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VOL X
Lanham & Sons,
Rome, Ga.
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LADIES’SHIRT WAISTS ONLY 15CENTS.
Made of good quality new Percale, pleated back, and a real good Waist. Worth throe times what wo ask,
Pretty Spring Calico, good quality 3|c | Pretty Folding Fans 1c
Pretty Spring Dress Goods, only 3|c Better “ “ 2c
Bleached Cotton Silk Stripe Challis, fine 10c
Good Ginghams z 3| Nice Handkerchiefs l c
Real Good 10c Black Satoen 6| Gentlemen’s large serviceable Handkerchiefs 3c
Real Nice India Linen 5c Three Bars Buttermilk soap 5c
Pretty Checked Lawn, good quality, 5c
LACE WINDOW CURTAINS 29c PER PAIrT
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 CLOTHING!
NICE STRAW HAT FREE WITH EACH SUIT.
We have a larger stock, of New Spring
C lothing 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
yourself. You are welcome if you don’t
buy.
UANrtAVM & SONS
Seven stores, Wholesale and Retail.
314, 316, 318, 320, 322, 324 and 326.
Fifth Ave., ROME, GA.
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 28, 1897.
THE OLD
RED HILLS.
Fanners To’d how to Save
Land By the Terracing
Method.
OBSERVATIONS OF VALUE.
Thousands of Acres of Wash
ed out and Waste Lands Be
Reclaimed, What He
Says.
Yesterday a Tribune man met
Mr. W. T. Chenney, who had re
turned from a business trip through
Middle Georgia, including some of
the counties surrounding Madison.
He asked if he knew any news He
replied: “I want to tell you some
thing of more importance to the
farmers of North Georgia than any
sensational uews, or windy poli
itics or mere gossip”.
“Well, what is it?”
“I want to tell you of the won
derful change in the appearance of
all the farming land throughout
Middle Georgia,” said he, “and the
difference now and some years ago.
Not more than five years ago, when
I traveled through that section, it
was really sad and depressing to
see so many old fields growing up
in pines and the lands washed and
full of gulleys, which seemed ap
parently unfit for anything.
“You see it was the change in
this respect that "affected me so
much . I saw these old fields large
ly turned into gardens of fertilty;
what was once washed and gullied
land growing in sedge and scatter
ed pines, briers, etc., all hideous to
look at, are now beautiful land
scapes, fertile acres, making often
half a bale of cctton to the acre.
“What has caused such a change?”
“Why,” said he, “the secret of
the whole thing lies in the sim
plest mode of terracing. Wher
ever those lands were rolling the
people with common turning plows
have thrown up every ten or fif
teen feet apart, on a water level,
terraces or embankments of earth
which hold the water, stops the
washes and increase the fertilty of
the land. The water, itself, you
know when retained on the ground
and allowed to soak in is a won
derful fertilizer.
“Well, they take an old worn out
field, cut down the pines and briars,
pile these in the gullies and throw
some dirt on them. Then with a
simple water level, which any one
can make, they lay off these terra
ces so many feet apart exactly on
a water level, the distance apart
being determined by the steepness
of the land. When these terraces
have been made, and one man with
turning plow and team can terrace
a good size field in a day, they plow
the field up gocd and deep, and
sow it in peas, or in rye or oats.
“I saw fields that in this way,
within two years, had been reclaim
ed so as to produce excellent crops.
I will tell you what’s the fact, if I
our farmers will make fertile eve
ry old hill side in North Georgia.
It is absolutely painful to me, to
see our lands going to ruin as they
are every day for the want of a lit
tle common sense in those who
own them. I hope the papers of
North Georgia will agitate this
subject, until every land owner and
farmer is made to realize the im
portance of it.
“Another thing that surprised
me throughout middle Georgia was
that I saw no fields surrounded
with broken down o’d i ail fences
with briers and bushes growing in
the corners. The absence of these
old fences adds largely to the beau
tiful appearance of the country,
and since seeing a country without
it and talking to men who have
tried the no fence plan, I am a
thorough no fence man. Our peo
ple waste fortunes trying to keep
up old fences. I think such qves
tioi sas these are worth more to
our farmers than all the political
agitation they can getup.” —Rome
Tribune.
Not Exactly Right is the way
thousands of people feel. It is be
cause their blood is poor. Hood’s
Sarsaparillr, the One True blood
Purifier, will promptly set them
right.
How They Were Married.
Years ago there lived in aMass
achusettts town a justice of ’he
peace known as “Square” Sim
monds, a man noted for the short
ness of his memory. He carried
with him a slip of paper on which
was written the brief marriage
form which he used when called
upon to unite a pair in the bonds
of matrimony. He never trusted
himself to begin the ceremony
without reference to this docu
ment.
