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An even tenm.'rature always maintained, if it should
take a half hour to hake or cook some delicacy, the
Pulaski will do it just right, and on time.
150 in use in this County.
TRICES $25.00, $27.50. $30.00 TO $35.00.
Quality one. Inference in price due to size of oven,
and if with reservoir.
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To Our Patrons!
Dear Sir or Madam:— * ■ -
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that have not. ap
preciate your business and
want more of the same but
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—pay up—and we will take
care of you and your family
when sickness comes.
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■ With every Royal Tailor garment, made to your
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unbounded satisfaction with your suit or over-coat
or the privilege of refusing it without paying one
penny.
Dykes A. Brown, Cochran, Georgia.
Dublin Banker Sends
Bullet through Brain
Dublin, < «a.. Sept. 2<». —This
morning a few minutes after 1 u’-
eloek, Thomas J. I’ritcliutt shot and
killed himself ai* his home on the
corner of Belleview avenue and Cal
houn street.
The hall from a dS-calihre Smith
it \\ esson pistol entered his right
tcmpU ranged downward and lodged
under the skin on the left side of
the right eye.
No one was present when the
shot was tired. He was lying in
’ied with the bed clothing pulled
over his body. The pistol was
gripped in his right hand. A ragged
hole in his right temple showed
that the hall had plowed through
his brain and that death was almost
instanta..eotis.
Mrs. Pritchett did not know that
there was a pistol on the place and
thought that the explosion was an
electric light globe. She found the
room occupied by her husband full
of smoke and realized at once that
he had shot himself. Ih r daughter
came as a result of her screams and
then the neighbors. ■ *
Mr. Pritchett had been in wretched
health for some years. He was )rn■
bed for the |>ast week suffering' from
asthma and excessive nervousness.
The latter has been his chief trou
ble for some months past, causing
him to retire from active business
life and all of his time to the
effort ofijiursing hack his health.
He one <>f the wealthiest eiti
zenV* i tfJfhe city, and up to just a
few weeks ago was president of one
of the local hanks, and of the (ieor
gia Warehouse and Compress, Ow
ing to had health he retired from
(he firm of Pritchett vV Hooks seve
ral years ago.
Mr. Pritchett was a native of
North Carolina and for a number of
years was engaged in the turpentine j
business in Montgomery county.
When lie retired from that business
fifteen or twenty years ago he moved
to Dublin, and since that time has
been engaged in (tanking and other
business in this citv. He owned
considerable Itank shirk, city and
county real estate, and other prop
erty, and his life was insured for a-
IxNit SHUOdd.
He is survived by his wife who was
formerly Miss Willie Mel.eod, of
Montgomery county, by two daugh
ters arid tax* sons, one being an in
fant.
Messrs.. William Pritchett, of this
city, (toorge K. Pritchett, of Jatllie
a.nd .Henry .IC. Pritchett, of Jackson
ville., J-'la.., .aire his brothers, Throe,
•sisters, M rs. Harry Waters,of,lack-:
sonwille, M.iss Hattie Pritchett, .and!
Mrs. N. II . Quince, of Wilmington,
X, (’., also survive him.
The remains of Mr. Pritchett >rall
lie interred in .Vert I Mew ccineiery,
this city, .tomorrow morning. Ser
vices will la; conducted by Rev.
John M,Outle.r, pastoiW .the Dublin
Methodist church,.ofwiki*eh Mr..iPrit
ehott was a member.
Mr. Pritchett was about 54 ..years
of age.
Gay nor Not Can
didate for Governor
| ‘‘‘‘•■St. James, Sept end «t 2(», 3!5)3<).
'Dear Mr.. (’neeiand.: lam this day
’writing it, letter to (Okeiirtnan J)ix
staitihig that I am nett si candidate
fur nomination for governor and re
fuse to become suck. Ido this to
remove all doubt oui the sulrju-t
which may have .arisen by reason
I.of iirr<*spon«i!l4e statements which I
am informed are be Ling circulated,
No utterance <of mine has put the
matter in doubt..
‘■‘Some haw* ssid t© me that t'h*
convention may nominate me, al
though lam nut a emwlidatc, It
seems to me that it might appear
vain or egotistical for me to assume
in my letter to Mr. I)ix that that,
extraordinary thing might happen.
I therefore write this supplementary
letter to you to take to Rochester
and show it there to prevent my
nomination if it should appear im
minent.
