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MCMnNPV SAME GOODS FOR LESS MONEY., I^’ MORE GOODS FOR SAME MONLV. HSfc. | Mercantile Cos. i 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. , | ,n www.il——wwmwmw iii—ubbii ■■■wi'itaaii 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 JBm ;]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.