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MONDAY, AUGUST 23 i r « The Athletic Girl For the girl who revels in the enjoyment of out-door life and its accompanying pleasures, no shoes are so durable, practical and popular as “PATRICIAN” Tan Oxfords Made from the finest tannage of Calf and Kid Skins. Flexible, but firm enough to retain their distinctive style and shape. Built for comfort and service, they give full toe room, fit snugly through the arch and instep, giving firm support to the foot. Try a Pair For Your Holiday Outing. $3.50 and $4.00 Gallahan-Dobson Shoe Go. 828 BROADWAY DR. SOPHIA C. DAVIS. Specialist in Woman's Diseases, dany years o£ practical experience, hospital, home treatment under per ,ona! supervision given at 1035 Broad St. Consultation free. Office hours, ;Q a. m. to 2:30 p. m. Call or write DR. SOPHIA C. DAVIS, 1035 Broad St., Augusta, G^ 4% 4% The Planters Loan & Savings Bank , 705 Broad Augusta, Qa. The Pioneer Savings Institution of Augusta. (In Operation 39 Years.) Resources Over One Million Dollars. This bank pays 4 per cent in terest to depositors and gives the same careful attention to SMALL accounts, as to the LARGER ones. Safe as the “Safest.” The accounts of thrifty, ener getic, conservative people solic ited. DEPOSITS MAY BE MADE BY MAIL. L. C. HAYNE President CHAS. C. HOWARD Cashier LADIES’ LINKS Wm. Schweigert 6 Co. Quench Your Thirst With A Bottle Or Hires Wherever Soft Drinks Are Sold. DIXIE CARBONATING CO.. AurfusU. Ga. Wall Street Arithmetic 10 mills make one trust, 10 trusts make one combine. 10 combines make one merger. 10 mergers make one magnate. 1 magnate makes all the money. The original step to ward becoming a Mag nate is the step toward a Bank’s Door to lay by your first savings. The Irish American Bank Pays 4 per cent Inter est and wishes to aid you to become a Magnate. ,Wd are showing the pretty new ladies' cull buttons in all the newest effects. Plain Rotnan-English finish. Rich]y chased. Others set with pretty atones, some enameled. AFTER DOCTORS FAILED Lydia E. Pin kha m’s V egeta ble Compound Cured Her. Willimantic, Conn.—“ For five j'ears I suffered untold ;ti T onv from female troubles, causing backache, irregulari - ties, dizziness and nervous prostra tion. It was impossible for me to walk upstairs without stopping on the way. I tried three differ ent doctors and each told me some thing different. I received no benefit from any of them, but seemed to suf fer more. The last, doctor said noth ing would restore my health. I began --■■■>■ ■ taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to see what it would do, and I am restored to my natural health.”—Mrs. Etta Doxovak, Box 299, Willimantic, Conn. The success of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, is unparalleled. It may be used with perfect confidence by women who suffer from displacements, inflam mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, ir regularities, periodic pains, backache, bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra tion. For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills, and suffering women owe it to themselves to at least give this medicine a trial. Proof is abundant that it has cured thousands of others, and why should it not cure you ? SOCIETY —Miss Bertha Herman and Miss Carrie Jernigan, two of Port Royal’s most popular young ladies. After a delightful stay of two weeks with Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Durham on Lincoln St., returned to their homes Sunday. —The .dness of Mrs. John Nichols who has been submitted to surgical treatment at. Margaret Wright will re gret. deeply to learn of her illness and hope for more encouraging news from her bedside. —Miss Berta Wheeless, who has baen spending some time in Shreve port La., is now the guest of Mrs. .). .1. Sttphenson in Memphis. She will spend a week or two with Mrs. Rennie, in Peekle City, Ala., before returning home. —Dr. Eugene Murphey has returned from North Carolina. —The many friends of Miss Margaret Kelly will regret to learn that sue is confined to her home with lever. —Mrs. Carlton Hillyer has returned from cuautauqua, N. Y. —Mrs. l\ A. Baston and her two daughters, of Charleston, S. C., re turned home yesterday after a two week s visit to friends and relatives in the city. ADAMS-THOMAS Mrs. Margaret Cranshaw Thomas an nounces the engagement of her daugh ter, Mary Hamilton to Mr. Alexander Pratt Adams, of Savannah, the mar riage to take place October 16. Miss Thomas in her rare beauty, mental attainment and womanly charms, has in her yet brief social career won the reputation of being one of the most admired young women in the country. Her conquests have been many, both