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THE LINE COMPLETE.
When you tvaut a good suit of clothes go to W. O. TIFT’S
Greatest BARGAIN Days
Ever Known in Tifton.
Friday and Saturday,
April 12th and 13th.
Dry Goods.
It is our aim to show to the people
ot this section, on the above dates,
the Largest, Cheapest and best lino
of ,Standard Goods ever shown in
Southwest Georgia, Our line con
sists of all the latest novelties', all new
goods—no Fire, Auction or Bank
rupt Stock.
four choice of any calico in stock,
all solid colors, and guaranteed, 4J.
Calicos, medium, HI cents. .
Ginghams, from 4 to 15 cents.
Checks, HI cents.
Checks, extra heavy, 41 cents.
Sheeting, 8-4 for 84 cents.
-Sheeting, 7 8 for 8j cents.
Sheeting, 4-4 for 04 cents.
Bleaching, standard, 8f cents.
Bleaching, Fruit of the Loom, Sets
Percales, all solid colors, Sets.
] awn -pla n and fancy 4c.
Worsted dress goods, double width
-per yard, 15 cents.
Coats thread, per spool, lets.
Thread, Six-cord, 2 spools, Sets.
The largest and cheapest line of
Laces and Embroideries, let. per
yard and up.
Ilandkerehiets, full size, 4ets.
Men’s hose, hlack solid colors, lie.
Men’s hose, fancy, 4 cents.
Ladies hose, fancy, 4 cents.
Ladies hose, black solid colors, 4c.
Full line of hosiery in Tans, Blacks
and Fancies.
Ball thread, IS balls for lOcts.
Buttons, Sc. par gross and up.
Cassimero, per yard, 18e.ts.
Full line of corsets from 28c. up.
Ladies undervests, 4 cents.
See our line of shirt waists.
Needles, 4 papers S cents.
Fins, 4 papers for 5 cents.
Examine our line of
FANCY DRESS GOODS.
Jeans pants, warranted not to rip,
OH cents.
Cottonade, 49 cents.
Heavy cotton pants, OH cents.
Wo have left a few heavy suits
and pants that go at half price.
Our ¥4.50 pants, only $2.25.
Our 3.50 pants, only 1.75.
Our 2.00 pants, only 1.00.
Our 1.50 pants, only .75.
Our 1.00 pants, only .50.
Clothing.
Our line of Qlothing, ($4,000)
the largest in town, everything new
and fresh, direct from the manufac
turers. Compare our goods and pri
ces and we will guarantee to under
sell any house in town.
Cutaway suits, all wool, $4.75
Our *3 suits, all wool, for 1.50
Our $4 sack suits all wool, 8.08
Our 85.25 sack suits, cheviot, 4.88
Our 87.00 sack suits, cheviot, 5.75
Boys suits, 5 to 14 years, 1.00
Boys suits, all wool, 1.08
Jeans pants warranted not to rip,
50 cents.
Jeans pants, warranted not to rip,
88 cents.
Shoes.
“ Grain shoes, solid, 78c.
“ Glove Grain shoes, solid, 78c
“ Dongola shoes, solid, 88e.
“ Dongola elastic shoes, $1,25
“ Old Ladies Comforts, 88c.
“ Don join < Ixford, pat. tip, 78c.
“ Dongola Oxford,pat. tip, 88c.
Our $2.00 Ladies shoe, $1.75.
Our 1,00 Ladies shoe, .80.
Examine our line before buying
as wo can save you money.
To appreciate our line of shoes wo
request you come and look for your
self.
Men’s brogans, all solid, 88 cents.
“ plow shoes, all solid, $1.13.
ace shoes, 88 cents,
ace and congress, 88 cents.
“ calf shoes, *1.20,
Our $1.50 shoes, only $1.25
Our 1.06 shoos, only 1.25
Our 2.00 shoes, only 1,40
Our 2.60 shoes, only 2.00
Our 1.85 narrow toe, 1.43
We are making a specialty in men
and ladies One shoes in Tans, I’atent
Leather and Calf.
Ladies Oxford patent tip, 44c.
Hardware-
Look at these prices:
Nails, large sixes, 501bs. $1.00
Nails, small and medium sizes, lOlbs
$1.00.
