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Barnesville News-Gazette.
Volume 57
KeductionOnAll
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.
J. 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. Others Follow.”
Phone 64 Barnesville, Ga.
BARNESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925
BIG DEVELOPMENT IN Mill
CARTER-COLLIER COMPANY TO
BUILD FINE BLEACHERY.
Hon. William H. Carter, president
of the Carter Company, Mr. Horace
A. Carter, president of the Carter-
Collier Cos., of this city, Mr. W. P. I
Drumheller and other gentlemen rep
resenting the Carter interests, all of
Boston, who were in Barnesville last
Saturday looking over the company’s '
knitting mill here, announced while j
here that they would immediately be
gin the erection and installation of
one of the finest bleacheries in the j
south, the sum of $150,000.00 having
been set aside to be expended at
once for this purpose. The big ad
dition to the Carter-Collier plant has
already been submitted by the archi
tect and accepted and much of the
machinery and material for it con
tracted for. Work will begin at once
and in a reasonably short time this
important feature of the Barnesville
plant will be completed and in opera
tion.
An additional intimation, while not
a definite announcement, which will
be a source of great interest to the
citizens of Barnesville and Lamar
county, is that the owners of the
Barnesville mill expect to make it
the biggest knitting mill in all the
south. The keenest appreciation of
the people here for such an intima
tion was enthusiastically expressed
to the members of the company and
the heartiest co-operation has been
pledged to them on the part of the
citizenship. Plans looking to this
result are already being made and
unquestionably will be consummated
in due course of time.
The Carter Company is one of the
best known manufacturing establish-!
ments in the United States, its pro- j
ducts being the recognized standard
in the various lines of merchandise
which they put on the market. The
company has a capital of $3,500,-
000.00 and has a tremendous surplus,
its credit being the very highest.
The Carter family owns and man
ages the entire business. The mem
bers of the company have not only
established a reputation for all the
products manufactured, which makes
them the standard by which other
similar products are measured, but
the consideration and treatment ac
corded all their employes, the prin
ciple <m which their business has been
conducted and built up, has made for
them an asset which is perhaps of
greater value than the vast financial
resources at their command. The
owners, officers and employes, from
the highest to the humblest, make
what is usually referred to as “one
big family.”
The company has a rather unique
plan of selling their products, which
are largely knit underwear, for men,
women and children. They sell to
retail stores only, seventy salesmen
representing them in all portions of
the United States. They now have
twelve thousand stores which are
their regular customers and this big
number is being increased year by
year, as their goods and methods of
doing business are being more widely
known. One of the speakers at a
luncheon here Saturday expressed
what is perhaps the foundation basis
for the marvelous success with which
the company has met when he gave as
the reason for the establishment of
their several plants in the south the
fact that here they hoped to be able
to make “some little baby,” or other
person a little more comfortable at
a little less cost. Such a humani
tarian spirit as a prime motive in any
business will most certainly merit
and almost as certainly win success, j
The Carters are now the second
largest underwear manufacturers in
the United States and it is stated if
the rate of increase in their sales
continues for the immediate future
as for the past year or two the com
pany will in all probability head the
list for America before the end of
1925.
Mr. J. A. Cason and Mr. Charles
E. Lee, splendid business men and
gentlemen, are actively in charge of
the Bamesville plant.
The citizens of this community
and section will be highly gratified
over the expansion of the company’s
Bamesville plant.
Rhode Island, the smallest state in
the union, has more telephones than
the entire republic of China, al
though China has more than 3,400
times as much territory as Rhode
Island and more than 600 times as
many inahb.tants.
GOOD CITIZEN PASSES
AWAY AT AGE OF 74
Mr. Robert G. Matthews, one of
the most honored and most loved cit
izens of Barnesville, died at noon
Tuesday at the home of his son, Mr.
A. B. Matthews, on Stafford avenue,
where he and Mrs. Matthews had
been making their home. His death
was not wholly unexpected, although
the members of the family did not
expect the end to come so suddenly,
as he apparently was considerably
improved Tuesday morning, being
cheerful and eating and enjoying
rather a hearty breakfast which had (
been lovingly prepared for him. The
previous day had been a hard one
for him, as many before had been,
but with an iron-like will he had held
on to life, and early Tuesday his
loved ones were gratified at the tem
porary improvement. However, the
stubborn fight he had been making
against great odds came lo an end
as he peacefully passed out just a
few minutes after noon.
