Newspaper Page Text
Wanted! Wanted!
1,000 MEN, MEN, MEN!
1,000 WOMEN, WOMEN!
1,000 BOYS AND GIRLS!
1,000 BABIES! BABIES!
1.000 Young Ladies from 15 to 2d fears old!
TO KNOW, TO SLOW, TIE TRUTH ! TEE TRUTH!
■==~~ r ■ tHat
THE HEW‘YORE STORE
has by far the largest and most complete stock of
Spring and Summer goods in Middle Georgia—
that more care and taste never has been
displayed, ne\' er than before, and
that the NEW YORK STORE, the “Old Reliable,”
will always wear the “blue ribbon” as
“Tie Leaders and Controllers ol Low Prices.”
Clothing, Etc. '
This line as all otheie, is bought
direct from the manufacturer?, mid
is perfect fitting nnd to suit the
most, fastidious in the tad
Don’t fail to see ns if too wad a
suit, and we will please you in price
and qu .btv.
Millinery.
Tins <- nfi i<- point ; sin k pin
!*• r X' * to a nie* drees is
prv. , >*l * tish hat, ami our mill*
iei department under iht direc
tion < f Miss Jat kson is a gem, ami
our < doi ts in thie line will far sur
pass all others. Due announcement
of our regular spring opening will
be inude R nomher the creme
de-la-creme will be found under
our csQopy. The etceteras, gloves,
handkerchiefs, hose, embroideries,
patasoD, an l all other necessan
paraph nalia we show in the very
latest ati 1 most approved designs.
Shoes, Slippers.
We nave long w *o iu ‘olue rib
bon on this Into simply bv H'ving
tlv people honest, straight goods
' all guaranteed. Sc< tt Te, nant
Wiiii’i Sfll n sh"dd\ 8h e and look
you square in the face The cheap
Eastern trash that is being sold in
com | etiti m but advertises 'hi* de
pari me nt as one of he stand *y<.
Oi.r flowing business, we cannot enumerate all but couie to see us, in\ite join
fiiei ds'and when von do we feel sure we will -end you away a walking advertise
ment of the many, beautiful, stylish, as well as cheap things have to show.
THE CARMICHAEL COMPANY,
l'l-ooriet..rs of the NEW YORK* STORE. JACKsON, GA.
1 1
OuAml Spotlit;
# Will Take Place
Mdiy Si Ttalij,
April 4tli & sth.
U lisjlij t! ki
U, Mltffj, Si.
COM. WELCOME EXTENDED TO ALL.
Dress Goods.
Our 1-iVf-l' F-onoh Dress P.Oterns
noth trimming* *o rnitoh, c-uihot
if excel,* <1 in b-amy not price*.
In ao, our Dress Goods depart
men', is more ilboratc, 1 and
choicer, and ah-olult-h L-hvcs no
excuse fora ladv to go to A lati'n
or elsewhere to do her shopping,
Kindly gt\>* this department ape.-n
md tou W.ll he c i T*nel Mss
A ina Snell and M ss Ji- ksou, • w ■
ladle- of *xq 11 -te taste and expo
lienee w.ll lend their valuable as
sis'am e in our Dr-s-* Goods de
arrment nod will -ee to it that
inching is shotted off n you that is
not in perfect taste.
Ooeetf * Items.
rR.WN ARRIVALS:
.i>lNf< NORTH 12:05p. til.
“ “ 6: 30 p. in
* use south 9: 45 a. in.
Prof. 11. B. Carmichael was in town
Saturday.
Prof. 11. M. Fletchei, of Barnesville,
was at home Sunday.
Monday was almost as cold as any day
wu had during the w nter.
Harrold Higgins went over to his room
on Sunday evening last to change his
miud.
Overcoats were in demand on Sunday
last, and those who had pawned theirs
for a straw hat were decidedly in favor
of going south.
Miss Jessie Freeman, who lias been
Visiting the family of Mr. John Smith
for some months, returned to her home
at Cresweli last week.
