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iness. Come and look for yourselves.
• JUUVS COHEN.
wm. mcdowell & son.
-DEALER IN-
FAMILY and FANCY GROCERIES,
TEAS AND ROASTED COFFEES
HARMONY GROVE,
CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.
A SECIALTY.
COLLiESE J5.VENTTE, -A.I’EEElsrS, GEOEGIiL.
THE TEN KENTS STORE.
When the good people from the country visit Athens they
must not fail to call at
Coleman’^ Ten Heats Store.
On ZBroa-d. Street,
where they can find a splendid stock of Dry Goods, Notions,
Cutlery, Tinware, Holiday Goods, Jewelry and hundreds of
other articles. You can here buy for Ten Cents goous that
will cost 50 cents elsewhere. Don’t forget Coleman’s Ten
Cents Store while in Athens.
H. K. NICHOLSON.
FANCEY GROCERIES
nj Grove are public-spirited, successful
merchants. Hon. T. E. Key, now in cour t house, planned in Athens
the Legislature and member of the town - - - — --
council, married in Athens and is a na
tive of Banks county.
The hotels are model little buildings,
strong and snug. The Bohannon house
kept by a gentleman of that name, and
the Central Hotel by R. A. Echols. The
former is as good a hostelrie as a man
cares to go to, and is well known to
travelers and the Athens public.
Mr. Little has bought out Seegar’s
livery stable and controls the overland
travel—to Jefferson and to Homer.
I have already alluded to Dr. W. B. J.
Hardman, one of the most prominent
and successful men in Jackson county.
He possesses good property, has re
tired from business and from his pro
fession, and is now actively in the work
of the Baptist ministry. He has started
his two sons off handsomely. The elder
of these Dr E. G. Hardman, is a rradu- | court house*. Dr.TvataoiThas
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TTn« on hand a beautiful assortment of CHRISTMAS GOODS.
Our stock is immense, and cannot fail to please the old and the young,
and cause a smile oh Christmas morning.
X also have CARRS, CANDIES, NUTS, RAISINS and FRUITS
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been good, and 1 have not seen a mer
chant to-day who did not have all to do
that he could attend to, and who did
not give a cheerful report of his busi
ness. Most of them do a large credit
b isiness. The truth is Harmony Grove
on a special boom this year. Some
thing over 5,(XX) hales of cotton were
bought by merchants here who caught
the recent rise and made money. This
includes Hood, Quillian, llarbcr and
Gunnels Power & Co. Several thous
and dollars have been cleared in this
and some are still holding. This
up, with a driving trade has made
them happy.
About the business of the town I get
the following estimate: Hood Sc Son
$80,000 a year; Harbor A' Hro. $00,000;
Gunnels, Power A- Co. $75,000; T- E.
Key A- Co. $25,000; Quillian Bro. $20,-
000; Burgess & Allen $25,000; Stark
Bros. $10,000. These are hard working,
faithful men. They pull otf their coats
and give their time to business and to
their customers. Harber Bros* came
from Franklin county 12 years ago with
little money. Each one is worth $25,000
now. The Quillians are Lumpkin coun
men. This is a remarkable family,
our of the seven brothers were Metho
dist ministers—members of the North
Georgia Conference. The two in Harino-
evidences of taste and thrift, and one of
the prettiest of these is being built by
young Dr. Hardman, who rumor says—
but we are hunting for facts,not rumors,
Our only regret is that the day was so
cold and the merchants so busy that
we could not get at many other interest
ing points about Harmony Grove.
Nine miles into the interior; over
land that had been settled—some of it—
for 100 years—into a town that had
emerged from the woods 80 years ago,
and not out of the woods yet; the pros'
pect of receding from the radroad and
red hot stoves did not allure.
purchased when the county moved the
temple of jus i e up from the old quar
ters on the square. On the first floor are
the county offices and the jury rooms.
