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4 - Tin: „VA<‘ON DAILY TELEGRAPH: — .SUNDAY - MORNIa’G, DECEMBER 27, 1903 Overcoats and Suits A Special Sale before the Holidays, of all Suits, Overcoats, Raincoats, Odd Trous- / ers, at 25% DISCOUNT Star Qottoig 'Company DAVE WACMTEL S In Selecting * Your Bank give careful attention to tho stability of the bank and |ta willingness to co-operate with patrons in th ( < development of their business. Our customers value and “bunk on** our willingness and ability to assist them In every way consistent with safe, sound banking. Wheth er their account ho largo or small wo appreciate their patronage. This makes fora mutually satisfactory' and prolltiihlu arrangement and for tbs future well-being of both bank and patron. Wc shall bo pleased to have yop open an account with us. Commercial National Bank W. T. WHEELER. Asst, to Pros. J. J. conn, vice Pres. K. N. LEWIS. Cashier. OHMBKBIBSFi I FRi I Ed FRATERNAL NEWS Edited By LYNWOOD L. BRIGHT. Lillian JUbekah Lotft. So. 2. I. O. O. V.. has arranged for Us degree team to visit WMghtsvIlle this weak, whers they will Install a new lodge of Re- bekahs. The Odd Fellows of the city are looking forward to a treat In the en tertainment to tos given by Rowena Rcbokah Lodge, next Frida/ night. In their hall. East 'Macon. A fine program of vocal and Instru mental selections has been arranged for the occasion. A movement is being m>d«Uo organ ize u lodge of Past fJrandu. the object being to visit the Odd Fellow lodges and confer the degrees. The editor heartily endorses the movement. Retiring Master John A- Pavla, of Macon Lodge, So. 5, 1*. and A. M., Installed the officers elected for nest year and reports Ult t.V past year, sixteen candidates wero raised, four teen affiliated, nine hurled <*nd six demlited. John A. Schofield Is now worshipful master. Wo!IliIn Lodge, No. 394. «F. and A. M.. will on Monday evening bold a public Installation of officer*. Ho- freshmems Will be served. All Masons and their families Invited. Timo and place will nppour In another column. Preparations will be made to con solidate the two councils of Jr. O. U. A. M. on next .Wednesday night at Odd Fellows* hall, over Cllshy's shoe store. Macon Hive. No. ’If, Ladles of the Maccabees, will elect officers at their meeting Monday evening. After the regular meeting a soc'ai session • will be held and refreshmemnts will be served. A large attendance la ex* pected. A Thanksgiving Address. Dr. Jno. 8. Wilder spoke to the Juniors of Savannafr^st the Southslde Baptist Church on the occasion of th« Thanksgiving exercises of the order In that city on Sunday, November 29th. There were four hundred members of tho order present, together with a large number of friends. «,The local members of the Jr. O. U. A. M. will at a mar date attend church In a body. Macon J.odge. No. 123. I. O. O. F., will, Instill officers elected for next year at the meeting Thursday night Macon Lodge is Oft u very prosperous condition, having among Its member ship many business men of the city Many contributions wero sent by the fraternal, orders to the- charitable In stitutions. thereby assisting In mak ing Christmas A pleasant one for the orphans. \: y .. A GEORGIA SOCIAL NEWS (Continued from Page Three). SMITH VILLE. Tho reception tendered by Mr. and Mrs. Howell McAfee at their palatini home to Mr. Emmett McAfee and bride, whs the crowning social event of the week. The entire lower floor was elabo rately decorated lit” tho Christmas col ors, rod and green. An elegant supper was served, and the house was cheery with music, mirth and tho many hearty congratulations showered upon Che happy up!.