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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
3
Regular appointment with Rev Cantrell on Sunday. Numerous local residents visited relatives and attended Prospect singing at Red Stone and nearby events including Athens trips and Jefferson visits. Improving health reports and invites to Mizpeh Sunday school underline the tight knit community tone.
A called communication of Mount Vernoon Lodge No 22 F and A M will be held on Thursday April 22 1915 at 830 PM in the third floor hall Max Joseph building Work in the Fellow Craft degree Everyone is warmly invited By order of L N Betts W M MO G Quinn Sec
Mayor W F Dorsey named Athens representatives to attend the Southern Sociological Congress in Houston May 8 11. Appointees include Dr C M Strahan Capt J W Barnett Col M G Michael Dr J P Proctor I H Goss C D Flanigan Joe M Hodgson J F Tibbetts H R Palmer and others as city leaders seek a health focused conference outcome.
Exhibition by the Laymen's Missionary Movement fills the theater twice daily, drawing large crowds eager for Chinese and Korean views. Attendees note the Boy Scouts on China Day and the Hangchow Bore, as Japan’s schools influence Korea while American missions spread Christianity.
The Clarke county tax receiver warns that the books close May 1 and those delaying returns will be double taxed. Govern yourself accordingly. J. H. Dorsey, T. R., Clarke Co.
Manager Finner presents the World Film Corporation all star comedy Health by the Year with additional program including Biograph comedies Getting Rid of Nephew and A Big Night Lubin drama In the Background Essanay’s Broncho Billy the Vigilante Selig comedy An’ Then It Happen ed Pere Goriot two part drama Friday and Orrin Johnson in Satan Sanderson Saturday at the Colonial Athens, running daily 1 to 11 pm admission five and ten cents.
Suffrage items report New York Assembly passage of the Bewley bill to raise cannery work weeks to seventy two hours for women and children, amid a push by canning interests and opposition from reform groups. Investigations cited by the Consumers’ League show hours up to 116 and 117 weekly and even toddlers at some facilities, prompting calls for veto by Gov. Whitman.
Hancock Michigan hotel manager endorses Foley Cathartic Tablets as mild safe and non gripe. Endorser says products cleanse healthfully and dispel sluggishness. Palmer Sons distribution noted.
An old advertisement claims Vinol cures stomach trouble and weakness. It features testimonials about improved digestion and strength, attributed to R. Palmer & Sons and Druggists in Athens Georgia, with Vinol sold broadly at drug stores.
Train No. 50 leaves at 8 55 a m. Train No. 62 leaves at 4 25 p m. Train 64 leaves at 9 05 a m except Sunday. Train No. 61 arrives at 1 20 p m. Train No. 63 arrives at 9 20 p m. Train No. 65 arrives at ? a m except Sunday.
Southern Railway Co Athens Branch lists daily and Sunday departure and arrival times for all points. Calls out daily schedules 8:20, 1:00, 3:45, 12:40, 6:50, 9:45 and Sundays 3:165 p.m. For information contact agents Paul Pinkerton and R. L. Johnson.
Schedule shows service from Athens with No 2 at 7 00 am and No 4 at 1 00 pm. No 1 reaches Athens 11 25 am and No 8 at 5 25 pm. Connections at Belmont link to Winder Monroe and intermediate points and with Georgia Railroad to all points and Gainesville to Gainesville Northwestern and Southern north and south.
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