To the left is Judge H. W. Bell, the
popular Ordinary, beloved by old and
young, and who shares with Col. How
ard the honor of being one of the most
public-spirited men in the county. These
gentlemen, with Col. Pike and Judge
Pittman, took charge of the Banneb-
Watchhan, and carried him from the
strong box of the Treasury to the cu
pola ot Martin Institute. Nothing but
the knife blasts of wind tempered their
zeal or cut down their hospitality. All
of the records were turned over to us,
and we would not be surprised to find
bill presented by the next
But a pleasant surprise aw.ted u. on
that day of exile and freeze. A town praisement before the court of Ordi-
with all the conservatism and hospitality I nary, and interfering with the course of
of a community a century old; with all * 11 w "
the energy and lifo of a new depot and
justice in the county.
Ui
good cotton receipts; with much of the
polish of an educated centre—with all
the traditions and interest of age and all
the vigor and promise of a second growth
—this proved to be Jefferson—the coun
ty site.
It lies 18 miles from Athens—north
west. It is the same distance that the
Grove is and I trust will aoon be as
readily reached.
To the traveller coming into Jeffer
son, whether from east or west—two
commanding objects strike the eye; The
stylish proportions of the new brick
and
built by McGinty, and the still newer
figure of the Martin Institute. The Jef
ferson buildings are not all like these,
but here and there, nestling in the wood
ed recess or breaking out boldly in the
hi
public squares, are more new houses—
telling of freshly invigorated people and
newly acquired power. Such is Jeffer
son, with its well definet^strata of the old
and the new. Many of the wooden
houses are eloquent with history and pa-
thatic with decay—relics of the old tav
ern and the old bar bar room being ob
jects of interest. But since the comple
tion of the Gainesville, Jefferson &
Southern narrow gauge railroad two
years ago, the town has taken on new
life. Eight or ten residences have
been completed and others will be built
this year. Ex-Senator Pike is finishing
beautiful cottage just back of the
" pretty
ate of the Georgia Medical College, An- new dwel i ing in i own . Mr . j. E /lu n '
gusta, and of Bellevue. New York. His
Hon. W.'T. Ben
nett, a well known Upiveigily boy of the
class 1881, is now th* Clerk and Treasurer
of the county, and showed us through
three combinations, deep down into the
vault where the records and money lie.
The county officers are
H. W. Bell, Ordinary.
W. T. Bennett, Clerk and Treasurer.
T. A. McElhannon, Sheriff.
S. E. Bailey, Deputy Sheriff.*
W. P. Boggs, Tax Receiver.
H, C. Barnett; Tax Collector.
W. A. Worsham, Coroner.-
A. C. Appleby, Surveyor.
The new jail and jailor’s house will be
built this spring, and the drawings of
McDonald Bros. Louisville, Ky., are very
handsome. These buildings will cost the
county $9,000, and will be built of Jack-
son county granite, a quarry of which is
now being worked near Jefferson on the
narrow gauge.
The narrow gauge railroad, which
meets the main line of the G. J & S. at
Belmont, is ten miles long and was fin
ished in 1883. Jefferson then had 500
people. Now it has between 800
and 1,000.
isolated on the hills is as had as to have
continued the old Georgia Railroad depot
across the river. Athens will never
command the trade of Jackson until she
brings the narrow gauge depot into town,
THE NARROW GAUGE.
This road is an institution in Jackson
county. The little train steams out of
town at daylight, and whistles like a calli
ope, and ambles like a deer over the hills
and grades. Fox Galloway has it all his
own way in the engineer’s cab, and
drives at the rate of 17 miles an hour,
running into Wink Taylor’s beautiful
Arlington dining room at Gainesville at
seven thirty—in time for an early break
fast Capt Gus Clarke, the civil con
ductor, feels as much pride in the sys
tem as Hon. Allen Candler, the man who
built it, or Major Greene, who runs it
Sometimes the train over the main line
steams through BeRmont with a dozen
freight boxes, which carry only a few
less bales than a wida box car.
THE JACKSON HERALD.
