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29 TH YEAH AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1907. Odds and Ends In addition to my regular 25 per cent discount. Clothing Sale I have sixty-five Suits assorted patterns ranging in price from $12.50 to $8.50 that I have placed on a sep- 7 arate counter and will close them out at the low price ot $.5.00 PER SOIT. If you want a bargain here it is. W. D. BAILEY. Outfitter for Men and Boys. Forsyth St. and Cotton Ave. Americus. Ga. NEW, FRESH Our Drugs Are New. . Our Service is Right. tip because we idesenO REM BERT’S DRUG STORE , ii3;forsyth;st. HALF MILLION IN AMERICUS July Clearance Handsome Figures Represent Investments and Im provements Here. Clothing Sale AMERICUS NEVER SO PROSPEROUS AS AT PRESENT Investments in Public Utilities and Public Improvements Contemplated! Within a Year Will Reach Half Million Mark. .. .. X / Five hundred thousand dollar., a. The inve.tment of two hundred round half million, represehts, approx-1 thousand dollar* by the Amerlcui lmateiy the good amount which is now Hallway A Light Company will prove being invested, and to be invested, in a wonderful stimulus. This U, to Americus within the year, in improve* Reduced Prices. ments and public utilities, including street improvements. other cltyiof her class in the South even contemplates investments upon anything like such scale. • But Americus is the best city of her size in the South, better, even, than many larger ones, and she means to keep growing and expanding in wealth and general prosperity. And the investment of sn additional half million will help her. Durlog'the past three or four years no other city kes made such an ad vancement, In a material way. Evi dence of this assertion is had in the hundreds of new buildings, great and small, erected here, and in the im provement of her miles of streets. Upon every business street and resi dence thoroughfare evidences of such progress are visible. Hut while much has beqn done, Americus will .bend her effort* to still greater accomplishments. 8be is re covering from -past calamities forced upon her, and is getting ready to grow. y m cTa. boning wrooTk toui of Suits Formerly yiso,ooo right there. Suits Formerly These are public institutions only, Suits Formerly and do not include the hundreds of Suits Formerly thousands of dollars put in new stores and residences here recently. What other Georgia city is doing as much? 20.00 now 14.50 17.50 now 12.50 15.00 now 9.75 12.50 nowj 7.95 PROWS AND ANTIS TALKED Men’s Odd Trousers. We first want to impress upon you the fact that w are Sole Agents in Americus for the sale of the World Famous , ^ # . . Paragon Trousers, the finest line trousers produced in Ameri- jefore the Joint Tempersnce Committees in Mooting lea. The stock contains the sweiiest and most up-to-date pat- YeSterday. * terns, the tailoring is the perfection of the tailors skill, the fit is absolutely the best it is possible to buUd. COVINGTON SAYS BILl IS NOW A GERTAINTYlMen's Odd Trousers Formerly $12.50 now .V S8 ., S Men’s Odd Trousers Formerly Anti Lobbying BUI Passed Third Reading-Nine New Senate Bills and Twen- Men ’ s odd Trousers Formerly ly-One House Bills Mood Yesterday. !”“•* odd tIoSS Fomoriy Atlanta, Ga., July 10, (Special).— Like mighty hosts in battle array large delegations representing the prohibi tion and anti-prohibition elements of the State lined up in the Capitol today. It was the culmination of a long drawn-out battle. The Temperance committees of both Senate and Honsu were In joint session, and heard argument from the opposing j An earlv vote is expected, and Repre- ^ 8 ° dd Z™WetS Formerly senutive Covington, author of the bill, Men 8 ° dd Trousers Formerly 10.00 now 7.50 7.50 now 5.75 6.50 now 4.5# 5.00 now 3.5# 4.00 now 2.75 3.00 now 1.95 declares that It will pass. Nine new bills were introduced in | the Senate aud 21 In the House. Upon consolidation of the vote for I United States Senator today, Senator | A. O. Bacon briefly addressed the As sembly, expressing bis thanks. Seventy Confederate veterans have Chas. L. Ansley elements. I applied for the five positions ot capltol | Hours wore thus consumed, the anti-1 guards to be awarded, prohibition delegations pointing oat! a 9 v - Smith announced today that he | Successor to WHEATLEY & ANSLEY. (See Ad on Fourth Page.) how a Mate law would disastrously affect the business interesta of cities and the State at large. The prohibition forces argued the case ably from theirstandpointas well. cannot, for two weeks at least, consider contests for Judgeships and soilcitor- ahips, of which there ia quite a number | on file. A Square Deal !