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'Cuttines Goods Aiming Daily New Linonettss “Morotock” Lin- onette, 10c. — in handsome patterns. “Century” linon- ettes, 15c.—fast col ors. New patterns in white goods for waists. Special lot of white plaid lawns for waists and dresses, 10c. a yard. New Dress Linens New lot of plain and fancy linens for waists and dresses in latest shades. White linens of every weight, width and finish. Special Table Damask Just opened lot of fine bleached table linen, two yards wide, ALL LINEN, 75c. per yard. New Footwear Ziegler oxfords and other good ox fords for spring. The new styles are nowhere. You know Ziegler shoes. Need we say more? Dotcbess Troosers Early spring ship ment of these well- known trousers just received. "W.B." Corsets If you fit your figure with a “W. B.” corset you in sure a perfect-fitting gown. If you wear “W. B.” corsets you know we are right; if you don’t, why not? Hosiery Do you have trouble with your children’s stockines? Have you tried “Ca det” stockings? Lin en heels, knees and toes protect the weak points, and every pair guaran teed. OurSilk Sale We still have a few pieces of silk left over from our sale, that we will continue at adver tised prices. 'Guttines Local Happenings Told in ^ SHort ParagrapHs ^ ^ $ NEWS AND PERSONAL TO OUR ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST LOCAL READERS. Cotton selling to-day at 9 1-2c. COTTON STATEMENT. BY J. H. SUMMERS. Year. Receipts, to Mar. 1 Stock *j«otal receipts on hand Price 1904 11.054 653 11,196 15c. 1905 14,477 4,805 15,738 74c. 1906 15,330 3,425 15,965 104c. 1907 15,874 4,006 15,900 UlAc. 1908 14,820 2,766 15,700 life. 1909 16,980 2,560 9gc. Clock. Clocks. Alarm clocks. ’Phone 28 and get the best. Are you a man? ’Phone 1. Blarney Linen. — You find it at Potts & Parks’. The early gardener stir about. Carmichael ’Phone 28. is beginning to wants your business. You get exactly what you order when you ’phone 28. Curtain swisses, white or colors, at Potts & Parks’. New spring goods arriving daily at Potts & Parks’. Dr. J. D. L. Tench, of Senoia, spent Sunday in the city. Giving away alarm clocks at Scrog- gin Furniture Co.’s. New things in men’s neckwear at Boone-Stripling Co.’s. Nunnally’s candy fresh every week at Holt & Cates Co.’s. Barbecue dinner on old Sargent cor ner to-morrow for 35c. Oxfords and shoes for ladies, misses and children. We can fit the hard to fit. Potts & Parks. Ribbons, Ribbons. — Fancy ribbons for millinery, collars and belts. Potts & Parks. We Sell Linens.—And more linens than any other store in Newnan. All widths and weights. Potts & Parks. New showing of “Dorothy Dodd” shoes and oxfords. Boone-Stripling Co. Men's suits that formerly sold at •510 and $12—small odd lots to close quick at $5.98. Boone-Stripling Co. Tell your troubles to a policeman, but give us your orders for groceries. Adams, ’phone 1. Saturday is the last day you can get tomatoes at 5c. per can. Better get busy. Adams, the Grocer. Our soap contest closes March 11. Better come in, trade, and guess, and get a prize. Adams, the Grocer. Sargent corner to-morrow by the ladies of the First Methodist church. Mrs. S. G. Orr and little daughter, Mary Clinton, of Newnan, arrived Sat urday afternoon to visit Mrs. Mary Nixon for a month or so. — Rome Trib une-Herald. The Newnan Ministerial Association will meet next Monday at the Central Baptist church, at 11a. m. A pnper on the Book of Zachariah will be read by Dr. R. J. Bighatn. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Anderson, of West Point, announce the engagement of their daughter, Carrie, and Mr. Amos E. Wilkinson, of Newnan, the marriage to take place in April. The distance 'between Hogansville and Newnan has been eliminated by the long distance Bell Telephone. The rate for a 3-minute talk is only 20 cents, and the service is efficient. For Rent. — Five-room house at 17 Salbide avenue; a comfortable house, convenient to business section ol the city ; modern conveniences. Address Mrs. J. T. Fain, Anniston, Ala. Mr. Willis Davis, private secretary to Congressman Adamson, is at home on a short vacation. He will return to Washington for the extra session of Congress, which meets in ten days. We are now serving all the leading iced drinks, anil want everybody to eat our cream. Remember, we sell the popular kind—“the good kind.” Reese Drug Co. At the auditorium on Friday evening, April 30, the St. Cecilia Chorus will present the charming operetta, “Egyp tian Princess.” The proceeds from the entertainment will be given to some