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ae hy AND FALL OPENING TUESDAY, --- 20 SEPTEMBER Tbis will be a Red Letter Day in the history of our store. Every department wil! make special displays for thie occasion... MUSIC, DRAPERIES, FLOWERS FD We want you to inspect our stock of ¥ DRESS GOODS, | 3 SILKS AND TRIMMINGS. The most complete line we ever handled IN THE ULOAK AND SUIT ROOM An enormous collection of the mort stylish garments!fresh from the best manufacturers. MILLINERY All the new pattern Hats and Bonnets will be on display for the first 233A JAPANESE ROOME&<«« A very unique idea will be carried out in our carpet room. Come and have the Japaneoe maidens serve you a refreshing glass of tea. OUR SHOE DEPARTMEN time. Will show all the newest styles in fine shoes and slippers for men women and children. This Store Will Be Open Tuesday Evening UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK TO DISPLAY GOOD! NOTHING SOLD AFTER SEVEN Come And Hear The Music. ELLIS Rudy & Phillips 221 BROADWAY 219 BROADWAY Winter is oming If you wish to keep warn, pre- pare for it by employing us to ity in a complete guaranteed O° temperature steam or hot water -ystem. This is your best opportunity. Minzesheimer Plumbing Comp’y 104 North Fifth Street Under Palmer House Yelephone 362, HENRY MAMMEN, Jr. BOOK BINDER concern to come here and ij locating. THE PADUCAH DAILY SUN Published every afternoon, except tno ca teseate| A LIVELY SESSION. school board meeting last night were Sunday, by N PUBLISHING COMPANY tight to the point. His motion that ton inued from flest page.) THE SU ‘UBLIS #1] committee of citizens be appointed ae ure ame puraronm {12 examine the record of the school | The mvor stated that all the officials, RW. OFEMRNTS. Pursipers | board in its management of the new | "lt eave en fu, ee ean’), Doren ‘SpONRTART matter of ordering printing, and it Wp baxton 0) “aaasenm Fechoo! house was x wise one and rishi jwrvalier te dune thevugh the Ne howl herestte one , FM, Fisher, W.F. Paxton. R.W,Clements | HOUld have passed, ‘The action of committer 3.28, Williamson Jonn J. Dorian, Office; Nos 214 Broadway. Daily, per annum in advance. $ 4.50 Daily, Six months “ 2.26 ily, One month, «* v, per week. Weekly, per annum in ad- Specimen copies tive Tl ESDAY, SEPT, 20, 1898, 99999990090009599990000008 | ly wrong in the school board manage- SOTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. We, the undersigned, re- respectively the Manager, the Circulator and the Pressman of the Paducah Daily Sun, do state that the average circulation of the Paducah Daily Sun for the twelve months end- ing July 33, 1898, was (1545) Fifteen Hundred and Forty-five. At E. Youne, Manager. S. A, Hixt, Circulator. Ep T. WETHERINGTON, Pressman. The above was subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of August, 1898. w. F. Paxto Notary Publ 1 | expires January EEK CCOeCeeel Hear Orricen Mian is still writing health certificates free. Tue council did a wise thing last night in inviting the I, O. O. F. grand lodge to meet here next year. It will be @ good thing for Paducah. Tne city engineer, that voleano which belches forth fire, smoke and He is trying to get rid of his assistant again. lava, bas had another erupiion. Tue free ferriage project was nipped in short order—$40,000 for the ferry outfit would be an expen- sive enterprise on the part of the city. Ir is criminally careless for the council to allow this beautiful weath- er to pass without repawing the streets that have been torn up by the sewerage contractors. Tur public is wondering how the Register can collect from the city for a “free-hand report’? of the council proceedings, when not even the bills allowed are given. ‘Tue opinion of the mayor of Hen- derson. who was recently here, in regard to our streets, has not been made public. But then perhaps the mayor did not show bim Third street and a few others that ought to be re- paired by Contractor White. Contractor Wurte is to be sued on his bond for failing to complete the sewerage system within the time prescribed—250 days, He has work- ed 289 already. He is also to be sued for failing to keep the streets in He decsn’t seem will bave to the proper repair. to care—bis bondsmen pay it, anyhow. Tux News refers to the Register in “nt (the Register) is simply a kicker the following bitter language: against existing order, and favoring only a measure by the strength of its prejudice against the antithesis.’’ If the editor of the Kegister takes that without a resort to war he is not the wild and untamed ‘ ‘insurgent’ that we take him to be, AN EXAMPLE FOR PADUCAH. The Manufacturer's Record say: “Special Agent E. B, Miller, of the Commercial club of Birmingham, has reported that there are five wood- working industries whose managers desire to move, and who are consid- Mr. Miller stated that ‘the plants would employ 400 skilled la- borers and would consume about $500,000 worth of iron, wood and other material. A committee of seven was appointed to assist Mr. Miller in securing the plants.’’ That is the way the business men of Birmingham look after the interests of their city; and yet that city has ho greater advantages than Paducah, but the business men of Paducah are waiting, waiting for something to turn up, or for some manufacturing e jon, sist on A live commercial club like the one Birmingham has would be of untold yolue to this city, Un- til some such organigation is formed, Paducah will not get the growth or A thoroughly eauippes Book-making plant. You send Peo! Flat-Ovening. Books. ing out of town. BROADWAY teap the prosperity that belongs to ber by right. Piantation Chill Care is made b; Van Vieet-Marsfeld Drug Co, + 10 cents] portion of the people and tax payers | T! 4 t ering Birmingham as their future lo- the board in refusing Architect Davis the privilege of bringing expert teati- mony to prove that his position was | the isiter of placieg a sewer near vorrect and that the expenditure of FOU! ate omy sot the $557.00 of the peoy 8! (he right of way over their property STREET COMMUPTER, Chairman Radolph, reported ia e's money ws 40] needless, has convinced a large pro- | provided the company and president npson be allowed to tap it, Re 1 and concurred in, A petition was read from thirteen of this city that the board is afraid | ee of an investigation. ‘The action ot op mary of tie thant Blorontt we | Prope! owners, asking that Eleventh the board last night in voting. down jstreet be graded and graveled froto | the proposition to have an investiga-| Madison to Trimble streets, ‘The re- tion will only strengthen the belief of | port was received and the matter the people that something is evident. {ett to the street committee, to in- te the ngbt of way, and ascer- ‘ ‘ tain if a majority ment. When officials are| owners desire tie improvement. afraid of an investigation, when they ‘The committee appointed to investi- dare not have the light turned on gate the matter of establishing a free their actions, then it is high time that | ferry reported adversely, saying that a -mont thordGah investigatlia {the benedlis to be derive ( would not il justify the expense, "Lbey reported id. jthat Owen Bros. offered the city Capt. Smith and the membes of | their boat, docks, franchises on this the board who supported his respla~ and the Lllino's side for $40,000. tion, realize. that they are the ser- The committee thought it a good lion” . idea, if Ove me would se vants of the pablioe” "Their repita- idea, if Oxen Bros. would sell their tions are dearer to public be franc a fait price, to. purchase them thaB the lit as au investment. ‘The report was holding of a public position. They | receiver aud tiled want their acts investigated, and huirkp eGkhiuetins they are willing that the public Charan J nes communi- should know all the facts, Ef the|CMton relative to puyment of alley improvements betweea Third board has msde ‘a mistake in ac: and Fourth and Tennessee, aud Nor- cepting the recommendation of their sire There is some differ- ence between the city and property holders, and the obligation of citizens who signed the agreement to donat eerts mounts was declared void by the city attorney because the amounts they subscribed were to pay for the coodemnation of property. and none demoed by the city. The er was drepped aud the city will to pay the expenses. Five dollars paid by Mr. Ed Woolfolk was refunded, A. petition contractors uperintendent, then they fact determined jast as svon as possible. And their posi- tion is the correct one, The public las a right to know all the