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L Mr - Shrewd Buyer, we are determined to convince you. of course we can’t
^. e ,^ now J*^ at to bo a fact from experience. It is a strange fact
beople will not buy gold dollars at 90c, yet it is true. We are setting vnnv
good goods offered at a price that other merchants pay for the same
P ?Jr^" ? not how wo do it, but, if you get the betgsins and we «»■<»#• mnnA ,.
both parties will be very well satisfied. Don’t delayT We arejulfb^k from
thlS l^aiititles of good things, and will offer them at the prices below as long as
they last. Corne at once before the goods are picked over Aong as
: ^L on ?f* of bargains we offer to both our friends and enemies. These
prices are cffeied for the cash. No partiality will be shown.
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CLOTH.
6 l-2c white homespun 5 e
6 l-2e calico. - c
6 l-2c check homespun*. r )C
10c white homespun Ye
7c checks.. *
be
Riversides...* Yc
7c calico. * g c
8c ginghams (Stripes) 6 l-2c
12 l-2c Long Cloth. .. . ] 0c
10c bleaching.. _ g c
7c Nainsook
Gc
15c 40 inch white lawn jq c
15c linen '.."" .7.121-20
12 l-2c linen
10c India linen
10c percale..
12 l-2c percale
10c chambry v
20c madras
20c poplin
20c white waist goods..
25c oil table cloth (dark)
25c oil table cloth (white and marble).
.10c
08c
08c
10c
...08c
..15c
16c
- 16c
. 16c
.18c
MEN’S HATS.
11.50 Hats 9g c
$2.50 Hats ... .... $1*48
$3.00 Hats
.$1.98
We have bought that wonderful line
of GRIFFON CLOTHING that you see
advertised in all the leading magazines
of the country; and STROUSE MANU
FACTURING CO’S, line of TROUSERS.
Watch for our pants and clothing ads
in this paper about March 1st.
Come and see.
Cordially,
Story Bros.
SHOES and OXFORDS.
$4.00 Battle Axe Shoes »„ fiq
$4.00 Battle Axe Oxfords 77777. *070
$3.50 Shoes and Oxfords « 9 ' qQ
$3.00 Shoes and Oxfords *
$2.50 Shoes and Oxfords " 9»
$1.50 Shoes and Oxfords " $128
NOTIONS.
..79c
..56c
39c
$1.00 Overalls
75c Overalls
50c Overalls
IjOc hose (best) " na^
10c 1-2 hose (best) _ ft j, C
10c child hose no C
10c child hose (A Dandy) jj
25c ladies hose
25c men’s hose jg
60c men’s hose „„
— — _.33c
50c lacies hose gg c
$1.00 dress shirts
50c dress shirts „„
39c
50c work shirts
39c
50c men’s belts on
25c men’s belts jg c
| WE WILL MEET ALL COMPETITION ON GROCERIES AND CORN. |
MCDUFFIE SHIPS
OLD RELIC.
Mr. W. H. Fluker was in town Tues
day and brought with him a mining
ralic of the long ago which has a place
in history. It was the first stamp mill
ever mads in the world, and it was
shipped to Mr. John Hayes Hammond
for the Museum of Mining maintained
at Yale University.
Mr. Hammond, who gave a half mil
lion dollars to endow the school of min
ing at Yale and who spends thousands
of dollars annually in maintaining the
museum, came south last winter with
President Taft. He had heard of the
old mill and made inquiries about it and
Mr, Fluker offered to donate it to Mr.
Hammond’s museum. The offer was
gladly accepted and Mr. Fluker brought
the mill in to carry out the promise
made last year. In the meantime Mr.
Hammoad had asked for a photograph
of the mill, and on receipt of same had
it enlarged to enornr us proportions and
sent a copy of it to Mr. Fluker.
It is not generally known that the
first stamp mill for crushing rock and
extracting gold was invented by a citi-
aen of what ia now McDuffie County
and used by him at what is now the
Columbia Mine. It was in 1833 that
Jeremiah Griffin who at that time own
ed the Columbia Mines conceived the
idea of crushing the rock. He had the
mill which Mr. Fluker shipped Tuesday
made in Savannah, Ga., and brought
through the country to the Columbia
Minea. That it was a success is evi
denced by the fact that the idea in
corporated in the little stamp mill used
at the Columbia Mines in 1833 has gone
around the world, and stamp mills are
found to-day in every country of the
world where gold ia found.
How much the idea of old Jeremiah
Griffin increased the money of the world
will perhaps never be known.
If the first stamp mill had been used
in New England there would to-day be
monuments in every city to the mem
ory of the man who invented them, and
where the mill stood would now be
FURNISHED WINE
FOR SACRAMENT
30 TEARS
Last Sunday there, there was n<
wine for the sacrament at the Baptis'
chuach and a substitute (Welch’s
Grape Juice) was used for the first
time in 50 years.
During all of the half Century of the
church’s existence Dr. W. M. Pitts has
furnished wine for sacramental pur
poses. In the early years of the
church he bought the wine but for a
good many years he has made the wine
from grapes grown at his home. Only
recently Dr. Pitts turned over to an
other member the duty of furnishing
the elements of the Sacrament as no
wine was to be had a substitute was
used. This however was only for the
time being as the church has not
authorized a change from wine to grape
juice and it is not probnble that it will.
SMASHED CHURCH
WINDOW WITH WH S-
KEY BOTT
NEGRO SHOOTS
ES.
MBS. HUNT SELLS BUSINESS
TO MB. J.B. BOYD.
Mrs. C. F. Hunt has sold her milli
nery business to Mr. J. B. Boyd. The
business will be conducted at the pres
ent location, and an«xpert milliner will
be in charge, Misses Miriam Wilson and
Ellen Shields will also be associated
with the store.
