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TUESDAY, AUGUST 4.
SPETH
MUST MAKE ROOM
For Fall Goods. Note these prices.
Herald’s Label Contest Slips issued
on All Purchases.
Razors and Straps
$3.50 Razors $2.25 SI.OO Razors.. 57^
$3.00 Razorssl.97 $2.00 Straps..97^
$2.50 Razorssl.s4 SI.OO Straps..s7^
$2.00 Razorssl.ls 50c Straps ...27^
Boys’ Indian and Cow Boys’ Suits
to go at 79^
Girls’ Indian and Cow Boys’ Suits
to go at 79^
All Brass Fire Sets, Fenders and Screens
at Half Price and Less
Refrigerators, the Best Made
$125.00 Seeger $97.75*
80.00 Seeger $69.75
55.00 Seeger $44.75
50.00 Seeger ~ $39.75
80.00 Eddy $69.75
50.00 Eddy $39.75
40.00 Eddy $29.75
30.00 Eddy $19.95
25.00 Eddy ..$16.75
Nursery Refrigerators
$6.00 Refrigerators $4.25
4.50 Refrigerators $3.25
4.00 Refrigerators $2.79
3 Cents Table value up to 10 cents.
7 Cents Table value up to 15 cents.
15 Cents Table value up to 35 cents. 3
37 Cents Table value up to 50 cents.
50 Cents Table value up to SI.OO.
$2.50 Fly Fans $1.97
10c Flv Swatters W
5c Fly Swatters.. .... 3^
Wizard Mops
$1.50 Mop and SI.OO can Polish for .$1.47
$1.50 Cedar Mop $1.50
50 cents bottle Polish Free.
SI.OO Cedar Mop SI.OO
25 cents bottle Polish Free.
£I.OO Garden Rakes .... 79$
75c Garden Rakes .. .. 50<
50c Garden Rakes 35^
35c Garden Rakes 23 4
30c Garden Hoes ...37^
£I.OO Shovels 63^
£I.OO Spades 63^
KNIVES KNIVES
£B.OO Pocket Knives $4.79
£7.00 Pocket Knives $3.79
£4.00 Pocket Knives $2.50
£3.00 Pocket Knives ..$1.79
£2.00 Pocket Knives 97^
£I.OO Pocket Knives 67^
75c Pocket Knives .. .. . 47^
50c Pocket Knives 33^
25c Pocket Knives 17<
loe Pocket Knives 64
L. P. SPETH
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
COUNCIL ARGUED TWO HOURS ABOUT
PURCHASING NEW FIRE EQUIPMENT
Considerable Wrangle Precipitated by Report of Minority of
Committee, Authorized to Call for Bids for Apparatus for
New Engine Company.
The reading or the minority report
of the committee which had in hand
tlie purchasing of the equipment for
the new fire station in the sixth ward,
precipitated a warm argument in
council yesterday afternoon that kept
tlie members there until after supper
time. t’otincil convened at 4:30 and
adjourned at 10 minutes to 8 o'clock.
Two hours or longer were taken up
with tlie discussion of the merits of
two different niakes of fire engines.
The councilman heard from most in
the discussion were Messrs. McDon
ald, Kent. Moore, Smith, Boyce and
Allen. Mr. P. D. Hebert, represent
ing tlie American-LaKrance Fire En
gine Corny puny, and Mr. M. R. Sand
ers, representing the Segrave Eire En
gine Company, were both present and
each argued before council for the
machine he sold.
Majority Report.
At the beginning the clerk read the
report of the fire committee, of which
Councilman Itaworth is chairman,
recommending the purchase of the
A merirun-LaFrance engine, which was
as follows:
The fire department committee,
which «as authorized to cull for bids
for fire apparatus for Engine Com
pany No. 7, to-wit: One triple com
bination pump chemical engine and
hose motor car. and one combination
chemical hook and ladder motor car,
begs leave to report:
“After duly advertising for bids
and after full consideration of the
intuits anti prices of the apparatus
submitted, your committee recom
mends the purchase of tlie American
EaFrance apparatus provided the ma
chines offered conform strictly with
the plans and specifications on' which
the bids are submitted, and. provided
Unit l he live years maintenance bond
guarantee and the special ten-year
pump guarantee contained in the bid,
he properly secured, and, provided
further that the apparatus before it
is accepted by the city, shall stand the
official test of the National Board of
Eire Underwriters.