-. The Christmas tree at tho Metlndlst Church Thursday evening was a decided success. Tho songs and recitations by tho chtldmr were well rendered. The tr»o was heavily laden with presents for all the children, and was Indeed "a thing of beauty and a Joy tg alt.** Mr. Paul Me Kenney, of Wesson, Miss., , Is at home ot^ a visit to his parents after un absence of two yeai.. j The ’’Happy 11«n!in*na" fiaye been tho Gifts That Will Be Appreciated ■ml m— P recipients of much social attention re cently, having been most delightfully cn- Mrs. J. II. ltuudall. Jr., entertained In Your present should possess quality, beauty and at the same time be serviceable. We have a Una of goods which possess both, our stock Is complete In variety, style and usefulness. Mako your selec tion now while the atock If unbroken. a charming manner her Sabbath School class on Friday evening. Those present were Mhtxca May and LuCy Pipkins. Alice Anslry. Pearl Hale. IMIth McKcnney, I.llllau Gibson. Brssl* Richardson. Agnes and Nettle J.e«> Good roe. Mrs. Mamie Chapman and little daugh- ter. of Cordelc, wore guests of Mrs. II. W. W. Williams Co. W» DISCOUNT . Smith. • • MisG«>orgla Watson, after a plenaant .. visit to Mra. II. 8mlih. left for Cordele • • j to visit relatives, tiefore returning to her • •, home In Richland. Mrs. O. P. Htandford. of Rocky Ford. • •. Cla., la spending the holidays with har • • i parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. 8. Burton. • * i Miss klllfe McMtcIntel, who came down • •, from Retina Vista to witness the Mc- • M MIchael-McAfro nuptials, has returned , home. . Miss Blanche Pryor came front Amerl- — • -us Wednesday and was tho guest of Mrs. Emmett McAfee a day or two ba irn going to her home near Leslie. „ Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Wells entertained ■. 1 congenial party of friends Thursday at -8>un elegant six o'clock dinner, tho occa- ^ .Mon being tho birthday of Mr. Wells. MADICON. We odor to our customers n ten per cent discount on nil framed pictures. Wo lmvo the largest stock in Middle Georgia. Nothing so appropriate for New Year promt. W. LAMAR WILLIAMS, Hardeman Bldg., Cotton Avo.—Phono D8. Miss Bee Jarboe was tha charming hos •ta on Friday evening when she enter* alnetl a number of the younger set at » ■proposal” jtarty. For Sale $1,750.00 A hou>, with >lx room and hall on llumiuiln Height*. ir you want n llo.Mi: In • Rood location thl, plurt win Interval you. Cnn arrange term, on this. $800.00 Mrs. H. Jhermnn Jemleon and daugh ter. Ornce Alice, of Jacksonville, who Jl/iave been the guests of Mrs. F. L. Bar- | afby for a week have ret timed home, ij Judxn and Mrs. F. C. Foster, Miss TTarrte FVwter, were the week-end guests luf Mr. and Floyd Foster In Athens. I Misses 1 faille and l«oulse M. Henry Jtnvo rotumed home for the holidays. Mayor Butler left Madison for Balt!- V’Tiore. where he will spend Christmas with A .its daughter. Mbs Virginia Butler. Thry * will return home ooon after the holidays. • Miss Annie Lucy Newton will leave | Monday for Montlceilo. where elm will Inttend a house party given by Miss Maudo I Benton. I Mr. and Mrs. J. Hulme Morgan and {Misses Carrie and May Morgan are In For a large LOT IN VINEVILLE. You £ want to build a homo In the best iva- - Ideuco tectlon of Macon? 14 to heroV* Is your chanco to xecura the lot. Jno. F. and W. H. Cone, Real Estate, Insu ranco ana Loans Phono 206. 607 Cherry St. We have tho following unsolicited let- ‘ tor from James T. Douglas, Harrisburg, 4 Oregon: A Harrisburg. Oregon. June 23. 1901. .