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THE ATHENS tVZS&At 810&M1U JUNE so 1898
IT DONE ITS WORK 1
yLm YOLDMES OP BARGAINS IN ALL MY DEPARTMENTS,
The large Paintings with Gilt Frames, free of charge, “The coupons for the best quality of triple Silverware, free of charge. An immense lot of extra larger gilt
framed Paintings were given away free of charge last Monday. I WILL DO IT AGAIN! Every customer buying five dollars worth ot Dry Goofs, will get a 3 dollars
large size gilt framed Painting free of charge. Decorate Your Walls, Eight dollars worth of goods costs you only two dollars, But the cash must accompany every
pui chase. We are needing it, and don’t mind such great sacrifices to obtain it, This will be done at the hours irom 6 to 12 o’clk. An extra force of salespeople will
be added for those Jsix hours. And here is ANOTHER GIFT, add this to previous list, FREE OF CHARGE;
A 1ST -FIT.THC^- A TsTT 1 T. A TV/TT^
Handsomely colored, complete burner, wick and chimney, and filled with oil, to any customer buying $2.50 ‘Worth, of* DRY GOODS, S
and Clothing Bargains. Call for a coupon to every cents worth y° u bu y> and get choice of the Silverware, free of charge. .
Shoes
3£c. Special Bargain Sale.
Special for this day,from 6 to 12 o’clk
CH ALLIES. 6c grade at 3£c a
yard, in lengths of 10 yards;
Calicoes, &c grade at 3$c a yard;
Mayflower and Princess Lawns, 6
cents grade at 3£ cents a yard;
White India Linen Lawns at 3£
cents a yard.
6 Cents Special Sale
All of these were before from 8 to 15
cents a yard.
Imported C'hambrays, I5c. grade in
blues, at 5 cents a yard;
Fine grade 32 inch Lawn 15c.
grade, in brown only, 5c a yard;
Gingham 9 , light or dark, 10 to 12£
cents grade, at 5 cents a yard;
Pine Apple Tissues, 15 cts grade,
at & cents a yard;
Corded Piquet, 10 cents grade at 5
5 cents a yard.
8 Cents Special Sale.
Here is your stronghold. A spe
cial long counter fur all of these. Get
your pick early.
1500 yirds of Nainsook, Swiss and
Cambric
EMBROIDERIES
that range in prices from 15 to 50
cents a yard, of which yon may ob
tain your choice at
8 CENTS A YARD.
at 50 cents. Choice of these elegant
Sailors at 15 cents eseb.
White Leghorn Fiats 75c and 1 00
grades. ‘ Choice at 42 cents «icb;
Extreme fine braid While Leghorn
Fiats 1 50 grade at 72 cents each.
RIBBONS
Will a 1 so be Slaughtered.
5 Cents Special Ribbon Sale. All
colors 1 to 3 inches at 5 cts a yard.
MILLINERY SPECIAL
BARGAIN SALE.
5 cents a piece for good styles
Straw Hats.
Many were sold early in the season
from 35 to 75 cents each.
We do the same way this season as
we did last year. None shall be car
ried over 5 cents for a choice.
White or colored Straw Sailors for
Children, trimmed with Ribbons, sold
Special White Goods
Sale.
It is the quality you Bhon'd see.
The'prices are off. We are unable to
mention a descriptive list.
The Prices are Off.
them regularly. For distribution, sheet—any amount less than 6 sheets
any amount less than 12 spools to | to a ^customer,
each customer. )
Spool Si ks 5 cents a spoo 1 ;
Spool Twist, 2 cents a spool:
Crochet Cotton 200 yards Turkey
red, 3 balls for 10 cents.
- Agate buttons 3 cents a card;
Pearl dress buttons 3c a dozen;
Garter Webbing 3 cents a yard;
Pins 1 cent a paper;
Needles 1 cent a paper;
Palmetto Fans 1 cert each.
QUILTS.
White Marseil es Quilts at 48c each.
Small Ware Special
• Bargain Sale.
Coats’ Soool Thread at 3 cts, a spool.
We bought a lot, hnt don't handle
Domestics Special Sale
Fruit of Loom Bleaching 7c. a Yard.
For any amount less than 14 yards to
each customer, for distribution.