facts, and the members of the board in justice to themselves should demand a most} * thorough investigation. a" want the Ki ™M Many of ‘them Arriving on Every was read from Sam Stanley relative to. Mechanicsburg Train, street improvements, Deferred. sadist A petition was from property There are many yellow fever refu-|holders asking that the nec steps be taken to extend water mains from the present terminus at Farley gees in the city at present, and they continue to come in on every traia Last evening the following arrived : Place, to Clements street, thence to L. Brame and wife and chid, Miss} Bridge street and Langstaff school Lulu Brame, Mrs C. E, MeDPavilt,/ house. Received, and the Water Mrs. T. B, Lampton, Dr. V. L. Ter- rell and wife, ©. D. Terrell and Miss Adine Terrell, all of Jackson, Miss. Mr. George Ripley and wife, of Memphis, are visiting Councilman (. R. Davis and wife. Mr. Ripley had company was notified to extend the mains. SEWERAGE COMMITTER, Chairman Elliott presented an esti- mate from Contractor White tor $39 for last man-hole on main sewer, been in New Orleans, but would not $13.40 was also allowed for extra be permitted to get off at Memphis, | work, and his wife joined him there and LICENSE COMMUTT ER they came on to Paducah, AURORA BOREALIS SEEN, It Was Plainly Visible Here Last Night, People who were up late last night report that a beautiful di.,'9) of the aurora borealis was seen in the north- ern heaven about | o'clock. These remarkable displays are ve mon in this section of th but the one last night was very Chairman Davis presented a pe- for transfer of coffee house e from Louis Clark to Joho Graptec similar p who by from J. U out Bozeo's ition ght CEMETERY COMMITTER, Chairman Jackson said about 500 feet of additional tiling is needed at the cemetery. No action, NkW LUSINRSS. Mr. Davis said he and Mr. Win- y steal had examined the floor at Cen- liant, according to those who Wit-|tral fire station, aud it was badly in nessed it. need of a new one. One of the Don’t you know Plantation Chil | horses broke through Saturday. Mo- Cure 1s guaranteed to cure you? tion to ascertain cost of a new floor veh by the improvement committee was r. LOUIS, | carried. Mr. Elliott read a communication On account of the St. Louis Fall} from merchants of west side of South Festivities the Illinois Central Rail-] Second street, asking that sewer . road Company will on Tuesday,Sept.|be laid in the alley between Second 13th and each succeeding Tuesday] and Third and Court and Broadway, until Oct, 25th sell tickets to St.Jinstead of the streets. Referred to Louis and return at one and one third | sewerage committee and engineer. fare forthe round trip, good for A communication was read from three days. the mayor relative to the extension of On Tharsday, Sept. 15th and each] sewer mains down Nioth street to the succeeding Thursday until Oct. 27th] Cobankus company. The sewerage jat one fare for the round trip, good | committee advised with City Engineer for three days. Postlewaite, who reported that it Va account of the St, Louis Fair,}could not be done legal y, and be tickets will be sold from Oct. 2 until}could not recommend it, Received Oct. 8th inclusive at one fare for the} and filed. round (rip, good returning until Oet.| ‘The mayor read a communication 10th, J. T. Donovan, Agent. td./from Capt, Postlewaite, city : engineer, ng that he needed an Do: periment, but get the old}? ; tant. He said Mr. Lyon had eliable Plantation Chill Cure. btoapb ayes veo ne been of very little assistance to him since his reinstatement and was very negligent in his duties, and never ittee and Superiten-| came about the oflice, A wotion was made to receive and nation; file the report, whereupon Capt. Fowler asked what was goiog to be done It was today decided by the com-jabout providing the city engineer mittee that it is unnecessary to place] with assistance. He said any mav an additional teachér in thetirst grade] with one eye in his head could see at Lee sehool. that the assistant was no help to him Part of the larger grade at Lee] ‘The mayor stated that be heard school will be transferred to Franklin] Mr. Lyon was sick. He said that and Miss Bonds will be sent to the/as to Mr. Lyon's work, he had done Lee building. all the work on the sewers, there