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The Macon Daily Telegraph FIRST SECTION. EIGHT PAGES "ESTABLISHED IN 182» MACON, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1908 DAILY, $7.00 A YEAR. final cut On Tailored Suits Slaughter! Slaughter!! Slaughter is the worct—FareweSI to All Tailored Suits aaid Ladies 9 and Children’s Cloaks and Furs. 1 73 Suits and 56 Satin Dresses All in Stock to Go During Xmas Week at Unheard of Figures—Don’t Hesitate, But Rush Here Quick! Recent warm weather prevailing throughout the country has caused slow selling of Cloaks and Furs, and The Big Store, despite its enormous output, the largest by far in Middle Georgia, had a lull in sales on these goods which must be counteracted even with radical measures, and slash goes the price cutting to a depth heretofore unknown, when all' the real winter is to come, when the blustry winds will blow, when the atmosphere will be so chilly that Coats and Furs are almost absolutely necessary. Think of it with the time for the actual wear of Cloaks and Furs ahead, this glorious opportunity is offered you. The greatest slaughter known for December—price cutting no other house in Macon has doubtless even dreamed of is at your service. But listent not all has been told. 173 beautiful TAILORED SUITS and 56 stunning SATIN DRESSES go at unheard of pricing in order that all may afford you the saving chances you never expected to have presented during Christmas week on garments for personal wear or on practical, useful, appreciated things for giving which will furnish a lasting remembrance of the thoughtful giver. Read below about the wouderful low pricing ana come as quickly as you can—really you should hurry for there’ll be a rush tomorrow and the week. $40, $35, $30 Suits Consisting of all our finest Broadcloth and Mixture Suits—the very latest models, in the correct colorings. All the fine Suits are to go now at 19.98. Our finest Satin Costumes, adaptions from the Directoire models, and other wise the newest colors, etc., worth $35.0,0 and $40.00, all go now for 19.98 $27.50, $25, $20 Suits Swell models, the best in the market, garments by best makers, the new effects. This lot affords you fine Chif fon Broadcloths and hard-finished ma terials, in colors and black, and you’ll find something to please you. Also fine Satin and Messalino Dresses, worth $25.00 and $20.00, $15 and $12.50 Suits $15.00 and $12.50 Suits, mostly of all wool black Chaviot and. Broadcloth in lp.te models, serviceable' Suits that are to be snapped up quick at the small price of $7.98 for choice. In this lot we’ll close quick about 'fifteen Dresses of Taffeta Silk,' onc- piece styles, in black, navy and brown THE CLOAKS All to Go Xmas Week as Follows: $25 Ladies Cloth and Satin Coats, $16.98 $20 Ladies 7 Fine Broadcloth Coats 14.49 $15 Ladies’ Fine Broadcloth Coats 9.98 $12:50 Ladies, Misses, Chld’n Coats 7.98 $10 Ladies, Misses, Children Coats 6.49 $ 8 Ladies, Misses, Children Coats 5.49 $ 5 Ladies, Misses, Children Coats 3.69 $ 4 Childs Cloaks, Ages 4 to 14 2.49 $ 3 Childs Cloaks, Ages 4 to 14 1.98 $ .2.50 Childs Cloaks, Ages 4 to 14 1.69 $ 2 Childs Cloaks, Ages 4 to 14 1.29 None Reserved. Everything as Above- Slaughter is the Word! il nt wmmmmmmm, NEWS OF THE SHOPS Edited by J. O. POSTELL. It has been some time Blncc I took a stroll through tho railroad shops, and so I took a peep Into the Macon, Dublin and Savannah, Southern Rail way and Central, and found the chaps as Jolly ns though they were all crunching down good and hard on the good things of Christmas—all happy. Tho following are going to spend tlio holidays out of the city. The chaps marked single are on a sort of still hunt for something beyond the usual Christmas frolic—well, I will not say Just what It Is, for It might got them In trouble with their Macon girls: P. I* Totvry, A. R. Campbell, Fred Hoseman, (the former takes a trip to Tonnetieo and the two latter to North Carolina), -John Ousts to Greenwood, 6 C., li L. Cox to Augusta, Go.