I met Mr John N. Ross, the industri
ous and genial editor of the Jackson
Herald. He prints a clean, readable and
reliable paper, and his office was bustling
with the first roll of the press. The
Herald is an honor to Jackson, and the
people tell me that much of the growing
good of the town may be credited to this
wide awake journal.
ABOUND JEFFERSON.
practice brings him in $10,000 a year, I
ted
understand, and he is associated with
Dr. Sharp in a well conducted drug bu
siness.
Robt. L. Hardman, of Hardman & Co.
owns a large hardware store. The Hard-,
mans are popular, thrifty people—as true
as steel and as good as gold.
There are four lawyers in Harmony
Grove, who remain here on account of
the good commercial practice— 9 miles
away from the county house and county
records. These are Messrs. W. H. Simp
kins, P. G. Thompson, T. M. Daniel and
R. L. J. Smith. Thompson and Daniel
are former residents of Athe is. Simp
kins is a University man, and so is Smith.
The latter is well known to the readers
of the Banner-Watchman. He left col
lege with the blue ribbons of the law
school last August, and has worn the
blue ribbons of the courts several times
already. He inherits his father’s love
for the profession, and possesses uncom
mon energy and ability. He gives his
time studiously ar.d attentively to the
theory and the details of law, and I hear
of his success from more than one party.
He is a noble fellow, and lives with his
mother, a niost interesting and hospitable
lady, in a pretty place near the town.
The people here are interested, of
course, in the Augusta and Chattanooga
Air-Line. They are booked for $16,600,
should the road coine through here—and
ifitdoes, Harmony Grove will be a town
of increased importance.
I find the people delighted with the
schedule of the Northelstern fast mail.
Mails and travel are regular, and the ser
vice on this line is improved 100 per
cent. The next change will he on Sun
day, when the evening train will leave
' tlanta at 7 p. m. and reach Athens
about 11.
The Banner-Watchman at Harmony
Grove found traces of two of its oldest
subscribers. Sir. J. W. Pruitt, of Banks
county, was married 50 years ago. He
went to Athens to buy his wedding suit,
and while there subscribed to the South
ern Banner. Mr. James Wade, of Banks,
has been taking the paper 40 years. This
reminds me that Sir. Pruitt has paid for
this paper up to 1888, and Mr. Geo. I.
Seney up to 1889.
The principal stores here do a thriving
business. They are right around in a
public square and seem to be prosperous.
Austin & Co. control a business of $75,-
000 a year;jBroc’c Bros. $50,000; Pender
grass & Co. $50,000; W. T. Harri-on &
Co. $30,000; Stanley & Lyle $25,000.
Besides these are Webb & Howard who
represent a snug cash bu> iness, and other
house", which run Jefferson’s business
up to $325,000 a year. Fully 3,000 1
MARTIN INSTITUTE, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA. ',
dolph has built a number of new houses.
The fire-proof brick stores of Austin &
Co. and Brock Bros, are strong and spa
cious, and next door the ground is being
cleared for a fine brick hotel which
Mr. Randolph will finish this spring.
This gentleman, who is one of the pro
gressive spirits of the town, owns a
steam mill, with saw mill at the depot,
and will soon put up a guano factory at
Jefferson. He is anxious for the Ath
ens & Jefferson Railroad and has offered
$1,000 towards grading it
Jefferson was incorporated in the
“early candlelight” of Georgia's history.
An act of 1796 fixed the spot for the
jail and court house in Jackson county.
An act amendatory of this was approved
by Gov. James Jackson, 2d Februaay,
1798. An act approved by Gov. Jarred
are bought here during the cotton season,
as I am informed by Mr. J. L. William
son, the live partner of Austin & Co.
Tha town property is fully worth $200,
OCO.
JEFFERSON ft ATHENS.
The people hero are keen for a railroad
to Athefis. They declare that the road
is but 18 miles over a natural ridge, with
out crossing a stream of any kind. Such
a route could
not be found in any other
part of of this well watered county.