Dixie stocks, extra points, $1.06.
■Scooter stocks, 70e.
Flow lines,rope, 10c., 3 for 25c.
Tacks, 1(1 papers, 6c.
Brass padlocks, 18c,
Knives, 4c. to $2.00.
Full lines of stoves:
No. 7, complete, with ware, $7.00,
No. 8, complete with ware, $8.50.
Water buckets, Bio.
Quart pails, 4c.
Quart dippers, 4c.
Screws, 08c. gross and up.
Axle grease, 0 for 25c.
Tumblers, 14c. set.
Full line of Farm
Implements.
HEADQUARTERS
—FOB— .
Standard Goods,
EVERYTHING
New, Fresh
and Guaranteed.
Groceries.
Tobacco, worth 40c., only 25c.
Coffee 10c.
Sardines, 04e., (1 for 25c.
Tomatoes, (Tifton Brand), 08c.
l’eiul, « “ 08c.
Beans, “ “ 08c.
Oysters, lib, (3c.
« 21b, 10c.
Negligee Shirts, Laundried, 48c.
White Shrts, laundried, 45c.
Hose, from 4c. up.
Linen collars, 4-ply, ,09c.
Full line of Neckwear, 5c. and up.
Sdspcndcrs, 08c.
Undershirts, 28c,
Overshirts, 23c.
Our heavy Underwear wc are selling
at cost,
Jast opened our line or Spring
Hals. It will pay yon to see
them.
A Full and Complete
line of Trunks.
W. 0. TIF T
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SECOND STREET,
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
W. 0. TIFT.
BITS OF LOCAL GOSSIP.
| Personal and Impersonal Matters in
. the City and Vicinity.
Easter Sunday is April 14th this
year.
Miss Katie Tift visited friends in
Albany lust week.
Tift & Snow Co.. are“hero to stay”
—mid to win.
February was a month of cold, and
ice and snow, and March one of ruins
and floods.
Tifton is to have a city directory
published. It is to be completed in
about two wee as.
Call on H. A. Yonmaus for first-
class turnouts. He keeps the best in
the city.
Cupt. and Mrs. If. II. Tift visited
Albany last Friday and Saturday, ac
companied by H. H. Tift, Jr.
The people around Tifton are
1 showing their good sense by planting
large peach orchards. — Douglas
Breeze.
If you want nice bread use lmpe-.
rial Baking Powder, from T. M.
Greene & Sons’.
An apron and bonnet party will be
1 given at the Tifton Institute to-night
for the benefit of the new Baptist
church.
There will be Episcopal seryiceB at
the Methodist church next Sunday
morning, 11 o’clock, by Rev. F. B.
Ticknor.
Gaskins’, Tifton, is the place to bny
the best goods at rock-bottom figures.
In the Masonic building.
Rev. Father Hennessy, of Bruns
wick, was in the city last Saturday,
visiting the family of Col. F. G.
Boatright.
The Gazf.tte regrets to say that
J)r. J. O. Goodman isstill quite feeble
from his recent illness, although he
is convalescent
, Snow Go., can sell you fruit
* and cheaper than any
desofbere.
IF s
, of the eastern
id through
Tifton last Saturday on route to
Thomusville, where he will probably
take a business course in Stanley’s
Business College.
Mr. J. K. Carswell is having bis
residence painted; also his fencing
und outbuildings whitewashed, which
adds very much to their appearance.
II. A. Yeomans cun fit you up a
team at any' hour—day or night.
Don’t forget this fact.
The whitewash man is wielding his
brush on the fencing about Hotel
Sadie. A liberal UBe of the white
wash brush is never a losing invest
ment. .
Next week is to be one to self de
nial and work on the part of the
Baptists of Tifton, to honor God in
raising money to complete the new
church.
Try the high grade Imperial Bak
ing Powder. None better. At T. M.
Greene »fc Sons.
The city tax books arc now open,
and you can walk up to the city
clerk’s office, in the Faulk building,
and give in your city property for
taxation.
Honeysuckles, violets and other
wild flowers are blooming rapidly
now under the iuftence of the. bright
spring sun, and Ailing the air with
their fragrance.
