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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21.
The Stark French Dry Cleaning and Dyeing Co.
fBF’KNOWN EVERYWHERE AS THE BEST.^Hr;
WE HAVE NOT YET CELEBRATED OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY IN AUGUSTA, BUT WE POINT WITH PRIDE. TO THE FACT THAT THE EXCEL
LENCY OF OUR WORK, THE PROMPTNESS OF OUR DELIVERIES, HAVE WON FOR US THE OFTEN EXPRESSED SENTIMENT THAT THE STARK
FRENCH DRY CLEANING COMPANY IS THE BEST IN THE SOUTH. OUR PROCESS IS ABSOLUTELY NEW AND IS RAPIDLY WORKING A REVOLU
TION IN THE ART OF DRY CLEANING, AND THERE IS EVERY REASON WHY IT SHOULD, FOR EVERY ARTICLE WE CLEAN GOES BACK TO THE
CUSTOMER NOT ONLY SPOTLESSLY CLEAN, BUT JUST AS SOFT AND FRESH AS THOUGH IT WERE FRESH F\k)M THE LOOM. THE FRENCH PRO
CESS IS THE ONLY METHOD THAT LEAVES THE GARMENT CLEAN, ODORLESS AND FREE OF ANY OILS THAT CAUSES IT TO SOIL RAPIDLY.
Here are our prices
for the year 1 909
Furs, Rugs, Art Squares, Oriental Rugs^Blankets,Lace Curtains Cleaned at Reasonable Prices
The Stark French Dry Cleaning and Dyeing Co.
228 JACKSON, CORNER ELLIS. AUGUSTA, GA.
NOTE—We Pay Express Charges One Way On All Out-of-Augusta Orders, Where They Amount To $5.00 And Over.
W. C. T. U. Replies To Editor
4 Ousley , of Fort Worth Gazette
Intimates That Mr. Ousley
Fonnd Only What He De
sired To Find in Georgia
Prohibition Situation.
The following is a reply issued by
the publication department of the
Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union of the state in reply to articles
written- by Mr. Clarence Ousley, edi
tor of the Fort Worth Texas) Ga
zette, and reprinted in The Herald
and other state papers:
The Sunday Constitution published
a resume of the articles written by
Clarence Ousley, editor of the Fort
Worth Gazette, for his paper with
in the last month or two. Mr. Ous
ley visited Georgia for the purpoXfc
of investigation, and as soon as he
collected material enough to “knock"
prohibition pretty hard he desisted
and went back to Texas satisfied. He
took Atlanta, Savannah and Augusta
for his samples, declaring them all
defint law-breakers. He acknowl
edged that Macon was good and
might become a real prohibition city
in time. He did not go further than
this, but ignored the grand old state
from her red hills to her sand sea
shores. He skipped to Charleston,
S. C., and said that her condition
caused despair to the prohibitionists.
If he had only looked at Columbus,
the fifth city, he might have Been
hope. But no, he inquired no fur
ther. We are inclined to think he
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Addr— ■ » ' 1
Phone 769
was satisfied with what he had gath
ered, because it sited in with his
own idea for Texas—a system of rigid
saloon control and limitation.
COLUMBUS IS
A FAIR SPECIMEN.
Columbus may be taken as a fair
specimen of a Georgia city—solid,
conservative, progressive and com
mon sense from the “ground up.”
Many of her leading business men
'were afraid of state prohibition—-
they did not wish to face the question
and anyway they thought it best not
to make the great change in the
panic year. By the way, how funny
it sems now when we remember our
first sight of that old scare erow,
“Prohibition hurts business.” Now
that we have come up close to it how
silly it looks! And when we passed
by and saw its ridiculous back, why
there were just the crooked sticks
that held up its rotten old coat flut
tering in the breeze! Even Mr. Ous
ley acknowledges “that business has
not been injured except as to the
whiskey itself and its inci
dental relations.”
Well, this is the way it ‘hurts”
Columbus; here are the grand jury
presentments, and by the way a
learned judge once said that the
grand jury is the real record of pub
lic sentiment in a community—it
never rises higher than its grand jury
pronouncements,
“Realizing that the recent prohibi
tion enactment has done untold good
in this community, and appreciating
the necessity for a continuation of a
Evening Dresses $2.00 to $5.00 Fancy Waists 75c to SI.OO
Cloth Costumes $1.25 to $3.50 Feathers 50c to 75c
Coat Suits $2.00 to $2.75 Fancy Wraps $2.50 to $6.50
Walking Skirts SI.OO to $1.50 Cloaks and Coats 75c to $3.00
Silk Waists (plain) 50c to 75c Portieres (pair) $2.00 to $2.50
MEN’S TWO OR THREE PIECE SUITS.. SI.OO
strict vigilance by the criminal offi
cers, we especially enjoin upon the
Sheriff, county bailiffs, policemen and
other officers, charged with the en
forcement of the criminal laws, to
use their best efforts to detect viola
tions of the law against the unlaw
ful sale of whiskey and other intoxi
cants in Muscogee county.” \
COMMEND
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.