worthy cause yet to be decided upon. The time, travel, trouble and money saved by using the long distance Bell Telephone can scarcely be estimated. H is only necessary to call “Long Dis tance” in order to get quick and satis factory results. The rates are reason able. Hon. H. H. Revill, official stenogra pher of the Coweta circuit, Judge of the City Court of Greenville, editor of the Meriwether Vindicator, and every thing else distinguished and clever, is attending court this week. He is ac companied by Mrs. Revill. Col. Jesse B. Cole has been appoint ed postmaster at Haralson. ’ [Born, on the 28th ult., to Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Morgan—a son. Time is flying. Keep time with a Scroggin Furniture Co. clock. For Rent. — Brick store-house on Bay street. Apply to A. F. Simril. Dutch collars, linen collars, fancy or plain finish, at Potts & Parks’. Let Benson press that suit of yours. You will find him on the square. With each $10 purchase at Scroggin Furniture Co.’s you get a clock. Mr. John Henry Taylor, of Griffin, is spending a few days in the city. Don’t fail to read the advertisement of Reese Drug Co. in this paper. Holt & Cates Co. have put on ice cream, and other frozen dainties. Feed your hens on ground bone and get more eggs. Carmichael’s, ’phone 28. Leading champion Rhode Island Red eggs, $1.50 for fifteen. Apply to C. C. Puckett, R. F. D. 6, Newnan, Ga. Get in the well-dressed circle. Wear Hackett, Carhart & Co.’s clothes. Barnett, St. John Ai Co. Garden, field and flower seed. All you want, and guaranteed fresh, new crop seed. Reese Drug Co. Try a “Coweta sundae”—the dish we served last season that was so pop ular. Reese Drug Co. The Ladies’ Bible Circle of the First Baptist church will meet next Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. W. S. Carmichael. Our buyer leaves within the next ten days to place import orders for holiday goods. We offer special inducements on china and bric-a-brac until he leaves. Holt & Cates Co. Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs. We can furnish full barred Plymouth Rock eggs for setting at thirteen for $1, or thirty for $2. ’Phone or mail us your orders. Reese Drug Co. For Sale.— Limited quantity of tie celebrated "Marlborough” seed corn; also, several hundred bushels “1 ej’s Improved” cotton seed. Parties di• siring choice seed for planting would do well to see me at once. F. M. Lee. Stockholders’ Meeting.— The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Newnan Market it Ice Co. will be held at the Manuft cturers National Bank next Tuesday afternoon, March 9, at 4 o’clock. N. E. I’owel, Secretary and Treasurer. Don’t fail to visit our store Monday. March 8. We want you to see the bar gains we will oiler in fine stationery. We only have about five hundred boxes of this high-class line, and will sell at about half-price for cash only. Reese Drug Co. Onions, seed potatoes, and all other good kinds of garden seed. We buy our seed in bulk from Landreth. Best seed, larger packets, guaranteed to germinate. Holt & Cates Co. Highest market price paid for hides. G. O. Carmichael. Benson cleans clothes cleaner than any cleaner that cleans. ’Phone 294. A few more seeded raisins left at two packages for 15c. Adams, ’phone 1. Hachett, Carhart & Co.’s clothes sold only by Barnett, St. John & Co. Rooms to Let. —Several nice room", with bath. Apply at 60 Temple avenue. If you want ice, or if you have any plowing or draying to be done, ’phene Mr. Howard Askew and little daugh ter, of Atlanta, spent Sunday in the city. You get a nice alarm clock at Scrog gin Furniture Co.’s with each $10 pur chase. Nets and Laces. — Get the latest tucked nets and all-overs at Potts & Parks’. Mrs. W. E. Richards and children, of Atlanta, are with Mrs. D. T. Manget this week. Mrs. Jennie Alsabrook, of Atlanta, is the guest of Mrs. L. A. Alsabrook this week. No hard times at Swint’s. Go there when you please and you’ll find every body busy. Cleanliness, politeness and courteous attention always at Carmichael’s. ’Phone 28. Dr. J. W. Taylor, of Lutherville, was in the city Tuesday and gave us a pleasant call. Two hundred bushels genuine “Un known” peas for sale by Wahoo Mfg. Co., Sargent, Ga. White Goods. — Blarney linen, flaxon, French lawns, wash chiffon and princess cloth at Potts & Parks’. Misses Kate and Lillie Parrott, of Straw Plains, Tenn., arrived to-day on a visit to their nephew, Capt. T. S. Parrott. The Ladies’ Bible Study Circle of the Central Baptist church will meet next Friday afternoon with Mrs. D. S. Summers. Mr. N. B. Baughman, of Carroll county, spent several days the past week on a visit to his brother, Mr. Joe Baughman. Rev. John Perry, of Atlanta, will preach at St. Paul’s Episcopal church next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock. The public cordially invited. ,S. C. Rhode Island Red Eggs For Sale. — Pure and select stain, $1 and $1.50 for fifteen. Apply to Mrs. W. P. Holmes, 78 Temple Ave.. Newnan. Pumpkin Yams.