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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
3
A local store advertises heavy markdowns on Swiss fabrics, lawns, dimities, linens, silks, trimmings, embroidery, and wool dress goods. It promotes half price on closeouts including lace, mitts, belts, neckwear, parasols, ribbons, suspenders, overalls, and rugs with various listed values and dollar prices.
Short notes of interest from Athens Georgia including local business ads and anecdotes. Bank and savings note, product samples from Globe Remedy Co, candy and coffee mentions, photo studio boast, house moving service by W. Pease, and local shop specials. Includes prices and locations on Clayton Street Moss Building and College Avenue.
Garden Club members are asked to convene at Mrs. Henry Weat on Tuesday at 10 30 for premium lists for fruits and vegetables for the fall show. A second group gathers at Mrs Lawrance on Tuesday at 10 30 to prepare premium flower lists for the same event. Chairmen Mrs J E King and Mrs H A Lowrance preside.
On campus yesterday afternoon East Athens beat Y M C A by 4 to 0 in a nearly error free nine inning game. The contest was exciting from start to finish and featured solid defense and timely hitting.
Athens circuit reports good progress under Rev. A A Sullivan with Boggs Chapel and Prospect revivals and a Bogart church building planned. A reader praises Grape-Nuts for son’s recovery and a friend’s health, ending with an offer to mail contest details from Battle Creek Michigan.
The Steel Vaults for the new city hall have arrived and are temporarily stored in the calaboose for protection. Six vaults will be encased in brick to be fire proof. workmen begin installing the stone entrance from College Avenue. Completion hoped before January first with fair weather.
Prof. Park, a male English professor at the University of Georgia, returns to Athens after months abroad including time at the University of Chicago and a visit to England. He praises Oxford as delightful and reports renewed interest in his Georgia work. Also an advertisement touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion with claims of stomach readiness and blood health.
An Athens to Tybee excursion is planned for August 18 under J. E. Gardner. The round trip fare is four dollars. Trains depart Central depot at 3 45 p m Tuesday for a seaside outing affordable for many Athenians. Globe Tonic cures indigestion Samples free 30 Clayton St Regular meals at Gillland's Cafe today 35c 2t
A Milledge Avenue home of A L Hall is being reoriented to face Milledge Avenue and moved to the corner. Two new neat residences will be built between Hall’s property and Mrs M A Lipacomb’s home, improving the area. Regular dinner at Gilleslands Cafe today, 35 cents. Mollie Allen of South Fork Kentucky credits Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets with warding off a cholera morbus attack and bilious symptoms. sold by H R Palmer & Sons and W J Smith & Bro.
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