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inn AiJinw jla *-vgvt/ -> i -»» o. I III. IIOJI.V 1 , .11 lllll II i.'»i • >. CHAMBERLIN-JOHNSON-DuBOSE CO. Atlanta New York Paris CHAMBERUN-JOHNSON-DuBOSE CO. GEORGIA NEWS IN BRIEF General Sale Throughout the Store A Silk Sale That Would of It self Arouse City-wide Interest •r - +* r - , There will be a happy crowd of eager buyers in the silk section to-morrow! For such silks as these below, at such prices, are calculated to compel interest, to arouse enthusiasm. We have gone through the silks with an eye and a big blue pencil for record beating bargains 39 We submit these and rest our case-— c For Silks That Were 49c to $2.00 89 Black Japanese silks, white wash silks, silk mar quisettes, in pink, light blue, navy, brown, reseda, Copenhagen, rose, gray and white—these 44 inches wide. Bulgarian chiffons and crepes de chine, kiniono silks in big, flowered patterns; navy, tan and green and plain messalines. A happy collection, certainly. 69 For Silks That Were 95c to $1.25 Among them are light and soft taffetas, 36 inches wide—brown, reseda, Copenhagen, light blue, laven der, pink, raspberry, champagne and red, also striped taffetas and a few striped messalines. But the foulards included! Famous makes, patterns and color schemes first thought out this spring. You will realize their beautv and know their worth. All colors. For Silks That Were $1.50 to $2.25 Plain and two-toued taffetas^ 3(5 inches wide, as wide a color range as vou could want: 44-inch mar- _ quisettes plain and changeable, 'exquisite and dwelt .wanted fabties ..for evening dresses .for wai.stet.uud the like—many shades, including navy and'-Copenhagen, rose, flame red, brown and whites << : $ ^ 00 For $2.00 Bordered If 95c Could Always Buy As Dainty UJndermuslins! It is not surprising that it can not—the surprise is that it can now even in such a sale as this. And yet we know no way of impress ing you with just how pretty these undermus lins are---cold type will not show the fineness, the whiteness of the nainsooks, the dainty, delicate ways laces and embroideries are com bined and the traceries of the ribbons—-you must see them, There are: Gowns Princess Slips Bulgarian Radium The borders are glorious affairs-^-full of color, sometimes oddly contrasting with-, the tdqide of thy. radium, always effective—aa^yy,.t^Upe. Imnvii, laven der, reseda. tan and Copenhagen, all 44 inches wide. They will make beautiful dresses arid at just half ordi nary cost. Wash Goods—Savings $1.5 j Ratine, 54 inches Wide, $1.00 This as an example of what you may ex pect. 54 inches wide and bordered. The bor ders are various, openwork, self-striped and in contrasting colors---every one is effective and certainly in the height of favor right now, about all colors. But this is just one of the wash goods values of this sale—here are others that compel interest 50c Knit Goods-—The Stocks Are New 46-inch French Ramie Linen, all . colors, at 29c Colored Suitings, 36 inches wide, with this season, also in White and cream, at a weave new 29e Crepes, in colors and stripes, 28 inches wide 25c 25c 30c. 35c and 45c Shirtings, 32 inches wide, soff sum mery fabrics, in stripes and checks The 1 arge varieties^ofdiosidry and, kpi>un- • derwearhere m’qke'tKisknit goods department the logical stopping point for Atlanta women. They are sure to find what they want, right in quality, right in price--and this leads us to recommend--- . - . at 95c with deep Empire yokes of allover embroideries, with ribbon-run embroid ery beading and edged with laces-—these in extra sizes, oo. at 95c, of nainsook, a tine quality, narrow, according t<> the season’s fashion, and of straight lines. The scal lops of-the yokes and flounces are hand-loom work. at 95c ~ a variety; straight cut, flt- 1 CLUCUcUa ted skirts; here is one style with no flounce at alT. jtfst scalloped; another with