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PAGE EIGHT.
Store Closed All Day
THURSDAY
Thanksgiving Day
* * to wear for Thanksgiving
Day, you will be better satis
fied if you see what we have
to offer before you buy.
whether y° u are in
" " need of a new coat,some
new dress goods, a tailored
suit or some furnishings, we
are confident you will find
here
Want at a Price
Yon Want to Pay
At This Time of Thanksgiv
ing we want to say that
We are thankful for the
generous patronage of a
public appreciation of
THE BANNER STORE
Try A Dispatch-News "Want Ad'
Beginning Friday, December Ist, we will have
ready for your inspection our usual display of
line is as complete as in former years, and in
cludes some new and attractive features
R There are no cards but we want you to
me and look over the attractive things on
display,and feel that you are just as welcome
whether you wish to buy or not.
We will look for you either Friday or
Saturday, as the best things are always pick
ed up those two days.
The same old cordial welcome to every-
BEVERLEY BOOK CO.
WE MAY ALL HEAR
THE PRESIDENT THEN
Thos. A. Edison Calls on Taft and
Explains New Invention
Washington, Nov.' 30.—Thomas A.
Edison, the noted inventor, unfolded
before President Taft yesterday a
plan for campaigning without travel
ing by which Mr. Taft might be seen
and heard, not by 5,000,000, but by
60,000,000 of the nation's voters
without absenting himself for a day
from business at the White House.
It is the newest invention of Mr.
Edison—the talking motion-picture
machine.
All that would be necessary Mr.
Edison explained to the President,
would be for a man to go before an'
audience, make a speech on any sub
ject which he cho3e, and the talking
motion-picture machine would repro
duce to audiences all over the coun
try every gesture of the speaker,
every word of his speech, and every
shout of tbe crowd about him. In
his recent trip Mr. Taft appeared in
215 cities and towns by arrangement,
and spoke from the platform of his
car in perhaps a hundred small
places.
This took up 58 days of the Presi
dent's precious time, and, besides,
put a strain on him that brought him
down with a cold which kept him out
of the executive offices for four days
more.
Mr. Edison said lie was in Wash
ington in search of rest. He had
never met the President before.
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PIBbIC INVITED TO
ATTEND ELKS' MEMORIAL
In order that none of the friends
of the order may be slighted, as ap
peared the case in other years when
invitations were mailed out to in
dividuals, Staunton Lodge No. 351
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
takes this means of extending a gen
eral invitation to the public to be
present at the memorial exercises to
be held in the Beverley Theatre or.
Sunday afternoon, beginning at 3
o'clock. An unusually attractive
program has ben arranged for the
occasion.
(Signed) M. T. BERGIN,
W. A. GRUBERT,
L. G. STRAUSS, '
Committee on Invitations.
JUST LIKE HIM.
Boston, Nov. 29.—For two hours
members of Boston's City Council
called each other liars and crooks.
Then they passed bills appropriating
$100,000 for municipal improvement.
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M.r and Mrs. W. A. Payne and
children are visiting at Zion. ]
THE STAUNTON DISPATCH-NEWS.
TARIFF AND TRUSTS
ONE AND THE SAME
Senator Stone Says Congress
Must Consider Them Together
PREDICTS LEGISLATION
j AT COMING SESSION
Believes President Will Approve
Tariff Bills if They Are
Passed Separately
Washington, Nov. 30. —Senator
William J. Stone, of Missouri, who
has arrived here for the next session
of congress, says that h e believes the
Democratic party's chances to retain
and increase its standing are excel
lent if its controlling purpose in the
congress is to "get results." Being
a member of the senate finance com
mittee, Senator Stone will be direct
ly in touch with the handling of
tariff legislation in the upper house.
"I am in favor of a tariff policy
which will contain the best promise
of reducing exorbitant tariff taxation
at th e earliest possible moment," he
said. "I hope the ways and means
committee will not attempt a gen
eral revision at this time, because a
general revision probably would not
get through both houses and be sign
ed by th e President. But a wool
bill, a cotton and other bills, reach
ing the senate separately, probably
would be passed by that body.
One and the Same
"The Democrats and insurgents no
doubt would agree on a schedule,
just as they did last summer on the
wool, cotton and farmers' free list
bills. The report of President Taft's
tariff board on wool and cotton is
promised early in December. Hence
the President will not now have this
axcuse for vetoing such wool or cot
ton bills as congerss may approve."
