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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
8
Small classified notices advertise cash ads with mileage coupons from the Athens Savings Bank 4 percent savings deposits, plus listings for meats, barber training, housing to rent, plants for sale, farm produce, and job inquiries. Several names and phone numbers appear for local businesses and services around Athens Georgia.
T Huggins and Son on Broad Street advertise a full line of aluminum ware with a 20 year guarantee. They offer Rice boilers sauce pans Berlin kettles waffle irons frying pans dish pans water buckets roasters tea kettles and more plus summer goods ice boxes refrigerators water coolers and household china glassware and wares.
Atlanta observers say Georgia temperance forces will push to elect a house speaker who will advance the prohibition measure. Among five candidates four are viewed as favorable to temperance aims and avoiding committee obstruction. no clear front runner yet.
Atlanta April 21 The brave Battery B Georgia National Guard plans a trip to the Panama Pacific Exposition after success raising funds. They staged a military extravaganza From Cannon to Caruso at the Atlanta theatre and were well received. Many Georgia groups plan to travel together using special railroad rates to visit the Golden West.
Mr JH Maddox was yesterday operated upon at the hospital for appendicitis. He was resting nicely last night and his friends among the college community and in the city will watch his progress toward recovery with interest.
Mrs. Elmer Hatch of Peru Indiana reports relief from years of rheumatic attacks after using a low cost remedy. The column also shares a courtroom quip where a lawyer claims the defendant was scared and misidentifies a strike as a motorcar, while the plaintiff counters with a witty reply about resemblance.
The Athens hosted water supply and sewerage conference drew mayoral staff, health board leaders, city engineers, and sanitary officers. Professors and students attended. Judge Hillyer of Atlanta shared artesian well lessons, stressing that streams, not deep wells, often best for clean water.
Norcross Ga April 21 Joe Graven is a boss trapper. A marauder plagued his chicken coop for days, killing several chicks. He set steel traps and caught a skunk on the first night a possum on the second and a hawk on the third, ending the visits.
Mysterious catalog entry lists unusually large hens described as extra large fat hens with odd letters and initials. The fragment hints at a sale or listing but provides no clear date place or organizer.
National league results show Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 0 called by rain in the fifth. New York 1 Philadelphia 6. Boston 4 Brooklyn 8. American league Washington 11 Boston 3. Philadelphia 0 New York 8. Detroit 4 Chicago 3. St. Louis 1 Cleveland 3 with a 6th inning train catch noted. Federal league Pittsburg 5 Kansas City 4. Newark 5 Brooklyn 3. Buffalo 5 Baltimore 4. South Atlantic and Southern results include Columbia 2 Savannah 8. Charleston 2 Augusta 1. Columbus 0 Jacksonville 6. Macon 10 Albany 4. New Orleans 2 Mobile 0. Nashville 4 Memphis 6. Birmingham 11 Atlanta 7. Little Rock Chattanooga postponed by rain. College games: Georgia Tech 7 Vanderbilt 3. Virginia Military Institute 0. Mississippi 7. plus a Sewanee visit note.
The second Freshman Banquet is debated as freshmen show little initiative. Upperclassmen fear postponing the victory celebration from last February. Proceeds may fund the banquet, but only 12 tickets sold at 50 cents each. Faculty will attend and a free theatre show follows the banquet, with the question lingering: will they do it.
Athens High School baseball arrives in Elberton to face the Elberton High School boys for two games Friday at 4 15 pm and Saturday at 3 pm. Athens aims to win while Elberton seeks to preserve its undefeated record with a hard fought series.
Norcross Ga April 21 Joe Graves of Green has spent fifty years in the same house where he was born. All his thirteen children were born there. twelve survive, eight boys and four girls, with five of the children living within a mile of the old home. A few weeks ago Mr Green moved to a new house across the road.
A simple home polish substitute uses lemon juice to shine black or tan shoes. A few drops sprinkled on footwear and briskly rubbed yields a bright, polished look.
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