About The McDuffie progress. (Thomson, Ga.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1909)
THE McDUFFIE-PROGRESS. Vol. VIII. THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1909. •rt DRY GOODS AND FURNITURE -r «. Dry Goods Department. White Madress all stripes, plaids and figures for the finest quality white shirts, shirt waist or dresses for ladies or children. Good pat terns for boys waist or men’s chirting. White Lawn. These are in a good weight for children dresses, aprons, underskirts etc. Price 6-1-4 to 30c yard. To get new things for your house you must go to a house that has new things. In our store house you’ll find all of those things you need to furnish your home and make it happy. We never look cross when we show our goods, be cause we know when any one looks at our furniture they will be so please I, so we shall be pleased to have you call. A swell line line of clothing to go cheap*. King duality Shoes. Furniture Department, Mosquito Oonopy $1.50 to $3.00 Art Squares from $5.00 to $15.00 Belmont Range. See us before you buy. Oil Stoves and Hammocks are the things for summer. We are headquarters for cook ing stoves. II MCCOMMONS-BUSH-BOSWELL COMPANY, Main Street, Thomson, Ga- ~3-s3~-5-5-5~= % \h ih \it G. W. 6c G. F. Granade announce to the public ito Vi/ ilt '!> m m w m m m m w w w w m m w m - New Store - 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, m, \i/ They solicit a fair share of the patronage of the \|/ Georgia W- C. T. U. M. Theresa Griffin, State Press Supf. Beer As A Tonic. f systen, weakens and injures the facul ties and hampers instead of assisting 1 low astonishing it is that the iden nature in her efforts to establish that ale and beer have tonic properties : health, still prevails to a great extent In spite i of the revolutions of modern soicnoe to tlie contrary. The fuct is thut many of our older people do not know as much about alcohol as the ordinnry school boy or girl who is being taught the truths established by modern science. It is the old fashioned doctor and the old fashioned gentleman or public, and guarantee fair prices, correct weights and first-class goods. G. W. Sc G. Railroad Street, F. GRANADE. THOMSON, OA. Hut the doctors arc not all on the wrong side. One wus consulted by ti tippling patient who inquired: “Doctor, do you think a lilt le now and then would hurt me very much?” “Why, no sir," said the doctor de liberately, “I do net know that a little t&V ■**■*■<£■<* flr-si-flLSL'2L Ct5E, «L ' ■ c. sr.sr. 2T- Sf- tt-- Sr Vs- «r sr- ^ sr- «r sr- s*. - > \^V^Vr/ v ’VsA'V A NA < ' , ViAW^\AAV A V A 'l/ VV, 7 1 908 BANNER YEAR, j Not-withstanding the panic and other business 1, j drawbacks, our sales were larger than any previous ^ year. We are better prepared than ever to serve you d and can give you your money’s worth every time. Agents for Sucrene Food. Arrington Bros. & COmpany. LEADING GROCERS, 863 BROAD, ST., lady, who is most incorrigible on this i lt ow ami then would hurt you very point—but the march of progress is in- much, but if you do not take any, it cxorable and this superstition will give won’t hurt you ut all.” way in time as others have done. A total abstainer was recovering from erysipelas and Ids doctor said to him: “You have had a serious attack and you are very much reduced in health and strength; and until you re cover fully 1 should advise you to take a little ale or beer.” The patient said, “Doctor, 1 suppose I am out of dan ger?” “Oil, yes." “Well,” said he, “we’ll manage the rest at home. How long do you think Id take me to get quite well with beer?” “Three months." The patient went home Hut did not take the beer and was as well in two weeks’ time as lie ever was in liis life. He said: “If 1 can not live without drink, l mean to die; and if I cannot die without drink, I mean to live for ever. When I talk like that to the doctor they talk no more nonsense to me.’* J rest at. j it won I J la little > s A line fro hi (i Boneville. PEPA fAH. lias 1 into tli pv Wtfll lyen run picnic ground at tins place, a ml thrre is a steady stream pouring out. of a pipe at the same place it <li 1 be fore the trough through which the water formerly ran become choked up. Boneville is nov. - the ideal place for, and I hope that it will become the objective point of ul 1 picnic parties m this section. Is it not time our Progress band was arranging for a picnic on a mammoth scale. Mrs. Homer Johnson left this pace Saturday for Atlanta, to b« the g-.est of her sister for several uuys. Miss Pinkie Walton, of Metas ville, who was the guest ot Miss Ada Stokes last week, left Satur day for Augusta where she is the guest of her aunt. Mr. Berry Benson, of Augusta, was in Boneville Sunday. I lean that he was in search of Indian