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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1891
Page
2
Local merchant advertises drastic discounts at the first tables with half price cuts on edgings and insertions and a vast selection of spring fabrics. Lot by lot items include serges, camel hair suiting, French beige mixtures, handkerchiefs, corsets at 25c, white spreads and linens, linens, ginghams, and window shades, all marked down from higher prices to clear the store.
Athens banners promote the Augusta to Athens railroad as essential for Lincoln and Wilkes counties and surrounding regions. The piece notes twenty miles graded, Little River near, and funding in sight with locals urged to subscribe, highlighting gains for agriculture, timber, and minerals along the route.
The Gantt lots sale in Athens drew a large crowd despite rain with bids from Walter Maxwell J H Reaves A W Bell H W Bell W M Pittman and W A Jester. Total receipts reached 7880 while Gantt had bought the land for 10000 and promises further profits. The feature notes Athens deal rate remains strong and warns against consumption with Taylor's Cherokee Remedy sales pitch included.
A white woman Mrs Bassett arrested for attempting to abduct a girl tried to die in her Atlanta police cell by making a rope from bed clothes but was cut down. Also Governor Hill accepted to deliver the Grady monument unveiling speech in Atlanta. Closures include resignations of Barrow and Thomas as division counsel of the Richmond and Danville line due to salary cuts, and James S Ensor, a St Louis notary, disappearing after alleged $3000 misappropriation.
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