If you want standard goods at. the
lowest cash prices, call on Gaskins’
in the Masonic building.
Mr. C. R. Hicks, representing J.
H. Zeilin & Co., proprietors of the
genuine Simmons’ Liver Regulator,
was in the city yesterday hustling up
business for hts firm.
Hon. John R. McCrunie, Berrien
county’s efficient Tax Assessor, will
be in Tiftor. on Tuesday, April 9th,
on hia first rottud receiving tax re
turns for the year I8!>5.
Be not deceived by unreliable agents
Tift & Snow Co., can do betosr for
yoti than any other firm
Mrs. T. M< Greene, of Tifton, had.
A painful and dangerous operation
performed on her face on Monday of
last week by the removal of a large
by Dr. N. Peterson, of Tifton, assist
ed by Dr. VV. IV. Bacon, of Albany.
She is recovering slowly.
The Sunday-schools at New River
church and Pine Level school house
were re-organized last Sunday. At
the former there wert thirty-five pu
pils, the latter about forty. '
Go and see the carloads of hurguins
being opened at I’adrick Bros.
Mr. C. C. S. Baldridge has gone
to Pittsburg to chaperone another
party of Pennsylvania home-seekers
to Tifton. They are expected here
the latter part of next week.
Mr. W, E. Greene, of Sparks,pass
ed through Tifton lust Saturday en-
rotite to the home of Mr. W. F. Ford,
in Worth count)', where his fumily
had proceeded him a week previous.
Tift & Snow Co., have grown the
very varieties that is suited to your
wants and your climate.
Prof. J. II. O’Quin, Principal of
the Pierce County High School,
Bluckshear, Ga., spent a day or two
in the city the past week. He made
a pleasant cull at this office on Satur
day.
Miss Maggie Burton returned to
her home in Albuny last Monday after
a visit of two weeks to friends in Tif
ton and Sparks. Her many friends
at these two places are always glad to
sec her.
To walk a mile in twelve nunntes
is easily accomplished if you wear the
Waukenphast shoe, sold at Pudrick
Bros.’
Thb 'IJfton Methodists buve leased
the J. N. Brown cottage on Love ave
nue, until they cun build a parsonage,
and their pastor, Rev. W. F. Hixon,
will move from Alupuliu to Tifton in
a few days.
On Sunday afternoon, April 7th,
a mass meeting of yonng people will
be held tn the Methodist church to
be addressed by Rev.J, B. Gambrell,
D. 1)., president of Mercer Univer
sity. All are invited.
. Patronize the. merchant* who are
constantly looking after the interests
of their customers. It k an acknowl
The oieratwu r as performed j ed^ed fact that pmlnt'k Bros, have
been the means of drawing trade to
Tifton that would have gone else
where. Why? They curry a large
assortment of goods and sell cheaper
than any house in South Georgia.
A complete program for the cere
mony incident to the laying of the
corner stone of the new Baptist
church will appear in the ladies’
memorial edition of the Gazette,
Don’t fail to secure a copy: price,
ten cents.
Masters J. E. Sitiealh and L. K.
Calhoun have gone to Bluckshear to
enter school. They are bright young
men and will take a high stuud in
the institution—Pierce County High
School—of which they have become
pupils.
Missus, if dat bread uint do finest
in de land. 8 bo, J’se gwine to buy
some dat Imperial Baking Powder
myself ftorn Mr. Greene’s. ,
Mr. George Smith and wife, of
Sbunesvtlle, Ohio, who spent the win
ter of 1893-4 in Tifton are here
aguin, having spent a portion of the
winter of 1894-5 in Florida. He
came here from Florida about three
weeks ago und says Unit. Tifton will
bo his winter home in future.
The city street force having already
opened up Fifth street, is now en
gaged in grading it, und the work be
ing done is substantial and makes u
pieusing appearance. Citizens of the
“Heights” were entitled to have the
street opened and we are glad the city
council have gratified their wishes.
Don’t make your purchases of
general merchandise until you call at
OaskinB’ and examine his goods und
prices. In Masonic building.