dou ble panel down front; others of flat trimmings of lace bands. C" wn „ at 95c, of crepe, in pink, light blue and VJOWuo white—chemise and Empire styles. Linen and Valenciennes laces are effectively combined to edge the yokes. Drawers at 50c h Note the quality of this nainsook, recall the qual ity of the nainsook of other drawers you have bought for 50c. It will be a comparison without odium for these. Circular.or regular cut, choose from a dozen or more different trimmings—laces and embroideries. The extra sizes are of reallv extra size. - % : tttt—r Silk Hose 89c No, not so good as our $1.00 hose; better, we know, than many so- called $1.00 hose. Lisle heel, sole and top. B^ick. tau, white. ' . Lisle Vests 6 for $1 Unusual 'Values, spe cial for tlfis sale—‘wom en's lisle -vests with • mercerizedtape. Yon \vii4 buy ..them instead of '2-tc Qubs. I ' $2.00, $3.00 and $3.50 Corsets n .19 25c and 30c Ginghams—32 inches wide, in checks for dresses—beautiful quality 50c silk and cotton mixed Ginghams—- 30 inches wide, in many colors 25c Soisettes, 32 inches wide, in colors and black 25c Checked Voiles, 26 inches wide; colors for dresses and waists 19c 19c 19c 16c 14c Women’s silk-lisle-hose in black, whip' and colors at 5Cc Women’s silk-lisle hose in black, tafCand white, at. .35c Children’s fancy top hose—new designs—at 25c Women’s silk hose, lisle top, sole and toe, in black and colors—the best to be had, at $1.00 Women’s lisle vests, plain and fancy tops, at 25c, 35c and 50c Women’s lisle combination suits, close flttiu trimmed, at : • Women’s silk vests, white and pin! at Women's Venetian silk vests, at .. Women’s silk combination suits, at or ace 5C0j 75c and $1.00 in qualities, . .$1.25 and $1.50 . .$1.50 to $3.00 . .$4.00 and $5.00 An odd and happy lot of Warner’s and W. B. corsets is brought into the sale because they are in broken sizes all sizes among them—nut all sizes in every style. And there are a number of styles with medium low bust anil long skirt—but one of particular excellenoe-is a stmt figure model, with extrenieiy heavy boning and graduated front steel. A splendid opportunity to pay less for a good corset. $1.00 Corsets at 79c ( A second helping of those splendid $1.00 corsets cit 79c Rest $1.00 cutsets we know of—huge quantity buying assures us of that. We lessen the cost of materials and of making in this way— the result is better materials and most painstak ing workmanship. And 16-morrow they are 79c.. Medium low bust, long skirt, four hose sup porters. Brassieres at 50c If is evident they are worth more—of sturdy cambric,'embroidery yokes front back. ■ , fine, ami MONRO R.—The First Baptist congre gation of Monroe, having outgrown its edifice and having become somewhat im paired by virtue of Its age. It Is proba ble that a new church will be built. A committee has b$en appointed to take the {natter in hand. To Conduct Monroe Revival. MONROE—Beginning Monday night, Rev. M. M. Walraven, of Forsyth, will conduct a series of meetings at Si cond Methodist Church, this city. To Build More Churches. MACON.—An extension board organ ized by the committees from all of the MethodUt churches of this district ha» decided to establish several more Metho dist churches In this city as soon as the funds can be subscribed. Cream Vendees May Quit. MACON.—The Syrian ice cream vend ers of Mac oh are threatening to leave the city and go elsewhere to earn a live lihood, because the Board of Health has passed an ordinance requiring that ice cream he sold in sealed packages. Savannah Man Gets Job. SAVANNAH.—Paul Christman, an en gineer for the Savannah Electric Com pany. has been Appointed electrical en gineer at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Christman .attendee tary of the Navy Daniels. Navy ided school with Si'cre- y t>8 E FOR BIG BUTTLE Great Conflict in Balkans Be lieved To Be Near—120,000 Troops Concentrated. BELGRADE, April 17.