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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
5
This ad touts exceptional bargains for apparel and home furnishings in Athens. It promises up to date styles for men women and children and highlights decor for walls windows and floors as top quality and unusually affordable.
Readable portion touts women and children's hosiery and underwear with excellent values. Notes high prices but claims ready stock never before so carefully filled with rare values. Highlights hosiery varieties, colors, cotton, gauze lisle, lace, and boot styles.
Advert shows lisle silk and lace boot garter tops and stockings in dice pattern polka dots and florals. Also promotes new tans to match shoes in leather tones and plain cotton lisle silk options in multiple sizes for ladies misses and children with bold sale wording and faded price references.
Local society notes list Mr. W. 8. Bower visiting Columbus relatives and Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Dailey calling on friends there. C. L. Biddison and other residents were business visitors in Crooksyville and Athens. SeveralEstaillions recount illness improvement for Mrs. Louise Roush Starling and various trips to Nelsonville Glouster and Stewart for events, contracts, and school activities.
Danell Sams is very ill at his mother's home with pneumonia symptoms. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Brooks visited Nelsonville to spend Sunday with their daughter Mrs. J. L. Jack. E. BE. Eddy of Trimble attended a Poultry Association meeting in Athens as a business visitor. Mrs. Lucy Brown of Lancaster is visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Millikan and will stay a month with friends.
Mr. Harry C. O Bleness of the Athens Foundry and Machine Company arrived home this morning after a business trip in Cleveland.
Mrs C C Millikan came home Friday evening after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs D C Beck in Delaware. The Becks will spend the summer abroad and sail from New York on June 8.
Mr. W. M. Kurtz travels to New York City today for a short business trip and will stay with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kurtz. Mrs. George Harper is slowly improving after five months confined to bed, though progress is slower than hoped.
Mr. Clarence Murphy and his young son from Columbus visited the city today en route to Albany for the wedding of his sister Miss Caroline Murphey to Mr. F Stanley Crooks this evening. Ed C Evans and Warren Whitemore represented Whitemore and Company from Nelsonville at the Poultry Association meeting Thursday night.
Coast Os Bears purchase of a signature item appears to involve a notable donor or figure. Details are unclear due to fragmented text. Further readable content needed for precise summary.
Horace L. Chapman, a leading Ohio coal operator, was chosen temporary president at a board meeting on Monday. Will Succeed John Winder as president of Sunday Creek Coal Company. It is likely H. H. Heiner will become permanent head later. No successor for General Manager Roan was discussed. Roan and Winder plan to depart for the South after June 1.
H M Geyer, a horse buyer, purchased and shipped twenty eight horses from Athens on Tuesday. The sale is notable as horses remain scarce and buyers seek to understand the source of the supply.
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