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■■ITI - " 1 I ti11..-.- iii.o-r ■r.-iiii-- » ■■= » ABSOLVE D' OUR. CANNED GOODS r HAVE COME DOWN. WE WERE CARRYING ft STOCK- WE CAN KEEP OUJ2 STOCK fM BYYEEPiNb IT MOVINGMQN WHAT/ can eat. Yovcan - H'o EAT WHAT WE CAN. zHPO /2r .’?4 /VT Z M K Dy O « ''a cxh Z7 in .Y\ ■ THE PRJCES ON O\JR GR.OCEKIES TUMBLE— BIGHT IN THE BEGINNING WHEN WE MARK OUR %OODS—BUT THE QUALITY NEVER FALLS. WE DON’T BELIEVE IN PALMING OFF .SECOND GRADE GROCERIES ONTO OUR CUSTOMERS AND TRYING TO MAKE THEM BELIEVE THEY ARE FIRST GRADE ON ALL OF OUR GROCERIES WE KEEP THE QUAL ITY UP. WE KEEP THE PRICES DOWN. LET U 5 SUPPLY YOU WITH THE THINGS YOU USE FOR YOUR TABLE. RESPECTFULLY, THOMPSON HILES & CO. .. OUR CLU3BING RATES The Summervili'?? News and tin Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal r ( . year for $1.50. The Summerville News, Atlan ta Semi-Weekly Journal and Home and Farm, all three papers one year for $1.75. The Summerville, News and the Atlanta Tri-Weekly Constitution one year for $1.75. x The Summerville News, Atlan ta Tri-Weekly Constitution and Home and Farm, one year for $2.00. The Summerville News and Home and Farm one year for $1.25. The Summerville News and The Commoner one year for $1.50 FOR SALE.—Good pair mules, weight about 1000 pqunds each, eight years old. —W. F. Goodrum, one mile east of Farmersville school house in Dirttown valley. WANTED.—IO.OOO cross ties delivered on Central of Geor gia railroad. —N. K. Bitting. ! Bcmk of Gommeree: ii + I Summerville, Ga. ii | Some of the Benefits of Carrying your Bank Account Here:ii (fl t Courteous Treatment to all ; | Protection against Burglary ; * Establishment of Business Credit ! + Accurate Accounting for all Business ; * Canceled Checks are the best Receipts ; t Convenience in Settlements of Accounts . I Extends all reasonable Banking Accomodations < t WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS ; You may have observed that I the man who boasts that he can drink or let it alone, usually i drinks. i Many a man forgets what he ought to- know and knows what 1 ■ he ought to forget. If you need a pill take DeWitt’s Little Early Risers. Insist on them; gentle, easy, pleasant, little liver pilk Sold by Summerville Drug Co. We have mules and horses for I sale. Will sell for cash or good note. —Lyerly Fruit Co. | The potato bug is destructive, ■ the chinch bug is as bad, but the i 1 humbug beats them both. Unless you have faith in your ’ efforts it will be a failure. Shake Into Your Shoes. Alien’s Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, ner vous feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions and makes ’ walking easy. Try it today. Sold everywhere. Sample Free. Address 1 Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. LOCAL NEWS. Mr. N. K. Bitting spent Satur day in Lafayette. Mr. Gus Wright of Dirttown spent Thursday in town. Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Martin spent Friday in Chattanooga. Mr. J. R. Clemmons is having an addition built to his residence on Commerce street. Mr. Hugh Pickle of Alpine and Mr. C. C. McConnell of Teloga were among the visitors here Sat urday. County School Commissioner S. E. Jones of Dirttown was here Saturday. Little Hill Cochran, who has been critically ill with pneumonia is convalescing. Dr. J. W. Clemmons of Sublig na was greeting friends here Sat urday. Mr. and Mrs. George Morton of Dirttown were guests or Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Broom Sunday. Mr. Sol Alexander made a bus iness trip to Chattanooga Satur day. Judge J. M. Bellah attended Justice Court in Dirttown Satur day. Mr. J. W. Salmon of Armuchee spent Monday in town looking after business interests. FOR SALE—Seed oats for spring sowing.— J. 11. Freeman, Alpine, Ga. Mrs. J. 11. Sewell has been ill for the past few days with rheu matism. Rev. Jesse O. Brand preach ed to a full house at two ser vices Sunday at the Methodist church. 1 Misses Julia and Carrie Allen am Miss Allie Rhineheart came down from Chattanooga. Sunday to vis it relatives. Mrs. John Strange and Mrs. Vashti Lowe and son, Rivers Lowe, spent Sunday at the pleasant home of (-apt. and Mrs. Rivers. Mrs. T. E. Abernathy and son, Edward, of Chattanooga, were guests of Mr. and Mrs Ebenezer Bryant last week, and returned to their home Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Sarah Stoddard of Selma, Ala., who is visiting her daugh ter, Mrs. J. D. Taylor, has been ill during the past few days, but is improving. Mrs. T. J. Simmons is under treatment of Dr. Boyd in Chatta nooga. Mrs. Simmons has many friends here who hope for her a speedy recovery. Miss Kate Simmons, who has been visiting the family of Mrs. G. J. Moyers, returned to her home in Chattanooga Sunday af ternoon. She was accompanied by Miss Ada Moyers who will spend some time with friends and relatives in that city. Rev. B. F. Hunt preached al the Baptist church Sunday. At the morning service the sermon was based on Mark’s account of the visit of the rich, young rul er to Jesus; and at the evening service, “The Choice of Moses’’ was the subject of the sermon. Mr. Hunt was met by large con gregations at both services. FOR SALE.