivation; good 6-room house; tine
large vineyard: sulphur water
ick poren. Fronts on. Colquitt
reet. telephone In Gent. Addison j
Regan, 8park4$£fc 12-28d3sw3t. '
Ptenrv of reedv money to lean or
farm lands and elty property
' term* Cell sad sea us. Wood 1
NOTICE—i wish to announce »i,*t
I am moving by business from the
oM stand (ja W. H1U ave., to th*
now building recently erected by
Mr. T. & MeKey on H. Central Are.,
next to th* resident* ot Mr. H. Y.
Tillman where I will ho better pro-
pared to servo the public. l(y
phone" No. will continue to ho 27.
Thanking th* good people for pate
patronage and soliciting a continu
ance of earn*
I am waxy truly,
.C. W. STUCKEY
II 34 d * W tf.
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