Scrims, a large lot of fancy Scrims
Theprices were from 10 to 15 cents,
Choice of lot at 6£ cents a yard.
10-4 Sheeting Special Sale.
Of all Grades.
We will give you 2J yards full
length 10-4 Sheeting for 38 cents p *
GROCERIES,
From 7 to 12 o’clock.
18 lbs. Granulated Sugar 1 00;
Roasted ground Coffee 20c ponnd
package net more than 1 00 north
to a customer;
Tea, English breakfast, or Green,
20c a ponnd, or 5 b for 1 00;
Rio Coffee, 5 1L for 1 00; .
Kerosene Oil 10 cents a gallon;
Flavoring Extracts 10c. size at. 5
cents a bottle.
Flour, 12 lb sacks for 22 cents;
Flour, 24 lb sacks for 44 cents;
Flour, 50 lb sacks for 88 cents;
Finest patent, “ My Birdie Flour,”
at 4 60 a barrel.
Brooms 10 cents each.
-j-MAX JOSEPH.*
GENERAL NEWS.
J. G. Analey of Gnffln died Friday
night, aged 70 years.
The first carload of melons brought-
$450 in New York.
Carl Logno was kicked in the head
by a horse at Gibson Tuesday and died
from hie injuries half an hour later.
The yield of .wheat this year will be
much larger in Newton county than it
was last year.
The Blairsville Herald says the
crart house_ at that place is so unsafe
that it is liable to fall at any moment.
James ^Newton paid $60 per sere for
ten acres of Col. T. B. Mells’ land just
south of Griffin, and will at once build
a home there for his own use.
The increase in the acreage of corn
in Newton oounty this year over the
acreage last year will not fall below 10
per cent. The acreage of cotton has
decreased about .5 per cent.
The officials of the BrnnBwiok and
Western road have oonented to place
telegraph instruments in the efflee at
After the teriifichail storm in Southeast
Georgia Monday the farmers in some sec
tions gathered wagon loads of the hail
stones and hauled them home, to be used
for ice. On the line of the Sjuth Bound
railroad it is.reported the hail atones were
piled np waste deep in the ditches.
The charter of Lithonia has been
amended so as to tax land used for far
ming purposes within the incorporate
limits. Heretofore this land has been
exempt from oity taxes.
William|Hardy, of Wilks county, who
is now 82 years of age, draws a pension
of $8 a month as a veteran of the Indian
war of leSS. He served in the company
of Capt. Robert Toombs.
Mias Emma Stillwell got aboard the
morning train on the Central railroad
at Atlanta Tuesday to go to to Griffin to
teach her claas in music as usual, hav
ing a school ticket good for one month
daily, although she only used it twice a
The Waynesboro True Citizen is re
sponsible for this remarkable butter
story; A cow that gives milk which
changes to butter hwithout corning is
a rare thing. Lawson E. Brown, of
Rozier, this county, says he hsa one.—
When the milk is strained ofl after milk
ing the oream which rises on it is very
thick, changt i, or rather hardens into
the consistency of butter, and it is used
as butter without going throngh the
process of churning Such a cow is a
valuable part of the housekeeping, as
the ohnrning ccoupies much time and
labor. Mr. Brown ba« been using this
cream-butter for several weeks.
Siys the Roswell Banner: Mr. A. L.
Grimes has a crooked finger on his
band, and that finger has a history.
About five years ago he got it fastened
in a machine which out it off. After
dressing the stub he decided to hunt
for the lost member and found it in the
was out, as there were quite a good
many trips still in it, and, happening to
be without money, thecondnotor.aman
by the name of Morgan, made her stop
Sylvester daring the watermelon sea- Ipffat Hapeviiletina drenching rain
son. The melon men are to pay the
operator.
Larkin Browp^ 93 years old died at
Roswell Saturday night and was buried
Sunday morning at the old Presby
terain church yard in the presence of a
large number of friends and acquain
tances.
The trial of Mom Odwell, charged
with the murder of Policeman Parker,
commenced in the superior court at
Augusta Monday morning. Mr. Parker
was shot by a negro man while walking
his beat some months since.
Tue Tocos News tells of a colored wo
man in that locality who calls one of her
sons ‘Kerlaaaes, kase he’s so black and
sweet."
