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The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, June 30, 1908, Image 7

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(ON YOUR SHOES)
Or perhaps your heels are
running down, but your old
shoes feel so comfortable that
you hate to give them up.
We can adjust that for you
so that you can retain the com
fort and shoes too. We have
installed a modern shoe re
pairing plant, where every
method of scientific shoe
work is employed
methods we com
our
. DV
pletelj
y re_
build your shoes and make
them as good as new. Leave
your shoes here in the morn
ing and get Them on your way
home in the evening.
We repair them while you
w&it-If you are willing.
HALF SOLES SEWED 75c
CERTAINLY WE REPAIR
LADIES SHOES.
NATHAN
THE SHOE MAN
Mclnnis Bldg. East Pine Street
PARKER'S
1
SHOP
Moved
To East Pine Street, just
across G. & S. I. R. R. in
comer of Stevens Block.
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Postoffice Box 358.
Home Phone 771.
■PTHE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ^
Of HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI.
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IT'S LIKE FINDING MONgY. ~
to figure up your balance after you have had a bank account a few
monthB. You note that your small or unnecessary spendings have been
much ieSB, than when you had the too ready cash in your pocket.
AN ACCOUNT AT THE FIR8T NATIONAL BANK
Induces saving. The act of drawing a check makes you think whether
the spending is wise or j ecessary. Many and many a time your think
ing will result In your tearing up the check and keeping the money,
GET YOUR RIGS FROM
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B. M. THOMPSON
--■ FIRST CLASS=
Livery, Feed and Sales Stables
Carriages, Traps and Runabouts for all Occasions.
Hauling and draying. Horses boarded by week or month.
Thorton's old Stand, West Pine Street.
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FOR SALE
.$ 5.00
65.00
...... 6.00
.; 60.00
1 $ 10.00 Roll Top Desk.. .
1 165.00 Victor Safe ...';...
1 I 12.00 Standing Desk.
1 100.00 Roll Top Desk.
1 6ft Show Case...
Will trade the above for horse and buggy or
s*och of any kind.
5.00
THE BAZAAR
611 Main Street.
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PARCELS POST LAW
IS NOW IN FULL EFFECT
Heajfst News Service.
Washington, June 30.—After today,
under the parcels post agreement with
Great Britain, parcels up to a weight
limit of eleven pounds may be mailed
to Englan', Scotland and Ireland.
Postmaster General Meyer believes
that this will materially increase the
number of parcels sent to the United
Kingdom and from the countries com
posing it to the United States. At
the present time, a package weighing
In excess of four pounds six ounces
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FOR FUEL
Hearst News Service.
San Antoplo, Tex., June 30.—The
Southern Pacific Company hair bought
5,000,000,000 barrels of_crude oil, at
50 cents a barrel, for use in Its lo
comotives on its lines in Texas and
Louisiana. The deliveries will cover
a period of three years.
CORTELYOU WILL
STAY ALL SUMMER
Hearst News Service.
Washington, June 30.—Secretary
Cortelyou will remain in Washington
all summer and keep the departmental
machinery running, while most of the
other cabinet officials and the Presi
dent are away.
Do you want board or hoarders,
rooms or roomers? You can get them
with a Dally News Want Ad.
WANTED—Ten hustling boys to
# sell the Dally News every afternoon.
Ask for the Circulation Manager.
cannot be sent In the mails to the
United Kingdom.
There are now thirty-three foreign
countries with which we have parcel
poBt conventions; with nine, the weight
limit is four pounds six ounces, and
with twenty-four It Is eleven pounds.
It Is the Intention to make the maxi
mum weight eleven pounds In all coun
tries.
Owing to the objections of the ex
press companies, however, this weight
limit will not apply to points within
the United States.
NOW TAXED
Georgia Will Assess Those Who
Make and Sell Substitutes
For Famous Beverage.
Hearst News Service.
Atlanta, Ga., June 30.—An ordinance
imposing a tax of $200 a year on all
persons or firms selling "near beer",
an Imitation of lager containing less
than 2 per cent of alcohol, will be
come effective tomorrow and will
doubtless result iu driving many In
dividuals out of business. Near beer
has become highly popular since the
passage of the Georgia prohibition act
and merchants of all kinds handle It,
as well as scores of near-saloons. The
ordinance prohibits free lunch to
be served with near beer.
GLASS GRAVE
STONES NOW
Pittsburg Concern Gets Orders
For a Great Many
of Thera.
Hearst News Service.
Pittsburg, Pa., June 30.—A Pittsburg
concern announces that it has re
ceived several orders and will begin
at once to manufacture headstones
of glass to mark graves. A unique
feature of the new tombstones will be
that there can be blown In the glass
a photograph of the deceased person.
ARMY OFFICERS
GRADUATE FROM
STAFF SCHOOL
Leavenworth, Kan., June 30.—Sevejj
ty-eight officers, including two from
the Mexican army, were graduated to
day from the Army Staff College and
Special Service Schools at Fort Leav-
euworth. Major General J. Franklin
Bell, of the general sthff, and Captain
Milton F. Davis, Tenth cavalry, secre
tary to the general staff, were here for
the graduating exercises.
Of the seventy-elg^» officers, twen
ty-four were graduated from the Army
Staff College, fifteen from the Army
Signal School and thirty-nine from the
Army school of the Line. '
The Mexican graduates are Lieu
tenant Jorge Landa and Lieutenant L.
Monter, both of the Mexican Infantry.
They were students at the Army Staff
College, by special permission of the
United States war department.
❖ YOUR NEIGHBOR

