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MCMnNPV SAME GOODS FOR LESS MONEY., I^’
MORE GOODS FOR SAME MONLV. HSfc.
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Proprietors of Store.
We are better equipped today for business than ever before. We bought our goods early and we will not follow com
petition on prices but propose to LEAD, and iet the other fellow follow. THE JACKSON MERCANTILE CO. have enjoyed
the most prosperous year’s business up to now that we have ever had and for the balance of the year you need not th.nk
we are going to sleep. We are wide awake as to prices and to the interest of our customers. _
Hoi Buyeis Spent Tip Wools in iSie Easlom piaiiols
loocking after your interest and OURS. Its our interest to look after yours for we know without co-operation that we
would be a failure. We expect to sell goods this fall
AS LOW AS IS CONSSSTANT WITH GOOD BUSINESS JUDGEMENT.
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Uood goods are scarce m the market Centers but not high in proportion to the price of labor and farm products. Were
we to ask you prices for goods as they are quoted today you would think them high but as previously stated all of our
staple dry goods have been bought for months and as a consequence WE are holding down prices.
DRESS GOODS! DRESS GOODS!
. / Never before have you had an opportunity of selecting from such a stock in the city of Jackson. Our buyer has bought two dresses V
€£ for every woman in a radius of 20 miles of Jackson and if you don’t get yours its because you won’t come and look, they are here for you, X
fg i and people “who know” are buying NOW. Come in and let us talk Dress Goods to you we can tell and show you more about Style ml 5 X
a, minutes than you can learn elswhere in 15 days. MORK NEXT \\ KI'IK. |K
The Jackson Mercantile Company. J
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;]Coca! news Items.
Mrs. Bachman has retnrned to her
home in Baltimore after an extended
visit to her daughter Mrs. Robert
Carmichael
Miss Sallie Mae Fletcher is at home
from Hampton where she visited Misa
France# Arnold.
Mies Ossie McCord is at home from
Hampton where she visited her broth
er Rev. Walstein McCord in a series
of meetings
Mr U T Fosset.of Toomsbore was
in the city Monday.
Miss Do vie Carmichael's friends
will be sorry to know that she is ill of
fever.
FOR SALE.— My resi
dence in East Third Street.
Also. 175 acre Farm in
Iron Spring District. Also
Office building in Jackson
and 5 houses and lots in
Pepperton.
Frank Z. Curry.
Owing to the absence from the
cit y f Rev. O. T. Willingham the
6 e rvi. es at the Baptist Church next
Sunday morning will be conducted by
R v. A. F M <*Mahon.
A congenial party of yound people
spent Friday evening most delightful
ly at Indian Springs. The merry
crowd bowled for several hours, some
high scores bing made. The party
included Misses Willie Cooper, Gussie
Belle Rawls, Bertha Carmichael, Tal
lie Jolly, Willie Lester, Dollie McKio
ben, Messrs Parks Newton, Jim Eth
ridge, Add Nutt, Pitts McKibben, G.
C. Tultner, Charlie Kimbell.
Miss Rowena Allen has returned to
her home in Tampa Florida after
spending the summer with Mr. and
Mrs. F. M. Allen.
Miss Georgia Kendrick of Plains is
the attractive guest of Miss Adelle
Nutt.
Mr. Tom McKibben spent Sunday
in Jacason with home-folks.
Miss Pearl Sams, of Babcock is the
guest of Mrs. Walter Copeland.
Mr. Wilson of Eatonton was the
guest of friends in the city Sunday.
Miss Dollie McKibben is the guest
of Miss Lillian Daniel of McDonough.
Dr. R. A. Franklin spent Sunday
' with his parents in Barnesvllle.
Misses Ruth and Inez Taylor have
returned to their home in Macon af
ter a delightful visit to Mrs. James
Valentino.
I Dovie Bryans left Monday to enter
Brenau College.