—all single. Now for tho doubles. C. F. Bumgartner goes to Brunswick and Savannah, fishing (wants to bring a whale home with him, but If he can not turn the trick on a whale he will bring a sea blubber back for tho boys), C. I* Haynes goes to Hutlend. Tho boys say he goes to see the Gulf of Mexico, and so endeth the Christ mas goings for the Central. Bro. Henry G. Holllnsworth has just returned from Birmingham, where he went as a delegate to the machinists' district convention. Lodge "No. 4, I. F. M. The convention eras well attend ed and was a large success. Bro. Ester Nipper has Just returned to work at the Central shops, after a long rest. He looke better, fecle better—and eo do the boys because of his return—and he Is better, sure ftiough. All of the boys at the Central are troubled about Hro. Frank Spikes. Th.y think that he Is acting very much like he Is about to double up, and If this is a fact the young lady has their t.ndereat sympathies. A bog raising contest has Just end* ed among the boys at tho Central. Bro. W. C. Kent won tho prise. He had only one hog—butchered at I months old, net weight 35 pounds and no lard. Bro. M. N. Criswell had throe, 9 months old, net weight 200 pounds each; two of them furnished95 pounds lard. Bro. Kent fed h!h hog on sawdust and Bro. Criswell, a stmon puro machinist, fed his on cast Iron filings. Tho Brotherhood of Railway Clerks will meet at Odd Fellows’ hall tomor row, Monday, at 8 p. m., to elect of ficers for tho next year. Every mem ber will please take notice and bo on hand, as no absent member can be elected to office. All who want any of the pie had better be In attend ance. The following are the recently elect ed officers of tho machinists' uhton for next year: President. W. W. Carmichael. Vice president, M. A. Griswold. Financial secretary, W. E. Henry. Corresponding secretary, C. I* Haynes. Conductor, E. R. Bragg. Delegate to southeastern convention, Georgo Fenn. Trustee for eighteen months, I* E. Hopkins. The following have returned to their .former lobs at the Georgia, Southern and Florida Railway shops: Bros. Pete Lester. L. W. Hendricks. C. T. Williamson. The latter is president of the Central Libor Union. Every body Is glad that the G. 8. and F. have opened up their shops but all M- gret that the above have left the Cen. ml . William Wolf wag summoned by wlro to go to Savannah because of (tie serious Illness of bis brother. He has returned with the good news that he Is better. The nollermakerm' Union met on last Friday night. There was a full attendance and the meeting waa very Interesting In more than one way. It being the last meeting of the year the election of officers being In order tho following wero elected to servo for 1909: President, C. T. Williamson. Vice president, J. E. Harrison. Financial and corresponding secre tary. Thomas Gilbert. Recording secretary and treasurer L. Y. Arnold. Inspector, I* W. Hendricks. The Hon. Robert L. Berner has been appointed- legal advisor and attorney for tho Central Labor Union. This was a happy hit, for Mr. Berner Is a brilliant lawyer of largo experience In the legislature and other linos, where ho can bo of great help to tho labor union Interests. Bro. Homer Jones has Joined the “Moonlight Master Mechanics.” He Is now at tho Q.. S. and F. as night foreman—a well deserved promotion. Mrs. M. F. Abel tho other day pre sented Bro. Abel with a Christmas gift—a beautiful ten-pound girl. Apprentice Charles W. Ellison has been transferred from the Central Railroad shops to finish his last year In the shops at Atlanta. Bro. J. P. Hatfield has finished up engine 383 of the Central. It took Just two months—and when she was run out the boys hod all sorts of con gratulations for Bro., Hatfield. This note Is going to breed a bruise on some chap's