“In connection with the efforts to
enforce the prohibition law we wish
to commend the work of the Mus
cogee County Anti-Saloon League,
which in our opinion has been of as
sistance to the officers of the law.
The strong public sentiment on this
subject is, we think, well expressed
In the work and objects of the Anti-
Saloon League.”
The whole city has been redistrict
ed by the police commission, there
by increasing police protection in the
suburbs without the addition of a
single man on the force or the neg
lect of any of the city precincts.
Quoting from a local paper the
cnange is explained thus:
“Since the prohibition law has been
in effect. It has been found that down
town officers do not have the same
amount of trouble as formerly and
can look after a great deal more ter
ritory. On the other hand the In
crease in the population of the sub
urban districts on either side of
Hamilton avenue have made it nec
essary to give them more protection.
The problem of doing this has been
solved to a nicety.”
The city of Columbus carried on
successfully during the year every
department of its work and ended
with a handsome balance in thN.treas
ury. Not only this, but the tax rate
for 1909 is reduced from 1.35 to 1.30.
The local press comments thus:
“All honor to the mayor and the
finance committee for the working out
of such a happy state of affairs.
IS PERIOD OF
FINANCIAL TRAVAIL.
“In view of the fact that many thou
sands of dollars from liquor licenses
have been permanently withheld from
the exchequer, and the farther fact
that the period just passing has been
one of financial travail and there
naturally resulted from it a shortage
in property valuations and the fud
ther fact that there was at the com
mencement of the terms of the pres
ent administration a large deficit in
the treasury, the reduction of the tax
rate for the present year is nothing
short of remarkable.” ,
Take the and Phenlx Mills
for an example which shows the Im
proved condition of labor in all the
other big milling companies of the
city, too. Mr. Oscar S. Jordan, gen
eral superintendent, declares the pro
ducing power has vastly increased in
the mills, notwithstanding the shorter
hours of labor, and he attributes di
rectly to the prohibition law the tnct
that there are practically no Idle
looms in the mills compared to last
j years. The mills have produced in the
past eight months 30,580 more pieces
|of goods than in the corresponding
THE AUGUSTA HEE.iLD
Get direct connection. Talk t*he matter over.
Get* exact* prices and leave your address for
the wagon t*o caii for Uie work.
•I~»rwrwil lUTT^—THIH
eight months of last year, increasing
the amount paid otlt for weaving
alone of $11,703, showing that the
employes of the mills are receiving
a large share of the prosperity.
Columbus is a manufacturing city
and all along the line of tl varied
products the improvement in the
steadiness and reliability of labor tells
a cheerful story of increasing pros
perity.
BANKS PAID
DIVIDENDS.
The banks all paid handsome divi
dends, ranging from six to fifteen per
cent.
As for the farming interests it is
patent to every one that the vast re
duction of drinking habits among ne
groes is an inestimable blessing.
Illustrations could be multiplied to
fill op many columns of print and
then the half would hardly be told,
for who 6an calculate the amount of
home happiness, peace and comfort,
that has come to the women and
children of the city and county
through the great decrease in the
sale of whiskey. Not a small item
even is the greater care and kindness
shown to dumb boasts—the very
horses, cows, dogs and cats have
had a happier life on account of it.
This is because the officials and
the people of Muscogee county have
made an honest effort to obey the
law and enforce it, and with the ex
ception of “the trade” itself and a
very few others they have dono so.
Of course there have been and are
still violations, but they are the ex
ception and not the rule,, and every
day that passes, strengthens public
opinion on the side of law enforce
ment.
CITY OFFICES WILL
CLOSE MONDAY
The city offices will be closed all
day Monday, in observance of Wash
ington’s birthday, the same being a
national holiday. The “mayor’s cabi
net” met Saturday morning, und there
was a unanimous voto to close on
Monday. Saturday is a regular half
holiday, and as two holidays follow
each other, the officials and members
of the clerical force at the city of
fices will enjoy an unusually long pe
riod of rest.
SCHOOL YEAR BOOK
SOON TO BE ISSUED
Supt. Lawton B. Evans has placed
the order for the Richmond county
schools year book. The feature of
the book will be the John Mllledge
school. There will be several pic
tures of the school and the rooms.
