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TRADE EDITIOX.
TIIE ATIIENS B ANNER.
TRADE EDITION.
THE ATHENS FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS.
A LEADING INUDSTRY IN THE CITY OF ATHENS.
One of the Oldest and Best of All the Industries of Athens. Judge John R. White is President and Mr. Thomas Bailey, Who
has Been in the foundry Business for the Past Forty-Five Years, is General Manager. The Largest Foundry in This
Section, Well Equipped and Employing Large Number of Hands. An immense Patronage Enjoyed by This Company.
The Athens Foundry and Mailt.. e
Work* were eatabliibed herein 1850 and
oona> qnently rank among tbe oldest a*
well ae the moat aucceraful iodnatriea in
the city.
Among thoae who organized thla com
pany were John S. Linton, P. A Sum-
ni'*y. Palmer, Stlierenell and others.
Among the early preaidenta of the com
pany was Ur. W. P. Talmaje, father of
Mr. A. H. Talmage, of this oity, who
H~rved in that capacity nntil his death,
when he waa aocoeeded by Mr. J. W.
Nicholson, whoal bis death was anc*
seeded by Ool. Stereos Thomas. Dar
ing the greater part of that time Oapt.
Reuben Niokerson waa the efficient gen
eral manager.
The officers of the Athens Foundry
and Machine Works today are John R.
White, president, Thomaa Bailey, gen
eral manager, directors, O. H. Arnold,
Sr., N. D. Arnold, and L. E. Bailey.
President White la one of the most
irominent of Clarke connty'a citizens,
and is a mannfactnrer of acknowledged
ability, lie is president of the Georgia
Manufacturing Company, owner of the
Whitehall factory and president of the
National Bank of Athena.
Mr. Thomaa Bailey, the general man
ager, la one of the veteran foundry men
of the state, and his life record ia one
that shows what perseverance and bosl-
□eaa ability will enable a man to do Id
life.
Mr. Bailey, while bat a young boy,
engaged as a laborer with fin Athena
Foundry in 1857, alnce whirh lime, cov
erlng a period of fifty five years, he lias
been in the foundry business. Ab mi
the flret work be ever did was to help
pot np the iron fence on the Broad street
front of the University campus.
COTTON PLANTER MADE AT ATHENS FOUNDRY
AND MAOHINE WORKS.
ATHENS FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS.
Shortly after engaging himself to work
for this company be started in to learn
bis trade as a machinist and in a few
years the war oame on. Daring the
war he was made foreman of the ma
chine snope, which position he held on-
til 1882 when he waa made general man
ager and agent for I he company.
In that position he served with tffio-
Works were consolidated, with Mr.
Bailey as general manager, Mr Bally’s
success in life is a trlbnte to his ability
and energy. By his own efforts he has
accnmnlated a neat fortune, starting
in life witbont a dollar.
The present foundry is ten times as
large as the original foundry both as
to equipment and basinets. It is the
ienoy antil 1801, bnilding np the bnei- j largest foundry and machine works in
ness of tho company in a remarkable
degree. In 1891 he withdrew from the
company and went into bntineae for
himself and until the present year the
Thomaa Bailey Foundry received hie
constant and oarefol business attention.
A few month* since the Bailey Foundry
and the Athena Foundry and Machine
this section of the state and one of the
largeat in the entire etate. Its oapital
•took is $50,000 and ite volnme of busi
ness large and increasing day by day.
The machinery of the Athena Foun
dry and Machinery Works is np-to date
in every partionlar, and only the most
competent meohanlcs are employed
there. The best of materials in the
hands of expert workmen give this in
stitution an advantage over many com
petitors and have established for it a
reputation in this seotion of the state
amoug the more than a thousand pat
rons that brings to it an immense
amount of bnelnees and Insores ite con
tinuing success
Mr. I V. Murray is thi bookkeeper
for this company.
Forty-five employees are on the rolls
at the Athene Foundry aud Machine
Worke and the monthly payroll is a bom
11,600. Thia ia an it<m that coants
considerably toward making the city of
Athens prrsperons.
Repair work ia a specialty with the
Athene Fonndiy and Maobine Works,
and the people of tbie section, far as
well as near, come here with their wore,
knowing that they will reoeive prompt
and satisfactory treatment.
Among the different kinds of repair
work done at this shop are the repairing
of agricultural implements, steam en
gine*, saw mills, looomotiree, cotton
mills and the like.
