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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1908. Duncan’s Store. Last Days Of the Greatest Silk Opportunities Southern Georgia. Special Announcement: By In Request: On account of so many people having been disappointed in not being able to secure some of the 49c silks, we have arranged with the manu facturers to supply us with 700 yards more and will continue the sale Monday, March 2nd. We believe the entire 700 yards will be sold in two days, so we advise you to come at once. There is no longer any question about the fact that rough silks are going to be the most popular silk fabrics of the season. • Here is a new lot of “RAJAHS” in every staple color, 27 inches wide and sold by the best stores at $1. While this lot lasts we will sell them at per yard 49c. TALES OF THE TOWN TOLD IN FEW LINES Pencil Stubs Poked Up At Random. More aspirants joined the candidate al host yesterday, and a grand total of twenty three are now upon the track, with others to come. Not a few of "the boys from out yonder” went home last night with sore hands as the result of pressure upon the part of the candidate. Supt. Collum-of the Agricultural school, reports fine progress there and Increased attendance. The en rollment now reaches beyond 120. A real start Is going to be made now upon that electric plant. To the woods with all ye Doubting Thomas es; ye of little faith. The fact that Amerlcus Is to be made the terminal for the night Cen tral train from Atlanta will help without hurting others. The turning of the first spadeful of dirt in the building of tho electric railway wll add 10 per cent to the value of all Amerlcus realty. Col. Littleton Is rapidly recovering from bis recent wrestle with pneu monia, and will soon be able to fore cast the blackberry crop of 1908,' Highland Butchers Linen 13 l-2c Yd A new lot of Highland Butchers linen, this fabric Is not all linen but it Is one of the best Imitations you ■ner saw. white and all colors. Reg ularly sold for 25c; here for Monday and Tuesday at per yard 13 1-2c. More Fruit and Lonsdale Bleaching at 8 3-4c. We will place on sale another caso of Fruit of Loom and Lonsdale bleach ing at 8 n-fc yd. No telephone nor mail orders filled. Not more than 10 yards to one buyer at the price for Monday and Tuesday at per yard 8 o-4c. $2.50 to $3 Lace Curtains $ 1.38 Pr. I Monday morning March 2nd, wo will' place on sale an odd lot of lace cur tains for less than cost to manufac ture, some of the lots have only two pairs of a kind; others have r.s many as four pairs of one kind. All are 3 1-2 yards long and some ar ■ about two yards wide. You may take youf pick of this lot here Monday and Tuesday at per pair $1.38 18 X 36 Huckaback Towels at 98c Dozen. One case genuine huckaback tow els. size 18 x 36 Inches; plain and colored. The grade that has been price, regularly 50c. Here for Mon day and Tuesday, per doz 98c. 36 inch Unen Lawn at 25c. Linen lawn thirty six inches wide, very sheer; not more than ten yards will be sold to one buyer at the Price regularly 60c. Here for Mon day and Tuesday at per yard .. 26c. 45 Inch Waist Nets<at 49c. Monday morning. March 2nd, we will place on sale a lot of 45-inch waist nets at 49c yard. Every piece measures 45 Inches wide, full stock of white and colors for Monday o:.d Tuesday at per yard 49c. Boy’s Suits at $1.25. Last week we sold about on.) half of the lot of sample suits, there Is still a full run of sizes and some of the best suits that were In the lot are still here, If they were reg.dar stock clothes you could not get them for less than $3 per suit, but to close these samples with a rush we have made the price for all sizes from 0 to 16 years at per suit $1.25 90 Inch Linen Sheeting at 98c. A fine smooth grade of all linen sheeting measuring full 90 Inches wide; and a quality never before known to sell for less than $1.25; priced for Monday and Tuesday's sell ing only at per yard .. .... ..98c. Ladies $20 to $30' Tailored Suits Women's $20 to $30.00 suits of fine broadcloths and high class mixtures, they are worth from $20 to $30, too, and now you may take your pick of the lot Monday and Tuesday, suit $12.50 Men's fancy Vests at $1.25. $2.00 to $3.50 Fancy Waistcoats of mercerized cotton; also white wash able vests. All on sale here Monday and Tuesday at each $1.25 The office of coroner seems to be a dead Issue. Is It possible that Sum ter must get along without this grand functionary? Candidates are becoming a little gun shy, and the daily bag Is grow ing smaller. But there Is yet room at the top for others. Where, oil where are our states men, who fain would save the coun try In ‘‘the legislater” Is this honor to go begging In Sumter? FACE ABOUT AND UP FOR COTTON VALUES Transactions for Local Market on Basis I i I-4c. After a depression extending over several days, the cotton market rai led Wednesday,net gains of 7 to 15 po ints was made. Reports from the new crop were not so roseate, and this af fected the entire list. At the time of the opening of the American mar kets, Liverpool was very weak, but the English market firmed up ma terially In the last hour, the new crop positions showing an advance over the day before. Southern