One day, at a county fair in a
neighboring town, he was approach
ed by an elderly couple, who ex
pressed their wish to be married
then and there. After some con
versation the “square” agreed to
perform the ceremony on the spot;
and the three, accompanied by a
grown-up daughter of the the man
and a sister to the prospective
bride stepped into a convenient
horse-shed.
There the “square” began a fruit
less search for the important pa
per, growing more and more per
trubed as each succeeding pocket
played him false. At last he aban
doned the search.
“Are you willing to marry this
woman?” he asked the man, who
replied with a prompt “Yes.”
“And you want to marry him?”
asked the justice, turning to the
bride.
“I do,” said she, with promgt
ness equal to the bridegroom’s.
“Then,” said the “square” in his
most impressive tone, “I hereby
pronoun nee you married, accord
ing to the memorandum left at
home in my other trousers’ pock
et.” —Youehs Companion.
A Valuable Prescription .
Editor Morrison of Washington,
Ind., Sun, writes: “You have a
valuable prescription in Electric
Bitters and I can cheerfully recom
mend it for Constipation and Sick
Headache and as a general system
tonic it has no equal.” Mrs. Au
ine Stcdile, 2625 Cottage Grove
ave. Chicago, was all run down,
could not cat nor digest food, had
a headache which never left her
and felt tired and weary, but six
bottles of Electric Bitters restored
her to health and renewed her
her strength. Prices 50c and sl.
Get a bottle at H. H, Arrington’s
Drug store.
The Joke on Grladsone.
From The Youth’s Companion.
It is said that shortly before
Father Healey’s death- he met Mr.
Gladstone at a dinner in London.
The ex-premier, in rather an argu
mentative mood, insisted upon
bringing up theological points of
difference, in spite of the rather
mild efforts of the other guests to
avoid them. At last he said:
“Mr. Il ' tley, I have recently
come from Rome, where I saw the
offer of a plenary indulgence for
fifty fr-ircs. Now, what authority
has your church to forgive my sins
for fifty .’!• •-?”
“That is too large a subject for
us to take up with the dessert,”
the Irishman replied, gently.
“But,” his eyes twinkling, “I think
that any church which will for
give your sins, Mr. Gladsone, for
fifty francs is letting you off very
cheaply.”
Mr. Gladstone joined in the shout
of laughter that followed, and the
dinner ended in peace.
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A HUNDRED MILLION.
Value of the Agriculture Proper
ty Submerged Below Vicksburg.
Washington, April 21. —The
bureau of statistics of the treasury
department has made a report on
the damage caused agricultural in
terests by the Mississippi river
flood below Vicksburg.
The total value of the farms in
submerged district, including fen
ces and buildings, but exclusive of
their movable equipment, was in
1890 close upon $11,000,000, and
the value of the implements and
machinery upon them was over
$600,000.
The total area submerged at this
date is over 20,000 square miles.
The total of $90,176,177 will repre
sent the approximate value of the
agricultural property ofj the sub
merged region.
Notes of Interest.
The Georgia Teachers association
will hold its annual meeting at Warm
springs soon, and indictations point to
an unusually interesting session. One
of the special features will be an even
ing with the Georgia colleges for wo
men, and every such college will be
represented.
o
A North American college for the
purpose of educating negro preachers
has been established at Camden Ala.,
ami a $36,000 building is in course of
erecting, and a faculty of competent
teacher’s will be provided. The Wo
mans General Missionary Society of
the United Presbyterian church of
North America, is doing all this.
o
The health of our country should be
well cared for. The Medical college
in Atlanta has recently turned out thir
ty doctors, and that of Augusta twen
ty-
o
Womens show an appreciation of re
publican pie and an ability to get it.
Miss Henry has recently been appoin
ted postmistress at Elberton and Miss
Hamiltan at Buford.
o
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hinton spent
part of last week very pleasantly at
Holland.
How to Cure a Severe Cold.
A few weeks ago the editor was
taken with a very severe cold that
caused him to be in a most misera
ble condition. It was undoubtedly
a bad case of la grippe and recog
nizing it as dangerous he took im
mediate steps to bring about
speedy cure. From the advertise
ment of Chamberlain’s Cough
Remedy and the many good recom
mendations included therein, we
concluded to make a first trial of
the medicine. To say that it was
satisfactory in its results, is put
ting it very mildly, indeed. It
acted like magic and the result was
a speedy and permanent euro.—
The Banner of Liberty, Liberty
town, Maryland. The 25 and 50
cent sizes for sale by H. 11. Arring
ton.
/*REATSALES prove the great
merit of Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla sells because it
accomplishes GREAT CURES»
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