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One More Mile Stone an Lifes Journey Passedit becomes ours to chronicle the events of a yearif not literally mentally To sit

AGAIN judgment upon the and the bad of a years life in commerceof course are sprinkledalongJhrougJl our business of 1902 that is human you

know and we ore happy to say we are that too whole however we cantpajBs the verdictGOOD for our d footings show not only a very gratifying increase in our annuaJsples whichfact makes our 1902 business the biggest of pur life for which we are butin the battle between the losses and gains of the tumultuous year w e flT1inppyfosay thelatter have the former bested We wont say how little

CLOTHINGWe have gone through our stock of Mens

Olothing vary carefully and wherever neces ¬

sary give a big dose of Get Out of the WayTonicHere is your chance to place your hardearned CASH where it can earn you from 20to 75 per cent For instance we show

1750 suits cut to 15001500 suits cut to 10001250 suits cut to 10001250 suits cut to 7501000 suits cut to 7501000 suits cut to 0001000 suits cut to 500750 suits cut to u 500

And many other values equally attractiveand on our Entire stock of Boys Knee Pants Suitsand Overcoats we offer a horizontal discount of20 pr cent during this cleanup odds and endssale The very tbingyou want may go first

SHOES

extraordinary

neededattention

accompanying

goodsmanufactured

WalkingWalking

this riledeat the year cleanup sale It vould takewhole newspaper but we trust have said enough least partially impart enthusiasm born ofa FULLDETERMINATIONrthroughout

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Remember the most desirable merchandise will Spring goods arrivingsuchIndia Linens Embroideries the choicest in Spring Woolen Wash Dress Goods Madras Cloths soon make JobCounters way back down

BIS I IOP COMPANYyards Tobacco Canvass Just Received Madisonville Kentucky

HAPPENINGSIN

T J cashier of theMarion sold his interestin property paralleling the ¬

tor vein near Princeton to a gen-

tleman¬

from Henderson MrYandelladds a neat sum to his

account as a matter of

courseTheannual report of Adjutant

¼ General Murray to the AdjutantGeneral of the United Statesarmy as to the strength of the

p Kentucky Guard wasthis It shows the total

guard to be menOf 1552 are privates 402are officersand 141 are commissioned officersThe guard is divided into two

5egiments of infantry two bat-teries

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of artillery two andcorpIonei

t That will soon beconnected Evansville by an

r electric railway is now assuredAccording to an article in Tues-

days¬

Evansville Courierwill be begun at this end of theline within three months TheTraction Company was granted a

3franchise by the Mt Vernoncouncil Monday night and theCouncil of this city will be asked

fr to grant a similar franchiseA little son of Mr Green ¬

of near Beverly shot him-

self¬

through the foot Mondayr while rabbit hunting He

was loading the rifle a No22 cartridge it was acci ¬

dentally discharged The ballpassed nearly through his footlodging under the skin on thebottom and was cut out by a sur¬

geonAdvicesare en-

couraging¬

as regards ¬

pox scare having been noF new cases reported There are

two or cases among the ne ¬

groes and suspects Uponr A

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Our stock is so immense andin it are rep ¬

resented so very many different characters ofgoods it is very difficult to give anything likea minute description of thevalues we are showing on our job counter

Just in a general way however we will callyour attention to

One lot Misses and Childrens Heavy Shoes Sizes 9 to 3

regular i 115 125 grades cut to 75c and fi

One Lot La Butt Kangaroo Calf jioo 125 135and 150 grades cut to 75c and Jioo

One lot Mens Tans and out of date blacks regularprice 200 to 350 cut to 100 for choice and other like

vainer

You should buy all your of us Wesome of the BEST and

them you your moneys worth

Ina do to at our

our

go first 1903 are

go and l

16460 12

Bank

bank

State modeweek

2105these

drum

company

with

work

y4 Johnwood

outwith

when

fromthe small

there

threeseveral

regular

shoescarry made make

give

complaint of citizens the pesthouse location may be changed

Eastern Kentucky produc-etwothirds

sof all the sorgbu

molasses sold in thenorthermarkets The crop in Greenucounty this year is estimated attwo thousand barrels and severalSandy Valley counties will pro-

duce a largeramountIJames B

filed a petition inbankruptcy in the office of the

Clerk J R Puryear atPaducah Saturday His ¬

ties are 804175 He lists no

assetsOwensborohas put up a guar-

antee¬

of 17500 and will havethe State fair next SeptemberLouisville and werealso applicants but the Westerntown met and overcame every

until the fair was se ¬

curedThe Gordon Land Company of

Madisonville has options on about8000 acres of fine coal lands sit ¬

uated near Hopkinscounty and they are also nego-

tiating¬

with Eastern capitalistsfor the sale of these lands

Middlesboro Ky HenryOummings a notorious moun ¬

tain bad man met death from-

ambush on one of thestreets here James AdleTurner who was walking withhim was shot in the arm Theassissins are unknown Cum-

mings¬

killed John Gorham pres-ident

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of the United MineWorkers union two yearsGreenwood Ward later anabout a year ago Braualym Elama Kentuckian

