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SOME OF OUR “DON’TS.” We make no statement
we cannot substantiate; offer no values we cannot
show, quote no prices we can not make good.
We don’t believe it wise to carry goods over from one
»ason to another. Thats why we a,re selling at Reduced
| MCCOMMQNS-BUSH-BOSWELL COMPANY,
1908 BANNER YEAR,
Not-withstanding the panic and . other business'
drawbacks, our sales were larger titan any previous;,;
year. V/e are better prepared than ever to serve you;-
and can give you your money’s worth every time. | |
Agents for Sucrene Food. |
Arrington Bros. & Company,
LEADING GROCERS,
863 BROAD, ST.
AUGUSTA, GA
Prizes
Given
* For Sales Slips lor Articles Advertised in Avgust in the Progress
Hi
To the five persons showing the largest number of
df August, We Will give
It First Prize $1.50, Second Prize $1.00,
jjj Subscription To The McDuffie Progress.
The amount of the slip will not enter into the contest, but the largest number of sales slips presented will win the prize,
jjj Preserve your Sale Slips and hand them in or mail them to THE McDUFFIE PROGRESS on September first
||i counted later than 4 o’clock on that date. \ \ \ \ •. ’. *. *’*' •,
If the merchant does not give Sale slips, a receipt, properly signed, will answer. Jv
for articles advertised in
J,s;
Vol. IX.
THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1909.
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;48 Pair Ladies iow C
Jut Shoes is all We Have. 88 Pair Men’s Low Cut Shoes
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Planting The Terraces*
Among tlic hill sections of the
Houtli tiie terrace is a necessity, to pre
vent the soil from washing awriy; but
just how to handle these numerous
terraces is a serious problem. Many
have allowed them to grow up In
weeds, briars and even hushes. This
detracts considerably from the appear
ance of the Held, and also saps strength
from the two adjoining rows. Many
plans have been suggested and tried,
so as to reduce these annoyance* "ml
at the same time utllze the land taken
up by the terraces themselves, this
year in various sections we see terraces
planted in the same crop as the fic'n
either cotton or corn. Where land
Upbuilding The Town
Itv Advkhtihinu In P.aiio.mktkk ok
Local Industuy, tiik Newskai’Eii.
If.a member of your family died
would you print the resolutions on a
billlxHtrdV
If you were going to enlarge your
business would you advertise it in a
hotel register?
If you were going to have a wedding
in your family, would you get out u
handbill?
You would send such items to a news
pa| er, wouldn’t von?
Then why don’t you put your adver-
tisem nit in a newspaper?
The newspapers build your town.
Why not help build up the newspap
is not too rolhng this is undoubtedly i ... , .. ‘
. c-rs? There is no better advertisement
i in the w >rld for a town than a good
I newspa|KT. A newspiqier is Itiebaro-
the Ixwt plan* Borne fanners have had
good results from planting them in
sorghum. This has two advantages.
The sorghum does not require hoeing;
and secondly it makes a bank that is
very ditllcult t*> break. Mr. K. Marlin
of Newton county grew enough sorg
hum on the terraces of a one-horse crop
to make 40 gallons cf syurp. This is
sufficient to supply a family. There is
much latitude given as to how you
should handle your tcrracess, but each ’
farmer should decide upon some plan, 1
that will accomplish two things—first, I
cause him to keep them up well, and.
secondly to utllze them, if possible* I
Home are plowing them up, this will |
rarely he found unsatisfactory. In nine I
cai.r out of ten, we need then kept up |
better. Our soil is of such character j
—auch a proportion of sand ami clay
as to render it easily washed. Then we
must have brakes to catch the soil, j
when our torrential rains come. Often
we could go along for a year or two
without any, and then the damage
from one cloud-burst will do such dam
age as would counter-balance all the
troubles and expense of terraces in ten
years. The thing we must do is topre
vent gullies from getting a start in our
fields and if thev have gotten n start,
we must have breaks a jr.iss them sc
We can catch all of the soil and till
them up. The terrace is worthy of
your best thought and skill. Plant
meter of the town’s, iiunistry. Kliow
a good newspaper, full of advertising I
and we wid show you agsod town, full I
of live me rehants'
Newspapers are town builders, town
advertisers, fortune makers, news dis
seminators, Mcrrnondcliv'ere r«, prosperity
foicasters. They area necessity, not a
luxury. They must lie maintained.
