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A REMARKABLE DRESS
GOODS OPPORTUNITY.
Here is an OPPORTUNITY that stands out
even at this house of great opportuni
to use a Hibernianism, “unusual opportunities
common here.”—But this event is of extraordi
importance to every woman within twenty
miles of Sylvania.
We have accumulated and placed on sale a line
Spring and Summer Dress Goods that is positive
unequaled in variety and quality. We bought
these goods months ago when buying could be done
most advantageously. We bought them at figures
will enable us to offer the best woolen, cotton,
and silk fabrics at the lowest price that will be
quoted anywhere this season. Glance over the few
quoted here, then come and examine the goods
compare them with the values offered elsewhere.
You will find every pattern “down-to-date,” every
fabric thoroughly reliable and every price down to
“bed rock.”
40 inch fancy Mohairs in all leading shades
98 cents, per yard, 57c
86 inch imported Habutal silks (genuine) worth
1.00, per yard 65 to 85c
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THE CLOTHES BEARING THIS LABEL - i £2 amount of
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GOOD ROADS’QUESTION.
Ilerschman, Ga., Mar. 11th, 1906.
Hon. L. H. Hilton,
Sylvania, Ga.
Dear Sir:
Having been asked by you for an
expression of my views on the good
roads proposition, I take pleasure in
responding to same. for bonding
I am emphatically for
the county with long term bonds
ample funds to put the public high
ways in a No. 1 condition in the
shortest possible space of time. I
have the highest opinion of the effi
ciency and honesty of the board of
commissioners, but the task set
them, with the means at hand, could
only Imj accomplished by some my
thological god like Hercules. Every
day our roads are left in their pre
sent condition puts our county fur
ther back in the march of progress
Surrounding counties are fast im
proving their roads, and parties
seeking homes or investments will
surely give preference to those hav
ing good roads. It is most impor
tant to every class of business men.
The town merchant wants it to bring
the fanner and his produce to his
market. The country merchant
needs it to get his goods home and
products away. Above all the far
mer, like myself, needs a good road,
to bring in fertilizers and carry to
market his crops.
I saw in Savannah, the other day,
a gasolene auto-truck delivering
goods, and was told it easily did the
work of three heavy teams of horses.
If we had a well graded, graveled,
and bridged highway from my dis
trict to Sylvania, a similar machine
could make two trips per day with
ease carrying 15 bales of cotton and
on return trip 5 or 6 tons of guano.
Figure what that would save the
farmer. But why argue over a
plain business proposition, that any
sensible man who took pains to look
into the matter must recognize the
utility of. I had a friend, now
deceased, who bought a place five
miles from Augusta very cheap be-
MODISH
MILLINERY.
Millinery as an art has possibilities unsurpassed
by few™she who can shape and trim a hat to set
lightly on woman’s head and add to woman’s “crown=
ing beauty” has done more than make grow “two
blades of grass where none*grew before.”
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MISS MELL SCH1EDER
Who has charge of this department is surpassed
in ability by none, and equaled by but few.
We have yet m hand a few of our best trimmed hats which escaped Our
Millinery Opening Sale and are still to be had. No room here for detailed
description or price; ’tis sufficient to say that all of the most popular shapes
are included in Burnt Leghorn, Milan and Chip Straw, Fancy Braids, Malines
and Laces, also a nobby line of “ready*to*wear” ladies, misses and children.
cause it was inaccessible by dirt
road, though a railroad ran through
with a siding on the place. A few
years after there was a public road
opened, graded and graveled through
the place; it simply quadrupled the
value of this farm. I asked the
gentleman how much he could haul
on two mules. He replied the only
question was what the wagon would
hold up, the mules could pull all
one could get on the wagon.
The government stands ready to
give us expert aid to start us right
in scientific road building. The R.
F. D. of mails would be wonderful
ly helped on first class roads. Do
away with the fences, they have long
passed the day of usefulness, are an
immense tax on the fanner, and the
timber to fence with is gone. This,
to me, is an impersonal matter, as I
have lived under the no-fence law
for 20 years, and as it costs 5 dol
lars per acre to fence a 40 acre field,
we are satisfied to so remain.
Straighten the roads as much as
possible, bond, the county suffi
ciently, get an expert, and let each
road out at contract, the money will
be paid out in the county, and in
that way add very much to the lo
cal circulation. I sincerely regret
to see our old county, in which I
was born and bred and whose every
stick and stone I love, dragging
along at the tail end of the proces
sion. Let us get up in the lead in
this matter and let some of the
others come to see how we do things,
sitting at our feet to learn wisdom.
