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VOL X
Lanham & Sons.
ROME, ... - Gft.
Ji Fall aai Winter Dry Gntal—
We are about to enter upon another Fall and Win=
ter season, and it is our Intention to make it the
best we ever had. Ten years ago we began this
business on a small scale, only one room, but by
giving the best bargains, keeping out of combina=
tions to put up prices, and by the patronage and
help of the trading public we have built up the larg=
est business in this city and one of the largest in
the South.
Our Seven Stores are filled from top to bottom with all the new goods of the season, and the
prices and statements we make concerning them are absolutely true. Some merchants are al
ways selling out AT COST and using other deceptive means in their advertisements, such as “half
price,” “one-third oft'” and “bankrupt sales.” We prefer to describe the goods, name the prices,
and when they are called for have them just as advertised.
: IT WILL YOU f
To come Imndreds of miles as others
do, to trade here. Our goods and
prices cannot be beaten.
Bealrfiflil Flush Capes ;
Trimmed with Fur and handsomely
braided and beaded
$1.95 and lip. j
They are certainly pretty and cheap. !
Ladies Capes ,
As low as 42c. Ladies Full size
Cloaks as low as 49c. I
LOOK AT THESE PRICES.
Good Schoolboy Jeans, per yard IQ C
This is the cheapest Jeans in Rcme; it is good heavy quality, and worth nearly
double our price.
Pure all wool Flannel, per yard 9 C
Medicated Twilled Flannel 15 C
Hickory Shirting, good quality 4-Jc
Good quality Cotton Checks ~ v ' 3|c
Good Mattress Tick 5c
Good Feather Tick ’loc
Ladies’ fast black Hose, per pair 5 C
Gentlemen’s f*st black and colored Half Hose 5c
Cotton Towels, each, only 2c
Linen Towels, each, only 5 C
Large Size Blankets, each 20c
Misses Wool Hese, per pair • . 10c
12 Balls Sewing Thread for .......... 5c
G Papers Pins for 5c
3 Spools Best Thread for . . . . . . .. .. 10c
Ladies’ and Children’s nice Picture Handkerchiefs, each only , .. .. .. 1c
We are still selling Window Shades, complete, on Spring Rollers, for .. .. 10c
O
ftUTUMN DRESS GOODS.
We have planned for a very big season in Dress 111
Goods —planned to not only do mo-e business j)
than heretofore, but do it very much better.
Stecks very much larger and prices much lower (
than ever before. II
We have a large stock of all the new weaves in '
plain all wool Venetian Covert, an up-to-date fa- j
brie for tailor made suits, at prices that are cer- u
tainly right. n
A large stock of Novelties that are worth a day’s [I
journey to see. I
Pretty double width Worsted, in ad the colors (
We have a multitude of bargains that we cannot tell of here, all at prices
to please. Call and see us. Everybody WELCOME, whether they buy or
not.
THE PLACEie
LANHAM & SONS,
314 to 326, Fifth Ave. ROME. GA.
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THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 27, 1897.
| Beautiful Double
‘j GheViot Kersey Capes
(Ij Handsomely Braided and Trimmed
ill in all the new Fall styles
I
| SI.OO and Up.
j/1 Our stock of Capes is certainly the
111 prettiest and cheapest ever in Rome.
I and black, absolutely all wool filling, per yard
only - - - - - 9c
Pretty double width Cashmere, all the new fall
colors and black, all wool filling, per yard,
only - - - - - 9c
I Pretty Silk, 22 inches wide, all pure Silk, not
mixed with cotton, only - -15 c
Pure Indigo Calico, only - - 4c
Good Calico, in all the new fall styles, pretty,
only ..... *4| c
| Good quality Ginghams - - B|c
11
PEHITEHTIARY
REPORT POE.
Facts And Figures To Be
Presented To The Leg=
islature.
2,235 CONVICTS CONCERNED.
There Are 58 Wome.n, 169
Boys, and 345 Who Are
Disabled
Judge Turner, principal Keeper I
of the pententiary, has completed
his report on the condition of the
state's convict and it will be pres
ented the General Assembly when
it meets next week.
Like all of the public papers of
the author, it is well written and j
the statistics it contains have been
carefully compiled, but it difters
from the usual run of documents
of the sort in that it has been pre
pared with the special view to sup
plying the members of the legisla
ture with full emergency informa
tion on the convict question. These
members will have to devise and
adopt some plan for the disposition
of the state's convicts at the expi
ration of the present lease, and in
asmuch as the lease expires on
April, 1, 1899, it is plain that the
present legislature will have to
make final settlement of the vexed
problem.
Judge Turner has done everything
in his power to make his report
complete. The general plan which
he outlined in advance as the basis
of a bill to be submitted to the
legislature was taked up by Repre
sentative Hall, of Coweta county,
chairman of the penitentiary com
mittee of the house, and will be
submitted on October 25th to the
joint penitentiary committees of
the house and senate. The major
ity report of the sub-committee
has altered Judge Turner’s plan to
the extent of giving greater pow
ers to the proposed penitentiary
commission, while the minority is
in favor of his reccommendation
to purchase a centrally located farm
on which the boys under seventeen
years of age, the women and the
old and disabled male convicts
might be employed. His suggestion
that all the others be hired for
terms not exceeding five years, the
profit of their labor to go toward
the building of a central peniten
tiary, has met with nearly unani
mous approval.
In his report Judge Turner gives
facts and figures which will be of
tremendous value in shaping the
course of whatever convict legisla
tion may be finally enacted into
law. The number of convicts now
in the penitentiary is 2,235. At
the same time last year the num
ber was 1,357. Since then there
have been 506 new committals, one
transfer from the asylum for the
insane and seventeen recaptures.
