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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1909)
THURSDAY, MAY* 27. Opening Seashore Excursions Sunday, May 30th, 1909 . -=■ =.v VIA ■■ " ■ SOUTHERN RAILWAY ======= THE FAMOUS = Isle of Palms Flyer leaves Augusta 5:00 a.m. Arrive Charleston ... 9:30a.m. Arrive Isle of Palms 10:40a.m. Returning leave Charleston 8:15p.m. Arrive Augusta Midnight Sunday fD / S Week End C* 1 j~ rate $ I ./ O rate 0 4.jdO A CHEAP TEN-DAY TICKET WILL ALSO BE ON SALE. Excellent Bathing. Fine rfotel and Case accommodations. Mu sic by First Artillery Corps Band. Get the habit early. For further information apply to tickets agents or W. E. McGEE, T. P. A., Augusta, Ga. I. L. MEEK, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. Mil. TOOLE'S NAME FORGED J CHECK Special to The Herald. AIKEN, S. C.—Hon. G. L. Toole, a prominent attorney of this city has just discovered that his name was mm HEADACHE Positively cured by these Little Pills. They also relieve Dis tress from Dyspepsia, In digestion and Too Hoarty Eating; A perfect rem edy lor Dizziness. Nausea, Drowsiness, Bad Taste In the Mouth, Coated Tongue, Pain In tlx Side, TORPID LIVER, /hey I i —l] CARTERS, SpITTLE fiVER : JjpfLLS. ; regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRKc. Genuine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature /t&e. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES CARTER'S fi T v T & y PILLS. MULLARKY & SULLIVAN CO. / END OF THE WEEK SPECIALS IN THE MAY CLEARANCESALE TOMORROW AT II O’CLOCK Great Embroidery Sale at Less Than Half Price. x 100 pieces All-Over Embroideries. See window. Swiss, Mull, Lawn and Nain sook, worth from $1.50 to $2.25 per yard, of the latest, daintiest designs of Eng lish eyelet hole, Irish Point effects. Open and some blind patterns, best work manship, exclusive in designs, on fine pretty snowy . dainty material. Tomorrow Zl'jw ■[_ they will be sacrificed all at one price to supply your wants at TUCKED NETS For waists, sleeves, yokes and guimps, white, cream and ecru, an extraordinary psss fr^***. showing of new patterns that we picked up below importers’ cost, selling else where at SI.OO, our price Men’s Knit and Nainsook Shirts and Drawers, all shapes, the host 50c qualities in _ America, now at each JsL Men’s Check Nainsook Shirts, coat shape, no sleeves, at MEN’S, SOX The biggest assortment, black, tan, plain colors and fancy in cotton, lisle and mercerized, new designs and all shades, 25c 25c French Suspenders, summer style, lights C r weight, tomorrow, ar i forged to a check recently. The forgery is supposed to have been committed by a negro. The check was presented by a negro named Henry Milfer and no man by that name can be located in Aiken. The check was for forty dollars and was made out on a blank bearing the printed name of Mr. Toole. No ar rests have yet been made in con nection w-ith the forgery, but the po lice are working on the case. SOUTHERN HIKERS ARE PLUS IBS Alabama and Mississippi Suffer Greatly. Crops Destroyed and Traffic Delayed. MOBlLE—Practically every stream in lower Alabama and Mississippi Is at the flood stage, and have practical ly destroyed all lowland crops, and have caused the destruction of cat tle and great loss of timber. Mobile and Ohio have suffered serious in terruption of traffic. MEMPHIS, Tenn—Reports from Noodles Fagan's Newsboys Carnival and Parade Tonight f" ■ ‘ • ~"F, • • *; 1 ■ “Noodles” Fagan, the world-famou s newsboy, will conduct the newsboys’ carnival at the Grand Thursday n ight, where all the newsboys of the city will be the guests of The Herald. The newsboys' parade will leave The Herald office at 7:30 o'clock, headed by The Herald Newsboy Drum Corps, The route will be west on Broad street to Campbell, south on Campbell to Walker, east on W alker to Jackson, north on Jackson to the Grand. The newsboys have reserved a box for Mayor Dunbar. “It looks like a Big Night Tonight.” The town will look like day light with red-fire, as the newsboys have corraled all this product in the city. "Noodles” will sell The Herald at the Savoy corner Friday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock, and will donate the proceeds to the newsboys. surrounding country bring advices of devastation by the recent rain and wind storms, Mississippi and Ar kansas seemed to liav* suffered most. The Arkansas river Is out of its bank and flood warnings have been sent Our entire stock of Fancy Parasols, now all at HALF PRICE METAL PURSES German Silver oxidized finish, latest shapes and designs, tomorrow, 39c DOTTED SWISS Imported St. Gall, white, dotted and figured Swiss, 54-in. Mercerized patterns, worth SI.OO, per yard, special 39c THE AUGUSTA HERALD out that other rivers will rise above the danger point. In both states crops are said to have been almost totally destroyed while numbers of towns are under water and families have been driven to the roofs of their homeß QUALITY and STYLE =-* VERSUS •' ■■= PRICE B much