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Barnesville News-Gazette.
Volume 57
ReductionOnAll
Blankets
SIO.OO All Wool Blankets $8.50
$7.00 Mixed, Wool and Cotton $5.85
$5.00 Blankets $4.00
$4.00 Blankets $3.25
$3.00 Blankets $2.50
One lot Men’s Blue Cheviot
Work Shirts, worth 85c, now
69c each.
All Men’s Dress Shoes
Greatly Reduced.
One Lot Ladies’ Coats and
Coat Suits $3.50 each.
One Lot 27-inch Ginghams,
well worth 20c, now 15c yd.
Southern Silk Cheviots 20c
yard.
L. A. COLLIER
“All the New Ones All the Time"
Barnesville, Ga.
YEAR ROUND STOCK
Our store will be found
a fine place to trade every
business day in the year.
Our stock of Jewelry
and kindred lines will be
kept complete at all times
and the prices will be right.
and. H. BATE & CO.
JEWELERS and OPTOMETRISTS
BARNESVILLE, GA.
The Radio Season Is Here
We Have Radio Sets
From $35. to $450.
Call us for a demonstration.
Brown’s Garage
“We Lead. Other* Follow.”
Phone 64 Barnesville, Ga.
BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUAR Y 12, 1925
FINE ENTERTAINMENT
I
The Mercer Glee Club gave a fine
i entertainment at Gordon auditorium
last Friday evening to a large and an
appreciative audience. The pro
gram included numbers all the way
from the sublime to the ridiculous
and the various young men partici
pating exhibited talent of a high or
der. A number of those regularly
on the program were sick and un
able to appear but in spite of this
the program was varied and well
rendered all the way through and
everybody more than got their
money’s worth.
The “Taps” staff, headed by Major
W. H. Mitchell, Jr., sponsored the
entertainment here and stood behind
the affair with enthusiasm and
helped to make it a success. The
Mercer Glee club will always find a
hearty welcome from the citizens of
Barnesville and community at any
time it comes to give an entertain
ment here. •
WORKED IN BARNESVILLE
FORTY YEARS AGO
Mr. John W. Kelley, proprietor of
the Illinois Oil & Varnish Cos., paint
and varnish makers, of Chicago, 111.,
was in Barnesville Tuesday, meeting
friends made here about forty years
ago, when he was an expert black
smith, working for Smith’s buggy
factory and Summers’ buggy factory.
He was employed in each of these
plants but later went to Griffin and
Newnan. Afterward he moved to
Chicago and entered the oil and var
nish business, in which he has been
eminently successful, selling his
products all over the country.
Mr. Kelley boarded when here with
Col. and Mrs. W. S. Whitaker, and
while here Monday he visited and
spent a few minutes with Mrs.
Whitaker. He was on his way back
to Chicago, having spent several
months at his winter home twenty
miles south of Miami, Fla. Mr. Kel
ley stated that there was little sale
for the fine Florida fruits this season
and great quantities of it are going
to waste, which is accountable for in
part, he thinks, because people are
spending their money for gas and
oils for automobiles rather than for
something to eat.
Mr. Kelley saw a number of the
old citizens whom he knew when he
lived here forty years ago, all of
whom rejoiced in the prosperity
which he has won.
ACTING AS SHERIFF
Mr. Jack Childers, former clerk of
Lamar superior court, is acting
sheriff during the absence of Sheriff
Z. T. Elliott, while he is away in At
lanta at the hospital where he went
Monday to submit to an operation.
Mr. Childers is thoroughly familiar
with the duties of the sheriff’s office
and will keep the business of the of
fice in good condition while Sheriff
Elliott is away.
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“SILVER VALENTINE TEA”
Stop! Look. Listen!
Perhaps you’ve seen this before,
But if you fail to listen
Friends will stop you at the door.
For this is very important
As you readily see;
“The Epworth League” is inviting
you
To a “Silver Valentine Tea.”
’Tis for all the lads and lassies,
“Grown-ups” and little ones, too,
For every man, woman and child—
This means you and you and you!
On Friday, February 13th, from 4
to 6 P. M.,
Let all gather at Gazette building.
For that’s where the fun begins.
CHANGE OF MEETING PLACE
The Three Arts club, announced
in another column to meet with Mrs.
J. C. Collier, will meet with Mrs.
Allen Moore, on Greenwood street,
instead of with Mrs. Collier, the
meeting time to remain as announced,
namely, Wednesday, February 18th,
at 2:30 o’clock.
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FOR RENT—Splendid small two
horse farm, available to a modern,
live-wire school, at most attractive
price and terms. —W. H. Mitchell &
Cos.
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
BIG CROWD OF FARMERS SIGN
UP FOR PEPPER AND POTATO
ACREAGE.
One of the most largely attended
and most enthusiastic meetings of
farmers which has been seen in
Barnesville in a long time was held
4n the City Ilall Wednesday after
noon, the hall being entirely filled
with farmers from'every section of
Lamar county.
