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t £■ // w i*r —J T |~ I A IcD u Vc w? Viii. THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAftC** 19, 1909, ■'I i 1 fLJ A* G-REATBARGAINS IN MOST DESIRABLE SPRING GOODS House Furnishing Departemnt. Window Shades 25c to 10c. Cooking Stoves and Rang es. New Home Sewing Machines. Organs $50 to $75. 45 pound Felt Mattress $15. Other Good Felt Mattress $7.50. Royal Monarch Springs $3.50. Gocarts for the badies. Matting from 15c to 30c yard. Good white China Matting 30c. Tabestry Brussell Art Squares $12. 50. Hall Carpet 25c yard. Window Shades made to or der. Large assortment of enamel ware, Crockery. Wooden ware, Glass ware. Big lot of ladies and mens very hand some umbrellas at 50c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.50. In The Dry Goods Department. 36 inch Percale 10c quality 9c. 35 inch White Linen 24c quality 20c. 36 inch White linen 30c quality 25c. 50 inch Sheer Linen Lawn a bargain at 25c. White check Nainsook 6c and 10c. 40in White Lawn 12-1-2 quality 9c 25c quality stripe linen 19c. Blue and Black Skirt Duck at 10c. 52 inch Brilliantine in blue and black 60c value at 48c. 27 inch Sirona Silks Ginghams variety of patterns at 22-1-2. 27 inch Creton at 7-l-2c. 27 inch Simpsons Ed- dystonegood value at 7c. Large assortment Sheffields Suitings at 6c. 27 inch Crepe Chiffon 15c value 2t 12-1-2c 27 Inch Swiss Applique variety of Patterns at 25c. % Things are great or small only by comparison. The more you compare our prices with others, the more you become g inpressed with our great big bargains. .. .. .. .. .. .. I 3 main st. McCOMMONS-BVSH-BOSWELL CO. Tm Su, « ■Co- «r>- -v**’ 5**’' y- V Store - W. & G. F. Cranade announce to the public that they have opened a Grocery Store on Railroad ^ Street in the building recently occupied by J. P. Jones, where they will constantly keep on hand a complete stock of $ Fancy and Family Groceries. \\i They solicit a lair share of the patronage of the (j/ public, and guarantee fair prices, correct weights W and first-class goods. & G. W. & G. F. GRANADE. Railroad Street, - I HOMSON, GA. ^ News From Anthony Bv Bhown Eyk.i. G eorgia S econd In Production Boneville. l’KDAI All. Mrs. Mattie B. Iloilo, of At- liuita, a highly esteemed and Of hayal Stoics In 1S07 And 1903.1 most excollcnt lady, after an ex- , , , | tended visit to her daughter, Mrs. Georgia ranked second among the ... . eight .Southern states, each producing * A* Johnson, left huisday more than 0)0,000 gallousof turpentine for Augusta, where she will he the and 25,000 bands of rosin last year.! guest of relatives and friends. Florida led tin list with 17,030,300 gal lons of turpentine in 1058 against 15, | Miss Bertha McGunee, of neal 572,700 gallons in 1007, and 1,002,1 H j Hearing, was the guest of her tds- barrels of rosin in 1908against 1,774,7*70 j tor ]y[ rK , j \\ Ansley last week. Mrs. D. E. Reeves was the guest After an absence of a few days here comes Brown Eyes with a few words. The farmers are getting along some what slow. YVe have now a very nice new school house; winch has been needed so long. Mr. Lint Scott and Will Iicese of near Fountain wore welcome m j visitors in our village Sunday, fff j The young ladies and gents of ft' 1 this place enjoyed a dance at Mr. (fV Jim Russell’s Friday night of last (jj I week. ml Mr. Wat Baston of near the i Columbia Mine is a constant visi tor to our village now-a-days. Mr. and Mrs - Raymond Russell of near Thomson spent Saturday night and Sunday with relatives at this place. Mr. and Mrs. Mat ban Baston, Mr. and Mrs. Efford Dunaway were guests of Mr, and Mrs. Sam Dunaway Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hunt of Wrightsboro visited relatives her« Sunday afternoon last. ,'.'70 barrels in 1907. Georgia followed w«lh 10,347,800 gallons of turpentine in 10081 against 10,110,50:) gallons in 1007, and of Mr. 0, (. . Ansley ihuisday 1,203,059 barrels of rosin in 1008 against last. 1,173,675 barrels in 1007. The production of more than 36,600, 0)0 gallons of turpentine and more than 4,000,000 barrels of rosin Mr. and Mrs. John McGahee were guests of id Mrs. J. II. with a j Ansley Thursday last. Mrs. C - L. Ashley, of Augusta, valuation of more than 8! 