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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1907
Page
3
All the newest dress goods from 10c to $2.50 per yard across plains of colors checks plaids and mingles. New silks cottons linens and laces fill the aisles with trims hats and hosiery including long kid gloves and a vast line of skirts and coats. Davison-Nicholson Co offers rich gowns and accessories plus a large house furnishings department featuring carpets rugs draperies and lamp shades.
New hatpin with two heads and an adjustable ball for pinning. oyster white silk stockings embroidered with white daisies. fall colors blue and gray dominate wardrobes. Silk waists, crepe and satin jackets, jumpers with kimono sleeves, and lace guimpes appear. Prince styles in jackets, ponys, and hip length coats trend. Jewelry features ball-top pins and opals with diamonds. Parasol monograms, striped voile dresses, and fancy boots rise in popularity.
A clipped line notes critics and alarmists retreating into shells or aligning with the Greater Athens chorus, signaling a shift in public sentiment as voices fade from the debate.
Dr. Be R Kinnebrew shares a copy of the Banner from February 20 1851 with Hopkins Holsey editor and T S Reynolds publisher. The issue lists bids for mail carrying in Georgia and notes local merchants, schools, and shops in Athens including W P Sage jewelers and White’s University Bookstore. The piece records the cotton market, Calhoun writings, and a free trade debate, ending with DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve sold by druggists.
The Reporter carries declarations of Hon. Thomas J. Brown of Elberton and Hon. J. H. Skelton of Hartwell as candidates for solicitor-general of the Northern circuit. Brown, a Emory College and Emory Law School graduate, has built a notable legal career at Elberton and gains support from neighbors and Washington connections.
Atlanta Ga September 7 Special Upon return from Little Rock meeting leaders of the National Farmers Union and Farmers Union of Georgia will meet in Atlanta with the state cotton seed crushers chiefs to fix a minimum price for cotton seed this fall Georgia side with Fifteen cent cotton and twenty dollar per ton seed price cited Texas has set sixteen dollars a ton Georgia and other states expected to act independently The Atlantic Beach Georgia meeting urged the conference between union leaders and crusher heads to align output control with market needs Gins are starting to operate and seed mills will soon join the active market All parties expect mutual benefit from the high level talks watchful interest from farmers mid men and southern producers
Jackson Miss May Put min price row dominates Southern Cotton Association meeting as executive committee debates a 15 cent target versus 13 cents per pound. President Harvie Jordan delivers a sermon while M D Smith and Clark of Mississippi speak. Committee work expected to finish this afternoon.
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