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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.