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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
8
Summer clothes should be light and cool yet well tailored and durable. Hart, Schaffner & Marx and Rogers, Peet & Co. offer clothes built to wear, with all the new shades and patterns, promising the best value in the neighborhood.
Fifteen to forty dollars the suit shirts and new patterns in our windows today. Exclusive novelties shown from $1.50 to $5.00. Also new patterns in our dollar shirts. Underwear priced up to $3.00 with sizes available. Nylon and crepe fabrics among the offerings.
A large Fourth Ward rally at Grace Church Bowley Hill urged support for Joe Brown and prosperity in Georgia. Speakers including Thomas of Athens and Judge Thomas praised Brown and attacked Hoke Smith and Hardwick, urging voters to back Brown on June 4 amid calls for labor and business unity.
May 22 Rome held a Joe Brown Club meeting in Floyd county to back Governor candidate Joseph M Brown. Paul D Wright and Hon Ed Griffith spoke, receiving enthusiastic applause from a large audience in the court room.
In Commerce Georgia on May 22 ceremonies for the public schools opened with the Intermediate grade program. Professor Macon of Mercer University delivered the literary address at 1 o clock. Tonight the graduating exercises are set to be held and diplomas will be distributed. Sunday morning the commencement sermon will be given by Rev. WoR Foote. Professor WF Brown has served as superintendent for two years and was recently elected to see Limeelf for the ensuing year.
The Southern Presbyterian Church assembly in Greensboro May 22 outlined annual reports from committees on ministerial education and belief, negro evangelization, and schools and colleges. Standing committees were appointed including Buds and overtures, judicial business, foreign correspondence, foreign missions, home missions, and publication with chairs named.
A Detroit letter offers a free prescription for nervous debility and impaired vigor. It claims a physician-designed remedy cured many men at home without extra medicine, promising quick, quiet restoration of vitality. Respondents are urged to mail a self addressed envelope to receive the copy free of charge.
A meeting of leading mechanical men in Atlanta at the Piedmont hotel on May 21 launched efforts to form a mechanical and social club for engineers, machinists, and suppliers. A next gathering is set for May 28 to finalize arrangements and discuss rooms, libraries, and monthly meetings. The event also featured delegates from various committees and ended with plans to visit the Gofherd battlefield.
Mobile Alabama May 22 United States customs officials with agents for the steamship company and unions pursued the Norwegian steamer Times Iverson two miles down the bay and removed two seamen H Johansen and E Kubl claimed to have been crimped from the British steamer Kassala Morgan master last night The Kassala’s agent took the men aboard the Times in midstream at daylight today Several windward seamen were on the wharf when the Times left and Captain Morgan of Kassala swore out warrants against Captain Ivergen with possible prosecution when the Times returns from fruit ports
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