LOST—Saturday after
noon In Jackson; Watch
and chain gold filled case,
18 size, Seth Thomas
Movement. Finder return
to W. M. Bledsoe and get
reward.
Mrs. Thyme and Mrs. Houser from
Belma Ala. are at Hotel Buchanan.
Misses Annie Kate Wright, Grace
Tarrell and Ezra Morrison left Mon
day to enter Bessie Tift College.
Miss Jane Stanfield left Monday to
enter Washington Seminary in Atlan
tu.
Miss Vashtl Gilmore from Mcßae
who has been visiting Miss Flosssie
Jenks, will return home today.
Misses Ossie, Emma and Annie Lou
McCord, and Messrs Marvin McCord
and Harry Butncr will leave soon to
enter College at Meridian Miss.
Mrs Douglas Watson died yester
day at her home in South Carolina.
“Waiter!” called the customer in the
restaurant where a band was playing.
“Yes, sir.”
“Kindly tell the leader of the orches
tra to play something sad and low
while I dine. I want to see if it won’t
have a softening influence on this
tough steak.”—Exchange.
Teutoburg Forest.
The Teutoburg forest, where Artnl
nius defeated Varus and put an end to
Roman progress in Germany, is a
wooded, mountainous region, located
partly in the principality of Lippe and
jxirtly in Prussia, extending at first
under the name of Egge in a northerly
direction through the territory of Pen
den bom to Driburg, then northwest to
Bervergem, five miles east of Rbelnne.
on the Ems.
Pure Moonshine.
A mountaineer of one of the back
counties of North Carolina was ar
raigned with several others for illicit
distilling.
“Defendant," asked the court, “what
is your name?"
“Joshua,” was the reply.
“Are you the man who made the
sun stand st;ll?”
“No, sir; I am the man who made
the moonshine.”—Harper’s.
Thne Hundred Thousand Murders.
Fortunately the dark days when Cor
sica resembled a huge battlefield sur
vive only as a terrible memory of the
past Today we can hardly credit the
fact that between the years 1339 and
1729 300.0U0 people were murdered out
of revenge and that during thirty-one
years of last century—from 1821 to
IS.7.2— the number of murders was es
timated at 4.300. —Wide World Maga
zine.
A your.g man was teasing his sweet
heart’s little sister. “Lily, r ’ he said,
T don’t love you at all.”
“Ah, but you must!” said the child.
“And why?" asked her tormentor.
“You must love them that hate you,
and I'm sure I hate you!"—Philadel
phia Inquirer.
j First Turtle—Grandma is nearly 400
years o!d and has lost all her teeth.
Second Turtle-Well, then, she has a
soft snap.—Life.
Queer Sympathy.
Some years ago, writes one corre
spondent, my little daughter, aged five,
was out walking in a country lane
with her nurse. She saw hobbling
painfully toward her a barefooted,
bent old woman clothed in rags and
dirt. On her back was slung a heavy
bundle of sticks which she bad evi
dently been collecting.
My little daughter stopped short on.
seeing this picture of misery, evidently!
struck with pity. Then, with both!
arras outstretched, she ran toward her,]
her curls dancing in the wind and her)
eyes aglow with tenderness, crying:
“Oh, you poor, dear old lady; I do wish
you was dead! You would be so much
happierf’
Tableau.—London Mall.
A Sulphurous Mountain.
The Soufriere, or sulphurous moun
tain. is considered to be the greatest
natural curiosity of St. Lucia and. &
fact, of the West Indies. It is situated
about half an hour's ride from tlie
town of Soufriere, to which it has
given its name, and nearly two mile s
to the east of the Pitons and is at the
foot of two small hills, both of which
are quite bare of vegetation on the
sides facing the crater. It covers
space of about three acres and is crust-,
ed over with sulphur and alum, rh •-1
are several caldrons in a perpetua
state of ebullition. The water is quite
black in the larger ones and boils up
to the height of two or three feet, b\
in the smaller ones it is quite clear.—
London Standard.