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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1918
Page
2
Short notes of interest list services and sales including Lipscomb's Specialty Insurance and the Athens Savings Bank 4 percent deposits. Ads promote farm loans, moving services, instruments from Morris's Music Shop, pianos for sale, lost and found, housing wants, a Dort Roadster, Irish potato seed, citrus from Williamson's, and plant stock from EB F Parker Plant Co.
The Athens Home Guards and friends are called to meet at 8 30 in the superior courtroom at the courthouse. Judge Cobb, Mr Tom Melt and others will address the gathering, described as the most important meeting the organization has held.
Mrs. R. E. Bailey of 240 Barrow St. credits Doan's Kidney Pills with relief from kidney pain, dizziness, headaches, and rheumatic back pains after using them from Palmer & Sons' Drug Store. The ad urges readers with kidney trouble to use the same remedy priced at 60 cents.
Yesterday afternoon Baxter Street defeated College Avenue 13 to 12 in a hotly contested baseball game. The Liberty Loan campaign boosts thrift stamp sales alongside war bonds, with baby bonds gaining popularity.
The Youth's Companion notes a falling trend in Greek Latin and mathematics in American colleges. It suggests Greek may become as rare as Hebrew today, with Latin following, and questions how long advanced mathematics will remain widely taught as it enriches philosophy and imagination.
A compact meditation on victory and failure. The speaker seeks strength to perform for honor rather than to win, noting fathers labored and often failed yet built noble temples from their defiant endurance. The poem elevates courage over outright triumph.
O H Harkins age 44 died at home after injuries from being caught in belting and shafting at Bell Marble Works. He suffered arm and leg fractures with a leg amputated Friday. Survived by wife Nancy, brother J C Harkins of Clarkesville, sister Mrs J H Reep of Anderson. Funeral planned in Clarkesville.
An 19th century advert claims catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local treatments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a systemic remedy. It offers a reward of one hundred dollars for any case not cured, describing the disease as inflammation of the Eustachian tube and mucous surfaces with speculation on permanent hearing loss if untreated.
Special weather report notes fair conditions for Athens and surrounding areas on Tuesday. Disturbance centered over the lower Rocky Mountain region extends from Texas to South Dakota and Wyoming with bands of rain in numerous stations. Temperatures rise in the South but remain cool for the season in the upper Ohio valley and middle states.
A reflective note on courage and social duty linking personal bravery to public good. The excerpt frames struggle as a communal responsibility, with virtue flowing from one person to heal others.
J W Griffin former president of the defunct Athens Trust and Banking company in Athens Georgia was paroled by Governor Dorsey on Monday after serving one and a half years of a three year sentence for violation of the state banking laws He had been in jail four years total due to pretrial detention and the conviction centered on illegal depreciation of bank capital Griffin promoted a chain of cotton oil mills and large loans were made by his bank for these enterprises causing the bank’s failure which affected hundreds of depositors.
Dallas on April 15 reports a war measure closing about 1 500 saloons under a new law barring sale or possession of intoxicating liquor within ten miles of military establishments. Dry cities include Fort Worth San Antonio Houston Wichita Falls Beaumont Galveston El Paso and Orange.
London reports that the labor ministers in an interview with Premier Lloyd George pressed for self government for Ireland based on the majority Irish convention report before conscription. The conference reportedly had satisfactory results and a cabinet crisis is not expected.
The nation has raised pledges to the Liberty Loan by $691,000,000 to close of business Saturday. New York leads in subscriptions with over $250,000,000, St. Louis at 44 percent of quota, while Atlanta reports 5 percent.
Washington April 15. The casualty list shows forty four names with actions including killed in action one died of disease seven wounded severely four wounded slightly twenty seven missing in action one. Nine officers named including Col R Bolling reported captured or missing. Bolling is identified as former assistant general counsel for United States Steel Corporation and was commissioned in the signal corps after the war began.
The recorder H. J. Rowe presided over a busy session disposing of thirty-five cases. Only a few highlights: five drunks, nineteen disorderlies, four whisky cases and traffic violations. Several defendants were bound over or fined. two juvenile cases were dismissed for lack of fault. multiple speeders received fines.
The Banner lists permissible cereals that may be sold as flour substitutes by merchants. Cornmeal corn flour edible corn starch hominy corn grits barley flour potato flour sweet potato flour soya bean flour feterita flour rice rice flour oatmeal rolled oats buckwheat flour and meals. Whole wheat and graham flour allowed at five pounds flour to three pounds substitutes. Wheatless days remain in force with one wheatless meal daily and complete wheatless on Monday and Wednesday. Hotels and eateries limited to two ounces of wheat bread per customer per meal.
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