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ram macon baiet telegraphs Tuesday morning, November 3, isos a ABOUT GEORGIA STATE BONDS CITY ATLANTA BONDS ATLANTA & WEST POINT R. R. DEBENTS GEORGIA R. R. STOCK AUGUSTA & SAVANNAH R. R. STOCK SOUTHWESTERN OF GA. R. R. STOCK WRITE TO J H. HILSMAN & CO. STOCKS AND BONDS ATLANTA, GA. H. a. A. NASH, President. CHAS. NEVILLE, Vice President. H. G. A. Nash Audit Co. EXPERT ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS 203-204 National Bank Building, 8avannah, Ga. Expert Accounting in All Its Branches. u. C. B. WILLINGHAM COTTON FACTOR Ship Me Your Cotton and Get the Best Returns MACON GEORGIA •A Mistaken- Idea Perhaps you have an idea that in order to have a bank account you must have a large sum to deposit; that a bank doesn’t caTe to bother with small accounts. This is not true of the “Fourth.” This bank wel comes new accounts, no matter how small, and extends the same courtesy and servico to small depositors as to large ones. Let ns prove it to von. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK MACON, GA. SOUTHERN ELECTRIC SUPPLY & MFG. CO. Machinery, Electric and Combination Fixtures WIRING MILL WORKS A SPECIALTY * 171 Cotton Avenue—<Phone 212. iEND YOUR ORDERS TO Sam Weichselbaum & Mack P. O. Box 163 Jacksonville, Fla. The Mack Boys will give them prompt and oareful attention. Note the following. All express prepaid: XXX Superior Rye. IS.SO rail. Jur 4 «U«U.. 8ti year old Corn. JJ.00 fall. Jur, 4 quert. Mount Vernon Rye. *4.00 (nil. Jur, 4 quart. Our Choice Rye, »5°c call. Jur 4 quarta ... Andereuu Co. Bourbon, four quart. ......... Whtte Mlil . bottled In bond, four quart* .. Lewis' (I, four quarts • Blade Label, four quart* • 8 year old Com, Corn quart*...., It. 00 .«...14.50 .....1560 $4.00 .... 1450 15.00 $5.60 ....14.00 Those are only a few of our many good things.^ fiend us a trial order. All the standard brands of'EfiiER at lowest prices. Write for price list. SAM WEICHSELBAUM & MACK, Jacksonville, -Fla. • —■ - -~ i • STOCKS SELL HIGH DESPITE ELECTION NEW YORK. Nov. t.—The tone of tho stock market was reflective of the de termination to meet the situation after tho election, at the greatest possible vantage point*. Price* were quietly and persistently lifted during the session, some of the leading stocks selling at the high level for the year, and the average level of the active list coming to the election period not far below that I The Union Pacific September earnings was made the nominal reason for the Recovery in that stock to the highest I brlce of the year. Further reports com ing to hand of railroad earnings for Sep tember showed gains In groes earnings by the western grain carriers. The Pennsylvania and New York Central statement* for September given out to. day showed heavy declines In gross earn ings and the cut In operating cost suf- Iflclent only partly to offset this loss. The same thing waa apparent with the minor trunk lines. Erie. Norfolk and Western and Chesapeake and Ohio being amongst I those reporting. Money on call held at the firmer rates I established last week with the November settlements. The program of the gov ernment finances was cleared up by the Intimation of a coming Issue of $50,000^ 000 of Panama canal bonds, the proceeds of which will be used to reimburse the treasury for expenditures already made _ s irregul value. $4,714,000. United States bonds wero unchanged call. Total sales of stocks today were 544,300 shares. * NEW YORK STOCK LIST. Amalgamated Copper SO>4 American Car and Foundry 42% American Car and Foundry pref....103% American Cotton Oil 37% American Hide and Leather pref..., 23% American Ice Securities 25% American Linseed 10% American Locomotive M American Locomotive pref 106% American Smelting and Refining.... 