1,000,000 for the turpentine and nearly 818,000,000. . , , , . r, , was a recent guest of her parents, for the rnsm, summarizestlie output of & 1 ’ the Naval Stores industry r or 1008, ae-j cording to the preliminary report of the United States Forest Sen ice just completed. The study was provided for in u special appropriation of 810,000 by Congress and the report contains the most complete and accurate statis tics ever gathered for the Naval Stores industry in this country and covers the production for both 1907 and 1908, giving comparative ligues for the two years. Alabama, .Mississippi North Carolina, South Carolin Texas followed Georgia in the order named. From The Styx. By Faith, Hopk and Ciiakity. The farmers of this section are very despondent over the rainy weather. Mr. and Mrs. II I). Studivant from the atyx visited Mr. Studi- vnnt’s parents Sunday and report a fine time. Messrs. Fred I’ierson and Bos- worth Morris visited Boneville Saturday last.Brown eyes the at traction . Miss Ethel Whitaker has just returned home after two weeks spent very pleasantly at the home of her aunt near Boneville. Mrs. C I). Hinton who has been quite ill, wo are glad to report is some better. MisB Mattie Lou Whitaker spent Monday atternoon|\vith her cousin Miss Carrie Morris. Mr. Willis Agerton has accept ed a position with the Price saw mill, The school at Fairmount taught by Miss Florine Johnson will close the first of April, with a picnic for her pupils. We will ring oil' as this is our first trip for fear it will find its way to the waste basket. Statute of Prohibition In Southern States- Cobbham Dots. Miss Kellie Tankersley returned to her home at Cobbham Monday, after attending several ^luys in Thomson with relatives. The Lurid Glow of Doom. was.seen in the red face, hands and body of tiie little sornof II. M. Adams, of Henrietta, i’a. His awful plight from eczema had, for five years, defied all remedies and batt led the best doctors, who said tiie poisoned blood had affec ted his lungs and nothing could save him. ‘•But ” writes his mother, “seven bottles of Electric Bitters completely cured him.” For Eruptions, Eczema, Balt Rheum, Sores and all Blood Disor ders and Uheumatisin Electric Bitters is supreme. Only 50c. Guaranteed by Gibson Grug Co. Dr. A. J. Mathews. If you "/ant a small farm near Thomson —from thirty to seventy-live acres call on Jna E. Fakmkk. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Johnson. Messrs G. T. and Hillman Street spent Saturday last in Boneville. Rev. Q. L Morgan, of Deariug, was the guest of Mr, A. H son Sunday. Misses Minuieeep Bracknell und Bennie Thompson, of Thomson, were guests of Mrs. \V. II. Cul- Eotiisana,j p e pp er Sunday. Iina, and ; Mr. Jeff Rogers, of Dearing, was the guest of Miss Annie Si mons. Sundav. It seems to me that it would be a good idea for the prohibitionist to get busy and have a law Gnacted by the congress of the United States forbidding a license to be issued to any one to sell liquor un til the person or persons can show a license for. that privilege, the lo cal authority, in the place where he proposes to 6ell liqor. All law against the liquor and cigarette traffics should he rigidly enforced. They should be supplemented with additional legislation when necessary> until these great evils are effect unify suppressed. Miss Carrie Lou Young is at home for awhile and has been quite sick, but I am glad to know ! she is up and hope she will soon be able to t ake her place at school again. Mr. John Henry Hunt spent i Saturday night and Sunday with I Mrs. Edward Smith and her homefolks. little son Lloyd, spent several Mr. George Young and Mr. B. F. - days last week with Mrs. Smith’s Simons spent Tuesday of this j parents in Cobbham. week in Thomson. | Our Literary Club was to have Mr. James Reese Jr., was tho met with Mr. Richard Neal last gnests of Mr. Robert Willie Dozier' Friday night but on account of Sunday. Messrs Loyd Williams and John John- j Ellis Hawes were in our town a J short wlile Sunday. Mr. T. R. Young spent one day last week with homefolks. Wo are all glad he is so well pleased with his new work. Mrs. Jim Russell was the guest of Mrs. H. H. Hunt Sunday after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dunaway spent Monday and Tuesday with relatives near Pine Grove. bad weather the meeting was post poned until Friday night. Miss Mary Belle Fuller spent Saturday and Sunday in Thomson with her parents Mrs. J. C. Dunn spent last Wednesday with Mrs. T. H. Do zier. Mrs. Richard Stephens and her little daughter Lillian of Augusta spent last week at Winfield with Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Neal. Mrs. S. F. Kean, of Thomson is As is well known Georgia led the prohibition movement, her state-wide law going into effect Jan. 1st, 1008. Alabama, Mississippi and North Carolina followed, statutory prohibi tion becoming effective Jan. 1st, 1909. Tennessee came next, their state wide law to become effective July 1st, 1909. In Kentucky, out of 11!) counties 90 are now dry, 13 have saloons in one town only; 4 have them at three towns; 2 at two places, and the re maining 4 have nil the county under prohibition outside Ike incorporated towns. A state-wide law is hoped for soon. Louisana has 33 out of her 59 parish es entirely dry, besides much territory in tiie remaining 20 under prohibition lav/. The parishes are voting dry as fast as elections are