The extension of the narrow gauge can
be graded to Athens for one thousand
dollars a mile. I hear that an Athens
capitalist has offered to take the bonds,
and that there is some chance that the
Georgia Railroad may iron and equip the
road when graded. I trust so. A regu
lar wagon trade plies to Athens when
»» do pi
Irvine made permanent this spot in 1806. , iheroIS"are good, but Atlanta drum
1 hese records j mera are visiting .Jefferson every day,
JEFFERSON.
THE RAILROAD AND THE
TRADE OF THE TOWN.
NEW COURT HOUSE AND
MARTI?! INSTITUTE.
It was hard to leave the attractive little
town of Harmony Grove. With the
thermometer at half mast, aud the ground
frost oozing out of the earth like bull-
rushes, it was harder. An early morning
drive even through Jackson county, is
not the way a man might choose of fight
ing the blizzard, but sthers have driven
further into the arctics on exploring
tours, and so we went.
Bell—antique, .-uiu, ....
The first public record of the county is
preserved by Judge Bell. It is the reg
ister of a sale, dated Nov. 24,1796—writ
ten as most of the old documents were,
in a fair, round band. I am told it was
not unusual to find in these old records
charges of “1 pint peach brandy,” enter
ed up by executors against the estate
upon whose business they were travel
ing. These charges are dnly admitted
and approved. A touch of the late bliz
zard might explain why these expenses
were so openly entered and so readily
approved. There was no prohibition
then; liquor was puTe and men were in
genuous and fiduciary trus ts were clean.
The old marriage register for Jackson
connty in 1806 is a marvel. The mar
riages of record are labelled “solemn
ized;” one party who tied the bonds
writes the suggestive term “executed,”
and signs his name with his title, “J. P.”
Another party writes after his name “P.
GV’ which, I am informed, meant
“Preacher of the Gospel.”
The old surveyors’ plats, notably those
of Hugh Montgomery, sra clear andaecu-
‘ans of the
rate. The plans of the old processioning
of land suggest the quaint records of
Illinois, mads by Abraham Lincoln, now
preserved so carefully in Northern mu-
The fine new court house here was
built in 1879. It cost $15,000 and is J
model—ranking in room and convenience
with Athens, Monroe and Gainesville.
The court house sits on a commanding
For miles out of “the Grove,” as the [ hill, which sweeps like a fort all the en-
natives delight to call it, one sees the in- trance* to the town. It is an old lot
three pretty cottages on the suburbs are *
and Atlanta is cutting into the coro of a
trade which belongs to Athens. I find
such men as J. L. Williamson, F. L. Pen
dergrass, aud J. E. Randolph very anx
ious for this Athens road. Some cotton
comes to Athons now on the narrow
gauge, way round by Social Circle; but
what a clean aweep Athens would make
with this little gsp of 18 miles filled upl
Gainesville, Jefferson, Pendergrass,
Hoschton, Social Circle, Monroe and Jug
Tavern, would all file down over the lit
tle track and pour their products into
Athens. It occurred to me, after listen
ing to these men and looking over the
that Athens 1
1 was dealing in some
magnificent and complicated ligatures
just now, to the neglect of a little
common sense, narrow gauge gap of 18
Among the younger merchants of Jef-
illiamsoi
ferson are Williamson St Potts, who have
just fitted up a snug little store with
geut’s furnishing goods. Success to them.
The presence of Robert Howard re
calls a brainy and popular member of the
law class of 1875 at the State University.
He is a brother of Solicitor General Wm.
M. Howard, and is a lawyer of fine abili
ty, a writer and speaker of rare power.
Col. W. S. McCarty was very civil and
attentive in his attentions to the Banner.
COL. WILEV HOWARD AND LADY.
When the new hotel is built, it is to
be hoped that Col. Wiley Howard and
his estimable lady may be induced to
take charge. The latter was born and
married in their present home, where
her father lived before her, and is a pop
ular and efficient aid to her husband.
Two houses I stopped at on this trip
have owed much of their success and
cheerfulness to the ladies of the house
hold and we mako this acknowledge
ment and touch our hats to Miss Ida Bo
hannon and to Mrs. Wiley Howard.