was wyieg + {no question about that, The trouble en netball ghee ed to | Wa, the city engineer and his assist- dreaded diy tant were not harmonious, Mr. Davis made a statement that one othe! My, Lyon dit not do a great deal of yee ates work, and ought to do more. cod and] Mr. Elliott moved that the sewer- by de’) age committee, mayor and Mr, Davis »|be appointed a committee to investi- gate the matter, ‘Vie bids for furnishing coal to the W TREACHER, the GC ent Settle ti W's Catareh iriving the pauent strengt Constitutiog and assisting nature in dome i work, ‘The proprietors have so much fatth in its curative powers, tbat th one Huns hey @ that it fails dred Dollars for any ¢ to eure Send for ist of test a city having been opened, the com- soit by Driuewtats BY CO, TotedO) ittee recommended that the cons eae clk mee tract be let to the St, Bernard Coal pe Co, at 94 cents per ton for pea coal. REDUCED RAI TO Louts-| ‘The other bids were read by request, and the recommendation of the cou~ pak mittee was concurred in. On account of fall races at Louig-] Mr. W. R. Peal was appointed ville, the Illinois Centra! Railroad|merchant’s policeman, and his bond company will on Sept. 26, 27, 28, 20| was satisfied. and for train No. 4 leaving Paducah} ‘The council passed a resolution in- 1:20 a. m, Sept. 30, sell tickets to] viting the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., Lovisville and return at one fare for|to meet here in 1899. (be round trip, good returning until A communication was read from Oct. 2, 1898, the People’s Light, Power and Rail- td way company, stating that 50 cents per annum was too much rent for the r, Kye, Nose and| poles, and unless reduced to 26 ‘Throat Specialist, Padu f cents the company would be com- er pelled to put 1m its own poles, The PLAIN SEWING, peat committee was instructed would like to get your se ‘ to dyaft an ‘Ordinance making the and dressmaking. Prices reasonal Mus. Car Swrru. VILL Done vax, Agent. = : f the property | White, on the sewerage since August | 15, 1897, until September 15, The number of days worked is 289, while) the contract says he must do it in 250 working days. Mr. Johnson several times about it, but had been ignored. Mr. Lightfoot mate a statement relative to why Ho lawsuit had been brought bee eat the time it would have beeu impossible to get the case | he deemed it best to October term of court. received and filed A communication from the mayor and city attorney was read recom= nding the appropriation of $20 ade to cover expenses of improv alley between Bight and Ninth ot Madison and Monroe Coneurred in, A report was read from the mayor relative tu the condition of the wharf at Elizabeth street, He states it is washing badiy, and that steps should be taken to repair it. The report was rec ed and filed: A request vas made by the b jot health to allow the health offi- jcer 25 cents for each health certifi- Ining it at the Report was streets jcate issued. Referred to the relic committee and city attorne A communication was read from | Mayor Lang calling attention to the recommendation of yer Consult. ing Engineer J. H. Elliott to allow citizens to tap the sewers as rapidly as possible. It was as follows | Papuean, Ky., \ t.19, 1808, f —-In a report on sews erage, which is on record in the city cletk’s office, made by Mr, James Elliott, of Memphis, ‘Tenn., designer of the system of sewersge vow io courte of construction in the city of | Paducah, I fad the following: “1 | would recommend that as fast as th |flush tanks are connected with th | water pipes, the properties tnbutary | to such branch be connected with the sewers as rapidly as practicable In the same report I find the follow neer’s office, and plans of all plam submitted to the engineer in charge for bis approval, and a copy after approval be filed in his office After advising sewerag as above he calls the Council in the same tention of the report to the station’’ were at a standstill ete With due respect to all connec with the construction of the system | of sewers, I desire to lay before you the fact that citizens should be | therewith just mitted to connect course should be done by the regulation are made a law. We certainly owe our citizens some consideration who are in their applications for connections before