Miss Ernie Stafford, of Grantville, Ga.,
is visiting the family of Mr. Sherrod
Pope. Miss S afford is a y<ung lady of
high educational abilities, and Jackson
gladly welcomes her in our midst.
Can't, we place a town clock on the
court house? We mentioned this some
days ago, and i< is the proper thing for
Jackson. Work up the movement and
let's have one.
Dr. Hawthorne, one of the world’s
greatest preachers, will be in Jackson
next Friday night week. Remember the
date, April Gth.
Mrs. R. L. Daughtry has a letter from
Dr. Hawthorne saying he will lecture
here, f r the benefit of the Ladies Aid
Society, April Gth.
I 2" WiNE OF CAROUI, a Tonic lor Women.
Who are to be the candidates for the
legislature this year? They should an
nounce and let the people commence
preferring charges agiinst them.
This ye >r promises to he a lioi one from
political standpoint. There are four
announcements for tax receiver in this
issue, and they haven’t hardly got
started good yet.
We have heard the name of Dr. Ellis
mentioned as a suitable man to re re
sent Butts county in the next legislature.
How is it Doc?
The dove hunters are sloratiug birds
by the hundreds. The farm of Mr. Pitts
Newton, near Jackson, is the grounds
upon which they roam.
Mrs. Thomas Shelton, nee Miss Eunice
Carmichael, spent a few days in Jackson
last week.
Gutlnie has embarked in the fruit tree
business. He’s quit fishing.
Whenever one man tries to rule or ruin
there is generally an uprising, and a bad
man most invariably, sooner or later
finds his match .
Miss Alma Peek, a beautiful and ac
coinplished young lady of Locust Grove,
is yisi ing her sister Mrs. W. C. Bryant,
on Indian Spring street.
It looked so much like rain Sunday we
would not yeuture out iu our m-w suit.
But you may keep your eye ou us next
Easter.
Mr. W. E. Harp is fixing him up a
bake oven, and will furnish delicious
bread to the hungry multitudes this
summer.
The. oldest inhabitants say the trees
began budding sooner this year than ever
before.
Our Junior will ride the goat next
Monday light harder than Providence
Rhode Island. See the point? YVe’ll
feel it!
We have not been in the dressmaking
business very long, but if every young
lady, wh > visited Mrs. Paul's last week,
bad anew dress fixed up, we are confi
dent the merchants will have to lay in
anew supply before the season closes.
Our Junior and A. F. Whitney made
preparations to attend the “Lilies’ Re
ception’’ in a “buzzard-wing” coat, but
the “buz” failed to materialize in time,
so they will pick blackberries in it this
summer.
The merchants have adjusted their
differences with the city council, and
are now doing business at the same old
stand. We knew it would be amicably
settled, all the while,
Miss T .m.e F >rd, a charming young
lady of M icon, Ga., spent a few days in
Jacksou this week the guest of friends.
A crowd of young ladies aud Mr. J. B.
Guthrie went fishing out to Duke’s p-md
on Saturday evening last. Guthrie did
not try the seiu he used when he fell iu
the pond before, because the ladies were
along and he couldn’t find a place to
empty the fish out.
If your business is not worth advertis
ing, advertise i; for sale aud try some
thing better and more profitable.
The New York Store is selling fancy
straw m utiug at 10 cents a yard instead
of 20 cents as stated iu our last issue, j
These people will treat you right, and as
they have a great quantity on baud they
will make a special drive iu fancy straw
matting at 10 cents for the next few
days Others may charge 20 cents for
same goods—you know where to get it
cheapest.
Leave your orders for fresh
bread and cakes wbh Mr. Harp,
rear of Crum’s store, his oven is
now in operation.
There was a large crowd out to all the
churches on Sunday last to hear the
E aster services, aud they were well ie
paid.
Fishiug parties are now the order of
the day among our young people.
Several distinguished persons have
asked us why Bob Etheridge had such
a move on him last Friday night.