•John J. Fulton Co.. Oakland. Cat, ♦ Gentlemen: I have had Diabetes for j over two years and was almost tn. Was {(vary weak and roukt hardly walk. A F friend of mine told me of tha Fulton a tabetic Compound, and I have now Iff token thirty tottles and am feeling fine. V and cob aay that I am sure If l had not ^•rotten relief In some way I would now ; have been under the sod. Hence. 1 can i spark for your compound. It did tho Jjtftrtt for me. What will you charge mo >“ or three dosen? t-" 1 ■■ • Yours respectfully. JAMK8 T. UOl’OLAH. Another^Bsme mall brought s letter mas noitaaym. , • . >•.. Mbs Bessie Walton wilt Jeavo 'early In January for Gainesville, Fla., where •he will spend some months with friends. Miss Mury Walton Trammell has re turned from Lynchburg, Vo., where she has been attending Randolph-Macon Col lege. \ Miss Richmond Walton has returned home from Marietta, where she was the guest of Miss Annie Laurie Adams. Misses Mamie Hunter and Ola Johnson, who have, been students .at COX College, are at home for the holidays. - Mr. and Mrs. Tharpe Baldwin will be the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Langford at Conyers. - . Mr. Albert Mobley and Miss Ju!!a Mob ley. of Mm-on, are the guests of Judgo and Mrs. F. C. Foster. Miss Nnna Mayo Richter, of Milled**- vllle. Is tho guest of her grandparents, are visiting Mrs. Laura Stovall. Miss Utissie nolle Rawls has returned to her home tn Dublin. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Crawford, of Greene county, wero hero shoppie- Friday. Mlsa Vera Cone will be hostess during the holidays at a delightful birthday Phoebe Ralrtwater Is’-In Atlanta the guest of her brother, Mr. J, S. Rain water. ■ Miss Nonle Qullllan has returned to Carrollton after a-visit W. W, Baldwin. I to her sister. Mrs. dron, of Rutledge, are the guests of Mrs. A. A. Bell. Miss Della Hllsman. who ta attending the Normal. Is spending the holiday with -ii. uuu mra. «-. a#, uiit, 01 Aupnmo, ere the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Muslin. MJ»s Viola llitsman Is visiting her sis- t*r< Mrs. H»n Holloway and Miss Lena home In Decatur, whera she will spend Ihs holidays. Marked for Death. “Three years ngo I was marked for death. A graveyard cough was tear ing my lungs to pieces. Doctors fail ed to help me. and hope had fled, when my husband got Dr. King’s Now Discovery,” says Mrs. A. C. Williams, of Rsc. Ky. “The first dose helped me and Improvement kept on until I had gained 38 pounds In weight nnd my health was fully restored." This medicine holds the world's healing re cord for coughs and colds and lung and throat diseases. It prevents pneu monla. Sold under guarantco at drug stores. 60c and 31.00. Trial bottle free. THIS MAH LOST HIS HAT BUT 'TWAS FOUND FOR HIM The Only Incident of Note at tho Unlop Depot During Christmas Day. Christmas Rush Over ! from R. B. Pickling; the druggist in * ltlarkvilli*. 8. C., *from which wc quote: ^fl have had a customer who had Dla- MACON CITY DIRECTOR: R. L POLK & CO. have commenced the. active canvass of the city; we will include the city proper and all suburbs. The assistance extended to us from business men all others will be rely appreciated. R. L. POLK & CO., Publishers JtROMt: LENNOX, Telephone 2122 767 Poplar Street » am being report- "The funnlcat thing I’ve seen around here In a long time," said Special OOT- ecr Rodgers at tho union depot yesterday, "was a man who bad lost hts hat yester day. It was plain to see that ho 1**J taken about nno too many, and Imagined that ho had tn some way lost hts haL Evidently he Imagined that tt was on the floor or th« ground, for he walked all over the depot, all over the sidewalk, and down tho street as far as Mulberry, with hla head bent down as If expecting to find the hat In his pathway. For along time hla actions were such as to excite curt ostty, nobody ever dreaming why he wai doing so curiously, and Anally I asked him what ho had lost It was the first time. 1 suppose, that any one had asked him the question, and he looked at me for some time and said: 'Why don't you set, I hat. I have lost my hat.' It was then that I saw he had been tapping the tip (pie. and 1 took his hat off from hts head I and handed It to him. He slowly exam ined the hat and assured himself that It was hla own hat. and then he thanked me I profusely, saying that he bad been hunt ing that list for the peet two hours. 