During the same time there have
been 454 discharges, sixty-one par
dons, fifty-six deaths, seventy es
capes three returns for new trial
and two transfers to the asylum
for the insane. The fact that there
were seventy escapes in a single
year is a somewhat astonishing
record that Judge Turner will call
upon the lessees to explain.
The new system which has been
proposed contemplates a division
of the convicts into two classes, and
Judge Turner supplies this infor
mation without comment. He says
that of the 1,177 male convicts 1,-
845 are able bodied competent to
perform hard manual labor, leav
ing 332 in the disabled class. Os
the fifty-eight females he enters
forty-five as able-bodied and thir
teen as disabled, leaving a total of
1,890 in the first class and 345 in
the second. Os the entire convict
population 87! are able to read and
write, 218 are able to read only and
1,146 are wholly illiterate.
So much has been arid regarding
the value of the labor of the con
victs that particular attention is
certain to be attracted toward that
portion < f the report which shows
their profession previous to their
conviction. No city directory
shows a greater variety of talent
than this catalogue of the convicts
and the report would indicate that
a town could easily be equipped
with the present penitentiary pop
ulation of Georgia. In the list are
six barkeepers, one actor, two bro
kers, one civil engineer, two drum
mers, one electrician, one newspa
per reporter, one physician, two
ministers, one policeman and five
school teachers. The absence of law
yers is not accounted for. In the
following table the list of profess- '
sions, together with the profession
al back-sliders is given :
Accountants 2
Actors 1
Brick masons 27
Barkeepers 6
Brokers 2
Butchers 15
Blacksmiths 9
Bookbinders 1
Bakers 4
Boilermakers 2
Barbers 14
Bootblacks 4
Carpenters 28
Clerks 4
Cigar-makers 5
Coachmen 15
Candymakers 8
Cooks 21
Civil engineer 1
Coopers 2
Cabinet-makers 1
Drummers * 2
Electricians 1
Farmers 863
Hotel waiters 15
Harness makers 3
Laborers 975
Merchants 11
Machinists 16
Mattress makers 1
Molders 5
Reporters 1
Newsboys 3
Physicians 1
Preachers 2
Plumbers 4
Painters 24
Printers 1
Plasterers 6
Policemen 1
Railroad firemen 4
Railroad engineers 2
Railroad conductors 1
Stationary engineers 4
Stone cutters 14
Sailors 18
Shoemakers 7
School teachers 5
Tailors 3
Tinners 2
Women 58
Total 2,235
The character of crimes for
which all these people have been .
codvicted is as various as their
ages and occupations. While the
criminal careers of the convicts
who are shortly to be placed on s
sale is of little interest, so far as I
their marketable value is concern- 1
ed, it is interesting to note the ex- :
act proportion of crime through
out the state. Judge Turner pro- 1
vides this information in the fol
lowing table:
Arson 06
Attempt to murder 291
Attempt to rape bl
Aiding escape 2
Burglary 780
Bigamy 3
Bestiality 4
Breaking railroad cars 9
Embezzlement 2
Forgery 37
Infanticide 2
Incest 1
nterfering with railroad switch II
Kidnapping 3
Larceny after trust 19
iLarceny from house 35
’ Larceny from person 2
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Mayhem ]
Manslaughter nq
Murder 37s
Obstructing railroad trains 5
Perjury 6
Personating officer ]
Receiving stolen goods I
Rape 92
Robbery 07
Simple larceny 219
I nlawful shooting 17
Wrecking railway trains 2
Total 2,235
The recommendation of Judge
Turner for a reformatory, which
has already been endorsed by Gov
ernor Atkinson and many members
of both the house and senate, is
given the advantage of an argu
ment without words. Tucked
away in a corner of the report is a
table which shows that 277 con
victs are now serving their second
term; that thirty-eight are now
serving their third term; that ten
are now serving their fourth term ;
that six are now serving their fifth
term, and that one is now serving
his sixth term. Just what these
figures would be if Georgia had
been wise enough to establish a re
formatory twenty years ago may
be guessed.
The full report of Judge Turner
will probably be in type in time
to be delivered to the members of
the joint penitentiary committees
of the house and senate, who will
meet here on the 25th. This body
entrusted the formation of a bill
to a sub-committee and the doings
of that sub-committee have al
ready been published. They have
agreed to report Representative
Hall’s bill with a favorable recom
mendation, but it is more likely
that a minority report will be pre
sented and that this dispute will
dump the entire question back
upon the legislature. In such an
emergency the facts and figures
submitted by Judge Turner will
probably make his report the most
conspicuous document that wi l ! be
presented to this august body when
it assembles on the 2Tth instant.
COUNTOF CONVICTS.
Lots of Laborers, Farmers Fre
quent, But Reporters Rare.
According to the report of Judge
Turner, the principal keeper of the
state penitentiary, there are a good
ly number of farmers in the pen,
two newspaper men —one reporter
and one printer.
Judge Turner’s list is interesting
to run over and note how the dif
ferent trades and professions are
represented.
There are 975 laborers and 863
farmers in the penitentiary. Os
the other occupants, none are rep
resented by over 100. Carpenters
come next, with 28, and brickma
sens next, with 27. There are
twenty-four painters and 21 cooks,
18 sailors and 15 coachmen. E
leven merchants are doing penal
service, but the prison walls en
close but 2 newspaper men —1 re
porter and 1 printer, while the
school teachers show up with 5 con
victs, and, strange to say, the
1 preachers are represented by 2 ze
> bra-striped workers. There are
’ 58 women in the
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