—Prepara tions are being made for another great battle in the Balkans. One hundred and twenty thousand Greek troops are being concentrated around Salonika and fortifications are being erected hurriedly. Traffic on the railroad between .Sa lonika and Dedeagatrh has been stopped, owing to the dispute betweep the Greeks and the Bulgars over thr possession of Salonika. Disputes Black Peace. VIENNA, AUSTRIA. April 17.— Austrian official circles are refraining from premature rejoicing at the sup posed end of the Balkan crisis, be lieving that there are serious obsta cles in the way of peace. It is pointed out.that the Scutari King Keeps on Cap: Ejected. MACON.—Because he would not take I , . . , . off hte cap in the theater, Police Lieu- i <* urstion has not been settled, tenant Champ Drew was put out of the Nicholas, of Montenegro, is suspect - theater last night by /Manager Bern- e d Q f plotting a desperate move to stein. No force tvas used, the officer i ., , being told he would have to remove h!s atne dynasty This disaffection cap or leave He left Immediately. of the people 1b growing and the war w 01l indemnity and the distribution of the MACON.—A meeting of committees Aegean Islands are matters still ip from all of the Baptist churches was dispute. held last night to perfect arrangements The partition of Macedonia among for the ontcrtalnmeiii of the annual con- t j ie a jij ea threatens to become an even ventlgn of the Baptist Young Peoples . ... Union, which will be held here in June, more serious question, concerning th? About 36V delegates are expected. powers not less than the Balkan vie* Gordon Cadets to Camp. tors. MACON.--President E T. Holmes, of j Armiitie , to Bury Dead. Gordon Institute, will hold a conference * . . „ with local military officials Saturday . ® ‘ pr ‘‘ a al * with the view of securing from them tiee has been arranged between the the privilege of using the Holton rifle Bu ig ar | an and Turkish generals along range grounds as an encampment site , , . .. . , for the- (»ordon Cadets this Fprlng. the Chatalja lines to enable both sieves ^ —7T ^ 1 to bury their dead. Central Geta New Officers. , According to Shukari Paaha, the SAVANNAH.—The Central of Geor- | Turkish commander of Adrlanopic, gia Railway has secured the top sto- who is a prisoner here* the Bulgarians rles of the building now occupied by the w£ro the first to enter the inner lines of the captured city. ._ 1B._ SaJvatlon Army, but which is to be re modeled as a bank building, and will hereafter house Its auditing force there. Women to Make Soda Syrup. SAVANNAH.—For the purpose of manufacturing on a large scale a syrup to be used in preparing a soda fountain drink, Mrs. Diva Brown has opened up n plant in Savannah which will turn out 896 gallons of the syrup a day. The company is owned and operated solely by women. Ex-Marshal Gets Senterice. PERRY.—J H. Smith, former mar- j shal of Fort Valley, has been sentenced to six months In jail and a fine of , $106 or six months additional on the chalngang for the embezzlement of $-00 street taxes and other funds. GA BREVfc - Trade Board Names Secretary. VAU>Q3TA—The executive commit tee of the Valdosta Board of Trade has elected J, Maxey Ashley as secretary to i succeed R. M Martin, recently resigned Mr. Ashley has been filling the position temporarily. New Trust Company Formed. VALDOSTA*-—The formal organization of the Ashley Tryst Company was per fected at a meeting of the stockholders held here yesterday and the company j will begin business at once with a paid- in capital of $100,000. D. C. Ashley was . , # elected president cism applied to the discussion of parasites. Doctors Indorse rt School Inspection State Association Approves Treatise Favoring Medical Examination of Children—Election To-morrow. SAVANNAH, GA.. April 17.