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Every Job
We Sell
BEARS OUR
GUARANTEE
Of Merit, Durability, Style and
Finish, and that
You get your
money’s worth
Whether of our own make or of
the many manufacturers’ which
we handle.
Our Line of Fine
Buggies,
W agons,
Harness,
Laprobes,
Whips,
Etc., Etc.,
are the perfection of the manu
facturers’ art
::Agents for the Celebrated::
Fish
Brothers’
Farm
Wagons.
If you get a FISH WAGON, you
get the BEST WAGON MADE.
The Williams Buggy
Company,
522 & 524 Poplar Street,
-—- MACON, GEORGIA. —-
EDITORIAL AND COMMUNICATED.
Mail and Express.
Concerning the objections by the
express companies to proposed ex
tensions of the United States maii
service, our Washington correspond
ent writes as follows:
“The parcels post system has now
gone into effect between the United
States and New Zealand, and the
United States and Venezuela. A
person can send by mail a package
of merchandise from Washington to
New Zealand or Venezuela weighing
11 pounds, at 12 cents a pound. But
if he wishes to send a similar pack-
age to New York or San Francisco
the government will not undertake
the job. It must go by express. The
government also undertakes to carry
packages weighing as much as 11
pounds to Honduras, the Bahamas,
Costa Rica, Germany, Trinidad and
various other places at iff cents a
pound. Even to this the express
companies object, maintaining that
the postmaster general has no au
thority to make a foreign parcels
contract which allows foreigners to
send 11-pound packages through
United States mails, while citizens
of this country may mail domestic
packages weighing 4 pounds only.
The Postmaster-General very prop
erly refuses to do anything of the
kind, and the swaggering express
companies threaten to take the mat
ter before congress and compel him
to do so. Express companies of this
country seem to ba the most offens
ive of all common carriers. En
trenched as they are in the House
and Senate, they may actually at
tempt to pass a law of Congress that
will prevent the Postmaster-General
making international agreements,
lest by experience the people of the
United States become aware of the
cheapness and efficiency of the serv
ice and demand it at home, but they
will probably fail. There have been
uncounted proofs of republican sub
serviency to monopolistic demands,
but not even a republican congress
is likely to allow Senator Platt and
his associates of the express business
to dictate postal regulations for the
benefit of half a dozen corporations.”
Marriage Near Hattie.
Miss Susie Lewis and Mr. Carl
Cofiald were united in the holy
bonds of matrimony Sunday even
ing, January 18th. Rev. N. T.
Pafford performed the ceremony
in the most impressive manner.
The bride is an amiabie and at
tractive young lady of sweet six
teen. The groom is a young farm
er of best habits, of this county,
son of Mr. John B. Cofiel of Haw-
kinsville, formerly of Perry.
After congratulations, they de
parted for their new home, where
friends gave them happy greeting.
"Friend.
In A Caboose.
From Bonaire Comes a request
that we state that John Ross, the
fugitive from justice brought to
Perry from Bonaire last week was
captured by Mr. Eugene King.
Our informent says that Ross had
locked himself in the caboose of a
local freight train. Mr. King
went upon top of the caboose, and
then through a window, finding
the negro under the Conductor’s
bunk. Mr. King then arrested
the negro, and carried him to the
station and delivered him to Con
stable Watson.
Cash Prices.
Cranberries per quart. 20/,
Dates per Pkg 5/,
Evaporated apples per pound7/,
Prunes, extra large 18/ ft,
Brazil nuts 18/ ft,
Eeglish walnuts 18/ ft,
Almonds 18/ ft,
Pecans, 18/ ft,
Whith Fish per kit, 40c,
Mackerel ” ” 40c,
Best Bananas, Per dozen, 15c,
J D Martin, Jr,
—Best qualities in 10-4 Sheet
ing at lowest figures. Pillow-case
Sheeting all widths at lowest
prices at L M Paul s.
High Grade Acid and Bright
Cotton Seed Meal, Good for grain,
On hand for sale, or Exchange for
Cotton Seed. J. P. Cooper,
Perry, Ga.
A good substantial easy wear
ing Farm Shoe for men. Price
$150 at 1 L M Paul’s.
BY SOCKS.
Mr. S. D. Henderson, the oldest
Mason and citizen in the county,
died at his home at Henderson last
Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. He
had been aVremarkably healthy and
active man until a few days before
his death, when he received a hard
fall, and friends immediately real
ized that there was no hope of his
recovery from the great shock to the
feeble body. Had he lived until the
22nd of March he would have been
95 years old. He was bom in North
Carolina and came to Georgia when
quite a boy, settling in Laurens
county. He went to work as a clerk
for Jelks & Co., in Hawkinsville, un
til he saved enough money to com
plete his education; then he entered
Yale College, where he took a high
stand and acquitted himself with
distinction. Seventy-one years ago,
while following an Indian trail, he
decided to locate at Henderson and
open a mercantile business, that
point being the rendezvous for a
wealthy tribe of Indians. Mr. Hen
derson often talked interestingly to
this writer of his early life, describ
ing the different Indian trails that
centered where the town of Hender
son is now located, and how he
traded and bartered with the In
dians. At one time he possessed
considerable property, but the war
swept his, like that of so many oth
ers, away. Although quite old be
fore he united with the church, still
his life was one full of good and
generous deeds. A good man has
gone to his reward.
Farming is beginning to get in
shape. There is much complaint
about the scarcity of labor.
The last citizen of the colony
planted at Oak Lawn by Capt. John
A Port is now a resident of the Hill,
He is a large yellow Tom cat, and I
must say he possesses more gentle
manly traits of character than any
Yankee I ever met. This cat was
brought south by Mr. Reed, at one
time postmaster at Perry, from his
northern home, who presented it to
his friend, Faim Stubbs, who in turn
gave it to one of the little Socks.
Messrs. Phillips and Dorkins are
the latest arrivals in God’s country.
We are very much pleased to hear
that all the new citizens are satisfied
and progressing nicely.
We are informed that heartless
revenue officers went into the Pas
ture and seized all the decoction
that the boys had on hand, and
thereby spoiled all the Christmas
fun for that good community.
THE COMMONER,
Issued Weekly,
William J. Bryan,
Editor aud Publishrr,
Lincoln.
Nebraska.
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MACON, GEORGIA
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Pianos
At Greatly
Reduced Prices.
Fifty new Upright Pianos will ciose out at
greatly reduced prices within the next few
weeks. Among them such celebrated makes
as
Steinway, Sohmer & Co,, Kranicli
& Bach, Stnltz & Bauer, Bush
& Gests, Lester and Royal.
Call at once and secure one of these bargains
F. A. GUTTENGERGER & CO.,
452 Second st,, Macon, Ga.
TO PARTICULAR
DRESSERS;
We have done our best to collect an assortment
of Suits and Furnishings this Fall to satisfy yon
in every detail. In fact, we have bought the highest
grade of goods that money could secure. Don’t let
these facts slip vonr memory when yon get ready to
buy your Winter outfit. We can make you look
,‘TAILOR-MADE” in every FEATURE from a
TIE to an OYERCOAT, and onr prices WONT’T
C ‘.TAT?” your pocketbook.
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519 Cherry St, Macon, Cia.