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Howe & Co.,
Augusta, Ga.
MAKERS OF CLOTHES THAT FIT. v
—Don’t fail to consult us before
buying a suit and you will be sat
isfied with results. We have some
elegant patterns just imported for
the season trade. Our LEATH
ER-SHADE BROWN is some
thing attractive and our plaids
can’t be beat. Other lines that
are staple the year around. ,
—We want your business and are
willing to come after it. Drop us
a line about your needs and we
will see that you are supplied. Ev
erybody knows us, if you don’t
let’s get acquainted.
Howe 6c Co.,
Augusta, Ga.
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Purity, Mellowness and Rich Flavor
are the distinguishing qualities o(
THE PURE FOOD
Whiskey
It is distilled in the good old Kentucky way and is especially
adapted lor home use. Every bottle is sealed with the Govern
ment "Green Stamp,” a positive assurance of full proof, full
quantity nnd a fully matured age. It stands unequaled as a
rich and healthful stimulant—a sure cure (or many of the
minor ailments of the human system.
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a®. I-5th Gallon ft?
QX l-ull QuartJ gg
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"W kye or Bourbon
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Statement of the Condition of
The Exchange Bank
Located at] Milled gevillo, Ga., at the close of business Fob. o, 1909.
RHEA HAYNE'S JOURNAL
BY J. C. McAULIFFE
* With laden arms she grasps the and chgage In the pitiless struggU
seeker's knees,
In silence pointing back at deeds
undone—
At gifts unseized and burst of song
unsung,
Till numbering grayness colors all
he sees.”
Eliminating the personal as far as
possible, these notes from a personal
journal covering a period of years,
for existence! What desperate depths
are so often reached; how grim is
the despair which looms up with such
fearful, spectral proportion as to
cloud with hazy coloring the bril-
ll^ty of the future, preventing one
from taking new steps, often sending
the weak down to oblivion. If you
win tuccess there |* U Worth the
price? Is self satisfaction a reward
great enough to warrant such under
taking*? The man, or woman, the
mtiHt necessarily Incorporate some- boy, or girl, who goes out to succeed
thing that savors of the nature back j must have another incentive, back of
of them. But If I could emphasize j the work must stand the soul's long-
tbe experiences whlc^i 1 have had j tng to help the world, there must be
down on the farm, out In the woods, a determination to go forward, the
down In the city, and everywhere ! great truth that time, curcumstances.
near! that men go. It would bring | nor fate, canuot keep you from your
some farmer lad and country lass to own must be forever before you. And
a realization of the things right'even then many a time the place will
around them that are dearer far than be reached when one will doubt If
SAMUEL EVANS, SON & CO.
GOTTOMROKERS RND WAREHOUSEMEN
Every Accommodation and Convenience for
Our Customers and the Trade.
HIGHEST PRICES'. PAID FOR COTTON
Your PaErouaae Solicited.
WE
PAY
Highest Gash Frloe
For all Kinds of
COW PEAS
the elusive treasure. are found
in tt’e distance, away from the old
home, away from the loved ones,
away from everything that is good.
the fight will be successful and even
should It he would not It be better to
give up all and realize the great
dream cf life—the one that every-
1T11ED men."
Edwards Boliling Ms
bowers,
With winter’s awful snows are
white,
The tender small of leaves and flow
ers
Makes Mav-tlme In my room to
night.”
The other day a neighbor, a man body dreaniB sooner or later, that of
who has made good, who has benefit-1 contentment where love is fond?
ted his section and his fellowmen, | —«
said In a sort of humble way that hfs | "Though nature's lonesome, leafless
wife was horn In one of the rooms
of the house where the home-folk
reside and thnt he was horn only a
couple of miles away and still lived
in the same community, though his
hair Is tinged with gray, his face is
showing murks of age, his form Is
not qulto so erect as it once was, still
he Is a man for better, much mor n
valuable to his country nnd his dis
trict than many another fellow who
has gone nwajf and caused the world
to do honors to hint by sheer deter
mination.
Staying right around the place
where he was born, struggling on to
make things better, to do better work
for his community, to aid a neighbor
who needed help. It there anything
very much better? Maybe going off.
lighting against almost insurmount
able obstacles, conquering In the bat
tle. may all be pretty nice, hut nfter
the end of the road Is reached, after
the toll Is ended, who will 1% down to
sleep the last sleep and d raw the
drapery around him ns though to
take a sweet sleep gleasant
dreams? f
On the other hand think of the fail
uros of the boys, and oh, of the girls.
For a number of years I've bees
thinking luat every succeeding win-
ecr has been more glorious than lt«
predecessor. This year It seems
doubly true. On ahead there may be
snows and cold wintry winds, hut
up to now the farmers have been bus
ily at work all the time, nothing has
Interrupted them, and still the sun
shines brightly. If this could go on
forever the south could feed the
world, flocks would grace hillside and
valley, fields of grain, truck and cot
ton would greet the passer-by on
every side. What glorious weather!
