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ATHENS, QA., TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 6.1892.
Pages 9 to 13.
GRAND CLOSING OUT SALE
VESS-VODE
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$25,000 worth of Dry Goods and Notions to be closed out in the next few weeks. Prices cut right and left. 25 to 40 per
cent reduction on every piece of goods in the house. Now is your time to pick up the bargains at your own price. Nothing
reserved. Everything to go. A clean sweep. The Goods must be sold. We need the room, hence this sweeping reduction.
See Prices Below, Come to See Us and Save Your Money-
The Dret-s Goods Department will be the biggest sufferer daring this
sale. This departmeit is large -ml complete in every detail. The
shdv.s are full of all the n w shades in PopliQs, Whip C>rds, Bedford
Ci ds, Bingalines, S orm Serges. Iceland Serges, Mohair, Camel’s Har,
English Homespuns, Henriettas, Pl iia Serges and Cashmeaes All thrse
new materials can be had at our plact in every new shade, and Black
with elegant Trimmings to match in the way of Persian 'Bands, Feather*
ine, Astrachan, Mos-, Jewel, Steel, J it, Ribbon Fringe, Hercules Braid,
large Pearl and Jet Buttons, Black and Colored Frays, and all the styles
in Furs—Opossum, Raccoon, Rabbi and Coney. Look out for the good
things in this department. Nothing like it has ever been bafore the peo
ple in this section at the pric< 8
A. big stock of Bla tkete. Quilts and Sprea Is. Handsome large heavy
Blankets as low as $1.50 a pair, and grades running up to the finest Cali
fornifi, all at less than original cost. About *00 White Bed 8preads in
large size and heavy grades to close *t $1 00 eacn. G -od value at $1 50.
Jeans, Cassimers, Flannels, Ti« kiugs, C.iecks, Shirtings, Sheetings
and Drills—a large stock to be closed out at less than manufacturer’s
cost.
An immense stock of Underwear for Meq, Ladies and Children. All
must be sold at once. To move them we have*cnt the price to half origi
nal price.
Ooe hundred pieces of Table Linens, in White, Red and Unbleached.
75 dozen Doylies and Nankins to match. Also about 200 dozen Towels
in all grades from 5c to $2.00 a piece. Everything in this department
put on the connter and sold regardless of original coat Don’t miss see
ing these goods, for there is nothing nicer for a Holiday Present than
something in Linens.
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200 pairs Lace.C irtains from’$l 25 to $25.00 a pair, and all the new
an l lovely thing in Drapery Goads and Curtain Material. In this de*
pa-tment we mnst*unload.
100 feet of shelving loaded with Hosiery, Gloves,^Handkerchiefs, Ru-
chirg, Collaps, Corsets and Unde-vests, and everything in the way of
small wear in Novelty Goods for the Holiday trade.
A few plnms that hang high and hold fast in every house in Athens,
bat Ve»s, Vonderau & C gave the tree a shake and forced the plnms
down, and now it is for yon to come and pick them up
50 pieces 8 oz all Wool Jeans at 25c.
5 pieces all Wool Twilled Red Flannel at 19c.
5 pieces plain all Wool at 15c.
150 large heavy Qailts at 75c.
200 pairs nice large Blankets at $1 50.
300 pieces nice Stylish Dress Goods cut from 75c to 40c per yard.
125 extra long waist R. & G. Corsets at 75c. Other houses get $100
for the same.
175 Ladies Hjeavy Jersey Undervests at 25c.
150 Mens Heavy Undershirts at 25c.
200 Mens White Linen Shirts at 48c. Other houses get 75c.
1000 pairs Heavy Seamless Socks atl0\ Good va’ne at 25c.
1000 pairs Ladies Fast Black Hose at 10c.
1000 Ladies Pare Linen Collars at 5c.
1000 Ladies Pretty Hemstitched Handkerchiefs at 5c. Cheap at 15c.
Remember, We Always Have What We Advertise
AND DO JUST WHAT WE SAY.
VESS. VONDERAU & GO., Athens, Georgia,
THE HOME SCHOOL.
I review of toe work of
AN ADMIRABLE INSTITUTION.
[T3 SPLENDID RECORD
Bhovm by Investigation of ita Methods
•f Teaching and tbe Facilities Af
forded—Madame and Miss Sos-
nowakl to be Congratulated.
Classic Athens, famous for her educa
tional institutions, and renowned for tbe
many great sons and noble daughters she
!ias sent forth from her college halls into
the walks ot life in which they have won
Fame and distinction: can boast of n
nore thorough and efficient college within
ter limits than the Home School for young
ladies.
Madame Sophie Sosnowski and Miss
Caroline Sosnowski are the associate prin-
npals of this splendid institution, which
inder their supervision and management
ias advanced step by step to the foremost
rank of colleges for young ladies in tieor-
;ia and the South.
The school is well located; accomplish
'd teachers aid the principals in tbe
various departments of .English, of th.
languages and of the accomplishments,
rhe methods of study are the latest and
most effective, sod the aim of the school is
tbe combination of physical, mental, and
moral training.