— Pumpkin yam po tatoes, $1 ; Nancy Hall pumpkin yam seed sweet potatoes, $1.25. March de livery. J. H. McICoy. “American Lady” Corsets.—Dash ingly stylish, perfect fitting—a shape for every figure. We lead in the sale of corsets. Potts & Parks. Hart Scliaffner it Marx Clothes.— To those who have worn these cele brated clothes they need no introduc tion. First spring showing on hand n>w. Boone-Stripling Co. Mr. M. B. Mooney left Wednesday morning for New York and other East ern points, where he will spend a week or ten days buying new spring goods for his firm, the Boone-Stripling Co. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wynn, of New nan, and Mr. Rob Hogg and Miss Re becca Hogg, of Senoia, are expected Friday for a few days’ visit to Dr. and Mrs. R. N. Hogg.—West Point News. We will have an especially attractive line of millinery the coming season. The date of our opening will be an nounced later. Boone-Stripling Co. two One Come Quickly ! — Two mules, wagons and two buggies for sale. 3-room dwelling for rent, close in. W. A. Turner, sr. We want your trade, and will make \ bid with our merchandise and prices that will interest you. Boone-Stripling Co. Patterns. — If you want the best pat tern on the market try the Ladies’ Home Journal patterns. We sell them. H. C. Glover Co. In putting our business on a spot cash basis it i3 our aim to give you bet ter store service. Boone-Stripling Co. We are prepared to furnish icecream for parties, receptions and family use in any quantity or shape. No orders too large for us. Reese Drug Co. Rugs. —Just received a new shipment of rugs and art squares. It is to vour interest to see this line before buying your spring rugs. H. C. Glover Co. Genuine Tennessee Burt oats and Texas red rust-proof oats for sale by H. C. Arnall Mdse. Co. Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Scruggs left this week for Covington, where they will make their home in future. Our recent sale prices of 25 to 33 1-3 per cent, discount on all winter suits will be continued until April 1. Boone-Stripling Co. We are showing the very newest nov elties in ladies’ belts, beltings, belt pins, hand-bags, back-combs and bar rettes. II. C. Glover Co. Don’t forget, we will sell the genuine Wakefield cabbage plants every Satur day at 15c. per hundred. Reese Drug Co. Linonette s stripes. The pick from. Price 124c. and 15c. H. C. Glover Co. Mr. T. A. Brown has turned over his farming interests in the Fourth district to his nephew, Mr. J. A. Davis, and is now making his home with his niece, Mrs. R. II. Ware, at 32 Jackson street. Mrs. J. W. Summer, R. F. D. 1, Sargent, has home-raised winter cab bage (or collard) seed. Will send one tablespoonful on receipt of 5c. in mondy or stamps and self-addressed en velope. For Rent.-Eight-room residence on Salbide avenue, close in; good barn and garden; well located for boarding house. Possession at once. Apply to Mrs. John Askew, at Mrs. R. H. Hard away’s. The Ladies’ Society of White Oak A. R. P. church will give a “dime read ing” at the White Oak school-house Friday evening, March 12, at 7:30 o’clock. Proceeds will go towards re pairing the church. The time it requires to write a letter to Senoia and receive a reply can be entirely eliminated by using the long distance Bell Telephone. The rate for a 3-minute talk is only 20 cents. Call “Long Distance.” Warning. —This is to warn the pub lic not to give employment to my boy Sola Hindsman, colored, ns he is a minor and left my home without cause. Is 12 years of age, and has one large and one small eye. Left home Sun day. Feb. 28. Dave Hindsman. On account of physical disability Burk Ward, M. A. Caldwell, It. H. Ozimore and L. L. Dennis were ex empted from road duty by the County Commissoners last Wednesday. Gen- ral Arrington and Lout Ferrell were admitted as inmates of the county farm. Notice to Teachers.