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My fall and winter opening is more complete tlian ever before and 1
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CLOSE PRICESaMGOOD MERCHANDISE
than! have ever been
I have the most complete up-to-date and largest line of General Merchandise ever brought to Spring Place and I mean
to give mv customers the benefit ol my close buying and low prices. Ii
SHOES I have a'Targe llfie 6i shoes on hand and these combined with the large stock recently bought enables me to make
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prices that are hard to duplicate, considering the fact that shoes in market have to per cent.
prices it will pay you to see my line before buying elsewhere for I can save you money. The most complete line of Dress Goods
ever shown in Spring Place is now on my shelves.
CLOTHING to ft- bo v; c e v- can fit you in anything you need in this line and will no fr"
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BARGAIN DAYS
LOOK OUT NEXT WEEK for announcement of BAR¬
GAIN DAYS. You remember what I gave you last fall?
Well 1 am going to do the same thing this fall. Watch
out for the days; will tell you in next paper when they
will be. Yours Truly, J
L. W. THOM PS9N.
FRANKLIN SOLD BY HARRISON
Well Known Printing Company
Changes Hands for Sum of
$ 100 , 000 .
After thirty-three years of suc¬
cessful management and bminess
career. Gobme! Genre e W. 11 irri-
8 VI has sold the Franklin Pub¬
lishing fv Printing Company to
J, L. Turner A Go. for the sum of
$ 110 , 0 ( 0 The new management
took hold of the business last
Monday. .
The Franklin Publishing &
Printing Company was establish¬
ed in 1859. In 1878 a uejy man¬
agement took hold of the husi
m ss, and Colonel Harrison was
put at the head. During the past
thirty years all the' state cmi
truets for printing have been
awmled to this firm, with the
ex upturn of on« time, when the
C n-titunion Job Printing Com¬
pany obtained it- It is one. of
the largest printing companies in
the Svmt h. 'I h • animal pay rolls
amount t> nearly t|5'.009, and
there are constantly 150 persons
elll ployed. The best known pub¬
lication put out by them is the
Soothe n Cultivator.
Colo ml Harrison is well known
politically, having been on the
water board as commissioner for
three successive terms, and pres¬
ident two of those terms. He
was on the staff of Governors
Northern, Atkinson, Candler and
Terrell. As soon as business
matters are settled he will travel
abroad for about a year, return¬
ing to again engage in an active
business life.
J. L, Turner A Co. will from
henceforth occupy the large brick
building on Ivy street, and keep
going the successful business re¬
lations the firm which they haw
succeeded.
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A Guaranteed Cure for Piles.
It dung. Blind, Bieediug, Pro¬
truding Piles. Druggists are
authorized to refuud money if
PAZG OINTMENT fails to cure
in 6 to IT days. 50c.
ZONE OF INJURY EXTENDED
Attorney General Hart Investi¬
gates Destruction by'
Sulphur Furre?,
Attorney General John O. Hart
..andJ.igort Johnson, of Atluntu*
wiio represent the state in the
litigation in the supreme court
of the United States growing out
of the destruction of forestry and
vegetation in North Georgia
c unities by fumes from the cop¬
per smelting plants at Duckiown,
and Isabella, Term'., have return¬
ed from a trip through Gilmer
and Fannin counties, where they
went to secure additional evi¬
dence for presentation to the
court. They examined much of
the damaged territory in those
two counties,
deplorable,” The conditions Judge the.e Hart are said. g*
“The extent, of the destruction
his not been exaggerated and
the zone over which it extends
has been considerably widened.?
Judge Hart and Attorney John
son will go to Washington the
latter part ‘ f the month to ap
pear before the United btates
supreme court in this ease ai| on
Mi-inlay, October 1st, when
early hearing will be secured. :
In the meantime the special
legislative committee appointed
fc > investigate conditions in the
North Georgia counties as the
suit of these sulphur fumes will
make another visit there and se
cure further evidence for use by
the attorneys. This commission
is composed of Commissioner of
Agriculture T. G. Hudson, State
Geologist W. S. Yeates,
Chemist J. M. MeCandless, W.
