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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, l a»l. GRAM) - FALL - OPENING! K- V WHEATLEY & ANSL Monday next and Special Prices of Two Days. We are glad to announce to our friends and patrons, and the public generally, that we are now ready for the season’s trade, and on Monday next we will com mence to show the grandest line of fine dress goods and general dry goods ever shown by any house in this part of the state. As we make a specialty of fine dress goods and general dry goods, and by spend*ng several weeks every season in the eastern markets, we are better pre pared to show you what you want, and make you lower prices than you can ob tain from merchants who carry a little handful of all sorts. Wo say unhesitatingly that in this season’s purchases we have eclipsed all our previous efforts. In order to inau gurate the season that is in keeping with our stock, we will have a SPECIAL PRICE sale for Monday and Tuesday next. We do this because wo are anxious for everybody in this section to seo our stock and in order to get them to give us a call, will make it to their interest by giving special prices for this opening of the season. DRESS GOODS Being the most important article to al most every woman in the country, we begin on that by quoting a fow of our many offerings: SUITS. $1.80—One lot splendid wool tricot suits worth $2 75. $1.08—Five hundred suits Henrietta cloths worth $3.00. $2,25—One hundred beautiful striped and plaid wool suits worth $3.50 $2 40—One hundred all wool suits, plains and stripes, worth $5.50. $5.50—Five hundred suits Henrietta cloths in about fifty different colors, richly worth $5.00. 15c yd.—1000 yds. colored cashmere. 18c yd.—1000 yds. colored cashmere, WHEATLEY & ANSLEY. 25c yd.- worth 25c. -1000 yd.. Henrietta cloths,worth 35c world over. 20c yd.—Ono lot fancy plaid and striped wooIcnB worth 40c. 39c yd.—50 pieces extra quality Henri ettas worth 50c. 40c yd.—The finest all wool Henriettas ever shown in Americus for less than (15c. FINE WOOLENS. Bedford Cords are having quite a run this season in the way of new thiugs and we have here one of the largest lines of colors in the State They are very stylish and handsome and already proving that they are not to be passed. We will make special prices on these goods for this sale. Fancy Dress Goods. 75c yd.—The choicest line of Henrietta cloths ever shown the trade here. 08c yd.—Forty pieces of our magnificent silk finish wool Henriettas, If yds. wide and worth $1.25 anywhere. 08c yd.—The finest line of wool surah serges we have ever carried— measure full 40 in. Novelties in Dress Goods Were never offered to better advantage than wo are now placing before the trade There are too many and it would take too much space to particularize and do them justice, and the only thing wo can say is that they are here in tho greatest variety and choicest styles it has ever been our good fortune to own. To see them is to buy. Prices lower than ever.beforo English Worsteds. Are hero again this season, and our past expeeienco has shown us they are onb of the greatest fabrics ever manufactured for this climate. We have them in large plaids and small plaids; large stripes and small stripes and tho most catchy styles to be found. WHEATLEY & ANSLEY. Our house has never befoae shown sucli an extensive line of plaids, stripes and hundreds of new things different from anything we have ever carried be fore. Our lino of plain striped, and plaid lauies’ cloths is very large and the styles excellent. $1.39 for 46 incli silk warps worth $1.75. 95c for beautiful Biarritz cords. $1.00 for beautiful Biarritz cords for merly $1.25. 75c for the largest line of fancy stripes and fancy weaves we have ever shown. 