— The next exam ination of teachers will be held on June 18 and 19. next. The questions will be shaped in great part by Dutton’s “School Management” and Dinsmore’s “Teaching of a Country School.” V. A. Ham. County School Commissioner. We want every lady who has not tried Rexall Vegetable Compound to do so. If you have not, bring us this ad. and fifty cents, and get a dollar bottle. This offeF is good for this week only, and to those who have not tried the remedy. Satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. Holt & Cates Co. Lost.—Friday night, 26th ult., be tween Newnan and railroad crossing beyond East Newnan, a large square lynx fur muff. Finder will be suitably rewarded by returning same to R. A. Ingram, Sharpsburg. Mrs. Marthalyn Hyde, an estimable lady of Panther Creek district, died Sunday night at the advanced age of 91. The funeral took place Tuesday morning at Liberty church, where the interment was made. Visiting lawyers in attendance at court this week are 11. W. Hill and B. F. McLaughlin of Greenville, L. R. Ray of Atlanta, C. S. Reid of Palmet to, W. A. Post of Grantville, and Sid ney Holderness of Carrollton. Many residents of Griffin are using the long distance Bell Telephone for business and social talks to Newnan. There’s satisfaction in a personal talk, and the rate for 3 minutes is only 30 cents. Call “Long Distance.” We have recently installed a high- capacity bone-cutting machine and are prepared to furnish green ground bone, fresh and in any quantity. Carmichael’s, 'phone 28. Have you tried our pure ribbon cane syrup? You know good ribbon cane syrup is the best on earth, if it is pure. VVe have the pure kind. Your money suitings, in solid colors and! back if don't like the syrup, e greatest line in town to . A(lams ’ the _ Gr0 We sell and serve ice cream--“the good kind”—the kind tha complies with the pure food and drug law. Reese Drug Co. New Spring Ginghams. — We are _ ,, j showing a beautiful line of spring ging- Feed your hens on green ground bone hams and percales, white and colored —the best egg-producer known. Fresh at Carmichael’s. ’Phone 28. Mrs. G. P. Sewell, of Gadsden, Ala., who has been visiting relatives in New nan, returned home Tuesday. The Daughters of the Confederacy will meet next Tuesday afternoon at half-past 2 o’clock, at the Library. For Rent. — Five-room cottage on Spring street; 5-room cottage on Jef ferson street. J. H. McKoy. Dennison’s crepe paper, (plain and decorated,) Jap napkins, score-cards, pencils. Holt & Cates Co. braids to match. H. C. Glover Co. Mr. C. A. Fain left a few days ago for Buford, Ga.. where he has accept ed a position in the office of the Buford Journal. Mr. Fain is a good printer, and we trust he will be pleasantly loca ted. - Mr. Clement Crane, who came home a week or so ago on account of an epi demic of pneumonia at Young Harris College, has returned, to his school du ties. You will not only get a good dinner but aid a worthy cause by attending the barbecue to be given on the old On Monday, March 8, we will put on sale a full line of line stationery at about half-price. This line will be sold for spot cash; nothing will be charged to anybody at the sale price. Reese I )rug Co. Billings' For Rubber Heels. I have a first-class shoemaker, and am now pre pared to do all kinds of shoe and har ness repairing in short order, and mv prices are right. At A. It. Burdett’sold office. A. Jay Billings. Mr. W. Y. Atkinson has been ap pointed special agent of. the Blue Ridge Fire Insurance Co. for North Carolina and South Carolina. He left Wednes day night for Charlotte, N. C., which will be his headquarters for the pres ent. The Supreme Court has affirmed the ( lower court in the case of Sam Taylor, j convicted of murder at the September term of Coweta Superor Court and sentenced to death. Taylor will he resentenced by Judge Freeman next week. Barbecue Pinner.—The ladies of the First Methodist church will serve a barbecue dinner on the postoffice square (old Sargent corner) to-morrow (Sat urday) at noon. Everybody cordially invited. Those who cannot attend and will send for their dinner will be promptly served. Brice of dinner 35c. The citizens of East Newnan have sent a strong petition to General Bas senger Agent Haile asking that the morning train from Columbus and the afternoon train to the same point be al lowed to stop at East Newnan for the accommodation of passengers desiring to visit Newnan an I return the same day. . After a week spent in unpacking and putting up goods the Woodroof Supply Co. opened for business Wednesday with a full stock of groceries and plan tation supplies. Major I). B. Woodroof and Capt. H. I’. Woodroof are charge, and they will Le pleased to have their friends call and see them ut the old Bradley-Banks Co. stand. Judge Freeman’s charge to the grand jury Monday