H. Shippen, of Gilmer. andJ. D
Chastain, of Fannin.
Well Worth Trying.
W. Hi Brown, the popular pen
sion attorney, of Pittsfield, Yt.,
says: "Next to a pension, the
best thing to get is Dr. King’s
New Life Pills.” He writes:
“they keep my family in
did health.” Quick cure for
Headache, Constipation, C.C.
ness 25c. Guaranteed at
Cole’s store.
THE MURRAY NEWS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 21, BH-6
TWELVE-INCH SNAKE
FOUND IN CABBAGE.
While Mrs. J. B. Bostick, of
Atlanta, waspr 'paringa cabbage
f <r dinner last Saturday she dis
covered a cabbage snake twelve
in h 8 in length, which ii nowon
exhibition at the Greene I)rug
Co., 808 Marietta street.
Mrs. Bostick did not at fir.t
notice the snake. She cut ff a
piece of the cabbage and laid it
aside as she saw in it what ap¬
peared to be a piece, of string
rolled up. A few minutes later
she was startled to see the string
unwinding itself and crawling
over the table.
The snake was taken to the
drugstore where it was examined
under the microscope by I)r. W.
J. Anton, who declares that its
head was plainly distinguishable
and that there is no doubt as to
its being u living creature.
The cabbage which Mrs. Bos¬
tick was preparing when she
found the snake lias not yet been
served, ami its discovery is said
: t, 0 have caused quite a slump in
; t), e demand for that particular
.vegetable in the green grocery
J establishments of that section of
| the city.
The snake is in a bottle at the
Greene Drug Co., and has been
viewed by a large number —
cr owds seeing it Saturday night
aa ,f a ll day Sunday. One woman
w j 10 sa id she came up to make
f ua of suc h a ridiculous thing as
a cabbage snake, went away de
claring that she will never eat
another piece pf cabbage as long
as 8 h e Jives.
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j I with sails 0 ne would that could buy not a sail be reef- boat
jed. bility There of little is always too that much possi¬ wind
a
that makes a cautious man afraid
to go unprovided. The thinking
man, whose stomach sometimes
goes back on him, provides tor
his stomach by keeping a bottle
lvodol her Dyspepsia . wlthi
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reach. Kodoi digests what you
and restores the stomach to
i the condition to properly perform
I its functions. Sold by S.H.Kelly.
A PROCLAMATION
By His Excellency, Joseph M. Terrell.
Governor ol Georgia.
Ex KCITTIVK 1 > KPAKTMKNT,
State ok Georgia,
Atiaxta, July 31.
Whereas, The General Assem¬
bly, at its session in 1906, pro¬
posed an amendment to the Con¬
stitution of tin’s State, as set forth
in an Act approved July 31,1906,
to wit:
A bill to be entitled an Act to
propose to the qualified electors
of this State, an amendment
to paragraph 2 of Constitution section 1 of
article 11 of the
of this State as amended by
the ratification by the quali¬
fied voters of this State of the
Act approved July 19, 1904,
and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by
the General Assembly of Georgia,
That the following amendment is
hereby proposed to paragraph 2,
section 1, article 11 of the Con¬
stitution of this State, as amend¬
ed by the ratification by the
qualified voter* of this State of
the Act of July 1!), 1904, to wit,
by adding to said paragraph Wie
following language:
“JPmvided, however, that in
addition to the counties-now pro¬
vided fqr by this Constitution,
there shall be a new county laid
out from the counties of Irwin
and Wilcox, bounded as follows:
‘Beginning at the point where
the south line of land lot No. 167
in the third district of Wilcox
county crosses the Alapaha river,
and running due east along the
said south line to the northeast
corner of land lot 159 in the
third district of Irwin county:
thence north to the northeast
corner of land lot 172 in the third
district of Wilcox county; thence
east to the northeast corner of
land lot No. 174 in the third dis¬
trict of Irwin county; thence
soufti to the northeast corner of
land lot No. 157 in the third dis¬
trict of Irwin county, and thence
east to the northeast corner of
• and lot 150 in the third district
of Irwin county, and thence south
to the northeast corner of land
lot No. 66 in the third district of
Irwin county; thence east to the
northeast corner of land Jot 62 in
the third district of Irwin county,
and thence south to the northeast
corner of land lot No. 32 in the
third district of Irwin county;
thence east to the southeast cor¬
ner of land lot No. 233 in the
fourth district of Irwin county,
and thence north to the south¬
west corner of land lot No. 206 in
the .fourth district of Irwin
county, thence to the southeast
cori er of land lot No. 39 in the
foul ill district of Irwin county,
and thence north along the east
lin ■ of land lot No. 39 to the
Ocmulgee river, and thence in a
westerly direction along the Oc
mulgee river to the point where
House creek in Wilcox county
empties into the Ocmulgee
river, and thence in a westerly
direction along the said House
creek to the point where the
said House creek crosses the
north line of land No. 255 in the
third district of Wilcox county,
and thence west along the north
line of said land lot 255 and the
district lines between the first
and third districts in the said
county of Wilcox to the Alapaha
river, and thence in a southerly
direction along the said Alapaha
river to the starting point.’
