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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1917
Page
6
Short notes of interest list insurance questions bank rates and loan offers from Green and Michael Jno J Strickland and others. Listings include rental notices for seven room cottages Milledge Avenue Cobb Street and Hillcrest Avenue itemized goods for sale such as a 1916 Maxwell roadster a Singer sewing machine and an organ. Also notices request a bicycle and announce seafood market and an overhauled wagon for moving services.
AP reports yesterday's baseball scores across American and National leagues with Chicago losing to St. Louis 2 to 6 and New York beating Brooklyn 9 to 2. Morning games feature Boston over Philadelphia 7 to 3. Southern results include New Orleans edging Atlanta 2 to 1 and Memphis defeating Nashville 11 to 3. Also listed are local market garden staples and Williamson's fresh produce offerings.
Negroes plan an educational conference in Macon Georgia on Friday May 4 at the Negro Pythian Temple. A large gathering of teachers and professionals is expected and the Georgia Educational Aspiration white group will be in session to offer reduced rail rates for delegates. Prominent white lecturers may address the attendees.
The Federal court may adjourn for the term this afternoon to hold the usual June session. The Himmelberger Harris Company land cases continued yesterday and likely finish this morning. P K Burns of Tucker Georgia, a former University of Georgia student, was admitted to practice in the federal court.
A number of Ath ens physicians travel to Augusta for the state medical association. Dr H M Fullilove planned a paper on Examination Before Operations and Dr R M Goss spoke on Review of Two Hundred Operations for Acute Abdominal Tix with Fifteen Deaths. Other attendees listed include doctors from Athens Commerce Lexington Danielsville Elberton Hartwell and Ila with local notes from Westerly Chronicle.
The schedule lists college games for April 20 and 21 featuring Georgia, Clemson, Howard, Birmingham, Furman, North Carolina, Sewanee, Georgia Tech, Hampden Sydney, Virginia, Lafayette, Louisiana, Trinity College, Vanderbilt, VMI, South Carolina, and teams at venues including Andersen Greens ville Atanta Clarke sville Blacksburg Baton Rouge Lexington Columbia and Columbus with some cancellations noted.
The Flag Fund is being raised and the flag is expected to be hoisted on a permanent pole atop the water tower beside the city hall lawn within days. Yesterday’s report lists contributions including Captain J. H. Rucker and T. B. Wooten with amounts of 429.75 and other gifts noted.
In the court of ordinary yesterday morning the will of the late Mrs Lena Quillian Tuck was probated in solemn form. Witnesses, all from Atlanta, and executor F A Quillian, an uncle of the testator, were present. The will was made just before her 1914 marriage and conditioned on that event. It mentions her future husband and his daughter, and provides for their children if any.
A historical note from Athens Georgia features a patriotic verse by John Mappin in Hearst's Hustler. The piece centers on a fierce American eagle and a call to readiness, claiming the nation has ships, men, and money to defend itself.
The Banner urges an agricultural exchange to match people who own unworked plots with those who want patches to cultivate and to connect volunteers who can plough. Readers with vacant lots or land lists should register with owner name and location while those needing plots should register with names and addresses. Interested helpers should mail their contact details to Mrs. E. M. Coleman, 624 Prince Avenue.
An advertisement urges customers to drink the purest spring water bottled by Linton Springs Water. The copy highlights sanitary conditions and guarantees the product, with R. S. Crane listed as manager and phone contact 95.
The Georgian hotel reports heavy business with over 100 guests registered daily, peaking at 125 in one day. Other Athens hotels also show strong traffic without any special events besides court sessions and ball games.
Twenty five thousand teachers of economics and political science in forty three universities and colleges nationwide signed a memorial urging adoption of taxation as the main wartime financing over bond issues. The memorial argues bond issues inflate prices while taxation prevents inflation and was sent to President Wilson cabinet members and Congress.
A specially important Oliver Encampment I O O F meeting called by C A Von Der Lieth and J A Mealor Scribe for 8 30 this evening at the Odd Fellows hall all members urged to attend urgently.
Six delegates from each Georgia county will meet in Macon April 24 to launch a state wide drive for increased food crop production to support wartime resources. Delegates, appointed by the governor, will organize county farmers and form community market bureaus to ensure rapid sales, following actions by the state food council and the state council of defense in cooperation with the war department.
Capt. Pas M Bierens of the 23rd U S Army now at Paso Texas has been granted a patent for the Markeman Makan device to raise troop marksmanship. Marble Arms Manufacturing of Gladstone Michigan will handle the device sale and manufacture. Capt Stevens from Oglethorpe county rose from corporal in the Spanish American Volunteer Army to captain in the regular army.
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