The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, June 18, 1909, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, JUNE 15, SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY EtUcient Service Seasonable Rales SOCIAL GOSSIP NOVELTY SHOWER FOR BRIDE-TO-BE. Miss Emma Belle Reynolds, one of the brides of next week, was the honoree on yesterday afternoon of a very gracious compliment from about twenty-four of her friends, Mrs. W. B. Oliver being the hostess. They were invited to meet at Mrs. Oliver’s home for a social afternoon, the invi tations being very generally accept ed and each friend armed herself wit,, a most attractive little package. After chatting for a while the bride- 4% 4 4% The Planters Loan And Savings Bank, 705 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. The Pioneer Savings Institution of Augusta. (In Operation 38 Years.) Resources Over One Million Dollars. This bank pays 4 per cent interest to depositors and gives the same careful attention to small accounts, as to the larg er ones. Safe as the "Safest.” The accounts of thrifty, ener getic conservative people solic ited. Deposits may be made by mall. L. C. HAYNE President CHAS. C. HOWARD Cashier Notice to Tennis Players TOURNAMENT OF JUNE, 1909. We have just received a big stock of Spalding’s Highest Grade TENNIS RACKETS Tennis Kacket Covers, Tennis Nets, Tennis Balls Tennis Lawn Markers. Tennis Backet Presses. Call and make selection, from our big stock; be prepared for the coming Tournament. Richards Stationery Co. “Hickey’s Barber Shop” ========== 221 Eighth Street THE BEST OP ALL t Gentlemen: On your vacation don’t fail to to fake one Gillette Safely Razor and one quart size Thermos Bot tle. Ask us about them. Wm. Schweigert & Co.' AN EXTENSION Wall Set Bell Telephone is an extra telephone connected with your present instrument, located in the room which you frequent oftenest. You can re ceive telephone messages at no inconvenience, andsend them, too. It saves useless steps. SI.OO PER MONTH IN RESIDENCES Cull Contract Department to-be was lured to a seat under tihe chandelier, from which was sus pended a huge white bell; at a given signal the white satin ribbons were drawn and the bride-to-be was literal ly showered with lovely little gifts, handkerchiefs, collars, dainty pieces of lingerie and many of the aitractive little accessories that add so much to a pretty trousseau. Later refresh ments were enjoyed. —Dr. A. J. Kilpatrick left yesterday for Johns-Hopkins for a. special ppltl It is enough to start a bank ac count with, and if you adopt a sys tematic method of saving, the dol lars wlli pile up surprisingly. Why not adjust your expenses so that they will not exceed three-fourths of your earnmgsV That will en able you to save a quarter out ot every dollar. Just ltgure what such a system would have done for you had you commenced it live years ago! But, cheer up! It isn’t too late. NOW is the time to open the bank account and put away one dollar out of every four that you earn. WE WELCOME YOUR AC COUNT AND WILL HELP YOU TO SAVE AND TO SUC CEED. 4 PER CENT INTEREST PAlt). Irish American Bank “The Bank lor Your Savings” MISS WALTON ENTERTAINS FOR VISITING GIRLS. A delightfully little social affair with Miss Chrvstie Walton as hostess was the afternoon tea at which she complimented Misses Lila and Lucy Callaway, of Washington, yesterday afternoon at her home on the Hill. Bright flowers, no more flowerlike than the pretty girls that they sur rounded, were plaoed about the par lors and tea room, Miss Neil Harper pouring tea. Miss Walton, daintily gowned in white mull and lace, was assisted in receiving by Miss Catherine Calla way, Misses Lila and Lucy Callaway and Miss Gena Arnold, all of whom wore lovely summer frocks of white mull and lace. The refreshments all carried out the pretty colors of the decorations, and the afternoon was one of delightful informality. Other guests in attendance were: Miss Marguerite Pressly, Miss Louise Jackson, Miss Mary ■ Harison, Miss Frances Elizabeth McCoy, Miss Cath erine Verdery, Miss