winter when plumbing work goes at maximum price, besides we owe some consideration to the citizen plumbers, who are a part of our constituency, sewe: comes, make fittings ata minimum cost be fore rush begins. In appeal it is with the knowledge that under the contract with (he sewerage contractors provision bas been made lated hat such shal! in no wise be “| constructed as an accepiunce of the work. It has been held by some that the privileges of connecting with the sew: ers should be withheld until the eom- pletion of the “well and pumping station,”’ which in fact these are for use only in extreme high water, being cut off from the exit pipe, by a her- metically sealed valve. Again it has been urged that if it requires five drinks to make one drunk, that drink would make one one-fifth drunk; and reasoning 01 this hypothesis if 1,000 gallons of 4, Husbands S. B. Caldwell, J HUSBANDS & CALDWELL ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW 127 South F Will practice in all the monwesits, Commereh in Daukruptcy a special! ourth St, P. Ky A. L. LASSITER Snee DAVIS rtoD B, Architect and Superintendent Amertean German Nutlonal Hank Building, Third P PADUCAH, KY The New York THE N. Y, WEEKLY TRIBUNE trated fashion articles, humorous pictu to every member of every family, THE SUN sive close the village, informs you as to tH) Send all subscriptions to said Mr. Evler bal written Mr, White connection I would impress | upon the Council the vital importance of all plumbing work being done in accordaace with rules and regulations which should be on file in the Engi- ing work before being put in should] connections fact the ‘‘sewerage well and pumping **! From our di the ume} 80 persistent | the |.) and are idle, therefore prepared to making this for such connections, and it is stipu- the nation and world, comprehensive an tori interesting short stories, scientific and mechanical information, ilu MUNYON’S mi ' HEADACHE AND INDIGESTION CURE ta the only remety of cure every form of F mot 1 and batld up y home ai Atoll dragetat sewerage turned loose on the city | will be conductive to malaria, and 100 gallons are turned into the sew- ers one-tenth of the cause ia removed, ia the September term of court, aod anid we trust one-tenth of the effect. | 9 to 103, m, I believe you will give this matter the merits, consideration Janes M Fowler moved pmittee: its importance Lane, Mayor, to refer it to } ie | The mayor said that ver giveu Any plausible reas ns should The city engineer's reason was that the pumping station was not com: pleted, The pumping station, he said, conld not be used six weeks in dl then during overflows, erasked if the board of ordered the connec- nie any year, 3 Mr. Fow health hadn't tions deferred, | ‘Lhe mayor said it had pot. That thority it had by mixiag up in any way in the matter of sewerage, That} vo board of health had any authority | until a nuisance ‘That it ad no right te Hicipate a nuissne He said that people all along the line had expressed a desire to connect with the sewers, and ought to be al- lowed to do so Mr. Elliott stated that the sewer- | age ordinance was not quite ready, althe the committee had been at work on it | The mayor said that ail the fami- lies who had previously connected with the sewerage under a resolution of the old council, had persistently and there was i them to do bt to k ext refused to disconnect, no le way to com) it. It dido't look r ep othe ts from enjoying the same privilege, |he said, ‘The report was referred to | the sew committee and on mo- tion the council adjourned, “LET US HAVE PEACE” "|*Peace hath her victories no leas re- wood than war. »| “To the victors belong the spoils,” To our customers belong the profits this week. We have met the | enemy and~— we've got ‘em. | WE HAVE SILENCED FORTS of bigh prices with the bar- Fails We to trate. Oar times the LOWEST, all the rest in the shade 8 gools may yet be se- TH figures, now ky at ok soon as the ordinance regulating the] jected some choice things in hot plumbing becomes a law HU this | weather stuff, on which we won't {should be made a law at the earliest | quote any prices, thoug ‘ie possible moment. ‘The main sewer | iat fora bluff. These goods you is now complete except the fact Ot) can have as you wish them; yourself heing cleaned