in northern and southern society, and she has met with and been entertained by the most distinguished people. She was graduated from the Sacred Heart Convent, Manhattanville, N. V., three years ago. and made her debut that year in Atlanta No young wom an 1n Atlanta's social life has been more admired, and in New Orleans, New York and California, where she has visited, she has been a reigning belle. Miss 'l nomas spent the summer of 1906 in Europe, and there met with attentions and admiration rare ly the opportunity of the American girl. , She Is tall and graceful, her beaiity of brunette type, while her lovable character and nature find expression in a voice, conversation and manner of gentle charm. Miss Thomas is a niece of Mr. Charles W. Crankshaw, one of Atlanta’s most prominent citi zens. Mr. Adams is the only son of Judge Samuel B. Adams of Savannah, one of the most distinguished lawyers In the Bouth, and the nephew of the late Judge Pratt Adams, whose name he bears. Mr. Adams inherits the legal abil ity which has distinguished his father and is regarded as one of the foremost of the young lawyers of the state. He was a member of the general assembly of Georgia from Chatham county In 1907-1908, rendering excellent service. —Atlanta. MISS BURNSIDE HONORED. Friends of Miss Burnside will learn with much pleasure that she has been selected as teacher of instrumental music at La Grange Female College. (Miss Burnside Is one a moßt talent ed musicians and has had the ad ditional advantages of instruction from European teachers She will a! so have charge of the organ of the First Methodist church. While con gratulating Miss Burnside upon the high compliment extended to her friends regret deeply that she will make her home in La Grange. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Tessier and Mr. and Mrs. R, .1. Bates left yesterday for Chattanooga, Nashville and other Tennessee (mints. —Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Richards will do dow u to Savannah Thursday THE AUGUSTA HERALD BIJOU TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY Popular Priced Vaudeville Will be Put on as Open ing Attraction Four Shows a Day. Mr. Jake Wells was in the city Sun day and announced the opening date and policy of the Bijou theater, by which name the hous e which was to have been the Wisteria is to be called. The Bijou will be opened next Mon day afternoon with vaudeville. The admission will be ten cents. Four acts of vaudeville and a mov ing picture act will be carried. An arrangement has been perfected by which the acts booked for thirty-two houses in the south will appear at the Bijou. This will assure a very high class of attractions, which will be the equal of those seen in other houses at. 25 and 50 cents. The motion pictures will he of a high order. In connection with the bookings of the acts for the thirty two houses mentioned an arrange ment has been made with Lubin, the great French moving picture man, to use his films exclusively. This ar rangement. too. means that this part, of the show will be first class. Lubin is not only one of the largest, but is the leading producer of films, and the Lubin name is the hall mark in moving pictures. Four shows will he given each day. These will he at 2 and 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 8:15 and 9:30 at night. for a visit to Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Moore. —Friends of Mr. .1. T. Wise, who is with his daughter will be glad to learn that, he is continuing to improve and will it, is hoped soon to be en tirely well. —Miss Lucy Boyd, of Richburg, Ala., arrived today ns the guest of Miss Bertha Burnside,, with whom she will spend some weeks. —Mrs. J. F. Battle and children leave tomorrow to join Mr. Battle in Jacksonville, Fla., where they wfll make their future home. —Mr. Marion Fuller will resume his studies at Emory college very soon. —Mr. Henry Burnside will enter Au burn college. —Miss Susie Jones will resume her studies and again represent Augusta at —The improvement i n the condition of Dr. Joe Allen will lie learned with much pleasure. Dr. All*::. vCTfile con fined to his bed is considered much better and his friends hope that lie will soon be able to he out. —Mrs. W. A. Garrett and Miss Jenna Garrett have returned Pun a delightful sojourn at Tate Springs, Tenn.. and other summer resorts. —Mr. James Brotherton was In the city yesterday. —The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Blit.chington. of Wilmington N. (’., will regret to learn of the Illness of their children, who have scarlet fever. They are with Mr. and Mrs. W. .1 Henning on Walton Way. —Mr. James Youngblood has re turned from a delightful vacation spent in Barnwell, Snelling and Dun barton, S. C. He was accompanied home by his daughter and sma)' nephew, Mrs. Killingsworth and Mas ter Ralph Killingsworth. COL JUS. T. Hi IS CRIHIM ILL Special to The Herald. EDGEFIELD, S. C.