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VOL IX
CHRISTMAS
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* LANHAM | SONS
We are Going to Have the Lar
gest and Most Varied Stock of
Christmas and Holiday Goods
" " in Rome, and if you want to
make a PRESENT our Store
will be the place to buy it.
Our buy< r has just returned from Now York whore he bought t he Largest
line of nil New Goods ever brought, to Rome. Our prices are the lowest.
TOYS, DOLLS, GAMES,
PICTURE BOOKS, FINE VASES,
FANCY CHINA,
and a thousand other things suitable for Presents will
be sold by us for Less money than other merchants.
Olif Do/ Goods, Dress Goods,
Shoes, Clothing, etc.,
is Being sold for ■ Less, mosey than by other merchants!
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Our Millinery Department
Is Gsrtainla tin ins’Jn Sri;. , Wo soli Hats, Gaqas, etc.,
real Cheap, and they are o’ the Finest and roost Stylish in
Georgia.
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LOOK AT THESE PRICES!
Fur Trimmed Capes as low as 50 c
Infants Plush Hoods cr Capes only 5 c
Infants and Childrens Knit Sacks only 10 c
All Wool Flannel Per Yard Sic
Cotton “ “ “ -H c
Cotton Checks, Real Good 3+c
Bed Blankets, each, only 20 c
Lace Curtains perpair 85 c
Towels, each 21c
Pretty Double Width Worsted...... 10 c
“ " “ “ Cash Worsted only 10 c
—Ladies Heavy Button Shoes . , 75 c
\ A large lot of Drummer’s Sample Shoes. Come while
those goods last. They are cheap.
EVERYTHING AS ADVERTISED!
■■
Come to see us we can sell you all you want and
by getting everything at Our Store Save Money and
trouble. If you want a Christmas Present or any=
thing else come to our Seven Stores and you will cer
tainly be pleased.
If you are going to Marry come to us for your
Dress, Hat, Suit, Cape, Stove or
Sewing Machine.
‘We sell the celebrated New Home Machine. Case
of Finest Quarter Sawed Oak, and of very latest style
at $25, others ask $45.
LflrNH-ftM > SONS.
'Wholesale and Retail.
314 to 326 Fifth Ave., ROME, GA.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 9, 1896
THE APPOINTMENTS
of Some of these Men You May
Know.
The following assignment o , were
made at the Dalton conference
last week, of men whose names are
familiar in this section :
J. W. Quillian goes to Marietta;
M. 11. Edwards to Woodstock; W.
J. Cotter to Asbury ; J. A. Reynolds
to East Point; A. B. Weaver to
Fayetteville; W. T. Irvine to Car
rollton circuit; Fletcher Walton
to Villa Rica; G. W. Griner to
Harmony Grove; G. W. Duva] to
Sociar Circle.
A B ston woman the other day
got into serious trouble by wearing
to the theater a hat so big that it
obstructed the view of the gentle
man who sat behind her. The gen
tleman was a merchant Fie recog
nized the hat as one that had been
stolen from his store, and had the
woman arrested.
ha Hail Patiaai.
James L. Francis, Aiderman,
Chicago, says: “I regard Dr.
King’s New Discovery as an ideal
Panacea for Coughs, Colds and
Lung Complaints, having used it
in my family for the last five
years, to the exclusion of physi
cian’s prescriptions or other prep
arations.”
Rev. John Burgus, Keokuk, lo
wa, writes: “I have been a minis
ter of the Methodist Episcopal
church for 50 years or more, ai d
have never found anything so ben
eficial that gave me such speedy
relief as Dr. King’s New Discov
ery.” Try this Ideal Cough Rem
edy now. Trial Bottles free at 11.
11. Arrington’s drug store.
Georgia News.
A number of government engi
neers are engaged preparing plans
for the defense of Brunswick.
Dr. Wyllis Rede, of Rockford.
111, has accepted the call to the
Church of Incarnation at West
End, Atlanta.
An attempt was made to wreck
a Plant System train at the Tide
water Oil Company’s switch on
Sunday, but it failed.
