New Silk Undirskirts and Skirts Arrive for Season
Retail listing announces a large assortment of Black, Colored, and Plaid Silk Undirskirts along with a complete line of Black Satino Skirts offered at reasonably low prices for the new season.
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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1906
Page
3
Retail listing announces a large assortment of Black, Colored, and Plaid Silk Undirskirts along with a complete line of Black Satino Skirts offered at reasonably low prices for the new season.
An elaborate assortment of Ladies' Silk Waists in black white and fall colors with newest effects in Belts. Includes Ruching and Stock Collars along with Silk Windsor Tiles.
A floor full where money saving opportunities are piled ceiling high. Colorings and designs the latest, quality absolutely reliable, prices easily the lowest.
Mayor Mersey and City Attorney West presided over a council room case in which Mattie Lumpkin Roxanna Houston Mattie Lon Johnson and Annie Bonds faced charges of disrespectful talk and pushing white girls on the sidewalk. The four were fined ten dollars each, with harsher terms anticipated for the parents and a pledge to report to the board of education.
Atlanta, Sept. 15. Charles N. Crittenton, famed for his liberal aid to the poor, will visit Avanta to conduct a series of meetings. A multimillionaire, he travels with W. W. Zealy who has left his New York home and will join the trip in Augusta where he becomes a book-keeper in a cotton mill, taking new duties.
Governor Terrell, after a New York trip, gains Southern Education Board support to aid new district agricultural colleges in Georgia. The board will fund site selection and curriculum work, and send two Department of Agriculture experts to assist. Secretary Wilson and Hayes advocate a congressional line item for sub agricultural stations at each college.
Mrs Mary H Walters of Columbus Ohio details nearly fatal stomach weakness from medicines. After trying Electric Biers she reports immediate improvement and a complete cure, with claims of a best health tone on earth. Advertisers urge readers to buy from local druggists W J Smith & Co and H R Palmer & Bros.
Jefferson celebrates the Gainesville Midland switch from narrow to standard gauge. The last narrow gauge train departed at midnight as the first standard gauge train reached the depot on Sunday. Capt. W. A. Clark led the new locomotive with Ben Bird at the throttle, while depot agent R. B. Maxwell supervised the new facilities. Grand and traverse juries for Clarke Superior court were drawn at a special session led by Judge Charles H. Brand, with a lengthy list of names. Track progress toward Gainesville remains behind schedule, with completion anticipated by November 1.
Athens Odd Fellows lodges show growth with two leaders taking Georgia Grand Lodge roles. Calvin W Parr of Athens becomes Grand Senior Warden and next year Grand Chief Patriarch, while James H Dozier advances to grand master. Olive Encampment and Glenn Lodge 76 post strong memberships and active officers, with Williams Lodge 15 maintaining long-standing service and charity efforts amid a robust local fraternal scene. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve ad follows.
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