MARTIN INSTITUTE.
!£* r *V of the stage and dressing-rooms.
1 ho building is surmounted with belfry,
and provided with a sweet-tone bell of
more than a thousand pounds weight,
whose peals are heard at the distance of
several miles.
The music room and art lfillls were pe
culiar objects of interest, while in the de
sign room are kept the apparatus of
the school, remarkably complete, with
the embryo of a technical tool shop. The
boys made the easels of the art room, and
will bo busy after the holidays, fashion
ing the shelves for the instruments of
physical and chemical laboratory.
The board of trustees are Rev A J
W. M. PITTMAN
Kelly, President; J E Randolph, Secre
tary; H W Bell, Treasurer, and H W
*W. 3^E.
78 CLAYTON STREET,
BeR a J.Kelly, J E Randolph, T H
Niblack, W I Pike, J B Silman, F S
Smitii, W H. Simpkins.
Following is the
faculty:
Benj T Hunter, A M, Principal—An
cient Language 1 and Higher Mathe-
Miss Fannie T Hunter (Graduate Wes
leyan Female College, Macon)—Reading,
Elocution, Calisthenics, English Lan-
guage, Literature and Geography.
Miss India L Hunter (Wesley
In writing up Jefferson, the command
ing proportions of Martin Institute—its
lustrous record and its glowing future-
thrust themselves before us.
In 1849, Wm, D. Martin, • wealthy
bachelor and merchant, died, an exile
from Virginia and a prosperous citizen
of Jefferson. Here he made his home
and was the recipient of kindly favor
from its people. When he died, it is
said, he was determined that these peo
ple should inherit his fortune, and his
will has stood the test of all the courts.
To the Jefferson Academy he bequeath
ed 100 shares of Georgia Railroad stock,
which school was in corporated in 1818,
and in December, 1859, the charter was
amended and the name changed to Mar
tin Institute, in honor of its benefactor.
Here then, was an example. A bache
lor who haipgiven no “heritages to for
tune,” endowing a school for other peo
ple’s children.
The school has been in successful op
eration during this long period—quietly
doing its allotted work, while hundreds
have gone forth to occupy positions of
trust and honor throughout the country.
The number of students runs between
100 and 200 a year, and the tuition rates
are nominal. By this school the means
of a liberal education are brought within
easy reaeh. Education in Jackson has
received a mental and moral quickening;
boys and girls have been prepared for
college, and hundreds hare left its halls
with a broad and secure foundation for
their life work.
Two years ago the old building burned
down; but Jefferson nor Jackson county
could afford to lose the institute. The
town voted $5,000 school bonds and the
institute trustees issued $10,000 bonds
and pledged the dividends of their rail
road stock to pay ths interest Their
income meets all of these obligations
and leaves a residuum which is directed
toward lowering the tuition of the pu
pils. The charge is about $1 a month
per pupil—nothing when the advantages
of the school are considered.
On the first of last July the new in
stitute was completed. It sits upon a
higher hill then the ceurt house, and
across the country the blue lines of the
miles which is almost ready to heal
by local enterprise and “first intention.”
To allow this ambitious najrow gauge to
stop in Jefferson is suicidal. *A&ta
now reaches that section by Gainesville
as well as the Circle, and 18 miles of dirt
road to overcome ia more than 180 of
steel rule. Just see the little towns at
the edge ol Jefferson—all anxious to
reach Athens. At Hoschton there are
Hosch Bros., W. B. McCants, P. P. Pir-
kle, and DeLaperriere St Smith, with s
business of something like 1,500 bales
and $*""— ~ ~ '
have
100,00a Then at Pendergrass We
Whitehead & Appleby, A. C. Har
rison, W. B. Mitchell aqd T. Duke £ Co.
representing s trade it large as Hoschton,
and commanding the .Garden Valley of
Cobb Bros, at Can-
that with
of Jackson county,
dler, will help. It is
the aid of these men
have to subscribe more than eight or ten
thousand dollars' To leave this section
'Lthenawrould not
country
mountains can be seen as they lift their
shoulders to the sky. The building cost
when completed $15,000. A handsomer
or more convenient school building can
not be found in Georgia.