Walker Ray, a 5-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Ray, of Resecca,
was fatally burned a few days ago,
his clothing catching fire from the
hearth while his parents were out.
Ho died within three hours.
Charles Williams, Willian Hen
ry and Henry Thompson, three ne
groes, charged with robbing a man
in East Rome and on whose person
sixteen watches were found, after
wards identified as the property of
a Chattanooga merchant, were re
leased Saturday. After recovering
his property the merchant declined
to prosecute.
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Robbers In Rome.
Rome, Ga. Dec. B.—Two negroes
and a white man, under the full
glare of an arc light, held up John
Miller, a pr minent merchant of
Rome, at 5 o’clock this morning
while the latter was en route t<>
his store to*begin his day’s busi
ness, and rilled his pockets of over
a hundred dol'ars in cash.
This crime was one of the bold
est of a series of crimes that have
followed each other in rapid suc
cession, and has almost precipita
ted a reign of terror in Rome. A
mong the police and private citi
zens the belief is strong that the
town is infested by a regularly or
ganized gang of highwaymen.
Miller is the proprietor of a gro
cery store and meat market, and
does a thriving business.
It is his custom to open these
places early in the morning, and
today he started to them at his us
ual hour. When he reached Fifth
avenue, ho noticed the group of
men gathered under the electric
light, and whatever suspicions be
may have had at their being e
broad at such an hour were allayed
by tho very boldness of the men.
They were chatting pleasantly
with one another, and the white
man appeared to have been asking
some directions of the darkies. As
the shopkeeper got opposite them,
one of the trio suddenly wheeled
and presented a pistol to Miller’s
head, and warned him that an at
tempt to move or an outcry would
mean death. Miller was unarmed
and utterly helpless, and while the
white man kept him covered with
a revolver, the negroes rilled his
pockets.
Thoir victim had something over
a hundred dollars on his person,
and this the robbers secured, in
addition to a watch and several ar
ticles of minor value.
As soon as he was released, the
victim gave the alarm, and pursuit
has been instituted. City detec
tives have been especially detailed
on the caee and the entire police
force are lending every effort to
effect a capture.
This robbery has served to em
phasize the startling state of affairs
existing in Rome for the past sev
eral weeks. Lawlessness has been
running riot, and all efforts to pre
vent it have proven futile. In the
opinion of even the policemen
themselves, Rome is in the hands
of organized bandits and the series
of crimes that have so rapidly fol
lowed one after the other are the
works of these gentry. The police
force has just been doubled in
numbers in order to break up the
gang.
A tired stomach is very much
like a sprained ankle. If you suf
fer from any of the symptoms of
dyspepsia, your stomach is tired.
It needs a crutch. We must re
' lieve it of all work for a time, or
until it is restored to its natural
strength. To do this successfully,
we must use a food which is al
ready digested outside of the body,
■ and which will aid the digestion of
other foods that may be taken with
it. Such a product is the Shaker
Digestive Cordial.
The Shakers have utilized the
. stive principles present in
unis for the manufacture of this
.idcle, and its success has been
i i rely phenomenal. You can try
it for the nominal sum of 10 cents
i a- sample bottles are sold by all
! druggists at this price.
Lax-’l is the best medicine for
children. Ductors recommend it
in place of Castor Oil.
| The authorities of Rome have
released Jeff Nix, Rhymer Marra
■ Fli l and Emma Tolbert, thought
to be implicated in the ki ling of
Gide >n Pope, the colored mer
chant.
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A GREAT RABBIT DRIVE.
It Occurred in California Several
Days Ago.
The great rabbit drive, which
was eo elaborately planned at
Fresno, was today carried into
successrul execution, with the re
mit that thousands of rabbits met
their fate from the merciless
clubs of farmers and town people.
Estimates as to he number killed
vary, ranging from 10,000 to 25,-
000. It was impossible to count
them, and the best estimate is no
better than a guess. But the
slaughter surpassed anything of
the kind ever seen here before.