—A number of important papers were discussed by the Medical Association of Georgia to-day, chief among them being a olea for medical inspection of school children, by Dr. I-. C. Alien or Hoschton, and a treatise on the prevalent parasites found in Geor gia. by I>r. A. G. Fort, of Atlanta. These two 'papers elicited consider able attention frot* the physicians. The inspection of school children was said to be another attempt at specialization to the detriment of the family practitioner, but the plea in volved prevailed and the paper, as read, was indorsed. The same criti- Savannah Presbytery Closes. TIPTON.—The Presbytery of Savan nah to-day closer! a session of three days here The officers elected were: Rev. A L. Patterson, Blackshear, moderator; Ilev. L. A. Mdsiurln. Statesboro, stated clerk; ltey HchT Rankin, Walthour- vllle, secretary. In order to facilitate the presenta tion of the many papers scheduled to be read, the convention was divided into three sections, all in session si multaneously. The election of officers will be the feature of the convention to-morrow afternoon. Old Convict Seeks Pardon. TIPTON —A petition for the pardon of Joe Conger has been presented to the __ Prison Commission. Conger and John AfT-lOTtO fjctfc! N P vt Gibbs killed Jonrdan Sumner in Colquitt ALllcIib UCtb IlCAt County about 20 years ago. It Is claimed that Gibbs did the killing and that Con ger was only an accessory to the crime. Arcanum Meeting Fill the Linen Chest Without Emptying the Purse Towels, napkins, table damasks and cloths priced right now when most housekeepers are just looking into the condition of their linen chest and supplying it against summer needs. Hera are.real helps! towels 19c 18x37-inch hemstitched buck satin damask border 30c scalloped liuck towels, 18x36 inches, satin damask 25c $1.00 half-bleach table damask, 72 inches wide, 7Qf* choice patterns • $1.25 table damask. 72 inches wide, and tine, new QQ r patterns ‘ /Ul ' $1.25 silver bleach damask, 72 inches vide, many patterns $1.75 a dozen linen napkins, 18x18 inch es, new patterns $2.25 a dozen linen napkins, 18x18 inch es,* new d*! *71^ patterns 1 • I O 45-In. Linen Embroidery Flouncings $ *1 98 Priced Regularly at $ 3° r> to $ 4 00 a yd. And it is not yet sunup of the day fot linc.n dresses. The whole season for them still to come, and this sale to-morrow. But the flouncing*:—they arc elegant, affairs, every thread linen—they are 45 inches wide—and everv thread even and regular—and the embroidery work spreads across the whole 45-inch surface in ouen patterns and in little florals, .some times in white, sometimes in self-colors. Bauds to match go with the flouncings. Choose from white, rose, ligh* blue, old blue, wistaria Dentists Meet In June. COLUMBUS—The Georgia Stale Dental Society \vi!! convene in Col umbus Thursday, June 12, and be in session tiirco days. The Society mel here only pnee before, about 40 years .igo. The ,coming convention will be the forty-sixth. Oppo/e Latin and Greek. MACON.—Superintendent C. II. Bruce, of the Ribb County public schools, and C. B. Chapman, principal of the two high schools, advocate the elimination of Greek ami Latin from the currlcu lump, and urge the teaching of cither of ihose languages only when specially requested by the pupil. W. D. Greene, of Atlanta, Elected Grand Vice Regent at Dublin Convention. $2.75 a do?cn linen napkins, 20x20 inch es, new OC patterns \ : V 5 / », • '7 ^ $4.50 a dozen linen napkins, 24x24 inch es, new patterns $8.50 Bordered damask cloths, $5.00 and $6.00 MessaHne $ "I .98 Princess Slips Are . . * $1.98' because, they arc a hit mussed and sailed— but not hurtfully-rrrsii]>ple, tine nics,saline, just as you would insist on having were you to pay $5.00 or $6.00. Tn'pink and light blue. link, gray, tan, leather, stuck in the ground for $1.00 18x18 inch- $1.35 2 1-2x2 1-2 vards .... $10,00 Bordered 2 1-2x2 1-2 vards $6.50 Green Pottery k cloths. I $7.50i damask cloths, The beautiful matt or I , dull green finish, so pretty with cut flowers or grow ing ]Bants. Articles of pot tery for sun parlor, porch, or living room. The prices arc even ab surdly low. Vases that hang or can he m cemetery list* .... 