At the plant of the Athena Foundry
and Maobine Works quite a number of
agricultural implements are manufac
tured, such ae cotton planters, sorghain
mills and the Palmetto Compost Drills.
So satisfactory have been these Imple
ments, manufactured there, that the
farmers of this secllou have demanded
them in inch large numbers as to keep
the company busy ail the while supply-
ing them.
The Athens Foundry and Maobine
Works enjoy qoite a nioe railroad pat
ronage, especially in renair work on
locomotives. Railroad trucka are also
manufactured there.
COTTON PLANTER MADE AT ATHENS FOUNDRY
AND MAOHINE WORKS
MR. H. P. HINTON.
His Successful Retail Grocery
Store on College Avenue.
Mr. H. P. Hinton, the OoUege avenue
gxooer, U one of the leading yonng busi
ness men of the city, and hli business ia
one of the most luooeeafnl in Athene.
He has resided in Athene for the past
fifteen yean and for several yean was
one of the popular salesmen for the large
wholesale grooery establishment of Webb
& Crawford.
He purchased the retail grooery busi
ness of Till & Stroman, successors to
MoDowell & Son, and Is now conduct
ing that buaineaa in the McDoweU budd
ing on OoUege avenoe.
Mr. Hinton carries in (took as fine a
line of fancy groceries as is to be found
in Georgia Hie store la considered head
quartan for the best and freshest goods.
He also rone an np to date oafe w hicli is
appreciated highly by aU Athenians and
patronized liberaUy.
Just at Ihli season Mr. Hinton's (tore
la an attractive plaoe aa he baa brought
oat for the Christmas trade the most
elegant line of Christmas good* ever aeen
in Athens,
The Christmas shopper would do well
to visit this store and buy largely of the
superb (took of candles, nnta, raisins
oranges, apples, figs, dates, ourrantt,
cranberries,citron, bananas, crackers'
pickles, in fact anything in the way of
table delicacies for the Christmas sea
son.
Nit. H. P. HINTON.
ATHENS MUSIC STORE.
ATHENS SAVINGS BANK
MR. A. L BROOKS
Prof. W. H. Sheib, Who is in Charge of This Establishment, Has
Had Much Experience Both as to Study and Practice of Music
and the Manufacture of Musical Instruments. The Excel-
cellent Advantages Offered Patrons at This Store.
An Institution That Has Been in Business Only Ten Years But That
Has Forged to the Front With Steady Strides, Now Ranking
as One of Georgia’s Leading Banks. Mr. Myer Stern is
President and Mr. George A. Mell is Cashier.
PROF. WILLIAM H. SHEIB.
The Athens Moeio Store, under the
competent management and direction of
Mr, W. H. Sheib, 1* affording opportnni
tie* to the mule-loving people of this city
and section they have never before en
Joyed.
This storo, which U located on the old
book store corner, the corner of Brood
street and OoUege avenoe, carries in
stock an elegant line of plauo*, organa,
mulo books, sheet mule, violins,
guitars, mandolins, drums, autoharp*,
musical strings and mnilcal goods of
every description.
It is the legitimate snooeulon of a
bulneta established in Virginia in 1836
and continued without interruption in
the earns form ever since that date, Mr.
Sheib toooeeding to it in 1866.
Mr. Sbeib is well-fitted for the bul-
nesa tn which he is engaged having en
joyed rare cpportonillee both aa to study
and practice. Ho is thoroughly con
versant with the manufacture, repair
ing and tuning of every description of
musical instruments.
He began with the Obickerings, Ma
son A Hamlin, and Hooks, of Boston,
Mass., and also manufactured both
pianos and organs on his own account.
He is cons> qnently one of the best
judges of these instruments in the state.
Mr. Sbeib was edacated musically,
first iu Boston, then in Letpstc and Mu
nich, Germany, then in London, Eng
land, under »ooh teachers as Cocciu and
VonBnlow on the piano. M-rkel and
Beet on the organ, and John K. Paine
in harmony. He nas a wide experience
as an orchestra director, organist and
oholr leader, have occupied those posi
tions iu •' me of the most promi-jent
churches in the north aud in cur own
•late. He is an unusually competent
mnalcian as many of the people of Ath
ens aud this section know.
This gives to the pobllo some idea of
the qualifications of the manager of the
Athens Mnsio Store and of the kind of
service they will receive when they call
there on holiness.
