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p jr TAt I’M, Editor. VOL- XVI DDEING 1908 WILL SELL ONLY FOR CASH OR ITS EQUIVALENT in order to do this successfully we realize that we must sell at great reduction, so yon will find us at same old jilace at surprisingly low prices during this year, 'l'liis is nececssarv to our buiness and we must stay by it. (’ash or barter and £ood ] rices will be our motto ing lfiQS. I. C. ROBERTSON lANTEELA RIDER AGENT ®SaS^©ißMKSasa.sst 4SsaiS rlti MO Mi x ItLy J ll nu / you receive and appro'c of your bicycle. We ship a°lknv TK f DAYS’ FRiS Cent Prepay freight, and allow 1 tiN UA VS I daring which tune you inny rule the bicycle and put it to any test you wish. If you are then net perfectly satisfied or do not wish to keep the bicycle ship it bacx to us at our expense and you will not be out one cent. FACTORY PRICES , furmsh ., the h j% h< i st srade bicycles it is possible to make rHVIVIII rmytad at one small profit above actual factory- cost. You save ro to midctienien s profits by buying direct of us and have the manufacturers guar antee behind your bicycle. I>o JNOT 15 L Y a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any Price until you receive our catalogues and learn our unheard of factory Prices and reinaruaole special offers to rider agents. YOU WILL RF wh^ n you receive our beautiful catalogue and / > B Ll, Study pur superb models at the wonderfully low prices we can make you this year. We sell the highest grade bicycles for Jess money °*\iif^ f * e are satisfied with SI.OO profit above factory cost. BltivLE l)bALhRs you can sell our bicycles under your own name plate at ur prices. Orders filled the day received. D HAND Bi(JVCLhS. We do not regularly handle second hand bicycle?, but : a number on hand taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. These we clear out rices ranging from #0 to or $lO. Descriptive bargain lists mailed free. fWIACTrO RDAKF& single wheels, imported roller chains and pedals, parts, repairs and Vyftjltß’DnAAEß, equipment of all kinds at half the usual retail Prices. >ny lEKETROBIhHH&niE-nOOF S* 80 H SELFHEAUSGTIRES TOnfrffißVG£faKLY Jjjj, 10 MOKETROUBLE FROMPUISCTURES >Ail.*v 1 •*> Kr. or tllsiss will not let the yfejflHl ah out. ’s:xi\ thousand pairs sold last year, Ag S^Ml O'tr two huudred thousand pairs now in use. DttORIPTION: Made iu all sizes. It is lively - special cualfty of rubber, which nevi r &j poroua tad which closes up small pui.icturcs without ?illow- | II Notlce tho thlck tread uif the dr to escape. We have hundreds of satis- | .. A .. and pimcturo Btripß fiedautaraers stating that their tires haveonly been pumped J? and 44 D ,f also rim stria 44 11’* upouce or twice in a whole season. Ihey weigh uoinoreth..ti fc% iirevont rim cutting. '.This •aordiuary tire, the pfiucture resisting qualities being£tyeu £§g t}r 4 wil | out i a .st any other lajf T 3 01 thm specially prepared fabric on the VS 5 make-SOFT, LIL.ASTIC and tread Tht regular price of these tires isfS.so per pair,but for vsY itIDING. dvcrtiing purposes we are makings special factory price to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. We ship C. O. D. on approval. You do not nay a cent until you have examined aud found them strictly as represented. he will illow a oaan discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price £>4.55 per pair) if you fcud FULL CASH WITH OKDKK and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one Btckd plated brass hand pump. Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are sot itrifartory on examination. W T e are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wc.r better, last longer and look finer than any tire vou have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. V c want you to send us a trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer . j <r t/mi airrn -nniro don’t buy any kind at any price until you Send tor a pair ol Ir fUU nttu a /#■?:O Hedgethorn Puncture-Proof tires on approval and trial at the special introductory price quoted above; or write for our big Tire and Sundry Catalogue which describee ami quotes all makes and kinds of tires at about half the usual pwees. nn Ifor 1/1/4 it but write us a postal today. LH> NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle UU N’J J WAIT or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new aud wonderful c-ffers we sre niakiug. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. 1. L MEAD CYCLE COM PANY, CHICAGO, ILL TAFT’S RUNNING MAI H. Congrc-r'-'-ir! F’-err Jr. c” ”;v' v or!< ,r '~ f i.. r--* r 1 - . (Vim-Tit ion Hall. Chic o ?''* lure 19. •—The exhausting work of Tkur-dav’s fv-slon in the republican nst’onal con vention and tie fact that *he great went of the program had transpired, *0 octnbined to cause a sc3r.ty arriva 1 the -ie’egations Friday. Tie effect was then more marked in the number of spectators, When th convention was called to Cl 4tr th, re vras not present a twenti ptirt of those who witnessed the °Pning cf the day before. crowd cutside the Coliseum smaller, too, and altogether the Central interest in the convention was fit low tide compared with the excite ment of Thursday. As the delegates began to arrive ffi * r<n £ Luce at the convention hall, v.ord that the vice presidential fi °Qnnee was to be James S. Sherman r f New York, commenced to filter t-roiig n. Tbe report steadily strength C() NUR£SSMax rhkhman of . NEW YORK. \. r *' d / Chjc?39 Convention for e P eskiest of United States. 