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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1905
Page
6
The Childrens Symphony under Miss Mabel Hodgson was postponed from Friday evening to Saturday at 8 p m in the Seney Stovall chapel at Miss Keipps request. Open to the public, all local music students invited. date and hour to be announced later. Various local residents and visitors noted items.
A roster of arriving guests includes J. H. Bailey Martinsville Va C A Nightengale Atlanta T O Clower Atlanta E H Simmons New Orleans W J Shelton Philadelphia Henry Schier Cincinnati L A Gnecker New York City R L Mobly Monroe Ga W G Mealor Atlanta J W Beach Chicago Mr P J Kennedy New York Miss Elizabeth Kennedy New York Miss Isabel Egrenott New York Mr F Gilliard New York Mr Theo Beard New York Mr Chas W King New York Mr Henry B Kilein New York C H Stone Sharon Ga M Meinstein Philadelphia Jack Levy Philadelphia W F Sheppard Monroe Ga J M Brady Monroe Ga W P Perry Monroe Ga J E Polhill Macon R S Winburn Gainesville Frank Woodwanser New Orleans C H Zarley Chattanooga Tenn R L Waynish Greensboro N C C S Williams Union Point Ga
Fire at 23 Kimball Street destroyed the roof of R. L. Foreman’s residence while his family slept. Chief Joyner and his crew fought the blaze from 4 to 6 am in subzero cold with icicles hanging from clothing. Spectators stood near as ice coated the yard and street.
A hot water boiler explosion occurred in the kitchen of former Governor Allen D. Candler's Atlanta residence. The blast shattered windows and plaster, but the cook escaped injury after heating thawed a frozen pipe.
Trains including the Twentieth Century Limited are stalled near Irvington on the New York Central line. About 50 to 60 passengers are trapped with no outside communication until 500 workers can clear the tracks. Dining car service and heat remain available to passengers.
Local ads promote furnished rooms at Windsor Hotel with or without board and invites inquiries to S. T. Philpot at Commercial Hotel. Wier's offers Florida oranges tomatoes and beans with phone 465. Bailey Supply Co invites visits for coffee and shopping and features Florida lettuce eggplant and beans. Orr Drug Co advertises new crop flower seed. C J O\'Farrell Furniture Co plans store visits by a representative from St. Louis to demonstrate brown top and bottom biscuits in 3 minutes.
Athens Ice and Coal Co advertises genuine Red Ash coal at 5.50 per ton with contact by phone 117 for delivery or pickup.
Advertises blankets at deep discounts from 75 cents to 6 50, wool mixes and wool blankets with marked values. Also promotes underwear at cost, half price rain coats, remnant wool dress and cotton goods, and 2000 yards Fruit of Loom bleaching remaining. Includes stray line fragments about manners and fruit.
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