Messrs P. II. Askew und Thomas
McDowell, two bright young wen
from Worth county who took their
first conrsc of lectures at the AtfgusU
Medical College this winter, returned
tn their homes lust weeek. The lat
ter paid tills office u short visit cn
route. The former lives at Ty 'l’y,
the lutter at Isabella.
Ex-Governor Win, J. Nurtbc-n,
with a party of Indiana gentlemen
who have formed themselves into a
syndicate to purchase a large body of
land for the purpose of locating a
colony of Indmnu farmers, were in
the city yesterday and took a drive
into the country to ace the fruit
farms. They returned northward
last night.
Tifton barely escaped another con
flagration last Friday morning. Fire
was discovered in the Tift gin house
among some seed cotton, but by
prompt work the building was saved.
Til# loss was only a few pounds of
the cotton. It was evidently an ef
fort, of a llre-hug u> destroy the build
iug, as some charred lightwood splin
ters were found in the pile of cotton.
The Htone Buying,
The ceremonies incident to the
laying of corner stones is not a nov
elty altogether in Tifton. The cor
ner stone of Tifton Institute was
laid with elaborate Masonic ceremo
ny nearly four years ago.
Thu stone laying to occur on Mon
day, April 8th, will not be attended
with so much eclat, Inti will be very
impressive. It is ho])cd everyone
who attends wi'l be prepared to lay
an offering, great or small, upon the
stone.
The addresses will be delivered by
ller. Dr. J. B. Gambrell, Macon,
president of Mercer, University, liev.
Dr. E. F. Golden, of Cutbbert,
and others. Rev. Drs. Lansing Bur
rows, of Augusta, I. C. Nichenor
and J. G. Gibson, of Atlanta, and
Dr. P. F. Crawford, of Albany, are
also expected to be present and take
part in the ceremony. A great
crowd of Baptist people, on their
way to the State convention jt Way-
cross, will dost titles* be here to wit
ness the ceremony.
It will lie a great day in the his
tory of Tifton T
A severe rheumatic pain in the left
shoulder had troubled Mi .1. It. boner,a
wull known druggist of Dos Moines,Iowa
for over six months. At times the pain
was so severe that he could not lift any
thing. With ail lie could do be could not
get rid of it until ho applied CImmberUin'a
T’aln Halm. "I only made three applica
tions of It," hcsaya,"And have since been
free from all pain.” Be now recom
mends it to persons slmllalv afflicted. It
i-. for sate by Tifton (true Store,
whom they apply will tarn them
away ctnpty-hanued
Woman's Edition.
The Gazette office has been ten
dered the Baptist, women of Tifton
and their friends to issue a imnnofiiil
edition of the paper on Monday,
April 8th, in connection with tho
laying of the corner stone of the new
ch n roll.
They Imye accepted the offer and
hone by the dint of courage, energy
and perseverance, coupled with the
aid of a kind-hearted and liberal
public, to earn a neat sum of money
to lay as tin offering upon the corner
stone that day to help complete tho
building.
They Imvo already organized for
tlm tusk before them, and good wotk
is being done. It is hoped no one to
ill tn
ed. The various
iureresu of Tifton and this section
will he written up in till attractive
manner, and the paper made of real
commercial value.
airs. G. II. Podrick was chosen
editor-in-chief, with Mcsdames B. T.
Cole and W. T. Hargrett us assistants.
Mesduntes W. N. Cole and J. IV.
Greene will have charge of the local
and society columns. Besides these,
special articles will lie contributed
by other talented ladies whose names
do not appear on tlie list of members
of the staff.
The woman’s edition will tie en
tirely independent of the regular is
sue of the Gazette—winch will up-
pear a* usual on Friday —hut will be
the same size, and made up of new
mattei throughout, including adver>
tisements.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy gives the
lies) satisfaction of any cough medicine 1
handle, and as a seller leads all other
preparations in this market. I recom
mend it because It is the betl medicine I
over hadled for coughs, colds and croup.
A. W. BAt.iminoF., MiUemllle, Ilk
Uiioklcn’s Armim Salve.
The Best Halve-in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,Chilblains
Corns and oil Shin Eruptions, an-'
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M
lively cures Vilas, or ua pay.
is gusran'.ed to give perfec,
or money refunded. Vrice
box. Sold at J. 4. (lolden’s
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