• assured you when you buy Dr. Pierce’s family medicines—for all the Ingrcdl INCREASE IN CENTRAL'S EARNINGS. of A bill was introduced in the house for ent* entering Into them are printed on a hospital for consumptives. MEDICOS MEET IN AMERICUS Physicians of Third Congressional District Assemble! Here on 17th. tho bottle-wrappers and their formulas are attested under oath as being complcto and correct. You know just what you arc paying for and that the Ingredients nro gathered from Nature’s laboratory, being selected from the mutt valuable native medicinal roots found growing in our American forestrmdjvhile potent to cure are perffitHr hanntaQvento the must delicate womfqjijJThlldWn^ Not a dro Gross Earnings Show Gain $814,400 for Year. i ms agent possesses properties of Its own. ilc antiseptic and anti- . being a most valuable antiseptic and antl- Americua^wlll call in the doctor next bo controlled by the State body, al-| cen?. 0 " 1 ’ nutrltlve an ' J ?oolhln 3 demul- week, not that she is ailing and needs j though the membership is Included in him professionally, bat rather that he! bo,h ’ Amorlcu * Phelan* are pre- Ulyccrlne play* an Important part In Dr. 1’lerce * Golden Medical Discovery in the cure of Indigestion, dyspepsia and li a jolly good fellow and she wants him—a hundred of him—ss her honor ed guest, and they have already agreed to come. From the fifteen counties of the paring for the convention, which will I 'v p ->k stomach, attended by sour risings, bo held -m Wedne-d-v new* Mnn ,„j I heart-burn, foul oreath, coated tongue, ne held an Wednesday next, condud. poo, apatite, gasping feeling In stem- —.. -*— sch, biliousness and kindred derange ments of tho stomach, liver und liowels. Ilesides curing all the above distressing ailments, the"(,olden Medical Discovery " lng its work in one day. A banquet will be given the visitors on Wednesday evening. The official program is now in pi Third Congressional district the med- and will be announced ahortly. The ITS VALUE IN SICKNESS icos will gather in Americus. The proposition is to effect 'organiza tion of the physicians of the Third dis trict, and at the meeting of the State Medical Society in Savannah In May the doctors of the district were- In vited here to form a separate body. The proposed organization will not business seaaion will be held at the city hall, and It la expected that between fifty and one hundred doctors from the fifteen counties of the Third district will attend. A permanent organisation will be ef fected and qflloere elected at the con vention hero next Wednesday. Has been tried and proved, In the home It Is not safe to be without IL SHAW’S MALT. For sale by • • ; Leading Dealers, membranes, as catarrh, whether of the nasal passages or of the stomach, bowels or iieivlc organs! Even In Vta ulcerative —• - - - I yield to this soveroIgnTem- ‘ iChn stage* it wl.., I oly if Its uso bo persevered In. in Chronic Catarrh of the Nasal pa-sages. It Is. well, while taking tho "Golden Medical Dis covery ’ for the necessary constitutional treatment, to rlcansc the passages fro. ly two or three times a day with Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. This thorough course of treatment generally cures tho worst CAMS* an< i hoarseness caused by bron chial. throat and luiur affection* except con- HplJP it* adttneed stauea, tho "UolOea ’.is a most efficient nau- those obstinate, hang-on by irritation and congestion ot no*membranes. Tito''Pis’* good fur acuto coughs arls- rolds, nor must ft be ex- nsumptlon In Its 1 * a will do that—t nlc roughs, wl ja-.i-t], lead ud i medicine that An increase of $814,400 in gross oarn- lngs was made by the Central of Geor gia for tho fiscal year ending June 30,' 1807, as compared with the previous year. The gross earnings Jhr tho year just closed were $11,210,300 and for ' the year before $10,39(1,100, Bat not withstanding this splendid gaip for gross earnings, the net earnings will show a loss of nearly half a millioc dollars, This la dne to the grea'ijt coat of iabo/, steel and equipment. The gross'earnings for tho month of Juno were $9(3,700, last year $840,200, an lpcrease of 64,300. Though tho not earnings have fallen off thoro will be a sufficient surplus to pay interest on three classes of income bonds, this Interest amounting to 750,000. Wheth er the directors will doclde,to pro\ Me for the payment of tho third Income bonds remains for the August mectinr. to determine. - ^ & m in GROP PROSPECT VERY FLATTEN Sumter Will Raise asMuch'CotJi last tor. If the season remains thirty dajrs more, ther* will be a r crop of cotton In this count; • have not i than they aro at t H We have made big inroads in our clothing stock recently great extent, foreign capital seeking! profitable investment, and Americas is but we want to impress upon you the very important fact that °°The*Inyeator* I1 are “shrewd Lines. We haVe tod ** ° ne ° f the ,ar S est ’ ° ne of best in all men, who know a good town. They south Georgia. The goods are new, they are well made, they This $200,000 will soon be pat in an are perfect fitticg, they are the kind of Clothes that you wil electric street railway and immenso find pleasure in wearing. In addition to the suits we want to power plant. The railway will develop I m suburban property and prove other-1 remind you that we have the finest made# finest fitting Linen ^^^r , ^^ erebu «M“ A “ erica - ™eyare the theperfectionofthe light by progressive citizens. tailors art. Splendid lines of Alpaca and Sicilian coatfi, The power plant otherwise will aid I „ ' , , . . . . , , wonderfully in -promoting the estab-1 Serge coats, Linen suits, white and fancy vests, etc, etc* Uahment of manufacturing plants. I In addition to this investment, thoro I Suits Formerly $30.00 DOW $21.50 isi the new poitofflce building which [Suits Formerly 27,50 now 19,75 win co«t$i«o,oooi tne agricultural coi-Suits Formerly 25.00 now 1775 lege $59,000. new public lebool build- c,,;*- •»>» ca ,,‘, c ing $25,000; atreet paving $50,000; the “ Ults Formerly 22.50 now ...;. 16.75