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BAT. OCTOBER 7. 1928.
TBE BXfWBR-BHBACD. ATTTFyS, r.EOnftTK
Get ready, everybody, to fight the demon of the flames. Fire Prevention Week this year comes the week of October 7 to 13, inclusive. The fol
lowing underwriters of your city urge you to co-operate in making this the greatest Fire Prevention Campaign in the thirteenth annual observ
ances of the Week. Now everybody let’s go!
313 Sou. Mutual Bldg.
Phone 1727
YOUR SUCCESS IN THE FUTURE
—depends much upon the safety of your past and the protection
LAWRENCE & MILLEI
Insurance
of your present.
Oiy if your property, your business interests and your per-
sonall valuables are insured today you can be sure of success
tomorrow. Insure today to protect tomorrow.
can give you all forms of Property Protection Policies.
THE HpTON SECURITIES CO.
i Athens, Georgia
We Insure Everything But the Hereafter.
CA1E SHOULD BE USED
TO/PREVENT ALL FIRES
If srltvm Should Occur
Every Kind of Insurance.
It’s Comforting to Know
ou Are Insured in a Strong Company.
LET US CARRY YOUR RISK
J J Unied States’ and Canada’s
/ FIRE LOSS IN 1922—$520,000,000 \
' ,jf j 15,000 Lives Lost \
ATTENTION!
Athens Citizens!
IN HE COMPANIES WE REPRESENT
& COMPANY
/■'■LEAN tip your premises, help clean up your neighborhood, remove
" rubbish, and eliminate carelessness. That la the aureat method
to reduce fira hazards.. This week ia deroted aa a nation wide battle
against the drotroynr, ‘‘Fire,” a national safety campaign. YOU can
help put it acroaa.
Flcctwid Lanier, Manager, Insurance Department
Real Estate, Loans,
Fire Insurance
GUARANTY TRUST
CORPORATION
B. R. BLOODWORTH
FIRE
KNOWLEDGE
h do you know aboul
existing in your
Fire Insurance
Agency
WRITING EVERY KNOWN INSURANCE
You can reduce fires by fire prevention. You
can avoid losses by fire by insuring with me.
•See me also about increased dividends with
the "Old Reliable” Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company.
all Fire Insurance placed with us
icing same in the best of corn-
tin hazarda
home? One —
thinga in a house la the common
match, because it ia apt to be left
carelessly, about, within the reach ot
We attend
pro mptly,
par ies.
children or where it may be drop
and stepped upon. Matches caret)
ly thrown away after lighUng,
alone accountable tor many mill!
212 Southern Mutual Building
Telephone 1467
of dollars of firo lost. An electric
Ground Floor Holman Bldg.
it left alone with the current turned
on will almost invariably cause a
fire. The same ia true of many other
electrical devices, excellent In them-
Insurance Dept.
oervtce
We represent America’?
foremost Fire Insurance
Companies.
Let us write you in any of
the following companies:
\
City of New York.
Virginia Fire & Marine.
Home Fire & Marine.
Providence Underwriters.
used. Greasy cloths, if • thrown to
gether and left for any length of
time, will ignite spontaneously. Noth*
ing is more dangerous than to throw
such rags and other rubbish into a
closet or wooden receptacle. All
cleaning cloths and fluids should be
kept by themselves away from com
bustible material. All parts of *be
house, from attic to cellar, should be
kept free from accumulation of any
kind of rubbish. A small blase once
started in a rubbish pile mskes head
way with unexpected rapidity, and it
is difficult to approach such a fire
when hampered by an accumulation
of articles which have no business to
be there.
“Do you know the location of the
fire alarm box nearest your house?
If not, find out. Do not depend upon
the telephone to send in a lire alarm.
“Bear in mind that a dean house
is a safe bouse, and that every house
should be clean at all times and free
from all accumulation of unnecessary
articles.*'
I KNOWLEDGE
mt out a fire is before it starts;
prevention. While t^e use of
ng material is doubtless the
proportion of our industrial
irtainly true that bad house-
the home and industrial estab*
its the starting of an enormous
which could never take place if
order and neatness were ob-
F1RE KNOWLEDGE
OFFICE PHONE
109
“Kerosene lamps,'if used, should be kept well
away from any inflammable part of the build
ing, and the kerosene itself kept in a metal can
outside of the house. It is not necessary to use
inflammable cleaning fluids. Ashes should al
ways be kept in metal cans-and not allowed to
accumulate. Wails and floors should be pro
tected by metal or asbestos covering from
stoves and pipes.”
NIGHT PHONE
719
Miss Elma Sisk
Office Secretary
S. W. Ussery
J. H. Epting
Fire Insurance and Loan
Department
J. C. Hutchins, Jr.
Solicitor