93 Amer. Smelting and Refining pref..105% American Sugar Refining 132% American Tobacco pref. 93% American Woolen 23 Anaconda Mining Co 46% Atchison 94% Atchison prof. Atlantic Coast Line ..., Baltimore and Ohio Baltimore and Ohio pref. Canadian *Pa > ’lfl Trani,t • Central Leather Central Leather pref. ... Central of New Jersey Clicsaprnke and Ohio 42 Chicago Great Western 7 Chicago and North Western 162 : Chicago. Mil. and St Paul 143 Colorado and Southern 2nd pref.... 59V* Consolidated Gaa ..146 Delaware and Hudson 167% Denver and Rio Grande 28% Denver and Rio Grande pref 72 Distillers* - Securities 30% Erie 30% Erie 1st pref 43% Erie 2nd _prcf 36 General Electric 142 Great Northern prof 133% Great Northern Ore ctfs 64% Illinois Central 130% Intorhorough Met 10 Interborough Met pref 29% International Paper 10 International Paper pref. 63 International Paper 29% Iowa Central 24 Kansas City Southern 28 Kansas City Southern pref 61% Louisville and Nashville 109% Minneapolis and St. Louis 37 Minn.. St. P. and Sault St M. 123 Missouri Pacific 661 Missouri. Kansas and Texas 31V Missouri. Kansas and Texas pref.. 65*, National Lend 82V, New York Central 105’' New York, Ontario and Western... 40‘ Norfolk and Western 78’ North American 65' Northern Paclfie 145' Pacific Mall 25' Pennsylvania 127 1 People's Oas *... 95'.. Pittsburg. C. C. and St Louis II Pressed Steel Car 14% Pullman Palace Car 164% Railway Steel Spring 41 Reading 122< Republic Steel Republic Steel pref. Rock Island Company 11% Rock Island Company pref 45% St. L. and San Fran. 2nd pref 29% Ft. Louis Southwestern 18% Ft. Louis Southwestern pref 41% Sloss-Fheffleld Steel and Iron 73% Southern Pacific 109 Southern Pacific pref 118 Southern Railway 81% Southern Railway pref. 55% Tennessee Copper 44% Texas and Pacific 81% Toledo, St. Louts and West.., 80% Toledo, St. Louis and West prsf... 17% Union Pacific 173% Union Pacific pref 94% United States Rubber 12% United States Rubber 1st pref 99% B nlted States Steel 48 nlted States Steel pref 111% Utah Copper 41% Vlrglnla-Csrollna Chemical 81% Vtrglnla-Carollna Chemical pref....110 Wabash 12% Wabash pref 28 Westlnghouse Electric 88% Western Union 59% Wheeling and Lake Erie 9 Wisconsin Central 26% Standard Oil 62$ NEW YORK BONDS. U. 8. 4a. coupon American Tobacco 4s American Tobacco 6a Atchison general 4s Atchison adjustment 4s Atchison cv. 4s Atchison cv. 6s " title Coast Lins 4s imore and Ohio 4s Baltimore and Ohio 8%s..... Brooklyn R. T. cv. 4s J.. 7< Central of Georgia Is... 101 Central of Georgia 1st Inc.... Central of Georgia 2nd Inc.... Central of Georgia 3d Inc.... Chesapeake and Ohio 4%s.... Chicago and Alton 8%s Chicago, R. and Quincy new 4a Chicago. R. I. and P. R. R. 4a...... Chicago. R. I. and P. R. R. cob 5s.. Chicago. R. I. and P. Ily. r/dg 4s.... 87% C.. C-, C. and 8t. Louis gen. 4s.... 97% Colorado Industrial 5s 74% Colorado Midland 4a 68% Colorado and Southern 4s. 95% Delaware and Hudson cv, 4s 101 Denver and Rio Grande 4s 86V Erie prior lien 4s 86V EH* general 4s 73% Hocking Valley 4%s.. 105% Interborough Met. 4%s 664 Japan 4^. 80) Manhattan consol gold Mexican Central 4s ** Mexican Central let Inc Minn, and St. Louis 4s Missouri, Kansas and Texas 4s t m - ,ral general 6s.,...12< Northern Pacific 4s 101 Northern Pacific Is " Norfolk and Western consol 4s...... 4 Oregon Short Line rfdg 4*.,d Pen cv. 3%s. 1915 Penn, consol 4s Reading general 4s Republic of Cuba Es ..TTTTTTTtl St. L. and Iron Moun. coneol 5s.... 1] Ft. L. and Ran Fran. fg. 4s.......... 1 St. Louis Southwestern con. 4s..,. 1 Seaboard Air Line 4s I Southern Pacific 4a... Southern Pacific lit 4s i ■oiltHfii Railway I* >.hhh|| Texas and Pacific 1st* Pa< f I’.-.-- S'-., fi.len Vn^.fu Western Md. 4a ] Wheeling and Lake EH* 4*........ Wisconsin Central *#*1 COTTON SEED OIL. NBTW YORK. Nov. 2 —Cotton seed oil was firm on light offerings and Itx-al pro- fesslonsl support. Prime crude 29%9 prime summer yellow 37%a88; off sum mer yellow 344%*2t: good summer yel< low nail; prime white 31ail; prise win. Ur yellow 42**4. COTTON IS ACTIVE AT ADVANCED PRICE LIVERPOOL aoota closed 6.08 NEW YORK spots closed 9.40 NEW ORLEANS Holiday closed very active at the folloarlng quo- Range of Prices. Good Middling v 9 Strict Middling .87, Spot Cotton Movement. Reels. Ship. Sales. Oct. II, 1961 *50 145 523 Nov. 2. 1909 569 454 614 Stock on Hand. r .. 1. 1*03 1.171 October 31, 1908 12.460 November J. 1908 12.995 NEW YORK. NEW TYORK. Nov. 2.