But It can’t be this way much long
er. The rain must come, the cold
must follow, the beauty of earth must
be marred, but after all Just a month
or two ahead there is the glorious
lipring time 'with Its grasses and flow
ers more beautiful than ever and
then comes again the summer time
with Its propotlouK and wonderful
too, who leave the old home place crops.—Inland Farmer.
THE FARM AND POULTRY
Home itnd Farm
KKHOTUl'KS
.$103,
.' 1ft.
1.
Loans and Discounts.
Demand Loans
Overdrafts.....
Bonds and Stocks owned by
the Bank
Furniture and Fixtures
Due from Bauks and Bankers
in the State
Due from Banks and Bankers
in other States
Currency 4,
Gold..
Bilvet, Nickles and Pennies 1
Checks and Cash Items
900 61
90 T tkt
4ft 59
ooo M
678 08
10,419 «U
949 47
01 ft 00
407 80
704 09
941 17
Total 1147.875 9ft
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid in
$10,580 GO
1 Surplus Fund
6,000 00
Undivided Profits, less Cur-
rent Exp's and Taxes Pd.
9,707 48
Due to Batiks and Bankers in
this State
479 98
Due to Banks and Bankers in
other States
None
Due Unpaid Dividends
77 00
Individual Deposits Subject
to Check ....
81,901 19
Demand Certificates
None
Time Certificates None
None
Certified Checks
99 BO
Cashier's checks
100 00
Notes and Bills Rediscounted
None
Bills Parable. Including Time
Certificates representing Bor
rowed Money
10.0U1 00
Total $147,875 95
STATE OF GEORGIA, l
Count v of Baldwin, i
Before mecameOtto M. Conn, Cashier of Exchange Bank, who being duly
sworn, says that the above and fort going statement is a true condition of said
Bank, as anowu by the books of file in said Bauk.
OTTO M. CONN, Cashier.
Sworn to and subscriber before me, this llth dav of Feb., 1908.
D. T. fal'TTS, N. P. B Co.,Ga.
To couple the namOR of farmers,
some years ago, with that of poultrv
growing only meant to Insult hint. To
make mention of the fnrt ihnt he was
n stock .grower Just suited his fancy,
but the poultry business. In Ills eyes,
was exceedingly small fry. If any
poultry were kept on his farm they
were referred to ns the property of
i lu» old woman.” He was perfectly
free to let Ids wife's name ho connect
ed with the poultry business, selling
the i gys, and she could even trade the
butter for some things they had to
have, provided some tobacco was
among the things trailed (or. It then
Is cue tiling Ivcre than another for
,h r. farmer Is proverbially noted
it Is n good share rf practical common
sense. Some cf tleun have hobbh't
and pot theories, which sometimes
lirlug them a great deal if 'experience’
l-ut at- a rule ho 1’cks at almost every
thing* along utility lines.
Some farmers have boon looking
(i r the lies! farmer's fowl: have bred
nlmcst all the breeds In existence, and
yet have to confess that the real util
ity fcwl for all farmers is as evasive
as quicksilver. At times he thinks he
has this much-desired bird cornered
only to find that It Is still at largo.
The practical qualities of his wife’s
Sunday bonnet are well exemplified as
a receptacle for gathering eggs, hut a
basket or a tin pan may be better. A
buzz-saw Is all right for the purpose
for which it was intended but It can't
be used for shaving a man's beard
All these things are very practical In
their way, but making tl^ese things
answer for all purposes Is very much
like carrolling a cyclone—something
no man has succeeded In doing.
It is the way with fowls. One person
wants fowls for the production of
eggs, and therefore will want the breed
whose hens prove to be the best lay
ers. Another wants the best table
fowls, and an entirely different
breed will be selected. Tho third man
wants fowls with a certain fancy feath
er, and pays a fancy price for them.
Here Is a farmer who lives several
miles from the nearest town, whose
time U devoted to other pursuits, who
Mllledgeville,
Georgia*
If you desire early sitters while
the winds yqt blow cold, you must
get the hens to laying and keep then,
at It. And make no changes at this
si*ason. Moving any portion of the
flock means fewer eggs and fewer
<arly clucking hens.
If you are keeping hens for eggs
It won’t pay to sell a lot of hens just
because they are a good price and
thus reduce ^he size of your flock.
SMNVlfl 1V933
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Clean houses and clean drinking
water Insures against cholera. v Anti
a house built off the ground is the
best roup preventive.