out wader the super-| make the prices to suit. And when vision of the City Engineer, which of jyou have spent a few dollars y y t 3 | fine picture to boot, ing the handsomest DRESS SKIRTS Jever sold in this end of the state; for the ge an be all home mac r Our LADIES WE ases the fairest and looks lovely on creatures | fair; Our styles, jWhich me ever the rarest, ‘are charmin fair women lore, And [the men folks never forget us, when NICE SHIRTS and FIN q SHOES. ‘They know we keep the Jassoriment from which they ean [easily choose ‘| Our SHOES are the best and | Lon top of the earth—or be- overy last pair is.as ‘solid’? as the rocks ia the Forts of Morro. | You may fancy this quite out of rea json, but a trial will prove it is true. Just to wind up for the sea- son, FORLY CENTS buys a LOW- QUARTER SHOE, In GALPERS and BUTTONS and |LACKS we can fit every foot toa a “Cousin Geo how dainty your feet le : ar Dorian’s shoes—lon't you see? | Rich people are pleased with the auty of our LINENS, LACE CUR- AINS and RUGS, and otber folks think it a duty to follow the taste of es Our increasing and healthy—our prices creating 8 muss; we hold fast the trade of the wealthy, and “the poor we have always with us, big bugs, je is Our PICTURES—the Gems of liMMowTALS—in every ‘sweet home’ jought to be, when just for a few dollars’ purchase, you're wel- | come to some of them free. All will sdmit the above contains “more truth than poetry, erybody come ta this winding. up sale of the season. JOHN J. DORIAN, NO, 205 BROADWAY, - PADUCAH, KY, Weekly Tribung THE GREAT “ol National Family Newspaper For FARMERS and VILLAGERS and your favorite home paper, mes THE SUN, Pa*ucah, Ky. BOTH OnesYear for $1.00 has an agricultural department of the highest merit, all important news of reliable market reports, able ed. res, and is instructive and entertaining ‘ou all the local news, political and social, keeps you in uch with [owe neighbors and friends, on the farm jocal prices for farm products, the lor the year, and is a F nly visitor at your home and and in condition me and ind bs ight DEWEY, Ry. the board of health exceeded any au-| PROFESSIONAL H. T. RIVERS ' Physician... and Surgeon Office Sixth and Broadway, at Infirmary, Office Hours: Sto4 5 1890 to 8:80 p,m” re Telephones 68 and 296, A S. DABNEY, ® DENTIST Campari. Bortpine, Up-Starns, Fifth and Broadway. DR. J. D. SMITHS Regular hours for aMoe ractios, Tt . Hosp m tothe Pe When pi lecall early tm, rather the ear the close of these bOUrS ceon Niath, between Broadway and Je pilgrlaenee corner Ninth and Jeffernom, ‘Tele. phone HARRY F, WILLIAMSON, M.D, Physician and Surgeon OMce Hours: 7 o¥a.m. 108 p,m, Mlfice, No 419) Broadway. DR. J. W. PENDLEY OMce, 116 South Fifth Street. Residence, 904 Tennessee street, Office Telephone 416; Residence 415. Dentist and Oral Surgeon 20 North Fifth Street, ‘elephone Call 402, DR. H. T. HESSIG Office 120 North Fifth street. Residence 418 Adame street Telephones: Residence, 270. DELIA CALDWELL, M, D, Physician and Surgeon Office and residence, 522 Broadway. Office hours, 9 to 11 a.m., 2 to 4 pam. Telephone No, 191 ‘Dr. J. E. COYLE Physician and Surgeon Broad St. Telephone 878, ’aducah, Ky, OR. A. T. HUDSON PHYSICIAN Oftice with Dr. Brooks. Telephone 45. Residence 622 Broadway, HENRY BURNETT Attorney -at-Law Will practice in all the courts. 18 South Fourth St., Papvean, Ky THOS. E, MOSS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 116 South Fourth Street, Office, 402. W. M. JANES REAL ESTATE AND MORTGAGE LOANS See me to buy, sell or mortgage realty. OFFICB 828% BROADWAY Miss R. B. Hay ED H. PURYEAR Stenographer Attorney at Law And Notary Public, Real esate) and Life Insurance Agent, and Abstractor of Titles Formerly master commie i the Mevracken circuit courte, Will practice in all the courte of this and adjoining counties. Special attention gives to the collection of all claim: the renting of real estate and all other tigation. Will act ae and receiver of insolvent es! alsoas administrator of devedente’’ estates and as guardian of infants, Bonds for security given in surety companies, _{Oltice No. 127 South Fourth stree Legal Row), Peducah, a 4 Have You a... Water Filter? Tf not, dont’t fail to see F.G, HARLAN, JR, ie

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