Wishing you success in your ef
fort to work up interest in this im
portant subject, and thanking you
for the invitation extended to me to
express my views, and with kindest
personal regards, I am
Yours truly,
J. T. Wade.
TO THE FARMERS.
Dear brother farmers, can we
get, down to business and carry
out the resolutions formed by
our delegates sent to the New
Orleans couveutiou last January,
SYLVANIA. SCREVEN COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MARCH 3#. 1906.
or will we continue to be slaves,
to increase the wealth oi Wall
street speculators, By all
means diversify your cotton and
crops and be independent, which
yet a profit on our cotton surplus
should be more a crop,
by raising our food supplies at
home. The opposite is sure to be
the result with a lage amount of
fertilizer bought and a large area
planted in cotton. We bad just
as well try to m>veScreven coun
ty over in Swutli Carolina as to
try to maintain good prices with
an overproduction of cotton.
Under these circumstances the
speculators have all the advan
tage of us and we are left with
poverty as reward for our labor.
It is absolutely the duty diversify of every
individual tanner to
Ins crop and make the south
prosperous and independent.
It lias often been said cotton is
King and it seems that the
world stands ready with humble
submission to his majesty. We
have had ample experience in
the last fourteen months to
teach us the proper course to
pursue in this year’s work on the
farm. Wo should be more
thoroughly organized, every
farmer should be in perfect har
mony with the Southern Cotton
Association and he a unit in its
vital dictation. Diversified agri
culture is fhe only road io success
for the southern farmer. So
stand pat boys and victory is
ours, Yours for Joe,
Farmer.
IMPORTANT.
All those who failed to meet mo
in the various districts on the days
appointed for the collection of the
road tax, will meet me in Sylvania
on the 10th day of April, 1906. It
will be wise to come to Sylvania on
that date, as I will be here then to
collect, the tax for the 34th District.
Remember the 15tlv of April is
the last day, and the 10th is the
best day.
A. B. Lovett, Clerk.
TO THE VOTERS OF
SGREVEN COUNTY.
Remember that it is absolutely
necessary for every voter to register
before he can vote in the primary,
which is to be held on the first day
of May, 1906, and that it is
necessary to register by the 20th
day of April, as the registration
books will be closed on that date,
and turned over to the registrars,
that the disqualified voters may be
stricken off ten days before the pri
mary; so, you will only have from
now until the 20th of April to regis
ter.
You will notice that the tax col
lector has appointed from one to
three registrars in each district of
the county, in order that every citi
zen may have an opportunity to
register. You will notice, in anoth
er place in this paper, the parties
who have been appointed in your
district, so, please see them at once,
and register, for the time will soon
he out.
I realize that this is a very busy
season of the year, but, at the same
time, we must understand that the
elective franchise is the palladium
of Liberty, and, as said by the Great
Commoner, Jefferson: “Eternal
vigilance is the price of Liberty,”
and no one should fail to exercise
this great prerogative of an Ameri
can citizen.
It may be slid, with some degree
of truth that, as I am personally in
terested in this nomination, my
mind is inclined more than it should
towards my own race, but I hope
that I shall not forget my duty as a
citizen and my uprightness as a man,
in my desire for personal preferment;
so, this urgent request made to the
voters of the county is made with a
desire that we may have a full, fair
and impartial expression of the citi
zens of the county as to their pref
erence for representative in the next
general assembly.
So, let every one remember the
day the registration books close, and
also the day on which the primary
will be held. II. S-AViutk.
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No longer do we hear the horn of the “penny
post” nor read the signs of “Ye Tailor”===They
were good old institutions in their day, but their
day is past, The old man, middle aged man or
young man now who finds himself in need of a
spring suit does not look to the tailor nor to the
“merchant tailor” but to the down=to=date mer=
chant who carries a first class line of “ready=to=
wear” clothes. In our illustration we show three
of the most popular of ah the Spring styles and
just here we wish to call your especial attention to
the broad shoulder effect and the full length full
skirt which is strictly the “correct thing”; for,
spring wear.
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Mens’ single or double breasted serge suits,
three quarter full lined, $9.98 to $17.50.
Mens’ all-wool fancy worsted and cassimeres
worth $10 and $12 for $6,98.
These are Genuine Bar=
gains at Prices Named.
TO THE COTTON GROWERS.
President 1 am in receipt of a letter presi- from
M. L. Johnson,
dent of the Georgia Division, S.
C. A., saying that for this the apportion- is
ment of dues county
.$290.68 for the year 1906. Now,
our treasury is pract organization ically deple
ted ; the state lias
called on us for our dues, and, in
order to longer affiliate, it will be
necessary to settle them.
