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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
6
If your watch shows irregularities or problems have it examined by a competent watchmaker. We clean and repair all watches thoroughly and guarantee the work and prices. We offer gold filled watch chains, including SIMMONS chains, at moderate prices.
Mrs. Agnes Goss returns from West Point after visit with the Lanier sisters. Miss Sallie Harris visits Augusta with aunt Phinzy. Mrs. Charles Stern hosts a dinner for Sol Solomon and Mrs. Joseph on Hancock Avenue. Numerous links of guests and travelers appear with Brown, Kirby, and local names.
The column lists residents and visitors including the Purucker sisters from Lucy Cobb spending summer in Switzerland and Miss McRee from Jefferson returning home. It notes Rev G M Webb returning from Greenville after attending a wedding and other exchanges with Atlanta and New York, along with a church reception invitation and a Lucy Cobb Latin exercise praised for its quality and humor by Miss Watt and Miss Adair Wilkinson among others.
Sick headaches traced to a disordered stomach are claimed to be quickly cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Sold by H. R. Palmer & Sons and W. J. Smith & Bro. Cheney's Expectorant purportedly cures coughs colds and croup at 25c a bottle in all drug stores.
Items of interest advertise large stock of glazed jardiniers at Huggins China House with prices from 35 cents to 1.00. The ad promotes English and American porcelain dinnerware including Haviland and Austrian sets and a wide plain white china selection. Also listed are housekeepers supplies such as tinware glassware refrigerators ice boxes water coolers cream freezers fly traps and more on Broad Street.
Macon Georgia May 18 Rumors say Hon Roland Ellis resigned his House seat to seek the Macon circuit superior court judgeship when Judge Felton leaves the bench Judge Felton may resign soon to head a new national bank Ellis aims to clear the way for a successor and position for appointment to the judgeship
Yesterday morning police arrested Willie Ann King on a vagrancy charge and bound her over for trial. If convicted she will be sent to the chain gang, with possible additional cases to follow.
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