spot hold ers were unyielding as a general pro position. Theodore Price was out with a bullish statement regarding the next crop, and this put ginger in to the market In the afternoon. New York opened 1 to 6 points down, October showing the smallest loss. Values soon steadied, however, and at 11 o'clock were 2 to 3 points above the close for Tuesday. The ad vance was general until near the close, when the weight of realizing reduced prices a few points. The last figures were 14 to 16 points net higher for the day. Spots were mark ed up 10 points. New Orleans open ed 5 to 9 points off, but Immediately began to Improve. The close was practically at the high point, except for March, which ran off several points, 7 to 16 points above the last for Tuesday. Spot quotations were unchanged. Liverpool opened 1-2 to 3 points down and worked, lower. At the early afternoon call the losses were 3 to i points. In the iate session a decided improvement took place, the closing being 1 to 3 points below the HAMILTO There are now twenty-seven an nounced candidates In the race in Sumter. The few voters that ere left have not been counted. ARE EAGER TO RETURN TO HOMES IN GEORGIA Negroes of California Are Homesick. 50.000 Envelopes 25 for Ic. More Ginghams at 9 3-4c. For Monday and Tuesday we will Another lot of dreBS ginghams in 8e ** thousand envelopes. A full Over fifty new designs; full regular package of twenty-five for 1c; not more than five packages to one cus tomer at the price. Please remem ber the price Is for Monday and Tuesday only, per package .. .. lc. width and fast colors. Regularly sold for 12 ]-2c and 16c. Here for Mon day arul Tuesday at per yard.. 9 3-4c. Regular 50c Lingerie Cloth at 29c Lingerie cloth, thirty six inches wide; very sheer; If It Is worth n ° Pnt it is as good 50c value as we have over seen offered In Amerlcus. The price r or this lot we havb on hond here Monday and Tuesday at P p r yard t> >t 29c. Children’s Handkerchiefs Ic. Monday morning we will place on sale a lot of ope hundred dozen child ren’s full size handkerchiefs for lc. They are the grade that usually sell from 3c to 5c. Here for Monday and Tuesday at each lc. $1.25 Black Taffetta at 98c Yd. An excellent black silk for dresses and petticoats 36 Inches and every yard guaranteed. Please remember the price Is for Monday and Tuesday only, here at per yard 98c. Men’s Searfs at 24c. Twenty dozen men's four-in-hand ties of rich heavy silks, made In the new styles; full regular length. Reg ularly sold for 50c. Here for Mon day and Tuesday at each .. .. 24c. Men’s $1.00 Shirts at 50c. Every one In this offering is either worth tr dollar or one fifty. They are mostly In stiff bosoms. All standard makes such as International, Monarch brands. Jos. Fowler & Paris Dress shirts almost a complete run of sizes. This whole lot is made of $1 and $1.50 shirts; not one in the lot that was made to be sold for less than $1.00. Here for Monday and Tuesday at each 50c. A SAVING OF $100 TO $150 ON A FINE PIANO. Only $5 to be paid down the piano will be delivered at your home> the balance in small weekly payments of $1.50 Every Ricca & Sons Piano built to last a lifetime. No better piano’s are manufactured, and each at its price cannot be watched elsewhere for tone, action, artistic design or quality of material ysed in its construction. No Interest, No Insurance, No extras whatever, just $5 down and $1.50 per week, that’s all. DUNCAN MERCANTILE CO. 115and 117Forsyth St. JohnR.Shaw’s Old Stand. Amerlcus negroes who, a few months ago sold all their property and effects here, and went to Cali fornia, beguiled there by roseate stor ies of lazy life and dollars growing upon trees, are thoroughly penitent, and are writing pathetic letters to friends here at home. Amid strange surroundings, hun dreds of them unable to obtain em ployment of any kind, the cost of liv ing absorbing the few dollars they do make, their, condition Is pitiable. And, without an exception they wish themselves back In Amerlcus, Several weeks ago the Times-Re- corder published a statement of con ditions out there os made by N. U Lamar, who wrote to a white friend here for the price of a return ticket, Lamar has written again, and his sec ond letter Is stronger than the first. He says California is no place for a Georgia negro. He Is barred by the large foreign element there tpom getting employment, and the few who have succeeded In getting work have to spend the proceeds for living and cannot save one dollar.; Thousands of Georgia negroes, he says, will leave there in the spring If they can get the money to come home. He says he was a fool to be wil fully deceived into going there, and freely admits his mistake In leaving Americas, where he had a good job and had accumulated property. Lamar asks that his letter be pub lished In full as a warning to other negroes here who may think of go ing to California, but Its great length forbids. It Is a pathetic appeal to his race not to make the great mis take which he and others made. He still owns a small house 01 two here, and declares he will have it sold for enough money to pay his tare back to Georgia, If he cannot get the money otherwise. But he will get It, as the gentleman