The pictures are fine and will add
greatly to the book. The report of
the secretary of the hoard and the
reports of the various departments
will be in it. The book will contain
about 75 pages. A list of the teach
ers and other usual facts will be in
the- book.
everybody hush ii
CHARLESTON 01
MARCH 17
Overhomers Are Preparing
To Observe St. Patrick’s
Day in Fitting Manner.
CHARLESTON, S. C.—St. Patrick’s
day is now a little less than a month
distant and the several Irish organi
zations of Charleston are already at
work getting ready for the observ
ance which is always an affair of no
little interest In Charleston. Every
body is Irish in Charleston on St.
Patrick's day.
The festival falls this year on a
Wednesday, but the date, March 17,
of course never change's, although
when the festival falls on Sjmday, it
is celebrated on Monday as well as
Sunday.
The Irish Volunteers, Company Ct
Third regiment, N. G. S. 0., and the
two divisions of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, and perhaps Hie St. Pat
rick Benevolent society will attend
the solemn high mass at the Cathed
ral of St. John the Baptist. The pul
pit. orator has not yet been finally
determined upon. There will, how
ever, be fltie miisle, as usual, under
the direction of Mine. li. H. Barbot,
the organist of the Cathedral.
The Hibernian society will have Its
usual elaborate dinner in the evening,
with much distinguished and line
speaking. Congressman George S.
Legare promised before he went to
New Mexico for his health that ho
would get into good trim and be
@) Union Savings Bank @
OFFICERS
WM. SCHWEIOERT,
President
A. 8. MORRIS,
Vice-President.
THOMAS S. GRAY,
Cashier.
This Bank is Dn
positary for the U.
S. Court, North
eastern Division,
Southern District
of Georgia.
All work is thor
oughly guaranteed
back In Charleston to celebrate St.
Patrick’s day with the Hibernian so
ciety next month. A banquet of tho
Hibernian society without, “George,”
as the Charleston congressman Is
popularly called, would not seem like
the genuine affair, and it, is tho earn
est and prayerful wish of the mem
bers that Congressman Legare will
recuperato sufficiently to bo In Char
leston next month for the celebration.
St. Patrick’s Benevolent society will
also haie Its annual dinner in the
evening. Under the presidency of
Capt. B. P. Cunningham, (ho St. Pat
rick Benevolent society has largely
Increased Its membership and the
organization Is now in a flourishing
condition and its celebration, this year
will be a particularly fine affair.
A grand ball will be given by the
county board of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians at Columbus hull. Chair
man M. P. Croghan is in charge of
the ball and the function will doubt
less be largely attended and an even,
more successful and enjoyable affair
than that of last March.
The arrangements which have been
begun by. the organizations are pro
ceeding on an even larger scale than
heretofore, and as stated, the cele
bration will be particularly Interest
ing and general this year and tha
event Is being looked forward to with
much pleasure by the loyal sons of
Ireland and many who are not of
Irish blood.
CENTRAL TRADES
COUNCIL TO MEET
MONDAY NIGHT
The regular meeting of the Augus
ta Central Trades Council will he
held at Printers’ hall, Library build
ing, Monday night, Feb. 22, at 8
o’clock. A full attendance from every
labor organization affiliated with this
body Is urged as business or import
ance is to tie transacted.
The president urges that all locals
A FIXED VALUE
Is probably one of the most important advantages of a savings account
here as compared with stocks and bonds, which fluctuate up and down
according to financial conditions and with the manipulations of the stock
markets.
When you need your savings you do not want to have to sell them
at a sacrifice and If you invest them in this Bank you will not even
have to consider such a possibility, for an account here always has a
fixed value, which it all that you have paid in and the credited interest
at four per cent.
PAGE SEVEN
STRANGER FIRED
PISTOL IN HOUSE
S. T. Smith, a white man was be
fore Judge Plcquot Saturday morning
charged with two violations of city
ordinances end one state law. He
went uptown and broke into a wo
man’s house and fired his pistol while
in a drunken condition. When ar
rested lie had the pistol concealed.
Judge Plcquot lined him $25 or 50
days for firing the pistol and $45 or
90 days for drunkness. lie was
bound over to the city court under a
liond of $l5O for carrying a concealed
weapon.
not affiliated with the Central body
have delegations present, and It Is
hoped that they will, during tin*
meeting, see fit to Join hands with
the Central body. An enthuslastlo
meeting Is expected, and all organiz
ed labor is u.ged to be present.
AN OLD ADAGE
SAYS
••A light purse Is a heavy curse”
Sickness makes a light purse.
The LIVER is the seat ot nine
tenths of all disease.
Tutt’sPills
go to the root of the whole mat
ter, thoroughly, quickly safely
and restore the action of the
LIVER to normal condition.
Gsvcftone to the system and
solid flesh to the body.
Take No Substitute.