Ex-’-Postmaster C. H. Bethune, of Tal
bot ton, is thinking of taking a trip through
Indian Territory and Southwest on a pros
pective tojr.
■Richard Peter Gill’s a two-horse farmer
ot Stewart county, a J ostice Court bailiff,
is in jail at Dawson, oharged with peijory
during the trial last week of the State vs.
Ho Tier Wills, murder, in which he was a
witness,
storm. She returned to Atlanta, and
at 3:30 o’clock p. nr htr father received
a telegram asking him to come to her at
onoe. He and Mrs. Stillwell left at 6:30
o’clock to go to her. They feared the
worst, as she has been in ill health lately.
Miss Stillwell’S friends are very much
surprised at Conductor Morgan for the
coarse he punned. Upon his arrival at
Griffin he expressed himself to an of
ficial of the road as being sorry for hav
ing caused the young lady to leave the
train.
T.J. Edwards of Worth county lost
a fine milch cow under strange oirenm-
stanoes. Her horns were very crooked
and from the position in wbioh she was
found afterward it is supposed that in
pawing at the flies, which are trouble
some, she hang her foot to her horns,
and died before she was discovered.
Solicitor Evans, of Washington ooun
ty, is trying the experiment of raising
hogs for market. He has 300 acres in
Bermuda grass and can raise them at
small expense. He has eighty pigs mid
will add a few more to this number if
they con be bought at a reasonable
price.
week. She overlooked the fact that Iti machine. He carefully placed it in his
he had been duly hanged according to law ; j
that justice bad been satisfied for the crime
he had commited, and he intended to kill
whites and blacks as he came to them, re
gardless of who they were, as the law
could not punish him again as be was con
sidered dead in the eyes of the law.
Cheavers was buried at Duke, Ga.
The negroes will not go near his grave,
or the jjlaoe whore he was hanged, at
night.
DEBBERV1NG PRAISE.
We desire to say to our citizens, that for
years we have been selling Dr. King’s
New Discovery for consumption, Dr
King’s New Life Pills, Bucklen’a Arnica
Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never
handled lemedies that sell as well, or thst
have given such universal satisfaction. We
do not hesitate to guarantee them every
time, and we stand ready to refund the
purchase price, if satisfactory remits do
not follow their use. These remedies have
won their great po-wlarity purely on their
merits. John Crawford AGa, and Palmer
A Kinnebrew Druggists.
Highest of all in Leavening Power—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
HjRrowder
Absolutely pure
pocket and started for a physician to
have it replaced, but the first four M.
D’s.he met bluntly refused to make the
experiment, while the fifth one stuok it
back, and it is there to-day as live as
any finger, only a little crooked. Sev
eral parties hare remember seeing him
carry the fiager in his pocket
A peculiar story Cornea from the vicini
ty of Eagle Cliff, in npper Walker,connty.
Several weeks ago a citizen of that com
munity, J. W. Massey, was very ill with
fever. He wanted to be baptized and, as
this could not be done during his illness,
he nqaeeted that as soon as he died bis
body be immersed. He said had neglected
it during bis life time and wanted dead
body baptized as a lesson of warning to
the living. A few'days ago he died and
on the day of the fhneral at Hizon’s Grove
Rev, W. S. Drennon immersed the dead
body in the presence of a large crowd of
people. The body was then pat back into
the coffo and laid to rest in the graveyard.
A special from Way cross tells a startling
ghost story. Soon after and frequently
since the hanging of Elijah Cheavers, the
notorious negro who brutally murderer
Deputy Sheriff Culpepper, the negroes of
this place have been greatly excited over
rumors thst Eiijsh Creavdrs was not dead’
trat bad come to life and was still in the
neighborhood.
Cheavers was hanged In a cypress pond
two miles from Way cross. The negroes,
who are superstitious, say that they have
seen somebody in the pond frequently on
dark nights, answering accurately the de
scription of Cheavers, and they will not
venture near the spot whore lie was hung.
