The commercial., December 11, 1914, Image 3

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and Boys9 Stilts and Overcoat
You may look and try on and compare but you will never find clothes
of such quality and style at such ridiculously low prices as you can get
here now. Stock too big, season getting late everything must go in a
hurry. That's the only reason. All styles and fabrics to please men,
young men and boys. Better come quickly.
A sale in itself is not necessarily anything to brag about it may be a mere unloading of unseasonable
odds and ends-'-loose strings of merchandise. That is why this is so remarkable. Here is a sweeping
reduction in positive Fitform values Fitform quality with an unimpeachable guarantee behind it.
Here is a chance to buy the perfect product of the best makers of men's wear in America at the price
of ordinary clothes the so-so kind the sort you take a gambler's chance in buying.
You must realize what this sale means to you. This stock must be moved in season you get the
benefit of our loss. Don't take our word for it investigate thoroughly make us prove every word in
this advertisement.
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FITFORM
Every Suit or Overcoat in our store is in
cluded in this sale and to reduce our stock
we are offering choice of any Suit or Over
coat, $20.00 to $22.50 values, at '
$14.75
One other lot, $16.00 to $18.00 values at
$12.75 '
One lot of Men's $12.50 to $13.50 suits at
$7.95
50 men's $ 1 2.00 to $1 5.00 suits, small sizes, 34
to 37 only, at
$4.95
One lot of Boys' Xtragood Suits, $8.00 and
$10.00 values, reduced
25 Per Cent
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Bargains in
Our Shoe
Department
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60 pairs Men's $4.00 patent and gunmetal Shoes, . $2.45
One lot Men's $2.50 and $3.00 dress Shoes, at . . $1.45
Stronger Law Work Shoes at . . ; . ' . $2.85
One lot Women's $2.00 and $2.50 Fine Shoes, at . $1.50
Lot of Children's patent and kid Shoes, 1.50 value, at 89c
60 pairs Baby Moccasins, at . . . . . . . . 10c
The prices named in this
i ad are Strictly Cash
Nothing charged, only at
regular prices
W. G. CLAGETT
COMPANY
Clearance Sale of
Furnishing Goods
Men's $1.00 Lambsdown Shirts and
Drawers, now.. I .... 69c
Men's $1.00 Wool Sweaters. i 69c
Men's 50-c Fleece Underwear at 35c
Men's Cotton Rib Underwear at 15 C
Boy's heavy Shirts and Drawers at 1. 15c
Men's Carhartt Overalls, $1.00 grade. 75c
Men's 75c leather Work Gloves 45c
Men's 10c Canvas Gloves at 7j C
Men's J0c heavy Sox at ...
Men's 25c Wool Sox at 17ic
Men's $1.50 Wool Shirts at 98c
Men's 75c heavy Jersey Shirts at 39c
Men's $3.50 Dutchess guaranteed corduroy
pants reduced to $2.70
60 pairs boys' all-wool knee pants, 75c to
$1.00 values, at - 45 C
All Boys' Overcoats at Factory Cost
$10.00 Coats at - $7.50
$8.00 Coats at $6.00
$6.00 Coats at - $4.50"
$5.00 Coats at ."-..-r- $3.50
$3.50 Coats at $2.25
Unjuat and Indefensible Attacks.
The attacks that are being made on
Mr. Bryan by the New York World, the
Louiavillo Courier-Journal and other
newspapers are without' justification.
t They seek to discredit the Nebraskan
and force bis retirement from the Wil
son cabinet. They are doing this be
cause of a long and cherished antipathy
to Bryan and not because be is incom
petent and unworthy. Probably bis
recent pronouncement for nation-wide
Prohibition has more to do with the
kindling of the old-time hatred of Bryan
by the reactionaries than anything' else,
for if there is any one thing more than
another that will enrage a liquor organ
it is a declaration favoring Prohibition.
Both the World and the Courier-Jour-
' nal are intense in their opposition to
the increasing Prohibition sentiment
among the American people. Both
have attributed the ills of the people to
the growth of Prohibition and both
have Baid that Prohibition is a failure
in that it does not prohibit.