But," Senator Stone was asked,
'what will be th e effect of Presi
dent Taft's decision to make revis
ion of the Sherman anti-trust law
the feature of his annual message
and the paramount is.sue in con
gress? Will it sidetrack the tariff?"
"The tariff and the trust issues
ctoss thus;" replied Senator Stone,
illustrating with his two forefingers,
"and President Taft can not divorce
the trust from the tariff question.
The proposal to amend or supplement
the Sherman law is of the highest
consequence; «md at the same time
it is of no greater consequence than
the matte, of lowering the tariff
walls, which shelter and protect
monopolies."
On . Record for Clark
Senator Stone was asked whom
Missouri would favor for the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination, Folk
or Clark, ;.and whether a primary
would decide the contest, for the
state delegation. He replied that
he personally was on record for
Clark. Of the primary he said, both
men, had publicly approved the pro
posal, and t__t probably the state
committee would have no difficulty
in arranging for a test of popular
preference. He declared he felt au
thorized to say for Clark that the
Speaker very decidedly preferred a
primary.
Mr. Stone declined to answer pub
licly the question whether William
J. Bryan's criticism of Speaker
Clark's leadership in the house may
have injured the latter's presidential
chances. Mr. Stone, however, com
mended Clark for ignoring Bryan's
editorial in the Commoner.
Clark Sees lions: Session
Speaker Clark, after nine weeks of
speaking and lecturing in nineteen
states, has begun conferences with
other leaders over the work of the
congress which opens next Monday.
Mr. Clark said that the coming ses
sion would be long, exceedingly busy
and very important and that "the
quicker we get down to hard work
the better for us and th e country."
Mr. Clark said tariff revision would
be the great issue of the next cam
paign. He declared the assault on
him, regarding Canadian annexa
tion, was a misrepresentation for
"political effect, general and person
al," and said he had never even
hinted at such "a wicked and Quix
otic scheme" as forcible annexation,
"never dreamed of such a thing and
would oppose it to the utmost."
By the Blessings of God
"No new congress," he said, "ever
made a. more splendid record for con
structive statesmanship than we did
at the extraordinary session, for
which we have been almost univer
sally praised by Democrats, progres
sive Republicans and independents,
the last being a factor in our affairs
of constantly and rapidly increasing
force.
"After seventeen long wearisome
years of factional fighting," said the
speaker, "the Democrats are united
and by the blessings of God we will
remain so. To win next year the
Democrats must hold all the votes we
had in 1908 and gain about eight
hundred thousand. Henc e the great
importance of such unity and wis
dom among the Democrats as will
draw to us voters who do not belong
Drummer's Samples
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Suits and Coats
Phifdren's and Infant's Coats
HAVING sold down very low in the
above lines and having an oppor
tunity to buy several lots of sam
ples at a big- discount, we will offer them
to our trade at less than wholesale
prices for a few days, to clean them up
before the Christmas rush.
The following is a partial list of the
bargains to be had in this sale:
Ladles 9 Suits
3 Suits (Fancy Stripe; etc) $ 3.75
4 Suits (Fancy Stripe, etc) 4.65
8 Suits (Black) 4.00
6 Suits (Black, Colors and Fancy) 7.50
10 Suits (Black, Colors and Fancy) 9.50
12 Assorted, Price 11.00 to 18.00
Coats
3 Ladies'Caricule Coats :_:___: $ 6.75
5 Ladies' Caricule Coats 8.50
4 Ladies' Caricule and Plush Coats 11.00 to 15.00
6 Ladies' Black Kerseys 3.35
6 Ladies' Black Broadcloth 3.75
3 Ladies' Fancy Coats 3.90
4 Ladies' Fancy Coats 4.50
6 Ladies' Polo and Reversible Costs up to 13.50
25 Children's Bear Skin, Caricule Cloth, etc.,
coats from i 1.25 up
37 Infants Cloaks in Embroidered Pique
Cashmer, Iderdown, etc., from 65c to 2.00
Skirts
7 Fancy Trimmed Skirts, black and colors $1.37 1-2
9 Fancy Trimmed Skirts, black and colors 1.95
6 Black Skirts 1 2.85
About 20 French Serge, Voile, &c.,in Black
and Staple Colors $3.50 to 5.00
Now in addition to this BIG LOT
OF SAMPLES we have decided to in
clude all over regular stock in this sale
at cost plus 10 per cent.expense charges.
We MUST have the room. OUR
LOSS IS YOUR GAIN. Don't pro
crastinate as these goods will go out in
a few days.
The Big Dept Store
22 S. Augusta Street, Staunton, Virginia
J. H. BRYAN . . Prop.
