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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 J ! ' 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. • —,