Putnam County herald., September 17, 1914, Image 6

About Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922

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COOKEVILLE MERCANTILE CO.
$32,000.00 STOCK
The Greatest Ever. Talk About Sales, there's Nothing Ever Before Attempted by Any
One to Compare with This. It will Pay You Ten-fold to Come Many Miles to Attend.
Our buyers have lately returned from the Eastern markets, where they searched and scoured for the latest, newest and best to be
had. They were fortunate in picking up many rich and rare bargain?, which go to our patrons. Prices have no bottom. Quality is
guaranteed. Attend this sale and tell your neighbors. We mean just what we say, and say just what we mean. The prices quoted
below are genuine. We have the goods to back them up. Fresh, New and Up-to-date Merchandise.
SALE COMMENCES SATURDAY, SEPT. 19, CONTINUING IS DAYS
' This sale applies to the entire stock. Everything marked dowTn. And this is but the beginning of the continued sales that will pre
vail at this store throughout the season. This sale is conducted on a strictly cash basis. Nothing charged.
READ! ACT! COME QUICK AND SECURE THE CHOICEST BARGAINS
Bed Blankets
The greatest ever, on All-Wool Blankets, Wool-Knap Blankets,
Heavy Cotton Blankets, just at the season you need and want them.
Light Cotton Blankets, pair, only 49 cents
Premium Border Blankets, a good one, 60x72 95 cents
Monarch Heavy Blankets, size 60x76, assorted styles .... $1.29 a pair
Monarch Heavy Blankets, size 70x80, assorted styles $1.39 a pair
Nashua Wool-Nap, 72x84. A cracker jack. Worth $3.50. $2.69 a pair
Fine All-Wool, The Best. Regular $5.50 value for only . . $4.49 a pair
HOSIERY
Ladies' Hose, Black, 200 needle, German Looping, Garter Welt, Firmly
Knit. A good one for only a pair 7 cents
Men's Black Cotton Socks. A good one per pair 7 cents
Men's Gray Socks. . A good heavy one two pair for 15 cents
Men's Interwoven Socks two pair for 45 cents
Handkerchiefs
Men's Large White Handkerchiefs, splendid Quality 3 cents
Men's Extra Quality Initial White Handkerchiefs, Fine Muslin, put
up in sanitary envelope two hadkerchiefs for 20 cents
Toilet Articles
Colgate's Toilet Soaps, 3 cakes to a box.. .Per box 20 cents
Blue Ribbon Toilet Soap, 3 cakes to a box. Per box 10 cents
Colgate's Shaving Sticks. Buy' this only 15 cents
Colgate's Shaving Powder. Get this only 15 cents
Ladies' Suits
CLOTHING
160 pair Men's Pants, worth up to $2.00. General Assortment. Splen
did Vaules. Don't fall to see them. Per pair 98 cents
Men's Jumpers. Good Sizes. Splendid Goods. Let us give you your
choice for only 49 cents
125 Men's Suits. Good Assortment of sizes. These are Ail-Wool
Suits Blue Serges, Cassimeres, Fancy Worsteds. A splendid as
sortment to select from, and good styles. Good enough for a prince
to wear. Suits in this lot worth up to $16.50, and none worth lees
tha $12.00. In th's sale for $6.95
115 Men's Suits, Latest Styles, Finest Tailored, by the Country's Beet
Manufacturers. Great assortment of designs. Mixed Greys and
Browns. Stripes and Plaids. Splendid Goods, worth a great deal
more, but have put them In this sale at $8.95
45 Men's Suits. Worsteds, Cassimeres, etc. Good Heavy Fall goods.
This is your chance. Grasp it. Only $3.95
85 Boy's Long Pant Suits, many of them all-wool and each and every
one a big value. These go at a price that looks like we got 'em by
sleight of hand. Don't ask us how we got 'em, but get a suit Coat,
Pants and Vests, for only $1.49
A big shipment of the New Reddincote Suits just received from our
New York house. These are the newest In Ladies' Suits. Tunic Ef
fete. Colors are Green, Brown, Wisterias and the Assorted Blues.
These are $17.50 and $25.00 values, but we have put them in this sale:
The $17.50 values for only $12.95
The $$25.00 values for only $14.95
One Lot Ladles' Suits Serges and Novelties, in Blacks, Copenhagen,
Brown Mixed and Navys. Choice of any suit in this lot .... $9.95
Anothr Lot Ladies' SuitsBlacks, Blues and Browns, all Serges.
Choice of this lot .. $6.95
One Lot Ladies' and Children's Dresses. A big lot to select from.
Ginghams, Percales, Linens and Galateas. Regular$1.25 goods. Go
in this Bale for only .' 72 cents
One Lot Children's Dresses, 60 to 75 cents values for only . . 39 cents
Remember that everything In this entire stock is in this one big sale.