—64O acres of land subject to eighty acres dowry, in Coldwater district, at $4 an acre. Fine buildings on place and six springs. Central railway runs through farm. Two hun dred and fifty acres under good fence for pasture. Elevated springs so water can be run i down to house. See J. T. Barker ! I or W. S. Henderson at Lyerly. ; Mr. E. M. Marks of Subligna ’ | was here Saturday. A Request I want to ask al! the people to let me know of any eases of sickness. Notify the ministers of sickness the same as you do the doctors. Also please let me know of any eases of extreme poverty if there are any such cases where financial help is needed. Also let me know of any un converted person you ■would like for me to talk to. Also I would be glad for the unconverted to come to my house and let us have a talk. I have «> telephone. J. C. liardin. Notice If there is a member of the 21 st Georgia Regiment, Capt. Abridge Company, now living in the county, the undersigned would b< glad to communicate with him. 11. A. Brownfield ,Commander, John S. Cleghorn (’amp, U. C. Y. Rev. B. F. Hunt and Mr. I’. D. Lee made a business trip to Trion Monday. Tlie Summerville Drug Co. have installed in their building 01 Commerce stret a handsoine so da fountain, where they will soon be prepared to serve customers with everything in the line of pure refreshing drinks, from min eral water to ice cream and hot. chocolate. Spelling Contest and Debate The Scab Wright Literary So ciety of Gore, Ga., has arranged the following programmes: On Sat urday night Feb. 27, there will be a spelling contest between the north and south side of the Summerville road. Everybody in the community is cordially invit ed to take part. Uncle Sammy Gordon, probably Hie best spell er in Chattooga county, has prom ised to be present. We will main tain the best order and a nice time is assured to all. On March 6th, there will be a special debate, subject, “Resolv ed, That the Board of Education of Chattooga county is detrimen tal to the rural schools of said County.” Affirmative, J. M. Christian, M. S. Crain, and T. M. Ballenger, challenge any three men of the county to argue the negative. Any who will accept this challenge, please write the secretary of t he society, Mi.ss Myr tie Crain, Route 1, Summerville, Ga., at once. The same routine of order will be preserved as at previous meetings. We expect judges from Rome to make the decision. Later, we expect to have a “mock trial” and will give the program when the time is deffinitely decided. STRAYED.—One white and black spotted pig, weight about 30 pounds. Has been gone about three weeks. —E. J. Edwards, Ly erly, Ga. Road Notice Georgia, Chattooga county. All persons interested are here by notified that if no good cause is shown to the contrary, an order will be granted by the Board of County Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of said county, at the regular February term, 1909, establishing a change in public road as marked out by commis sioners of roads for Trion district commencing at where said road leaves the Broomtown road near the line of lot of land No. 6, thence following said last named road across said lot about 200 yar<ls to the line of Mrs. Allman, thence east to Godwin’s line about 300 yards, thence east about 400 yards along the line of Godwin and Gilreath intersecting the Summerville public road near Gilreath’s house. G wen under hand and seal, this 15 day of Feby., 1909. J. T. JOLLY, Chm. E. N. MARTIN, Clerk. Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that may develop Into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley’s Honey and Tar, and It soothes in flamed membranes, heals the lungs, and expels the cold from the system. Sold by all Druggists. Farming Tools I We have just gotten in a big lot of Hardware and and Farming Tools that we are going to sell at Rock Bottom Prices, The line consists of Plow Stocks, Hames, Chains, Collars, Pads, Backbands, Bridles, Singletrees, plows of all kinds, Hoes, Rakes, Forks, Etc. It will pay you to see us before buying anything in this line. PITTS & ESPY | Canal a Third Completed The latest catiumtes of the amount of work necessary to complete, the Panama, canal show that the work is over one-third finished. The total excavation! required when the Americans as sumed control was 174,666,59; > cubit yards, of which 62,751,924 cubic yards had been taken mil up to the end of January, leav ing 111,904,672 cubic yards still to be removed. Under the pres ent plan there will be 29,387,000 cubic yards of filling! for locks and dams, and 5,015,400 cubic yards of concrete. Born to Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Es py, Feb. 19, a handsoine boy. 1 have a good mule lor sale W. J. Bryant. The average man experiences no difficulty in convincing him self that it. is perfeel ly right for him to do something he very much wants to do, j Don’t Worry 1 If you are sick, don’t worry, but begin at once I j to make yourself well. To do this, we but repeat g Hlhe words of thousands of other suffeieis from I womanly ills, when we say: |«CARDUI I It WHI Kelp You | For 50 years, this wonderful female remedy, has I ■ been benefiting sick women. Mrs. Jennie Merrick, K ■of Cambridge City, Ind., says: “ I suffered greatly J. H with female trouble, and the doctors did no good. E. ■ They wanted to operate, but T took Cardui, and it I? Imade me feel like a new woman. lam still usmg | ■ this wonderful medicine, with increasing relief. AT ALL DRUG STORES B EXCURSION RATES Via Central of Georgia Railway Company. To Washington, D. C. —Account j Presidential Inauguration March ■ I th, 1909. Tickets on sale Feb I ruary 28, March 1, 2 and 3, 1909. j l‘'inal return limit. March 10, 1909 Passengers must leave Washing ton not later than midnight of March 8, 1909. To Birmingham, Ala.—Account Laymen’s Missionary Movement, Presbyterian church in the U. S. February 16-18, 1909. Tickets on sale February 14-15 and for trains scheduled to arrive in Bir mingham before 1 :00 p. in. Feb ruary 16, 1909. Final return lim it leaving Birmingham not later than February 20, 1909. To Louisville, Ky.—Account Southern Electrical and Industrie Exposition, Apr. 12 24, 1909. Tick ets on sale April 11, 12, 19 and 20, 1909, gooil to have Louisville returning not. later than April 26, 1909.