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THE ATHENS BANNER: FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1899.
IT COMMENCEMENT.
Preparations Are Now Being Made
To Give One.
MANY PROMINENT ALUMNI
Will Be Present at the Banquet—The Alumni at
Their Regular Annual Meeting Will Make
Plans To Secure a Large Endowment
tor the University.
The alumni of the University of Geor
gia, resident in Athens, will give all the
aid they can to the movement to secure
a large endowment for the University.
This movement, which was inaugu
rated last Jnne at commencement, is
growing in interest and it is now pro
posed that a big meeting of all the
living alnmni of the University be held
in Athens at the approaching com
mencement.
A committee has been appointed by
Hon. P. W. Meldrim president of the
alnmni society, to work np this meeting
of alumni. At the meeting it is in
tended starting the endowment fund
and making such plans as will insure
the success of the movement.
A few days since Mr John W. Welch,
of this city, a prominent and enthusi
astic young alumnus of the University,
wrote President Meldrim, suggesting
that an alnmni banquet be arranged for
the big alnmni meeting at commence
ment. President Meldiim replied,
heartily approving the suggestion,
and the banquet will certainly be one
of the attractions of commencement.
A committee will be appointed at
once to make the necessary arrange
ments for the banquet. The banquet
will not be a costly or elaborate affair.
It will be, neat, attractive and enjoyable
in all its features. A number of short
addresses will be made by prominent
alumni and a number of songs will en
liven the affair.
The last alumni banquet was held at
the commencement o" 1889 and was one
of the most enjoyable affairs in the his
tory of the University of Georgia
There will no doubt be a large number
of alumni present to attend the banquet
which will be given Tuesday evening of
commencement week.
These Alnmni at their meeting Tues
day morning of commencement week
will insure the success of the movement
to secure a large endowment for the
U niversity.
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
... YOU DAN CAIN CONSIDERABLE KNOWLEDGE OF . . .
LATE, CRISP, NEW AND SALEABLE
' Spring Goods in all Departments
By a careful perusal of the contents presented you in this publication.
SILKS. This line is our prid.e
We are not led, but are LEADERS.
Our display of Spripg Silks surpass all previous records. Our line of Fresb, New
and Stylish Silks in waist pattern lengths, in prices ranging from 65c to $1.25 P er p t*\ p/vr a | T \T r\ | * r*T/' AAA tno
yard. Only one pattern of each stile We aiv also displaying a beaiitiful line of^prl.lAI ||\| BI,At,I\ I t € I If I 1^
China and Foulard Silks for dress patterns. This display should receive your im- ^ 1 1 rlL III L» LjV^IY UUUUJ
mediate attention.
BLACK GOODS
This section of our dress goods department is up to its usual high standard. We
are showing a beautiful line of fine imported Crepons and Grenadines in Dress
Patterns and Skirt Patterns. Our prices on these very stylish goods are reasonable
enough for all purchasers.
DRESS GOODS.
40-inch Fine CREPON at $1.00. Only a few pieces of this special offer.
Tables of Special Drives.
This department is now filled with a choice lot of
materials for spring 1899, All the new colorings and
weaves. We mention a few of the popular sellers at
very low prices:
45-inch Granite Cloth at $1.00 per yard. This is very cheap for this material. Ser
viceable and very pretty.
45-inch Poplin io all the new colors at $1.00 per yard.
45-inch Bunting, all-wool, very serviceable material, at 50c, worth 75c.
4 '-inch Mixed Covert Cloth at 50c -a beautiful material.
40 inch Fancy Mixed Suiting at 50c—all pretty colors.
40-ineh Fancy Mixed Suitings at 39c—all pretty and new colors.
'36-inch Plaid Suitings at 15c—a nice materiaLfor children’s suits.
50 pieces Ballymena Duck in figures and stripes, at 10c,
75 pieces Prince Royal Piques at 15c, in beautiful colors and patterns.
75 pieces Fine Madras Cloth at 84c, worth 124c, in fast colors.
200 pieces Fine Zephyr Ginghams in new styles, at 10c.
