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THE ATHENS BANNER.
TRADE EDITION. ATHENS, GA., DECEMBER, 1902. TRADE EDITION
THE WINGFIELD CASH GROCERY CO.
AND ITS PHENOMENAL PROGRESS.
'arlM. He ti a thoroughly efficient man
md thie establishment lias in him a
’alonbln salesman.
The other laleitnen are Ur. L. Vance
Edwards, a yonng Clarke conn ty citizen,
Ur O H. Copper, a resident of Athena,
Mr T. B Junta, who oame here seven!
'ears sine* from Oglethorpe connty, and
Mr B B Galloway, a former rsaident
of Or ene oonnty Theae gentlemen
ire all • Xpert in the bnalueaa in wblob
they are engaged.
Ur. Wingfield ha* general supervision
MR B. B. OALbOWAY
of i ▼ .rythlng that la tranaaoted in hit
store and ia himself one of the moat en
ergetic and moat oompetrnt buaineaa
men in the oity.
The people patronize tbia a tote by the
hundred* and there never la a day in the
year when the aoenea there art not (boat
ofhaatllngaotlrlty.
The advertlaementa of the Wingfield
Oaah Grocery 8tore are read every day
with internet by the rradera of The Ban*
ner in order to keep thoroughly posted
aa to the la teat and boat bargain* in gro-
oerlea.
Thoae who trade there, and they take
in all olaaaea of the people of this oily,
aay that for aatlafaotory goods, oheap
pnoea, courteous attention and prompt
delivery there la no p’aoe in A hens like
Wingfield’* Oaah Qrooery Store
The bnameaa of the Wingfield Oaah
Grocery Store ia rapidly Increasing It
la already one of the beat basines.es iu
Athene and at the present rate of in
crease bide fair to become a veritable
marvel in the business world of Atl a t .
UR. O. a COOPER.
Wingfield’s Cash Grooery Store is one |
of the phenomenal business institutions'
of Athens, an establishment that has by
reason of honest effort and sqaure deal
ing won its way to success.
It ia a credit not only to the owner but
also to i h-. oitv of Athens of whose bust
mss world it ia an important part.
Mr. William O. Wingfield, who has
made ili a business one of theleadlnges
tabll.hiuents in Athens, ia yet a young
n.a i, in hia thirties. He oame to this
city six e n years ago and during four
teen years of his residence here haa en
gag.d in the grooery business. A few
of ill hp years were spent In the capac
tty of .alesn an, but for the greater part
of the time Mr Wingfield haa been in
bualnee* for hlmaelf.
lie started wt h a capital of (300 in a
UR L V EDWARDS.
little store on the corner of Lumpkin
and Washington streets, having only 640
square feet of floor apace. Hia bualnesa
now represents a capital of (11.600 and it
requires a floor apaoe of 8 750 iqaa*e ft
The business is entirely retail In ita
nature and stands in the very front
rank of the retail irooerr establish in- nts
of i he city. A little more th in a year
ago the business was quartered in ita
present home. Th • moi tlily sales then
ran scarcely one thousand dollars
Today they are over six thousand dollar-
MR. T B JONES
per month, representing a retail grooery
business of (76 000 per annum.
This r markable success in business is
attributable to aeteral r-aaons
First, the ossli system. Every pur
chase made at this store hia to be
aooompeuied by the oaah. There|is ab-
MR. W. O. WINGFIELD.
.olutely no credit ixtendtd to anyone
’’bis enables Mr. Wingfield to do two
htnga, viz., to bny his goods on thecas!
asis and to sell them cheaper than his
ompetitora. The people of Athene
mve learned h iw to make their cash go
urtt ir Inn ever before in the purchase
f groceries.
Then comes the buying of the goods.
Only the best goes into stock at thi
Wingfield Oa. h Grocery Store, and as it
’oesn't stay there many days the stock
.8 always kept freah and desirable. The
goods do not beoome stale at this store,
and freih goods always sell well.
Square dealing has gained immense
business for tbis store. Whatever lead-
vert’s d is sold just aa represented. The
sales are given full weight and. .ample
measure. The patrons of this store get
MR. J. W. BRIGHTWELL.
juat what they call for and agree to pay
f r.
