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New People With New Money to Invest
Will Find a Warm Welcome in Augusta
MURPHEY & CO.
Wholesale Grocers
Augusta, Ga.
MURPHEY & COM
PANY, w h o le s ale
grocers in Augusta, began
their business in 1844, and
the firm has seen seventy
five years of continuous
service.
This institution is the old
est business house in Au
gusta, doing business un
der the same management,
those in charge now being
the third generation of the
same family that began the
business seventy-five years
ago.
And the beauty about it
is that the business is still
growing larger and larger,
and its future is as bright
today, if not brighter, than
it has ever been in any of
the long years of its history.
Some of the lines fea
tured are the Blackstone,
ths Knight and the Can
ton cord tires, John Jacob
Astor cigars and other lines
usually carried by whole
sale grocers just as popular
as the brands mentioned.
Augusta, as a city, feels
genuinely proud of the rec
ord of Murphey & Com
pany.
G. Lloyd Preacher graduated from Clemson
College, South Carolina, in 1904; came to Augusta
and opened an office, beginning very soon after
wards the work of building Augusta that he has
carried on in such a successful manner.
He specializes in the designing of public build
ings, business houses, apartments and school
buildings and he has designed schools in many
cities and towns of the South.
On the first page of this section are shown
quite a number of Augusta’s finest structures,
A City That’s Growing Is a City Worth While
THE AVGUSTA HERALD.
H. I. HUTSON
820 Young Street
Augusta, Ga.
IT I. HUTSON is
• one of Augusta’s
experienced and high
ly - trained electrical
workers. He built a
shop in the rear of his
home, and is in posi
tion to handle any
thing in the electrical
line.
Before going into
business for himself,
Mr. Hutson was con
nected with B. R. Rich
ards and also the
Moore - Adfield Elec
trical Manufacturing
Company.
The repairing of
motors and dynamos is
made a specialty.-
A live Augusta
booster, with a thor
ough knowledge of his
particular line of work,
Mr. Hutson is doing his
part in the building of
the greater Augusta.,
G. LLOYD PREACHER
ARCHITECT
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
C. C. FARR
Augusta, Ga.
CC. FARR is sole proprietor
• of one of the most pros
perous and popular stores for
men in the City of Augusta.
From clerkship to proprietor has
been a matter of only a compar
atively short while with Mr. Farr,
for through his earnest and con
scientious hard work he has won
a place in the esteem and confi
dence of Augusta’s men folks
that is second to none in the
ctiy.
From a very small and modest
establishment, Mr. Farr has built,
upon a solid foundation, a large
clothing and men’s furnishing
business that bids fair to soon
rival the oldest store of its kind
in the city. Mr. Farr’s person
ality enters into almost every
transaction at his store. From
early morning till late at night
he will be found "on the job”
and absolute satisfaction to cus
tomers is his motto. He is among
the leaders in all matters of pub
lic welfare and is one of the liv
est boosters for Augusta in the
city.
C. C. Farr has the reputation
of carrying the very newest and
best styles obtainable in men’s
clothing* His stock is large and
embraces a variety from which
the very hardest to please may
find satisfaction. His friends are
numbered by the hundreds and
these rgly with confidence upon
his judgment and integrity.
\
The Farr store, in the eleven
hundred block of Broad street, is
headquarters for large numbers
of out-of-town visitors to Augus
ta. In fact from these he enjoys
a large proportion of the volume
of business of his establishment.
L. P. SPETH
Augusta, Ga.
ONE of the most enterprising
and popular merchants
in Augusta is Louis P. Spetli,
proprietor of the leading stove
and light hardware store in the
city.
Mr. Speth has for many years
had the exclusive agency for
the celebrated Miller ranges,
which ht has sold to two gen
erations in his territory. Tn ad
dition, he carries several other
manufacturers’ makes of ranges
and a large variety of cook
stoves, oil heaters, gas ranges,
and maintains a complete work
shop and repair department for
stoves of every character.
His very attractive store is
situated in the ten hundred
block of Broad street, display
ing a most comprehensive stock
of garden tools and imple
ments, wire screens of every de
scription, cooking utensils, cut
lery, and, in fact, every worth
while novelty in his line. He
has two large warehouses con
taining stoves and ranges, tin
ware, etc., etc.
Mr. Speth is now remodeling
the second story of his store,
and in the early fall will open
one of the most complete and
largest stocks of toys in the
state. This department will oc
cupy the entire second story of
his building with additions in
the rear and will be a veritable
paradise for the youngster and
those interested in providing
for his Christmas entertain
ment.
Mr. Speth has built up a
large mail order business and
caters particularly to those
within a reasonable radius of
Augusta, who desire to obtain
a quick and reliable mail order
service for anything in his line.
many of which G. Lloyd Preacher designed.
Among the Augusta buildings which he has
designed are the Lamar Building, the Herald
Building, the Masonic Temple, the Girls’ High
School, the Houghton School, the Plaza Hotel,
the Rialto Theater, the Sylvester and the SweL
gert Buildings, and now the magnificent Chron
icle building, burned in the big Augusta fire, is to
be remodeled into a modem hotel, from plans
drawn by G. Lloyd Preacher.
A branch office was opened in the Healey
Building, in Atlanta, on June 1.
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1010.
BUSBIA & DENNIS
Barber Shop
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BUS lit A & DENNIS began tho barber business In Augusta on Au*
gust 2X, 1906, with a capital ot only two hundred dollars. In
a very short tlmo they became tho leading barbers ot the city,
woro the llrst trf open a strictly high-class flfteen-cent shop, wore the
llrst to raise tlioir barbers’ salaries and percentage, tho first to put a
shorter hour day inlo effect, and also tho first to eliminate the credit
business in barber shops so prevalent at that time.
Today the firm has two first-class shops in the city of Augusta,
tho Interior of one being shown in the illustration above, and Inci
dentally it is tho finest in the city, having ten chairs and being located
on Braod street, between tho Lamar und tho Chronicle buildings.
A smaller shop iR located at 224 Eighth street, and it, too, is a
neatly-kept, handsomely-furnished shop. In fact, tho kind of a place
a gentleman likes to go for his shaves.
Busbia & Dennis have mado it a rule to employ only such barbers
as would command the respect and admiration of their big clientele,
and as an illustration ot their fair-play methods, they had the only
public bath house in Augusta during the war, yet they did not raise
the price of their baths from tho regular 25c charge, although it might
very easily have been done.
Such barber shops us those that Busbia & Dennis conduct are a
credit to any city. • —,