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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1916
Page
3
The shop promotes the Baby electric iron at 1.50 and electric stoves at 2.19, rounds trunk and bag lines from 3.50 to 30.00 and purses to 12.50 with Roundtree branding, La Victoire corsets for comfort, and new Cretons for Fall priced 0.30 to 0.50 per yard, inviting readers to Clayton St. window.
The ad promotes New Cheviotts at 1lc per yard with fast colors, ginghams and percales in pretty patterns. Devonshire fabrics priced 20c, other ginghams at 12 1/2c and 15c. It notes school wardrobe time for girls and highlights wide color selections.
Complete stock of high grade toilet waters soaps talcum and face powders plus other requisites. Specials include Colgates toothpaste 25c 20c peroxide tablets 7c quart household ammonia 10c three Palm Olive soaps with 50c jar cold cream or shampoo 44c regular 80c value.
Lexington residents plan summer departures for teaching posts in Ashburn Bremen Grantville and beyond. Local families guests and visitors mingle with regional movements as Mrs Cloud Miss Reynolds and Mr Shackelford host summer gatherings while Lydia Lester and Misses Rice enjoy visits in Monroe and Rayle.
Social notes from Winterville detail visits by Miss Maggie Chandler and Mrs J W McGahee to Mrs D I Winter, plus guests in Augusta and Lexington. The article covers numerous small gatherings, church decorations, and a quiet Saturday wedding of Miss Ethel Johnson to Mr Walter F Mathews at the Methodist church with pink roses and white attendants.
The Banner lists new civil service examinations with multiple positions and salaries. Roles include laboratory assistant, mineral examiner, junior fuels chemist, junior computer, agricultural assistant, leather chemist, ordnance draftsman, grain exchange investigator, assistant examiner, and cook baker. Applications via Athens post office civil service clerk.
Harold plays with James under a tall hickory tree. James boasts he can climb to the top. Harold retorts that James believes he is God in mock confrontation.
Hazel Hamilton of New Castle Indiana says monthly cramps and pain from age eleven to seventeen stopped after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports feeling renewed and regularly monthly since. The ad invites letters to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co asking for confidential advice.
Eastern time list shows Train 50 at 8 30 a m Train 52 at 4 00 p m Train 56 at 4 30 p m Sunday only Train 61 arrives 12 30 p m daily except Sunday Train 53 arrives 9 30 p m Train 57 arrives 12 m Sunday only
Train No 2 leaves Athens 7 20 p m Train No 4 leaves Athens 2 20 p m Train No 1 arrives Athens 11 40 a m Train No 4 arrives Athens 6 40 p m Nos 2 and 4 connect at Belmont for Winder Monroe and intermediate points and with the Georgia Railroad for all points and at Gainesville for Gainesville Northwestern stations and with Southern Railway north and south.
Seaboard Air Line schedule lists south bound No.11 at 5 27 a m No 17 at 7 10 a m No 5 at 3 45 p m and No 29 at 6 17 p m north bound No 30 at 10 40 a m No 6 at 6 17 p m No 18 at 7 45 p m and No 12 at 11 42 p m.
Daily and Sunday departure times listed for the Athens branch itineraries. Trains depart 8:20 a m for all points, 1:00 p m for all points, 3:15 p m Sunday only, 3:30 p m for daily except Sunday. Arrivals at 12:40 p m and 6:50 p m for all points. Daily-except-Sunday AM train 9:45 a m. Information via H E Walliams and EB Shelton.
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