“That Fitzgerald shall he the
county site of said county.
“Said county shall be attached
to the Third congressional dis¬
trict, and to the Oconee judicial
circuit until another circuit shall
be established embracing the
present county of Irwin, in which
case it shall belong to said new
circuit, and shall be attached to
the Fifteenth State-Senatorial
district.
“That all legal voters residing
in the limits of said county of
Beu Hill entitled to vote for
members of the General Assem¬
bly under the laws of Georgia
shall on the first Tuesday in Jan¬
uary 1907, elect an ordinary, a
clerK of the superior court, a
sheriff, a coroner, a tax-collector,
a tax-receiver, a county surveyor,
a county trea B iirer, and three
commissioners of roads and rev¬
enues for said county, said elect¬
ion to be held at Fitegerald, the
county site of said county.
“That the superior courts of
sai l comity shall be held on the
first Mondays in April and Octo¬
ber of each year.
“The limits of the said county,
the congressional ^nd senatorial
districts and the judicial circuit
to which it is attached, the time
of holding tiie terms of the supe¬
rior courts shall be as designated
above until changed by law.
“Sec. 2. Be it further enacted.
That when this proposed amend¬
ment shall be agreed to by two
third (2-8) « f the members elect¬
ed to each of the two Houses
and shall have been entered on
the Journal of each House with
the ayes and nays taken thereon,
the Governor is hereby directed
to cause the said proposed
amendment to be advertised in
at least 1 ivo papers in each con¬
gressional district at least two
months before the next general
election, to he held on the first
Wednesday in October, 1900,
and !;<* shall also provide for a
submission of the proposed
amendment at said genera! elect¬
ion. And if a majority of the
electors shall ratify such propos¬
ed amendment by a majority
of the electors qualified to vote
for members of the General
Assembly, such amendment shall
become a part of the Constitu¬
tion of Georgia.
“vSec. 3. Be it further enact¬
ed, That it shall be the duty of
the Governor to submit said
election in the following form i
That those voting in favor of
said proposed shall have written
or printed on their tickets, k Jn
favor of Ratification of the
Amendment to the Constitution
Creating the County of Ben Hill,
with. Fitzgerald as the County
Site.’ and those opposed to the
ratification of said amendment
shall have written or printed on
their tickets, ‘Opposed to the
Ratification of Amendment to
the Constitution Creating the
County of Ben Hill with Fitzger¬
ald as the County Site. i»
Now, therefore, I, Joseph M.
Terrell, Governor of said State,
do issue this my proclamation
hereby declaring that the fore¬
going proposed amendment to
the Constitution is submitted fpr
ratification or rejection to the
voters of the State, qualified to
vote for members of the General
Assembly, at the general elect¬
ion to be held on Wednesday,
October 3, 1906.
JOSEPH M. TERRELL,
By the Governor : Governor.
Philip Cook, Secret ary of State,