49c for black satin stripe Henrietta worth 00c. 05c for beautiful serges worth 85c. There are too many kinds and styles to quote. If you want a black dress don’t fail to see us before you buy it. Heavy v7oolens. Flannel suitings, plain Tricots, plaid and striped woolens are here in im mense variety. These goods we are sell ing thousands of, and when you put your money in them yongei good value every time. BLACK GOODS Never has the trade here seen such an immense stock. Our stock of these goods alone will amount to more than a great many Self Styled first-class houses carry (in dollars and cents) in their en tire dress goods department, black and colored. For this sale read the follow ing: 244c yd. for beautiful black Henriettas worth 55c. 39c yd. for goods formerly 50c. 49c yds. for goods formerly 00c. 02$c yd. for the handsomest Henrietta ever shown here, and worth 75c. 75c for our90c quality. 85c for our $1 quality. 98c for onr $1.25 quality. $1.00 for magnificent silk warps. WHEATLEY & ANSLEY. 175c—One lot mosquetnlre undressed kids, worth the world over SI. SI.00 for the choicest line of Foster’s FLANNELS. We carry the choicest white flannels to bo found in the country. Our qual itics at 25c, 50c, 35c and up to 50 and 75c per yard, cannot be matched in | Americus. You wNl find this line of; our goods (likeeverything else in our house) different from other houses’ goods. n We are showing a veyy choice line of fine French Flannels In exclusive designs. Our line of Embroidered Flannels in white and colors is excellent. Very close prices on these goods and it will pay you to examine them. lacing gloves in the United States. $1.10 for our Alphonse Mosquetalre un dressed, $1.25 quality, all colors. $1.25—Eight button Biarritz, in tans, slates, browns and blacks. « $1.25 for choicest 4-button and Foster’s, hook, undressed kids in this counttry. , $1.50 for the Taunton Swede 8-button mosquetaire worth $2.00. $1.90 for the San Kemo Swede 8-button mosquetaire worth $2.50. $1.50 for the world-renowned Ceuteraeri. HOSIERY. BLANKETS. Though a little pervious, we just want If to say they are here in great variety and at correct prices. KID GLOVES., This stock is bjr far /ahead of any liST glove stock Americus h«W ever shown. We are exclusive v ageuts for the world- renowned P. Centeitfferi & Co , Ranniger Bros., Trefousse and Mathers lacing gloves. Remember no other house in Amer icus can sell you apy of these above makes, as we are exclusive agents. We will offer for Monday the follow-1 ing: 0 I 69c—One lot beantiful undressed and . -dresseef kids, 4 button length, excellent colorings. We have secured the exclusive agency of Lord & Taylor’s eelebraied Onyx Dye Fast Black Hosiery. These goods stand without a peer on tde American continent. In addition we have numerous other brands guaran teed in every respect. For Monday we will offer 1000 pairs Onyx Fast Black Hose, wortli 50c for 25c pair. 500 pairs Children’s derby ribbed hose worth 25c, at 15c per pair, sizes 0 to 84. 500 pairs Misses’ and Children’s hose, at 25c, worth 40c. Hosiery of every description and qual ity in stock. Handkerchiefs. Headquarters we have been for yj^rs Linen Table Damask Are here In abundrnce and you onl. have to glance through to see you - suited from a damask at 35c yd. UJ handsome set at *15.00. We will some exceptional values in these good, TOWELS. 500 doz. Towels slaughtered. One lot elegant linen hacks at worth 15c. 15c—For this next week, ono lot towel: worth 25c. 25c each for 1000 towels worth almost double. Odd Lot Bargains 85c for a most excellent counterp worth $1. 99c for our extra large $1.25 spread. $1 50 for a handsome $2.00 spread. 25c each for lot elegant ladies’ under- vests worth 50c. 124c yd. for 1000 yds. printed cotton cashmeres. 45|q yd. for 1000 yds. dress calicoes. 7$c yd. for 1000 yds of 10c dress hams. 10<*yd. for 1000 yds. of I2£c dress png- liams. 75c each for our dollar C. B. corset. 25c each for 100 pocket books worth 50c. in this line. We are better fixed ever to show our superiority in styles, qualities and price. We are showing tho choicest line of embroideried handkerchiefs at 25c that we have ever carried. In embroidered goods we commence a*. 