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READY FOR SPRING.
' The spring season is fast approaching and the time is almost here for those
dainty and pretty Dress Goods, Laces, Embroideries, Linens, Silks, Etc., so essential
to one’s happiness and the season’s deinands. All of these goods, and more, we are
aow showing to the trade at very close figures. Our buyers bought before the ad
vance, so you can expect to reap many bargains among the varied collection of up
to-date and serviceable goods which we are now displaying. We invite you to in
spect our assortment at any time. Have a look at our show windows; they speak
for themselves. [f you want to be thoroughly stylish select your Spring Shoes, Low
Cuts, Hats, Hosiery, Shirts, Ties, etc., from us. The George DeWitt line, which
made Lynchburg famous.
Carload of Red-Cob Corn, bone dry, just received. ’Tis best to buy good corn
and save your high-priced mules. And then our prices are right. Pretty weather
and good roads call for new buggies. We have styles, prices and terms to suit anybody.
CALL NO. 28,
Dersons, hillips, “Oxford ‘Gompany.
Livery and Sales Stable. _ J. D. PERSONS, Manager.
Winfred.
Miss Alma Faulkner was the guest
©f Miss Estelie Loyd Saturday night
and Sunday. i
Mz, T. J. Chambers visited rela
wives in Clayton county the latter
gart of the week. '
Miss Winnie Stone spent part of
Hast week with her sister, Mrs., Oscar
Price, near Palalto, |
Miss Mary Phillips and little neice,
&lizabeth Atkinson, spent the week
aand withrelatives in Flovilla.
Thtee ‘automobiles passed thru
«our ville in one morning recently.
We felt for awhile as if we were
wesidents of a city. :
Looking over some ancient books
= few days ago I came across a book
grublished in 1837, called the
Gazetteer of the Siate of Georgia,
by Adiel Sherwood. We can read
ily see the growth of Monticello by
veading the following copied from
¢he above: “Monticello, post town
and capital of Jasper county ; named
after the residence of Jefferson in
Virginia, contains 55 houses, 19
stores, 8 shops, 3 doctor sheps, 5
daw offices, female academy, court
ouse, jail and house of worship for
the Baptists and Methodists. From
Milledgeville to this place are two
woeads; one by way of Blountsville is
the best, for it crosses no large
water courses; the other via an’s:
A GOOD BANK ACCOUNI
SRR WA AR R S A TG i LRS TS o 2 Al RN A
!s a great thing; it makes your health better,
and you do not worry so much about the
future. You are in position to trade and ask
.nobody to be “your daddy.” You save in
terest, which goes on while you sleep.
Deposit your money with us. We are
the oldest bank in the county, and one of
_the most conservative in Georgia.
Jasper Gounty JBank,
A Good Bank in a Good Town.,
'EDUCATIONAL MEETING APRIL 28.
The railroads have granted redu
ced rates to those who will attend
the meeting of the Georgia Educa
tional Association to be held in At
lanta April 28, 29 and 30, and the
Atlanta hotels are offering special
inducements. The officers of the
Association are expecting an attend
ance of at least 1000 at this conven
tion. Out of the 8,000 white teach
ers in Georgia it would seem that
the Association should receive the
cordial support of at least two or
] three thousand permanent sustaining
members, Kducational Associations
in many states with fewer teachers
than Georgia has show am enrolled
membership from five to ten times
as large asour own, In the majority
‘of the states teachers are not only
' permitted to attend the annunal meet
'ings, but many boeards of education
!m‘e granting this privilege without
loss of pay, and in many places they
I!aru payving the expenses of those
teachers who attend in order to en
!cuurage the professional spirit and
i:\fl"unl opportunity for gaining in
spiration and enthusiasm. We un
‘derstand that several of the pro
?;_grmcsi\'e teachers of this section will
attend the Atlauta meeting.
}’mill!. on Cedar creek and Half
Acre. The lots for this town were
sold in 1808, The first framed
house was on the spot now oceupied
by Cargill’s tavern,”
Talmadge.
Look out, girls, there is a new
buggy in our ville.
Messrs 8. H. and Herbert Black
well, of Hopewell, were here Sun
day. o
Mr. W. T. Nall, of Monticello,
visited friends here Sunday after
noon. i
There was an énjoyable party at
the home of Mr. 8. E. Blackwell
Friday night.
Messrs 8. H. Goodman and Will
Polk, of Bethel, were here a short
while Saturday.
Mrs. Lucy Cardelle is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. R. L. Bai
ley, of Shady Dale.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Goodman, of
Sardis, spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. R. H. Goodman.
Miss Beatrice Parker, of Monti
cello, spent last Tuesday night with
Miss Myrtice Goodman.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Polk, of Beth
el, spent one night last week with
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Goodman,
Miss Berta Cardelle, of Milledge
ville, spent Sunday and Monday with
her sister, Mrs, J. E. Goodman,
Mrs. James Kendrick and child
dren, of North East, spent Tuesday
with their aunt, Mrs. J. W. Good
man,
My, and Mrs, Thad Cheek and
family, of North East, spent Sun
day afternoon with Mr. and Mrs, J.
L. Goodman,
Miss Gussie Ricketts, of North
East, and Miss Blackwell spent Sat
urday night with Misses Jennie Mae
and Berta Goodman.
Mr. and Mrs, Ashley Brooks and
children, of Bethel, spent Saturday
and Sunday with the latter’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Goodman,
General
Machinery
Repairing.
Steam Engines,
Gasoline Engines,
Gins, Threshers,
Automobiles,
Apply to J. A. KIMBALL,
Phone 161, Jackson, Ga.
Pianos Tuned and Repaired
- When wanting your pianos and
organs tuned and repaired call on
Wm. D. Cornweil, Monticello, Ga.
~ The Monticello News one year one
wvollar. Warth every cent of it
There is more
to a Fertilizer
than Analyses
The mere mixing of
materials to obtain analy
sis requires no special
knowledge. The value
of a fertilizer lies in the
source from which the
plant food 1s obtained.
Each ingredient in
Royster goods 1s selected
with a view of supplying
the plant from sprouting
until harvest. The plant
1s not overfed at one
time and starved at an
otherr Twenty-five
years experience goes with
every bag.
TRADE MARK
!E;ISTER.ID 2
Sold by reliable dealers throughout
the South.
F. S. Royster Guano Co.
NORFOLK, VA.
Dr. H. Cannon
Dentist.
OFFICE OYER FURNITURE STORE,
Monticello, Georgia.
The Monticello News one year
one dollar. Worth every cent of it.