Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-08-17
ROUNDS OF TIE TOWN.
A Representative of the Progress
Spends an Hour Sight-See-
ing

ing.
Today in many respects has been
"a grand, gloomy and peculiar one"
grand in the resplendent gloss left
upon everything by the down.pour OF
rain of yesterday; gloomy in the de-
serted streets as compared with the
crowds of Saturday, and peculiar in
the temper of the atmosphere and the
rapidly changing weather barometer.
But the day has not been altogether
without interest, and certainly so to
the Progress man, as may be judged
by his round of the business places as
given below:
Leaving the Office feeling kinder
loose and reckless" for it was IAN
hour off, the first place struck was
Ferguson real estate office, where
the latchstring always hangs on the
outside and where no visitor TO Hat
tiesburg ever fai'ed to find welcome
whether he was here to stay or mere
" stopping, between trains. Tom
and the fair name, Hattiesburg' are
one and inseparable and in the lam
guage of Vashti, "naught but dearh
wilt them part. Coming next in
order was the great Hawkins depart
ment sstoIe. where the doors were
found closed taking stock, you
know, but an abrupt kick brought a
clerk to the door, who poked his head
out long enough to say lyon can just
tell 'em in the columns OF your
paper that bargains never before
dreamed of are what we will have for
them when our doors are thrown open
again.
Now, if there is any word that has
more musical ring to the ear OF a
newspaper man than " advertise
ment' no one ever heard of it, and al
that is just What the Hawkins clerl
meant, The Progress man left IL
quest of the next place, feeling al
happy as big sunfower THAT nod
and bends in the breeZes. -
Next came the Logan Magrudel
Company, the repository of every
thing lovely in furniture and presided
over by two as clever gentlemen a
one could hope to meet in year.
travel. Seeing that "all was W ell
here and having "other fields ant
pastures green" to visit, a diagona
dive across the street was made t
the handsome store OF the new jew
elry company, where the variegated
dazzling scenes created by the costl
gems and wares inside caused tn
writer to forget, the while, the worl
without, as he stood ewildered b
the influence.
A little further down the stree
the extensive drug house of Alne
Dczier was reached. The success
this house has been as remarkable ;
the now millionaire firm Of the S
brakes Plantation Bitters peopl
who started trade in 1890 with ST.
Dozier started later and with lit
more capital than that but his succe
has been most wonderful, all due
his business tact and energy al
cleverness which none have ever fai
ed to notice.
Time being nearly up, deto
was maze TO tue f1attiosDuIB LII
Company, place which has be
justly termed "a model of business,
and here the busy scenes present
told of most prosperous firm.
On the homeward stretch, conf
next were O'Ferrall Bios, who ha
become famo rs through their bargs
advertisements and the faithfuln
with which they have fulfilled eve
promise made therein. This hor
stands monument to the greatn
of Hattiesburg. being second to
house of the south in the same lii
Further on came the place of
enterprising, public spirited A.
McInnis, who dares to lead.in eve
thing he undertakes and gracefn