A Wretched MillionaireTho story Is told of tho owner of

several railroads who was unableto buy relief from tho nerve twistingagony of neuralgia It Is an unlike ¬

ly tale The sick man must haveknown that Perry Davis Painkillerwould help him at jjnco as It hashelped so many thousands df suffer-ers in the past sixty years There Ibut one Painkiller Perry Davis

May Yohe Strong as ever is backhome again Lots out that comblnation out from now on fe i-

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Summit County Placers ol Colorado

Summit county bids fair to beofmdeepnrepe¬

contact similar tq Leadville itmay rival that noted camp butprincipally on account of its greatforf¬beenlany known throughout the conti ¬

nent These preparations arenow complete and it only awaits I

the coming season of spring andearly summer to show

whatthesoIplacer beds canrado and the world at largo looks i

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forward with much interest tothe result of this great experi ¬

ment Although we have manyand extensive placer grounds inColorado operations on them ona large scale have with few ex ¬

proven a failure oneof the few exceptions being theplacer field around Alma South

which for years has been

workedsFew locations in the mountainsare more situated for asuccessfulplacer ground than theIttis a wide long pit which has ingoldbearyingfrom the surrounding gold andsilverbearing rocks some ofwhich like Hill de-

scribed¬

some time since inand Minerals have long beenanddveins of free goldProf ArthurLakes in JanuaryMinerals

Are You Going West

Beginning February 15th and con ¬

tinuing every day thereafter untilApril 80th there will be a specialrate to all points in WashingtonBritishsFor maps rates routesand other information write at oncetoTD Campbell District PassAgent onsln Central Railway210Jifce Building Cincinnati Ohio

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1N taking our first of the year inventory many articles were found either in broken lots orotherwise that which we forthwith proceeded to administer and as aresult are today and until the last of February shall continue showing exceptional OUT

PRIOE values all through our 50000 stock of diversified merchandiseHow can you invest your money more profitably Where beside can you get from 20 to

88J per per annum on your honest dollar In the columns we give you afaint idea of the GQOD things our years scramble has made for the man woman or child with theREADY CASH Come quick the but values go nrstI

WRAPSUnder this head we show the Mont e Car ¬

los we have left at 25 per cent discount

A handsome assortment i lengths in Oas ¬

tor Oxford and Black at exactly Half PriceThese are new last fall

All 27inch Coats left on hand consistingof Light Tan Castor Black and a few Ox ¬

ford Red and Blue at 25 per cent discount

500 Skirts for 411850 Skirts for 23ft

Our entire stock of Tailormade Suits at adiscount from 25 ber cent to 50 per centaccording to style

And all ourold style Wraps marked downto just any old price

justiceto we

stock

things

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noncommissioned

Uniontown

Farncombe

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cent

The Value of Advertising

In 1889 P T Barnum the greatshowman journeyed to the Pacificcoast to visit a relative On his wayback East he stopped at KansasCity to see the Barninn < Baileyshow that was then exhibitingthat city The then press agent othe Barnum < Bailey show MrBert Davis Introduced to Mr Bar¬

num the editors of tho local dalliesat the formers hotel In the courseof the conversation which naturallyfollowed Mr Barnum said

Mr Bailey tells methat my presence at the perform ¬

ances of tho Barnum Baileyis 5000 per day to the showIf this is true it Js my nnroe that isso yaluable It is known in everytown city and hamlet it has be ¬

come a house word throughout tinscountry Now gentlemen all ofthis was done by newspapers and ifadvertising daft make my nameworth 5000 a day what is it thatadvertising cannot do

Before Peats the wall paper mandied some time ago he was at thehead of a mammoth wall paper con ¬

cern doing a business of 15000000 a-

Year Yet in 1801 Feats was run ¬

ning a small establishment for thesale of wall paper to the retail tradeon Madison street Chicago Whatwas the secret of his ad ¬

vance in the wall paper businesscomparatively so short a time Iwas

newspaper man back in 1892 in¬

duced him to experiment withink The result was profit

able Peats didnt see that he couldhave too much of a gpod thiqg so hoIncreased his advertising appropria ¬

tion and as his profits doubled hisspace in the newspapers and periodicals and as his advertising grewhis business increased Thus hereached tho enormous volume of15000000 a year by the arithmetical 1

progression of wideawake advertis-ing

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In the of P T Bar ¬

num himself one of the most ex¬

tensive advertisers the world hasevdr known If advertising can dothis What is it that it cant do

