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About The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1909)
THE AUGUST A DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIV., No. 326. MERCHANTS REPORT RIG BUSINESS MONDAY; HOLIDAY TRADE ALREADY SHOWING ITSELF Exceptional Fall Buisness Well Maintained Say Leading Broad Street Storekeepers What Sunday Herald Advertis ers Say. The Herald publishes today a se ries of Interviews with some of the leading merchants of Augusta and they are bright and cheerful and busy and optimistic to a gratifying degree. Business has been good this fall and these merchants expect the biggest holiday trade of years in the next 30 days. The Thanksgiving rush is al ready on in the busy retail district and that will hardly be out of the way before the Xmas, season with its good cheer, gift-glvTng and many pur chasers will be at hand. Augusta merchants are making this year a record year, both in city trade and attracting new trade to the city. The Georgia Florida railroad whose schedules now enter Augusta will also contribute largely t« the new trade activity of Augusta. This is to be a banner business year with the alert up to date merchants of the city. Her ald reporters interviewed a number of Herald advertisers as to trade con ditions, the business outlook and the activity in retail lines in Augusta and their views are most encouraging. They report splendid business being done today in their stores, that fall business has been large and exception ally good and that theq look forward to the biggest and best holiday trade ever done in Augusta. They realize that this holiday trade must be done in the next 30 days and they are pre paring for it. They ask their cus tomers to read closely the advertising columns for their business announce ments and to shop early. This shop early suggestion is par ticularly timely this year in view of the big holiday trade expected. It is also important to read the store news and business announcements daily in The Herald, as special bar gains and novelties and suggestions will be the order of the day till the holiday rush is over. e. s. McCreary. “Our trade this fall has been as good as was expected, especially con sidering the weather conditons, and indications are that it wall grow bet ter and better. We are carrying a larger and more diversified stock, and doing a great deal more advertising than ever before, especially in The Herald. “The movement of the cotton crop and the high price it is bringing is now being felt, and we all see that the farmers have money and are feeling in good spirits. Then too we have assurance that our “tourists crop" this winter will be larger than usual and they will stay with us longer than heretofore. “People have not commenced to do their Christmas shopping in my line just yet, but the inquiries that we have received show that they are be ginning to Kbink of it. X wish to fe liciate The Herald in its laudable sug gestions to the people to do their Christmas shopping early. “Yes, we had a fine business today.” J. WILLIE LEVY. Mr. Clarence Levy talked very pleasantly and Interestingly in regard to trade conditions and business out look, and among other things said: “We have had such a good fall business that we were compelled to buy additional stock, and our Mr. J. Willie Levy is leaving today for the nortern and eastern markets to hurry along what we have already bought and to make additional purchases. “This good business has been no ticeable In both tho general depart ments of our establishment, that is, men’s clothing and ladies’ ready-to wear garments. As far as today’s The Holiday Shopping Season Has Opened With a Rush Stores are crowded with those who want to avoid last day jams. Merchants and shoppers should co-operate and prepare to do the holiday trading in a manner in which both will benefit. Do it now rather than in the rush of the last week. And The Herald asks its 40.000 and more readers to read carefully the daily store news and business announcements in its columns. You II find the best values, the biggest bargains, the most seasonable and timely store news daily in The Herald. Its there for you to read and make use of in your next day’s shop ping. Try it—Say "I Saw it in The Herald.” NOTICE TO ADVERT ISERS: Early copy and notice of space desired is necessary to secure proper display, position and classification in The Herald and best results will be secured if copy is in Herald office the day before publication is desired. We cannot guarantee the insertion of late