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VOL XII
FIREMEN’S BENEFIT SALE.
There will be a Grand Tournament held n ROME
May q and io under the auspices of the North Geor
gia, Tennessee and Alabama Volunteer Firemen’s
Association. The boys will have to go down in their
pockets to HELP DEFRAY THE EXPENSES.
WE ARE GOING TO HELP THEM.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A GREAT
Fiternen’s Benefit Sale.
For a limited time at our Broad Street Store. Prices all gone to pieces
and a portion of every dollar you spend turned over to the firemen.
Card from A. M. Word, Chief; T.
Ui 1/ 0. Hand, Secretary, and J. D, ’ /
, J Hanks Ohm. Com, H j
111/ TO THE PUBLIC. 1 1
Messrs Lanham & Sons have vol-
NctlW ChirFfid' untarily offered a stipulated per- The Prices
®- ® centage of their cash sales for the
BRING I benefit of the Firemen’s Tourna- i ARE ALL
ment to be held in Rome on theOth ~
flit rRRRt and 10th of May, and as they prom- NWMRIfI!
IAS WSttl ise exceedingly low pricesand new WfflwSftSSl
and desirable goods every one who
trades there during this sale bene-) nn r
iii it fits themselves and help the fire- //mA
/ I I \ men. / / I I \
Il \\ A. M. WORD, Chief R. F. D. / 0 /tT°V\
//°rfl°\ ' T. O. HAND, Sec. & Tree. R. F. D '’ 1
J. D. HANKS, Chin. Com. on Ent.
Prices Smashed
on
Millinery.
Biggest stock new Millinery in
Rome. All new, bright, up-to-date
goods. Thousands of Fine Stylish
Sailors for almost a song.
All the new colored rough straw
Knox shape Sailors sold all over
Rome for sl, for this sale 75c.
Pretty rough straw Sailor for 23c
All the fine 50c Sailors now 89c
Pretty 75c white Sailors now 49c
The finest $1.25 Sailor in Rome 89c
The finest $1.50 white Milner
Sailor, Knox shape, this sale 98c
Fine 1 25 Leghorn, sold all over
Rome for 1.25, for this sale 60c
One counter full of pretty shapes,
all colors and white worth up to
75c and sl, for this sale choice
29c.
All we have left of the French Pat
tern hats to go at 8.39
Choice of over one hundred car
toons of Flowers worth up to
50c for 19c
Fine ali Silk Chiffon, double width
assorted colors, sold all over
Rome for GOc, for this sale 39c
Embroidery and Laces.
Miles and miles of snow white
Embroidery, Leagues of cunningly
wrought daintiness. Bought less
than three-fifths wholesale rate
will be sold at a fraction above
half price. Our counter heaped
and you take choice for only 4c.
One counter heaped and you take
choice for 6c. «
Another counter heaped up with
Embroidery worth up to 20c and
you take choice for Bc.
This store is known as the best
place in Rome to buy Embroidery
but these prices will be a revela
tion to the ladies. Come quick for
they will go fast as soon as you see
them.
200 pieces soiled Embroidery 4|
yard lengths, sold up to 30c, for
the piece, for this sale choice piece
for ouly 10c-
All the new 4j and 61 yard
pieces reduced just ten per cent
for this sale.
We will not charge a single item named in this advertisement. If
you want them you must pay cash and if for any reason they don’t
suit they may be exchanged, but not charged nor sent out on trial.
LANHAMISONS XX
Rome, Ga.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS.
Prices Smashed
on
Notions, Etc., Etc.
Brush Binding, per yard 1c
Ten Paper Needles for 5c
Kid Gloves all colors and black
and white 49c
90c Kid Gloves G9c
$1.25 and $1.50 Kid Gloves 98c
$2 Kid Gloves, best in Rome $1.39
8 button length Undressed Kid
Gloves, black, white and tan,
hook or clasp, worth $1.50,
now 69c
Ladies’ Corsets, nicely braded 17c
The best Corset Stave in Rome
is right here.