nose, for It Is said that Bro. C. H. Sloan, of the Central shops. Is going to spend his Christmas recruiting at the asylum at Mlllcdgo- vllle. Five dollars reward In Confed erate money for the man who said ad. Chicago Is to have a workingman's hospital, to be managed co-operatively by the labor unions, In which free treatment and modtclncg will be given In time of sickness. William B. Wilson, democratic con gressional candidate In tho Fifteenth, district of Pennsylvania, and former national secretary of tho United Mine Workers, was re-elected by at leest 1,500 majority. Congressman Nichols, also a union miner, has been re-elect ed from tho aamo state. Thirty-one representatives of labor were elected to parliament In England at the last election. John F. Tobin has been re-elected Public Printer Leach has resigned and President Roosevelt has appointed Samuel B. Donnelly, former president of tho International Typographical Union, also member of the general ar bitration board of tho New York Builders' Trades, to fill this position. Edgard Bragg, of the Machinists' Union, has accepted a position with the Southern Railway. Bro. E. 8. Chambliss, chief clerk of tho K., D. and S. office forco, woo married to Miss Nell lAdams, of BarnesuSte, on December 2d. May everything that Is good come their way. Bro. C. L. Haynes, hill clerk at tho M., D. and 8., Is now ticket clerk on paesenger trains. Bro. Homer Young takes his place as bill clerk and Bro. E. A. Barfield, night clerk, steps up Into Bro. Homer Young's, place. There Is an apprentice at tho Cen tral Railroad shops that tho boys think Is a real beautiful hoy. His name Is Frank K. Garrett. Bro. Hom er Young at tho M., D. and 8.. la tho beautiful boy there. Tho chaps aro talking of having a boy show "be tween these two with a chroma at tachment. Tho largest Christmas turkey in Ma con. Tho M. D. & 8. shop boys have a turkey that weighs 166 pounds—Tur. key Wilson. This Is Worth Reading. Leo F. Kellnskl, of 13 Gibson street, Buffalo, N. Y., aaya: "l cured the most annoying cold sore I ever had, with Ifucklen's Arnica Salve. I ap plied this salve once a day for two days, when every trace of Ihe sore was gone.'' Heals all sores. Sold un der guarantee at all drug stores. 25c. A Water Farm. Last year Walter ®. 8haw, a one- armed veteran of the Civil War, sold from his “puddles" near Washington, enough Egyptian and Japanese lotu .es, water-lilies, and brilliantly (colored Japanese carp and paradise fish fot aquariums to round out an incomo of nearly 61,200 an acre.—World'a Work. Tho Telegraph Business Of fice, 462 Cherry street. Edito rial Rooms upstairs, next door. GAVEL FROM JERUSALEM AT FORT HAWKINS LODGE From tho Wood of Trees Grown Near tho 8lto of Solomon’s Temple This Gavel Waa Made. Tho regular communication of Fort Hawkins Lodge, No. 418. F. & A. M., of Wednesday night proved to bo a very Interesting meeting. Dr. A. IB. Hlnklo whllo on his tour through tho Holy Land did not forget his. lodge and desiring to bring back something that he thought would bo appreciated by tho lodge nnd life broth ers, selected four or five different kinds of wood, cut from the trees as noar as possible to King Solomon Templo. These pieces of wood he had made into a very pretty gavel. This gavel was presented by him to Fort Hawkins lodge, and mode with it a very appro priate speech. Tho members of old Fort Hawkins lodge feel proud of this gave] as they bellevo It to be the only one In tho United States that was mado of wood from near the temple. •Next in order was tho election of officers for the ensuing year and which resulted as follows: Fred It. L. Stroberg, worshipful mas ter. C.' C. Turner. Sr., warden. M. A. Michael, Junior warden* C. F. Stroberg, treasurer. 