Last Saturday night some unknown
party smashed one of the windows of
the mission church building at the
Smith Mill with a whiskey bottle. A
part of the sash was carried away by
the force of the blow and two or three
glasses shattered. The party who
threw the bottle is unknown but every
effort will be made to locate him or
them. Sunday afternoon the congrega
tion offered a reward of ten dollars for
the arrest of the guilty party with proof
to convict.
This is another instance of lawless
ness around Thomson. The sooner these
parties are put upon the streets or the
public roads the better it will be for all
parties.
BROTHER
IN LAW, IN
FAMILT ROW.
Why do you spend yonr money
for inferior tobacco when you can
buy MERRY WIDOW from Thomson
Mercantile Co., at the same price
that you have to pay for the commoil
kind elsewhere?
marked with a tablet of bronze; but as
it was in the South, nothing will be
perpetuate the memory of the inventor,
and history will be silent as to the re
sults that follow the invention.
CONVENTION OF SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSO
CIATION AT MADISON.
More than four hundred thousand
children in Georgia never go te Sunday-
school. More than a million grown
folks in Georgia never go to Sunday-
school. But more than a million chil-
hren and grown folks in Georgia do go
to Sunday-school, and they constitute
the biggest single organization in the
State. Their representatives will meet
in convention at Madison, Ga., March
22.24. The railroads will give special
rates, and plans have been made to en
tertain a big delegation. There are sev
eral thousand schools in the State, and
every one is entitled to one or more del
egates. The program will include not
only the best local Sunday-school work
ers of the different denominations in
Georgia, but also some of the prominent
leaders from tne international field and
adjacent States. Write Dr. Joseph
Broughton, President, Atlanta, Ga.,
for program and rates.
Last Friday Will Hardin shot his
brother in law Robt Cunningham, in
flicting a very serious wound. The
shooting took place in the public road
near Hart’s creek bridge. Both of the
parties are negroes and married sisters
and were living in the same house on
the Joel Reese place. They fell out
about some trivial matter and the shoot
ing was the result. Cunningham is se
riously wounded, and a warrant has
been issued for the arrest of Hardin
who it is reported ib now at his moth
er’s home in Warren Gounty.
Just one plug of MERRY WIDOW
will convince you that it is the best
10c plug of tobacco in Thomson, get
it from Thomson Mercantile Co'
AUDITOR T LES RE-
FOR
Mr. Ira E. Farmer who was appoint
ed auditor in the case of G. W. Gra
nade vs. A. F. Adkins pending in the
Snperior Court of McDuffie County has
filed-his reporr in the office of the Clerk
of the Superior Court of McDuffie Coun
ty.
The report awards to Mr. Granade
$256.79. The suit arose out of the dis
solution of a partnership in the saw
will busir.e s conducted by these parties
several years ago.
REITER ROADS SAYS
INSPECTOR HAWES
Thomson Mercantile Zo. will sell
you a regular 15c plug of tobacco
for 10c, it is called MERRY WIDOW.
AN UNSUCCESSFUL ERRAND.
On Friday last Mr. Thomas Norris
who has charge of the county convicts,
left for Augusta in response to a tele
gram stating that an escape from the
McDuffie camp had been captured and
wa3 being held for him there. He
found a negro who had once tarried in
McDuffie County all right, but not an
escape from our camp. It appears that
the man was an escape from Lincoln
County.
MERRY WIDOW is a rich man's
tobacco, but you get it at a poor
man’s price from Thomson Mercan
tile Co.
Mortgage Fi. Fas.
Mortgage Fi. Fas for sale.
tf. Progress Job Office’
HORSES AND MULES FOR SALE.
We have for sale several second-hand
mules and horses. Will sell cheap for
the cash. The T. A. SCOTT Co.
Feb. 9, 1910.
PRISON INSPECTOR WHO IS HERE LOOK
ING OVER THE CAMPS TALKS OF THE
WORK BEING DONE BY STATE CONVICTS.
Prison Inspector “Shade” Hawes is
in the city and yesterday afternoon
with Mr. F. B. Pope, chairman of the
road committee of the county commis
sion, made an inspection of the convicts
of this county,
Mr. Hawes, who has been one of the
state prison inspectors for the past sev
eral months says that there is a great
improvement in the condition of the
roads all over the state since the use of
the felony coavicts has been allowed.
H* says that he believed that in a few
years there will be a fine road system
in the state, if the state felony convicts
are kept on the roads.
Mr. Hawes has about twenty-five
counties to inspect convict camps in,
and besides this he does special work.
He was for a number of years one of
tne most prominent sheriffs in the state
and he is perfectly familiar with ths
convict question.—Augusta Chronicle. *
TUESDAY
RETURN DAT.
Last Tuesday was return day for
March term of McDuffie Superior 6ourt.
y return day is meant the last day
that a suit can be brought f.r the
fflr T ™! ° f 191 °- 8uit
after Tuesday would go to the Septem-
ber term of court.
The number of suits filed on return
day was comparatively small, only
eight or ten being filed on that day
though several had been filed in the
proceeding days.
htentim eras.
SONET TO UNO.
I am prepared to make a few real
estate loans to those who have good
security and want money quick.
Ira E. Farmer.
If you wish to vote you
must come personally and reg
ister. I an not allowed to
enter your name on the voters
list.
Remember that the law has
been changed and you must
register six months before the
state election if you wish to
qualify to vote in that election.
You had better make it a
point to register at once.
E. H. McCord, T. C.
Feb. 16, 1910. 6t.
Insurance.
We write all forms of Life,
Health and Accident Insurance.
® ur r *f®* ere as cheap as any;
our companies are the best.
O’NEAL & WEST,
Agents for, Penn Mutual Life
Insurance Co. and United States
Health A Accidence Insurance
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