—Col. James T. Bacon’s condition is rather critical. He is very weak, having had a bad night. The best is earnestly prayed for, though the worst cannot now be a surprise. BIELOHeO THE DIVER SEINE PARIS—The Uayard-Clernent dirigi ble balloon, after making a flight here Sunday, fell into the Seine. The aviators on board the airship were saved. A Thinker’s Thoughts If you are a thinker your brain wears away In proportion a* you use it and this waste must he rebuilt by food (there’s no other way) else the brain grows dull and Is a poor In strument. In Crape-Nuts food all the elements required for this brain building are found iri the most liberal proportions, the parts of grains that supply the Phosphate of Potash and Albumen be ing especially selected in making Grape-Nuts FOOD Let a trial 10 days tell any brain weary or nervous wreck Its own tale of bet'er feelings. “There’s a Reason” Read the little book, “The Road to Wellvllie," in pkgs. POST I’M CEREAL CO., LTD., Battle Creek, Mich, Our Club Plan Makes it Easy to Buy. Doubtless there are many who do not Teel able or Tor reasons of their own do not wish to lay out a large sunt of money Tor furniture or housefurnish ings at one time, and who will he glad to know that the advantages of our splendid Club Plan are extended to them, making it possible to buy furni ture to any amount, and pay for it, a little at a time. Whether you want $o() worth, SIOO or SSOO worth, you can buy it on The Club Plan and never teol the iueonvenienee of paving for it. ::::::::: Extra Fancy I lemons dozen 10c AUBUSTAS ONLY DEPARTMENT STORE Tuesday's Housefurnishings Sale. We know how welcome this sale is. Previous sales tell us that women wait for this weekly sale, knowing well it is the time and the place where really reliable housefurnishings can be had at real bargain prices. We offer again tomorrow double “S. & H-” Green Trading Stamps, with all purchas es in this department until 12 o’clock. They have a fixed value and are good as gold. JELLY GLASSES 19c These jelly glasses are of good quality and every one strictly per fect —six ounce size, tight fitting tin covers —regularly 30c dozen, but while they last (none |q~ to dealers), at dozen IVw 75c FANCY LAMPS, 59c. Bed room size, fancy shaped fig ured chimney, brass foot, extreme ly attractive in appearance. Splen did for reading, a good value at the regular price, special SZO/f for Tuesday, at OVC FINE CUT GLASS $2-98. Beautiful, deeply cut. glass, rich in color, will be offered you tomor row at $2.98. The lot includes val ues up to SB.OO. Relish dishes, vases, comports, mayonnaise, salad bowls, sugar and creams, celery trays, nappies, pitchers, cut glass tumblers, puff boxes, choice of any of the above pieces, no at, only ... •PX.VO 60c ETCHED TABLE TUMBLERS, 39c Whether you want them for ice water, lemonade or ice tea, you will find the seful. Pretty patterns, etched, clear crystal glass. You would con sider them a bargain at 60c. and gladly pay it. -j rv Tuesday we make the {trice, dozen .. Jtv HUH WILL ARRIVE TUESDIf NEW YORK. The latest prospects are that Edward 11. Harriman will not set, foot on his home soil again until Tuesday afternoon. A wireless message Monday from the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm 11., on which he is a passenger, stated that the liner was .120 miles east of Sabl f . Island at 2:30 a. m. If the steamer continues her average speed of 23 nautical miles an hour, she will pass the Sandy Hook lightship at 12:30 o’clock Tuesday af ternoon, and dock aboul 3 p, in. If the present plan Is adhered lo Harrl rnan will be taken off the liner about 2 p. m. by a lug and landed in Jersey City. STORM WARNINGS ISSUED FOB DISTRICTS Ilf SIIIFS BN GULF NEW ORLEANS.— Storm warnings for New Orleans and Galveston dis tricts were issued Monday morning by the weather bureau, The disturb ance is declared to be of marked In tensity and to b« central over the Gulf south of the l/iulstana couat. It is apparently moving northwestward. Warnings have also been issued lor Corpus Chrlstl and Point IsabeJ on the Texas coast. Torrential rains have been reported at many points In the Gulf states be tween Florida and Texas Monday. IIRHFT FLUTTEB IN HR, SECOND DAI AIII9N WEEK RHETMS. -Ideal conditions exist for the second day of aviation week at Rbeims. Attracted by the sensa tional performances of Bunday when no less than six aeroplanes were seen at the same time winging their flight, in huge circles over the Plain of