The McDuffie progress. (Thomson, Ga.) 1901-current, February 25, 1910, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextL THE MCDUFFIE PROGRESS THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1910. NO. 40 -Clerk Superior Court SLASHED, AND I SLAUGHTERED Now, Mr. Shrewd Buyer, we are determined to convince you, of course we can’t convince everybody, we know that to be a fact from experience. It is a strange fact that some people will not buy gold dollars at 90c, yet it is true. We are getting vour confidence with good goods offered at a price that other merchants pay for the eawo ♦ t qj Come at once before the goods are picked over Here are some of the bargains we offer to both our friends and enemies. These prices are offered for the cash. No partiality will be shown. CLOTH. *6 l-2c white homespun ... 6c 6 l-2c calico 5c 6 l-2c check homespun 5c lUc white homespun __ 7c 7c checks fic Riversides 7 C 7c calico... 6c 8c ginghams (Stripes) 6 l-2c 12 l-2c Long Cloth 10c 10c bleaching.. s c 7c Nainsook f )C 15c 40 inch white lawn.. ... lQc 15c linen 12 l-2c 12 l-2c linen 10c 10c India linen 08c 10c percale... 08c 12 l-2c percale.. 10c chambry . 20c madras 20c poplin r 20c white waist goods 25c oil table cloth (dark) 25c oil table cloth (white and marble) 10c 08c . 16c 16c 16c . 16c 18c MEN’S HATS. $1.50 Hats....’ 08c $2.50 Hats ; .$1.48 $3.00 Hats $1.08 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, Bros SHOES and OXFORDS. $4.00 Battle Axe Shoes $4.00 Battle Axe Oxfords $3.50 Shoes and Oxfords $3.00 Shoes and Oxfords $2.60 Shoes and Oxfords $1.50 Shoes and Oxfords . NOTIONS. $1 00 Overalls 75c Overalls 50c Overalls __ 10c hose (best). . 10c 1-2 hose (best).. 10c child hose 10c child hose (A Dandy) 25c ladies hose.. . . 25c men’s hose 50c men’s hose.. 50c lacies hose gg c $1.00 dress shirts 7g c 50c dress shirts gg c 50c work shirts . _ 3g c 50c men’s belts 39 c 25c men’s belts ig c WE WILL MEET ALL COMPETITION ON GROCERIES AND CORN. ! THE SITUATION IN First the health — There is Lagrippe and Pneumonia and Small Pox and Vaccination. One death has occurred from Small Pox and one from Pneumonia and one from La- Gripp, some are suffering keenly from vaccination —others slightly. The quar antine closed the revival meeting at the Methodist church. The lodges were closed and also the school and all public gatherings. Business has been serious ly affected by the health condition and quarantine. But, after all the stroke has not been as heavy as it might have been. Other communities have been swept by tornadoes and earthquakes fires that have left the inhabitants helpless and almost in dispair. We should not allow our gratitude to turn upon the distresses and afflictions of •others, but we need contrasts to awak en our sense of obligation. These visi tations should be like the winds that drive the vessel sooner in to harbor, they should move us to repentance and humility and to call upon Him who is our refugee and strength and who is our only help in trouble; and this will be the effect upon those who are right minded. Descending to less important things we should have a rigid enforcement of our sanitary regulations—Every family in Thomson should be required to cleanse his or her premises from side to side and use disinfectants. This can be • done, this ought to be done. If our Mayor and Council and Board of Health do not interest themselves in this mat ter and take (if need be) the most drastie steps to cleanse the town, then a citizens meeting should be called and irresistible pressure should be brought to bear upon them and the community. We have suffered long enough from flith and stench and poison. The moral situation— We are very religious but we are not pious—(many are not.) We attend • church, we sing, we pay, we execute programmes, we pray formally but we lack reverence for moral law; we lack respect for God. Our worship is not LAST SUNDAY DULL FORGOT HE HAD DAY. Owing to the municipal quarantine laws, no services were held in any of the churches last Sunday and it was a dull day in Thomson. The children go ing to Sunday school and the older peo ple to the preaching sei vices weie missed on the streets, and a feeling of loneliness prevailed. A number of peo ple went to the country, and a number to near by towns, but a large majority remained at their respective homes. It is safe to say that everybody wants the quarantine rules revoked as soon as it is safe to do so. real, our religion is superficial. Some are grossly immoral. We have the “bi nd tiger" and he is well protected by a sentiment and a patronage that connives at this infamous wrong. Men drink and demonize themselves and imagine that nothing will come of it. What infatuation! They and their families are suffering deadly effects by day and by night. For one I feel that infinitely worse things than small pox, la grippe, vac cination and pneumonia await us in the near future, if we do not repent. My friends we should awake to right eousness and sin not. We have come to the place where we should enforce law against gambling and liquor selling and all other acts of lawlessness. But this