Prof. T. O. Galloway was elected
chairman of the meeting and imme
diately presented Mr. Walter L.
Graefe, manager of the Pomona
Products Cos., of Griffin, who ex*-
plained in detail the proposition
which his company had to submit to
the Lamar county farmers on the
growing of peppers this year. He
stated that 400 acres had been al
lotted to the county and arrange
ments had been agreed upon for the
delivery of the peppers in Barnes
ville, where a receiving shed would
be placed and where the peppers
would be graded, weighed and deliv
ered to the company by the farmers
growing them. There will be two
delivery days per week. The price
guaranteed for No. 1 peppers would
be $40.00 per ton delivered at
Barnesville, less a maximum charge
for handling here and freight to
Griffin of $2.25 per ton, the grower
to have the privlege of carrying the
peppers to Griffin and receiving there
the $40.00, if he prefers to do this.
The company will take No. 2. pep
pers at $25.00 per ton on the same
conditions.
Immediately following Mr. Graefe’s
talk farmers present signed up for
about 225 acres, which, with con
tracts already made with different
farmers, runs the acreage to about
300 acres. This will leave aome
acreage which other farmers may ob
tain by seeing Prof. Galloway at
once or communicating with the com
pany officials at Griffin.
Mr. Graefe and Mr. R. E. Lee
Hawkins and Mr. Charley Crawley,
the latter two representing the Geor
gia Yam Curing Cos., also agreed to
buy sweet potatoes, both companies
providing a market for about 50 car
loads, at the market price prevailing
at the time of delivery next fall.
Mr. Graefe stated that his company
would take all No. 2 or jumbo pota
toes at a slightly lower price, thus
insuring a market for all the pota
toes produced in the crop, except the
strings.
Every possible detail will be
worked out by Mr. Graefe and Prof.
Galloway, Mr. W. B. Smith and oth
er citizens of Barnesville which will
make it to the convenience and profit
of the growers of peppers and pota
toes and it seems to be a fine oppor
tunity for Lamar county farmers and
it was very gratifying to see so many
of them ready to avail themselves of
it. The meeting Wednesday is re
garded as a decided success and one
which will mean much for the ma
terial welfare of the county.
Those wanting contracts with the
Barnesville curing plant for sjgeet
potatoes should see Mr. Hawkins at
once and others wanting pepper con
tracts should make known their
wants this week.
SHERIFF DOING WELL
Sheriff Z. T. Elliott was operated
on Tuesday in Atlanta and the news
from him is exceedingly gratifying
to the people of Bamesville arvd La
mar eounty, as his condition is re
ported much better than was feared
it would be. It is expected that he
will rapidly improve and soon be
able to return home.
THE C. OF C.’S MEET
The Children of the Confederacy
had their regular meeting at the
home of Miss Mary Middlebrooks,
Misses Jeanelle Hardy, Louise Hale
and Margaret McMullen being assist
ant hostesses.
Avery delightful Georgia Day
program was rendered, after which
very delicious tea and sandwiches
were served and candy was passed.
The meeting adjourned after a
very enjoyable social hour.
—Press Reporter.
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To induce saving of mor.ey an in
ventor has made a clock that has to
have small change dropped in it be
fore winding.
WE SELL 'iZtLioHJ)
SAME 600DS FOR LESS MONEY
WHY PAY MORE? 4uf%
SPECIALS
Friday and Saturday Only
-32-in. BEST AMOSKEAG GINGHAM, in beau
tiful new Patterns, Checks and Plaids.
Regular 29c value. *| Qa
—SPECIAL 1
—MANCHESTER CHAMBRAY, good quality
and fast colors, in solid colors and stripes.
Regular 19c value. 4 (|a
—special ■
—36-in. RATINE, fine quality and in desirable
colors. Regular 69c value. QQl*
—SPECIAL
—LADIES’ DRESSES, good quality Gingham
Dresses in the season’s newest styles, beautifully
trimmed. Regular $2.00 value. AQ
—SPECIAL ** ■
—CHILDREN’S DRESSES, in sizes 8 to 14, made
of good quality, fast color Gingham and fine
trimmings. Regular $1.25 value. fißff*
—SPECIAL OVW
—BOYS’ PANTS, in sizes 8 to 17, dark cglors, in
very desirable Patterns.
Regular up to $2.00 value. Qfif*
—SPECIAL
Reduced Prices on Winter Goods
Trade With Us and Save the Difference
ELIJAH WISEBRAM
216 MAIN STREET BARNESVILLE, GA.
“THE RELIABLE STORE”
FLORSHEIM
SHOE SALE
To give Florsheim friends
the benefit of a saving, and
to make new friends who
will become permanent
ones, we’re offering Flor
sheims now at
sgßs
All $lO. Sweaters at $7.50
Clark T. Bush
Barnesville, Ga.
Number 43