Pupils, entering as boarders, are con
sidered aa members of the family, and the
opportunities of home comforts are all that
parents can wish for their daughters.
The curriculum is a very high one, and
contains all studies necessary to a complete
education. The departments of Vocal and
Instrumental Music are most successfully
carried out, and the pupils have always
felt great enthusiasm for this branch of
their education. Drawing and Fainting in
Oil, China Decorating and Water Colon j
in the beat studio come among the most
interesting and ins tractive part of tbe ed
ucational work of the Home School.
Classes in French and Latin are regu
larly conducted and Greek and German
can be panned it desired. Courses of
Lectures by Professors upon Physics,
Chemistry,Botany and Literature through
out the year.
Medals, prizes, and testimonials are pre
sented to pupils who attain pre-eminence
In any department of Literary study and
Composition, in music or painting, and in
marked fidelity to duty. A splendid
library is accessible to all scholars.
The school is well equipped, and is well
famished with Globes, Chronological
charts, Geometrical forms, etc. The gov
ernment of the school is mild bat impera
tive.
Tba work being done at the Home
School in the education of young ladies is
a grand one. An able corps of teachers
has charge of the classes a^d the proficient
manner in which they carry out the splen
did curriculum is beat shown in the well-
rounded education given the scholars who
graduate there.
The late Bishop John W. Beckwith
heartily recommended this school to all
who desired their daughters to be thor
oughly trained. Chancellor Boggs, of the
University of Georgia, and President Wm.
Leroy Brown, of Auburn, Alabama College
both speak in highest terms of the merits
of the Home School .and the efficiency of
its teachers.
Prof. R. C. White, President of the
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts, and Professor of Chemistry in the
University of Georgia, pays the Home
School the following high compliment:
“I have been acquainted for a number
of years with the methods and the result*
of the training given the yenng ladies
committed to the care of Madame and Miss
Sosnowski, as pnpils of the Home School
in this city* The moral and intellectual
training given in this admirable institution
is most excellent. The education given
is sound and thorough, and the influences
surrounding the pnpils are of a character
eminently conducive to healthful morality,
cultivated thought, and refined deport
ment. The institute is, as its name im
plies, a genuine Home School in which
he comforts and care of a refined and
cultured home are joined to the systematic
fowrhinga of a school of the very first
rank. I cordially recommend.the Home
School as entirely worthy of the confidence
of the moat solicitous parents.” '
Prof. Charles Morris, of the department
of Belles Lettres of the University of Geor-
in writing of this school says:
“It gives me pleasure to make the fol
lowing statement in regard to the Home
School conducted by Madame and M
Sosnowski. These ladies are well known
I throughout the State not less by their
many accomplishments than by their sne-
tcess as instructors. Many of the best
ladies of the State and of South Carolina
owe their training to these ladies. The
school itself is situated in one of the best
portions of the city, commanding a charm
ing view. Its arrangements are all com
fortable and homelike, admirably illustra
ting its name. The pnpils are under the
control of and in continual contact with
these ladies, whose influence, social and
domestic, Is all that could be desired. The
excellence of the teaching in a practical
way is illustrated by the fact that many ot
the teachers in our Pablio Schools have
been appointed from this school. The ad
vantages in music, vocal and instrumental,
in drawing and painting, are unusually
ffood. lean cordtally rec•mmend this
school to alt who have daughters to edu-
CHRISTMAS GOODS,
W. A. JESTER,
THE LEADER
FRUITS.
For WholesalAand Retail.
4 Carload*, 120,000 Oranges. ')
100 Barrels Northern Apples.
200 Bushels Mountain Apples.
20 Barrels Malaga Grapes.
100 Baskets Catawba Delaware Grapes.
100 Bunches Bananas.
California Pears, Etc,
500 pounds Dried Figs.
100 pounds Dates."
100 boxes Raisins.
CHRISTM A^GOODS.
W. A. JESTER,
^Scores of other eminent educators add
to these words of praise, and prove con
clusively that the Home 8chool]u at tu>
ront rank of colleges for girls la Georgia.
CANDIED
CIDER.
NUTS.
THE LEAJDER*
For Wholesale and R1
Trade,
5,000 pounds Stick and Fancy.
50 kegs, Apple and P
i,000 pounds Brazil Nuts,
1,000 pounds Almonds.
1,000 pounds English Walnuts.
1,000 pounds Pecan Nuts.
2.000 pounds Peanuts.^
When Women First Voted for President.
The statement going the rounds of t he
papers that this year in Wyoming wom
en voted for a president of the United
States for the first time is a mistake.
Women voted at the first three presiden
tial elections in New Jersey. The
Quaker element was strong in old New
Jersey, and through the influence of a
Quaker preacher tbs convention that
framed the constitution under which
New Jersey came into the Union substi
tuted for the words “male freeholders’ -
in the provincial charter the words “all
inhabitants worth forty pounds.” Undei
this constitution taxpaying women and
taxpaying negroes voted. But the tax-
paying women were most of them Fed
eralists, and at the presidential election
of 1800 they voted for Adams against
Jefferson, and were said to have carried
the state in his favor.