1 ' ' oJ dally through Pulton's Diabetic Com- l nouud. You may ask how It Is possible a peri * n*«-ov»r under the Kill tor treatment when medical text books ad- wht< <et us say tn reply, that when the laic tn J. Fulton discovered he had Bright's ease, and that the text books had no cWe for Inflammation of the kidney*, was the real difficulty, he set out m a new direction to evolve an enrol lien t t at would ieduce Inflammation tn the ^Mncy tissues.- lie worked It out and i->Aummatton of the kidneys ell along the iii«e (iota kidney trouble to Bright's dta- reae. even m the chronic forms. Is now i arable In about eighty-seven per cent n nil cute Diabetic# took It .upon the theory.that and sine lil ** litam If ttMM MM iMillMrt rune- THESE THREE PACKAGES MADE UP A COMBINATION Capt. John I Three Mei • Hardemar ibers Of Hit Remembered by Old Company, unoanp proeeei it . pipffl uhK tea. *1 It did. Mil much mere i 11 dtsitaet ktdnev trouble. I high catrem by the old nn-mbers of the Floyd Rifles, the company he commanded loo kmg, a« did his father before him. On Christmas day he received three •ci-trawi packaces. One waa some eggs, i one was a pa. kage of eugar, and the < - ther was a tottle * r wl i»kv. good whla- We are now in position to make up suits promptly at reduced rates. Our stock of suitings is complete and embraces all that is late and up-to-date. We guaran tee the highest class tailoring in the city, correctness in style and perfection in fit. Compliments of the Season. S. 8 Y M A N TAILOR FOR DRESSY MEN. 356 Second St. ill LIKE A HUMAN FOOTBALL THIS CREATURE IS KICKED 8hlpped From City to City, xnd Town to Town as an Undesirable Citizen. Kicked about like a foot ball, sent from town to town, shoved about and shunned as It a; leper, la Bill Laven der. Sent over, almost double, so that one could not seo his taco, and seated by the stove In the negro waiting room of tho union depot yesterday morning was-Bill. He was In dirty, greasy olothes, old slouch hat, his .big bare feet dirty and rusty, and around his neck was a bit of card board on which had been marked, "please help me.’ Bill Lavender Is a seml-ldlotlc ne gro. presumably forty years old, al ways carrying his head bent low to hide his repulslvo face, and while hts home !■ supposed to be at James, or some other station on the Georgia railroad, his homo Is anywhere con siderate people will allow him to stay. Ho la sent away by theauthorltles of tho towns and cities ns soon ns hp roaches them. Nobody wants hlm.ond nobody knows what to do with him oxcept to get rid of him as soon ns possible. How he lives must bo Imagined. Perhaps bis condition may arouso sym pathy as well as pity in some, and a few cents may follow. Possibly this Is enough to keep soul ana body to gether, for ho could hardly wgnt any thing else. Ho was sent away yesterday after noon on ono of tho trains, but ho will bu sent back. And thus from city to city, from town tojown ho goes, living ne best ho may. The putslo 1st what to do with him? Bcwaro of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, system when entering It through the i putable physicians, as the damage they will do Is ten fold 