Hattiesburg daily progress., October 31, 1903, Image 1

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Hattiesburg Daily Progress
No. 289
SATURDAY. OCTOBER 31, 1903.
HATTIESBURG, MISS
VOL. IV.
Yeend & Potter
MOBILE, ALABAMA
Specialists in wearing flpparei tor
oous and Children.
School Days are Drawing
Near
and we have everythin?
your boys and children
need for school and fall
wra r . at a little lers than
you have ever paid. We
sell most peop eeverytMng
their boys and cb ,i dr('ii
wear end we will sell you
many tnore thin?* when
you have onie tested the
merits of our
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Hrs. Jane Hopkin's
Clothing Boys'
and the solid satisfaction
It will give you
Styles like the accompany
ing cuts:
|1.0e *125 *1 30 *2 00 |2 50
*.00 8.50 4 00 5 00 fi.OO
Hoys' New Fall Hats
and Caps.
fall and winter
styles:
25« One. 75c and *l.M.
BOY'S WAISTS.
with detachable waist
bands: 25c, 86e sod 90*.
On requsst wa will
gladly send by mail
sample swatches of
our Boy's new Fall
& Winter Clothing
When In Mobile visiting or
shopping. y<>u are Invited
tomaketheBlueBtarst >re
your headquarters
Latest
Make Our
When You
Are In
The Gltu ol
Store
Headquart
ers.
Mobile
Why pay
More than
Our Cash
Prices ?
Blue Star Store,
|| 5 and II 7 ' auphin^Street
Alabama.
Mobile,
BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CASH CLOTHIERS AND HABERDASHERS.
sept 12 8 mo wkly Hat.
§8
Superb Sweets,
We give a great deal of attertion to our
confectionary in e, carrying about everything
G ><>d$ come at frequent inter
vals and art thus fresh and delicious.
ever wantf>'
We
have novelties not found elswhere which will
In chocolates and
tempt your sweet tooth,
bon-bons, we handle chiefly Seward's because
we can't get anything better
Hattiesburg Drug Co.
121-122 Railroad Street, on the Corner. Two Doors from Postoffice
&
STATE HAPPENINGS.
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS FK0M THE
STATE CAPITAL
Epidemic of Fires—Repo t of Mis
sissippi Insane Hospital— lo
Entertain Business V\ n's
League—Other News.
Special to the Dally Progress.
Jackaon. Oct. 31.— Mississippi i« in
the midst of an epidemic of fires.
The office of the state insurance com
missioner .is being deluged with re
ports of conflagrations, the property
destroyed being chiefly cotton and cot
ton gin*. Yesterday forty Are report*
reached the commissioner's d-sk, the
average lo*s being over $1,500. -
drouth i« responsible for many of the j
gres, and often it is impossible when
a conflagration is started to check it*
avages oar account of IU of
The
water, especially in the country dis
tricts.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has givtn her
aonsent for certain changes to be made
the historic family
two year*, and the population of tbs
institution has nearly doubled within
the past decade. Superintendent
Mitchell and his assistants point out
at Beauvoir,
boms, which is to be opened on the
fi st of December as a home for indi
The board of
gent ax-confederates,
directors will convert the sub-base
ment into a diuing hall and make
several needed repairs,
time the board is very anxious to pre
serve the identity of the structure on
account of its historie association.
The members will leave Monday for
Beauvoir to commence arrangements
for the opening.
At the same
Tbe report of the Mississippi Insane
Hospital for the biennial period will
shew a ten per cent increase in the
Inumber of inmates during the pa^t
Seasonable Things for School Children.
WE HAVE THEM ALL,
Lunch Baskets, Books, Tablets, School Bags, Pencil Boxes,
Pencils, Slates,—in fact, everything needful.
....BEST VALUES IN EVERYTHING....
We can save you from 20 to 331-3 per cent, on your books.
Come to see us before you buy.
Bufkin & Cadenhead, Druggists
Hatties burg. M is issippi
508 Main Street.
that this rate of increase is almost
four times greater than the normal
increase in population and express
fears tha' if something is not
grave
done to lessen lie burden of caring
for lunatics it will grow oppressive,
to say nothing of the broader social
question involved.
coveries is also decreasing, uotwith- j
standing the improved methods of j
cariag for the insane. There are over j
1,100 inmates in the hospital.
The rate of re- |
Prof. E. C. Eckel, of the geologicfl
survey, who will have charge ef the
government work to be undertaken in
this state in conjunction with Prof.
A. F. Crider, have arrived in Jack
son and are making preparations for
commencement of operations.
The investigation will cover an
amicatiou of the clays, maTs, phos
phates, stones, lignites, cement mater
ials, etc., and will be as general as
time will permit, it being the pur
pose of the work to place a collection
of the state's resources at the Louis
iana Purchase Exposition.
the
ex
The director ef tlie Mississippi de
partment of archivts and history who
is endeavoring to make a collection
of valuable documents relating to
state history, has received from Mrs.