Pauline Verdery, Miss Carolyn Cumming, Miss Almeda Petit, Miss Adeie Petit. JOWITT-WATKINS WEDDING CARDS OUT. Mrs. Mary E. Jowitt ha's sent out. invitations to the marriage of her daughter, Ella to Mr. Ernest Monroe Watkins, which will take place on the evening of Wednesday, June the thir tieth at half-after eight o’clock at the family residence, 304 Greene street. —Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Denton and children left yesterday for Tennessee and Kentucky, where Mrs. Denton and children will spend the summer. —Mr. W. B. Clarke is visiting his brother, Mr. J. T. Clarke on lower Broad street. Mr. Clarke is a stu dent at the Georgia Tech, and stopped over awhile on his way to Savannah, where he will spend his vacation. —Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lyle are spending some time with Mrs. Lyle’s mother, Mrs. Eunice Smith on Ellis street. Mrs. Harriet P. Mays was down from Grovetown today. —Mrs. W. M. Alexander, of Ala bama, is visiting Mrs. Joseph Fargo. —Mr. and Mrs. William Alden and children anti Misses Katherine and Joseph Jackson left yesterday for a stay at Wrightsville Beach, N. C. During the absence of Mrs. Alden her home on MonteSano will be occupied by Mrs. Ella Pounds. —Miss Gena E. Arnold, of Ogle thorpe, is now the guest of Miss Anna Belle Pendleton, after visiting Miss Katherine CJallaway. —Mr. Albert Hutt is back from At lanta, where he was a guest at Pht Delta Theta Chapter House on North avenue. Miss Susie Dunbar, of Meyers Mill, S. C., is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. F. Otis. aLter she will leave for the summer training school at Wofford College, Spartanburg. , —Mrs. C. H. Phlnizy is spending some time at Glenn Springs. —Miss Caroline Jones, of Ellenton, S. C., will visit Miss Louise Ander son next week. COCKRELL CASE WAS POSTPONED FRIDAY Mr. Barrett Has To Go To Atlanta and the Case Was Put Off. The jury In the case of Ave Cock reil vs. Langley Mfg. Co. wag drawn Friday at noon. The jury wag then dismißHed until Monday, June 28th, when the case will be tried. The case was set for Friday, tyjt as Mr. Wm. H. Barrett, the attorney for the Lang, ley Mfg. Co. has to go to Atlanta Fri day afternoon to argue a case before the supreme court, the case was post poned. Mr. Barrett will argue the case of Whitney vs. Central Power Co. The case went up from the superior court of Bibb county. The Cockrell case is a suit for $lO,- 000 damages. Cockrell was an em ploye of the Mfg. Co. and while repairing a carding machine, it started off, catching his hand. His hand and part of his left arm was amputated as a result of the injury. He is represented by Mr. Austin Branch and Mr. A. L. Franklin. Mr. Wm. H. Barrett and Col. D. S. Hen derson, of Aiken, represent the Lang ley Mfg. Co. BYNUM TRIAL POSTPONED. LEXINGTON, S. C.—Ed. Bynum, the negro who shot and dangerously wounded Sheriff P. H. Corley of Lex ington county several weeks ago ana who has since his surrender heen con fined In the penitentiary at Columbia for safe keeping, will not be tried at the approaching term of the sessions court for Lexington. Sheriff Corley Is not yet strong enough to stand the strain. It is not likely that militia will be sent to protect Bynum when the trial does come off, feeling against the negro having died down as the sheriff recoverod. PENITENTIARY FARM CROPS. COLUMBIA, 8. C.—Supt. D. J. Grif fith has raised some bumper crops on the penitentiary farms this season. He grew a total of 20,000 bushels of oats and raised 1,600 bushels of wheat on eighty acres. The corn and cotton crops are fine and in good cultivation. ADE BAW HIM AT CLOSE RANGE. Coming on the same ship with Chancellor Day, George Ade has a splendid chance to see what a real humorist looks like.