advertising copy. busine.ss is concerned, you can see for yoUrseli. Generally speaking our best days are Mondays and Satur days. Mondays for ladies—Saturdays for gentlemen. That’s why we run our advertisements in The Herald on stated days, and get good re sults therefrom. “We are looking for an unusually good business during and just before Christinas. Our January business is also good; and with the increased number of winter visitors we are ex pecting the merchants should be more than satisfied with the bright pros pects before us. "I wish to Vingratulate your paper for urging the people to do their holi day shopping as far in advance as possible, and while we merchants ap preciate this very much Indeed, you should remember that you are doing the people—your subscribers—equal ly as much good; perhaps more, for it s extremely beneficial to them to do their shopping early.” MR. CLAUDE YOUNG. I In answer to The Herald man’s in j quiries, Mr. Claude Young of the Georgia-Carolina Furniture company said: “We do not do much bragging, and we would not like for you to quote us in that kind of a way, still we are getting our share of the trade, and have no complaints to make. “As a rule people do not do Christ mas furniture buying very much in advance, but we have noted a grow ing tendency- on the part of pur chasers to do so. This is as it should be, and we are glad that The Her ald, with its usual enterprise, is urg ing the people to buy early. "Our fall trade has been all that we expected and we look for a good holiday business. Our ad in yester day s Herald has already brought us business. It «.as in regard to thq “silent auction” we are conducting. We have placed a suit of parlor fur niture in one of our window's and the people are asked to make bids for it; of course the highest bidder will get “Our firm is optimistic in regard to the future, and we are willing to do our part for the continued growth and prosperity of our city and sec tion.” J. B. WHITE & CO. Mr. E. C. Fenton, manager of J. B. White & Co., stated that the business for the past two months had l been the best in the history of the store. That during the fall they had done a large and lucra tive business both with Augustans anfi out of town people. That never in tht history of the store had there been such a rush, or never had the shoppers been better supplied with money or more will ing to buy. That he anticipated the holi day business to far exceed that of any previous year, and that he found it neces sary to largely increase the staff ot clerks. For the past two weeks business has increased even more than the most optimistic could have hoped for, and present prospects are that it will continue to increase. The holiday trade is ex pected to be the best yet done, and al ready a large number of people are be ginning to do their Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping. He spoke of the at tractive and expensive Christmas line of goods that he was carrying in every de partment, and of the attention they were attracting in this section of Georgia and Carolina. For a Monday’s business he stated that today’s was not only the largest Mon day’s business, but perhaps’ the largest in the history of the store. He attributed the boom of business to the prosperous condition of the people in this section of the two states, stating that it was better than it had been in many years. The high price of cotton has played the most prominent part in the prosperity. The majority of the far mers have already realized the profits from their crops, and they are the largest I in the history of the staple, for never has [ the price of cotton remained at its present AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 22, 1909. altitude for so long a period. As before stated, the farmers have already collected the money for their crop, and a great many of them have already done their Christmas shopping. They have also put much of the money in circulation in the city, and the people in the city are in a much better financial condition than they have been for years. Taking everything into consideration, this fall is the most prosperous that Augusta has seen in twenty years, and the much heralded prosperity wave has arrived. LEE and WELLS. There was life and animation all day long today at the Lee & Wells store, and Mr. Arthur Hale, the manager was wearing the ;|nile that won’t come off. He greeted The Her ald reporter enthusiastically: "No, our store did not have a bet ter trade today than usual with us on Mondays. But then Monday is al