Manila Corsets 50c and cheap
at that, now 39c
Langdan & Batchlers, the mak
ers of Thompson’s Glove Fit
ting Corset have placed with
us the best value in a Corset
in Rome. We place it on
sale for 43c
The beet standard $1 Corset in
Rome (name withheld) for 59c
Fruit of Loom Bleeched Cot-
ton for this sale 5c
10x4 Brown Sheeting 10c
Ladies Crash Skirts 19
Men’s Jeans Pants 29
Gent’s 75c Straw Hats 49
In yacht, plain, sunate, rough straw
and in all the new shapes.
Gent's fine $1.50 Straw Hats 89
Gent’s 45c Straw Hats 23
Boys’ Bsc Straw Hats 19
Boys’ 2 piece Suits, the $1.50
kind for 73
Boys’s4 Suits for $1.98
Boys’ $3 Refer Suits for 1.49
Gent’s Fine All Wool Suits,
the $7.50 kind for 4.49
Gent’s All Wool $9.50 Suits 5.49
Gent’s All Wool W’orsted or
Casimer Suits, sls kind, for 11.23
Gent's Fine $1.76 Pants for 98
Gent’s Fine $4 pants for 2.29
Gent’s Stanly Shirts in all
the late styles with collars
attached or detached, the
75c kind and cheap at that
but for sale at 59
Gent’s Balbrigan made Shirts
Satin faced and pure white
pearl buttons, worth 35c,
for this sale 19
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, MAY 17, 1899.
REMOVE THE CAUSE.
A Prominent Negro Talks Wise
ly of Conditions in the
South.
PITTI.ADEI.phia, May B.—H. C.C.
Astwood, superintendant of the
African Methodist church for Cu
ba, who for several years was Uni
ted States consul at San Domingo,
speaking of the recent burning and
hanging of Sam Hose and the sub
sequent lynching of Lige Strick
land, said he was opposed to lynch
ings, but said he was more opposed
to the outraging of women, which
be considered the greatest crime a
man could commit. He deplored
the incendiary utterances made by
the people of his race at mass meet
ings being held all over the coun
try, and said there was only one
way to bring the people of the
white and black races of the south
together, and that was to remove
the cause of dissension.
“If ten thousand of these inhu
man brutes,” he said, “could be
found, and one general lynching
would put a stop to the dual crime,
I would say do it.”
“I am honest in the belief that
the outraging of a woman, white or
black, by an inhuman fiend, wheth
er white or black, is worse than
lynching in any form, and the race
that condones it is doomed to ut
ter destruction. The whiteman is
bearing his burden nobly. He is
not trying to shake or dodge the
question.
“A long as we put ourselves in
the seeming position of condoning
this or these hellish crimes, feuds
will go on, the breach will be wid
ened between races, hatred and en
vy will increase within the breast
of each, outraging and lynching
will multiply, by the brute ele
ment in both races. Women will
be terrified and race wars and ex
termination will be the result.
Therefore I say to cure the evil
strike at the cause. Let the col
ored man or negro be as brave as
the white man in the denouncing
of the crimes alleged against us.
Let us call a convention of respon
sible colored men, to meet in some
southern city and meet the con
servative white men and find a
way out of this terrible conflict.
“If we make this move, I am cer
tain that the white monos the
south will meet us more than half
way. If we do this the lynching
problem will be solved.
There is another problem. The
negro must bury his political dif
ferences with the white men of the i
south and make friends with the
people that once enslaved him, and
with whom he must dwell. He
must emancipate himself, politi
cally, become a common citizen
instead of a political chattel of
the particular party who freed him.
Let the negro do this and the days
of his troubles will soon be over.”
If you have piles, cure them. No
use undargoing horrible operations
that simply remove the results of
the disease without disturbing the
disease itself. Place your confi
dence in DeWitt’s Witch Hazel
Salve. It has never failed to cure
others; it will not fail to cure you.
Arrington Drug Co.
Moultrie, in Colquitt county, has
a large and growing buggy and
wagon factory. This is a good en
terprise. It is absurd for the peo
ple of Georgia to depend on the
west for vehicles of any descrip
tion. Every want of our people
should, if possible, have a home
source of supply.