The structure is large and imposing,
built of brick, slate covered, and well ar
ranged in all its appointments. The
style of architecture is strictly Ameri
can, combining beauty with utility-
beauty in its style and finish, and utility
in adaptation to the work for which it
was constructed.
The first floor contains five large, well-
to lighted, well-venti lated recitation rooms,
with seating capacity for nearly three
hundred students; and ample blackboar d
facilities for every achojl purpose. A
capacious chapel, approached by two
broad stairways in front and one In the
rear, together with vestibule, stage and
music room*, occupy the entire second
story. The chapel is seated with neat
cottage chairs and supplied with two ele
gant chandelier* of eighteen lights
and a number of handsome bracket
lamps. The stage is finished in artistic
style, presenting s handsome parlor
scene. The graceful windows, the
chandelier of tinted glass, the beautiful
drop curtain, which alo
than one hundred dollars, and the conve
niently arranged foot-lights, all ham
iso in s scene at once pleasing and in-
A private stairway leads to
iss India L Hunter (Wesleyan Fe
male College, Macon)—Primary Depart
ment
Prof Wm Fisher—Professor of Music.
Miss P A Douglass—Art Department
Prof Hunter is well known in Athens,
where he taught for many years. He
inquires proudly and tenderly after many
of his old schoUrs, and is recognized as
one of the foremost educators in Gear
s'*; The young ladies are accomplished
and vivacious, and brighten the society
of Jefferson, besides assisting efficiently
in the work at the Institute. This is
gifted aud popular family.
The building committee of the new in
stitute deserve credit for their work, and
their names are appropriately inscribed
on its comer stone. They are H W Bell,
G J N Wilson, J E Randolph, J C Grow,
JAB Mahaffey, T H Niblack, A H
Bmck.
The drop curtain of the chapel is _
handsome painting by E. D. Irvine, of
Macon. It represent* Napoleon's war
ship’at Joppa.
OTHEB TOWNS IN JACKSON.
The little towns of Hoschton, Pender
grass, Belmont and Candler, are live and
growing places, to which allusion has al
ready been made. 1 am warned in ad
vance that Jug Tavern is claimed by
Gwinnett and Walton, and Gillsville and
Mayaville by Banks, as well as Jackson.
Pendergrass has 200 people and Hoschton
100. _ Dry Pond has about 100. It is im
possible, in a hurried chronicle like this,
to sketch all these places, or to do justice
to atenth of the advantages, the wealth, or
the progress of old Jackson county. If
this sketch has developed the one fact,
that it is impossible to describe all of the
material advancement in the course of
one article, or even a series of a-ticles,
the object of the screed has been in part
accomplished. Our object is to call the
attention of the people of Athens and of
the state to Jackson county, and of the
people of Jackson to themselves.
ELDER’S PROLIFIC CORN.
We have for sale 500 bushels of El
der’s Prolific Corn, and it will be found
at our store until the first of March next.
This com will bear planting thicker and
will produce more to the acre than any
other. It grows from two to six fine
ears to the stalk, and has a small cob and
deep grain. Mr. W. Y. Elder, of Oco
nee county, this year made nearly 50
bushels on an acre of thin upland, and in
spite of a five weeks’ drought, at the 1
sou that the com should do doing its
best. We will sell this com at $4 per
bushel, $1 per peck, or 15 cents per
quart Call at our store, comer Broad
and Jackson streets, and lee samples.
For testimonials we refer to Messrs. W.
C. Orr, C. G. Talmadge and Dr. Price,
who saw the corn growing.
Moore Sc Elder.
HORRIBLE CRIME.