called. The legis lature of 1908 failed to pass a state-wide law, substituting a stringent restrictive measure. Petitions are now being circulated asking the legislature of 1910 to submit to to the people a prohi bition amendment to the constitution. All but ten of Florida counties aie dry—36 out of 46. The only wet places are 16 cities and tiie number of saloons is them is 324. Tiie legislat ure which meets hi April is by a large majority plodged to submit a constitu tional prohibition amendment to a vote of the people. This vote cannot be taken until 1910, but when it is prohi bition is practically certain to win. In Texas, out of a total of 246 coun ties, 157 are dry, 66 partially so, and 23totally wet. Jn the democratic pri maries of 1908, a majority voted to submit a constitutional prohibition amendment to the people, but when the legislature met a vote for ‘’submis sion” failled *o pass by a narrow margin. It had a majority but failed to get the two-thirds majority re quired. Boulh Carolina lias 21 of her 42 counties under prohibition, while tiie remainder have dispensaries only in the larger cities, and most of them only at the county seat. A bill for statutory prohibition lias passed the house, but lias been defeated in the senate and a compromise reached by which the vote for state-wide prohibi tion will be thrown back upon the counties ufter a two week’s trial of prohibition in August next. Tho dry counties may then vote the dispensaries bach if they chose, but South Carolina prohibitionists ars confident that tiie result will be for state-wide. Thomson Mercantile Co. Yes, Hannah, I will have to say you are right, blow your own horn , visiting at tho homo of Mr. 1 . H. for uo one else will blow it for Dozier, you. The thanks to tho McDuffie people must have been in a Wilkes county or some other country paper for it ;ortainlv was not in any of our papers; or if it was I failed to find it after a care ful search, but say! don’t you and Annette have a ‘'scrap” now, for Mr. Wingfield has be a found and tis known far and wide and tho last report I heard, "he was at homo with his wife getting on splendid.” I cloae with best wishes to all. Mrs. M. W. Dunn and little hoys of Thomson visited Winfield last week. Mr. Albert Crawford died at his home near Ccbbham on Tuesday lust and was buried at Appling Waduesduy morning. Dongola Cotton Seed For Sale 1 hav e for sale 11)0 buelicls good Don gofa Cottou Seed at 60ceuta bushel. 41, fllA E. Eausiku. Announce to the people of McDuffie and adjoining counties that they have recently greatly enlarged their business and are now better prepared than ever before to furp^sh their customers, friends and the public generally with every article usually kept in a Grocery Store. At our store on Railroad Street vou can al ways find a large stock of Flour, Meal, Meat, Lard, Sugar, Molasses, Salt, Tobacco, Bag ging and Ties. And many other harm Supplies! The buantities in which we will purchase these goods will make us buy and sell at the LOWEST market prices. We solicit the patronage of the trading public. Thomson Mercantile Co. Don’t Back A wav. Agitation In Every State And Territory, Tiie president of the Model License Leaguqsays himself, “The saloon is fighting for existence in practically every state in the union,” and it is true. A new prohibition may of the United States shows white dots at least in every one of them, though some so small as to make the sur rounding blackness blacker. The lirst dry county in New York State has earned that distinction this year. Yates couuty is dry and holies to be followed by other counties soon. Prohibition measures in some form or other are pending in six states. Ten states are considering local option bills. Ohio and Indiana have passed county option bills during the year and now the- counties arc voting dry with amaz ing rapidity, We have something to sell. Drop in and let us spill a little chatter about a good thing, and you can take it or leave it according as it hits you and no ex pense bill either way. I am the Carriage Dealer, took it up long ago. I have sold enough nice work each succeeding year to qualify as the Leader in my line. Now you can hear about me One-Hundred and Fifty Miles from my buggy shack in any direction you go, and when it comes to what is what in any thing you hitch a horse to ;—pardon me for starting the applause,—but I’m the greatest noise in the country. REMEMBER THE QUARTETTE Babcock, Chase, Frazier and Coskery At 749 Broad St. Augusta 0a. n 908 BANNER YEAR, t ■ Not-withstanding the panic and other business drawbacks, our sales were larger than any previous year. We are better prepared than ever to serve you and can give you your money’s worth every time. S Agents for Sucrene Food. Arrington Bros. S Company. / LEADING GROCERS, J 863 BROAD, ST., AUGUSTA, GA. i mm