4*-the good you can possibly derive from them. 1 fall's ca tarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Che ney A Co.. Toledo, O.. contains no mer cury. and Is taken internally, acting* di rectly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. In buying Hall'i Catarrh Cure, be sure you get the gen uine. R Is taken Internally and made tn Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testtmonlabi free. Taka Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. MACON’S OLDEST TEACHER'S EIGHTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY Visited Dy Forty Teachers of the Pub* lie Schools of Macon. One of tbo pleasing Incident* of the week just gone was that of the teach er, of the public echootn remembering the oldest of them all. Mrs. Lou Na gle, at her borne, M0* Second street. On December 2*. Mr*. Nagle waa S? year* old. Thl* anniversary of so rip* an age. the'love and high esteem tn which this grand old lady la held by them, with the further fact that tbe*c were Christmas time*, iwhon token* of love and altectloa paas from ono to the other, made the occasion ono that tilled the old lady* home with sunshine and brlghtnea*, and her heart to swell with Joy odlflealkni M the ’ \vi caused her h and gladness. On that day th* forty tearhers call ed. each with tome token to neootga. rany their greetings and wtll wlehea. To remember to call on her would hare been a pleasure In Itself, but the pleasure melted Into Joy who: •ubatantial tribute*- were piled at her feet To be *o loved, to be so well remembered. In the day* when only her ace deprlv** th ■ r h >ol system she ■Saved ,a long and faithfully of her u«efuln»<. »«< to her the .wettest b:. .Mag in life—a benediction. Mrs. N.iet- gave the life to the publt.- school rj-» V , lie. 1 ,,e ef her -V . ■ e t - - .o- -1 '1,1 he tiring quietly at bg turn rv.1 with b*r d.u*t,tar, ± FOR WEDDING AND ANNIVERSARY GIFTS, i FOR DECORATING THE HOME, $ FOR SOMETHING OF PERMANENT VALUE, - $ Sterling Silver, Rich Cut Glass and Fine China Have X Always Been and Always Will be the Recognised ' $ Standard. ± '' THE PLACE TO GET IT IS L. 0. STEVENS JEWELRY STORE 366 Second Street. -I-l-I-H-I-H-H-l-l-I-l-l-l-l' YOU DON'T NEED A LANTERN to find honest stationery. Just come hero and you could eftooso reliable*, stationery with your eyes shut. I*, fact, you couldn't select an lnferioc) quality because we don’t keep thog* kind. No watered Inks,, no-, fllms^J bindings,** no writing papers that ar<k- only blotters.. Seo what wa jiave an® you'll get what you want. MACON BOOK CO. 616 Cherry Street C. F. STROBERG BLACKSMITH AND RUBBER TIRE WORK SPECIALTY All Kinds of Building and Repairing of Carriages and Wagons. PHONE 1244. . (Schatzman’s Old Stand.)’ An Electric Evening Lamp Is ono of tho best Xmas gifts imaginable. Mako some one’s heart glad by providing this comfort and luxury. It is con venient to read by, to sew by, or for the children to study by. Think it over. Wc have various styles to select from. Macon Railway & Light Co. Edward Lok. Pres. John II. Donaboc. V. P. Jerome Herman. See -Trea*. Bedingfield & Co., Inc. P. 0. BOX 1098, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. MUMM’S EXTRA RYE. 4 Quarts $ 5.60 1 Gal. Jug $ 5.10 8 Quarts $10.50 2 Gal, Jug 12 Quarts $14.00 3 Gal. Jug ... OLD NICK ROLAND CORN. . .$ 9.60 ....$13.50 4 Quarts 5 Quarts 12 Quarts .. .$ 3.50 1 Gal. Jug .... $ 3.20 .. .$ 6.75 2 Gal. Jug .... $ c.oo .. .$ 9.50 3 Gal. Jug .... $ 9.00 ’ILLOW BROOK RYE. .. .$ 3.00 1 Gal. Jug ..., $ 2.W .. .$ 5.75 2 Gal. Jug ..... $ 5.25 .. .$ S.50 3 Gal. Jug .... $ 7.75 4 Quarts . 8 Quarts . 12 Quarts . We Carry a Complete Line of Wines and Liquors. Write For Our Complete Price List.