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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