I
Star
The Great Sensation of the hay is the
GRAND 4 MILLINERY ► OPENING
At The STAR STORE will he
Wednesday, Thursday k Friday, April 4,5 &6.
/ \
By attending this grand, dazzling array of beauty
you can feast your eyes to their content on things
long to be remembered.
Miss Covington, assisted by Misses Fannie Pope
and Lilly Hightower, will take great pleasure in
showing you all the new things.
All are Cordially Invited.
The Star Store, Jackson Mercantile Company, Proprietors.
Ask Colonel MeKibb an if deer have
gauls.
Messrs. Gage and of Griffiu,
were in Jackson on Friday last.
Mr. R. L. Drughtry spent Monday of
this week in Atlanta on business.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla strengthens weak
nerves, helps digestion, and vitalizes tho
blood.
What’s the uss of going to Macon and
Atlanta for a wife, when Jackson has
the prettiest assortment of any town in
the state?
Marshal H difiold captured a “darg”
on Friday last, and pounded him. It
was an inuocent looking “darg"’ but Mat
stayed at the other end of the rope, and
eytd him suspitiously.
Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers
does its work thoroughly, coloring a un
iform brown or black, which, when dry,
will neither rub, wash off, nor soil linen.
In our last issue we had Mr. F. W.
Gilmore announced for tax collector, and
it should have appeared tax receiyer, as
this is the office to whioh lie aspires, and
his friends will govern themselves ac
cordingly.
There is noreas >n why children should
he allowed to suffer from loathsome scrof
ulous sores and glandular swellings when
such a pleasant, effective and economi
cal medicine as Ayer’s Sarsaparilla may
be procured of the nearest druggist. Be
sure you get Ayer's,
Two young people of Jackson —a male
and female—embarked in a buggy on
Suuday afternoon, and went out hunting
Easter eggs. Sunday was a very cold
day to look for Easter eggs—but they re
turned abou 6 o’clock in the evening,
and they botu looked very ‘-warmish.”
Prof. Cornwell delivered an inspiring
sermon at the Baptist church on Sunday
night last. He is totally blind and his
sermon was a masterpiece. He surpris
ed his hearers by the eloquence of his
words, and those who were so fortunate
as to hear him, hope to a ain be permit
ted to hear such another sermon from
the learned gentleman.
For 'he last ten and tys the lead
ing topic of conversation among
the ladies has been the ‘‘Lilies’
Reception;” nowit’s the .Grand
Millinery Opening at the Star
btore, which will begin Wednes
day, Thursday, and Friday—
April 4,5, and 6.
-
The services at the Methodist church
on Suuday last were beautiful and ap
propriate. Kev. Mr. Bell preached an
excellent sermou to a large and attentive
congregation, and his words will bring
f Tth good fruit. The church was beau
tifully decorated for the occasion, and
everything was in perfect keeping with
, the sermou. Mr. Bell is a geutleman of
ta*e ited mind aud wide experience, and
is thoroughly conversant and well read in
scripture. The Methodist denomina
tion is proud of him as a pastor, and
Jaeksou holds him in the highest esteem
i as a citizen.
fffff
It is ever a pleasure for us to boom our
manufactories —especially when they be
lieve in advertising. Sumo time since
Mr. Gage, manager of the Singer Ma
chine Cos., at Griffin, solicited bids for
building him a buggy, and after trying
Barnesville, Griffin, and carriage build
ers of prominence in several other cities,
he gave the order to the Jackson Carri
age Factory, and says we have the best
carriage factory in Georgia.
Our sheriffs captured Amos Roberts,
the negro who escaped by jumping
through a car window while being car
ried to the brick yards some few week*
ago. He is a desperate criminal and
was captured on Sam Mays’ place, oue
day last week. Sheriff Austin, of New
ton county, came over on Sunday and
conducted him back to Newton county.
He is aso wanted here on a charge of
burglary.
We will have a grand opening at the
augus office on Tuesday of next rveek,
to see our new office towel. We placed
a handle in the old one and are now us
ing it for a grindstone. R ‘served seats
10c. The proceeds will be devoted to
charity—which consists of the editors.
