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EVERYTHING IN STOCK REDUCED - Don't Forget to Remember
Clothing Prices Never Took Such a Tumble Before
CHAS. STERN CO.’S REMOVAL SALE
Sets fteiv Eecord of Falne-Giving in North Georgia
OUR LEASE EXPIRES DECEMBER 31
WE MUST GET OUT! -
MEN, SAVE HERE ON OVERCOATS
Come to this store, buy one of these Overcoats—then con
gratulate yourself on your purchase, for here are Coats that have
everything that goes to make satisfactory garment, fabric, style
and tailoring—all qualities that insure satisfaction and prices
have been materially reduced.
OVERCOATS, values to $35.00 $18.95
OVERCOATS, values to $40.00 $23.95
OVERCOATS, values to $45.00 $26.95
OVERCOATS, values to $50.00 $33.65
OVERCOATS, values to $55.00 $36.65
OVERCOATS, values to SBO.OO $46.65
SPECIAL LOT OF OVERCOATS $9.95
SWEATERS
CELA.S_ STERN CO., CLAYTON ST., -iVTIEEIEDISrSr.,
SESQUICENTENNIAL A FAILURE
Philadelphia’s Scsquicentennial Ex
position was conceived as a dignified
national memorial commemorating
160 years of American independence.
It closes at the end of December
the most colossal exposition failure
in history.
Largest in area of all world’s fairs,
the Philadelphia show has attracted
fewest people since the first London
exposition in 1851.
It was opened on Saturday, May
31. Some of its buildings were un
finished on November 27. Many of
them never will be finished.
Designed to receive 60,000,000
visitors, financed on a basis of an
attendance at least half that size,
the official figures prove that less
than 5,000,000 have thought the Ses
qui worth looking at.
Estimated originally to cost the
City of Philadelphia $10,000,000, it
has already drained $16,000,000 from
the taxpayers’ pockets. Before the
moss is cleaned up it will probably
cost Philadelphia close to $20,000,-
000.
Civia officials are now occupied
with an emergency scheme of extra
municipbl financing to provide $5,-
000,000 to meet the current deficit.
The only excuse for keeping: the
'show open during: a bleak December
is that the short term notes issued
to liquidate the bankrupt flop may
be sold. Under the law outstanding
bills must be paid before the gates
are closed.
Actually, today, there is no Sesqui
left worth talking about. The di
rectors realize this. They voted last
week to cut the admission price dur
ing December from 50 cents to a
quarter.
The reduction was accompanied
by a warning that the exhibits would
be dismantled during the month.
There exists a movement to re
open a finished Sesqui next year.
Some support for this plan comes
from distinguished citizens such ns
Samuel Vaurlain and James M. Heck.
Their concern is with the foreign
exhibitors, many of whom feel they
have been unfairly dealt with.
Foreign governments spent huge
sums of money on buildings. They
brought costly national treasures to
add to the glory of the American
people's biggest exposition.
Ignoring entirely unsubstantiated
charges of graft, which might well
be,made for political or personal rea
sons, hardly a prominent citizen in
Philadelphia outside Mayor Kendrick
and Director Austin is prepared to
call the Sesqui a success.
The almost unanimous opinion is
that it was a failure.
It failed financially; it failed to
attract crowds; it failed in its high
est purpose, the inspiration of pa
triotism. Not only the citizens of
Philadelphia themselves, in whose
back yard the unwieldy thing was
planted, looked upon it with indif
ference, finally with disgust.
HOW THE BOY GOT THE PLACE
A gentleman advertised for a boy,
21 responded. Of these the man chose
one.
“Why’’, inquired a friend, “did
you choose that particular boy. He
hadn’t a single recommendation.”
“You are mistaken,” replied the
gentleman; “he . has many. He
cleaned his shoes before he came in
and closed the door after him, show
ing that he was careful.
“He gave his seat instantly to-an
elderly person, showing he was
I thoughtful and kind. He removed his
cap, and answered my questions
promptly. The first showed him to
be mannerly and the second that he
is alert.
| “He picked up a book I had pur
posely laid on the floor and replaced
it upon the table. He waited quietly
for his turn instead of pushing and
crowding with the rest. This shows
the proper attitude under the circum
| stances in which he found himself.
I “His clothes were brushed, and his
hair in order.
j “Don’t you call those little things
recommendations? I do; and I would
give more for what I can tell about
| a boy by using my eyes than for all
the letters he can bring?”
Well, parents, there’s something to
think about. A boy’s whole future
may be—nay, it is—influenced by
training at home. Every quality
j mentioned above reflects mother
and-father training.