“The triple combination pump
chemical engine and hose motor car to
cost $8,700 and the chemical and hook
and ladder motor ear to cost $5,350.
PROTESTED AGIST
HOFBRAU PETITION
Committee From St. John and
First Batist Churches Before
Council. Objected to “Com
bination” Singing With Sa
loon.'
Judge E. H. Calloway, Messrs. J. T.
Both well, K. A. Heath, Fred Wood,
h- S. Arington, W. J. Hollingsworth,
Rufus Brown, H. C. Boardman and
Rev. W. T. Wiggins, representing tlie
bt. John Methodist church and the
First Baptist church, appeared before
city council at its regular monthly
meeting yesterday afternoon at 4:30
o'clock and through Judge Calloway
filed a verbal protest against the city
permitting singing and piano playing
carried on in the dining room of the
Hofbrau Hotel in connection with a
near beer saloon. Judge Callaway
stated that either the near beer sa
loon or the singing and piano playing
was bad enough to be carried on
separately in the city, but in this in
stance what t'ho two churches vigor
ously objected to was the "combina
tion” of the two.
Mr. Frank Miller, proprietor of the
Fofbrau Hotel, was present before
council and in a petition asked coun
cil to allow him to have one singer
and a piano player perform in the
dining room of his hotel.
There has been singing and piano
playing in the Hofbrau for the past
week or two, it having been permitted
by the mayor, the permit being sub
ject to revocation.
week, according to Mayor
Hayne, in his explanation to
the committee from the cTittrches at
the meeting yesterday, it was deemed
wise to t evoke the permit with, the
Close of business Saturday night.
The churches, both of which are
only a few hundred feet away from
the Hofbrau Hotel, learned that such
! a petition would he presentod to
I council at the meeting Monday, and
.they resolved to protest against coun-
I ell granting it.
After hearing from Mr. Calloway
i and then Mr. Miller council voted to
i refer the petition to the police com
; mittoe with power to act.
The Horrors of Stage Fright
In tha Woman's Horre Companion Ap
pears a »tory entitled "The Diary pf a
Beauty,’’ In the course of which an ac
t.reaa describe*!, as follows, an experi
ence she had with ctaga fright:
“Ail at once, everything changed: the
stage became mom* thing like the plat
form of a gallows, all those rny/Jad eyes
fixed upon me wore mocking and Jeer
ing at rne and ready to break into roam
of laughter at my failure, the people on
tlie stage were Impeding me and ore
venting rne from acting- T could have
shrieked aloud with anger. I began to
forget my lines, and the prompter ha 1 to
repeat them. At last I felt my wlll
] power slipping away from me and I tried
to reach a chair on the stage but be
fore I wns near enough I sank to the
; floor. The curtain was immediately
I sent down. The people crowded around
me and curried me into my dressing
room. As I was being taken off the
stage, I hetrd the stage manager in
front of the curtain npoiogllng to the
audienre and saying that I had fAlnted.
I was very glad that they thought it was
purely physical, hut ns a mitter of fact
it was purely mental. I soon felt per
fectly able to stand up and walk about
if T wished, hut the desire to move whs
lacking. Mr. Hart came in and jattf-d
my hand and said a few encouraging
words. He thought, ms did everyone
else, that I was 111 wha nl collapsed.’
STEP LIVELY, PLEASTI
One ounce of hustle is sometimes worth
| more than a pound of knowledge,—July
; Woman's Home Companion.
or a total of $14,050, payable six
months after date of delivery and ac
ceptance without interest.”
Minority Report.
After this, by request of Councilman
John W. McDonald, the report of the
minority of the committee. Messrs. H.
H. Jones and Jno. W. McDonald, was
read. It was of considerable length,
and went into detail showing why the
Seagrave motor car should be pur
chased in preference to the LaFrance.
The bone of contention was the pump
feature—the Seagrave being equipped
with a centrifugal pump while the
Da France carried a rotary pump. It
seemed that the minority of the com
mittee doubted that the committee
had gone far enough into the investi
gation and this only prolonged the
discussion in council.
At the request of Councilman Smith.
Chief Reynolds. Capt. O’Connor and
Mechanician McDonald were sent for.
Tlie statements later made by the
mechanician, who was taken by Mr.