Betheny, thousands of spetcators came down early from Paris. Tissandier, who uses a Wright bi plane, thus far holds the speed rets ord. The daring performances Bunday of Lefebvre has made him extremely popular, but Bleriot and Latham still remain the favorites of the crowd. p. M. L D A H. ALL IN ON&. Semi-Annual Statement for the Six Months Endino 30th June, 1909, of the condition of the ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE. OF LONDON. Organized under the Laws of Great Britain, made to the Governor of the State of Georgia, In pursuance of the laws of zald state. Principal office No. 92 Willium Hi.. New York City. t. CAPITAL STOCK. Whole amount of capital Htock deposit capital .. S2OO 000 00 11. ASSETS Sioi kH and bonda own'd a.buolutcly by i in- company (par value).., $1,770,000.00 Stocks and bonds owned absolutely by the company (mm l<«d. value) . 1,783,4nf 00 $1,713,401.00 Cmhli In company’!* principal office $ 75.00 ' tub belonging to the rompany deposited In bank .. .. 103,048.07 <’cmli In hands of agents and In course of traiiHmliodon .. 2*3,842.70 Total | 470,905.77 Total chhli Items (carried out;) 470.045.77 Amount, of Internal actually due and accrued and unpaid . 22,972.01) Total asHobs of the rompany, actual canh market value $2,283,338.77 111. LIABILITIES Gross losses in process of adjustment or In suspense, In eluding all reported and supposed lohhph 190,283.00 Lohhch resisted, including Intercut, cohlh and all other ex peiiK.CH then-on 21.809.00 Total amount of clnlniH for louses 218,162.00 Deduct. re-insurance thereon 42,620.00 Net amount of unpaid losses (carried out) % 175,532.00 The amount of re: < rve for rc-insurance. . . . 1.337,825.00 other companion for re.luMunmce premiums 13,127.16 Hpeeiul agentn balances . r . 2,085.80 $ 15,212.96 Total llahllit Icm $1,628,669.96 IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1909. Amount of < mli premiums received $647,152 86 Received for interest . 38,888.92 American bra re-hen of foreign corn pan fas will report amount of remit tances from Home office during the six months 60,836.63 Total Income actually received during the first hlx months In on rh.. $786,678.31 V. EXPENDITURES DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1909. Amount of losses paid... ..$487,898.27 Amount of expeuaes paid. Including fees, Halarlcs and Commissions to agents and ofllcerH of the Company.-. 288,011.52 Paid for state-, national and local taxes in liili- and other states ... 33,554.69 American branches of foreign companies will please report amount sent to home office during the first six months 133,825.68 Total expenditures during the flint fix months of the ear In «*a»h $943,290.16 Greatest amount Insured in any one risk (gross) .. ..$125,000.00 A copy of the Act of Incorporation, duly certified, Is of flic in the of flic of the lr»Kurari»e Commissioner. HTATK OF NEW YORK County of New York. Personally appeared before thd under signed IJ. C Crosby, who, Icing duly sworn, depose* arid says that In is •heC'-ncral Manager of The Royal KxCflangt Assurance, and that the foregoing statement Is correct and true. ir. (\ CROHHY. Hworn to and subscribed before me, this 13th day of August, 1909. CKO. H. CORKY, Commissioner of Heeds for the State of Georgia. Office No. 56 Wall Street, New York City. Name of State Agent A. L. Brooks. Name of Agent at Atlanta Jas. 1,. Dickey, Jr. HERE'S THE WAY THEY WRITE AFTER USING “OLD DOMINION” “All of the cement piling used In the Brunswick Terminal was made of ‘OLD DOMINION’ CEMKNT, and th, fact of our using this Cement in preference to all (/(hers, we feel is the highest recom mendation This is the first wharf ever built In 'bis country with Concrete Files, and we were anxious *<> secure the best cement In the market for It after the most exhaustive tests, we concluded that •OLD DOMINION’ waß ’lt.”’ - - Carolina Portland Cement Company SOUTHERN DISTRIBUTERS. CHARLESTON, S. C. sls-00 DINNER SETS, $8.50. I here isn't anything much nicer than these simple and elegant Din ner Sets. They are made of fine American Porcelain, and have dain-. tv rose bud and violet decorations on every piece. Three large meat platters, set includes 100 pieces, regularly $15.00, Tues- d» q r o day only $1.50 COVERED DISHES 49c 100 sample covered dishes, of best American Porcelain, all new shapes and sizes, lancy handles, values really to $1.50, special for j n Tuesday's sale at only .. . ■ MASON FRUIT JARS The genuine Mason Fruit Jars in half gallon or quart sizes just as you please, all have porcelain lined zinc screw tops, best quality tight fitting rubbers, our very special sate price for tomorrow, * Vu gallons 6c, quarts T’C PAGE THREE Extra Fancy Lemons dozen 10c
