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THE TUPELO JOURNAL. _ _“ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT." VOL. XXX._ TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1902. NUMBER 28. wfratwOTismwwmwwfNNWHNINHratMawNiNHnMNHHIHIHMHMNIMNHIMHM !f=I=“j Miller’s 1 amraoth Irv Goods on e r==n j ® Orders Filled Same Day Received MMHBBaaapi.A ^ __ LOWEST PRICES. 5^ ^ | mmmmmmmm WHOILSAXE aadEETAIL ..."iSSSSiK: | Economy is the Road to Wealth. | • Why wait until the cold spell of the season forces you to buy? Make selections now while it can be done more leisurely. Every department • J is teeming with new Fall Goods, and to encourage early buying, offers values that are hard to find later in the season. • Jj Miller's Clothing Department. Clothing that tits. You’ll bo 2? doing an injustice to yourself if you buy clothing without posting Jr* yourself in our immense line. It is the power of price which [ makes our Clothing Department jvf so popular. q Men's Suits. V Regular 4 button round cut sack 9 coats well made, with soft roll 9 fronts, good suitable linings, best 9 single or double breasted. Pants W cut on the very latest style, w up !to date in every detail. Price ® $8,00. W Excellent quality cheviot suit, w finished cassimere in a dark green w with invisible narrow stripe $7.25. Men’s all wool cheviot suits in a dark olive shade with an invisi ble stripe and overplaid, best wearing stuff on earth. $4,75 for full suit. Men’s extra fine all wool faucy oassiraere dark olive ground with neat gray hairline stripes single breasted round sack suit. Words are weak when it comes to descrie or even suggest the weave, pattern and finish of this suit. Actually worth $12,50, our price $9,20. Boy's Long Pants Suit. 3 button round cut sack suit in a medium gray striped cheviot, cut Military style, ages 15 to 19, price $3,75. Extra heavy rough cheviot, guaranteed all wool dark gray mixture or fancy oyerplaid. Price 4,25 Slate color half wool cassimere with a faint triple hairline striped pattern, ages 14 to 19. Price for full suit $2,75. Men’s Corduroy Pants In any Color. Extra high grade corduroy made in a strictly first class man ner, sewed on buttons, dark aeal brown. Waistband lining two hip two side and watch pocket, sewed throughout with strongest linen thread. Price $1,45. Exceptional Value in Men’s Fine Dress Trousers. Servicable and satisfachory. If it’s from ILLER’S It’s All Right. If not We will make It so. Correct Dress Skirt Models for Fall and Winter. Late Arrivals. Our skirt display is unparallel ed. When you buy a skirt, you want it to hang right, there’s where the beautv comes in, every line and fold is perfect, giving that delightful sweep now the vogue. Skirta that cannot possi bly be duplicated by the very best modistes as that regal elegance could not be reproduced, and an other very important factor is the prices, which are wonderfully moderate, notwithstanding the most select materials are used. Ladies seven gore walking Skirts made of all wool winter weight skirting in black or dark gray, has the new graduating Hare at bottom, all seams finished with four rows of stitching and with from eight to ten rows around bot tom, a skirt you cannot duplicate elsewhere for less than 87.00, our price 84.95. Ladies five gore rainy day Skirts of heavy wool skirting in black or dark gray, finished with seven rows of stitching at bottom, , has the proper hang, real value $5.00, Miller’s price $3. 95. Ladies nine gore kilt Skirt, the correct style for fall and winter, made of mixed goods of dark brown, kilt plaits extend the full length of the garment and are about oue inch deep. You cannot do better in an up to date style Skirt at a low price than this one. I'rice $4.95. Ladies novelty five gore Skirt made of heayy Melton Cloth in the new grays, each gore is cord ed in a very novel design. You must see and try on this skirt to W appreciate it fully. The front 9 strap designs and flounces are all 0 closely stitched from five to eight A times and is made by the best man tailors. You cannot buy a better garment under $12.00 any- J where. Millec s price $7.45. V Examine our line of $2.50 and A $2.00 Skirts, best values on Earth. £ See our line of black dress Skirts at 95c. each. !; Fiue flannel Shirt Waists, front 9 elaborately trimmed with tucks, 9 also stitched straps that are piped w with black silk and silk rings for 9 buttons on each, point back’ 9 sleeves and stock collar are also 9 trtmmed with tucks. Colors are ^ royal blue, red, slate, lose and w | light blue. Price $2.85. 