When Mr. Bryan recently mado pub
lic pronouncement for Prohibition he
forfeited what little respect the liquor
papers of the country entertained for
him, and instead of criticising him for
bis views on Prohibition, they have
falsely and unjustly charged that be is
a failure as secretary of state. They
have until now commended him for his
wise, sane and unsolfish policies, agree
ing that , his work and influence have
been for the advancement of the pub
lic interest, and promotion of the pub
lic welfare, but since it has been made
' known that he will attempt to eliminate
the liquor interest from the Democratic
party and establish absolute Prohibition
throughout the country, fatal defects
have been discovered in his 'ability and
capacity.
In a timely criticism of the papers
that are attacking Mr. Bryan, the Chat
tanooga News says: s
"All over the world our State Depart-
1 ment is now being commended for its
invaluable work in behalf of .interna
tional peace. The hope that the prin
ciples of The Hague shall endure in
stead of being lost in the European
maelstrom lies in the efforts of men
like Mr. Bryan and Mr. Wilson. No
secretary of state in all the nation's his
tory has had such a constructive policy
for permanent peace as Mr.. Bryan, and
under no administration have as many
peace treaties been negotiated and rat
ified as under the present. The World
pretends to be for international peace,
yet it would pull down Mr. Bryan out
of his most useful office at a time when
he is doing most for the world.
"There are other reasons . for the
World's attacks, and they will be known
sooner or later. The World has always
fought him, and despite its despicable
attacks, bis principles have won. It
has renewed its attacks recently because
it' was seen that Mr. Bryan was advocat
ing other great reforms. The people
may be deceived for a little -while by
such articles in reactionary papers, but
the light will finally break on them, and
Mr. Bryan will be greater in their eyes
than before."
Few people will be deceived by the
attacks that are now being made on
Mr. Bryan. It is so plain that the
scheme is in resentment of Mr, Bryan's
pronounced views on Prohibition those
people who-have looked to the Ne
braskan for leadership in progressive
policies a.nd principles will still look to
him and have faith fa him, for the
American people have seen bim at the
end of a twenty years' struggle triumph
over the reactionaries that are now as
sailing him. They have seen him grap
ple with the same element in the past,
Tbey have seen him defeated by them,
but not conquered or discouraged. They
have seen him battle on from year to
year, and at the last, in the face of a
most audacious reactionary conspiracy,
write his views and convictions into the
platform of the national Democratic
party, and through his matchless and
powerful leadership secure the nomina
tion of the man who (has made good
before the American people and the
world. Tennessean, ,
Court of Appeals Meets.
Jackson, Tenn., Dec. 7. The docket
of the Court of Civil Appeals for the
Western District of Tennessee has been
announced.
The court will convene Monday, Jan.
11, 1915, with the following order of
business, and the counties will be called
in the order herein named:
First The Twelfth Circuit: Hender
son, Chester, Perry, Hardin, Decatur.
Second Fourteenth Circuit: Obion
Dyer, Benton, Lake, Weakley.
Third Thirteenth Circuit: Crockett,
Haywood, Carroll, Henry, Gibson.
Fourth Sixteenth Circuit: Tipton,
Fayette, Lauderdale, Hardeman, Madi
son, McNairy.
Fifth Fifteenth Circuit: Shelby.
The law docket of each county will
be first disposed of; thed the chancery
docket before entering upon the busi
ness of the next county. Cases filed
up to and including the 11th of Janu
ary will be heard this term.
By order of the court.
T. B. Cakroix, Clerk.
By J. E. Springbett, D. C.
Rather Heartless.
"That fallow earns ten dollars a week
and spends eight of it on you."
"He is rather reckless," admitted the
girl carelessly.
"I shouldn't think your mother
would want you to receive his atten
tions." "Oh, mother knows that a financier
of his type will never be able to talk
matrimony."
Sell your Christmas turkeys and other
poultry from Dec. 10 to 21, as this is
the best time to sell, to .
S6-3t ' W. G. Reynolds.
Against the Lease System.
" A committee is being formed at Mem
phis to take up the question of convict
labor with the Governor and the Legis
lature of Tennessee.