Soon after the hanging occured it was
commonly reported among the negroes
that Elijah Cheavers had beee seen at
Duke, Ga. Then there was a rumor that
he was at a house in Old Nine, and his
neck was badly swollen, bnt he would be
well in a few days, It was also rumored
that Elijsb Chiavers told a negro in Old
Nice three days after he was banged that
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WE OFFER
or next 30 days the new seven room cot
tage, No. 213 South Jackson at, next to
Mrs. KF. Bishop,
At a Great Sacrifice.
We an authorized to sell this place for 30
percent less than the price of (me year
ago. There can be no more convenient
nome for a business man. The boose has
bath room, with hot and cold water ar
rangements, good garden and a large lot
Only two blocks from Michael Brae, oor-
,jr. Call and get the price—it will sur
prise yoo.
O. BODE
On Clayton Street
WILL HAVE FOB THE NEXT
WEEK THE BEST
CANDIES
Of Every Description.
CAKES made of the best MATERIAL
Drinks:
Pore Lemonade, Milk Shakes,
Sherberta, Etc.
CANNED GOODS
and PICKLES
Of ALL KINDS and at prices to salt
the times.
.JAPANESE*
SIB
A New and Complete Treatment, consisting of
SUPPOSITORIES. Capsules of Ointment and two
1 aDd aeldom a permanent cure, and often
Itteg In death, unnecessary. Why endure
this terrible disease? wt guarantee. O
boxes to oure any oase. You only pay lor
benefits received. (1 a box. 6 for 15. Sent by mall.
Guarantees lamed by onr agents.
coNSTiPATioNsarrtffisaft
the great LIVER and BTOil ACE REGULATOR aad
BLOOD PURIFIER. Small, mild and pleasant to
take; especially adapted to children's use. fiODaseS
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
The Misses Bradberry
Are now selling their colored Chips
ind Straw Hats at greatiy reduced pri
oee, they also have a beautiful line of
White Chips, Hats and Satin Ribbons
suitable for commencement and mid
summer,
Clayton street,* Athens, Gs.
FOR BENT:
7 room boose R Milledgeave. near
C G. Talmadge’s for..... $12 B0
5 room hou eN. W. corner Meigs
and Franklin,.................. IB 00
9 room house oor. Holland Clayton 22 60
6 room house 612 West Waddell.. 12 BO
7 room boose cor. Jackson and
Dougherty 17 00
7 room house Barber St .; 13 60
4 room boose 8. Lumpkin... 8 00
6 room bouse on Boulevard 13 00
6 room honse on West Broad st... 10 00
4 room bouse on 8. Lumpkin 2 00
4 room house on Bloomfield st.... 8 00
fy Office rooms and stores on the.cen-
tral business streets.
YOUNG MAN:
Now is the Time to Build a Home!
We will sell you a choice lot for $300 00
and lend yon the money, on long time, to
build a house. Come and see us, at No.
14 College Avenue.
Griffetb & CMoniiier,
THE CLiYTOI STREET TAILOR SHOP.
UD*8tairs Over Capt. J. J. C. Mo- -
Mahan’s Clothing Store.
Clayton Street.
W HERE I am now located. When yon want
any tailoring done giro me a call. Suits
msde to order, Cloths Pressed, Cleaning and
Repairing Clothes. Thsnkfol for past patron
age, I ask for a continuance of the same.
April SS-dSIt JNO. T. JACKSON.
GUARANTEES laaned only by
Pat.msr A Kimmssw
County seatofOconee coun
ty, on the Macon & Northern
Railroad, fine Schools and
Churches, and pure cool war
ter. The cheapest place to
live in Northeast Gerrgia.
READY s
—von—
COMMENCEMENT.
I amr ready with a splendid
Omnibus, Nice Hacks, Fine
Carriages and Baggage Wag
ons to haul commencement
yisitors to and from the de
pot and to all parts of the
city. Good Horses and re
sponsible Drivers. Tele
phone 53 when you want to
take a ride.
J S BERNSTEIN,
JAC3UONST8XET.
For Sae.
The following descriiied pre
perty in the above name
1 place.
6 acre lot on Hutcheson ave, loo
ted thereon nice 6-room dwellinj
servant’s honse, stables and cril
Also 4 two-room tenant houses. A
for $1600 00.
2 stores, 70 x 200. $500 00.
3 room tenant house and lot, 34 <
an acre, adjoining colored B&pti
Church. Price $250 00.
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