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FOUR Agents for McCALL’S PATTERNS jjp 6 FRIDAY and SATURDAY we are going to make two of the Greatest Bargain Days our store has ever known. And if genuine value giving will contribute anything to the popularity of the event,our aisles will be crowded with eager buyers PURPLE TRADING STAMPS Double Purple Trading Sijmt|»s until noon Friday and Saturday. M a ! 530 Broad Street Protest Against City’s Money Being Spent For Foreign Labor To Introduce Resolution in Council at Next Meeting to Have Local Labor- Protest Comes Over Wilson Contracting Company Using Out-of-Town Painters. A committee from the Augusts Federation oT Trad®* recently had a conference with Mayor llavne, Chair loan T W. Pilcher, of the hospital committee, City Attorney C Henry Cohen and Architect 0. LJoyd Preach er of the new city honj itaU. In y'hicti the TWeratlon committee pro tested very strenuously against the employment of Imported painters on the new city hospital* it is charged that the Wilson Con tracting Company, which had a sub contract for the painting of the build mgs. not only is using out-of-town painters but had made no effort to i;C local painters The contract was originally let to A It McDaniel, but he went into hankrui tcy and the American Surety Company, his bonds men. secured the Wilson Contracting Comimn.', of Atlanta, to Pnish the job. As a result of tbe conference there Pom n THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER. HV A successful remedy for Rheumatism, Blood Poison and all Blood Diseases. At all Druggist* SI.OO. ■ ■ F. V. LIPPMAN CO., Savannah. Ca. MULLARKY’S BIG FRIDAY-SATURDAY SALE SILK SKIRTS Brocade and plain Silk Pet ticoats in navy, Copenhagen, sapphire, wisteria, taupe, terracotta, etc., $2.00 values for 98^ SEA ISLAND 36 inches wide, splendid quality, the kind, per yard 5^ * CHAMBRAY Webster, solid colors, will not fade; the kind, for, yard TVjrf PERCALES 1214 c 36 inch Perclnes, in light spring colors, yd. . 9^ BROWN AND BLUE LINEN 36 inches wide, quality, yard 9 LADIES’ SKIRTS In pique and linene, white, tan and blue, $1.25 value 75^ CHECKED DIMITY Large and small cheeks, 10c value, yard 7' J. 3. MULLARKY COMPANY will be a resolution Introduced Ht the next meeting of city council to lm\ o a proviso In ever contract let in the future to the effect that Augusta labor be secured. It is believed that this resolution will pass council with out a assenting vote. Further action taken at the confer ence \yiis the appointment b\ the mayor of a committee consisting of Messrs Cohen. Pilcher and Preacher to take up immediately with the Wil son Contracting Company the matter of employing local painters, although Just what can he accomplished in the matter at so late a date cannot he stated Prominent labor men in Augusta declare that one of the principal ar guments used in securing the vote of the labor people of Augusta to sup i ort the $1,000,000 flood protection bond Issue, the $150,000 city hospital bond issue and the SIOO,OOO water- & Embroidery Sale 'W v Friday at 10 a.m. we will put on sale Crepe Embroidery, 45 inches wide, values up to $1.50, for, yard 50£ (See window.) LACE SALE ■ (or 78# works bond issue was that Augusta latior would be employed in building the levee, the hospitals and the wa terworks This is said to have been brought out In a conference between local labor men and the then mayor. Mr. Thomas Barrett, City Engineer Wingfield, Dr las. It Littleton, of the hospital committee, and others. This is said to be the first com plaint that has been made in the hos pital work uml it is probable that If McDaniel had not failed there would not have been any complaint register ed now, since McDaniel Is a local tnau and it is presumed that he would have employed local labor. The labor men argue that they vote bond* to tax themselves greater than thc> are now being taxed In order to earn out improvements for the City and it is the rudest kind of a Joke for the money which they help to raise to be given to out-of-town labor, while they have a great many of their own number now In Augusta out of work, painters walking the streets without employment. U Is hoped that the matter of the painters will he a, eedlly corrected and that that there xvlll he no further cause for complaint. The mayor and other gentlemen present representing the city Inform ed the Federation of Trades commit tee at the conference that they were heartily In tavor of all city work be It g given to local people whenevei possible and certainly to couoorns that