10c and go as high as $1.50 Thousands of handkerchiefs at from 40c doz upwards. We have just completed our second floor and are now ready to show finest lines of lace, silk, and Chenille. Curtains from the cheapest scrims curtains as high as $19.00 pair. We .are also showing a very fine line of trunks of every description, and few days will finish opening up handsomest lino of wraps we have ever handled. Wf cordially Invite everyone to call and see us. WHEATLEYH ANSLEY. WHEATLEY & ANSLEY: WHEATLEY & ANSLEY. WHEATLEY & ANSLEY. A GLIMPSE THROUGH THEIR MAM MOTH DRY GOODS EMPORIUM. The Largest Establishment of Its Kind In Southweit Georgia—A House that Han dle* Only the Be*t and Freshest Stock— You Get Your Money's Worth There. And what were you doing down In town so long this morning pray ? Oh! I have just come from looking at Wheat- ley Sc Ansley’s beautiful fashion em porium, corner Jackson and Forsyth streets. They have just fitted it up elegantly within and enlarged their space, and yet they arc cramped for room to display advantageously their magnificent stock. Goods are packed from tloor to ceiling, under the counters^ and in a corner not three feet equare there are $500 or $1,000 worth of goods that are never seen by the averago customer. Mr. Charles Ansley, the junior mem ber of the firm spent three weeks in the northern markets, and the beautiful and servicable stock selected, stamps him a genuine merchant of genius. That he knows how to buy one 1ms only to look at what Wheatley A Ansley have. Goods bought judiciously, means cheap goods for the customer. Tlielr dress goods department is re plete with every novelty, and they are not going to charge, as is usual for the novelty, but only bottom prices for the best goods that can be bought anywhere. No lady in Americus, nor in tho sur rounding country, need go elsowhere to buy a novelty robe of the latest design and color, for Wheatley Sc Ansley have everything, from a 10 cent wool to $50 combination suit. Mr. S. P. Stanfield is in charge of this department. He is an artist, and if you give him timo he can drape the exquisite folds of wool and silk to fashionable perfection. He knows his business, and liis talents are only excelled by bis uniform courtesy to all customers. There must be at least 300 novelty suits in bis department, and the beauty is that no two are alibe in design or col or. These rich novelties in plain and fancy weaves are new and exclusive styles—same identical suits that Lord Sc Taylor and other New York princely de signers display in their gorgeous show windows. They comprise new designs broideries, tinsels, braids, cords, fur, silk, plush and velvet figures, beauti fully combined with plain colors to mitcli in Bedford cords, plisse, cordu- rettes, cheviots, cote line, serges and di agonals. Prices range as follows: $10.00, $12.00, $14.00, $19.00, $24.00 and $20.00 per dress. Then they have everything in gray of the latest shade and pattern. No 1 idy considers her wardrobe now complete without a gray suit. Many exquisite soft plaids and ladies’ broadcloths, all in light weights and most serviceable col ors, specially adapted to tho southern climate. In fact, there is everything in black goods of the finest texture. And colored dress goods, consisting of striped 8oliol, French armures, English mohair, crepo cloth, black cheviots, fancy weaves of Bedford cords, and storm serge, and flannels of every de scription, ranging in price from 15c. to $1.00 per yard. They are making a special run on the finest French Henriettas, one yard and a quarter wide, of every conceivable slmdo, at tho low prico of $1.00 per yard. Goods never sold in this market before for loss than $1.25 and $1 50. Their silk department is a kalcdio- scopo of beauty, ami in the stock is every imaginable shade and textures tine and rare. Tho old reliable failles never grow* unfashionable. They carry a largo stock of black silks of all the latest weaves in peau do sole armures, luxors and surahs, ranging in price from 89 cents to $5.00 per yard. A specialty is made of parti-colored silks, and to be fashionable a young lady must purchase her fall dress from Wheatley Sc Ansley The notion department is in charge of Mr John J. Hardy, long known to the trade of Americus as one of the clever est and best equipped men in his line. He will