441 vu'Xrp _— v '!iie" 4,1 ,n a 1 w minutes t!.e ‘grape* t*ip was carrying around ’'t that rti agree- ment I:ad been reached cn the much ciiscusrcd question. J. Soul Facs tt, cf X-2.v York, con firmed on his ariival, the report that it was to be Sherman, and he asked Chairman lodge to delay calling the ■convention to order until two brass bands which lad been h*red by the New York delegation, could arrive. The chairman agreed to this, saying: “I knew there is nothing to it but Sherman.” Chairman Lodge called the conven tion to order and the nominations for vice president were almost immediate ly proceeded with. Timothy L. Woodward presented the name of Congressman Sherman, of Now York state, who was nominated. Mr. Crane, of Massachusetts, mov cd Sherman’s nomination be made unanimous. Governor Fcrt, of New Jersey, seconded the motion. The motion prevailed unanimously, and Mr. Sherman was declared nominated unanimously. The republican convention Af 190S for the nomination of a man-to head their ticket in the coming presidential election and also the candidate for the vice presidency of the United States, came to a close in the Coliseum at .Chicago, TIL, at 1.1:47 Friday morning. • BRYAN HEARS THE NEWS. He will Prepare a Statement Regard ing the G. O. P. Platform. Lincoln, Neb., June 19.-— William Bryan received news of the action o the republican national convention .at his Fa!rvlew home and evinced con siderable interest in the result. ’ Mr.'Bryan asked to-be told the vote con other candidates and was especially -interested in that for Senator La toi lette. He said he had no comment To make on the convention’s work but would soon prepare a statement of his •views on fhe republican platform. Selma Man Suicides. Selma, Ala., June 20.—For a long time ill and despondent, James S Brown, a well known citizen of Sel ma, committed suicide by a shot i through the.he^rt. from a shotgun. THE DAFE COUNTY TINES TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY JUNE 26 an jiMicmci The Slate Convention Was Called to Meet In Atlanta. 1,800 DELEGATES PRESENT Besides Nominating a Car,d .date for Governor, State House Officers and U. S. Senators, Delegates to Denver Convention Were Selected. Atlanta, June 22. —'Delegates to tho Georgia state conventicn met at the Grand Tuesday to nominate a gover nor, United States senator and state house officials. There was expected to be an atten dance of more than a thousand, and the convention was one of the largest and most enthusiastic in the history of state politics, and certainly the ..• *, > * <> *" r>', f / jx- >, s. y ;' u fr 4 ?'"* 't. p I Hu* > . ' * ' ' HON. JOS. M. BROWN, Who Will Be the Next Governor of Georgia. most unanimous, for all of the dele gates fi re “from among the friend and supporters of the successful nom inee ft r governor, Hon. Jo enh ,M . Tirown, of Cobb, chosen from every one of the cue hundred and forty-six coun ties in the state, r grrd’.lss of how the-'e counties cast their vole for this high office.’’ By this means only one name was presented to the convention for nomi nation and only the r*>licies of the suc cessful candidal- figured in the state convention. Following the arrival of the dele gates, ar.d there were 1.8 r 0 of them, cancrs-es by congressional di triot were held. The convention was ca”e(i also to name delegates to the Denver con vention . There seems to be a feeling that the delegation should he sent to- Denver uninstructed. DEATH CLAIMS OLD EJI7CR. Donelacn C. Jenkins Wen Renown as a Newspaper Man. Ix>s Angeles, Cal., June 20. —Don- tlson Caffery Jenkins, in the fifties and sixties one of the the best known newspaper editors in the country, be ing owner and chief editor of the New Orleans Delta and later of the Pica yune, died at Sierra Madre Saturday, aged eighty-three. After removing from New Orleans, Mr. Jenkins went to Galveston where he was editor-in-chief and vice-pres ident of the Galveston News. When the Dallas News was annexed to the Galveston Journal, Mr. Jenkins edited it from his office in Galveston. After securing a comfortable fortune he sold out his interests in the two papers and moved to I.os Angeles, where he made his home. Mr. Jen kins was born at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1825. He leaves a widow, one son and five daughters. rx; Bloodshed at a Primary. Lexington, Ky. , June 22. As the result of bad blood engendered by a hotly contested republican primary, J. J. Turner shot and killed a young man by the name of Arrowwcod at Canoe, 10 miles from Jackson, in Breathitt county. In Terry precinct, after six ty ballots had been cast, a general fight ensued, poll books and remaining ballots were destroyed and the elec tion in that precinct ended. Explosion in Laboratory. * Newport, R. I. June 22. An ex plosion of chemicals stored in the tor pedo laboratory at the naval training stolon here, destroyed the laboratory. The loss will not exceed $3,000. Spon taneous combustion is believed to have caused the explosion. Makes an Official Denial. rnris. June 22—M. Raffalovitch, the representative cf the Russian finance minister, who is now here, has made an official denial that the Russian gov ernment had placed order* in the Unit ed States for steel. _ Official Organ of Dade County. C£.roja solons gather. There Will Ce Six New FacC3 i.i the Lower Houee. AVanta, June 24. — A majority cf the members of the general assembly of Georgia have already arrived and are **tady for the opening sess!