talk of “cheap price" and not enough merit back of the talk is the reason some men lose confidence in some clothiers. When we talk of Benjamin riothes Alfred Benjamin we mean what we say; there’s truth in every utterance. “BENJAMIN” Summer Suits for example. Examine the Cloth, the Fit, Seams, But ton-holes. Shape Retaining Insides, tailoring in general, and tell us frankly if you don’t think they are equal to exclusive custom-made that cost twice as much. Price Range $15.00 to $35.00 YOUR MONEY BACK if anything goes wrong. We alone sell them in Augusta. L. Sylvester & Sons, Established nearly half a Century. mid the only moans of transit Is by boat. Croat damage has boen done rail roads and In several places trains aro tied up. Wednesday a tornado passed over the northern portion of Mississippi wrecking many houses. No deaths aro reported. NEGRO HORSE THIEF IN JAIE AT AIKEN Deputy Etheridge Arre»t ed Negro and Received Reward. Special to The Herald. AIKEN, S. C. —Fred Evans, the negro who stole a horse and buggy near Montmorenci several days ago, and who was arrested in Telfair county, Georgia, was brought into Aiken Thursday morning by Mr. .1. G. Etheridge. When Mr. Etheridge started to arrest Evans the negro drew a pistol on him. Mr. Etheridge knocked it Jo 'one side, over-powered the negro and t(*»k him a prisoner. The negro has been identified by the owner of the horse. Mr. Etheridge re ceived a reward of seventy-five dol lars which was offered for the arrest of the negro. Evans is in the Jail here awaiting trial. GEORGIA DRUGGISTS ELECTED OFFICERS Pharmaceutical Associa tion Will Meet in Ath ens Next Year. Special to The Herald. MACON, Ga.—Weghesday night the Georgia Pharmaceutical associa tion finished its annual convention lu Macon after naming Athens aB the meeting place for next year and electing officers. Thad II- lllce, of Greensboro, was named president with Jos. E. Walker og Montezuma, .1. S. Montgomery, of Thomasvllle and T. H. lirannon, of Atlanta as vice presidents. .1. T. Shuptrino of Savannah Is treasurer for the year and Max Morris Is secretary. NEGROES ONLY WAIT FOR THEIR SALVATION Daniels Says That They Think Themselves a Prob lem and Lack the Incen tive. GREENSBORO, N C.—"As long as the negro regards himself as a prob lem he will lack the Incentive and ambition to make of himself all that Is possible.” This, in substance, was the conclu sion drawn by Josephus Daniels, ed itor of the Raleigh t.'ow» and Obser ver, In a commencement day address here Thursday to the colored pupils of the A. and M. college. Ho empha sized that fact and declared that un til that idea was shaken off, the ne- UYING a poor article at a cheap price is dearer than buying the best at twice the cost of the cheap one. It is false economy. Often a bargain proves a burden. Too gro would remain passive and fool that his future was not In Ids own hands but that ho was to be some how or other lifted up and pul Into Home place that ho wanted by Home body’s else's efforts rather than his own. "Tho talk of the negro prob lem,” ho said "has therefore set back the real development of the negro. As long as any race depends upon some outside help it will not become strong and self-reliant and the ne gro, sometimes a victim of prejudice and oftener the vlotim of his fool friends, has been Injured because he has been encouraged to sit and wait till he Is solved.” Chicks grow and develop fast where skimmed milk is a part of their rations. Try One Package If you don’t prefer it to the soap you thought best, your grocer has our order to give you back your money. Women are today using Grandma who wouldn’t touch a washing powder. Don't confuse Grandma with washing powders. It is pure soap and pure borax In powdered form. The borax doubles the power of the soap and water to cleanse but it won’t hurt material as delicate as mull. The daintiest dress should be washed with Grandma. Start a Wrapper Collection. Wrappera from Grandma, Rkari, and Export Borax Soap are all good for premiums. See illustrated list of premiums in each package. rttPPerS ° n or prem ‘ um *- See coupon in next Friday*, paper. It count. lor fire wrapper.. PAGE NINE FOOD PRICES TO BE HIGHER IN SUMMER NEW YORK—A heavy raise of all eUlbleH aro predicted for tho summer. Retailers expect meat to go to ten cents higher on the pound. Ice will lie hold at prohibitive prices to the poorer classes, eggs, bread and even vegetables are expected to pass all limits in high prices. This is claimed duo to the rapacity of men control ling tho products. Thore Is money In the broilers; push thorn to market as soon as pos sible. When to use a powdered soap. Grandma Is better than shared soap. It acts instantly In hot or cold water. It is splendid fordlshas. It dissolves perfectly, completely. Leaves no naphtha or aoapy odor, no smeary film oil your china. Ia your boiler and waahlng machine, it rjuickly makes • fine, thick suds. Half GRANDMAand half Export Borax Soap ia the good way to do a washing.