4-inch vases 7-incli vases 10-inch vases 12-inch vases 4-inch jardinieres. (j-inch jardinieres. 25c 10c 19c 35c 48c 10c 25c Chamberlin-John&on-DuBose Company Taking Bibb Censu*. MAD*. The census of the children In Bibb County between the ages of s.x and eighteen years is now being taken under the audploegOf the Board of Edu cation Coon the number of children , thus ascertained will depend the amount vannah, 1 •if the county's State school upproprla- Fowler. < DUBLIN, GA., April 17.—The 1113 meeting of the (Jnnd Council, Roya! Arcanum of Georgia, closed here to day after the election and installa tion of new officers. They are; Grand regent, H. S. West, Athens: grand vice regent, W. D. Greene, A:- lunta: orator, Q. L. Willard. Madiaon: past grand regent. J. B. Daniel, Dub lin; grand secretary, R. G. Lester t'ovington; grand treasurer. Eph Re bind. Augusta; guide, Henry McAl- pin. Savunnah: chaplain. B. J. Ed uards, Monroe; warden, F. J. Kgne. Rome: sentry, D. L. Christian, Sa- finanee committee, R. A Fowler. Covington; G. W. McDorman, tion for the next five year*. Athens; J. C. Scipple. Savannah. Athens was selected as the next place of meeting. Want Broad Gaue Road. MONROE—A petition to the State Railroad Commission is being circulated In the towns on the Gainesville Midland Railroad, a narrow gauge from Belmont, Hall County, to Monroe, about thirty TDv,^ T rlr,c« n T-mlvnfin miles, asking that.' if the owners of the DFOVlGS EL 11101116 road are not aMe to broaden It to stand- J ard gauge, that they be required to In- rotli S Jeffersonville Pays Atlanta Recorder Will Deliver Me morial Day Address at Twiggs County Town. stall new rolling stock and air brakes. Monument Debt to Be Paid. MACON The money left over from the I51S Confederate reunion funds will he used to nay the Indebtedness on the .. , _ , monument to the "Women of the South’ Recorder Nash Broyles to-day ac- whleh was unyefled here a year ago and ocpte( j an invitation to deliver the which would have been dismantled and * s-'.d ,-t auction recently but for the re- Memorial Day address on April -6 at fusal of the city to let the owners work Jeffersonville. Twiggs County, on the itarh on which the shaft stands. • „ , , , 1 The invitation was extended by a Denied New Trial. committee of leading citizens, who ire BREMEN.—B. R. Morrow, a weal- making elaborate preparations for the thy real estate dealer of Tallapoosa Memorial Day exercises. A splendid ih"> years old, convicted of an attempt- program has been prepared tne ch:L cd assault upon a fifteen-year-old girl and sentenced to eight years in tile chain gang, at the January term of Haralson Superior Court, has boon denied a new trial by Judge Price Edwards at Buchanan. Scheal Meet At Barntsville. BARXESV1LLE—The High School Association of the Sixth District wifi hold : its annual meet in Barnesville to-morrow, and it promises to be one of the most important meetings of the Stati*. The schools of Barnesville, Macon, Gifffin. Milledgevllle, Korsyrii, Jawksew. -I’hornaston, Hampton, Mc Donough end all intervening territory will participate. feature of which will be the address by Judg» Broyles. The Twiggs County Citizen, in an nouncing the invitation to Judge Broyles, paid him high tribute, ref.: - ring to him as "a distinguished jurist, an eloquent speaker ana a patriotic citizen, whose name is an honored household word in every section of the CENTAL ANGUISH BILL PASSE*. TALLAHASSEE. FLA., April 17.— A mental anguish bill, providing that telegraph cpmpanies be held liable for damages tf messages telling of death or illness of relatives are de layed In delivery, passed the Florida Hi use to-day by unanimous vote.