morning made a profound impression upon the large crowd assembled in the court-room. He was especially clear and emphatic in charging the law regarding “blind tigers,” as well as other violations of the statute relating to the illicit sale of liquor. It was an able charge. Solicitor-General Terrell was taken suddenly ill Tm s lay night in his apart ments at the Virginia House, and was unable to appear in court Wednesday and Thursday. He has about recovered from his indisposition, however, and will be readv to take up the criminal docket Monday morning. Col. W. L. Stallings is serving as Solicitor-Gener al pro tern. Many people have the erroneous im pression that the cost of long distance Bell Telephone messages is expensive. Count the words you can speak in three minutes and see how much a telegraph message of equal length, to the same point, would cost. Then figure in the time you save and the satisfaction you obtain, and the telephone will be cheap in comparison with other agencies. The traverse jury serving this week are as follows: C A Kestler, A B Mc Koy, Luther Kidd, T G Farmer, A II Young, John E Todd, J II Reid, W T Pitta, Z T Jackson, E G Colo, Z B Vineyard, O II Wingo, J T Cash, W A Robertson, J R Wilkinson, 1) T Man get, W C Ragsdale, J K 1’olK, J B Shell, jr., R L Stanford, E L Walton, J B Shell, sr., A J Murphy, L F Tay lor. Measured to Your Order. On Wed nesday and Thursday next we shall have with us a representative of the I well-known tailoring house of Strauss Bros., Chicago, famed throughout the! country for the quality and style of j men’s clothing which they bring out j each season. He will have a full line j of samples, including all the new spring fabrics in suits and trousers, and will take your measure and make to order | anything in his line at about what the same would coat ready-made. We know this firm to be reliable, and do not hes itate to recommend their work and their goods. Remember, Strauss Bros.’ representative will be in Newnan only two days— Wednesday and Thursday, 10th and 11th inst. B. F. Cuttino & Co. A teacher had told a class of juvenile pupils that Milton, the poet, was blind. The next day she asked if any of them could remember what Milton’s great affliction was. “Yes’m.” replied one little fellow, “he was a poet.” HOLT & CATES CO. NEWNAN, GA. IN YOUR GARDEN There is no reason why you shouldn’t have a good garden, and there is nothing that will pay you quite us handsomely on the investment. If your ground is properly prepared, if you have it properly work ed, the only remaining essen tial is GOOD SEED. But no matter how fertile the ground, or how well you have it tended, it is all wasted if the seed are poor. When we say poor seed it does not necessarily mean old seed. They may be perfectly fresh, but poor stock—just as a scrub and a Jersey are both cows. We sell GOOD SEED. We buy our supplies in bulk direct from D. Landreth & Co., who have been in the business for 125 consecutive years. We package them in our place, giving liberal measure. We guarantee that they are fresh, full measure, and the best that money will buy. The most successful gardeners in New nan are among our customers. Are you one of them? HOLT & CATES CO. NEWNAN, GA. THE ALARM CLOCK. When you’re sleeping in the morning. Sleeping soundly, sleeping deep; When the daylight com oh n-crceping With it« stealthy wort o’ereep; When sweet drenmH of peace and comfort In thin morning snooze abound, Aren’t you mud when your alarm clock With a buz/. HturtH ranting *round? Don’t you fool like throwing spasms When that clock l>eginH to go? Don’t you hand it out some cuss words Just to Hort o’ enso your woo? How you hcowI and how you grumble! Don’t you wish you had a gun? Don’t you swear that it’u the biggest I'est beneath the shining sun? That’s exactly how it HtrikeH me When that clock begins to ring. And I wish that I could get hold Of the man who made the thing. How I’d kick him! how I’d choke him! How I’d knock him left and right! That’s the way I feel—but, Htill, I Wind the durn thing up each night. —Bide Dudley. The Best Made Can Be Found at BANTA’S JEWELRY STORE. New Spring Suits. Men, Young Men and Boys Will please us and gratify their own interest by coming to our store and inspecting our spring line of Suits, Trousers, Hats and Oxfords. We have already received a full line, and are ready for you to make your selection. Every suit new, fresh" and latest style. We want your business, and will give you a perfect fit and satisfaction. Try us if you have never traded here. BARNETT, St. JOHN & CO. <2i