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THE ATLANTJAN
September, 1914
These figures attest our growth in deposits,
but give little idea of the careful, atten
tive service that has bound to us.
$4,516,000
$3,819,000
1912
$2,883,000
2.590,000
1914
1910
1908
the
old customers
and appealed to
the new
Your account invited
Epirus! Corporation
CANDLER BUILDING, ATLANTA
BRANCH BANK CORNER MITCHELL&FORSYTH STS.
No Monkey Business.
Reference being made to country
constables and other troubles that be
set the motorist in some sections, Con
gressman Warren W. Bailey of Johns
town, Pennsylvania, recalled an inci
dent that occurred in a small town in
Western Pennsylvania.
One evening, just at dusk, the con
gressman said, a man drove through
a village with a handsome car,
equipped with all the modern devices.
Hardly bad he proceeded a square be-
! fore a cop loomed up large in the
: vista.
I “See here, young feller,’' exclaimed
j the official with commanding empha
sis, “you will have to light your
lamps!”
“All right, old pal,” cheerily an-
swered the motorist, “just as you say
1 about it.”
With this he touched a button, and
FRANK HAMMOND, ton Transcript.
Secretary to the Mayor and Chairman
Davidson Campaign Committee. BLUNDERED.
Exe—‘“Cigar, old man?”
| TOO FEW OR TOO MANY. Wye—“Thanks! (puff, puff). Cap-
Editli was giving a birthday party, ital weed this. Aren’t you going to
and there was some delay in provid- smoke, too?”
| ing seats for her little friends, when Exe (examining the remaining one)—
she spoke up, quite soberly,—“You “No, I think not.”
see it isn’t that we have not chairs Wye—“What’s the matter? Did you
j enough, but I have asked too much I give me the wrong one?’’—Boston
j company.” | Transcript.
oh mah ways an’ turn roun’ an’ bead
ed fer de narrer path,” Uncle Mose
declared, fervently.
“Well, you deserve a great deal of
credit for that, Uncle Mose,” the mer
chant said, approvingly.
“Yas, sah, tank yo,’ sah’’ Uncle
Mose exclaimed delightedly “dat’s
what Ah thought, an’ Ah ’lowed Ah’d
come in hyah an’ git you all to gib
me credit fer some side meat an’ meal.”
ED C. BROWN,
President Brown & Allen Co, who
will move across the street to their
new store about Sept. 15th.
Athletic.
The solemnity of the meeting was
somewhat disturbed when the elo
quent young theologian pictured in
glowing words the selfishness of men
who spent their evenings at the club,
leaving their wives in loneliness at
home.
“Think, my hearers,” said he, “of a
pool’, neglected wife, all alone in the
great, dreary house, rocking the cra
dle of her sleeping babe with one
foot and wiping away her tears with
the other.”
Poor Fsihing.
As they broiled their latest catch
over the birch coals they told fish
stories.
“Brown, down in Jersey,” said a tall
old man, “one day fished a likely-
looking pond for three hours for perch
j without getting a single rise.
“There was a little farmer boy who
watched him most of the time, and
finally, when his patience was about
exhausted, Brown said, suerulously,
to the lad:
“ ‘Are there any fish in this pond at
all?”
“ ‘If there is any,’ the boy answered,
‘they must be awful small, sir; for
j there was no water here till it
j rained last week.”
THE HAT FOR FALL
bears out the summer shapes in re
producing tall crowns, and adding a
bit to their height; in adopting droop
ing brims and putting on the improve
ment of a pencil curled edge.
ffl Bands are “dressy,” call it “flossy”
if you prefer, but there’s always a
rather full bow and sometimes a
draped band.
Colors are Greens, Browns, Blue
and Plum.
You 11 be pleased with the super
ior Fall Hat Fashions.
Geo. Muse Clothing Co.