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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1901
Page
4
A local Atlanta store proclaims overstocked summer goods and launches an unloading sale Monday. Bargains include White Habuti Silks, Taffeta Silks, Crepe brocade pieces, Black Peau de Soie Silks, and All over tucked Silks at deep discounts. Store cites weather and high stock as reasons to move goods.
Wool challies and silk mohair pieces discounted to close Monday. All wool black Cheviot Serge 38 inches wide sale price Monday. 48 inch black Henrietta silk and wool fabrics, values up to 1.25 per yard offered at special low rate. Etamines and crepe de chine by the yard, select pieces, Monday only.
A promotional second floor sale lists Organdie suits with lace trimmings, wool skirts, percale wrappers, summer waists, parasols, linen and white waists, children's dresses, corset covers, belts, mosquito netting, diapers, towels, collars, and lace trims. Prices marked from a few cents to a dollar, with Monday as the sale day.
Extensive local ad lists discount offers on Smyrna and Granite art squares, Brussels and Ingrain carpets, and velvet line fabrics. Features include yardage pricing, May Monday specials, and bargain sections for embroideries and Valenciennes laces with marked reductions on threads, edgings, and inserts. Offers highlight value cuts on all items.
Prominent Atlantians named by Mayor Milne to represent Atlanta at the Philadelphia convention starting Tuesday. Delegation includes L H Beck, T H Martin, Hoke Smith, Judge George Hulger, Captain E Gay, D Woodward, T Cuyler Smith, and Walter Cooper. Some members may depart soon to join the gathering, with Governor’s earlier large state delegation enhancing Georgia’s presence. 85 North Pryor street advertises low cost salts and services amid local business notes.
Marvin A the seventeen months old infant of Mr and Mrs A F Comer died Friday afternoon at their residence 637 Seaboard avenue. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon with interment in Sylvester cemetery. A stray medical ad appears in the text describing a drug claim for kidney ailments.
Short ad describes washing chiffon fabrics in multiple colors white black blue pink red and green at a price of 2 cents per yard. Includes a brief, unclear note indicating Monday and a reference to a spec at ss 406.
Catalog note lists 28 pieces best 46c grads carded White Pigues run new designs to be placed on sale Monday. 1c Dimities and 108 pieces fancy striped White Disities offered Monday. Ladies underskirts of fine Cambric with deep founce narrow tucks and wide lace trim valued at $1.75, Monday only.
Bids for interior post office repair and repainting will be opened in the revenue department at 2 o clock Tuesday afternoon. The project covers woodwork exterior repainting tile floor repairs and a full interior repaint. The estimated cost is about 6.00 with bids sent to Washington for approval before contracts are let to applicants.
Postmaster W H Smyth announced four new clerks for the Atlanta postoffice William R Boswell David F Hamilton Lewis H Jenkins and C W Wrecking Jr were appointed following Smyth's earlier request for four additional carriers and clerks. The carriers have not yet been chosen. The office has seen a tremendous increase in business. Juletty sold by Miller at Martetta.
The Empire State Express arrived four minutes early into Grand Central, delighting passengers who cheered engineer Denny Cassin. He shaved about thirty six minutes from Albany to New York on the 113 mile run, reaching a top speed near seventy mph despite water plow downs and town stops. The train, a Central Atlantic type, carried 24 passengers and weighed 8 9 sounds, with the Ninth regiment bearing to follow.
Governor Candler faced a busy day hearing from callers on appointments to the state board of pharmacy and the Waycross city court judgeship. Three candidates contest the latter with lobbying from Waycross figures. reform wave in Savannah targets Sunday liquor and gambling with business backing and detectives. Comptroller Wright to decide on Atlanta Railway and Power Company tax returns by Monday. other meetings include Senator Steve Gray and a looming prison commission session. military law revisions face board review and annual encampment plans.
The board will meet again to review the work left to Colonel Napier. Laws relating to the military will be presented to the legislature as a bill that will affirm, amend, revise and repeal present laws besides enacting new ones.
The second annual convention of the Southern Music Teachers Association will be held in Chattanooga on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week with Georgians among the members. Notable Atlanta participants include J Fowler Richardson, Oscar Pappenheimer, Samuel Burbank, Mrs Samuel Burbank, and Miss Bertha Harwood. Officers listed include President R. H. Paters of Spartanburg and treasurer B Davis of Atlanta. Also included is an advertisement for Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Cook's Imperial Extra Dry Champagne with brief medical and quality claims.
Judges John R. Wilkinson Thomas H Teffries and Joseph C Greenfield three prominent Masons of Atlanta exemplified the Master Mason degree for three candidates in Marietta Friday night. They were welcomed from the train by a Kennesaw lodge committee and hosted at the Kennesaw house before ceremonies and a banquet. The Atlantans returned to Atlanta the next morning. The Washington Post note about prune promotions is referenced.
The Georgia State band performs at Grant Park starting 2 o'clock this afternoon. The programme includes marches Great Captain Our Senators Nation's Pride and The Old Veteran, medleys and waltzes by Stouton Suone Macbeth and Toebani, with intermission and a finale by Marietta 29.
Friends and relatives of Gottlelb Hentschel invite attendance at his funeral from 441 Auburn avenue Sunday morning at 10 o clock. Pallbearers will meet at H M Patterson office 22 Peachtree street at 9 40 a m. Names listed include Carle Brenner Chaves Weltnouer PLA Veisberg Louis Sumuntopf August Dent and Phill Dietz.
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