Home Journal for February

Tho contents of Conkeys HomoJournal Chicago for Februaryshows more than any previous issuetile of the publishers to makeit a thoroughly practical home mag ¬

azine as good as the best orG centsa copy CO cents a year The depart-ments

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for women and girls includeamong other things thefollowingUA Lesson in

Embroideryy

MISCELLANEOUSt

Under this head we will mention firstAll Bed Comforts from 150 to 250 at 20per cent discount Most excellent values

NextA big lot of Still Front ColoredShirts at Half Price

ThenA job in Mens Hats at 50c niul100 worth from two to three times as much

And a reduction of 20 per cent on all Gen ¬

tlemens and Ladies Woolen Underwear

One lot Mens White Collars jotil stand-ing

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and turndown in very good styles thoughin broken sizes Regular price lOc each cutprice 2c per dozen

One lot Outing Cloth Night Shirts regu ¬

lar 50c and 100 cut down 25 per centA mighty fine thing to wrap up in these

chilly nights

end ofthat

stuff entire

sure and that that now asand etc will

sit

Yandell

Sena

enlisted

Guthrie

SalemUnite-

Statesliabili

Lexington

obstacle

Bakerport

ceptions

Park

Mines

Mines

Gentlemen

circusworth

wonderful

advertising-A

printers

language

Conkcys

policy

Practical

Making an illustrated lesson inHome Millinery an illustrated

article on Toy Articles that MayBo Used for light Housekeeping asplendid description of A ValentinoSocial i a complete illustrated pat¬

tern department Two GoodandfB Arnold Ella Wheeler Wilcoxcontributes a pithy editorial For-tune

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Often Near Us and goodshort stories are by Eben E Roxfordand E Carl Lttsey A MaidensDream is the title of a delightfulwaltz for the piano

New Sayings of Mrs Wigg-

sFrom Lovely Mary The CenturyMagazine

Ive made it a practice to put tillmy worries lows in the bottom ofmy heart then set on the lid ansmile

You never kin toll which wayany pleasure is acomin Who overwould a thought when we aimedat the cemetery that wed land upat a firstclass fire

I Lliovo in havin a good timewhen you start out to have it Ifyou get knocked out of one plan youwant to git yerself another rightquick before yer sperrits has achance to fall

Tho way to git cheerful is to smileabouttown is most busiiu to keep on beHovin the sun is ashinin when theclouds is thick enough to cut

Dont you go an git sorry for yerself Thats one thing I cant standin nobody Theres always lots ofother folks you kin be sorry stid ofyerself Aint you proud you aintgot a harolip Why that onethought is enough to keep me fromever gittln sorry for myself

Bitten By Mad Dog

The 6yearold son of H Huddleston of near Dawson Springs wasbitten by a mad dog last week andcarried to Paducah to have the madstone of Capt Joe Fowler applied tothe wound The stone udherred forsome time

When the Chimneylanguishes ¬

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lal tubes are clogged with phlegmthe flame of life flickers Intelligenttreatment with Allens Lung Balsambrings up the phlegm allays inflam ¬painincomes those terrible colds which ifneglected soon become consumption

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The walking sick whata crowd of them there arePersons who are thin andweak but not sick enoughto go to bed-

Chronic cases thatswhat the doctors call themwhich in common Englishmeans long sickness

To stop the continuedloss of flesh they needScotts Emulsion For thefeeling of weakness theyneed Scotts Emulsion-

It makes new flesh andgives new life to the weaksystem

getsthinof the rut ° It makes newrich blood strengthens the

appetiteforScotts Emulsion can be

taken as long as sicknesslasts and do good all thetimeTheres

new strengthand flesh in every dose

gladtodoses free

Be tare that this picture Inthe form of a label is on the

ofEmulsionSCOTT BOWNE

Chemists409 Pearl St N Y50c and l j all druggists

Castro still keeps a firm grip onhis job Hu dues not mean to lot gountil lie IIIIH to

Boarders Wanted

Mrs Mollie Combes desires to In ¬

form the public that she Is now pre ¬

pared to keep boardpat her board-Ing

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house on Sehreo 4ve and re ¬

patronageRates

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