Warren Walker, of the civil service
commission, to Savannah to investi
gate the engines there, caused coun
cil to request for Mr. Walker and Mr.
Ceo. W. Wrißht. president of the civil
service commission, to be sent 4 or, too.
LaFrance in Savannah.
It developed that the LaFrance ap
paratus in Savannah were not work
ing satisfactorily, but in the opinion
of the members of the civil service
commission yho saw them operated,
it was because under the new admin
istration in Savannah incompetent
men handled the machines.
After council had propounded nu
merous questions to the gentlemen
called in and to City Engineer Wing
field, it was finally decided to allow
so many minutes each to the repre
sentatives of the fire apparatus. After
council listened then to two good
“talkers” Mr. Allen said that al
though he had voted for the Da France
engine he recognized the fact that the
city wanted to get the best engine it
could ami suggested that each of the
two contending companies send its en
gines to Augusta to he. tested before
experts from the National Hoard of
Firo Underwriters. This action was
taken.
VESSELS ARE
OFFERER GOV’T
Steamers Flying U. S. Flag
May be Used for the Trans-
Atlantic Service.
New York.—Steamships flying the
American Hag and engaged in the
coastwise trade for the most part are
to be offered to the government for
trans-Atlantic service. OlTera of many
vessels have been sent to Commie
loner of Navigation Chamberlain at
Washington. The question of insur
ance although the rates may be
thought excessive can he settled*after
the ships are found, it Is said. The
most suitable vessels for the trans-
Atlantic trade are the Pacific liners
now engaged in the trade with Asia
These might be brought through the
Panama Canal.
Of vessels already in Atlantic wa
ters the best for a strans-oceanic ser
vice would be twenty-three of the
bouthern Pacific Line, all fit for over
ocean sailing.
The vessels of the American Line
fly the flag of the United States and
can continue to cross the ocean in
safety. In addition there are two Red
Star steamships that are now of
American registry—the Finland and
tlie Kroouland. This makes six ships
of the International Mercantile Ma
rine ihich are immune.
There are besides available ships of
the Red D Line, the Ward Line, the
Clyde, Old Domlnian and other lines
in the coastwise trade.
KNIGeHTS OF COLUMBUS.
St. Paul, Min—With delegates
delegates present from every part of
the United States and several other
countries, the annual convention of
the Knights of Columbus opened here
today and will continue until Thurs
day night.
BABY RESTS
ATOmTH
nraswith
CUTICURA
SOAP
Became of its extreme purity,
delicate emollient properties and
refreshing fragrance. Assisted
by Cuticura Ointment it is
equally effective in the treat
ment of heat rashes, itchings,
irritations and chafings.
Samples Free by Mail
CfiMotjr* Ho*p and Ointment Hold throughout tha
worM liberal sample of eaoh mailed free. with JJ2-o.
book. Adlrea* ' Cuticura,' Dept 271 a, Hoatoa.
THE WISE
Producing more genuine Bargains
than any house in Augusta. Keep posted
on our daily bulletins if you want to save
money.
1 ■
59c 50 inch Shepherd Check Dress Goods
at 39c
40 inch black and white striped Voiles 35c
50c 36 inch striped Skirtings reduced
to 39c
19c Galatea Cloths, all reduced to .. .15c
35c figured and striped Crepes, all
reduced to 15c
Silk Jersey top Petticoats, in black
and new shades, worth $3.00 each, $1.98
All 50c Table Covers and Center Pieces 1
reduced to 39c
$2.50 Nainsooks at per piece of 12 yards
reduced to $1.98
85c Pepperell Sheets, special at 69c
SI.OO extra size Sheets, special at. . .85c
Extra size hemstitched Sheets, special 1
at :$1.19
25c 36 inch White Nulinon for skirts.. ,15c
15c full bleached Turkish Towels at. 10c
Extra large size heavy Huck Towels, worth
15c, at 10c
Entire stock of Laces at 1-3 OFF
Entire stock of Parasols at... 1-2 PRICE
Men’s all linen white hemstitched Hand
kerchiefs at 10c
Men’s all pure linen hemstitched Handker
chiefs, worth 19c, at 15c
25c black and white Silk Tissues at.. .10c
Ladies’ white hemstitched Handkerchiefs,
worth sc, at 21-2 c
10c Torchon Laces at 5c
SI.OO 72 inch all linen Table Damask at 79c
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