9 \ • MILLER MERCANTILE COMPANY, Birth Place of Low Prices. • John M. Lumpkin. George C. Lumpkin. IT IS TIMET Winter will Soon be Here. How About Your Grates and ( Heating Stoves? Fine Base Burners to close out at less than.manu* facturer's cost. Call and see them. They are Beau* tics. New Enterprise and New South Cook Stoves, none Letter. The backs in these stoves are warrant* ed for H> vears. We have a car load of them. Our •• store is full in every Department. We want Your Business. i Yours to please, Lumpkin Brothers. : FIRST NATIONAL BANK a P Directors: % - o 8. T. Harkey, P J. J. Rogers, 5 J. Q. Robins, R. 8. Thomas, c J. II. Long, < r. Johnson, * W. w. Trice, \ i '< d5 Typeld, Transacts a General Bauking Business. Capital and Surplus $60,000. i TUPELO, X^XXSS Collections given Prompt Attention and Quirk Returns. We want your Business Insured ^gainst Burglars. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors 1st Tuesday in each month. _ XD.AJEEC LOCK AND CHAIN STITCH TWO MACHINES IN ONE. The Standard Rotary runs as silent a the ticking of a watch. Makes HOI stitches while other machines make 20C We guarantee the-Standard to hay every good point found in other ma chines and several superior advantage peculiar to the Standard only, and thi is they are used by nearly all State in stitutions. The 1.1. & C. at Columoue them. For sale on easy term HINDS BROS, at 00. $ FURNITURE! ! * =.. ..__ • | ‘US. & SPeyues | <S> HAS ON EXHIBIT 0 • ^ m 0 TJ/ie jCargest Stock furniture ? 0 0 • EVER SEEN IN TUPELO. S S 0 0 0 S' The Public is Cordially Invited 0 ® to Call and Inspect Same. ^ 8 - % • Will Give you Prices on a few Articles & H In the Next Issue. j| S *ll}. <S. SPegues. 0 smmmmMmmmmmmMme We can tell you “wlmt ladies ot fashion will wear” this fall and winter.—Ask us. JW/ 77/illinery. | Pattern Hats, p Walking Hats, % Ready Trimmed Hats, p The Very Best of Everything to be Had in p 7/fillinert/ Tfovelties> p Gloves, Ribbons, Corsets, Silk Waist Patterns, 5c Ladies Fine Wraps, Belts, and everything to be £ fouud in a first-class Millinery Store. A call will me. conviuce yon. 77/rs. S. Jff. Whitfield. 5 & lMlliaiMMMMUXSMiaillXiaitlAMlIllflXIllSE ' j p yMVHVvvvv wvjrr v r w » n r v r i# v if r VMivvrvM<V]M)Vrvuv*vwi|]ni^ I i MATHIS AND LESTER MEET THEIR DOOM. MURDER OF MONTGOMERY’S. Avenged By The Law After Several Delays. Tragedy Was One OF The Most Atrocious Crimes IN ANNALS OF MISSISSIPPI. Oxford, Miss., Sept. 24.—Ma this and Lester were hanged al 12:50 o’clock this afternoon. There were fully 8.000 people assembled at the place of execu tion, 6ne mile south of town. The procession left the jail al 11:45, and as the roads were rough the ride was necessarily slow, and it was 12:25 p. m. when they reached the place of execution. The prisoners were conveyed in a wagon, surrounded by ten arm ed guards. Upon reaching the gallows, Sheriff Harkins led the proces sion up the steps, followed by Jailer Ragland, who had Mathia. Deputy Ramey followed with Lester, and Rev. N. \V. P. Bacon, the Baptist minister, accompanied the party, while Rev. A. Williams pastor of the colored Baptist church, came next. Mathis smiled as he walked up on the scaffold, and spoke to sever al persons whom he recognized. When asked by the crowd tc make a statement he said he had nothing to say, as he had told al! he knew on the witness stand. Lester said he had been forced to do so by Oweii9 and Mathis and that Mathis set tire to the I1UUSH HUU IIJHL .JHCKSOIl liatl 1101!. ingtodo with the killing, ami Mathis joined him in declarin'; Jackson innocent. Owens was theie and assisted Mrs. Mathis in packing up hei clothes. The condemned man talked foi twenty minutes, and when the blackcap was being adjusted Ma this said he was au innocent man and thanked the officers. At 12:49 the cap was adjusted and at 12:50 p, m. the two murder ers shot through the trap. ; Lester died at 1:14£, and Mathii was declared dead by Drs. Candlei . and Wilkins at 1:14. 