The citizen's of Memphis who are be
hind the movement have found no defi
nite plan for the employment of the
convicts. They are, however, strongly
opposed to the continuation of the lease
system, and as some of the convicts'
terms are about to expire tbey believe
the time appropriate for devising better
plans for workiog the State's prisoners.
In a circular to the public the pro
moters of the movement declare that
the convict lease system is unfair to
legitimate manufacturers and dealers,
to the commuuity at large, to the la
boring people and to the convicts them
selves. Manufacturers and dealers, it
is asserted, are forced to compete with
convict labor produced goods, and the
product of the prisons unsettles prices
of legitimate articles of trade by unfair
competition. Convict labor is unfair to
the community, "because, while the
convicts are a public charge, it places
them at the disposal Of private inter
ests, at an unfair remuneration, instead
of putting tbem on public works where
their day's labor results to the public
good." . It is unfair to the laboring ele
ment "because the idea of the lease sys
tem being to make the convicts self
sustaining, by it they become self-sustaining
at the expense only of the work'
ing people, whom tbey force out of em
ployment at a miserable wage."
Lastly, it is declared that the system
is unfair to the convicts, since "tbey do
not become skilled laborers in any craft,
but crsly specialists in certain lines for
which there is no demand where they
are again thrown on their own resources
and become free laborers in fact, they
are but parts of a great human machine,
each performing bis work, and are use
less for that work when detached from
tbfir machine."
These are all good reasons for the
abolition of the lease system, and there
are other reasons fully as good. For
instance, it is not desirable that the
prisons should be in politics or that the
contractors should have a hand in prison
management, and there is no way of
avoiding these evils under the lease
system.
The prisons are the property of the
people and prison labor ought to be
utilized in the way most advantageous
to the people and to the well-being of
the prisoners. Prison labor should be
a source of public benefit and not a
medium for private gain. The lease
system works to the financial benefit of
the contractors. It has not even the
virtue, .much heralded, of making the
convicts self-sustaining. To an extent
. . . i
it relieves the State of the burden of
of their support, but in the ultimate
summing up it is a losing operation for
the public and a most discreditable
method of dealing with a public prob
lem. Louisville Courier-Journal.
Fulton Fair.
The stockholders of the Fulton County
Fair Association met in an annual ses
sion at the city hall Saturday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. The purpose of the meet
ing was for the election of officers and
directors for the ensuing year. The
association is in splendid financial con
dition. The old hoard of officers and
directors did so well at the fair held this
year, when most of the other surround
ing fairs suspended, that they were all
unanimously re-elected, as follows:
Dr. J. M. Alexander, president; Joe
Browder, first vice president; J. E.
Fields, second vice president; C E.
Rice, treasurer; N. G. Cook, auditor;
R. H. Wade, secretary. Board of di-t
rectors Dr. J. M. Alexander, J. C.
Brann, W. P. Murrell, W. W. Morris,
Levi Snow, Joe Browder, Ed. A. Thomp
son. Foltou Leader.
Use Dahnke-Walker Milling Co. Jer
sey Creum Flour, a home product and
guaranteed :
Terrible To Contemplate.
Abolish the cocktail? What a gap
that would make in the lives of some.
Sensible Skirts.
"How did you satisfy auntie about
the ballet?" ,
"Told her that was the famous rainy
day costume she'd heard so much
about." ,
Lame back may come from overwork,
cold settled in the muscles of the back,
or from disease. In the two former
cases the right remedy is BALLARD'S
SNOW LINIMENT. It should be
rubbed in thoroughly over the affected
part, the relief will be prompt and satis
factory, Price 25c, 50c and f 1.00 per
bottle. Sold by Oliver's Red Cross
Drug Store. advt
Tight skirts have been placed under
ban by the fashion makers of America.
Plaits will feature the severe and practical
styles for women next year.
WARD
CHARLES
UPHOLSTERER
High-Class work in Furniture
Repairing and Refinishinjr.
First-Class Work Guaranteed.
Prompt Service.
Lealiier. Vlork a' Special!'
Box Couches Made
Concrete Block, Church f , rt door
wett of Metcalfe Laundry ' ,
Telephone 430.
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