25 pieces Fine White India Dimity at 124c, regular 20c quality. ^
25 pieces Fine White India Dimity at 15c, regular 25c quality.
*5,000 yards Short Length India Lawn at 5c, 84c, 10c, 12£c, 15c, 18c and 2^'c.
50 pieces White Pique at 10c, regular 15c quality.
TOO pieces White Checked Nainsook at 5c, regular 8Jc quality.
200 yards Fine Bleached Satin Damask at 85c, worth $1.25, in 2, 2^ and
lengths This is a very special offer.
10<> pieces 4-4 Bleaching at 5c. Very good quality.
100 pieces Best Shirting Prints at 4c, regular 5c quality.
25 pieces Crown Pongee, a new wash fabric, 36 inches wide, at 12$c.
yard
ELECTED PROFESSOR
AT UNIUF VIRGINIA,
Dr. Charles A. Young Will Teach at
That Institution.
Rev. E Edwards, pastor of the Eng
lish Baptist Church at Minersville, Pa ,
when suffering with rheumatism, was
advised to try Chamberlain’s Pain
Balm. He says: “A few applications
of this liniment proved of great service
to me. It snbdned the infiamation and
relieved the pain. Should any sufferer
profit by giving Pain Balm a trial it will
please me.” For sale by H. R. Palmer
& Sons.
CAMARA DECLINES.
HE ACCEPTS THE POSITION.
Or. Young; Will Teach Hebrew and Bible
Literature—This Department Has Been Re'
cently Established at That Famous
Southern Institution.
5llvela’s Selection for Cabinet Said To Be Oood
One.
Madrid, March 6.—Admiral Camara
having declined the post of minister of
murine, Senor Silvela tendered it to Ad
miral Gomez Imaz, who has accepted
Senor Doran, the new minister of
justice, is a Catalan protectionist.
Senor Dato,* minister of the interior,
is a talented yonng deputy and barrister
who distinguished himself recently by a
brilliant campaign against the abuses
and scandals in the Madrid municipal
ity.
VISITED BV FIRE,
FLOODJD WIND,
Harmony Grove Had Quite An Ex
perience Saturday Night,
SKIFFS ONCE-A-WEEK TALK.
HOUSES WERE UNROOFED.
The Business Section of the City Was Not
Badly Damaged— 1 The Fire Was Discovered
Before It rtade Much Headway and
Was Put Out.
^Mothers!
T hb discom
forts and
dangers of
child-birth can
be almost en
tirely avoided./
WineofCardni'
relieves ex
pectant moth
ers. It gives
toneto the gen
ital organs, and
puts them in .
condition to do their work
perfectly. That makes preg
nancy less painful, shortens
labor and hastens recovery alter
child-birth. It helps a woman
bear strong healthy children.
r inei&dH
has also brought happiness to
thousands of homes barren for
yeari* A few doses often bnngs
foy to loving hearts that long
for a darling baby. No woman
should neglect to try it for this
trouble. It cures nine casesout
of ten. All druggists selTWine
of Cardui. $i.oo per bottle.
Pot advice in eases iwjulrlnr 55EJJ 1
noopuTcvn.
Mrs. LOUISA HA 0 ^j efrersonj G a., S>JK
•‘When t first Mre'but
we had been married three /ears, mu
could not have any children. Nln#
months later I had a fine girl bany.
Dr. Charles A. Young has accepted a
professorship in the University of Vir
ginia, and will start upon his new work
September 1st.
Dr. Yonng is to be professor of the
Hebrew Language and Bible Literature
Virginia’s farnoas institution, and
will no doubt fill that position with
eminent ability.
Recently the University of Virginia
decided to add this chair to its many
departments, making the study elective
on the part of the students, and Dr.
Yonng was chosen as the professor of
this new department.
Dr. Yonng has bad the offer under
consideration for some time, and has at
last made np his mind to accept it. In
order to do so, he will have to give np
his Bible lectures at different State
Universities throughout the country, a
work to which he is devotedly attached.