8. O. Ryle, secretary. R. C. Evers, senior deacon. J. O. Ryle, Junior deacon. J. Csserlo, senior stewart. W. E. Hamlin, Junior stewart. A. F. Bryant, tyler. J. Coaerlo, trustee for three yefu. J. B. Hart, trustee for two years. C. F. Stroberg, trustee for one year. Heretofore the preceding masters of Fort Hawkins Lodge used a gavel made of wood from Old Fort Hawking which they highly, valued, but Wor shipful Master Stroberg will use as an emblem of authority the beautiful gav el from Jerusalem, and can boast df being the first master to use It. "A Christmas Dinner Table without a few flowers is a Christmas Dinner Table that could be considerably more at tractive.” THESE TWO PERSONS T TWO NEGROES OF 8AME NAME ARRE8TED BY DIFFERENT OF FICERS ON DIFFERENT CHARGES. It developed yesterday that there were two Culumbue I’cniona In Mncon, and that they had been arreted by different offlccra ycaterday on differ ent chargee. They were designated as Number. 1 and 2, the first having "been arrested by , Detective Smith near tho Man- cheeter Mlllx on the chargo of burglary auppoeod to be Implicated In the burg laries of the .tore* of tho Pure Food Co. and M. Bloch, and othore. Coluinbue Peraona No. 2 wa« orroet- ed by Officer Wateon on the charge of loitering. Tbla waa the one put on trial. Ho had been Been by Detective Smith leaving a negro boarding houao three tlmna with a coat In hie poaaea- alon and going to at many pawnahopa. The detective warned him to keep off the atreete, and later ho waa orreated by Officer Wataon. Peraona aald ho waa from Atlanta and had been In the city only a few day. whan he waa aaked by a negro named Kid Boola to pawn a coat for him, the negro aaylng that If he aucceeded In getting anything for the coat he would give Peraona enough money to return to Jackeon. whore he could go to work on the big dam near there. Detective Smith aald that ho had written to Atlanta about the negro and naked that he be held. Tbe cage of loitering waa dlamlaaed, but ha waa held for Inveatlgatlnn. S. SYMAN, “Tailor for Dressy Men.” The Biter Bit. Now York American. Lady Randolph Churchill Invited Ber nard Hhaw to lunehaon, whereupon ho sent the following telegram: "Certainly notl What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well Known habit?" To whJrh Lady Randolph replied: "Know nothin? of your habits. Hop* they art not as bad us your,m*nnm." MIDNIGHT HACK RACE COST RACERS MONEY JEHUS TOOK ADVANTAGE OF A DULL TIME TO HAVE SOME FUN AND FOUND IT EX PENSIVE. Three hnckmen were before the re corder yesterday morning for Indulg ing in a midnight race with their hacks. Somebody had telephoned to send a hark nt onco to tho comer of Fourth and Bav streets, and ono of the port ers In one of the restaurants merely as a matter, of accommodation went out and called a hack and delivered tht mes sage. There were several hacks In‘line at tho union depot, and each thought as business was dull that the fara was worth going ufter, and they start, ed. Ono of the hackmcn aald he had never been on a hack before, except for»tho past two days and was unac quainted with tho city rules. Another said his light went out at tho critical moment, and the other s&'.d the others followed him. It was a nip and tuck race, with Arthur Threatt In the lead, but he ■aid he Just couldn't hold his horse back, no matter how hard ho pulled back on the lines. They passed the officer on tho Fourth street beat below the Snvo Hou-o and ho managed to get the numbers of two of tho hacks. He telephoned these numbers to Officer Jessup *>o that ho cduld get them on tho return trip and tnls tne officer did. In consequence tho race was an ex pensive one. Arthur Threatt and Tom Griswold were fined ten dollar* each, and Napoleon Sampson, the new man, wo* fined two dollars and a half. M. A B. Changii Schedules. Effective Sunday. Docember 10th, tra'n No. 41 on M icon and Birming ham Railway will leave Macon at 4:80 p. m. nnd train No. 42 will arrive In Macon at 11:30 a. m. No change In the irrtval and depar- tur of (onunodatlon train* Not 55 and It.