The Tupelo journal., September 26, 1902, Image 1

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THE TUPELO JOURNAL.
_ _“ BE JUST AND FEAR NOT."
VOL. XXX._ TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 1902. NUMBER 28.
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® Orders Filled Same Day Received MMHBBaaapi.A ^ __ LOWEST PRICES. 5^ ^
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| 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
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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
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store is full in every Department.
We want Your Business.
i Yours to please,
Lumpkin Brothers.
: FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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J. Q. Robins,
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J. II. Long, <
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Transacts a General Bauking Business.
Capital and Surplus $60,000.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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