The Adairsville banner. (Adairsville, Ga.) 1898-????, July 30, 1898, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE ADAIRSVILLE BANNER. YOL. IV. Geo. S. Crouch. Geo. S. Crouch. Yoyare cordially invited to visit our store when in Cartersvilie and make it your stopping place. We carry a full and complete line of Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Hats, Ribbons, Laces, Embroideries, White Goods, Ready-Made Skirts, Muslin Underwear, Hosi ery, Gloves, Corsets and everything to make up a Ladies’ Wardrobe. FOR TIEIIE GEISTTXjEIvIIEZSr. Complete line of Underwear, White Shirts, Negligee Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Ties, Up-to-date Lme of Hats in Fur and Straw, Ready-made Pants, &c. We carry a very large line of Shoes of all kinds. Our prices will be right and Miss Laura Roberts ; Messrs. Sam Milam, John Dcbba, and Virgil Alexander will wait on you right, and take pains to please you. Geo. S. Crouch. Geo. S. Crouch. Main Street, CARTEESVILLE. GA- Ism-SUMMER BARGAINS _A.T PARK’S STORE. greatest array of clean, new, genuine bar gains EVER OFFERED IN ROME.* NO TRASH, NO OLD GOODS, NOR HAND-ME-DOWN STUFF HERE. The Big Clearing-out HAY SALES In NEW YORK Placed Many Great Bargains of Mid-Summer Good? (Just the Goods the People Want NOW) In Our Store. Think of Lovely Colored Lawns, Organdies, Dimeties, Percales, and a Big Array of New Wash Dress Goods in the Newest Styles being sold in the'Midst of the Season at about 50 CENTS on the DOLLAR. Cxaod India I.inon and Checked Jtxinsook only 40 inch Fine White Lawn, the 15c kind for only - 10 c Beal Genuine Colord Scotch Lawn, 6 1-Sc for only 8 I ** c Fine Percales 2to 6 yard longth, the 12 l-2e grade for only - 6 14" 450 yds . Fretty Dress Ginghams Sc quality, now only # 1 Case yard wide Bleached Domestic, worth 7 l-2c, our price - 4 l-2c 753 Yards Best yar 1 wide Sea I-land Domestic, 6 l-2e grade only 4 l-4c 141 Good Turkish Bath Towels 18x31. cheap at 10c, our price 8 l-2c lfi Extra lietvy Turkish Towels 20x38. the 20c giade, - - loc 130 Ladies' Lo/ely Shirt Waist, Perfect fitting, Bioose/ronts, Reduced pries 8i Pair* Ladies’ fine Button Dongola Shoes. 2.03 quality fir - 1.75 IS> Pairs Ladies ana Misses Fine Oxford Ties “Patten Tips” $1.50 qual. 98c Great Values On Our Bar= gain Counters. H. B. PARKS & CO., Rome, Georgia. ADAIRSVILLE GA. SATURDAY JULY 30 1898 THE JACK POT TEST.' HOW A MEAN GAMBLER SPRUNG IT ON SISTER ABIGAH- B WteM >nHnr Proof o t a Theory Cooanlac • Wommrfj Wnkaw and Go* I* a* tbe Kxpoaaa of Undo Mali's Op fa set* a* Poke*. Best, but tall, with sparse whiskers Seldom trimmed, nearly 70 years old, Uncle Uriah used to sit in the poker game in Omaha, his long, thin fingers tremblingly placing his chips and his old eyes glittering as he timorously skinned his hand. Pathetically like Lit tle Nell's grandfather be looked some times, but be was at no desperate shift to obtain a stake, for be was the pos sessor of a oompetetxje, and be brought into the game the saving grace of tbe parsimony to which he had been habit uated in his earlier days in a Now Hampshire home. He never bought mere than $9 worth of chips at a time. Them he would for tbe moat part ante •way waiting for aces or oetter, and when be finally did get a good band a bare call represented tbe climax at his enterprise. In those days there was always a game on Sunday afternoons, and Uncle Uriah, although a devout Methodist, could be counted upon to arrive directly after service and to sit in until tbe time for afternoon Sunday school. The bqys ysod to joke him at first and ask him if be had sneaked his stake out of tbe con tribution box, but to this question and to all