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To Cure a Cold In Osie Day !
Take Laxative iBfomo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fail,B to cure. B..W,
Grove’s signature on each box.25b.
We are. ready to meet the de
mand for Muiesjand Horses, mak
ing a specialty of animals
We handle goodjj stock only, and
*our PRICES ARE RIGHT. Ca)1
at our
Cotton Census Report.
Sale arid Feed Stables
and we can suit you.
G. W. Thames & Co.
Cor. Third & Poplar Sts.
MACON, GA. .
HORSES AND MULES
Wholesale and Retail.
Fine Horses .and Large Mules a
Specialty.
Largest Supply, Lowest Prices,
Best Stock, •?
Feed and Sale Stables
Years of experience and close attention
to business enable us to sell Horses and
Mules oheaper than any other firm in
the south. Come to see us and he con
vinced. Thanks for pasc patronage, we
ask a continuance of same.
Yours for business,
Waterman Sr Co.,
620-634 Fourth. Street,
(Above Union Depot.) MACON, ©A
[.allies' Parlor
Restaurant,
413% Tliird St. (Upstairs.)
Over Isaac’fl Former Cafe.
If Only One in the City
MEALS TO ORDER.
.Regular Meals 25c
We cater to the best clas3 trade.
A plaoe to rest after shopping.
MRS .GEO. SCHERER.
TWO PAPERS FOR
THE PRICE OF ONE
lie PEOPLE'S WEEKLY
Containing each week from eight to
twelve large pages of four broad col
umns each, all beautifully illustrated
with original and artistic half-tone en
gravings, in black and colors.
Young People’s Weekly has reached
its marvelous success and attained a cir
culation of over 5*10,000 copies a week
because its contents interest young
readers.
The statistics of the quantity of
cotton ginned to Decern her. 1,3 th are
expressed in bales as pressed at the
ginneries, irrespective of shape or
weight. In the total of 9,311,835
bales there are 812,661 round bales
weighing from 240 eo 300 pounds
each. Counting such round bales
as half bales, as is the custom in the
commercial community, the total
ginned to December 13th is 8,905,-
603. The ginneries have not yet re
turned their bale weights for this
crop, blit forty cotton compress com
panies distributed^ throughout the
cotton states advise the office that
they compressed and actually weigh
ed from the growth of 1902 up to
December 13th, 1,060,434 bales av
eraging each 603.8 pounds gross.'
Using this weight as the average
for square bales, and for round bales
253 pounds, the average obtained
from the weight returns of the home
offices of the companies operating
Buch patents, the equivalent number
of 600 pound bales ginned to De
cember 13th is found to be 8,974,-
722. Deducting the weight of the
bagging and ties (22 pounds per
square bale), the number of equiva
lent 500-pound bales, net weight, is
found to be 8,600,769.
By two most thorough canvasses
this season 32,528 ginneries, active
and idle, have been located and re
ported, of which number 30,194
have been operated for this crop.
In their December canvass the local
speoial agents ascertained the quan
tity of cotton ginned from the be
ginning of the season to and includ
ing December 13th, and also secured
from eaoh of the 31,194 active gin-
ners his estimate of the quantity of
cotton to be ginned by his estab
lishment after December 13th. The
estimate of the percentage of the
crop ginned is based on the esti
mates of 626 canvassing agents, who
were instructed to confine their es
timates to the territories canvassed
bv them and to the knowledge gain
ed therefrom. One estimate there
fore serves as a check against the
e ther. According to the estimate of
the ginners 10:2 per cent of the crop
remained to be ginned after Decem
ber 13th, while according to the es
timate of the canvassing agents the
percentage was 9.8. Applying these
estimates and the general average
bale weight obtained from combin
ing round and square bales, the crop
according to the ginners is 9,996,-
300 bales, and according to the can
vassing agents 9,954,106 bales, of
an average gross 1 weight of 600
pounds. The census office assumes
no responsibility for the accuracy of
these estimates. This report will be
followed by a third and final report
at the end of the ginning season,
aboqt March 16th, which will dis
tribute the crop by counties, segre
gate upland and sea island cottons,
and give weight of bales.
The dost of the Legislature.
Its fiction is wholesome, its comment
on current events is helpful to young
people, its editorials are inspiring..
OUR SPECIAL OFFER.
Arrangements,.!have been perfected be
tween the publishers of Young People’s
Weekly and the Home Journal which
enable us to offer both papers at the
\prioe of the last named alone. Send us
$i;60 for one year’s subscription to the
Home Journal and both it and Young
People’s Weekly will be mailed to you
regularly for 52 consecutive weeks. This
offer applies to both new subscribers and
present subscribers who renew their
subscriptions before February 1, 1903,
paying for same a fall year in advance
at regular rates. Address
THE HOME JOURNAL,
Perry, Ga.