BUST OF "MA” FERGUSON
IN TEXAS HALL OF FAME
Austin, Tex.—The marble bust of
a woman has a place here today in
the Texas hall of fame, hitherto oc
cupied only by men. A stone like
| ness of Mrs. Miriam Amanda Fergu
son, first woman governor of Texas,
! was mounted between the bronze
figures of Woodrow Wilson and
; James Stephen Hogg, former gover
nor, in the rotunda of the eapitol.
We have a large stock of Sweaters, both coat and slip-ov?r
style, in the finest styles and in all wanted colors, that have be*n
cut in price to a point where to fail to buy is missing a Great
Bargain.
THE FARMER ONCE LIVED AT
HOME
A prominent physician of Birming
ham, Ala., in n letter to the Atlan
ta Constitution, says:
“Before the war when roads were
bad and there were few railroads
and no packing houses with
cold storage facilities, the farmer
raised everything that was eaten by
his family and slaves. He raised his
own wheat and corn, which was
ground in his own, or his neighbors,
grist mill as it was needed; there was
a garden and an orchard on every
farm; milk cows provided fresh milk
and pure butter; honey and syrup
made at home and occasionally brown
' sugar provided the sweets—white
sugar, the worst dietetic offender of
today, was a luxury in those days;
chickens, guineas, ducks and turkeys
were raised in abundance, and there
were plenty of freshjaid eggs for
everybody; quail, rabbit, squirrel, wild
turkeys and other game abounded;
and the old smokehouse was always
well filled with home-cured meats,
such as bacon, ham, dried beef and
venison.
“Compare living conditions on the
farm today with 75 years ago; and it
is easy to see why the farmer does
not prosper and why he and his fam
ily are not as strong and healthy as
were his ancestors. The southern
farmer of today buys white flour and
white meal made from wheat and
corn raised by northern and western
farmers. With the finest truck farm
ing lands in the world around his
house he has no gkrden, and if his
family has any vegetables at all he
goes to town in his “flivver” to buy
those that were raised and canned in
the north and west; there are com
paratively few cows in the country
and milk and cream and butter that
ought to be on the table three times
a day have ceased to be a part of
the diet of many farmers; the orch
ard has been cut down to give more
ground to raise cotton and the needed
raw fresh fruit the farmer denies
lymself and family; chickens, tur
keys and other poultry can be raised
with but little trouble, but some
farmers even go to town to buy cold
storage eggs when the doctor pre
scribes them; all the game has been
killed off; and the “smokehouse” has
rotted down, while the southern farm
er buys western meat.”
Good home-piade Flour, at
$2.00 per bag.—Boggs Bros.
& Dadisman, Phone 245.
WE WANT YOU TO BENEFIT NOW
PRICES ARE SLASHED!
LOOK AT THESE SUIT VALUES!
Here’s an event that is truly a value demonstration in every
sense of the word. Our Suits are from such famous manufactur
ers as “Fashion Park”—“Hickey-Freeman”—“Schloss Bros.”—
“Michaels Stern”—“Hart, Schaffner & Marx”—and others for
Fall and Winter 1926-27.
SUITS, values to $35.00 ... „ $18.95
SUITS, values to $40.00 $23.95
SUITS, values to $45.00 $26.95
SUITS, values to $50.00 $33..65
SUITS, values to $55.00 $36.65
SUITS, values to SBO.OO . $46.65
BOYS’ SUITS Radically Reduced—Some to ONE-HALF.
DAVISON NICHOLSON COMPANY
MAKING DECEMBER THE BANNER MONTH OF
OUR BUSINESS
We have determined to make the month of-December the
BANNER MONTH of our business. We expect to sell more
merchandise in December than we ever sold in December be
fore.
s WE WILL DO IT, TOO
Because the TREMENDOUS REDUCTIONS in prices
throughout the store will offer such GREAT SAVINGS that peo
ple all over this section of Georgia will be quick to take advant
age of the OPPORTUNITY.
IT IS A WELL KNOWN FACT
That Davison-Nicholson Cos. have always priced merchan
dise reasonably, that this store has always sold only the best
quality merchandise, that this store has never misled the buying
public through advertising.
EVERYTHING IN THE STORE REDUCED
Not a few items here and there, but everything takes a re
duction for our BANNER MONTH SALE. Things you ne6d now,
things you’ll need later, and Gifts for Christmas —all at SUB
STANTIAL SAVINGS. Our farmers have sustained a loss in
their production of crops, and we are willing to bear our part of
the burden. On account of the BIG REDUCTIONS in price, this
sale will be a strictly CASH SALE with no returns or exchanges.
DAVISON-NICHOLSON COMPANY
ATHENS BUSIEST STORE. ATHENS, GA.
SWEATERS