UNDERWEAR
Men's Underwear, Shirts and Drawers, Mesh and Athletic. Good 35c
Quality, goes at 1 19 cents
Men's Balgriggan, 50 cent quality, Shirts and Drawers ......'39 cents
Men's Balbriggan and Mesh Union Suits, Long Sleeves. These are
worth 75 cents. They go in this sale at the btartling price of
each, only 39 cents
One lot Men's Suspenders, worth a quarter, for 14 cents
Suit Cases and Trunks
- Suit Cases and Trunk... Big Variety. A good sized Suit Case, Meatl
Mounted, an attractive case, worth a whole lot more, but goes in
this sale.at, each 79 cents
Don't fail to see the big assortment of Ladies' Hand Bags. Large
Black. Sale price, only 23 cents
Rain Coats
, When a Rain Coat is needed you want one that won't leak. Then
get the CAMPUS, the best on earth for the money. We have them In
Ladles,' Men's and Children's. Don't be Induced to take any other,
but insist on the CAMPUS, and you will get entire satisfaction.
Society Brand Clothing
For Young Men and for
Men Who Stay Young .
Every good dresser in Putnam
County and surrounding counties
knows Society Brand Clothing and
will have nothing else. If once in
duced to take something else he re
pents and comes back. All $20.00,
$25.00 and $27.50 Suits greatly re
duced during this sale. A new
shipment just received. See them.
SHOES
Buying cheap shoes you know is dear at any price. We look to the
uuality In shoes more than price, and handle nothing but the best
standard makes. Careful, painstaking buying enables us to offer you
shoes that will wear. If you have been having shoe troubles, try us.
Get guality, service, and save money. For this sale we have placed, on
our counter some off sizes In Men's and Ladies' Shoes. These are
worth twice the money. If you get your size, you are lucky.
Men's $4.00 Shoes $1.98
Ladies' Red Cross Shoes $1.98
OIL YOUR WORK SHOES
To get the best wear out of any work shoe the leather should be
oiled. We have secured an oiling outfit and a supply of Leather Life,
the best oil made for shoes. Come in every week and oil your shoes
FREE OF CHARGE. It's about a two minute Job, with everything
handy. Come in any time, whether you trade here or not. We want
you to double the wear of your shoes without costing you a cent.
LADIES' HATS
We are having our Millinery this season designed for us from our
St. Louis nous, receiving now hats every week. Another shipment
due in a few days. These' hats are especially designed for us by an
army of expert milliners, all working together, with the very beet of
equlpmont and materials, with facilities much superior to those work
ing under less advantages, with limited material. It therefore stands
to reason that we can sell them cheaper. Our sales already for this
Fall season on Ladies' Hats have been phenomenal. Many of our cus
tomers wonder at the low prices, saying "How cheap; I wouldn't ask
you to take less." In Introducing this new method of handling Milli
nery we are making exceptionally low prices.
NEXT SHIPMENT DUE NEXT WEEK. SEE THEM.
Woolen Dress Goods
Here's the biggest sale, and the greatest bargain you have ever bad
' offered you. These are all-wool, assorted weights, beautiful pat
terns. 49 pieces in this lot, very finest weaves. Regular $1.25 and
$1.50 values, consisting of imported Moire Broches, Charmantes,
Crepellos, Mohairs, all-wool Voiles, Fabrics La Vogue, Broadcloths
and Serges. And think only 69 cents
One Lot Woolen Dress Goods, in Grays, Browns and Plaids, Mohairs,
Voiles and Serges, 36 to 42 Inches wide. Sale price ... 39 cents
Another Lot of Dress Goods, Fall patterns, in Grays, Blacks, BlueB,
Browns, Stripes and Plaids. Values up to 75 cents, for only 19 cents
Other Dress Goods
Heavy Outing Flannel. Not just as good but the Best 8 cents
One Lot Percales. A bargain at per yard, 7J cents
Utility, the most popular Dress Ginghams on the market. The 12
cent quality. Goes in this sale at 8 cents
One Lot of Galatea, 15 and 20 cent quality, for only per yard 11 cents
Duchess Madras. The best goods for Shirts and Waists. Always 10
cents. Now 8 cents
Cloaks Cloaks Cloaks
Ladies,' Misses,' and Children's Cloaks, Coats and Wraps in great
variety. See the Ladies' Mackanaws. Great assortment of Ladies'
Plush, Black Braodcloth, Many Fancies, and the Caracul. This stock
is very complete, and during this sale we are making prices on our
entire Cloak and coat line that will make you sit up and listen. If you
are on the market for any kind of Fall or Winter wrap see this great
line, and we feel that we can certainly please you.
Domestic
Yard Wide Brown Domestic, a good heavy one, per yard only 5 cents
Hope Bleached. Everybody knows what "Hope? is. Yard, only 8 etc
CORSETS
American Beauty Corsets. The $1.25 value for 79 cents
American Beauty Corsets. ' The $1.50 value for $1.24
Another Lot of Corsets, 65 cents values, for only 39 cents
Window Scrim
See the beautiful designs in yard wide Window Scrim. 15 cent val-
" ueo." A startler, at only 9 cents
20 cent values. Beauties, for only 12 cents
Boy's Rain Coats
Cravenettes, worth $4.00. In this sale at lees than half price. Boys,
have your fathers get this $1.9$
Men's Hats
Men's Hats. A Great Assortment, worth all the way from $1.50 to
$3.00. Any Hat In the lot goes for only 98 cents
Our sales force has been increased to meet the demands of this sale, and you will find alert, polite clerks anxious to wait on ypu
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