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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
10
A Friday sale offers Corset Cover Embroideries and Skirt Flouncings up to 18 inches wide with white and colored edges, insertions, bands, and more. Broken lots include pieces originally priced 50¢ and 65¢, now 25¢ per yard.
About 100 skirts carried over from spring are offered at 2.49 each. Not the newest designs but good styles in Panama gle Mohair and Silk in cream tan brown green blue and black. Both gored and plaited, mostly plaited. Not all sizes or colors available, come early this morning. No C O D no approval exchanges or returns.
A large lot of wash fabrics including Cotton Foulards Printed Muslin Applique Swisses Fancy Batistes Corded Madras Silk Mull and other seasonals are offered at 10 cents a yard from special annex tables. Remnants were previously priced up to 25 cents per yard and 19 cents.
Sanitary expert Rudolph Hering tours Atlanta with Mayor Maddox and city officials to assess the sewerage and sanitation plan. He will report to the bond commission on Saturday morning after weather delayed Friday’s inspection of sewer mouths and water works improvements.
Fare note announces a $5.00 round trip to Wrightsville Beach on Tuesday July 20 via Seaboard Sleepers and Vestibule Coaches. Reservations encouraged, phone 100 at 8&8 Peachtree.
A sun dried Cherokee county gourd linked to Governor Brown's boyhood plantation tale sits in the governor's reception room. A cousin arranged the gift and it was brought to Atlanta on inauguration day. Since then multiple gourds from friends, including one from Elberton, have arrived and are used in the executive mansion.
Richmond Pearson Hobson, famed as the Hero of the Merrimac and a Alabama congressman, rode the West Point route into the terminal station in Atlanta yesterday. He bought a mileage ticket for Greenville, South Carolina, leaving at 11 p.m. The Pullman conductor helped reveal his identity. Hobson is scheduled to speak in Greenville.
Cleveland born John D Rockefeller, turning seventy, surprised friends by skipping a Forest Hill celebration and taking a secret train ride to New York state. He played golf with friends, then left with a valet for Union Station to travel east, with rumors tying the celebration to Richford, Tioga County, New York.
Captain Bass of Rome sells nearly all holdings on the Alsbame road to City Land company for about 60 600 dollars. The tract runs from the Alsbame road to the Gummerville road near Crucial Brick works. The transaction is described as the largest real estate deal in recent years in Rome Georgia.
Seaboard offers a Wrightsville Beach excursion on Tuesday July 20 with a five day validity. Round trip fare is 5 dollars. Tickets available at 88 Peachtree Street or by phone at 100.
North Highlands in Macon hosted the Floyd Rifles reunion with seventy veterans, including D. H. Haf, one of the Appomattox thirteen, and two surviving ex members. Judge John B. Hardeman delivered the morning address praising the 128 men who went to the front. Rabe Phillips traced the prewar 1856 organization while others spoke brief tributes. Champ Dye was re-elected secretary treasurer for ten years as a barbecue feast followed.
An advertisement claims Eclipse Catarrh Cure rapidly relieves catarrh and often cures it, featuring a testimonial from Jamantha, Alabama, and offering a sample for twenty five cents in stamps plus a regular package by mail for one dollar from Eclipse Medicine and Manufacturing Co of Atlanta, Georgia.
In Hayou road bakery New Orleans July a worker named Carl Bortuna fled with a missing sum from Knecht bakery after finding the dead body of John G Knecht in the baking room a blood stained axe lay beside him Police suspect robbery is not the motive and jealousy involving Mrs Knecht may be the key factor Bortuna remained at large as night fell with no arrest.
Dr C B Wilmer of Atlanta spoke on the race problem at the Sewanee conference, arguing education and economic integration as keys. He urged fair treatment, condemned mob violence, and proposed the Neel Solution emphasizing specialized schooling and social merit to prepare African Americans for work, especially in agriculture.
In Rome Georgia on July rough report states Mrs Cora Roberson wife of George Roberson has been arrested for aiding prisoners to escape from Mayd county jail. She reportedly handed a saw, hidden in her stocking, to her husband and six inmates escaped after sawing through cell bars.
Albany Georgia special report notes the Second District Masonic Convention set for July 14 and 15 drawing five to six hundred Master Masons from about fifty lodges. Board of District Deputies will meet July 13 14 15 with twelve of fourteen directors attending. H N Ballard of Brunswick chairs the board and Albany Masons prepare extensive entertainment for visitors.
Jim Wigneins, colored, was hanged in Vienna daily today for murdering his wife in 1905. He was captured last fall. Sheriff Bannett released the trap at 2:30. Death was by strangulation and the body was cut down in thirty minutes.
Leap Meyer, a leading character singer, performs at the Elite, a popular-priced theater at 36 Peachtree. The manager Crater showcases a clean and inviting act, praised as one of the best attractions in town.
A catalog style sale highlights high class kimonos with prices from 1.00 to 12.50, plus knit underwear including lisle combinations and silk chemises. Men’s and porch furniture also offered at half price with selections in Indian Splint Old Hickory Crex Maple Willow and Weathered Oak.
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