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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. . f t 9 ;48 Pair Ladies iow C Jut Shoes is all We Have. 88 Pair Men’s Low Cut Shoes A1 LL sum [ M E R G 0 ( )DS MARK ED D< 3WN 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.