People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1897 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

* ‘ ' ' » * r ' ' ' ' 1 ' ' 1 ill 111 111 111 i 7 1 1 7 7 ? 7 1 7 7 I 7 7 } > Ellis & Hurray, RADICAL REDUCTIONS. M M Sensational Sales. No Reserve Stock, Every Department in our entire double store represented--dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, cloaks, carpets, furnishing goods, everything goes. Sale Commences Friday Morning, January Ist, ’97, 8 o’clock, Continuing until Jan. 15th only. 15 days of the keenest merchandising ever known in Jasper County. Read the list carefully. Then make up your wants, for you cannot afford to miss this Sale. Getting ReadyClearing counters—Gaining space—For the Slaughter ■ S V ’ * OF A $40,000 STOCK.

Domestics. Yard-wide unbleached muslin 4c Good unbleached sheeting 5c * Superior unbleached sheeting.... *6c Extra heavy unbleached sheeting. 7c Yard-wide bleached muslin 5c Fine bleached muslin..... 6c Extra bleached muslin 7c Lonsdale (green ticket) 7£c Lonsdale cambric. 8c Light shirting prints 4c Dark dress prints 4<* Best indigo blue prints..... . ...:. 5c Best turkey red prints .-. • 5c Good shirting 4|c 7c Best heavy shirting 8c Good canton flannel 4£c Better canton flannel 5c Heavy canton flannel 7c Extra canton flannel 8c One lot all silk ribbons, all widths 5c

We have reserved the following until you have read the above list of Keen Cut Prices, the lowest ever named in this. County. Prom Friday Morning, January Ist, until January 15ttj, We will give an extra 10 per cent discount on every article purchased in our house, be it great or small. RUUIS & MURRAY.

Suicides multiply. Values and banks tumble. The cloud of stagnation darkens. The change of executive® approaches. The period of depression lengthens. Mortgage foreclosures crowd the docket of every court. Values m Jasper county have fallen one-third to one-half in a year. The Populists of South Dakota are purging the party of the Hannacrats. Owing to the machinations of the trust that controls that commodity, leather continues to advance in price.