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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1915
Page
8
A Growing Fire Insurance Agency touts itself as the best evidence of good service to policy holders. The firm claims strong companies prompt loss adjustment and efficient service making it the fastest growing fire insurer in Athens.
Governor John M. Slaton urged Georgians to buy Georgia products at a Rotary club luncheon in Atlanta. He highlighted local industries using a map drawn by Ava Wheeler showing each county's crops and praised Georgia marble and granite used in distant buildings.
A small Lilliputian wedding is planned at the Oconee street school this evening at eight o clock. The program includes a scarf drill a doll drill and other features with children and the sunflowers in bloom. Admission is 25 cents for adults 15 cents for children with proceeds to the Victrola fund.
Mayors from numerous Georgia towns are invited to attend a Water and Sewerage Conference in the city on the 19th and 20th alongside water commissioners engineers and health officers. List includes Turner Callahan Paulk Jackson Teel Hall Everett McCauless Young Hopkins Wallon Bowen Bell Weddington Pharr McKnight Gainesville Smith Jordan Edmundson Palmer Burdett Oxford Davis Jackson Tallapoosa Bond Cates Waynesboro Converse Thurston Crouch Blakely Gailey Mullins Ledford Upshaw Pugh Malone Monticello Holmes Comer Johnson Statesboro Connell Memory Chipstead Conyers Mullins Cochran Ledford Cairo Upshaw Douglasville Malone Monticello Holmes Comer West Point.
Sealed bids are invited for 30 000 to 50 000 feet of Rift flooring B and C grades 13 16 thick for immediate delivery. Proposals due noon Monday April 12 in Jere M Pound President Office Athens Ga. Bids to Building Committee of State Normal School care of Jere M Pound marked Proposals for Rift Flooring.
Today Athens High students compete for district berths across events including sprints jumps throws and relays at Herty Field under Prof. Austin. The school seeks representatives for Washington on the 15th and 16th and will also field a strong baseball team.
French claims of advancing at St Mihiel clash with German reports of repulses while Belgians regain ground in Flanders. London eyes a Dardanelles sea land attack and Russian bombardment, as Italian ships concentrate at Augusta and Taranto amid hush plans at top levels. The liquor crisis dominates English politics with no decision yet.
The local lodge of B P O E installed its newly elected officers in an impressive ceremony last night. A list of the officers was published in the Banner shortly after the election several weeks earlier.
Advertises meat prices with butcher’s quotes and our lower sale prices. Highlights sliced Kingan’s hams and bacon, various cuts priced per pound with many items under typical butcher rates. Emphasizes quality guarantee and money refund if not satisfied.
Mr. B G Bentley of Montgomery has been checked in as manager for the Western Union Telegraph offices here. Mr. Murphy, a longstanding local figure, is at an Ata sanitarium for treatment and many friends hope for his improvement.
The advertisement promises one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio and includes endorsements of the undersigned on the product.
A brief market advertisement promotes Call 451 for first-class meat and fresh fish.
City actions include denying a pistol license reduction, requiring a $5000 indemnity bond for a street carnival, and approving a jail remodel into a manual training school. Reports note March pumpage of 35,780,000 gallons and police, water, and street work summaries. A new two-division police system places plainclothes officers under a captain, with Seagraves as head. A liver health ad closes the page.
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