All musical business entrusted to him
will receive the best possible attention,
and hli thorough knowledge of the
mono business will secure to the pat
rons of the Athens Music Store facul
ties second to none in the state, whether
it be in the purchase of a piano, organ
or the smallest musical article.
The people of Athens are contiug to
realize the marked advantages of pat
ronizing the Athens Mnsio Store. Ex
perience coupled with every facility for
the transaction of the mnsio business
glvos to this establishment an easy
progress iu the music bos ness of North
east Georgia.
The Athens Music Store has gained a
reputation throighout this section that
la canting hnndreds of people to go thete
when in search of the best musical in
strument! at the moat reasonable Ognrti.
The Athens Savings Bank is the
pride cf Athens.
Judge R. B Russell may be said to
have originated thia bank and thete was
present in his office at the time Mr.
Myer Stern, who is now the bank’s able
president.
The Athens Savings Bank btgau t e
regular business of banking in 1802,
with Dr. John A. Hnnnloutt as presi
dent and Mr. George A. Mell a* cash
ier. It was succssful from the begin
ning, and at once took high rank among
the financial instil u ions of the oily.
Mr. Tnomas P, Vtnoent was tho nut
president of the Savings Bank and alter
serving efficiently for a term he was
aocoeeded by the present president, Mr.
Myer Stern, who has held th it poeititn
nearly five yean.
Mr. Stern is a native of Westphalia,
Germany, coming to thia country in
1866. He ha* been a resident of Athene
slnoe that time and ha* made a splendid
record aa a business man and a financier
He was first a clerk, then for yean he
was a successful merchant and then
bank president. Hls condnot of the af-
fairs of the Athene Savings Bank ha*
demonstrated hU peculiar fitness for
that position and hU ability aa a banker.
The frail* of hU labors are enoh as en
title him lo the highest praUe. He U
alio president of the Clarke Ooanty
Bnilding, Loan and Improvement Oo.
one of the beet financial Insulations in
the city sad one of the leading concerns
of iu kind In tbe sooth. He u also a
member of the board of trustee* of tbe
Athena Syuagogne.
Mr. George A. Mell, tbe able and e‘-
fleient cashier of the Athene Savings
Banb, U a well-known and popular fig
ure in the banking world of Athens.
For * long while be was bookkeeper for
the Bank of the University and also a
member of the large fire insurance firm
MR MYER STERN.
of Mell & Linton. He came with tbe
Athens Savings Bank as cashier when
it first started in business in 1893 and
has been with it continuously sin or.
He U one of the beet-equipped banking
men in Athene and U a tower of strength
to the Institution with whioh he U con-
reeled.
Mr. Yanoey Harris, one of the most
oompetent bookkeeper* in the oity, baa
held tbe position of bookkeeper at tbe
Savings Bank for several yean.
Tl e Athena Savings Bank has a oap
ital stock of 150,000. undivided proflu of
100,000, and depaelU of over (230,000
Iu loans and dieooanU amount to (386,
000 Tbeae figure* in themselves show
forth a well-oonduoted business, but
when It is stated that there U not a sin
gle loin iu thU bonk that U not consid
ered by the officials to be good, the real
strength of tho bank beoomei at onoe
apparent Oat of the great volnme of
b aria tea transacted by thU bank there
U not a loan that U classed a* even of a
donbtfal nature.
And His Growing Real Estate
and Fire Insurance Business.
Prominent in real estate oirolei in
Athens and recognized as one oi the
most aotive and progressive yonng bus-
Incas men in the oity is Mr. A. L.
Brooke, tbe Clayton street real eetau
agent.
Mr. Brooks ia an Oglethorpe county
man by birth. He merchandised for a
few years in Comer, Ga., prior to hU
coming to Athene five years ago. He
has by steady effort built np a business
that U second to none of its kind in] tbe
oity
Mr. Brooks make* a specialty of rent
ing property. So successful bsa be been
in this work that be Is kept busy all the
while in this department of hUbnsloess.
Real eataU owners know that it is to
their interest to plaoe their basinets ia
his hands. Equally auoiessful has he
been in the sale of city property aud
farm lands, and has engineered a num
ber of Dig real eaute deala since coming
to Athens.
Mr Brooks, in addition to hls large
and increasing real eaute business also
oondncU a fire Insurance business of
splendid proportion!, representing tbe
Hamburg-Bremen and the; Manches
ter companies.
UR. A. L. BROOKS.