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VOL X Lanham & Sons, Rome, Ga. LOOK AT OUR SPLENDID BARGAINS I! LADIES’SHIRT WAISTS ONLY 15CENTS. Made of good quality new Percale, pleated back, and a real good Waist. Worth three times what we ask. Pretty Spring Calico, good quality 3|c Pretty Folding Fans 1c Pretty Spring Dress Goods, only 3|c Better “ “ 2c Bleached Cotton 3|c Silk Stripe Challis, fine 10c Good Ginghams 3.V Nice Handkerchiefs 1c Real Good 10c Black Sateen 64 Gentlemen’s large serviceable Handkerchiefs 3c Real Nice India Linen 5c Three Bars Buttermilk soap 5c Pretty Checked Lawn, good quality, 5c "IaCEWINDOW CURTAINS 2 9 c PER I’AIR. They Are Very Pretty and Worth Double this Price. Window Shades, complete on Spring Rollers 10c New Waist Silks 29c Good Cloth “ “ “ “ 20c Pretty Parasols, wide ruffle 50c Curtain Poles, Brass Ends and Rings 20c Three Spools Best Thread 10c Large Line Fine Shades cheap. Ten Balls “ “ 5c LADIES’ LOW CUTSHOES 32 CENTS PER Pair. Baby Shoes, per pair, only 15c Ladies’ Pure Silk Mitts, per pair 10c Babies’ Tan Shoes, per pair, only 20c “ Silk and Kid Gloves cheap Ladies’ good quality Oxford 50c “ Fast Black Hose, per pair 5c Fine Line Ladies’ Low Cut Shoes, all col- Gentlemen’s Half Hose, per pair 5c ors and sizes, nice and cheap. Corsets, only 5c FINE AND STYLISH MILLINERY CHEAPER THAN ANY HOUSE IN NORTH GEORGIA. We have the prettiest Hats, Flowers, Ribbons and Feathers of any House in the South, and they are certainly cheaper than you can find anywhere. Our Milliner spent two months in New York this season, and the result is she is turning out the finest and most stylish Hats of any house in the city. All of our goods are new and at less prices than others ask for old last season’s goods, Dress Goods New £ Stylish. PRETTIEST STOCK IN ROME. All the new weaves and colors, with trimmings to match. Come and see our New Spring Goods. They are prettier than ever before, and we are selling them real cheap. In our seven stores are all the New Goods of the season and by buying of us you can get your Hats and Dresses to match, and by getting them all here we will sell to you cheaper than you can get them elsewhere, SPRING GLOTHING! NICE STRAW HAT FREE WITH EACH SUIT. We have a larger stock of New Spring Clothing than ever and Clothing this sea son is cheaper than ever before. Don’t buy any Clothing till you see our line. We positively will save you big money on your Clothing this season. Come to see us, get our prices and post vourself. You are welcome if you don’t buy. L/VNrtftM & SONS Seven stores, Wholesale and Retail. 314, 316, 318, 320, 322, 324 and 326. Fifth Ave., ROME, GA. THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS. ADVERTISING IS THE LIFE OF TRADE.===WHY DON’T YOU TRY IT, AND SEE? SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 21, 1897. THOUSANDS OF HEN Working And Watching Day And Night TO PROTECT THE LEVEES. Tremendous Rainfall In The Flooded District. Memphis, April 14.—The river continues to slowly rise at Vicks burg and all points soutl, and the situation along the Louisiana levee system is serious. The waters arc being hurled gulf ward with tremen dous force and several thousand men are working and watching day and night in one grand effort to hold th* 3 embankment intact. Reports from the overflowed Mis sissippi delta are not encouraging. The expected fall in the waters that extend for miles and miles over the fertile valley has not oc curred. Many well known plant ers express the fear that the yel low stream will not recede until June —too late to plant this year’s crop. Throughout the overflowed area rain fell in torrents last night and part of today. At memphis the river is stationary tonight. As the river is rising at Cairo, and as the rainfall throughout the territory draining into the Mississippi at Memphis and above has been heavy, the local observer predicts that du ring the ensuing twenty-four hours there will probably be a slight rise at this point. Hood’s Pills are the only pills to take with Hood’s Sarsaparilla- Cure all liver ills. Good Only Until May 1., 1897. The publishers of The World- Famous Twice-A-Week Detroit Free Press wish us to announce the withdrawal of their trial subscrip tion offer to send the paper ten weeks for ten cents after May 1. If you wish to take advantage of this special low trial rate, you must do so before above date. Re member that you get twenty pa pers for 10 cents: two each week. You cannot afford to miss this op portunity. Send 10 cents in stamps or silver to The Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Mich., and they will send you the paper for ten weeks. That the North is awaking to the opportunities of the South is shown in the following from an ar ticle in The Press of Wisconsin : “The South is richer far in natural resources than men have yet reali zed. She has wealth of sun and soil, of fruit and forest and miner al, and it is only necessary that her tremendous energies shall be concentrated and directed to the development of her natural wealth to astonish the civilized world Capital will go (with security as a i condition precedent) wherever it shall find the richest reward, and that capital is satisfied with the ‘ prospect in the South is made manifest by the recent removal of manufacturing plants from their old fields in the North to newer ' and rich fields in the South. Pop ! ulation and wealth will follow them, and it is no wild freak of fancy that foresees the time when the relative strenght of the North and South in men and money shall be materially changed: when the furnace fires of Alabama and Georgia shall become the torches of industrial victorv and the spin dles of South Carolina and Missis sippi shall hum their song of joy for the Southern resurrection.” WONDERFUL are the cures by ■■Hoods Sarsaparilla, and yet they are simple and natural. Hood’s Sana* parfflamaku PURI BLOOD. GEORGIA SILVERITE, After a Trip to Mexico Comes In to the Sound Money Camp. Atlanta, April 13.