show you the most complete lino of novelties ever brought to this market, embracing laces, ties of every shade, feather and nail heads passamon- taries; tho very latest trimming out. Everything new in ladie’s neckwear, special lot of silk fedoras, and chiffons by tho yard. Ribbons too numerous to mention. Gloves and handkerchiefs Wheatley Sc Ansley make a specialty of. They have the agency of the Centemeri and Mather’s lacing gloves, and have carefully selected ail tho new shades of tan and gray to match their dross goods. In handkerchiefs they can’t be under sold. They are headquarters for the finest and largest display in handker chiefs, in plain, hemstitched and em broidered designs. They will offer on Monday, September 21, a job lot of em broidered handkerchiefs for the low price of 25 ceuts each, worth any other day 50 cents in hosiery they claim every tiling. They are the exclusive agents for Lord Sc Taylor’s celebrated Onyx dye, fast black ard stainless hosiery, which for reliability is without a parallel on the American continent. On Monday next. 1,000 pair of these matchless hose will be sold.for 25 cents per pair, never be fore sold for less than 50 cents. These are only a few bargains on the notion counter. There will be hundreds of other*|for the early customers. Mr. G. L. Williams is the accommo dating clerk in the white goods, linen and upholstery department. Here .will bo found the finest white embroideries for personal adornment, lovely curtains in lace, scrims and chenille importations, tapostry, table covers, lace bed spreads, Nottingham lace curtains and tidies of every description, table linen, towels and a complete lino of house furnishing materials. Mr, Kirby Jones is the all around man of the establishment, but if he has any specialty it is in the domestic, bleaching and heavy goods department, embracing tho sale of calico’s, percale’s, cham- bre’s outings, heavy cotton goods, etc. Whiatley A Ansley carry an im mense stock in trade suitable for fann ers, and do a large business w ith tho planters of Sumter and ad jolting coun ties. Mr. J. W. C. Horne handles the trunks and leather goods, and Wheatley Sc Ans ley are never undersold when it comes to traveling bags aud trunks. Their button, thread and braid coun ter is a little store in itself so many things in those hundreds of boxes too numerous to mention. In corsets they supply the trade They sell tho old re- Attentlon Y’oung Democrats! A meeting of the Young Men’s Demo cratic Club, of Sumter county, is called for Saturday the ll^h at 10 o’clock a. ra. in the county court room at the court house. Business of importance will come up, and every democratic voter of Sumter county is urged to be present. If you are not a member come and have your name enrolled. Wellhorn F. Ci.arke, W. K. Wheatley, President, Secretary. VAN WINKLE GIN AND MACHINERY CD ATLANTA, GA., and DALLAS, TEX. WHISKEY is often used as medicine, iu which case the purity of the article is of the great est importance. I. W. Harper is a Ken tucky distiller of national reputation. The product of his distillery is shipped direct to the retail trade; it passes through no middleman’s bands to bo mixed, colored and watered. Consum ers therefore have tho assurance that I. W. Harper’s whiskey is sold iu its abso lute purity by his agents. McMATH BlUfs.. Americus, Ga. You want a pension for damage to your eyesight, do you ?” “Yes, sir; I strained my eyes trying to liable C. B. and Thompson glove litting HC0 a battle from a 8afe distance.”