1 The remains were turned ove; 1 to the relatives, and the crowi quietly dispersed. Mathis stated he wanted to correc the report that Prosecuting At tor ney Roane had made concession 1 to him if he would tell ou Owens 9 but that Mr. Roane made no suel statement. The two men were told to pa on their funeral clothes, whicl . they did* Mathis said he wa prepared to die, and his only re gret was leaving his wife am child behind. His wife wanted to see.him thi morning, but Sheriff Harkins re I fused her admittance. Popular Fallacy. Generally Believed in But Never Existed. Strange Hold of An Untruth One of the most widely current and inexplicable fallacies that are generally believed is called to mind by the coming of the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Hro thers Enormous Shows I'nited. It is the silly twaddle about big shows divid ing and showing in small cities and town in different sections of the country on the same day the coming together again in the large cities and showing as one exhibition. It is, a matter of fact, one of the most absurd ideas in the world, and persons ordinarily sane up on every other subject will persist in be lieving that such things are done, not withstanding the tact that it is abso lutely so much without foundation in fact that such a thing has never even once been attempted much less being done as a regular custom. It would tie just as easy to cut a horse in two and send him up two loads at one time and then when a main road is reached put him together again. 11 is simply a physical impossibility for shows to he first divided and then united, and ke< p thepublicinignorai.ce at it. Any man who could invent a system that would make such a thing possible would have a fortune, ft never has been done, it is not done nor will it, in all human probability, ever be done by these shows or any others. So. when the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Shows come here they will be exactly the same as they were in New York, Brooklyn, f’hilndelpbia and all the other cities they have visited this season, and if any one wants to gamble on it there is no possible chance of losing any money wagered on that proposition, no matter what anyone says or believes. They will be here in all their entirety on Mon day October (> at 10 a. m. VERONA Mrs. ranine Crawford of Mon rot* conn tv, left Wednesday, after a pleasant weeks visit to her sister, Mrs. T. M. Clark. The following delegation went to Memphis, Monday, on the excursion on the M. & O. It. It' T. Morton, Swcp Taylor, Mrs. T. J. Lowery, ''iss Bessie Smith, Fred Johnson and Will Berry They report a tine time. > Landrum I^aveil of Oxford, visited his uncle, Will Berry. Wednesdsy. He is a nephew of Dr. ft. M. Leuvell, who is so well and favorably Known here. Miss Sallie Kilpatrick, after spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. Will Cobb of falledga, Ala., has returned, looking much improved in health. Miss Kilpatrick’s return is hailed with de light by her friends, which means every body. She will teach in our High School this year, much to the satisfac tion of all its patrons. Mrs. Nealy Francis visited friends at Amory this week. J Mr, B, F, Francis is confined to his room by a sprained ankle which is very painful. i ,®,HPh Sc‘,l.eH' u trusted old servant, 1 died here Friday night last and was buried with great pomp and circum stance Sunday. The>e were at least a 1 thousand persons present at his burial. ♦ Murdock of Tupelo officiated. He , was buried by the colored Odd Fellows and other societies of which he was a ’ member. It is said that his family will ' receive five or six hundred dollars as in surance on his life. He had been the t grave-digger of Verona Ceraetary for thirty years and had dug the graves of many prominent citizens. He had lived here all his life and had many friends - amongst both white and black. 1 The High School is progressing very satisfactorily. Frol. Snumpert is faHt gaining popularity and is showing high qualities as a teacher. There are quite * a number of pupils from a distant iu the boarding department, «*» '*■ V2 ..^. - Vi-' ' - ~~~ ■ ..-v - , v: _