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BARNESVILLE, GA.
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER i,‘ 9 B.
XlCOFfi JUBILEE.
On October 11, 12, 13 and 14,
Macon will celebrate the seventy-fifth
year of her existence in a Diamond
Jubilee, and great preparations are
being made /or the event. Macon
people retain much of that hospitali
ty for which the South is famous, and
this celebration will be a great suc
cess. Many people from this section
will attend the great show.
JUDGE BARTLETT AT WORK.
Judge Charles L. Bartlett, con
gressman from this district, is always
looking out for his constituents. The
following was sent out from Washing
ton, Monday, which is of interest to
the readers of The Gazette:
“Judge Bartlett made inquiries at
the war department today about the
assignment of army officers to the
military academy at Bamesville and
Milledgeville. He urged that the
former instructiors to be reappointed,
or that other appointments be made
as early as practicable. He was told
that officers would be sent to those
schools, but probably not before the
Ist of October. None of the school
assignments will be made until then.
The congressman from the sixth
secured the discharge from the army
of quite a number of boys from his
district who, now that there is no
prospect of fighting, want to get back
to work. His requests in this line
were promptly granted. The assistant
secretary stated that all those men
who desired honorable discharges had
only to make application, and dis
charges would be granted.
Col. Janies Blount, Jr., of Macon,
has been appointed judge advocate
for the Santiago district. The jiosi
tion 16 a responsible one.
There seems to lie incompetency
or neglect somewhere in the war de
partment. There have been a great
many reports which show this.
Though the war is over, the proto
lem before the government appears
to be as great as ever. This is an
important time in the histgry of this
country.
Collier’s...
Middle Georgia’s Leading Store."- - c;—
Our enormous purchases in car-load lots, enables us this fall to
offer prices that will stagger the old-time high-priced political
merchants of Middle Georgia.
IN one GROCERY
DEPARTMENT WE OFFER:
sacks best Salt, in white cotton sacks, at 60c. A.
5 bags best green Coffee, 1 O lbs for $ l .00, or I Oc
mE/ 200 lbs. choice patent Flour at $4.20.
16 lbs. best granulated Sugar for $ 1.00.
25 rolls extra-heavy Barbed Wire at 2 1-2 cents lb.
This wire is extra-heavy and will stand any amount of
stretching.
Special Low Prices on Tobacco. Harness. Saoolno & Tires. Nalls. Soap-
We are sure to have hot times in this old town this fall, and they will continueto grow hotter and hotter. You may look for a regular
Santiago dry goods battle. Grapeshot, canister and our fifteen pounders were prepared during our leisure time in July and August, and
we are more than ready for the <dry goods! enemy. No matter what town or merchant comes out to face our low prices, we will go him
one better.
J. C. COLLIER COMPANY,
BARNESVILLE, GA.
JUDGE BARTLETT’S LETTER.
Hon. Chas L. Bartlett had no op
position for the Democratic congres
sional nomination in this district and
was therefore enthusiastically endors
ed by the Democratic party of the
entire district. In accepting the
nomination he writes the following
letter to the committee appointed to
inform him of the nomination:
Gentlemen— I am in receipt of
your letter of 20th ultimo in which
yon infivm me that I have been Un
animously renominated by the Dem
ocratic convention in the sixth con
gressional district of Georgia, held at
Griffin on fune 17th, as a candidate
for representative in the fifty sixth
congress.
1 beg to assure you, and through
you the people of the sixth district,
that J am deeply grateful at this exhi
bition of their confidence and esteem
and shall endeavor to merit their ap-
s imi Jilw
THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the California FlO Syrup
Cos. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Cos.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fig Syiuip Cos. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Com pany
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CL
IXrMVIIXE. Kj. NEW YORK. N. Y-
proval by pursuing a course in con
gress in keeping with the fundamental
principles of the Democratic party,
and by favoring such measures as
will, in my opinion, redound to the
good of my people and of the whole
country.
We are upon troublesome times:
the country is now engaged in war
with Spain, inaugurated and begun
for the purpose of freeing an oppress
ed, persecuted and defenseless people
in the island ot Cuba at our door,
from outrage and wrong, starvation
and murder and destruction, and to
punish the treachery of a perfidious
nation that destroyed our battleship
the Maine, and murdered our sailors
while our flag floated over them, who
were upon a friendly visit, by invita
tion and in their harbor; and to drive
from this continent the Spaniards,
who have for years devastated the Is
land <*f Cuba and carried on sucji a
miserable government, and such cru
elty, as to make their proximity to us
unendurabe. 'These causes were
just, and to punish them for their in
sult to the American people, and their
murder of our sailors.
(Jut of the war new issues have
sprung, and will arise, 1 fear in their
settlement, the great questions at is
sue between the Republican and
Democratic parties, as embodied in
the Chicago platform of 96, may for
a while be lost lost sight of, and that
we may be invited to embark upon
new' and untried schemes of territorial
aggrandizement and acquisition of
territory far beyond our limits and
necessities; requiring a large standing
army and an immense navy; but the
American people will eventually con
sider these questions and settle them
right. For myself, I believe that the
doctrine and policy that this govern
ment should pursue, at laid down by
Washington in his farewell address
that—
“ The great rule of conduct for us
in regard to foreign nations is, in ex
tending our commercial relations, to
have as little political connection as
possible. So far as we have already
formed engagements, let them be ful
filled with perfect good faith. Here
let us stop.
“Why forego the advantages of so
popular a situation? Why quit our
own to stand upon foreign ground?