is not a 1, we should recognize the God of Heaven, and open our ears and listen not only to the voice of conscience and the voice of moral law, but also to the voice which is from Heaven—which speaks with authority and from whose decisions there is no appeal. Thos. H. Timmons. Feb. 22, 1910. BEEN VACCINATED The compulsory vaccination law went into effect last week, and under its terms a person must ; emain at home unless he will be vaccinated, or has al ready been vaccinated. Mr. H. A. Story was among those who refused to be vaccinated, and yet he left his home for his Columbia county farm. On his return to town he was taken in charge by an officer and allowed the alternative of being vaecinated or appearing before the Mayor under a charge of violating the quarantine law. He wisely chose the former, but when he appeared before the Doctor imagine his surprise, and that of the officer, to find on his arm a good healthy vaccination scar. Mr. Story had been successfully vaccinated in the past, but had forgot ten it. He had violated no quarantine regulation and was therefore dismissed. OYSTER SUPPER AT BEARING. The oyster supper at Dearing last week for the benefit of the parsonage was quite a success, financially. A number were present from Thomson, Harlem, Wrens and Boneville. Why do you spend yonr money for inferior tobacco when vou can buy MERRY WIDOW from Thomson Mercantile Co., at the same price That you have to pay for the common kind elsewhere? MR .J. A. BOATWRIGHT ENLARGES STORE. Mr. J. A. Boatwright is enlarging his ■tore by extending it si me distance in the rear. This change is rendered necessary by the increased business of this store. Mr. Boatwright is one of the progres sive merchants of Thomson who believe in the consistent and persistent use of advertising, having had an advertise ment in the Progress since he opened his store, and hia business shows the results of this belief. 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• ROAD MACHINE FOR TOWN STREETS. Some time ago the Mayor and Coun cil decided to purchase a road machine to work the streets of the town. They gave the order then and the machine has been here for some time. It is a "Little Giant" machine and is said to be one of the best made. The regular working of the streets this year will be done with the machine, with the result that the streets will be in better con dition than heretofore. It is impossi ble to do as good work and make as smooth and even street under the old system as with a machine and every body will be glad when the machine is in operation. GLASS FRONT FBR STORY BROS. Mr. J. F. Wataon is tearing away the front of the building occupied by Story Bros, preparatory to putting in a handsome glass front. This will great ly increase the attractiveness of the store. ATTENTION VOTERS. 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. MERRY WIDOW is a rich man's tobacco, but you get it at a poor man’s price from Thomson Mercan tile Co. MORTALITY AMONG THE MINISTERS. Four preachers of the North Georgia Conference have died since Conference. Rev. J. A. Thurmon, of Atlanta, Rev. J. Q. Watts, of Atlanta, Rev. Dr. J. F. Nixon, of Hogansville, and Rev. J. N. Snow of Covington. These were all prominent clergymen. But death is no respector of persons. God buries his workmen but carries on his work. "What though the arm of conquering death * Does God's own Jiouse invade? What though the prophet and the priest Be numbered with the dead? Th’ Eternal Shepherd still survives, New comfort to impart; His eye still guides us and his voice Still animates our hearts. Through every scene of life and death, His promise is our trust And this shall be our children’s song, When we are cold in dust." T. H. T. Feb. 22, 1910. Thomson Mercantile Co. will sell you a regular 15c plug of tobacco for 10c, it is called MERRY WIDOW PEST HOUSE IN IDE WOODS. The town pest house for colored patients has been completed and is now inhabited by that part of the colored fjopulation who have developed bumps in the last few weeks. The house is located in the woods of Mr. B. F. Jahn- son on a part of the Wil«on land re cently purchased by him. It iB away from the public highway, off in the woods and near a good spring of water. Here in the future the colored popu lation who contract contagious diseases will while away the pleasant hours t n- til the germs die. SARD OF THANKS. I wish to thank the people of Thom son and Boneville for their liberal con tributions to the list circulated for the benefit of the family of Mr. Wm. Phil lips whose home and belongings were entirely destroyed by fiire. John Carroll. C“ Live Stock Insurance - 'i iff*** 1 * >j| if.il ii> ■ 1 Insure your horses, mules, or cattle agaixist death from any cause in the , • ’ «, *;• ry ’* “INDIANA and OHIO LIVE STOCK IN- SURANCE COMPANY.” — This is no “wild cat” company. It has been doing business oyer twenty years and has assets of $400,000.00. For rates apply to O’NEAL & WEST, Agents. ( $ r— mmm— —~i— ^ r— ~r

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The McDuffie progress. (Thomson, Ga.) 1901-current, February 25, 1910, Image 1