Mr. Matthews had failed rapidly dur
ing the past three or four yearn and
perhaps but for his indomitable will
he would not have survived so long,
with the severe afflictions which took
hold of his body. He was held in
the very highest esteem among the
people of Barnesville and entire sur
rounding section. He was a man of
unquestioned integrity, stern in
character and yet as gentle as a wo
man in his consideration of other
people. He lived an upright life,
endeavoring always 10 live as a chris
tian should live, standing for the
highest and best things in life. He
was a staunch member of the First
Methodist church, being devoted to
his church but loving other denomi
nations and attending their services
as he had opportunity. He was a
fine and useful citizen, ever ready to
contribute all that he could to pro
mote the welfare and prosperity of
Barnesville and the community. Ho
was well nigh a moduli man and citi
zen and he will be greatly missed by
hundreds of v/arm personal friends,
who deeply mourn their loss of his
friendship and companionship.
Mr. Matthews was 74 years old.
He had lived practically all his life
in this vicinity. Many years ago he
engaged in business in Barnesville,
after whigh he traveled for a long
time, and then some years ago re
tired from the road and engaged in
farming near Barnesville, at his farm
in Upson county. Farming and bus
iness conditions as they have existed
since he went back to farming
weighed heavily upon him, taxing his
strength, and about two years ago
he sold his farm and retired to a
quiet, private life. He was a gen
uinely good man, a splendid gentle
man, a valued friend, an affectionate
husband and father, a sincere and
true Christian and leaves an honored,
untarnished name behind as a com
fort and an inspiration to all hia
loved ones and friends.
The funeral service was held at
the First Methodist church Wednes
day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, when
a large congregation assembled to
pay their last tribute to the beloved
citizen. There were many lovely
floral offerings, which had been sent
in by relatives and friends, ftev.
Marvin A. Franklin, the pastor, con
ducted the service, making a most
beautiful and appropriate talk about
the life of Mr. Matthews, reciting a
number of incidents in his life, show
ing his acts of thoughtfulness and
kindness to those with whom he
came in contact from time to time.
It was a talk that was much appre
ciated by those who knew Mr. Mat
thews in his daily life. Rev. L. W.
Browder and Rev. Arthur Jackson
also participated in the service.
The body was interred in the family
lot in Greenwood cemetery.
Mr. Matthews is survived by his
wife, one son, Mr. A. B. Matthews,
of Bamesville, three daughters, Mrs.
R. J. Hunt and Mrs. U. C. Barrett,
of Bamesville, and Mrs. George W'.
Head, of Macon, to each of whom
the tenderest sympathy of the peo
ple is extended in their sorrow.
The best selling novel in Germany
in recent years is Zwei Menschen, by
Richard Voss. Already 500,000
copies have been sold.
0
Rangoon, Burma, may have a mov
ing picture studio.
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About 15,000 bakers are needed to
supply New Yorkers with their daily
bread.
WE SELL -jCft***
SPECIALS
Friday and Saturday Only
—YARD - WIDE MERCERIZED LINGERIE
CHECKS and CREPE, in white and all desira
able colors; regular up to 35c value. iQa
—special ■ ****
-YARD-WIDE MERCERIZED SATEEN, in
Black and all desiable colors.
Regular 40c value. OCf%
—SPECIAL tvv
— -8-oz. AMOSKEAG A C A TICKING, best qual
ity feather proof ticking.
Regular 45c value. 9 Of*
—GOOD QUALITY GINGHAM, in Dress and
Apron Patterns; reg. 15c value. i
—SPECIAL ■ WU
—MEN'S HEAVY WINTER UNDERWEAR,
best quality fleece-lined or ribbed shirts and
drawers. Regular SI.OO value. 69c
—GIRLS’ and BOYS’ HEAVY RIBBED AND
FLEECED LINED UNION SUITS, sizes 2 to 10.
Regular SI.OO value. CQf*
—SPECIAL WC
Reduced Prices on Winter Goods
Trade With Us and Save the Difference
ELIJAH WISEBRAM
216 MAIN STREET BARNESVILLE, GA.
“THE RELIABLE STORE”
The
FLORSH EIM
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
Bamesville, Ga.
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