appeal ed to has sent him a ticket already. Lamar Is an Industrious, hard-work ing shoe maker, and bis words of warning should be heeded by other negroes here who already are plan ning to make the same sad mistake of going next week to California. BODY Of LITTLE ONE GOMES TO AMERIGUS Thomas Merritt Boone, the infant eon of Mr. and Mrs. T. Harrold Boone and aged seven months, died yester day afternoon at their home 16 Ma con. The little body will be brought by the bereaved parents to Amerlcus today for Interment In Oakgrove Cem etery, the funeral being Ijeld at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon from Calvary Episcopal church. Friends of the family are Invited to attend. Mr. Bryan admits that he has no ear for music, but he does not go so far os to claim that ho doesn't enjoy hearing some one sing his praises.— Washington Post. Lamar Street, Opposite Windsor Hotel Special Sale of NEW SPRING WAISTS *************** New all-over net waist made over sood silk. Comes in white and Ecrue. Worth $7-50; sale Monday ..$5.50 White Taffeta Silk Waist worth $5 00. Monday sale $3.50 *************** White Silk Waist worth $4.00. Monday sale $2.98 *************** White Silk Waist worth $3.50. Monday sale $2.50 * * * * * * * ******** EXTRA SPECIALS Peperal 10-4 Sheeting, worth 35c. Monday .. ..28c yd. *************** close for the day before for the old . .Fruit of the Loom Blceching; positions, but 2 to 6 points up for Monday 10c yd. the new crop. The market is due 6 points up this morning. , Spot prices were reduced 8 points, the sales be ing 8,000 bales. Some activity was noted In the bet- grades, sales being made on a basis of 11 3-4 cents for good mid dling. The demand at this price, though moderate was In excess of the offerings, which were very limited. Quotations are advanced 1-8 of a cent from Tuesday. THE QUOTATIONS IN AMERICUS Cotton Market as Reported Daily by L. G. Council. , Americas, Ga., Feb. 20.—We qnote the local cotton markot dull, as fol lows: Today Y'st'day Good Middling........ lit l>i Middling 10i 10| Low Middling 7| 7} HEW YORK FUTURES. New York, Feb. 28.—Spots:Mlddling at 11.48 Futures closed steady- Open Close March 10.22 10.48 May 10.41 10.60 July 10.27 10.47 Oct 0.90 10.06 SAVANNAH. Savannah, Ga. Feb. 26. — Spots middling 111 cents, NEW ORLEANS, New Orleans, La. Feb, 26.—Close steady. Spots middling, 111 cents. LIVERPOOL. Liverpool, Feb. 56.—The cotton mar ket dosed steady. Spota: Mid dling nplande 5.96 WILLIAMS’ KIDNtY PILLS Have yon neglected yonr Kidneys Have yon overworked yonr nervous system and caused tronble With your kldneye and bladder? Have yon pains in loins, side, back, groins and blad der? Have yon a flabby appoarance of the face, especially under the eyes? Toofrequent adoilro to pass urine? If so, WUllams, Kidney Pills will enre yon,—at Drnggtst Price 50c. OWilliamt' MTgCo. Props., Cleve land, O. Sold by W. A. Remokrt. CHANGE Of SGHEDULE ' GENERAL OF GEORGIA *************** A. C. A. Feather Ticking; Monday 15c yard. *************** $5.00 Moquette Velvet Rugs Monday .. $2.98. *************** 40-inch Sea Island. worth 10c; Monday 6c yd. *************** Hamilton, Sells It For Less. Between Americus and Col umbus Feb. 27. Train No. 5, dally, will leave Am ericus at 3 p. m„ and arrive Colum bus at 5:30 p. m. Train No. 6, dally, will leave Col umbus at 9 a. m„ and arrive Amerl- cue at 11:30 a. m. Train No. 19, except Sunday, will arrive Columbus at 11:55 a. m., In stead of 11:68 a. m. Train No. 20, except Sunday, will leave Columbus at 2:20 p. m., and arrive Americus at 7 p. m. For further Information apply to J. E. Hightower, Ticket Agent, Am erlcus, Ga. 26-5t OLD-TIME FIDDLERS WILL HAVE CONTEST City Fire Department T5!il be Beneficiaries. Arrangements are being made to bold a Fiddlers Contest at the opera house in the near futuro. This enter tainment Ib rare indeed at the present time, tho Idea only having been re vived within tho lost year or so. These contests have been great suc cesses In other Georgian cities and also In the Northern states. The Contest will be given for the benefit of the City Fire Department and there will be fiddlerB from far and near to enter the Contest. Many cash prizes from the committee and also other prizes of merchandise will be offered by the merchants.-Nothing but old time melodies will be rendered and no one will be allowed to enter who Is considered a violinist. Noth ing but musicians of tho old school will participate and old melodies such Devils Dream,” "Cotton Eyed Joe,” "Leather Breeches,” etc., will be rendered. These old melodies, soma of which are now almost extinct will be reviv ed.-' At thq fiddlers contest In Ander son, 8. C., an old fiddler, aged 77 years, droye 24 miles to participate and rendered an old melody which hts grandmother used to sing while at the spinning wheel. This tune must have been at least 250 years old. It brought tears to tho eyes of many In the audience nnd many fond memo ries were recalled. All the old Fiddlers In tills County are invited to participate and grand time Is assured. EH A Chicago dispatch says thousands of persons arc insane thero from loss of sleep. Has it ever occu to the authorities to place a 1 limit on all poker page: Ington ~