Don’t think you can cure that
slight attack of Dyspepsia by diet
ing, or that it will cure itself.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will cure it;
it “digests what you eat” and re
stores the digestive organs to
health. Arrington Drug Co.
What My Little Daughter Is to Me
She is sunshine when she takes
my hand ; she is my blue sky with
out a cloud when she lifts her lit
tle arms to me. When I rest
my finger tips upon her little
| shoulder and walk by her side, she
needs no telling to make her feel
| that it is her strength which is
l supporting mine, for a grown man
lis a weak thing, and there is no
prop like a child. I know that
her little heart beats faster when I
lean thus upon her, for one day
she told me so; and her pride in
the telling was a gallant bit of
fuss and parade. Such perturba
tion, such a bother with small
arms, such a robustiousness of
small actions, was never seen be
fore in such a small body! I
gazed in wonder until I was forced
to fold her in my arms to quiet
her.
This little child, this little pearl
from heaven, this daughter of her
mother’s gray eyes, is as free of
human sin as is a ray of Nature’s
moonlight on the water, or as are
the little beams of the little break
o’day which issues from the leaves
of every white rose. My voice
grows soft and sweet when it min
gles with hers in speech. I am cer
tain then that I am a good man .
* * *
I remember many years ago—
although it was only last summer
—that my soul was sunk in doubt,
save that it believed itself a clod.
But what despondency could stand
against the refutation in her crys
tal eyes? For they are the windows
into sinless skies where dwell the
angels and God. She is my an
swer to every hope which wings its
way heavenward. She is my altar,
and at night my once stubborn
knees are glad to bend before the
sweet picture of her slumber. As
I watch her, then some fairy’s
hand drops dew upon the white
leaf of her lip, and she lies a How
er in flesh and blood, the breathing
restoration of the childhood of her
mother—that childhood which
true love must ever long to know.
Her face is then a veritable Easter ;
chalice, from which my love of God ;
can drink its fill of adoration.
Ah, me! my praise of her is
sweet to speak. And yet I fear to
let it How and thicken, for there
are those who are not so happy as
I, and they might think I babbled
But it is only true, and I must tell
it, that she is my dream of life’s
beauty, without sleep to clog the
dream. She is sweet music with
out the unrest that sweet music
brings. She is love without love’s
pain. It is because of her that 1
can look upon the gathering haze
of distant hills at twilight, and
yet feel no answering mist o’er
cloud my eye. She is my north
star in the sky of duty. She is
my gentleness, my simple joy; my
faith, my worship. She is my peace
of God which passeth all under
standing.
Livingston Hunt in Ladies’ Home
Journal.
Mrs. L. R. Wooten, Quitman,Ga.,
writes: “Have used Dr. M. A.
Simmons’ Liver Medicine 10 years.
It cured me of Dyspepsia and my
husband of Indigestion and Heart
burn. Have used Zeilin’s medicine
and believe Dr. M. A. S. L. M.
much stronger and that it pro
duces better results.
According to a late decision of
the supreme court of Georgia,
election day means from midnight
' to midnight, and saloons that open
when the polls close are violating
the law.
Pneumonia, la grippe, coughs,
colds, croup and whooping-cough
readily yield to One Minute Cough
Cure. Use this remedy in time and
save doctor’s bill —or the under
taker. Arrington Drug Co.
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
ROYAL BAKING POWDFR CO., Nt W YORK.
A THRILLING ACCIDENT.
Train on Lookout Mountain Falls
200 Feet and Rolls 500.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May- B.
One of the most thrilling accidents
that has overtaken place on Look
out Mountain occurred this after
noon, when the railway train drop
ped off of a high trestle to a rav
ine 200 feet below. Two men went
over with the engine and rolled
down the valley 500 feet. Both
men were badly hurt.
J. D. Bridge, editor and proprie
tor of the Democrat, Lancaster, N.
H., says: “I would not be without
One Minute Cough Cure for my
boy, when troubled with a cough
or cold. It is the best remedy for
croup I ever used.” Arrington
Drug Co.