Great preo. u Ion ia taken to render
prompt, polite and aoou ate attention to
every order. A corps of salesmen are
-mployed who know iheir business iu
every particular, and all patrons are
given prompt and satisfactory attention.
His delivery service ia ample and com
plete in every respeot.
A full line of fanoy and staple grooer
les is carried, representing a variety of
slock from whioh the purchaser finds no
trouble to mate his selections.
Mr J. W. Brlghtwell is head salesman
at the Wingfield Oaah Grooery Store.
He ia a well known Athenian, having
resided here sinoe 1889 For several
years he was in the hardware business,
bnt of late years has been dealing in gro-
STORY OF ATHENS ELECTRIC
STREET RAILWAY COMPANY
THE ORR DRUG COMPANY '
ENJOYS GREAT PROSPERITY,
The Athens Electric Street Railway
Company has since its organization in
1804 done as nioch as any other agenoy
towards the npliulldtng «.f the city of
Athena
The men who own the slock, the i ffi
ceisv. h' manage it* affairs, are among
the foremnet men of the city, men who
are not afraid to Invest th> lr money here
and who have the euergy and the boat
ness ability to make a sot-cess of wbat
ever they undertake.
Mr. Jamee Y. Carlthers, a leading
cotton factor of the city, la president of
this company. It is his tpeo al pride
and he devotes mnch of his lime, money
and energy to its npbollding.
Mr. W. S. Holman, a well known
stock man and farmer, who for quite a
number of years baa been a prominent
oitlzen hero is the efficient vice-presi
dent.
Mr. William T. Bryan, of the firm of
J. Y. Carlthers & Co, cotton faotors,
and acknowledged to be one of theableet
young financiers and business men In
the olty, Is secretary and treasurer.
Mr. O, D. Flanlgeu, to whose constant
care and attention the auooess of the
oompany’a business la largely attributa
ble, la general manager. The board of
directors consists of Messrs. J. Y. Car-
lthera, W. 8. Holman. W. T. Brvan, C.
D Flanigen, A H. Hodgson, J. J. Wil
kins and A. P. Dearing, all well-known
businessmen.
The street ratlwsy ia one of the best
equipped an! best managed in iheeutir.
country. There are six miles of track
well constructed, and the company has
quite a number of the beat oars in ser
vice today in Georgia. This onuipany
wav the first in Georgia to provide
heater*. The track Is laid with the best
steel rails and with the exception of the
Boulevard belt la paved S> complete
has been the Improvement ai.d repairs
on tbia line that there is not in oseti day
a single piece of rail or equip nens that
was nsed in 1894 when this company
first began operations. The schedule is
well-arranged and the service splendid.
This company's business la not re
stricted to the street railway. In 1890,
at MltoheU's bridge on Middle river the
first electric power plant in Georgia to
furnish power to drive the machinery
of manufactories was oompleted by this
oompany, developing at this place 1,000
horsepower with whioh the street rail
way, the aro light service tor the olty,
the incandeecent light servloe, Athens
Oheok factory and several small mans
factoring conoerns have been run aino-
that time.
It became apparent a short while ago
that the power developed at the plant
at MltoheU’s bridge was entirely lnsuffl
dent and atepa were taken by the Talla-
aee Power Oompany to develop 1,200
horsepower at Talla*9e shoals. Tbit
riant was purchased tome time since to
its unfinished state bv the Athena Eleo-
trio Street Railway do. and was com
pleted a few wee kt sinoe and la now in
operation.
The Tallasee plant is up-to-date In
every respect, doing away with belts,
the generators being directly oonnecled
with the « a>er wheels and regnlated by
governors, thus keeping the speed abso
lutely steady. The switch board (a of
the latest type, all the 'instruments
being mounted on blue Vermont marble
panel*. The current Is controlled by
automatic oil switohes. the most modem
method used.
Th* Tallasee ourrent Is a 19.000 volt
transmlesioo, which is the first of its
kind In Georgia The currents from
both plants are bronght to the snb sta
tion near Che Slate Normal School
where the TallasMe current is trana
forme 1 to the same voltage at tbat of the
Mitch -lTa bridge plant, and from the
swlloh-board at the aub station it is car
ried to different parts of the diy where
it ia nsed.