OUGHT TO KNOW IT. ❖
The Daily News wants your ■>
❖ opinion of its present telegraphic
•> news service. We are trying with •>
❖ might and main to give ttjg^peo- •>
❖ pie of Hattiesburg a live dally ❖
•fr newspaper, and ther? lg nothing ❖
❖ that will help us more than whole- •>
❖ some suggestions front our sub- •>
4> scrlhers. If you like the paper, <•
❖ we'd also like for you to' tell •>
■> your neighbor.

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FLEET SOON
TO SET SAIL
Pacific Squadron Will Visit Hono
lula, Samoa and Other In
teresting Points.
Hearst News Service.
Washington, June 30.—The vessels
of the first squardron of the Pacific
fleet will leave San Francisco on Aug
ust 24th, for a cruise to Honolulu,
Samoa and return. The equadron will
consist of the cruisers West Virginia,
Colorado, Maryland Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Washing!on, California and
South Dakota, the cruiser Charleston
as tender. The Solace will go along
as mother ship to eight torpedo-boat
destroyers, the Hopkins, Hull Truston,
Whipple, Perry, Preble, Stewart, and
Farnagut. The squadron will return
to San Francisco about October lotn
NAVY TO USE
OIL FOR FOEL
Hearst News Service.
Washington, June 30.—Hecduse of
the success of the oil-buring torpedo
boat destroyers and torpedo boats of
the English navy, the Board of Con
struction has recommended that (he
ten torpedo-boat destroyers provided
for by the last Congress be equipped
for oil burning only.
It is reported that recent tests by
naval experts of oil as a fuel have
given sufficient proofs of its efficiency
to cause the recommendation.
The board has also recommendid
that the new vessels be equipped will)
turbine machinery. The opinion is
expressed that the speed of the oll
burnlng destroyers will be much great
er than that of those burning coal a*
fuel.
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INTERNATIONAL
STEEL COMBINE
Hearst News Service.
London, June 30.—The "Iron and
Steel Trades Journal" advices, reiter
ates the statement that an Internation
al steel combination Is approachin?
completetion, In confirmation of which
that journal publishes Interviews with
represen tael ves of American and Ger
man syndicates, which affirm the truth
of the report. The headquarters of
the concern will he in London. Its
capitalization will reach 150,000,000
pounds.
HORSE FARM
FOR THE ARMY
Hearst News Service.
Kansas City, Mo., June 30.—As soon
as the stables can be built at Fort
Reno, the new U. S. horse farm will
open. It is proposed to turn out more
than a thousand head of horses and
mules each year ready for the army.
By July 1st the three-year-olds art
expected to go to the reservation and
the training will begin.
For a Sprained Ankle.
As usually treated, a sprained ankle
will disable the injured person for a
month or more, but by applyingvCham
berlain's Liniment and observng the
drections with each bottle faithfully,
a cure may be effected in many cases
in leBS than one week's time. This
liniment is a most remarkable prepara
ralion. Try it for a sprain o; bruise,
or when laid up with chronic or mus
cular rheumatism, and you are certain
to be delighted with the prompt re
lief which It affords. For sale by Hays
& Field and Yellow Pine Pharmacy.
Everybody reads News' Want Ads.
Second-Hand
Furniture
We Buy All Kinds of Second
Hand Furniture
M.S.HAISFII
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American Printing
Company
HIGH GRADE
JOB PRINTING
The kind that the people
appreciate
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We have purchased the entire stock of Stationery?
Daily News, and respectfully solicit a portion, a
of the business formerly given them.
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We Make a Specialty
of Delivering Work
When Promised

Hartfield Building
Hattiesburg, Miss.
(M Some Occasions'WM
Could Afford to Pay
V
One Dollar a Word
- WANT Advertising;
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WANT ADVERTISING SPACE is about the
^ * lowest-priced thing of value you can buy in this city.
This phrase of the matter probably never occured to y
But think it over. Suppose that the rate for want ad
vertising in this newspaper were one dollar a word! A
prohibitive rate, you say? Perhaps, for some
business.
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closes of
,J£" ' *■
But if you were compelled to sell real es Yate^^_pk
word for an ad. would still be a profit-returniij^
you if it found the best market for your property ; l!|
would be a cheap rate for a Situation Wanted ad. if it
found twice as good a job for you as you have ever had.
It would be a' profitable way to secure a tenant for vacant
property.
In fact, perhaps half x)f the want ads. would pay the
advertisers at a dollar a Word- and a great many of them
would be paid for at that rate if this newspaper charged
that rate.
The purpose of this comparison is not to announce any ad
vance in the want advertising rates—but to bring to your mind
the fa of that want adv. space, as now sold, is a genuine 'bargain
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