“Make it plain that if nominat
ed, I would decline to accept. 1
could not abandon to their fate the
splendid men whom 1 luive appoint-.
Day is Charged
with Killing Scott.
Cordele (in., Sept. 2<i —An inquest
was held at the court house in Cor
dele Sunday over the Imdy of Judge
J. R. Scott, who was Saturday af-J
teruoon shot and ins antly killed on'
his plantation nine miles east of'
Con’ele by Iliilery Day, a tenant'
outlie place. The verdict of the 1
jury. was murder. The testimony l
of only three witnesses, Dr. T. J.
McArthur, who examined the body;
John Stephens, a passerby who
hoard the shots fired, the place l>o
:ng in a scope of woods a distance
of about dud yards from the public
roa 1 and from the home of Day,
and who was the lirst to arrives at
the scene of the killing, and .1 J.
Warren, deputy sheriff, who testi
fied that Day stated to him that he
had killed Scott in seif defence, was
all that was taken.
The cause of the tragedy grow out
of a dispute between Scott and Day
relative to a division of the crop
which Mr. Day as tenant produce!
Jon halves, hast week Judge Scott
: secured airlnjunetion against Day
j restraining him from disposing of
i'se crop until all advances had boon
Vai I';..
j Judge Scott was a pioneer citi
zen of Cordele and toik an active
] interest in all pufflfapiestioiis. He
was twice mayor of Cordele. He
was a delegate to the constitutional
convention of IS, 7 and took a lead
ing part in the deliberations of the
convention. lie was 7.! years of
age and served as a soldier in the
Confederate army under (tenoral
Lee in Virginia. He is survived by
a wife, four daughters, and three
sons. Mrs. F. b. liartliolomcw,
being in Michigan City, lmh; Mrs.
10. A. Vinson and Miss hueile Scott
Cordele and Mr. Dunlop Scott of
Arlington; Joseph Scott, llawkins
ville, and ’l'. T. Scott of Sycamore,
and a host of warm friends who
deeply deplore the tragedy.
.Jlillery Day was a .man of about
•10 years of age and has a wife and
seven children, three of whom are
married. He has resided in Dooly
and Crisp counties all his life where
lit* has held the reputation of being
a peaceful and quiet, man.
The remains of Judge Scott were
interred in Sunuyside cemetery to
day at 4 o’clock.
Glory of Chavez’s
Trans-Alpine Feat
Dimmed by Death.
Domodotffcwla, Italy, Sept. 27. Geo.
( 'have/., itihe Peruvian aviator, who:
achieved t(Bu- glory of being the first
man to fk over the Alps in an aero
pituic,Hun'S in a hospital here at 2:
:>() o’dWidk this afternoon of injuries
whieh Ik received when his Belriot
liioiuifiliims* crashed to tflue earth
with iiiirm here last Friday., just alf
tcr lie’hast completer! w halt was icon-;
sidorHl .-as the most perilous pairt of
the jownsey.
Ilis femeee, who hafi ilranried
hore'irvim Paris to act asilffis nurse,
was itt 'his bedside when he diiisl.
Ohsnwa was so badly lent by Iris
full 'that hope for his mastery was
given up yesterday. Hotih his legs
wore broken and lie suffoied from
internal injuries.
In hope of saving his (life, Dr,
Boazolo, a, noted surgeon an id phys
ician was rushed here Irwin Turin
for consultations.
'Cliaviz/iv death came .close npontlhe
heels of an announcement from the
contest committee of the Italian
aoronawttk'society that it Iliad de
cided te> give the aviator 812,500 of
the 82ft/fJUO prize which had heem
offered iter a successful flight from
Biiigue -tswritzerhui'id to Milam, Italy.
The(OMunmittue .also voted'to give
Chavez;a special medal.
An aiiilli-gorieal tablet will be
erected lagroii tire spot where Cltavez
mot his death.
ed to office, and who are working so
hard for good government, nor
could f abandon the people of the
city of New York after so short a
service. You may make this letter
public in advance of going to Roch
ester if, in your judgement, you
think the situation calls for it. But
do not do so unless it lie plainly
necessary. Every honest man will
understand me.
“Sincerely yours,
bH- “\V. J. Gaynou.”
We are Better Prepared
To fill your orders for
BEEF AND PORK!
than ever before. CJWe
keep a fresh supply of
beef on hand at all times.
PORK AND FISH
Thursday’s Friday’s and
Saturday’s. <JPhone 288.
W. M. Wynne & Son.
'■Rnoxville, tenn.
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