This is no fake, we realy have anew
towel.
Why don’t some of our capitalists build
up the north side of the square? Why?
If someone don’t build it up pretty soon
the argus edito s will have to take it in
charge and place a few houses ou this
vacant space—they’d be frog houses
though!
Miss Sallie Bell has accepted a position
with the New Y rk Store, aud is now
connected with the millinery depart
ment of that firm. Miss Bell will prove
a most valuable acquisition to their large
eorpsof e-erks, and her many friends
are invited to call and see her in this de
partment.
Mr. R. L. Daughtry says that our
country is in a good condition. When
he was in the East he says the poorer
classes there were idle and begging. The
rich fed them through actual fear. If
they should refuse to feed them for just
twenty four hours, there would be a riot.
The rich feed them in self defense.
What an awful condition for free Amer
ica. We become more and more fixed
in our position every day that the laws
should be shaped to protect the poor,
and the rich could easily take care of
themselves.
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Jackson Banking Company on the
24th inst., the resigiuation of Mr. W. S.
Witham as president, was read and ac
cepted, aud Mr. F. S. Etheridge was
elected president to fill the vacancy.
The active management of the bank has
really been conducted by Mr. Etheridge
ever since its organization 6 years ago.
He acted in the capacity of vice presi
dent, and the success of the bank aud
its enviable reputation for solidity aud
character, is due largely to his business
prudence and sagacity. We congratu
late the bauk on its past success and
predict for it a large degree of usefulness
and success that it has heretofore en
! joyed.
Store.
The cotron of Butts county is nearly
all marketed. Only a few scattering bales
remain upon the premises to mark the
season’s production.
It didn’t do a thing but freeie water
in a locomotive boiler with 25 pounds of
steam on Monday night.
If you do not receive your paper regu
larly please report to this office, and we
will do all within our power to rectify
the error. We intend to give our sub
scribers a good and interesting paper,
and we desire that they receive it regu
larly.
Of all cranks that ever cranked, de
liver us from the political crank —espec-
ially an administration crank.
If you desire to dispose of your stock
of spring goods, advertise them in the
Argus; but if you want to keep them
over for another season, we advise you
not to advertise them in this paper.
Jackson has more sweet and loyable
girls than any town of its size in Amer
ica.
How to get rid of crab grass on your
farm—move off and leave it!
Webb Fletcher says that he killed two
squirrels at one shot one day recently—
one was running along the ground and
the other was up a tree. Webb is a good
shot, and rabbits drop dead as soon as
they get a glimpse of him and his gun.
Mr. E. G. Gilmore’s little white pony
is still breaking hearts.
Why can’t Jackson get a telephone
line to Atlanta? One can be put up for
SI,OOO, and we know a man who will
erect it at that price.
Mr. W. E. Harp gave us a sample of his
loaf bread, baked under the new process
and to say that ic would tempt the pal
ate of an invalid is putting the quality of
the bread below what it realy is. Try
a loaf and be convinced of its superior
quality.
Leave your orders with Harp’s bakery
when you want good bread and cakes.
Mr. C rnwell, the blind man, will
preach again at the Baptist church on
Thursday night, 29th inst. Those who
heard him Sundry night 6ay he is not
blind mentally. You are invited to hear
him.
The oollege boys debated the question
recently as to who should he nominated
for goyernor. The Atkinson boys gained
the victory. The boys of the Jackson
Institute know a thing or two, if they
are only school fellows.
The fruit of this section was killed
deader than Hector ou Sunday night last,
b-u-t it may be all right. Yes, of course,
it is, ‘‘what is, is right.” For this is
locust year aud we would haye been
“pizened” eating the eggs on the
peaches. Besides J. W. Benson got to
eat some eggs that “friz” which would
otherwise have gone to the Star Store.
B-u-t Obe Hendrick’s corn was all killed.
Great Easter.
All the latest styles in Jewelry
iat Danes.