THE COMMONER,
(Mr. Bryan’s Paper.)
The Commoner has attained within
six months from date of the first issue a
circulation of 100*000 copies, a record
probably never equaled in the history of
American periodical literature. The
unparalleled growth of this paper de
monstrates that there is room in the
newspaper fields for a national paper de
voted to ,the discussion of political,
economic, and social problems. To the
columns of the Commoner Mr, Bryan
contributes his best effortsjand his views
of political events as they arise from
time to time can not fail to interest those
who sttidy public questions.
The Commoner’s regular Bubcription
price is $1.00 per yetr. We have arrang
ed with Mr. Bryan whereby we can fur
nish his paper and Home Journal to
gether for on& /ear for $1.90. The reg
ular subscription price of the two pa
pers when suberibed for separately is
. $2,50.
Mr. Charles M. Schwab has placed
in Paris an order for two bronze
statues to typify “Labor” and “Met
allurgy,” which are to be placed in
his palace in New York. The pair
of figures will cost $160,000. It is
the understanding that Mr. Schwab’s
idea is that they are to symbolize,
as nearly as may be possible, Mr.
Schwab’s life and the two factors in
the industry to which he has been
most devoted, the artisan and the
metal in which he works. The fig
ures will be seven feet in height and
stand upon marble pedestals. ’
According to a statement from
the treasury department the recent
session of the legislature was the
most economical that has been held
in Georgia in many years. Its ex
penses were just $3,327.67 less than
those of the legislature of 1901. As
sistant State Treasurer Furlow has
finished the work of figuring up the
cost of the session and paid the last
bill. The total cost was $67,298.48,
while the cost of the session of 1901
was $70,626.
The reason of the difference was
due largely to the change in the
status of committee bills, as the re
sult of a resolution that was passed
by the house providing that mem
bers of sub committees appointed to
visit state institutions should charge
only actual expenses. Heretofore
the limit of expense allowed to each
of such committeemen ($20) has al
ways been collected whether the ac
tual expenses amounted to that or
hot. A notable instance this year
was in the visit of the committee to
the state sanitarium. In 1901 each
member of this committee collected
$20, or a total of $590 or more.
This year not a member of the com
mittee was paid anything for ex
penses, as they traveled to Milledge-
ville on passes and were entertained
free while there. The consequence
was none of the house members put
iu the usual expense bill of $20, and
there was.a saving of that much on
this one committee alone.—Dawson
News.
Pressing Problems of Rural Schools.
Representative James B. Richard
son, of Tennessee, the demcoratic
leader on the floor of the national
House of Representatives, has been
talking for the newspapers. He says
that the tariff will be the issue in
the next presidential campaign, and
that the democratic candidate will
be Senator Arthur P. Gorman of
Maryland, or former Secretary of
State Richard Olney of Massachu
setts, or Judge Alton B. Parker of
New York.
Finds Way to Live Long.
The startling announcement of a
Discovery that will surely lengthen
life is made by Editor O. H. Downey
of Churubusco, Ind. “I wish to
state,” he writes, “that Dr. King’s
Discovery for consumption is the
most infallible remedy that I have
ever known for coughs, colds and
grip. It’s invaluable to people with
week lungs. Haying this wonderful
iutHi icine, no one need dread pneu
monia or consumption. Its relief is
instant and cure certain.” Every 50c
and $1 bottle guaranteed. Trial bot
tles free at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
1. To provide schools for all the
children and to bring all the chil
dren into them.
2. To make the annual school
term long enough to give the chil
dren thorough instruction in the
fundamentals of common knowledge
during the period of their school
life.
3. To directly relate the instruc
tion of the school to the practical
business of the farm through the
employment of teachers in sympa
thy with farm life and the enrich
ment of the schjol course by the in
troduction of agricultural subjects. .
4. The improvement of the ma
terial equipment and environment of
the schdtpl by the consolidation of
small schools, the improvement of
school buildings and grounds, and
the establishment of school libraries
and collections of materials for illus
tration.
5. The making of the schools
more thoroughly the centers for the
intellectual life of the community by
the co-operation of the farmer and
his family with the teacher through
associations and other agencies.—
A. O. True, U. S. Department of Ag
riculture.
If I could have my way there
would never be another school house
built without an assembly room
largo enough to accommodate at
one time and artistic enough to at
tract every child who has a place
under the roof. At least so much
should be done to break the endless
monotony of book study and the
grade recitation; at least so much to
stir the soul through the singing of
the multitude and the magnetic
touch of the word's that are spoken
in the crowd.—Andrew S. Draper.