Without them we would retrograde to
the mediaeval days.
Lout patronize them from a charitable
standpoint, l’a’rohize them because
they deliver the goods—that is, if they
are the right kind.
Cut out the foolishness and work for
the upbuilding of your town and state
by upbuilding your newspapers.—Min
neapolis (Minir) Star.
Why It Was-
A party of Northerners was touring
Virginia, some years ago, and as llie
crowded train was crawling throuh
Station! County, near Fredericksburg’
un old and wizened woman, with a
basket bigger than herself came aboard
and edged diffidently into the vacant
place lieside of the men* After a while
her seatmale decided that it could be
no harm to draw tier out a little for the
benefit of the rest of the party.
“This Is very poor land that you nave
will wake up next morning, with
unimpaired respect for themselves and
the other men with whom they were
associate.
A time honored piece of absurdity
one still hears repeated is Unit it is
“ bad luck to drink a toast in water,”
but the tiutli is that it is tlie best kind
of luck, for water is the type of health,
strength, sanity, beauty, bappinness'
growth, plenty, commerce and peace
When a toast Is drunk in water it
means that the drinker s brain is Clear,
ills heart is bening t rue and ills good
ing. The toasts of the water drinker
will lie followed up with good deeds
and When you hove his friendship or
good will you will have something to
bring "good look,, /jure enough.
them—sod them—make rock dams of I around here, madam.” he began,
them—as Ix'st suits your indivulaul j “Mighty pore,” she assented, hum-
farms, but i.i all eases keep them up in t
GEORGIA W. C T. U.
No Winks Skuvkd.
At the Imnquct of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association of Home,
<Ja., held on Friday evening, April L’ltrd
ttier c were no wines or liquors sorted,
formal action on this jioinl having
been taking by the banquet committee
at the request of ihe Home \V. C. T, C.
of which Mrs. I). II- Hamilton, Jr., is
the president.
Acting on.the conviction Hint since
“Georgia led the prohibition fight,ev
ery eye 13 turned oh Georgia,” these
putfiolic women begged that their
City“.sli6uld not l>c dishonored by hav
ing tneir representative citizens serve
alcoholic drinks and spiked phucu lit a
banquet where they were gathered to
consider the betterment and iiphiill:l
Ing of Home.”
Tins was sounding a note to which
pub’ic spirited and patriotic men read
ily responded.
And In fact the custom of serving wine
and liquors at banquets is being more
honored in tlie breach than in the
observance in many parts not only of
Georgia, hut throughout the country
Where it is still done it is not so much
because all the guests want it, though
some do, dut because somebody is anxi
ous to sell it. A banquet may mean a
big order and the dealer* are all on the
alert for“mail orders.”
The Georgia law is aimed directly at
the sale and it seems only rational to
expect that a public man or one promi
nent In tlic community life of a Georgia
oily, whatever may lie liis private! Hcreen all food, whether in the house
vieWS or practice, should not be willing ; or exposed for sale,
to encourage the sale to that extent Keep ulI receptacles for garbage eare-
and thus weaken hue spirit of law ! fully covered and the cans cleaned or
enforcement which he is in hoiiorbound ' sprinkled with oil or lime,
to support. j Keep ali stable manure in vault or
As to the banquet itself it loses pit, screened or sprinkled with lime,
nothing and games everything by (he oil or other cheap preparations, such
elimination of the liquor feature, as me sold by a number of reliable
It can be made much handsomer if the manufacturers.
money appropriated-lie spent for a bee that your sewage system is in
gruiul menu and elegant serving beau- good order; that it does not leak, is up
tiful flowers and inspiring musie.it to date and not exposed to files,
will be much more brillunt and en
joyable if the s/leeches are sane, and
pointed and short. And an impotant
point t omen ambitious of place and
prominence is that everybody present
their bre ding place is in nearby filth
It may be behind the door, under the
table or in the cuspidor.
If there is no dirt and filth them will
be no flies.