Stillmore has n wonderful prod
igy in a fat boy. Little Johnnie
Stanfard is 10 years old, weighs
147 pounds, is 26 inches high and
42 inches around the waist. John
nie told the editor of the Blade
that he had never been sick a day
in his life and appearances would
seem to justify the statement.
Health, Strength and Nerve
Force follow the use of Dr. M. A.
Simmons’ Liver Medicine, which
insures good Digestion and Assim
ilation.
NONE BETTER!
Not in Georgia will you find a more lovely line of
Dfese Goods and Silks
for Waists than ours. Real values and sevrice at
the lowest prices is what we offer you. Our stock of
Dry Goods White Goods, Shoes,
Clothing, etc.,
demand your attention. NOWHERE will a DOLLAR
bring to you as much value and sty as in our store.
Prices and Goods for the People.
Calicoes 34 to 5c I
44 Bleaching, Gocd sc!
Best Sea Island 4jc
Good Ginghams 5 to 6|c j
Good Cottonades 10 to 15c I
Heavy Cheviot Shirting 8c!
Best Percales 8 to 12|c
3,000 yds. Embroideries
Great Bargains 5, 8 and 10c
Good Chock Nainsook 5i
Victoria Lawn for 5c
40-inch India Linon, only 8c
40-inch Fino Linons 10c
Good Piques 10c up
Good Scotch Lawns 3|c
Fine Colored Organdies
12 to 15 Grade, for 10c
Shoes!
Men’s Farm Shoes 98c !
Men’s Sunday Shoes,
Good . $ 1 to $ 1.50
Boy’s Dress Shoes, 2-5
Good style 98c to 1 25
Good school shoes 75c to 1.00
Misses’ Oxfords 75c to 1.00
Children’s Slippers 50 to 75c
I nfant Shoes 25 to 65c
I he above named prices will give you some idea
of low prices on the best goods. Come to see us.
H. B. PARKS & CO.,
233 Broad St., - - Rome, Ga.
THE BOW OF PROMISE.
11 The South Entering on a New
Period of Prosperity.
• \. F. Thompson, secretary of the
| board of trade at Johnstown, Pa ,
and a former resident of Birming
ham, Ala, was in the city yester
d y en route from Huntsville. Mr.
Thompson is one of the promoters
of the largo enterprises that are in
process of developmen at zlunts-
1 ville, which lie says will bo at once
consummated. The building of
I branch mills by the great Merri
mac company of Lowell, at Hunts
' ville; the erection of the first
' hleachery in the south at that
point by the same company, will
1 mark a now epoch in the textile
development ot the south. Mr.
Thompson says tho situation
throughout tho nrrth is ripe for
immense investments in industrial
, enterprises in the south, and he
, predicts a period of extraordinary
prosperity for this entire section.
—Tinies.
' 'Die best line to Texas, Indian
Territory, Oklahoma and the
Southwest is tho Iron Mountain
Route. Elegant inclining chair
cars on all trains. No changes.
Write to 1. E. Rehlander, Travel
ing Pass. Agent., Chattanooga, lor
1 | full particulars.
Seo our clubbing rates.
Men’s Percale Shirts. . . .25 to 49c
Men’s Work “ ...20 to 35c
Men’s Good Unlaundered
( Shirts, Bargains 3"c
' Pretty Cassimere Pants 98c
! Good Jeans Pants 49c
Best “ “ . ~...70 to 98c
Men's Overalls ....35 to lSc
j Boys’ Knee Pants 18 to 35c
Boys’ Ribbed Hose 5 to 10c
Men’s Suspenders 10 to 25c
Mori’s Half Hose 5 to 12!.c
Ladies Fast Black Hose.sc and up
Ladies’ Ribbed Vests, large
sizes, 15c grade, for He
i Ladies’ Belts 10 to "• r c
Ladies’ Collars, latest style I<>c
Shoes!
| Women’s Walking shoes 98c
j Ladies’ Fine shoes, in five
• i styles, big values '. 8<;
i Ladies Fine Dongola But-
' ton or Bal shoes $ I 25
1 Ladies’ Oxfords, the $1.25
> grade 100
: Ladies’ Fine Oxfords, the
: $2 grade, for 150