relies, Mrs. R. Paul ami her son Mas ter Preston were guests of Mrs. N. J. Fullbright Tuesday. Mrs. Gertrude Warr was a guest of friends here Tuesday'* Miss Lizzie Fullbright and Mrs skillrul treatment of Dr. S. Gib son 1 hope that they w 1 11 soon re cover. Mrs. 0 W. ITsry was the guest f her m it her, Mrs. Printup in Thomson Monday. Mr. Sullivan Usry was the guest of his parents. Mr. and Mrs 1 C. W. Usry Saturday and Sunday lust, Mrs. G, W Usry and family, Messrs Fred and Reese Simons I and Arthur Mathews were all guests at the home of Mr. 0. W. Usry Sunday. Miss Annie Usry is the guest of Miss Carrie Mangum this >\aek. in Grove-town. On Friday Inst Mr. Allen ' Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Young, of Thomson, died in this community cn Friday last at : the homo of h's grandfather, Mr j E. J. Wilson. The bereaved have ! the heart felt sympathy of the people of Boneville. The Thrice A-Week World of Now York asks this question: ‘ Is Democracy content?” How could the party of discontent be come content? And if it should | Two friends who had been at college i together met after a long separation. | One had been abroad and the otiier en- ' gaged in professional work at home, j To the surprise of the visitor a glass of | bitter beer was poured out at dinner. “Why,” said lie, “I thought you were an abstainer.” “Bo I was for some time, but I got below par and the doctor said 1 must have some hitter bee. - to get up the tone of my system.” “And do you feel any better?” “Well, I fancy some times that 1 do, but I am far from being well.” I “How long nave you taken it?” I “About seven years.” “Well, if J had taken one sort of I remedy for seven years and it had not : effected a cure, I should make a cliunge.” j This absurdity, so often noticed, is owing to the deceitfulness of alcohol. It is a lying npirit. Our Georgia doctors are all right on this question—At least a large ma jority of them. Last year the re were sent out to the physicians of the slate hy the W. T. U. through the stale superintendent of Medical Temperance, Mrs. J. H. Richards, of Thomson, 2551 letters asking that they abandon (lie use of alcohol in their practice. Mrs. Richards received a very large number of most cordial replies endorsing the position taken by the W. (J. T. C. Her impression is that a large majority had already reached the same conclusion by their experience in practice as t lint, expressed In the last work tf the scien tists, that alcohol is the most insidious enemy of tlie body, brain and soul of man. To show how little the physicians are prescribing it, wc can cite Colum bus as an example. Bince tlie proliibi- liition law went into ctlect, January, | 1008, fifteen months ago, there have been only 271 prescriptions for alcohol filled by the druggists «f Muscogee county, and recorded with the ordinary. It is more than probable that lite.se prescriptions were made by a very few of the older physicians of the city. The younger men keep up with the time. If your doctor that you love very much and feel unwilling to give up prescribes alcohol, just ask Him if there is nothing else tliai will do as well, and nine times out of ten lie wiii -give you anollier and a safer remedy. A Remarkable Will The following touching and remarkable document was left as his lust will and testament by Charh s I.ounsburv, who died insane in the Cook County Asylum, Dunning, 111. : “i, Charles Lounsbury, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make and publish this, my last will and testament, in order as justly as may lie to distribute, my interest in the world among succeeding men. “That part of my interest which is known in law and recognised in tlie sheep-bound volumes as my property, being inconsiderable and of no account, I m ike no disp-ji al of in this, my will, “My right to live, being hut a life estate, is not at my disposal, hut these, tilings excepted all else in the world 1 ! now proceed to devise and bequeath : J “Item—I give to good fathers and! mothers, in trust for their .children, all and every, the li nvers ol the fields, uiu! the blossoms of the woods, with the right to play among them freely, accor ding to the customs of children, w arn- ing them at the, same time against thistles Hiul thorns. And I devise to children the bunks of the brooks and the golden sands benenth the waters thereof, and Hie odors of the willows that dip therein, and the white clouds that float high over the giant trees. And L leave the children the long, long days to bo merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the moon and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at. but subject nevertheless to the right thereinafter given to lovers. “Item —I devise jointly all the useful ideal fields and