ways a good day at the China Palace, and we give due credit for it to our large ads that we always run in the Sunday Herald. They certainly bring results. "We have had a good trade all the fall and it is steadily increasing. I think one cause of it is the return ing or returned confidence of the people. Then too most every body seems to have more money than usual, and collections are getting bet ter all the time. “People are not buying so much for Christmas just at present, hut they are looking around and taking notice with this end in view. This is a growing tendency and each year sees the people looking for Christmas gifts a little bit sooner than before. Its a good idea too —better for the pur chaser and better for the merchant. “Our force of salespeople have been told to impress upon buyers that they can buy now and have their pur chases delivered just. when and where they wish. We will make no extra, charge for so doing—lndeed it will be a pleasure. We will wrap up packages in the neatest possible way, store them with insured safety, and guarantee absolutely accurate de livery.” R. L. HUNTER CO. Mr. Addison Weislger, of Hunter’s, stated that the business for this fall had exceeded any done for a corres ponding period in the history of the store. For the past few weeks the clerks in the store have been taxed to their utmost to wait on the trade. The customers are better supplied with funds than they have been in years, and they all make large purchases. “We can hardly expect a better busi ness than we are doing at present as we believe it would be impossible. We have been displaying a beautiful line of holiday goods, and they have at tracted attention frem both town and country customers, and we find that there is much Christmas shopping be ing done at present, and we are glad to see that the usual Christmas rusli will be avoided. We attribute the prosperous conditions, to the prevail ing high price of cotton and the much improved financial condition of the people in genera.. Wc are looking (Continued on Page Four.) GROOM TO-BE IS KILLED CUTHBERT, Ga.—Three dead and two are fatally injured as the reeult of an automobile accident here late Sunday night. The dead: Curtis Wil liams, Fort Gaines, Ga.; James and Horace Shepard, Edison, Ga, The in jured: Miss Helene Mattox, twenty years old, Coleman, Ga., and Miss Mary Mattox, sixteen years old, Cole man, Ga. The accident occurred two miles west of here, as the party was return- BROWN DENIES THAT HE WILL BL CANDIDATE Declares Stories in Papers Sunday Morning Were Fabrications Griggs Says He Didn’t Make Statement. (Herald Bureau, Candler Building.) ATLANTA, Ga. —Governor Brown Mon day issued the following statement in re gard to the report, as published Sunday morning, that he would be a candidate for renomination for governor next year. Tfcie governor said* In reference to the statement in the papers Sunday to the effect that I have advised Judge Griggs that I would be a candidate for renomination for the office of governor next year, I will say that everything in the statement is a fabrica tion. I have neither by words nor in ference made any such declaration. On the contrary, I have repeatedly said that the people of Georgia are entitled to a rest for, at least, a year from political agitation; that they wish to be let alone, so that they can get their affairs together with a view to making a living and pros pering. UNCLE SAM’S lU DOGS ON WAY TO NICARAGUA ALUMINUM PAINT USED BY PALLADINO Hereward Carrington, manager of Madame Palladino, the Italian spirit ualist., who admitted that his wife bought a quantity of phosphorescent paint or use at the seances. Mr. Car rington explained that he wanted to put paint on cheese cloth and wrap it around Ballad ino’s arm to detect even in a dim light, whether the medium raised her arms when making the tft ble move or if she was perpetrating any other fraud. C. OF C. DIRECTORS MEET WEDNESDAY Wednesday at 5 p. m a meeting of the board of directors of the chamber of com merce will be held. It is probable that amongst the piatters to he brought up will l)e the appointment of delegates to represent the chamber of commerce at jlic Southern Commercial congress to he held In Washington on December 7 and the Notional Rivera and Harbor:’, congress, which will take place in the same city on December 11. PLEASURE TRIP ENDS FATALLY TO GEORGIANS ing from Cuthbert to Coleman. Speed ing to be married, James Shepard and Miss Helene Mattox, accompan ied by Miss Mary Mattox and Horace Shepard, left in an automobile, at