employ local labor. The only woman member ,of tbe li-ii-sK gallery at Washington is Mrs | Mira Webster Kit hurds. THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA. AIKEN NEWS Aiken, 8. C. At a meeting of the Aiken County Delegation the following were elected rural policemen of this county: Messrs. S. E. Holley, re elected; Musco Samuels, re-elected; .1, E. C.annt, of Wagener, to take the place of Charlie Atkinson and J. M. \Y Clover to take the place of Capt John Butler in North Augusta. Following an attempt to wreck the afternoon train to Edgefield, Sheriff Howard and Rural Policeman Sam uels got busy and yesterday afternoon arrested a little negro named Sam Jefferson, about eleven years old. The little negro was turned over to Hen dersons, ntttorneys for the Southern Railway at Aiken and this morning he was released owing to his age. with the request that he be given a severe whipping by hts parents. It seems that the little negro moved to this county some time ago and as he had never seen a train wreck he thought that he would cause one. He told the officers that he put the crooss tles on the track Just to see the train "tear ’em up. LIVER PILLS Sugar-Coated and all vegetable. Dose, only one pill at bedtime. For consti pation. bilious headache, indigestion. Ayers Pills. Sold for 60 years. Ask V our Doctor. iV»«.n*‘ > xu—! Clouds of White Muslin Underwear Every number a special. Read this over carefully. CREPON GOWNS 75c values, trimmed with lace and ribbon 59£ CORSET COVERS Sheer muslin, val and linen lace, also ribbon trimmed, excellent values for 19<*, and 50^. CREPON DRAWERS 65c values for .. ..49£ GAUZE VESTS With tape, very elastic, the 10c kind for, each 71/^ PILLOW CASES 45x36 Pillow Cases, 15c value, for 11^ Rev. J. Andrew Smith, the Evange list of the Synod of South Carolina, is carrying on a series of metings at the Presbyterian church in this city and much Interest is being taken. He has preached several strong and able sermons already and the congregation increases every night. Mr. W. W. McCarty, who lived at the Palmetto Farms, which is 'about ten ten miles from the city, died very"sud denly Tuesday at 7:30 a. m. Although he had been complaining for a short time, hi. condition was not considered serious He is survived by a wife and five children and was about forty-five years old. He was well-known in this city, having run a meat market here for several years. Bryan Advises Eatonton Man Not to Go to Mexico Dr. Nolan Told That Son s Body Can’t Be Exhumed For Five Years. Eatonton, Ga.—Dr. J. Q. Nolan, of this city, who has asked the state de partment at Washington to investl j gate the death of his son, Dr. Frank I Nolan, at Tampico, Mex . and who has I considered going to Mexico himself to Investigate, tonight received a tel -1 egram from Secretary Bryan advising 'against the journey. The message iread: I “American consul at Tampico wire* HILL’S BLEACHING 36 inches wide, the 12 1 kind, for, yard 9 y 2 t that body of son cannot be exhumed until expiration of* five years. Ad vise strongly that you do not go to Mexico." 3 DEAD IN AUTO CRASH. Dallas. Tex.—Three persons were killed and three seriously hurt when an automobile swerved and plunged “MB” IF COSINE BILIOUS, HEADACHY AND UPSET—DIME A BOX No odds how much your head aches; how miserable you are from constipation, indigestion, biliousness a "Cascaret” tonight straightens you out by morning. Clean your stomach, liver and bow ol< tonight; end the headache, bilious ness, dizziness, nervousness, the sour, gassy 6tomach, backache and all oth LADIES’ DRAWERS U -V In the following styles — circular, tango, plain and knickerbocker, 25 4, 39<L 50£ and 59£. TEDDY BEAR COMBI NATION SUITS Entirely new and up to date, made of sheer mus lin, splendid value for $1.25 THURSDAY. MARCH 26. Agents for American Lady Corsets LINEN SHEETING 90 inch 85c value Linen Sheeting, yard ..47^ Augusta Georgia forty feet into a ravine near here to day.' Dr. Samuel P. Tipton, driver of the car. and Mrs. Jatie M. Loving were crushed to death. Mrs. livings son, William, was so badly injured ho died soon after reaching a hospital- Two women and a man were the other occupants of the car. All are res* dents of Dallas. er distress; relieve your sluggish I-iver and Bowels of all the sour bile, gases and clogged-up waste wtilch is producing the misery. » A 10-cent box of Casearets keeps your head clear, stomach sweet, liver and bowels regular and you feel bul ly for months. Don’t forget the chil dren—their little insides need a gen tle cleansing, too. I