commons where hall maybe played; all pleasant waters where one may swim ; all snow-clad hills where one may coast, and all streams and ponds where one may fish, or where, when giim winter comes, one may skate ; to have and to hold the same for file period of their boyhood. And all meadows with the clover bios-' soins and butterflies thereof, the woods | and their appurtenances, the squirrels [ and birds and echoes and strange nois- j cs, and all distant places which may he visited, together with the adventur es there found. And L give In said boys I each it is own place at the fireside atj night,, witli all pictures that may lie seen in the burning wood, to enjoy without let or hindarncc and without, any incumbrance of care, “Item—To lovers, I devise their im- Even the "idle rich” of the Metro-j aginary world, with whatever they polis are learning something about the may need ; as the stars of the sky ; the real nature of alcohol. A man writer! red roses by the wall ; the bloom of in Vogue says in a recent issue that the hawthorn; the sweet strains of the younger men in society drink very music, and aught else by which they- little wine or spirits; they occupy j may desire to Ague to each other the Thomson Mercantile Co. Announce to the people ot McDuffie and adjoining counties that they have recently greatly enlarged their business and are now better prepared than ever before to furnish their customers, friends and the public generally with every article usually kept in a Grocery Store. At our store on Railroad Street you can al ways find a large stock ot Flour, Meal, Meat, Lard, Sugar, Molasses, Salt, Tobacco, Bag ging and Ties. And many other 1’arm Supplies. The buantides in which we will purchase these goods will make us buy and sell at the LOWEST market prices. YVe solicit the patronage of the trading public. Thomson Mercantile Co. OUR PRICES ON 1 Building Material . . . Will Save You From .. . 10 TO 20 PER CENT themselves with athletics; motoring It stills the pain And open air pleasures: the drinking Is Ly paralyzing the nerves, but it does not remove the cause, nor efleet a cure. Even in small quantities it clogs the mostly c-.nlined to tue older men. This is one of the straws which show which way the wind blows. An Untimely Death Mr. Allen J Young was the oldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Young, of Thomson, and hud he lived would have been eighteen years old next November. He was taken very ill about threee weeks ago at the home of his grandparents Mr. and Mrs E. J. Wilson, of Boneville. All that medical skill eould do was done, but without avail. He died May fourteenth and was become content it would lose ona buried at Thomson cemetery the day of its most notorious if not its following and the impressive funerai most able champion. T refer to services were conducted by Rev. Those i , _ _ • j i. .u H. Timmons In tha presence of a k, Samuel Compere; President oi me large congregation of kindred and lriends. Sarah Dupriest arc oil tile Bi _ list this week, but antler the] American Federation of Labor. Mesena Sunday School. The Mesena Methodist Sunday school will celebrate the annual Childrens Day service at Mesena Saturday May 29tii. Several good Sunday school ad dresses will be made. Dinner on the ground. A full program will appear next week. Land for Sale. I have for sale several small tracts of land near Thomson. One twenty acres, one 25 acres, ona forty acres, and one fifty-six acres. Any one desiring a small farm near town can buy from me. 4t, Il’A E. Faicuer. lastingness ami beauty of their love. ,‘Jtein—To young men jointly, I de vice and bequeath all boisterous, inspir ing sjiorts of rivalry, and 1 give to them the disdain of weakness and Undaunted confidence in their own strength, tiiough they are rude. I give them the power to make lasting friend ships, and of possessing companions, and to them exclusively 1 give all merry songs and biave choruses, to sing with lusty voices. “Item—And to those who ore no children or youths or lovers, L leave memory, and 1 bequeath to them the volumes of the poems of Burns ami Shakespeare and of other poets, if there | ba others, to the end that they may! live over the old days again, freely and fully, without tithe or diminution. “Item—To our loved ones With snowy croyns I Ijequeath the happlnass of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep.” Write For Prices. Lime, Cement, Plaster, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Screen Doors, Screen Sash and etc. Mantels, Grates, Tile, Paints, Var nish, Glass. Building material of all kinds .. .. Our services are prompt. Our material is the best. R. J. HORNE & CO. 667 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. Long Distance Phone 473.