For three winters past Dr. Yonng has
conducted a series of Bible lectures in
Athens that have been most pleasant
and profitable for all who bave attended
them. He is just now dosing a series of
lectures which be has been delivering
here for the past three months.
Dr. Young had made many friends in
Athens who will regret the fact that he
is not to come among ns again soon.
MAHON 18 FOUND.
He Had Been Hiding Ont at the House of a
Friend.
New York, March 6.—The Press says:
••Martin Mahon was found by a re
porter for the Press in Atlantic City
Saturday night. Tne missing people’s
witness, whose disappearance caused
the postponement of Fayne Straban
Moore's second trial to March 27, is vis
iting John Wilson, _ at No. 87 North
Carolina avenue, in that city.
•Saturday night Mr. Wilson’s house
was closed, and the reporter was unable
to see Mahon, bntafriend of Wilson #aid
he had seen the two together ip the
afternoon. To this friend Wilson said
that, he and Martin were coming over to
New York for a little trip next Thurs
day.” N
Harmony Grove, Ga., March 6.—Har
mony Grove was visited by fire, flood,
hail and wind on Saturday night. Moss
Bros.’ store on North Elm street caught
on fire about 9 o’clock bat was discov
ered by Chief of police H S. Jackson
and the fire was quickly extinguished
before a great deal of damage was done.
The damage to stock of goods from wa
ter and smoke will probably amount to
$200, but is fully covered by insurance.
Chief Jackson's arm and hand were
badly cut by shattered glass when be
broke in the front door in order to ex
tinguish the flames and he is suffering
considerably from the ents today, bat
his friends hope to see him oat again
soon. Harmony Grove is justly proud
of her chief of police as he is certainly
the best in the state. Bat for his quick
discovery of this fire and prompt efforts
to put it oat Harmony Grove might
have suffered severely from the flames.
There was a heavy rain, hail and wind
storm here on Satorduy night aboat 10
o’clock. The hail fell fast and furious
for a short while'hut soon subsided.
The rain fell in torrents and was ac
companied by the hardest wind storm
in years. A part of the tin, roof of the
Harmony Grove Cotton Factory was
blown off and is now lying in the mid
dle of the street near the railroad traok.
A framed house, covered bat not com
pleted, in the eastern part of town, was
blown down and also several large trees
i® the vicinity of Baugh’s rock quary
The business part of town escaped in
jury from the storm.
Ev. ry one ought to have an object in
life to work for, but what a vast num
ber of the world’s people do rot. They
commence in the world with no partic
ular object ahead and go through it in
a sort of haphazard way day by day as
j they come and go.
Today they may plan something for
tomorrow and tomorrow for the next
day. Thus they go on to the end of
life with no object in view, only as one
day brings another. Such people are of
little worth to the world. They may he
clever and good and if they had started
the career of life with some fixed object
could have gained it, been more useful
and better satisfied with the journey of
life when ended.
Not but a few that start with a fixed
determination to master the object they
bave chosen but wbat succeed.
If your object is to be a preacher and
liis line of business. Give him a kind
word when and where he is deserving of
it. There is not strictly a perfect man
living. Such a one, if could be found,
would be regarded by the world as an
impostor. There is one man in Athens
comes very near it. It is not Skiff the
jeweler.
CHAMBERLAINS COUGH REMEDY.
This remedy is intended especially for
coughs, colds, croup, whooping congh
and influenza. It has become famons
for its cures of these diseases, over a
large part of the civilized world. The
most flattering testimonials have been
received, giving accounts of its good
works; of the aggravating and persis
tent coughs it has cured; of severe colds
that have yielded promptly to its sooth
ing effects, and of the dangerous attacks
of cronp it has cared, often saving the
life of the child. The extensive use of
it for whooping cough has shown that
THE SUM DEM
OF M DM till
Died At His Home in This City
Sunday Evening.
THE FUNERAL YESTERDAY
Mr. Gann Was Sixty-Eight Years of Age At the
Time of His Death and Was Apparently in
Good Health—Remains Interred In
Oconee Cemetery.
TRE UNIQUE PLAN
TO CATCH A THIEF.