Why, by interweaving our destiny
with ’that of any part of Europe, en
tangle our peace and prosperity m
the toils of European- ambition, rival
ship, interest, honor or caprice?
and by Thomas Jefferson —
“Peace, commerce and honest
friendship with all nations: entangling
alliances with none.”
—should be upheld; and I believe
Does Baby
Thrive?
If your baby is delicate
and sickly and its food does
not nourish it, put fifteen
or twenty drops of Scott’s
Emulsion in its bottle three
or four times a day and you
will see a marked change.
We have had abundant
proof that they will thrive
on this emulsion when other
food fails to nourish them.
It is the same with larger
children that are delicate.
Scott’s Emulsion seems to be
the element lackingin their
food. Do not fail to try it if
your children do not thrive.
It is as useful for them in
summer as in winter.
Ask your doctor if this is not true.
SCOTT 4 BOWNE, Chemist*, New York
they will be eventually; and that the
two parties, Republican and Demo
cratic, will, when the"hoise and smoke
of the present war have died away,
again be marshalled to meet each
other upon the issues created by the
doctrines as embodied in the two
platforms at Chicago and St. Louis in
1896; when that battle is renewed
between them, I shall be found in the
future, as I have in the past, standing
with my people, advocating the great
doctrines as embraced in the Chica
go platform of '96: and endeavoring
by my vote, as long as I remain in
congress, to do everything in my
judgment for the preservation of the
liberty, of the independence, both
personal and financial, of the people
of this country, and the preservation
of the government to our children
and the coming generations, and the
upholding of the principles that the
Democratic party have maintained
since its organization, and especially
those as announced in the Chicago
platform of '96, which I regard as the
greatest of them all.
I accept the nomination, so unani
mously tendered by my people, and
pledge them all my abilitity, all my
energy, and all the power that in me
lies, to serve them faithfully, honestly
Collier’s...
Barnesville’s “Big” Store.
Dry Goods and Clothing are arriving in solid train loads. No
merchant has the ability to equal our buyer, and we will surprise
even the oldest of Barnesvillle’s gray haired citizens this fall.
Come to the COLLIER DEPARTMENT STORE and save dollars
not pennies.
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TO 6LOSE OUT WE OFFER:
JL 1000 yards 10c yard-wide Percals at 6C- , S3^
2000 yards 4c Figured Muslins at - - l^ c * ■
1000 yards Shirting Calico, best, - -
1000 yards Fruit Loom Bleeching at - - - - 6C
-2000 yards heavy Ticking at - 50-
1000 yards heavy Table Oil Cloth,at -15 G
and as efficiently as I may have the
power to do. Again assuring you of
my high esteem and personal regard,
Verv truly your friend,
C. L. Bartlett.
SIOO REWARD, SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure icrall its stages and that is
Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only
pos’tive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surface of the system, there
by destroying the foundation of the dis
ease, and giving the patient stiengtli by
building up the constitution and assist
ing nature in doing its w-uk. I lie pro
| prietors have so much faith in its cura-
I tive powers, tliatthey oiler One Hundred
Dollars for any rase that it fa Is to cure.
Send for list of Testimonials.
Address, F. J. CIIENNY & CO., Tole
do, O. •
£sf=-Sold by Druggists, 75c.
TAX VALUATIONS.
Within the past six years there has
been a reduction in the tax valuation
of the property ot the State to the
amount of $54,000,000. This shrink
age has come to be a serious ques
tion. There is apparently no good
reason for this shrinkage. On the
contrary, it is believed that the State
is more prosperous than in many
years and that property is more val
uable. It becomes a question there
fore that demands the most serious
consideration of the people of the
State.
In his admirable speech at Dublin
Saturday, Gov. Atkinson referred to
this subject. In its discussion he
said:
“There is a way other than by tax
ing inheritance in which the tax rate
can be materially reduced and I have
repeatedly urged the general assem
bly to adopt it, but to no avail.
“In 1892 tax values were fixed,
not by the tax payer, who has a di
rect interest in omitting to give in
property or placing the lowest possi
ble value upon it, and thus burdening
his neighbor with a part of the taxes
which he should pay, but fixed by a
board ot disinterested tax assessors:
the tax values increased from $444,-
000,000 in 1891 to s463)°®°’®°®
1892. This act was repealed in the
fall of 1892. The next year there
was a decrease of $11,000,000 in re
turn of taxable property, and now af
ter a constant decrease, it is $54,000, -
000 less than in 1892, when valued
by tax assessors. If so much good
was accomplished in one year, with
the experience of this effort tax val
ues ere now would have been equal
ized and largely increased, ar.d vast
amounts of property, real and person
al. which now escape taxation would
be bearing its share of the common
burden.
“When laws are enacted devising'
the means to place all taxaole prop -
erty on the tax books at a fair valua
tion, the assessed value of the proper
ty in the State will largely increase,
the tax rate will be lowered and all
citizens will pay their just share of
the burdens of State government—no
more, no less. I commend this sug
gestion to honest men of all parties.”
The time has come when this ques
tion should be adjusted and all prop
erty be placed upon the digest at its
just valuation.
Look for the Bread Wagon on and af
ter Thursday, Sept. Ist. It will deliver
fresh Bread and Rolls right at your gate.
FIRE! FIRE!!
WATER ! WATER !
yUCKEST SETTLEMENT
SATISFACTION !
Baresville, GA.,May 26, ’9B.
Mr. Edward Elder, Ins. Agt,
Barnesville, Ga.
Dear Sir:—ln acknowledging
receipt of settlement of my loss
bv water damaged from fire
which occured on May 24th, I
desire to thank you for the
prompt and satisfactory settle
ment —only two days subse
quent to fire—and a total pay
ment of amount of damage
claimed by me.
W. J. COX, M. D.