Fort Gaines, to be driven to Cuthbert by Williams. Reaching there all the ministers refused to marry the cou ple on account of their youth, neith er having passed their twentieth birth day. Thus foiled, tho party dashed away. While whizzing along at about thirty miles an hour Chauffeur Williams, while attempting to light a cigarette, lost control of the machine crossing a thirty-foot bridge over the Central railway. The party dashed to the tracks below, the machine falling up on Shepard and Williams. Williams’ neck was broken, death resulting In stantly. The two Shepards were frightfully injured, death following shortly. Miss Helene Mattox was badly cut about the face and arms and severely bruised Internally. Miss Mary Mattox was terribly injured. The women were removed to a farmnouso and the bodies of the three men were brought here on a hand-car. Tomorrow's Best Bar gains You'll Find in Today's Herald This is the season of the year when the heavy work, the rush work of the retail stores is done with their many thousands of customers. Time and dollars are both pre cious In merchandising—they are equally as valuable to the mer chant as to the purchaser. No time Is to he lost In trading these days. Lost time is lost money. THE POINT IS, HERALD ADS. ARE THE REAL HOLIDAY NEWS THEBE DAYS AND IT WILL PAY YOU TO READ ’THEM. Diligent Inquiries Will lie Made Into Cause of Exe cution of Two Americans by Zelaya’s Men. MARINES READY FOR TRANSPORT Several Boats Are Under Orders and Are Expected to Laud at Nicaraguan Ports Soon. WASHINGTON, D. C. Strained al most to a breaking point, it remains for the next few days to show wheth er the relations between the United States and Nicaragua will be snapped off short. This government has not accepted as facts beyond contradic tion Nicaragua’s explanation regard ing the execution of the two Ameri cans, Cannon and Grace. Sufficient credence given to certain statements I made to tire state department has I acted to prompt inquiries into tire I reasons back of Zelaya’s action. See ! retary of State Knox asserts tire de mand for reparation from Nicaragua will be made should the inquiries de \ clop that allegations of the death of the Americans are well grounded. Knox is acting with the full approval of President Taft. Taft is fully ac- I ouainted with the Nicaraguan trou ! Me, and is prepared to take the need ed steps to bring about a more satls , factory situation than now exists, j American war ships Monday are speeding toward the Nicaraguan | shores. The gunboat Vicksburg will prob | ably arrive at Oorinton, on the Pa eilic cons* Monday morning, the cruis er Dos Moines arrived Monday at Port Union, the Marietta is on her way to the Atlantic coast, and the transport Jiluffctlo, coaling off the California coast, Is under orders for Panama. There the force of five hundred ma rines will board the vessel. Secretary Meyer returned to the 1 navy department Monday from Pos ton tin immediately took up the Nica raguan situation with Assistant Sec retary Wlnthrop and Rear Admiral Potter, the chief of the bureau of na- I viagtion. The officials told Secretary of the navy to bo ready for any em ergency which might arise. Mr. Wln throp explained that the Vicksburg had been sent to Corinto, and the Des Moines was roconnoitering in the waters near Greytown, Nicaragua, to ascertain the effectiveness of the blockade, the revolutionists claim to be maintaining at tills port. The re port of Commander Shipley, of the Des Moines will probably be sent from Port Llmon, Costa Rica, to which point the ship has been order ed to proceed. The secretary, was also Informed that the Tacoma arrived at Colon Monday and arrangements had been made to send the Marietta from Guantanamo. Cuba., to Colon «»nd that both of these vessels could be des patched to Port Piinon without delay. VICKSBURG IN NICARAGUAN WATERS. BRIDE-ELECT BADLY HURT WASHINGTON.—The first American warship to arrive in Nicaraguan waters is the gunboat Vicksburg, which b..s reached Corinto, according to navy de partment advices. The Vicksburg im equipped with six four-inch guns and eight of smaller caliber. She Is in fine condition to give an account of herself should an emergency arise, CANNON’S FATHER AWAITS ACTION. HARRISBURG, Penn,- D. K. Cannon, father of Leroy Cannon, one of the Amer icans who w;is executed by order of Pros, ident Zelaya of Nicarague, stated Mon day morning that he Is determined to await the result of the government’s in vestigation before entering a claim of damages for the death of his son and the confiscating of the Jatter’s property. Can non asked Representative Olmstead to request the government to recover tlie body. TURDS COBB LINED 1100 AND COSTS CLEVELAND, O.