Ten thousand people took part—
footmen, horsemen, wheelmen and
vehicles of all sorts. When the
line was formed ready for advance
it was a huge crescent, one horn at
McMullan station, and the other
near Caruthers, on the west side of
the railroad. The line of people
was twenty-four miles long. It
was after 10 o’clock when W. F.
Rowell signalled a general ad
vance, and the line moved forward
across orchards, fields, vineyards,
and finally emerged on tho open
plains. The best of order was
maintained. The marshals gal
loped along the line giving instruc
tions. Toward noon the north
and south wings began to fold in
ward to the center, and when in
three miles of the corral the line
of men had contracted till it was
less than three miles long.
All this time the rabbits had
been driven forward, constantly
increasing ini numbers. At first
they had not showed much con
cern, but when they began to be
crowded they grew excited. Sev
eral coyotes were started. Some
were shot, and others died later.
Some whelps were caught alive.
Many rattlesnakes were killed.
When the rabbits had been driven
into a comparatively small place
they covered th| ground, and soon
grew excited and ried to escape
by rushing through the lines.
Then the slaughter begun. A solid
line of men dropped on their knees
leaving the ground heaped with
the dead behind them. Fully 10,-
000 were thus killed and the others
were forced into the corral, where
they rushed to and fro, frantic
with fear. They trampled and
smothered each other to death
by thousands. A coyote that en
tered the coral was actually tram
pled to death by the rabbits. Fif
teen minutes with clubs finished
the work.
Many good judges place the to
! tai killed at 30,000. Farmers
! hauled wagon loads away to feed
I hogs. The best of order prevailed.
Only one person refused to obey
orders. He was beaten and driven
off the grounds by the crowd. The
drive was the best managed, the
; largest and most satisfactory ever
held in the country.
Alabama News.
Twenty-five people left Anniston
' the other day for Texas.
i The old city hotel at Tuskegee
was burned on Friday night.
Citizens of Piedmont will seek
to have the city charter amended.
Gland© Russell and wif", both
totally blind, have opened a store
at Attalla.
There is a 1 rge New Foundlaud
dog at Athens that climbs trees,
1 bear fashion, and enjoys the exer
l cise;
Slightly Exaggerated.
The tendency of some western
men to exaggerate is well set off
in the following:
“Y’es, sir,” resumed the Dakota
man, as the crowd of agriculturists
seated themselves around a little
table, “yes, sir, we do things on a
rather sizable scale. I’ve seen a
man on one of our big farms start
out in the spring and plough a
straight furrow until fall. Then
he turned around and harvested
back. We have some big farms
there, gentlemen. A friend of
mine owned one on which he had
to give a mortgage, and the mort
gage was due on one end before
they had it recorded at the other.
You see it was laid off in counties.”
There was a murmur of astonish
ishment and the Dakota man con
tinued :
“I got a letter from a man who
lives in my orchard just before I
left home, and it nad been three
weeks getting to tho dwelling
house, although it had traveled
day and night.”
“Distances are pretty wide up
there, ain’t they?” inquired one.
“Reasonably, reasonably,” re
plied the Dakota man. “And the
worst of it is, it breaks up families
so. Two years ago I saw a whole
family prostrated with grief. Wo
men yelling, children howling and
dogs barking. One of my men had
his camp truck packed on seven
four-mule teams and he was ’round
bidding everybody good-bye.”
“Where was he going?” asked a
Gravesend man.
“He was going half-way across
the farm to feed the pigs,” replied
the Dakota man.
“Did he ever get back to his
family?”
“It isn’t time for him yet,” re
turned the Dakotagentlemau. “Up
there we send young married cou
ples to milk the cows, and their
children bring home the milk.”
The mechanics in the Southern
railway shops in Knoxville, Tenn.,
say they will celebrate the birth
day of Mark Hanna when it comes
round. Only three days after the
election the shop force was cut 20
per cent and two weeks later the
hours were reduced from ten to
eight, and the force again reduced.
An order was placed in the shop
Friday stating that the men would
only work four and a half days a
week hereafter.
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