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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1917
Page
8
Local advertising notes warn about privacy of advertiser addresses and feature various listings. It includes insurance and loan offers from Athena Savings Bank and Green & Michael, real estate loans, rentals, sales of goods, employment ads, and a lost dog notice. Notable items mention Cobb Street, Milledge Avenue, and multiple Athens businesses and residents.
Athens received word yesterday of the death of former Athenian Mr. Cecil Wilcox in Jacksonville where he had lived for years. He died suddenly at the Coun try Club in Jacksonville. Reared in Athens as the son of a University professor, he later prospered there and amassed a large fortune.
Athens banks led by the Commercial Bank and the Georgia National Bank answered a government call for two hundred million dollars in Treasury Certificates to support Allied efforts in the war with Germany. Both banks subscribed Saturday, offering services without compensation and promising to provide buyers with details on forthcoming bonds. Citizens are urged to save for July when bonds go on sale, aiding national finance in wartime.
A chamber committee awarded first, second, and third prizes to Lucy Cobb Institute art students for poster designs to grace a forthcoming Athens booklet. Judges favored black silhouettes for best cover cuts, naming Jean Flanigen, Harriet Benedict, and Mary Strahan as prize recipients, with entries featuring Athens scenes, cotton and grain, and the Cherokee Rose motif.
An advertisement urges customers to drink Linton Springs Water praising its purity and sanitary quality. It lists the product as Linton water and provides contact details R. F. Crane, March, and phone number 95.
Editors of more than fifty women's publications are called to a conference on food conservation by Secretary Houston as part of the nation’s food program. The meeting aims to teach homemakers how to reduce consumption to war-time standards and will seek to form agricultural bodies through state agricultural fraternities.
This item notes today as the regular return day for the courts of the justices of the peace in the district, indicating ongoing docket activity and legal proceedings in local judiciary sessions.
Judge Carlisle Cobb will hold a morning hearing at 10 o clock for John Mayne charged with assaulting J H Autry with a rock. Advertise your wants.
Mr Ralph Gentison died yesterday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mr and Mrs G Palmisino 395 Boulevard Athens He was about 67 years old a retired merchant long resident of Jacksonville and Washington D C born in Italy He survived by his wife three sons and four daughters Funeral arrangements not yet set Body at Dorsey funeral parlors pending transfer to Atlanta for interment in West View cemetery
The House debates conscription with champions confident of passage by Saturday. Senate approval seen as virtually assured. Government control of American shipping will be sought, with 65000 additional tonnage ready for overseas trade in thirty days. Censorship of all cables into Mexico to be established, with offices at New York Key West Galveston and San Francisco. Contracts for five battle cruisers and thirty eight submarines to be signed or awarded this week. Publishers urge removal of espionage bill’s press censorship clause as a threat to free institutions.
The Young Harris church has finished a handsome Sunday school arrangement. Eight new rooms have been added with balconies and basement spaces prepared. The pastor Rev. A. J. Sears urges all friends and members to attend Sunday morning service at 11, with Dr. B. S. Belk of First Methodist preaching.
Professor C. M. Strahan of the University is in Gainesville directing class work in military map making at Camp McDaniel. Miss Elizabeth Fleming spends holiday and weekend at Gainesville as guest of Miss Helen Sanders. Master Oscar Davison, once critically ill, is now notably improved. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Newton spend several days at Mountain City.
Special to the Banner Gainesville Ga April 26 text shows Camp Henry daily routine from reveille at 6 15 to taps at 10 00 including meal sittings drill assemblies parade guard mount and rifle range duty Two companies on rifle range daily Y M C A service Chaplain Hill speaks and lines in dress parade win praise Mr Peter Funckenstein and Mr Yancey Harris noted as improving residents of Athens now in Texas and New Mexico briefly in city.
A citizen group led by D Flanigen W F Dorsey and E R Hodgson Jr forms a trustee committee to raise ten thousand dollars for a canning plant and potato house. They seek city and county support and plan to solicit funds tonight at the joint city county meeting and tomorrow across the city. Georgia National Bank J J Wilkins Athens Railway and Electric J C Flanigen and Southern Manufacturing J F Tibbetts contribute 1600 toward the goal.
Athens observes Memorial Day with a veterans luncheon at Thornton's cafe followed by campus ceremonies. Dr. Henry W. Battle of Charlottesville will address the crowd on the life of Jefferson Davis. Winners receive Crosses of Honor for an essay on Davis and Lincoln. The S. M. C. band will perform in new maroon uniforms.
A fragmentary quotation attributes Benjamin Franklin with a view on constancy of expense and the difficulty of maintaining fuel efficiency. The text reflects Franklinian practical ethics contrasting philosophical ideas with everyday economic concerns.
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