* ns. Much in if rest is being taken in the race for ti e presidency of tbe senate. €e::ri:-.>r J. J. PJynt, of tbe twenty seventh district, stated that already he ha I mcip tnan a sufficient number of votes to guarantee his election to the pre.-ider.cy on the first bal-’ot. Senator E. T. Steed, of the thir ty-seventh district, who is also a ean di for the office of presi lent, stat ed that he was confident that he would be elected. He said that as president pro-tem. of tbe senate he was ’n line fer promotion, and that he believed that a majority of the mem bers cf the senate would support him. In the house there will he six new faces to take the place cf former mem bers cf the house who have died or resigned since the last session of the general assembly. Since both branches of the general assemble are already organized, th- 0 committee appointed at the last ses sion holding Intact for this session, there,will be little time Tost in pre paring to transact business. With many important measures to consider, the present session of the legislature bids fair to be one of the most interesting sessions in the his tory of the state. LARGE CEMENT PLANT. To Be Located at St. Stephens, Ala., Capital $6,000,000. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 24. —De- tails for the organization of the lar gest cement and coal plant in the w’orld. and the only one which wi'J be on tidewater, were completed in this city between the directors of the Mo bile-Portland Cement company and Wm. J. Oliver, the railroad contrac tor. It was incorporated in Portland, Me., with a capital stock of $0,000,- 000 common and $3,000,000 preferred stock. ? The formal organization and flection of stockholders will occur at Mobile Saturday night, June 27. Among the the directors are United states Treas urer C. H. Treat. E. L. Rnss~M, vice president of the MobTc and Ohio mil road; Jat. J. I yon. Mobile's million aire mayor: W. Y\ r . Finley, president of the Southern railroad, and many others. The plant will be located at Gt. Stephens, Ala. Cut Throat to Escape Posse. Eufaula, Ala.. June 24. —Surrounded by a Edgar Jordan, a negro, accused of murder, who had barricad ed himself in a house, wrote a note and cut his threat with a razor, dy ing instantly. Jordan killed a negro woman in Georgia and escaped into Alabama. He seriously wounded Con stable Simmons, an Alabama officer, and it was for this crime that he was pursued. Jordan w r as a well-to-do negro farm er of Barbour county, Alabama, and had been a student of Booker Washing ton’s school. Bishop Brent May Accept. Manila, June 24 —Bishop Charles H. Brent, who was recently elected bishop of the Washington diocese, will not reach a final decision in the matter until after he arrives at Washington and confers with the standing com mittee of the Protestant Episcopal church. Bishop Bront will leave here June 30, going first to Boston and thence to Washington He feels that his duty lies here but he may, after conferring with the committee, accept the Washington see. Given Various Sentences. St. Petersburg, June 24—Sentences have been handed down in the case of the participators in the Jewish massa cre of 1905, at Blalystok, when eleven Christians and seventy-three Jews were killed and twenty-three Chris tians and eighty-tw'o Jews were wound ed. One of the prisoners was sen tenced to three years’ penal servi tude, thirteen others were sentenced to from six months to a year’s impris onment, and fifteen were acquitted. Woodson and Sullivan at Denver. Denver, Coi’o., June 24. —Ury Wood son, of Kentucky, secretary of the dem ocratic national committee, and Roger C. Sullivan, committeeman from Illi noisj and also chairman of the gener al com*m*.ttee on arrangements, have ar rived here to set in motion the work of arranging the immediate prelimina ries of the national convention which will begin July 7. Safe Was Blown Open. Ethelville, Ala., June 22.—Tbe safe In the store of Hancock & Pridmore n Saturday night was blown and the robbers secured $1,200 in currency. The postoffice was in the store, and the thieves look over SIOO worth of stamps. There is no clew to the rob bers. .■■iiii'lilniiiniimmiummiiilV'd . i n.~ini.iriiiii ‘ uini 1 in■. u>. -AVcge table Prep aration for As similating theFoodandßegula ling the Stomachs andßov/eis of -* i üßiiß 11 in I— i 111 iinir ti gITOWI E^lsfnSTm^l Promotes Digestion,Cheerful ness and ßest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. 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