Conductor McDonald, of the Sea
board Air Lire,
WATCHED HIS CHANCE,
it robs that disease of all dangerous con-
follow that profession for a living, be sequences. It is especially prized by
mothers for their children, as it never
The Curative Properties, Strength
and Effect of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine are always the same. It con-
not be equalled.
I bave been afflicted with rheumatism
for fourteen years and nothing seemed
to give me any relief. I was able to be
around all the time, but constantly suf
fering. - I had tried everything I could
hear of and at last was told to try Cham
berlain’s Pain Balm, which I did. and
was immediately relieved and in a short
time cored. I am happy to say that it
has not since returned.—Josh. Edgar,
Germantown, Cal. For sale by H. R.
Palmer & Sons.
one if it takes half yonr days to accom
plish that object. A preacher above all
others should be an example in their
daily walk for others to follow in every
detail of life. In our young days we
thought the preacher who was settled
for life as pastor and spiritual leader of
the church we attended as being the
wisest and most perfect man living, and
still believe he was. The clinrch and
the people of the world admired Rev.
Mr. Lord (for that was his' name). He
was pastor of this chnrch fifty years.
If yon have a fixed determinatiop to
be a lawyer let that be yonr object to
work for, although every place is filled
with them, and if not so many of them
better it wonld be for the people,and move
men to do some useful work. Some are
worthy and noted men of the profession
Athens are mere petti loggers and better
fitted for a jeweler than a lawyer, bat
if to be a lawyer is yonr object don’t
stop short of-being one of the best in-
the land, be cock of the roost and the
bigest toad in the paddle, as Skiff the
jeweler is in the jeweler bnsiness
If yonr object ahead is to be a mer
chant, don’t slip np on the way by be
ing nnwise and dishonest, hat so man
age yonr bnsiness in every detail that
yon will be the most noted merchant in
the whole land, as Skiff the jeweler is.
Yonng man start in life with some ob
jectinview, witb a determination to
succeed. If a doctor don’t be a quick
but a doctor in the true meaning
of the word is one whom the people
will ' seek and not you the people.
There are many a one practicing that
profession that better be at some less
responsible bnsiness. Some men’s lives
are too valuable to be tampered with. If
yonr object in life is to be a mere
machine, clerk, bookkeeper, doctor, law'
yer, or a gentleman, work for it with a
will and determination to gain that
object, if reverses come which they
may,* don't Bit down and be a know
nothing but work on and be somebody
in the world. Have yonr watches and
jewelry repaired at Skiff the jeweler’s,
have yonr eyes fitted to glasses
they require, or anything in the
jewelry line, silver novelties, sil
ver table ware of every description. No
better place than at Skiff the jeweler to
bny watches and jewelry. Please don’t
forget him when yon need anything in
fails to efiect a speedy cure, and because
they have found that there is not the
least danger in giving it, even to babies,
as it contains nothing injurious. Sold
by H R. Palmer & Son’s.
DEATH IN THE STORM-
When the Negro Had Crawled Into the Car,
the Conductor Locked Him up and Brought
Him to the Depot Where He Turned
Him Over to the Police.
rtrs. C. E. niller Killed by a Falling Roof at
Toccoa.
Toccoa, March 6.—Mrs. O. E. Miller
was killed in a disastrous storm which
swept over Toccoa Saturday night, her
honse beiug crushed in by the collapse
of a.brick waiehouse which was blown
down by the cyclone.
The storm was one of the most disas
trous which has swept over this section
of the state in a long time, and a great
deal of damage to property resulted
from it. The wind blew a terrible gale
about 11 o’clock Saturday night, coming
from the southwest and lasting fully ten
minutes. Trees were uprooted, fences
leveled and a number of bouses demol
ished in and around Toccoa.
Mrs. Miller, who was killed, resided
in a frame honse next to the brick ware
house of Edwards & Bros’. Tbe ware
house was demolished by the storm, and
the high wall which had fceen built next
to the Miller house for protection against
fire, fell on the roof of the room in
which Mrs. Miller resided, carrying
down on her a mass of bricks and tim
bers anti burying her under four feet of
debris, killing her instantly. Her body
was taken from the mass of stuff after
tbe storm passed away.