—Henry W Reid, the Georgia member’ of the populist national committee, a staunch friend of Tom Watson, and who did so much to keep him and Bryan apart, has declared him self for sound money. He is largely interested in mining in Mexico and recently visited that country. On his return he said : “Business is business, and as the country has gone for gold, there is no reason why I should go against my own interest for the sake of politics.” Democrats Have- Only to Wait. We have yet to note the arrival of that prosperity so confidently predicted under the rule of McKin ley and the republican party. Nor do we see any signs of its coming, though McKinley was elected five months ago. Meanwhile the Democratic party is rapidly regaining its strength. Town and county elections nearly everywhere show it. Even in old New’ England the change since No vember is astonishing, nearly all the town elections there resulting in sweeping Democratic triumphs. If a new President w’ere to be elec ted to-day we feel absolutely sure that he would be a democrat. The Dingley tariff bill and the juggling of the republicans at Washington disgusts the country- The republican party is beginning to show' again that it is to-day what *t has alw’ays been—the friend of rings and trusts and combines and the enemy of the people. We repeat what we said some time ago, that if things go on as they are it will not be worth while for the republicans to nominate anybody in J9OO. The Democrats will win by the biggest majority in our history.—New York World. The old curfew law has been put into force in Alabama City, and is having a’most wholesome effect on both young and old . The curfew bell is rung at 9 o’clock every night, and the streets after time are as silent as graveyards. The working of the law has been found to be most satisfactory, and the people of Alabama City hearti ly reccommend it to other small cities in the state. In speaking of one of the ablest and brightest young men in Geor gia the Charleston Sun saos: “By the retirement of Captain Evan P. Howell from the position of editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Clark Howell assumes entire con trol of the greatest newspaper be tween Baltimore and New Orleans, a splendid position to have won at his age for we do not believe that he is much beyond, thirty. It is not the years that a man has lived, however, but what he has crowded into them w r hich gives one experi ence. Spring Medicine is a necesity which Hood’s Sarsaparilla grandly supplies. It purifies and vitalizes the blood and thus gives tone and strength to the whole system. The largest purchase of cotton ever made from a Georgia planter was m:.do Saturday by B. B. Ford & Co., cotton buyers, of Macon The cot.un purchased was some thing over 2,000 bales, and every bale of it was grown on the planta tion of Mr. James M. Smith, in Oglethorpe county, and sold by him to B. B. Ford& Co., of Macon. The sale involved a transaction of about $70,000, on a basis of 7 cents, and just as soon as all the cotton can be weighed a check for the entire amount will be handed to Mr. Smith. pm HH I V'&fl J &AKIH<3 POWDER ’ Absolutely Pure* Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Royal Baking Powder Co. New York. SPANIARDS PLEASED. With the Administration’s Poli cy and Promise Cuban Reforms. Madrid, April 14. Political and diplomatic circles in Madrid are animatedly discussing the improve ment of the prospects of Spanish rule in Cuba, in consequence, it is said, of an active exchange of con fidental and unofficial communi cations between the United States and Spanish government since McKinley and Sherman tcok of fice. It seems that Spanish diploma cy has intimated at Washington that Spain cannot entertain any suggestion of American mediation in Cuba, but with the continuance of the present poli;y of the Wash ington authoritses better rule in Cuba is in prospect. Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of June* tion City, 111., was told by her doc tors she had consumption and that there was no hope for her, but tw'o bottles of Dr. King’s New Discov ery completely cured her and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers, 139 Florida St., San Fran cisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, approaching consumption, tried without result everything else then bought one bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such results of which these samples, that prove the wonderful efficacy of this med icine in coughs and colds. Free trial bottles at 11. H. Arrington’s Drug store. Regular size 50c, and SI.OO And now comes Capt. “Ya ik’ Sims with the tale of a snake that surpassed all others stories to date. While walking in his ho-se let a day or two ago, he found a bunch of three snakes of a species differ ent from any he had ever seen. T!:o largest measure nine feet and was as large as a man’s arm, while the others were about half that size. Mr. Sims killed the snakes with a hoe. —Americus Times-Recorder. The Mount Lebanon Shakers have recently perfected an ingen ious cure for dyspepsia. The Di gestive Cordial consists of a food already digested and a digester of foods happily combined. The importance of this inven- I • • tion will be appreciated when we realize what a proportion of the comunity are victims of some form of stomach troubles. Thousands of pale, thin people have little in clination to eat, and what they do eat causes them pain and distress. This Digestive Cordial of the ■ Shakers corrects any stomach - rahgement at once. It makes thin • people plump. Every one will be greatly interested to read the lit tle book which has been placed in the hands of druggists for free dis tribution. ’ What is Laxol? Nothing but Cas tor Oil made palatable as honey. T Children like it. No. 7