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THE'ALBANY DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1906. A Word That Accurately Describes The Policy of Hofmayer, Jones & Co, marked the past year in Albany. Her paved streets, her big new manufacturing plants, her handsome new business buildings, and her elegant new homes all tell unmistakably of what great progress the city has made. * n > In Albany’s leading store “progressiveness” has also been the watch word during the past year. Equally as apparent as the city’s remarkable growth are the wonderful strides this store has made dur ing the past twelve months. In every department, in the size and the elegance of the stocks, and in the management of the store there has been progress—a progress that makes the service of this store more and more satisfactory to its customers. We have labored earnestly, untiringly to make this- a modern department store—big, re liable, progressive—a store where the satisfying size and exceptional elegance of its stocks, coupled with recog nized reasorjablness of its prices, entitle it to the best trade of the best people of the best section of the South. The Qualify Store. The Quality Store. Better Soda. Than Ever TERRIFIC TORNADO FOLLOWED BY FIRE Customers say our soda is better than ever this year. As we hear the satire thing every year we are inclined to think our soda is fast reaching the point of perfection. We certainly try to Utake it as near perfect as possible and spare no Expense in our efforts as , TOWN OF BELLEVUE, TEXAS, WRECKED BY STORM AND FIRE. We use the best of everything in making it The whole business section of the town and all stocks of merchandise wore, destroyed. Among the houses destroyed are those of Nelson, Spivey, M. Bradley, Ogontz, and Robley Flour Mill. A. D. Carr was caught in a building, mashed to death, and his body is be lieved to have been cremated. Tornado Mile Wide. The tornado was a mile wide and traveled over the earth for a distance of eight miles, levelling everything in its path, ruining crops and destroying all farm houses and barns on the way. This section is thickly settled and it^ will, be tomorrow before there are complete reports of the dead. Ran to Storm Cellars. The fact that so few were killed is accounted for by the fact that every house was practically equipped witn a storm cellar and the people ran to them as soon as they saw the tornado approaching. Those who had no storm cellars or who could not reach them were the ones who suffered. Last winter many lives were lost in the same neighborhood .by a tornado. Fourteen Persons Killed and Many Injured, While the Property Loss Is Great. Quick Relief Sent to Suf ferers. s' ■ ■ and serve it in bright, clean glasses. We do not stop at the best materials for we employ expert dispensers. Even pure soda can he ruined in drawing. When your spring thirst arrives come to our magnificent soda parlor and,drink soda that is delicious, refreshing and satisfying. Fort Worth, Texas, April 27.—Tele grams from Bellevue, Clay county, Texas, this morning say that the town caught (Ire after being wrecked by a tornado last night, and that the flames are still raging today. A carload of provisions was sent from Fort Worth this morning. Tents and bedding 1 have been rushed from Wichita Falls. The latest reports make the dead fourteen. Hoggard Drug Co •Phone 75. Delicious Ice Cream For Warm Spring Days The Town Practically Wiped Out. Fort Worth, Texas, April 27.—Re ports from Bellevue today say that practically the entier town was wiped out by the tornado. Thirteen persons were killed and many seriously in jured. After the tornado had razed every business building, fire completed the destruction. Only four houses iu the town escaped destruction or in jury. The tornado covered an area eight miles wide, destroying crops and farm houses. The property loss will prob ably reach $200,000. Many people nnd the hrst warm days of spring very fatiguing. These will find our delicious ice cream espe cially refreshing. THE WEATHER. Weather Forecast. The following la the weather fore cast for the state of Georgia for the next twenty-four hours: Partly cloudy tonight; Saturday showers. Local Weather Observations. The following record of meteorologl. cal observations taken by the local co-operative observer of the Weather Bureau of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture for the twenty- four hours ending at 7 o’clock this morning is published for the informa tion of the public: Maximum temperature 90.00 Minimum temperature 60.00 Mean temperature 75.00. Precipitation 00 River 2.40 Fall in 24 hours .. .10 Weather Clear Wind SW D. W. BROSNAJ4, Volunteer Observer. MISS RAE LOWE SPONCLER. The Really Brilliant Work of this Young Lady as Accompanist Has Been an Important Factor In Making the Chautauqua Music so Successfu I this Year. Summer Suggests Straws Straws Suggest Davis & Last Night’s Report. Bellevue, Texas, April 26. — A tor nado swept through this place tonight, and destroyed everything iu Its path, and as a result the entire town Is a mass of ruins, only three buildings now standing, and at least eleven per sons are dead, and a number are in jured. The tornado was followed by fire, which consumed the wreckage. This report Is bolng sent from the top of a telephone pole a mile from Bellevue, but It is as close as a wire can be had. The town of Bellevue con sisted of over 200 houses. Among those who are known to have been killed are: R. L. Russell, wife and four chil dren j A. D. Carr, Tom Mount, W. W. Bell, candidate for county treasurer of Clay county; two members of the Gray family. The seriously Injured are: Two daughters of N. E. Smith, of Bowie: Mrs. Gault; Mr. Gray and seven mem bers of his family, two of whom have since died; Mrs. McGraw. Albany Drug Co J. £. MacMillan, President, W. G. Meritvether, Secy, and Treas. If You*re Wise It's Not to the “Tall Timbers The hours of the Carnegie library, as most people know, are 8:30 to 11:30, and 3 to 6:30. It Ib not open at all at night This Is rather hard on the business men of the city. The hours when the library Is open are also their open hours. At night when there might he a chance to read, the library is closed. Even getting a book out is a difficult thing to do, the way the hours are now. That you’ll look for building material. Albany - Pressed Stone Co.’s double-hollow air space concrete v.blocks are mere satisfactory from every standpoint. Albany Pressed Stone Co §§ 11