others at similar levity he op posed a scared seriousness which showed that his passion for tbe game was more a weakness than a vice. Unde Uriah lived with bis two sis ters—Abigail, aged 68, and Ann, aged S&. In New Hampshire they had been called “the girls,” but in Omaha the irreverent, with rude directness, referred to them as "Unde Uriah's old maids.” It did not take the boys in the game long to disoover that Unde Uriah was In much fear of Abigail in general and in mortal dread that she would discover his besetting weakness. He would al ways shy at anew player, and be fre quently held forth to tbe boys on the impropriety of talking on the outside about the features of the game. "I sh’dhate to bev tbe parson know, ” be used to say. “I wouldn't keer so much ’bout Ann, ’cause she’s easy sheered, but I wouldn’t hev Sister Abi gail know fer the biggest jack pot t’waa ever played on this here table I” There was ne’er any solution to the mystery of how Sister Abigail discovmM ed the obliquity in Uncle Uriah’s life. Some officious neighbor may have told her, or in an excess at. caution Unde Uriah himself may hove aroused her definite suspicions. At any rate, on a particular Sunday afternoon he arrived si the room at tbe regular time, but without tbe key with which be, in common with other participants in the game, bad been provided. The negro at tendant admitted him, and be was soon engrossed in tbe play. There was a good jack pot on the ta ble. Unde Uriah was in and was Aml - It was bis last say, and tbe two men ahead of him had bet $lO each. He hod drawn one card, ond the play was up to him. He had not, however, look ed at his draw when the key turned in the snap lock of the front door, and Sis ter Abigail, pole with a righteous and terrible rage, strode into the room and up to the table. "Gwnblinr” he cried. "And on the Lord's day, with the church bells ringin outside and docent people flookin to his worship, I expected to find yon here, yon hypocritel” she went on, turning to Uncle Uriah. " You better get oo yonr duds right now and come home." "I was comin in a Jiffy,” the old man said, weak with fear. "I guess 1 might as well go ’long with yon as with anybody elsa ” He rose and steadied himself by holding the chair. Seth Coe was the coolest band in the gum a Even Sister Abigail had not dis concerted him. He reached over and turned np Uncle Uriah’s band. It was a flush. ” Yon better straighten this pot out before you go, uncle, ” 6aid Coe. “Yon call, of course. I suppose a flush is good?*’ Coe asked, turning to the other players. They nodded assent Coe stack ed np the chips. ‘‘Forty-three dollars here,” be pushing them toward Uriah. The old man started instinctively to ward the pot and then remembered Sla ter Abigail. He stopped and waited tremblingly tor her decision. It seemed to the players, who turned &om the weak and timid old man to the dominant woman, that at this cru cial test something of her moral rigidity relaxed, she did not swesp the chips to the floor. She said nothing about ill gotten gains. With a risible effort she overcame a slight nervous coostrietion at the throat. She grasped her skirts firmly and swept toward the door. “ Uriah, ” she said, with great dig nity, “I will wait for you to the hall at ths foot of the stairs. ” After Unde Uriah had obtained bis $43 and departed Seth Coe said in his leisurely way: “The old tuan didn’t hare a flush. I slipped in a card to fill it out for him. I reckoned you fellows wouldn't mind payin once more for pcs: idve proof that, no matter what kind of a woman she*is, she’f always in with yonr play when you win the pet. ” —Xew York Sum Why We Sell So Mat|y Goods. 