- and many other makes. It goes without saying you can get anything you call foi in the dry goods lino at Wheatley Sc Ansley’s. The largo upper story is filled with cases of the finest blaukefs, and those too of medium grades. The upholstery department is up-stairs, ami is the most complete thing of the kind in Southwest Georgia. Tiie cloak department shows up beau tifully, and makes one wish for cold weather, just to get on oue of those stylish wraps. They will make a spe cial run on cloaks and wraps tho first cool day. So call early and get the pick This magnificent and large establish ment is under the management of Mr. Charles Ansley He is the buyer and gives his personal attention to every de tail of the business. And no man better understands the dry goods business in Georgia than Mr. Ansley. Mr. Thornton Wheatley is generally arouud and gives the benefit of his long experience in bus iness, which counts for a great deal. The Buffalo Express. Business Men, from close application and too little ex ercise, are especially liable to constipa tion—clogging up nature’s great sewers —producing headache, billiousness, sluggish circulation and general de rangement of the vital organs. A regu lar movement of the bowels is indispen sable to perfect health; to neglect is to imperil! If constipated, Pim-ce’s Pleas ant Pellets will cure you. !*> interfer ence with business. Very modest ex pense. Mild in action, yet powerful in cleansing, regulating the stomach, liver, and bowels, curing constipation, head ache and kindred ailments. Teacher—Has the north pole been reached yet? Munro Beadel—Yes, ma’am. Teacher—By whom, pray? Munro Beadel—Bv “North Pole Pete, or the Esquimaux Friend.”—Puck. The use of calomel for derangements is the largest j}nd wealthiest in of the liver lias ruined many a fine con- Southwest tieorgia. Quick sales and | gtitntlon. Those who, for slfoilar trou- small profits is the secret of their suc cess. 1 l'mim* l> •leu* ii, wiiosc wondrous skill cry liuman Hi— as victor, ‘•taints >>|M)uiul of hi» Iwitnls." So npiik*» a man, with tribuie cr wni’d, or Ur. Pierce, tin- ••v*ori»l-ren wiled,” Wln>-e ••Me.llcal I) -coveey” Hat! vanquished pain a ml *-;t him free. Ono can hut speak in praise of a remedy so effectual and unfailing as Dr. Hlcrce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Acting promptly and thoroughly, it pro duces permanent cures, Consumption, in its early stages, scrofula, liver and kid ney disorders, ami all blood diseases, are within the field of its unbounded suc cess. bles, have tried Ayer’s Piltife testify to their efficacy in tlmroughly* remedying the malady, without injury^ the sys tem. manufacturers or Cotton Gins, Feeders, Condensers and Prosses. COTTCN-SZED OIL MILLS, ICE MACHINERY, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, IVIND-MILLS, TANKS, PUMPS, ETC, De Loach Mill Manufacturing Co MANUFACTURERS OF THE DeLOAGH SAWMILLS, GRIST MILLS WATER WHEELS. ATLANTA, s s s geokgia ]une3-wiyeM E AND SCHOOL OP SHORT-HAND. - . |TU llCCESSFUL BUSINESS COLLEGE IN THE| SOUTit - — - colour s, Practical Elegant Catalogue Free. Cotton Ginning. Chambliss Bros., are prepared to do your ginning on short notice at tho old Mitchell mill near Central depot septl8-w2t. W — •Stranger—How are the crops? Farmer—Not wot they ought to bo. Too much rain. Stranger—Hem! The owner of the farm next to yours complains of not enough rain. Farmer—Well, he’s got a durn sight bigger farm than 1 have.—New York Weekly. ills. Scripture—The Rev. *fr. Glim mer hides his light under a bushel, I think. * Miss Vinny Garrish—How wasteful! A pint would more than hide it.—Puck. Veni, Vhli, Viei! This is true of Hall’s Hair Rcnewer, for it is the great con queror of gray or faded hair, making it look the same even color of youth. \ou.cannot be too particular about the medicines Mu use. When you need a blood purifiCT, be sure to get Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and no other. It will min gle with, purify, und vitalize every drop of blood iu your body. It makes the weak strong. Taken Up. fort?, smooth or.| rt* n'.hmit >p In white hicx an.l ■trawl*., cut e I for within thirty eil an.l Mjlit t.t ,tey exp* nxen same hy pa. in g ail expet' If Mils u. II. i.ni*i Married- On Tuesday afternoon, at the reliJ< of tho bride's mother, 11 miles city, Mr. J. H. Mlcrs and Miss 1.0“ ^ Williams were joined In the I'.olv wodlock, Rev. W. L. Cults «ffl cia Mr. Mlers is ouo of Sumter count? ccssful young farmers, while Mb* . Williams Is a popular and accoror young lady. &AKIH 11 POWDER Absolutely Pur®* A cream or tartar baking T’H of all in leavening strength'" 1 ' 4 I — - “ ' Report- States Government Food junol5 dAwlyr