M. P. H. Roach of New Orleans,
some highly-prized uapers relating
to the celebrated wildcat banking
schemes of Mississippi wherein the
state was accused of repudiating her
The papers wi'l doubt
obligations,
less form the basis for a treatise on
this subject wherein a candid and
impartial statement of the trutli will
be brought out.
Tom Anderson, a famous Cheetaw
Indian of Leake county, visited the
million-dollar state house yes
new
terday and was greatly astonished at
the magaificance of the structure
built on the site where bis forefith
nsed to s'ay deer with bow and
At the head of the grand
ers
arrow,
staircase he encountered the classic
figure of an Inidan departing from
scene* of civilization. After gazing
long and intensely at the figure he
grunt and walked
Mississippi has been almost
gave an expressive
away.
depopulated of Indians within the
past year, fully two-thirds of the
Choctaw tribe having left to accept
their allotment of lands in the Iu
dian Territory.
Charles Evans, a young negro who
has been employed as porter in a drug
ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
Never such tonnage of mer
chandise Unloaded in the length
of time.
Instead of Relaxation,
V e have increased the pressure by making greater
reduction in prices.
Our Underwear
Saje has broken all records and the reduction is still
on with greater force
CLOTHING CLOTHING CLOTHING.
We are still unloading without the Slightest regard
for value.
OUR IMMENSE SHOE STOCK
is still moving with a Rush.'Come early if you want
the Choicest styles and Best Values.
Our ladies wraps and skirts are going rapidly, come early
and get the choice styles and values. ~
We have just received a line of ladies handsome novelties that
will be sold Under the Price.
Come on the floors and see our recent arrivals.
j
Massengale & Oliver
October 14- tf.
store iu this city, has established for
himself_a reputation as being a first
H« lute h'so lost the
class humorist,
confidence of his employer by extract
ing ninety dollars from the cash
drawer and taking French leave of
the city, hut this is merely an iuci
compared with the former
After abstracting the
j achievement,
j money from the drawer iie dropped
j iu its place tlje following note to the
proprietor: 'I am seized with an
desire to leave the city,
| dent as
overpowering
and it is impossible to resist,
will doubtless be surprised to find
You
missing tomorrow: I am even sur
prised myself to find that I am going
Please don't worry because I
me
away.
didn't wait to tell you good-bye, for
I feared you might place some ob
stacles in
I trust you will not think me ungrate
ful, but it is better that we should
not meet again, as it might prove em
barrassing, and I would find it hard
myself to tear myself from your so
ciety."
the pat 1 1 of my departure.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Jackson will be held next Monday af
ternon for the purpose of arranging
program and plans of entertainment
for the Mississippi Business Men's
League, which will meet here some
time next month, the date yet to be
Another convention of much
a
named.
importance to he held here next
month wi'l be a gathering of mayors
of cities and towns and large proper
ty-owners, who will consider needed
revision of the state insurance laws.
This meeting will be hel 1 at some
date between the 5th and
cording to auuouncement just made
by Insurance Commissioner Cole.
5th, ae
Kolman & Co., Mobile, want you to
write them for their printed price list
of liquors. They will send yon prices
that will surprise you. They own their
still and can undersell people who
oc 20 6t
own
don't
CONFESSION OF A PRIEST.
Rev. Jbo. S. Cox, of wake. Ark.,
writes, "For 12 jear* I suffered from
Yellow Jaundice. 1 consulted a nura
ber of phy>icians and tried all sorts of
medicines, but got no relief, then I be
the use of Electric Bitters and feel
gan
that I am now cured of a disease that
had me in its grasp for twelve years/'
If you want a reliable medicine for
Liver and Kidney trouble, stomach
disorder or general debility, get Elec
tric Bitters. It's guarneteed by Bufkin
& Cadenhead. Only 50c
Oct.l lmo
me bnd Day Old Our*.
colds and *cre throa», ute Kemwti t
,'*u - Laxative Quinine- Las-iv 'akei> »
and Culcklx ia.ee
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Try a can of
The coffee that causes mental exhilaration and
physical activity.
IT MAS
Justly been called the Intellectual Beverage
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Sold in one pound cans
at 25c per pound.
You are invited to visit our, store and in
spect our complete lines of Groceries, Hard
ware, Builders' Material, Buggies, wagons
and Harness.
Mail orders solicited and prices
quoted on application. All or
ders are carefully packed and
shipped same day received...
HAWKINS « COMPANY
HATTIESBURG, MISS.
30, 60, 80, 210, 212 Pine Street,
'Phone No* 25 for what you want. If we
haven't got it we will get it.
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