—New high rec ords for the season were made in tne cot ton market today with heavy realising for over election day readily abosrbed. and the dose was steady at a net ad vance of 2s6 points. Sales were estima ted at 225.000. The market opened steady at an ad vance of Sat points In response to better cables than expected, and after selling off to about the closing figures of Satur day on the more active months, rallied again, reaching the highest level late In the day when prices reached a net gain of 5a 10 points. The dose was only slightly off from the top under realising. Trading wns very active at the beginning of the day and again toward the dose when large blocks were promptly absorb ed. but was rather quiet during the mid dle of the session. Wall street houses were good buyers on all soft spot a. Estimates of tomorrow's receipts at Galveston were record breaking, but the day's exports from that port were also heavy and the movement appears to . t little Influence. Private cables reported that there was meeting In Lancashire tomorrow, _ It is hoped will result In a settle- ment of the labor troubles. Receipts at the porta today 61.146. against 81,923 last week and 65.632 last 15,169, against 9.056 last year. Spot Cotton and Futures. NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Spot cotton the following quotations: High Tow cio! ...8.88 8.9ft 8.82 8.84 May 8.86 8.88 8.81 8.93 , .8.61 8.82 8.74 8.64 8.0* December 9.12 9.15 9. Receipts and Exports. Exports to Great BHtaln.......... Exports to France 9.972 Exports to continent 110,07! Exports to Japan.. 1.29* Exports to Mexico 3 Stock on hand at all porta 703,402 Since September 1. ?908— i onaolldated receipts 2,789.226 Exports to Great Britain 6ft5.6ft* Exports to France 210,671 Exports to Continent, *44.144 Exports to Japan 9,822 Exports to Mexico.......... 3 Price, Receipts, Sale*. Stock. New Orleans Mobile. . . . Favnnnah. . Charleston . Wilmington . Norfolk. . . Baltimore. . New York. . Boston. . . , Philadelphia . Jacksonville . Recfs.lBalea.t Str.k. .8342 204 4892 148158 IKr- III.’ Rainy Season is Nearly Here, and Leaky Roofs are Annoying and Expensive. WE CAN SELL YOU THE GENUINE Louisiana Red Cypress Prime Quality Shingles at $4.00 per Thousand. Last a Life Time. You won’t ever have to shingle your house again if you use these. Massee-Felton Lumber Co. Telephone 1840 Macon, Ga. Interior Movement. I Price. Recta JBaloa. 19 . * f*169| 4787 ■p# :W LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL. Nov. $.—Spot botton! larket closed with moderate business one. prices unchanged. American mld- Ilng fair closed 6.56; good middling 6.20; ..riddling 1:08; low middling 4 81; good or dinary 4.17; ordinary 3.97. The sales of the day were 5,00ft bates, of which 800 were for speculation and export and in cluded 4.800 American. Receipts none. Futures opened steady and closed barely steady. November 4.84 fovember-December 4.74 Jecember-January 4.72 January-February 4:70% February-March 4.70 March-April 4.69% pected tomorrow hatween the spinners l*nd the operators In Manchester which should lead to some result, as the look out has continued quite long enough to I bring both parties In a frame of mind to settle the question. This was not known In Liverpool at the close ef the market. There bn a been considerable outside buy ing on these advices and on ths expecta tion of an active demand after the elec tion of Mr. Taft. Those who have been leading the advances nre thought to have reellxed freely during the day. Continued good weather and the absence of frost Is I creating larger cron Mess. Receipts nre heavy, hut the feeling Is decidedly hull* Ish on expectation ef a further Improve-! ment In huslners after election. MILD WEAKNESS IN- THE WHEAL MARKET CHICAGO. Nov. 2.—Pre-election dull- ...tsa characterised trading on the hoard of trade today and mild weakness was In evidence In the grain pits. At the close wheat and corn showed almost no change from the previous etose, but oats were H to % lower. Provisions closed at galoa of 5a7%to 15 cents. Open. High. Low. doe, W Dee t 7. . l.M 1.6ft% *1% H% Mary . . . 1.03% 1.03*7 t.Oi l.Ofg July . . . 91% *1% 97% *7% g;-:-S 8 S3 S3 ?!! S3 E-.