1. REA SON'WE CARRY LARGEST STOCK. 2. WE BUY WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. 3. WE BUY AT PRICES THAT THE PEOPLE CAN AFFORD TO PAY. 4. WE DELIVER GOODS TO YOUR NEAREST DEPORT. 5. WE DELIVER ANYWHERE IN 5 MILES FREE. * 6. WE RUN TWO HEARSES FREE. J 7. WE HAVE EXPERIENCED MEN IN BUSINESS. 8. WE LET THE PEOPLE KNOW WE APPRECIATE THEIR TRADE. 9. WE BELIEVE IN QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS. 10. WE SELL CHEAPER THAN ANYBODY, AS YOU WILL SEE BY THE PRICES QUOTED BELOW. ••■*' . N , WHOLESALE and RETAIL DEALERS IN CARPETS, MATTINGS, RUGS, PIANOS, ORGANS, SEWING MACHINES, CLOCKS,. •STOVES, PICTURE MOULDING, FRAMES, 3^VCARRIAGES, AND UNDER ' TAKINCGOORC —wv -A-Hsrr) oas.fieit bttsxtstess And having made a study as we have, wo have learned t# buy goods at the right, prices and wo also learned that'a man cannot make a fortune in a day. ? Our motto is to buy at right prices and sell for small profits, and sell a heap of thiejn. This uai& our motto, we call your attention to a few articles and prices. g&FWe pay the freight. . Jygojcd Room Setß r -$7.00, SB.OO 2.50, to 145.00. Remember this in froas $5 to $lO CHEAPER than you have boon buyiVig horekbfdTe. Dressci^—--153.25/ 3.50, 4.0 r, and pu to a $25.00 Dresser. WE HAVE GOME TO STAY! Hall Trees, from $4.75 to s2s.oo.—Bide Boards, from $8.50 to $50.00. —Sofas, from $2.50 to the nicest —Parlor Suits, $20.00 and up.—Nice Picture Frames from 25c up to the nicest.—Nice Rockers from 50c to the nicest.—Window Shades from 15c to a nice Linen.—Curtain Poles in great variety.—Nice Folding Beds kept on hand cheap. Beds from 75 cents to fcho nicest. —Tables all kinds cheap.—Brand new Pianos fr®m S2OO to the finest. i WE E/EPAIROLD SEWIISTGMAOHIITES.. Organs all prices, cheapest to best. String instruments in great variety. Fiddles from sl.oo' up to $15.00. Banjos from $2.75 up. Everything CHEAP. Stoves. We carry the largest stock of anybody in town, and keep them from $4.00 to a nice range. 32 pieces and 8 joints stove. pipe goes at former prices without vessels. TRUNKS. Wo carry a large stock of trunks from 95c up CHAIRS from 25c up to the nicest. CARPET and MATTING Cheap ; we tako tho diagram of your room and put it down froe. We pay the freight. Wo have two house* chock full of these goods. Don’t ask ur, if wo have got such goods as we advertise, but just ask us the price SEWING MACHINES. We soli the White, Queen, New Homo, Climax, Now Ideal Singer from SS.(X) to $50.00. If you need a machine consult your best interest and call on ns and save agents profits. Wo pay tho freights to your depot. Remember wo soil cheaper than anybody. Compare our prices to former prices and you will be convincod that this is facts. We advertise nothing but facts. ~r , . UNDERTAKING. We call your attention to our Undertaking Department. \Ve have tho largest stock of Coffins, Robes, Slippers, Gloves, Hose, out side of the city, and at prices never known before. Coffins from $2.50 to a fine Mctalic. Robes from SI.OO up to the finest. Wo arc experienced in the business. Mr. T. J. Newsom is a practical Embalmor and Funeral Director i all latest arts. Wo run two hearses FREE and Mr. Newsom oecupyrng same and conducts funer al We understand disinfecting the rooms and caring for the living a* well as Preserving the dead If you are not acquainted with us don’t stay away on this account, but come and form an acquaintance. We will treat you right, '1 Ranking our many friends for past favors and hoping : to sliaie your patronage in the future we remain YOURS TRULY CARTER and GO. Ra!L ROAD STRSET, O A-LBCOTTItT’ GA- T. J. NEWSOM Manager, O. TANARUS, CARTER, S’y. and TANARUS. • NO 30.