Ladies desiring a contended and hap
py old age should use Simmons Squaw
Vine Wine or Tablets, commencing at
40 years old and continne daring
Change of life.”
Geo. B. Secord, the well known con
tractor of Towanda, N. Y., says: “I
have used Chamberlain’s Congh Remedy
iu my family for a long time mid have
found it superior to any other.” For
saleby.H. R. Palmer &-Sons.
One by one the oldest citizens of Ath
ens are answering the summons of the
Master.
Sunday evening about six o’clock Mr.
David Gann, after a very brief illness,
passed away at his home on Foundry
street.
Mr. Gann was apparently in good
health Snnday morning and started to
Oconee street chnrch, of which he was
a member. ' -
Before proceeding far he became sick,
and bad to retnrn to his borne. He had
had little sick spells before, and, al
though he felt a sore and oppressed
feeling in his chest, he didn’t have any
idea that his last moments were com
ing.
He remained at home all Sunday af
ternoon, Bitting in front of the fire and
conversing with his family. About six
o’clock, biB bead suddenly fell forward
on his chest and those near by him at
once saw that he was sorionsly ill.
Officer R. J. Felton, who lives near
by, was called in, and when he reached
Mr. Gann’s side, be was in a dying con
dition, if not actually dead. Other
neighbors came in and the body of Mr.
Gann was laid upon the bed. Bat tbe
t pulse was gone and the heart was still
forever.
Mr. Gann was at the time of his death
sixty-eight years old, and had lived in
this connty for many years. He was a
plain, honest, worthy old gentleman
and had many friends who mourn his
death with sincere grief.
Mr. Gann leaves a widow and four
children, Messrs. Will and Tom Gann,
Mrs. E. S. Edge and Mrs. H. F. N.
Hauser.
Tho funeral of Mr. Gann was con
ducted yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock
at the late residence of the deceased on
Foundry street, where qnite a large
number of friends gathered to pay their
last tribute of affection to his memory.
Rev. George D. Stone, pastor of Oco
nee street church, and Rev. Ellison D.
Stone conducted the funeral services in
a most solemn and impressive manner.
The remains were laid to rest in Oconee,
cemetery. §51.
Burt Anderson, colored, rests behind
the bars of the Hotel de Wier, charged
witb the crime of breaking into a rail
road cor.
His “capture was an uniqne piece of
work on the part of Conductor Mc
Donald, of the Seaboard Air Line freight
train.
For sometime it has been known that,
when the freight train would stop at
the coal chute, someone wonld break
the seals on cars and enter them, steal
ing different articles before leaving.
Saturday night, when the freight
stopped at the chnte, Conductor Mc
Donald was on the lookout, and in a
few moments his vigil was rewarded.
He saw a negro man twist off one Of
the seals, slide the door back, and enter
the car In a twinkling, Conductor
McDonald shut the door, secured it
fast, and signalled the engineer ahead.
He had caught his man and locked
him up. When he reached the depdt,
he Bent for an officer, and had the negro
jailed.
Anderson says be lives in Elb8rton
and that he crawled into the car in order
to steal a ride home.
CUBAN RELIEF aunt
Colic, NeuralgUand Toothache
In fire minutes. Sour Stomach
end Summer Complaiu*®- Price, 25 Cents.
Sold by Brumby Drug Co.
MAY CONSOLIDATE.
Daughter* of American devolution and Daugh
ters of the Revolution.
Washington, Ma ch 6 —It is generally
expected that in the annual convention
of the Daughters of the Revolution, at
Philadelphia, in April, one of the prin
cipal topics of discussion will be the
proposed consolidation of their organiza
tion with the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution. For several years
many efforts looking toward consolida
tion have been made, bat have always
failed, because no mutual concessions
could be agreed upon.
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Flushed Cheeks, Throbbing Temples
Nausea, Lassitude, Lost Appetite,' Sal
low Complexion,. Pimples, Blotches,
warnings. Take Dr. M. A. !
Liver Medicine,
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