The association has just gone
through one of the most stupen
dous fights of its kind in the his
tory of the cotton market. For
the last sixty days the bears have
been holding at a standstill the
price of cotton. But the back
bone of the opposition bear has been
broken, and the great leader.
Price, has, in an open letter, ad
mitted the defeat of the bears,
and backs up has faith by appear
ing as a bull in the cotton market.
Just what the result of the victory
will be, cannot yet be seen.
There arc thousands of bales of
cotton still held by farmers and
warehouses all over the south, and
these will get the benefit of the
advance in prices.
Brice’s position, however, is ca
pable of two constructions. By
allowing the price to advance in
the face of the opposition, increase lie pos
sihlv hopes to cause the
in acreage for 1906, and then, in
case of an over crop, regain the
log sustained already bv his de
feat. In this wav he would ac
complish bv strategy the' what he
never could out in open. Let
our farmers reduce their acreage
as much as possible; every little
is a help, and if every man cuts
some, a tremendous acreage
tion will be the result.
Quite a number of our people
tell you they are Southern Cotton
Association men, and have the
good of the organization at heart,
hut they don't care to join. Now,
this kind of support counts for
something, but if everybody felt
the same way, we would have no
organization. If you uro not a
member of the Southern Cotton
Association, send in your name to
Mr. A. B. Lovett, our secretary,
and one dollar, and be enrolled at
once. There are a number of
men who are making the organi
zation a success; they are giving
their time and their talent to the
people. These men have t< be
paid, as well as other expenses in
cident to carrying on the organi
zation ; and to do this, the money
must come from somewhere.
Now, if you are in sympathy with
the movement, send in the dollar.
You needn’t lose time to come to
town to do so; send it by a friend,
or by the mail, and help us to
raise the necessary funds. Nobody
will ask you for the money, for
the reason that no one has the
time to go around and take up a
collection. It is as much your
business as any one vise’s, so
please do not hesitate to send in
one dollar at once to the secre
tary, as this will greatly faeili
tate matters, and help us out.
There is not a man in the county
who lias not been benefited forty
times the amount, m this crop.
And 1 believe that there are men
enough in the county belonging to
the organization, with and who are in
sympathy the movement, to
make up the assessment.
A word as to organization : If
your district has not been orga
nized, and as many as five men
will appoint a place in the dia
trict to meet and organize, either
Mr. Adams, the district organi
*cr. Mr. Lovett, the secretary, or
myself, will take pleasure in meet
j I iug tice, with for von, the on purpose a few of days orgnni- np
j ring.
Now, gentlemen, as to raising
j the assessment for this county, I
I have only this to say: It is a
j good, cool, business proposition.
j and people, is so except treated the by farmers. every class The of
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j banks are simply sent statements.
and respond by return mail,
Can’t two hundred and ninety
eight dollar, of our citizens send us in
one each, at once. Let’s
NO. 34.
attend to the matter. Cotton is
now 11 8-8 cents per pound, ami
climbing every day. For our own
welfare let’s raise the money.
Organize, and send in from your
districts if possible; if not, send
in a dollar by each individual who
will contribute; and if you can’t
make ir a dollar, let's have 50
cents, or even 2b cents—it all
counts in the end.
This is no polities or public
charity, but,a bread and meat is
sue, that, thank God. we've won,
and on the eve of victory, let’s
pay in our assessments, and help
to drive every thief from Wall
street, or his emissaries from our
own county. Organize, send in
your assessment or dollar, reduce
your acreage, and all's well; re
fuse to do either, “and the hears
will get you. if you don't watch
out.”
H. A. Boykin. Pres.i
Screven Co. Div, S. r, A.
R. F, D. NO. .
Corn planting is the topic of the
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Boykin and
family, of Jackson, visited relatives
in our burg on Saturday night. L st.
Rev. McCall preached two very
interesting sermons at Green liiii,
Saturday and Sunday last.
The sing given at the home of
Miss Lottie Usher on Sunday own
ing was highly enjoyed.
Mr. Lou Overstreet, of Syhanic,
was with us on Sunday as usual.
Wonder what the attractions arc.
Easter will soon be here and oh,
how we all hope to enjoy those eg.;
pickings.
Sometimes.
The Duke of Athol wires that, the
story of his engagement to Mrs.
Potter Palmer is a “pure lie.” ids
Grace not being so gallant as the
lion. Bourke Coeknin, who only
said on a simitar occasion; “I cuii
not discuss it. I can only drpiori
such an unauthorized u e of the
lady’s name.”