New machlnee and a new switch
board have been added at Mitchell's
bridge and tbat plant baa been com
pletely remodeled. At MltoheU's bridge
1000 horsepower are generated and at
the Tallasaee plant 1100. Of that total,
about 1800 horsepowt r are used to drive
the street cars, the aro lights and the
incandescent lights of the oity. About
400 horse power are used by different
manufacturing plants.
The Athens Oil MtU is operated by
eleotrlolty from this plant, the Athens
city- wa^yworks are to be operated by
electricity a* toon as the necessary ma
cl\lnepy can be installed there, and *
considerable portion of the Mslllton
Braided dord Company's plant, foor
miles from the olty, it operated by <his
current
Several hundred thousand dollars are
invested In the different plant* of this
oompsmy.
Already there are other manufactories
in this oity. both among those tbat are
already established and those tbat are
to be buUl in the near fotnre that have
engaged or wUl engage power from tbia
oompany for the running of their plants.
Among the institutions tbat are folly
1 ■ keeping with the progress of Albans
is "The Orr Drug Oompauv," located on
the corner ol O .liege Avi-uu* and Clay
tOU etieet.
Its i fflenra are as fellows: O, H.
Phlniay, president; R. T. DoBese, sec
retary ai d Treasurer; R. O. Orr, vloe
president and general n anager.
Mr. Ol>a*. H. Pole ar, the president
of the company, la oue of the foremost
young business men of Athena, being
interested not only In tbis bni also in
other businesses in Athens that are en
joying great pmeperlty
Mr. K. T. DuBiae, secretary and
treasurer, u one of Athens' leading real
estate men and is possessed of rare bna
Ineee anility.
Dr. R. O. Orr, vice president and gen
eral manager, came to Athena In 1889,
sinoe which time be has engaged in the
drug business. One year ago Dr. Orr
merged bla business Into the newly
formed Orr Drag Oompany.
With these effiolent men at the head
of ita business, tbis oompany hat
achieved a wonderful suooeet, and Its
volume of bustnese ia Increasing rtp
Idly.
The purest, freshest and best drugs
only are carried iu stock. The prescrip
tion department is a special feature with
this company. Dr. Orr Is a Ucenatd
pharmacist and Dr J. W. Galloway It a
graduate and lioenaed pharmacist, and
under their personal oare the prescrip
tion department Is second to none In the
state. Accuracy is tbelr motto and to
obtain 11 carefulness In every detail la
observed.
Mr. R. O. Wilson, who oame to Ath
ens from Sparta, la an able assistant in
the general department, and haa had
years of experience.
The soda fount It another attractive
feature at this place and la kept up to
the hlgheet standard, using only pure
syrups and best flavors. This ltlnobarge
of Mr James Galloway, of Monroe.
for all diseases of the akin and so ip.
This medicine ta known for its rare
merits all over the oonotry. Orders ar*
reo lved from leading draggiet* In many
of the lergeet cities in the Untied Slate*.
In tbis the Orr Drag Oo baa one ot the
finest midlomea in America.
The oompany make* • specialty of
paiota and oils, selling only the very
beet. These peints which have been
pnt upon many nf the finest residences
in Athens, ar • sold under guarantee and
in every tnstanoe have given eminent
satisfaction
The Orr Drag Company carries the
largest and heat stock of garden and field
~T
OUR DRUG OO BUILDING.
seeds. These seeds are fresh end are
booght from the leading seedsmen of the
country. The gurdenera of Athens are
sure witnesses as to the merits of these
seeds for they have tried them with sat
isfaction.
The Orr Drag Oompany’* store Is one
of the handsomest and most thorosghly
equipped in Athens. The stock oarrieft
is th* very best that can be porohaaeth
The officials of the company are among
the best business men in the city. The
two pharmacists know no superiors in
this section. In view ot all theee fact*
it is not at all surprising that the bust-
The Orr Drag Oompany is the sole I neat of tbs oompany should from month-
owner and manufacturer of "Skin Ouia.' ’ Ita month show remarkable increases-