Consequently as soon as an opposition
legislature came into power it abolished
the property qualification, and at the
same time excluded from suffrage the
taxpaying women and taxpaying ne
groes, decreeing that suffrage should be
limited to “white male” citizens. It is
'worth remembering now, while so many
pleasant things are being said in the
papers about the voting of the Wyoming
women, that the first president of the
United States who was elected in part
by women’s votes was not Grover Cleve
land, but George Washington.—Boston
Woman’s Journal.
FIREWORKS.
200 boxes Fire Crackers, thousands of
Roman Candles, Sky Rockets,. Torpe
does, Pin Wheels, Etc., Etc.
FISH, OYSTERS, ETC.
All kinds of Fish, Savannah and Norfolk
Oysters. Fish by the barrel or bunch,
or served in restaurant Oysters by the
- gallon, quart, or served in restaurant
Mother of the Regiment.
At the recent annual reunion of the
Ninety-seventh regiment, Pennsylvania
volunteers, in West Chester, an original
poem by Louis R. Eisenbeis, of that city,
was read as a tribute to Mrs. Mary St.
John, of this city, who was the subject
of the verses. This venerable woman,
uow nearing her ninetieth year, was with
the Ninety-seventh from the time it
marched to the field until it returned
home, and was known as the “mother of
the regiment.” She is the only survivor
of eight members of her family, all of
whom gave their services on the field
during the war.—Philadelphia Ledger.
FANCY CELERY,
CIGARS.
Cranberries always on hand.
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4,000 Cigars, Wholesale and Retail.)
“Not at Home.”
Pretty nearly every woman of a posi
tion sufficient to warrant the observance
of form has discovered that, however
well barricaded she may be by ceremo
nious servants, however important her
engagements, whether social, domestic
or literary, there is always some sweet
inconsequent soul ready to sweep them
blithely away with her self assurance.
Trne, the classification of one’s friends
into the formal caller and the informal
caller is difficult of insinuation to them
But starting with the hypothesis that
even the dearest and nearest are not ac
ceptable at times, is it then reasonable
that even the most sensitive should take
offense at a civil “Madam is excused
today!”
And granting that it is unreasonable,
how many women have not felt a sense
of rebuff, a faint, uncomfortable ques
tioning at receiving this message a num
ber of times at the same house? Yet
consider the demands and emergencies
which come np in daily life to warrant
such an excuse. But just because it is
so frequently accepted in a spirit not in
tended the simple word of “not at home”
seems best. While not the strictest
troth to the letter, it is certainly truer
in intention, leaving as it does no chance
I for personal application and no sting. —
New York Commercial Advertiser.
A San Francisco Idea.
If every hotel proprietor would adopt
the pretty idea of a Californian it would
not take long for his hotel to be made
the Mecca of women visitors to this city.
In San Francisco an enterprising hotel
man made it his universal custom for a
time to send to the rooms of his guests,
especially to the ladies, a pretty basket
of flowers soon after they were shown to
their rooms. Imagine the delight and
gratitude of a lady when the bell boy
appeared at her door with a message to
the effect that “Mr. , the manager,
sends these flowers to Mrs. with his
compliments.”—Boston JournaL
The Flnt Woman Justice In Wyoming.
The first woman elected to the office
of justice of the peace in Wyoming is
Mrs. Ann Scally, of Fort Kinnet pre
cinct, Johnson connty. Although her
name was first mentioned as a candidate
about 10 a. m. on election day, she made
a phenomenal race, defeating her male
Republican opponent, Phagan, the post*
master, fonr to one.
Ribbons on the hair, on the gowns and
wraps will undoubtedly obtain during
the coming season. While the flowing
streamer may not be popular, still it is
certain that the ribbon artistically dis
posed will have a special place.
The question with most women is not
what kind of servants do we prefer, hut
how can we get the best service out of
the kind of servants that offer them
selves to us.
Stained glass screens mounted in brass
or wrought iron make the most beauti
ful of fire screens, their rich colors being;
glowingly brought out by the dancing
flames.
Mrs. H. H. Pettijohn, of Las Vegas,
was admitted to the bar of New Mex
ico at the spring term of court after a
rigid examination lasting many hours.
About 100 old army nurses were pres
ent at the Grand Army encampment in
Washington, representing nearly every
state in the Union. ■ * .
How to Cura All Skin Diseases.
Simply apply “Swathe’s Ointment.” No in
ternal medicine requlied. Cares tetter, ec gema
itch. emotions on the face, hands. nose,e tc„
earing the skin clear, white and Ihealthy. Its
great healing and curative powers' are posseess
sdby no other remedy. Ask your druggists for
gWATNE’a Ointment.
Mrs. Mary E. Holmes, of Rockford,
Ills., proposes to invest $75,000 to $100,-
000 in a colored female literary and in
dustrial school.
I Sweet Gum and Mullein is a sure cure
for coughs,colds, croup, consumption,
1 and all other throat and lung trouble*
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