—'Ty” Cobb, of AuguHta, Ga., American league’s champion batsman, star player of the Detroit baseball club, was lined one hundred dollars and costs Monday morning, for assaulting George Stan field, the hotel watchman on occa sion of the Detroit team’s last visit to Cleveland. When Judge Vickery announced the fine, Cobb said he did not have that much money, and the < xecutlon of Judgment was continued, giving the ball player opportunity to obtain funds. Cobb was indicted on the charge of cutting with Intent to wound, follow ing a fight with Stanfield, in which the watchman was stabbed. fri the court Monday morning Cobb was al lowed to plead guilty to assault and battery. This obviated the necessity of trial. DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR, MINE DISASTER VICTIMS BURIED NINE DAYS W VET REMAIN ALIVE POTS WILL IE ASSIGNED T 3 POSTS TOUT Speculation as to Possible Transfers is Rife, But Only Bishop and Cabinet Know of Changes. METHODISTS MAY FIGHT NEAR BEER Dr. Nunnally Proposed Co-Operation With the Baptists in War on the Drink Evil. (Tlftnvld Bunmu, Candler Building.! AI I, ANT A, Ga. Appointment* of the North Georgia Methodist conference are expected to be read out bv bishop f. it. Hendrix at Monday night's session. Of course speculation is r*> as to possible changes and transfers. The secret, how ov'r. lies with the bishop and his cabinet, which is composed of the presiding el ders. Herculean Task. The work of assigning the preachers to I holr various charges for another year Is no small task. In fact. It is herculean, re quiring the full time and attention of the bishop and Ids cabinet for almost a week while the conference is in session. There are instances where a most stren uour effort is being made on the part o ¥ tlie lay members of a church to have the present pastor returned, while In othei cases j the four year rule has made this impossible, and they are at work trying to got a minister sent to that charge who had “made good” at tile charge lie Is just quitting. Sunday Fill the local pulpith were filled by visiting preachers, and large emigre, gallons were in attendance Jit the various houses of worship. As announced in previous dispatches, Athens was chosen as the next meeting place of the North Georgia conference. Invitations were also received from Au gusta, Rome and Hartwell. Delegates Named. Fourteen delegates, seven from the clergy and seven from the laHy, were selected by the conference for the gen era) conference which meets in Asheville, N. C., in May. The delegation as selected are as follows: Clergy Dr. James F. Dickey, Dr. J. H. Fakes, Rev. M. J. Gofer, B. P. Adams, with Rev. J. If. Sharp, Rev. J. T. Daves and Dr. C. K bowman as alternates. Jjalty J oil ii N. Holder, John T. Dun can, Ham Tate, John I>. Walker, Joseph A. McCord, John L. Loftig and H. F. Uelgh, with T. W. Harbin and J. C. Wardlaw as alternates. A resolution, signed by W. O. butler and other prominent members of the con ference, to ask the general conference of 1910 for authority “To divide the North Georgia conference at any time It may see fit during the next quadrennlum,” was tabled. The preamble to this resolu tion set forth that the conference had now grown to a stage rendering this divi sion needful for tin* highest development and best interests of Houthorn Methodism and of the districts Involved. Borne of the strongest members of the conference fa vored the move, but the majority were apparently riot ready to commit them selves to such a radical step and the res olution was tabled. In a spirited address Dr. G, A. Nun nally of Atlanta, proposed the co-opera tion of the baptist convention, which he represented, and the Methodist conference In a Joint fight “for the suppression of the near beer evil by means of suitable legislative enactment at the next session of the Georgia, legislature.” The pro. posai of Dr. Nunnally was referred to the committee on temperance. Thomas W. Lawson, Theodore Roosevelt and Sheep Jumping: Why is It that Thomas W. Lawson is known from Maine to California? Why is it that lie is known 1 n Eng land and every European country? The answer Is plain: Because he used the newspapers to V 11 tils story! He became In a short while as great a personality almost as did <x- J'resident Roosevelt. Do you know of anybody that does not know Thomas W Lawson? Have you run across anybody yet that, does not