-.:8:S«»:a»ll:8“ii:8» ifc.v.VkVk VSt, ill. ssTTTw* m m hi Cash quotations were s« follow*: B’ DRY QOODO. a agents have withdrawn their lines after election. Cotton yasos are tarn “I will have a rye high-ball”—you have heard that order—it’s the most popular way of drinking whiskey--- yet a high-ball is most simple to make—cracked ice, a drink of whiskey blended with plain or carbonated water in a tall glass. . Clarke’s Pure Rye . makes the most perfect high-ball because its ~a perfect whiskey made by the largest and best equipped distillery in the world and aged and bottled by the United States Government which guarantees a pure and palatable article. 4 Full Quarts, $ 5.00 delivered 12 Full Quarts, 12.00 delivered For sale by most dealers throughout the world, and all dealers in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla. If yours refuses to supply you write us. Clarke Bros. & Co.. PEORIA. ILL. • Tho Largest Distillers in tho World with an advancing tendency. Raw ■Ilk Is higher. Dress goods continue quiet. • The market win »•' «'*d tumor- row on account of election day. NAVAL STORES. ! CHARLESTON. Nov. U, C. 2 .60; D. 2.60; E, 2.65a2.67%; P. 2.65! to 2.67: O. 2.67%»2.70; H. 3.30; 1. 8.80: K, 4.65; M, K.15; N. 5.75; window glass, 6.20; water white. #.». , SAVANNAH, 'ie.. Nov, Turiienllno ■text)' at J7c. llecelpt. M0-ehlpm.nl, ill) Mle« 700. it-i.ln nrm. Same JU«; receipt, 100,; ehlpmenle IMIl etock HI,. 001. Quale B 2.70: D J.7!; E J 7S«Z.h6; F J.77(4«7.«0: O 2.io*J.II}4i II l.ltaJ.Mi I 1(0; K 4,-fS; M 6.JS-. N i.M; window glass f.$0; water white 6.35. IQl.. —... steady; l%a2; ruling rate 1% *'d and offered 1. Tim# loans dull and slightly firmer: 60 days I; 90 da 3%, per cent. Prime merer Sterling esc mens uuii ann inaimy nrmwr, 90 daya $a$%; alx month* 3%a 'rime mercantile paper 4a4% per cent. Jterllng eschnnge eteady with actual business la honkers' bills at 4.84a4.84.l0 for 60-day bills and at 4.86.10 for de- "’commercing bill, 4.M!4»«.«(f4. Mexican dollars 45. Items of Interest. India to secure some legislation that will protect the public from railway strikes on Insufficient provocation, and the railway brotherhoods ar« asking for conciliation boards possessing pow er to adjust differences. During* the three years ending March SI. 1908, the net revenue from the income tax In Bengal rose from $1,498,818 In 190G-C to $1,667,081 In 1*08-7 and $1,677,055 In 1907-8. The revenue from profile of companies dur- Ing 1907-8 was $308,731. and from sala- I rles and pensions $247,765. The re- I port from which these figures sr* j taken says: ''Like ill other direct i taxation, this tax continue* to he un popular. There Is. however, no open Indication of discontent, and the ad ministration of the law was carried on amoothly.” According to official rettums the birth rate for the several provinces of India In W7-I was ss follows ner 1.990: Central provinces, 62.46. The Punjab and United provinces occupy second and third places, respectively, dtengal. 87.70*. Aaaam. 37.01; Madras, 80.8, Bengal was formerly a long way ahead of all the provinces, but has now fallen to fourth place. The plan to fix a minimum price of coffee, known aa the "valoritatlon of coffee,'* la now being followed by a movement In iRrisIl looking toward the valorisation of rubber. It Is doubt ful, however. If anything In the way of an effective combination will bo made. * BEDINGFIELD & CO. (Incorporated) EDWARD LOH, President. Formerly of Macon, Go Tho names imply that evorything bought hero is the highest grade of all standard whiskies, at lowest prices. Send us your orders which, will receive prompt at tention. Write for Catalog 29 W. Forsyth St. P.O. Box 1098 Jacksonville, Flofida Sam and Ed. Weichselbaum P. O. Box No. 55. 610 Market St. Chattanooga, Term Phone No. 820. Our stock is complete with the finest and best brands of Wines, Whiskies, Brandies, etc. CORN WHISKEY IN JUGS. (White or Yellow, just as you prefer it.) ir ! Tennessee Mountain £orn No. 1 Tcnneme Mountain Corn No. 2 Kennesaw Mountuin Corn.. Turkey Mountain Coro.... Wtlehroibaum'k Old Corn. Joe Mercer Coni...; ■epectalW Befeetld Corn Old Virginia Corn Cooper's Laurel Valley Com... Pride of North Cerolina Corn.. •::: J - *-00 :: I .. 8.0ft .. I.** EXPRESS PREPAID. BEND FOR PRICE L18T-LET US KNOW YOUR WANTS.