Xha Cruel D<
Burning at the
Carnesvillr, Dee. 16.—[Special Cor
respondence.] The most diabolical crime
ever committed in this county, was don*
last night by Frank Sanders, a young
man from South Carolina. Sander* was
arrested some 8 month* ago for using ob
scene language in the presence of fe
males, and was fined some fifty or sixty
dollars, and Mr. John Swilling, of this
county, paid him out, with the under
standing that Sanders was to stay and
work out the amount. Last night San
ders, after Swilling, his wife and three
children had retired, took an axe and
killed all five, and set fire t* and bnroed
down the house. This is the confession
of Sander* to your reporter, after he was
lodged in jaiL It required great dili-
gence on the part of our efficient sheriff,
J. C. McConnell, to reach the jail with
the prisoner. J. R. Ivia.
THEM, ft A. ROAD.
r. Bearden, of Madison, was in tha
yesterday. He says the grading
l on the M. ft A. road is now with-
Mr.
in six miles of bis city, smoothing op the
old road bed. Messrs. Powell ft Diven-
port have taken a contract en the road
and will aoon set their conviete to work,
R.L.J. SMITH,
ATTORNEY ANDi COUNCILLOR *AT LAW
HARMONY GROVE)
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Charles Stem A Co
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And Dealers in Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Hats, Trunks, Valises, etc.
Agent* for the Celebrated “ PEABL SHIRTS."
Hunnicutt Block, Broad Street, Athens, Georgia.
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W. D. GRIFFE
REAL ESTATE and LOAN AGENT,
Athene, Georgia.
Agent for the Georgia Loan and Trust Co., of Americas Ga. Will lend money on Baal Estate
in Clarke and Ooonee counties. ’
Farms Fox* Sale.
I have farms in Jackson, Madison, Clark and Qcones Counties, for sal* on Seasonable Terms.
Has on hand for the holidays a full assortment of
Apples, Oranges, Nuts, Raisins, Malaga Grapes
Cocoanuts, Plain and Fancy Candies, Candv Tovs
and Fruits, as well as a good line of Groceries and
Staple Dry Goods. He would be glad to have his
p_i— J -; call 1 ' * -
friends call and get prices before buying.
ATHENS, SEOEdli
RELIABLE.
IT IS A FACT THAT
SEirr.tHe 3XT7ELEE,
Is well and favorable known as one who understands his business,
and reliable to the letter and always keeps good and Reliable goods of
and shall c. '
every description in the jewelry line, i
l continue to do so.
LARGE AND FINE ASSORTMENT OF
WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SPECTACLES, ETC,
' AT COST I Mile 1;
• J. J. MINISTER, JEWELER.
TALMAD3E & HMTW&l
WHOLESALE AUD RETAIL
DEALERS IN GENERAL HARDWARE.
82 CLAYTON STREET,
-AJraarEILTS, - G-EOE^IA.
O'FARRELL & HODGSON,
Wholesale Grocers.
33STS, GKA.
Agents for Athens Manufacturing Company Checks, Yarns,
Cottonades and Jeans. New High Shoals Manufacturing
Comr
ton
ituuaues ana jeans. new tlign Shoals Manufacturing
oapany Checks, Stripes, Shirtings, etc. Powell’s Mills Cot-
Rope. Hazard Company Powder.
Reaves Warehouse Go.
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Liberal Advancements
Made on Consignments*
Bagging and Ties furnished at Market Prices, t
6onal attention given to Weighing and Samplin’
Fire-Proof Warehouse. Ample facilities for Storage
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MOSS & 'THOMAS,
Cott©a Factors,
STire-l^xoof ’ 1 ^7’areli.o - u.sOv
CLAYTON 8TSEET, - . . ATHENS, QB.'*®
BUY COTTON 84 ” 007 8 0011111881011 BUSINESS, and -N'E[ E
Liberal advances made on consignments, and attsnS
given to all business.
The entire stock of Goods, from this date until further o
face, at 10 PER OEKT. XJBS than
ACTUAL NEW YORK COST 1
AT THE GELT EDGE PALACE STORE’
Come early and secure a portion of them and save the &
chant's profit. , ,
S. KARZS, Broad Street
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