know “Teddy” Roosevelt? News papers have* made them both well known. A little while ago a story appeared about tin- experience of Mr If. A. Cochrane, tilling how business men, when approached, answered him by saying; “Have you got anybody in rny 1 i n<- to go into this thing?" and when answered negatively, was told: “Well, if you get Mr. Ho and Ho, I will go in too" which reminds me of a story: It Is related of a shepherd In teaching his sheep obedience that he put up a rope fence he drove his sheep down to this fence, and the leader Jumped *over It; the one im mediately following Jumped over It, Indications Found Ijy Res cuing; Parties Indicate That Many Still Hold on to Life. CIIMKUY, Ills -Day-break Monday '..'line In with rain and snow, and ' hillil, k r winds banished many of the morbidly curious from the pit mouth, i’ll imo to the dimly outlined shaft Kt ruot ure women huddled together 'eking consolation. Three times the hearse made slow trips past the mine In the entrance ' y tho cemetery. The mourners numbering less than a 'ln/., n stumbled along behind. No 1 , , . have attended any oi the funerals. The rescuers coming in the surface at noon reported live lil,s ' vori ' discovered In the newly ex plored portion ol’ the mine, this In ' ■".'Ned th. hope that of rats came remote sections of the cavern "here comparatively pure air rew muined and that If ruts could live t "'tv. met, also could. The mine nf ib'ialK declared If any more me« ar t? ,ro, " t ' ,t u,, ‘ the work would "live to be done within 24 hours, a> Die melt must necessarily be almost starved. Bats, 1„, said, v.-uld b« able to live lotige, because of their ability to find crumbs and scraps of H, "Htered about from the men’s lunches. « MKItltY, Ills. Two exploring parties in the St. Paul mine Monday found ln.ll ealloiiH that a large number of living men J,r<> 8,1,1 * n ~K' workings. Searchers Momi.n morning were able to pass far into the galleries. Two hundred men are Him unaccounted for. If Hie men still ,m ‘ '"‘Prisoned in the depths they are propsbly too weak to aid In their own occurred, and the possible survivors have gmie without food or water. Rescue par lies are working frantically to remove timbers, dead animals nnfl earth falls which block the way to the east work ings. Rain fell nil night. Four more bodies are lying In the black damp, wher* fliey were hoisted. The gas made It Im possible to reach a score of others, al ihough they were In plain view. EXPERTS AID ' ' IN RESCUE. WASHINGTON. Word received Mon day morning from the officials of the United States geological survey In Cherry, 1 ll s - the effect that Are In the mine Is giving the government experts much anx iety. Hxports are watching the situation closely in order to protect the lives of the rescuers. Oases are being analyzed constantly. Mixtures of fire-damp and oxygen would prove fatal, and the gov < rnment experts are endeavoring to avoid further fatalities, Fxperts say of th® twenty miners brought out alive Satur day, twelve were discovered In a helpless condition, still breathing poisonous gases. The rescues were made by the oxygen helmet corps. BOLL WEEVILS - THRIVE IN MOSS RATON ROUGH!, La.— I The state crop pest commission finds In a pic turesque Spanish moss, a seriously threatening danger to cotton planters. The commission Issues a statement Monday 11ml Ihe inoss shelters an enormous number of boll weevils THE WEATHER. Conditions favor fair, warmer weather in this section tonight with rain and colder Tuesday. and the next and the next, and so on. This shepherd had a tremendous lloek of sheep, and by the time the middle of the flock was reached he took down the rope, and as tint sheep came down to this imaginary line they Jumped Just th«* same the force of tiie example of the leaders and those that had preceded them was so strong that as each sheep came to the place where the rope had been, he In voluntarily jumped over It. How many advertisers are there that keep Jumping In the same way been iHe some advertiser before them Jumped that way? How many advertisers are there who follow the custom of printing un reliable copy because other adver tisers who preceded them printed un re) la ole copy'. Do your own Jumping. Do not fol low —be a leader. Make up your mind that you are going to do busl ness In the right way—that you are going to talk about It In the news papers intelligently that you are go ing to tell the truth— that you are go ing to win the confidence of the pub lic by fair dealing-and Just as sure us the sun sets, you will succeed.
