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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1910
Page
8
Short notes list available rentals real estate for Erwin and Company including a five room house on Dougherty street for 17.50 and a five room close in on 83x250 lot with pasture and outbuildings for 2100 dollars. Also notices for chafing dishes, fire insurance, repairs and home building plus coal delivery and matinee ads for Man on Box.
Local business listings include Lipscomb & Co. real estate and fire insurance, J L Arnolds Paint Store, Bondurant’s nickel plated copper vessels, Bondurant’s bath accessories, Atlantic Ice and Coal, and Palace Market ads. Personal notices list visits and guests in the city, with a wedding and several trips to Atlanta, Gainesville, and Columbus.
Advertisements seek twenty seamstresses for factory work with good salary and steady year round home sewing for twenty five seam stitches. Apply at 133 Clayton St next to Laundry Athens. Also notices about cash-only sales by H C Weatherly Coal Co and job openings for three experienced dry goods salesmen and felt slippers at Mallory Shoe Store.
Griffith & Welch publish a brief Athens market note on Middling cotton prices quoted as 4 1412 16. The snippet records price figures and market routine without broader context.
Suggestions FOR . Holiday Gifts FOR HOUSEKEEPERS China and porcelain sets 25 styles 100 pieces Decorated French China sets $25.00 Gold band French China open stock and made up sets CHINA- China Chamber sets Nut sets Salad bowls cake plates chocolate sets berry dishes celery dishes Japanese china odd pieces Large variety Coal vases turkey roasters Rogers silverware knives forks spoons case goods Fine lamps Crystal and decorated glassware FOR BOYS Velocipedes wagons hobby horses air rifles trains pianos etc Numerous small toys 5% up FOR GIRLS Fine dolls doll carriages toy tea sets wash stand sets doll beds tricycles toy trunks pianos Numerous small toys from 5c up Don’t fail to see our line.
Athens hosts a first of its kind exhibition as two teams of local businessmen face off next Friday December 16 with lineups including Slaughter Talmadge Chandler and Rowland Bell Huggins among others. A seniors and intermediates game follows with admission 25 cents and balcony seats 10 cents.
The following officers have been elected for the next term by Geo. B. Davis Camp 292 Woodmen of the World Consul Com prof J D Severn Adv Lieut W R Jennings Banker L Baum Clerk John Mappin Escort E K Collins Watchman Geo W Mappin Sentry Emmett Wood Physician Dr D H DuPree Managers A J Watson H Lanend A J Gray.
Special Master Judge Andrew J. Cobb heard arguments for and against paying fees to Commissioners Mallory and Coge for their services in disposing of the Huff estate. The commissioners, represented by Ellsworth Hall, claim entitlement to compensation and payment for the sale conductor. Huff’s attorney and creditors oppose.
The many friends of Mr J F Shepherd will be glad to know he is steadily improving now at his room where he has been confined for several days on account of injuries received in an automobile accident.
Atlanta announces the formal lighting of its Great White Way with three quarters of a mile of iron posts and clusters of white bulbs from the Aragon to the Terminal station. Shops stay open until ten, drawing crowds to Peachtree and Whitehall streets as aviation contests begin. Other notes discuss agricultural education in Athens and the cotton seed economy, highlighting the link between oil mills and farmers.
The pastor Rev. M. L. Troutman will conduct prayer services at First Methodist Church tonight at eight o'clock.
A baptism will be administered tonight at First Baptist after the prayer meeting by the pastor of West End church to a candidate for church membership.
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