—Springfield Union. First and last in foods. When all is said and done on the cereal food question the fact remains that for economy and for results in health and strength, Quaker Oats stands first of all. It is the most pop ular food in the world among the foods sold in packages. It keeps fresh and sweet indefinitely. THE AUGUSTA HERALD Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (Incorporated by the State of New York. Stock Company) JOHN R. HEQEMAIN, President GREAT REDUCTION OF EXPENSES—INCREASED BENEFITS—LOWER RATES Ratio of Expense to Premium Income has been Reduced 8 per cent., representing an Annual Saving of Three and a Half Millions of Dollars Tho Now Convertible policy issued by the Company is a novel form of insurance which becomes fully paid-up life insurance in a few years and is then automatically converted into endowment insurance, the maturity of which is periodically shortened as payment of premiums continues. The Company is abreaet of the public demand for combination of term Insurance and annuities, and servos the public better than uny other agency . INDUSTRIAL POLICIES IN FORCE: NEARLY 9,600,000 INSURING NEARLY $1,600,000,000. ORDINARY DEPARMENT The Company has reduced expenses six per cent, in this Department in the last FIVE years—representing nn ANNUAL SAvINQ OF OVER A MILLION AND A QUARTER uF DOLLARS IN THE ORDINARY DEPARTMENT. The Company issues policies in the Ordinary Department in amounts from si>oo to $1,000,000 upon all approved plans at the lowest rates. IN 1908 IT WROTE MORE PAID-FOR BUSINESS IN ITS ORDINARY OLD LINE INSURANCE (exclusive of Industrial) in the United States and Canada, THAN ANY OTHER COMPANY. All of its policies in the Ordinary as well as the Industrial Department are written on the non-participating plan. The Metropolitan pays its di divends at the start—that is to say, it cuts down the premiums. It believes the plain, common-sensn men who make up the bulk of policy-holders look for a plain business contract. By plain business contracts we mean those which tell the.r whole story upon their face; which leave nothing to the imagination, borrow nothing from hope, require definite conditions and make deflate promises in dollars and cents. In both Departments combined the Company has, in each of the past fifteen years, written more paid for insurance than any other company in the world. The Company upon Its Total Business Has in the Last Ten Years Reduced It.s Ratio of Expenses to Premium Income Fifteen Per Cent R. F. KEGAN, Supt., Miller-Walker Building, Augusta, Ga. OLLIE P. BOYSWORTH, Asst., Teague Bldg., Canal St., Graniteville, S. C. HE BRAVES DEATH TO SAVE PARROT “Red” Mulligan Rescues Edna From Within Two Inches of Deadly Electric Rail. NEW YORK.—Trafic in the Bowery was halted, cars, trucks, wagons and push carts blocked the street, and al most a thousand persons gathered about an excavation between Bayard and Pell streets to watch "Red” Mul ligan rescue a parrot. The bird, named Edna, had the time of her life. Edha resides In a cage over the bar of a hotel at Bayard street, and the Bowery. She has a smattering of the Italian, French. English and barroom languages "Jim" Sullivan, the bartender, is Edna’s best friend. Sullivan opened the cage yesterday and Edna flew to the gas fixtures above the middle of the room. “I love my wife, but oh, you kid!” she screamed. “Help! Police! Po lice! The boy stood on the burn ing deck and I won't go homo till mornlngl” "Stout up!” yelled Sullivan. Edna's dignity was ruffled. She would show "Jim” Sullivan how to talk to a lady. She would go right away from there. A man entered and Edna passed out like a flash and started down the Bowery. Between Bayard and Pell streets she went into an excavation in the street car tracks, in one minute there were a hundred persons there. In two minutes there were two hundred and they came a hundred to the min ute. Cars stopped and the passen gers climbed out to see the Excite ment. "Oh, you, Edna!” the bird yelled. There was a space of about two inches between the edge of the elec tric rail and ' the trench. Anybody who put his hand down there risked his life. "There’s a drink in it for the man who gets that bird,” quoth “Red” Mul ligan. "I’m the man.’ He slipped his hand carefully Into the slot and got it above Edna's head. Then he closed down on the bird and brought her out. He got the reward ST. RY. COMPANY WILL GIVE AWAY MAGAZINE The Augusta Railway and Electric company, always favorable to new and progressive ideas, has made ar rangements with the publisher to sup ply for gratuitous distribution a monthly pamphlet called “The Sub urban Outlook,” edited by E. Gonzen bach, of Sheboygan, Wls. The Outlook is a monthly maga zine "devoted to domestic economy and rational living," to use a phrase of the editor’s, and its pages contain many valuable suggestions of inter est to suburbanites. Those desiring copies may secure them from Man ager League, of the railway com fianjt INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT In January, 1907, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company largely increased the benefits in its Industrial policies by reason of a heavy reduction in expenses and improvement in mortality experience. During the past three years the Company has steadily reduced Its expenses, so that it is enabled to make a further increase in benefits. Industrial insurance policies have a unit of weekly premium—three cents five cents and multiples thereof- and the amount of insurance varies \Vith the age. All Industrial Life policies tpremiums cease after ago 74.) Endowment policies at age 80 and Adult Twenty-year Endowment. Policies Issued Since Jan. 1, 1907, will be increased in benefits about ten per cent., according to a new table of benefits adopted for policies Issued after July 1, 1909. In other words, not only does the Company issue a new table for policies hereafter issued, but It makes the increase retroactive since the present form of Limbed Payment and Endowment at age 80 policies wore adopted. Upon the OLD INDUSTRIAL POLICIES the Company Is paying out TWO AND A HALF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN BONUSES THIS YEAR, bringing up the total Bonuses and Concessions upon Industrial poli cies to EIGHTEEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SIXTEEN YEARS. Tills is OVER AND ABOVE ANY AND ALL OBLIGATIONS expressed or implied in the politicos. The Metropolitan in its Industrial Department has the lowest Ratio of Expense of all the Industrial In surance Companies in the world which pay immediate benefits. In FIVE YEARS its BATESBURG CHIEF ACQUITTED BY JURY Policeman John G. Darby Was Chax*ged With At tempted Criminal As sault. Special to Tho Herald. BATKSBURG, S. C.—lt took Just thirty minutes for the jury to return a verdict of not guilty in the case of Chief or Police John U. Darby, of Bateslmrg, charged with attempted criminal assault. The case was be gun at Lexington Wednesday and a number of witnesses were examined. The arguments of counsel were mado Thursday afternoon and Friday morn ing the case was given to the jury with the result Just stated. SENT CONVICTS TO STEAL CHICKENS FOR REST OF GANG Special to The Herald. BAHNWJBJLL, 8. C.—That certain light-footed convicts on the Barnwell county chain gang have been dis patched at night from time to time by the guards to steal chickens for the gang is the rather striking accusation brought by Mr. H. G. Creech, of Burn well in a signed statement, to which Supervisor Morris bus replied. 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You’ll Find Patrician Shoes in Every Style and Every Leather Girlish Pumps An . « Velou. - Calf Colonial Effects yuiuU Amazon Kid Modish Oxfords Qnrf f ' un Metal Calf X and 2 Eyelet Ties OHII Tan Calf and Kid Arikle-Strap Pumps oil Hfl Golden Jirown Kid New Buckie Oxfords V*tiUU i> a i ( . n t Colt and Kid The Maximum of Style and Comfort at the Minimum of Price. Callahan-Dobson Shoe Co. 828 BROADWAY PAGE NINE and that offlelnl has countered by saying: “Now In his second article ho states that this was before 1 ever had charge of the gang and as It sets me straight before the public I am will ing to lot tho matter drop.” TOP THE LADDER. An actor’s life is very gay; I’d like the same. It seeiriß to me a pleasant way To climb to fame. Unto an actor’s life I’m drawn Mainly because, I'd like to climb to fame upon Rounds of applause. —The Bohemian. Ml