If there is a nuisance in the neigh-
liorhood write at once to ihe health de
partment.
to kill flies:
The London “.Lancet,” the lending
medical journal of the world, says that
the best and simplest fly-killer is a
weak solution of formaldehyde in water
(two teaspoon!ids to llie pint.) Place
wishes are much more apt to be sincere - in plQtes or saucerH throughout the
than those of the man who will toss of j i lollst . t 'p 0 |, cents Worth of formnlde-
abumper to anybody
the contents of the
iiouse. i en cents worm or lormnlrte-
>dy or anything ll pj-,i c will Inst un ordinary family alj
glass to be Ids Ilk- Hummer. II lias no offensive smell, is
fatal to disease organisms, and Is prac
tically ium-poisonou« expects to insects.
Pyrethrum powder, which may lie
bought at any drug store, burned In
the house will also kill the flies.
Rules for Dealing
With the Fly Nuisance.
Keep the flics away from the sick,
especially those ill with contagious dis
eases. Kill every fly that strays into
the sick room. His body is covered
with disease germs.
Do not allow decaying material of
any sort to accumulate on or near your
premises.
All refuse which tends in any way
to fermentation,such as bedding straw,
paper waste, and vegetable matter,
should be disposed of or covered with
lime or kerosene oil.
such a way as that your farms will
show every passer-by that you have a
well-kept ami well-pres-Tvcd farm.
No other kind can be so product! ve or
profitable as it shou’d lie. The well
kept and well-tilled farm is still the
exception and not the rule in thebouth
it is certainly refreshing to sec one.
We notice this varies with various
communities. Met your neighlsjrs a
good example in this worthy line
—Southern wultivator.
Pour Kerosene into the druins.
Hurn or bury all table refuse.
Screen all windows and doors, espe
cially in the kitchen and diaing room.
If you see Hies, you may be sure that
For indigestion and all stomach trouble
lake Foley’s OH no Laxative astir stimu
lates tin) stomach and liver unit rdgalat.es
the howcls and will positively euro habit-
mi 1 constipation. A. J. Mathews,'
Business and Residence
House For Sale.
l hs house occupied by Mrs. Free
man as a restaurant and a residence is
for rent. Possession given Got. 1st.,
Sufficient rooms for residence and
place of business.
it. Ika. 1C. Fahmiok.
More Real Estate For Sale
1 oiler for sale the farm known
the Shields Republican Place, contain
ing 900 acres more or less, Will sell
as a whole or divide in half.
Also, a tract of land in Republican
District containing UK) acres more or
less, and known as the Geeter place,
adjoining the lands of J, H. Jloyd, Mrs.
J. H. Smith, and others.
Also, a small tract of land on the
Milledgeville roou three miles from
Thomson and known ana part of the
Cason place and containing 09 acres,
more or less, 1 HA E. FARM FH,
bly
“f never did see such woithless
soil.”
“ No, suh,” with nn air of deep de
jection.
“Don’t you ever sow any crops at all
?” he kept on.
The ancient dame did n*t lift her
head.
“Xaw, suh,” she drawled. “This
liyer land around liyer wos sowed ’bout
three foot deep with Yankees ’long
’bout forty years ago, and we uin’t been
able to raise nary crap since.”—ll.vu-
pun’s Weekly.
For Sale.
One Iron Fire Proof flnfe, brand
new. Cost £781)1). will sell to avoid
moving it, at $0300.
Ralph X. Smith,
Thomson, Ga. •; j
Business House For Rent.
I offer for rent the store house of the
Masonic investment Cq„ on Railroad
street, consisting of the first and second
stores of the Masonic Temple.
•it. JuA E. Faumkk.
’TwasA Ghrious Victory.
There’s rejoicing in Feoorn, Tcnn. A
man’s life has been saved, and now Dr
King’s New Discovery Is the talk of the
town for curing V. V. Pepper of deadly
lung hemorrhages. “I could not work
nor get about,” he writes, “and the
doctors did me no good, but after using
J)r. King’s New Discovery three weeks
I fool like a new man. and can do good
work again.” For weak, sore or disea
sed longs, Coughs and Colds, Hemorr
hages, Hay Fever, LaUrippe, Asthma
or any Hroncliial affection it stands
unrivaled. Price o()c. and $100. Trial
Holtle free. Sold and gunrnrteed by
Gibson Drug Co , Dr. A. J. Mathews.
Thomson Mercantile Co.
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 furnish 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 Farm 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.