'isanbaa nodn aarj
paqsuun; ‘sinioj pus pajpunq omj
Ma'O JO }S|l V bUlUlElUOO 'HoiVlBO iOO T>
•saoijd ts.VA\o| aqt is 'satdoo
pnwsnnqi v oj ddoo ajSuts v mo-ij ‘a>
-IjiiBtib a tin ui no* qsiuinj tp.w aw qaiq w
'*Htiw;i[ [itha'i jo tpois a)3]dtu03 » qit.w
aaijjo ino paddtnba Xpuajar a.\Bq a.\\
Activity Is the law of nature. Tin-
hens work and dig for their living In
warm weather and stay In prime con
dttion. To keep them healthy in
winter wo must feed In a way to in
duce exercise.
SMNVia 1V931
113S 3 M
8o far the winter here has been
unusually mild. YVe have nad so
many sunshiny days that have been
i njoyed beneficially by the liens, ca
pons nnd late hatched chicks. YVe
have a few fine thrifty December
chicks. My neighbors made fun of
me hatching chicks In this climate
In December, but,the chicks arc doln#
so well I wish I had more of them.
YY’hrn It is too cold for them to be out
doors they enjoy life with their leg
horn mother In a roomy coop scratch
ing in dry chaff for their feed. They
ore great pets and I greatly enjoy
inking care of them and watching
I hem grow.
The union In Arkansas has given
out a series of apoelntments for far
mers’ Institutes at various places, and
some of the ablest men of the state
are on the list as speakers. This is
In keeping with the principles of the
union, as the work is all a'ong edu
cational lines, and should oe com*
mended. |
cares very little for fowls of any par
tlcular kind. He recognizes the tact
however, that they are an unfailing
source of supply. In rase of emergency
In furnishing the table, buying the gr.i
cerics nnd keeping him out of the debt
for long Intervals.
YY’e would Infer, then, that the far
mer’s fowls essentially should be prol;f.
Ic layers without sacrificing other
qualities. They should be good table
fowls, They should sell well in the I
market, and to satisfy this require- J
! ment they must be of good size, east ’
| ly fattened, plump and of good ap
pearanr.e wjicn dressed. They must
] be hardy and good foragers, ur.d if
| the farmer is not reedy to buy an in
cubatcr the r.cua must me goed sitters I
and n fliers.
If one breed if fowls havlng-llie r>
quiremeuts named cannot bo found it
may.be well to buthl separate yards
and keep two kinds, and thus both do.
mur.ds wl'.I bo filled. One breed may |
be laying in winter while the ether is
getting ready to roll out the eggs at
sonic other season cf the year. These
are questiens that are being studied
by tho careful, and each individual
will have to determine the matter for
himself.
CHICKEN FOOD.
Good for fowls, also
domestic animals, con
sisting of broken corn
and other grains,
known as "Screen
ings.” Oconee River
Mills. 2-17 tf.
DR F. W. WOLF, D. 0.
Eyesight ‘Specialist
“Glasses Bight Good Sight.”
'■NUFF SAID."
At Mrs. Julia Parker’s Millinery
Store, Mllledgeville, Ga.,
oAT. MARCH 6th, 1909
u
BiacKsmitftlna 01 fin
Kinds on snort Ho-
tide DoilG I3i,
The blood of poultry is five degrees
warmer than that of human beings
This why they eat more according
to their weight than we do. . More
fuel is needed to keep up the heat.
The Leghorns occupy the same
place In the poultry world that the
Jersey cow does In the cattle world
One is a great butter producer and
the other great egg producers. If It
Is eggs you want try a flock of Leg
horns. The high prices for eggs
which have prevailed over the whole
country ought to encourage more
farmers to go Into the business solely
for eggs and the money there ts la
them.
Go Into the hen-house at night and
you can soon discover the birds that
are threatened with roup, by the man
ner of breathing.
J-
Next Door to J. ft. Hines
Is especially nec
essary at this sea
son of the year.
W ould appreciate
a portion of saqie.
Very Serious
It is a very serious matter to ask
for one medicine and have the
wrong one given you For this
reason wc urge you in buyir^
to be careful to get the genuine—
TKEDFORDS
CR- DRAU
Liver Medicine
The reputation cf this old, relia*
£'2 medicine, for constipation, in
digestion and aver trouble, ia firm
ly established. It does not imitate
other mouicineS. It is better than
ethers, cr it would not be the fa
vorite liver powder, with a iargei
sale than all others combined.
SOLD IN TOWN
Stops Hair
Falling
Ayer’s Hair Vigor, new im
proved formula, will certainly
stop falling of the hair. Indeed,
we believe it will always do this,
unless there is some disturb
ance of the general health.
Then, a constitutional medicine
may be necessary. Consult
your physician about this.
Doeinnt chance the color §£ the hair.
A
i/ers
Jormuift with —ch hot tin
y Show it U j«ur
— doctor
A«k ham afcoot it,
than do m hauf
The reason why Ayer’s Hair Vigoi
falling hair is because it first destri
germs which cause this trouble,
this is done, nature soon brings a
full recovery, restoring the hai
scalp to a perfecUy healthy con
—MmOm Sgr C. Cw» Xawwil. X