Mary/Gallagher, 65 years old and
worth $40,000, was found starving
iu a hovel at Englewood, N. J., the
other day and taken to a hospital.
She had st veral thousand dollars in
money on her person, but declared
she could not afford to buy food.
After being sent to the hospital a
man half her age and claiming to be
her husband appeared upon the
scene and tried to get possession of
her hoard, but was forestalled by
the public administrator.
Dislocated Her Shoulder.
t. i oieooaiv<E,
—DEALeB in—
WATCEEk CLOCKS
AND JEWELRY.
F.tSII
OPTICIAN SPECIALTIES.
High- Class\ Work of Every Description.
Absolute Satisfaction Guaranteed
609 Fourth Street, JIAGON. GA,
3STE3W YORK
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CUT PRICES,
28 yards Sheeting, yd wide #1.00
22£ yards Bleaching, yd wide 1.00
Calicoes, best prints, yard 4 to Oo
4 Spools Thread 5c
Umbrellas 89o, worth double the
money.
Men’s and Ladies’ heavy fleeoe-
liued Underwear
22^o, 86o and 49o
Big lot of Men’s top Shirts
25o and 89o
Union-made Overalls
$1.00 value at 76c
All kinds ladies’ ready-made
Skirts 76c to $6.00
26 dozen ladies’ Plush Capes
$1.99 to $7.60
Best table Oil Cloth per yard 20o
Good Drilling per yard 5c
Slioes.
Big bargain iu mens Shoes 99o to $6.00
Big bargain iu ladies’ Shoes 75c to 2.50
Children’s and misses’ Shoes 49o to 1,50
Just received anotheer shipment of Sam
ple Shoes—boys, ladies’ and misses,
85o to $1.50
Some Shoes iu this lot worth $8.60
We carry a line of Union-mode Shoes at
prices so low that they surprise everyone
$1.75 to 20.00
1.00 to 6.00
49 to 5.00
2(5 to 1.00
We invite your special attention
to our Clothing Department. Have
just received a big line from the
Eastern markets of latest out that
we are proud to offer you at such
low figures.
Men’s Suits from
Boys’ Suits from
Men’s Pants from
Boys’ Pants from
Men’s Overcoats, all sizes,
2.25 to 16.00
Mackintoshes and Rubber
Coats from 1.89 to 7.60
We have a complete line of Men’s
and Boys’ Hats of the very latest
designs'as to quality, pnoe and
finish. We can satisfy the most
fastidious.
't/Eillin.ex'37;.
We cordially invite the ladies to
call and inspect our beautiful line
of Millinery. We have just re
ceived a large shipment of beauti
ful Pattern Hats of the latest
style that we can offer you cheaper than
you can buy the naked material else
where.
Our stock is so large that space forbids us mentioning
one half the bargains that are in store for you, Don’t
forget the Place. - - * - - •
NEW YORK BARGAIN HOUSE.
454 MULBERRY ST. : MACON, GEORGIA
1 Um still selling the....
THE BEST ON THE MARKET.
.1 am also handling: Paints, Oils and Glass.
j±/l. g. balkcom,
DEALER IN HARDWARE.
308 Third St. (Near Post Office) MACON, GA
Mrs. Johanna Soderholm, of
Fergus Falls, Minn., fell and dis
located her shoulder. She had a
surgeon get it back in place as
soon as possible, but it was quite
sore and pained her very much.
Her son mentioned that he had
seen Chamberlain’s Pain Balm ad
vertised for sprains and soreness,
and she asked him to buy her a
bottle of it, which he did. It
quickly relieved her and enabled
her tn sleep which she had not
done for several days. The son
was so much pleased with the re
lief it gave his mo i/her that he has
since recommended it to many
others. For sale by All druggists.
Weber, Brown, Russell and Thornhill Wagons cheaper
than you ever bought them before, to make room and re
duce storage and insurance.
MACON,
GA.
J. W. SHINH0LSER,
MACO N
GA?
E. J. MILLER.
O. J. CLARK.
MILLER & CLARK,
AMERIGO'S, GA.
-DEALERS IN-
MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS
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Dealers in Tennessee. Georgia, Italian and American Marble and
European and Domestic Granite.
Estimates furnished and contracts made for all kinds of Building
Stone. Iron Railing fo* Cemetery Work a’specialty.
We have lately added a fully equipped Cutting and Polishing
Plant, with the latest Pneumatio tools, and can meet all competition.
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