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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1922
Page
3
The court calendar sets two sessions next week for the spring term. Jurisdiction includes murder, divorce, liquor violations, and other serious cases. Judge Sibley and Judge Fort will preside in the Superior Court with trials and docket actions expected.
Teachers from the State Normal School listed for the Georgiz Education Association meeting in Columbus include Dr. J. M. Pound H. Ritchie Annie Linton Bess M. Baird Kate licks and BE S. Sell. Linton chairs the art division and Baird will read Home Projects in economics. Sell discusses active sound methods in vocational agriculture.
The Motors Center association launches a drive to reduce infant deaths across counties by distributing 1,000,000 pamphlets. Miss Choate leads house to house outreach promising practical advice to new mothers and families through the planned educational campaign.
A garbled snippet mentions lateness and ownership of a item or place. The readable bits suggest frustration about a late delivery or late arrival and a possessive reference to someone named Sell or Hoodigh. Details are unclear.
Swift & Co paid 1 800 000 for hogs from November 1 to last week, with over a million going to hog growers in a 50 mile radius around Moultrie Georgia. The season followed a poor 1920 21 period and Christmas shipments surpassed earlier totals as hog numbers rose nearly 4000 weekly. Farmers shifted from cotton during price spikes and returned to hog raising, improving quality and finishing pigs on peanut feed with premiums for harder killing hogs.
A May 17 bond election was fixed by mayor and council for city and county issues. Bonds total 100000 for roads bridges sewers and schools with a 1.7 tax rate and seven mills for schools. Voting sites and ward representatives listed. women elected as election managers for the first time.
The Jenkins County Chamber of Commerce launches a county wide canvas of 10 to 18 year olds to form boys and girls pig clubs in Millen. Each participant receives a full blooded pig with papers, officers elected from members, and a production record used to award prizes. Brinson Brothers back financing and local meetings aim to make Jenkins a recognized hog raising county.
New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and others saw March spending reach 194,661,072 dollars, the highest monthly total in U.S. history per Bradstreets. The increase exceeded April 1920 by four percent, based on 109 cities surveyed.
New York grand jury probes bigamy as Joseph Donsll Grafton faces testimony from three women alleging he framed courtship as a sales pitch. Peggy Davis and Ellen Melia Tyre Grafton recount whirlwind marriages started after meetings in Florida and a boarding house.
Detroit hosts the Jewish Bell Conference with messages from President Harding and Secretary Hoover. Leaders including David A. Brown outline a campaign exceeding its $214,000,000 goal for Jewish war sufferers. Reports will feature Julius Rosenwald, Nathan Kross, Abba Hillel Silver, and others on relief and reconstruction plans.
The Banner-Herald urges shoppers to comparison shop in Athens before committing to purchases. It emphasizes checking prices, quality, and store policies across retailers to ensure the best value and informed choices.
Lucy Cobb’s lawn shows a vivid spring display with wisteria, mac and apple blossoms, silver-tipped white tele, and golden green oaks. The scene includes students in flower-like frocks, the operetta The Feast of Little Lanterns performed at Seney Stovall chapel, and reports of school activities and visits by teachers and guests around May.
Indianapolis report says a wireless telephone will be used by one driver in the 600 mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 20. Louis and Arthur Chevrot of the city designed the car, with Louis Chevrolet having built winning cars in 1920 and 1921. A small device on the car will send water wave signals to relay the driver’s position and pit information for constant updates.
The Carolina and Georgia railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to issue 415000 in six percent gold bonds to continue construction from Andrews to Haysville North Carolina Also Baltimore and Ohio requests approval to issue 1840000 in refunding mortgage bonds for betterments The New York Lake Erie and Western Coal and Railroad seeks to extend bond issue to 1942 and extend the Erie lease on its subsidiary line
The St. Louis Nationals will appear in redesigned uniforms this season. The home kit features a black bat with two red silky embroidered birds on the breast, set on white, with blue gray visiting uniforms, red piping, and cardinal stockings.
Fresno report states Tommy Milton national champion driver barred from all Pacific Coast races. A. A. A. contest board chair William Schimpff disqualified Milton for demanding a bonus to enter a Fresno race and for alleged false advertising representations.
Spokane report notes optimism for final passage of the Towner Sterling bill as Charl Ormond Williams, president of the National Education Association, urges support. She says the measure would create a federal Department of Education and aid states in education to foster good citizenship, with broad backing and potential electoral impact.
Six more units head home from Coblenz with 1,100 men and 52 officers aboard the Cantigny. Eighty five soldiers spouses and 28 children travel with the ships, marking the largest such withdrawal since last May. Departing groups include headquarters, Ambulance 56, Hospital 57, Motor Transport 63, Service of Supply 2, and Third Battalion Fifth Infantry. Army strength on the Rhine falls to about 2,000, a sixth of a year ago.
The War Department announced in Washington that forty thousand tons of sodium nitrate will be sold at auction on April 13. Bidders may purchase starting at 100 tons with a 10 percent deposit due at the time of sale.
Washington and Mid Atlantic face unsettled warm showery start with cooler, fair finish. South Atlantic similar pattern with warm start and cooler second half. Tennessee expects showers early week then improving to cooler with showers late week.
Albert Lester, a 14 year old African American, is held in Clarke county jail awaiting a preliminary hearing likely Monday to determine if he will be bound over on a murder charge for killing Roy Gardner, another African American boy, near Oconee Heights Friday night. Lester claims he did not know the gun was loaded and says the weapon was his. Sheriff Walter E. Jackson said witnesses objected to speaking with reporters and provided limited details.
Paris reports American pennies and dimes have funded playgrounds and games for French children. American instructors teach teamwork and fair play to counter individualism, guiding French youth toward communal recreation and courage.
A masked American attempted to shoot Cardinal Vicar Pompili in London. He called at the cardinal’s office, refused entry, struck Monsignor Candidori, and escaped as attendees restrained him. the secretary was injured.
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