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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1911
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists subscription rates and office procedures, warns against carriers collecting payments, and urges readers to join the Chamber of Commerce. It also comments on national politics including Diaz in Mexico, Taft era senate dynamics, compulsory education, and the 1920 census apportionment, with a birthday note for Gen Arthur Murray and a broader editorial on Democratic opportunity and moral conviction.
Athens grows as a commercial center with Barnett Shoals power plant boosting electric capacity. Warehouses rise near the Seaboard Air Line railway, new stores expand across the city, and investment in business houses and industrial plants is expected to exceed a half million dollars. Residents pledge energy to push Athens toward a 1920 census population near forty thousand.
Taft lauds House Democrats for prudent handling of Canadian reciprocity and for resisting political traps. He says their steady, businesslike passage of the bill earns broad public approval and boosts the party's 1912 prospects if Senate Democrats support them.
A Clarke county grand jury urged the next legislature to create nonpartisan judges for the superior court and remove the office from political influence. The county paper in a neighboring county reports the recommendation, noting the proposed bill for appointment to office.
A young woman pretends to know less than she knows and a young man more. It doesn't take long for a smart man in business to learn there are smarter men in the same kind of business.
The Macon Telegraph argues the 23 Democrats, including six Georgians, were vindicated as the House organized. It notes Mann's substitute resolution mirrored Clark’s 1909 proposal, defeated by the 23, and that Fitzgerald amendments were adopted into the Rules. The piece praises committee assignments showing high positions for Harrison Branney Peters Moon Sparkman Goldfogle Lee Edwards Broussard Estopinal Riordan and Conry with strong party standing.
The oldest man on the Southern Express payroll, A Little of Crawford Ga, aged about 90, recalls delivering Athens first express package in 1852. He was express messenger on the Georgia Railroad then the only line into Athens. The dress goods from New York, consigned to Mrs Dudley Thomas, left New York via Herndon Express and arrived after transfer over Coombs Express. Little has served the company continuously since 1852.
The Clarke county Boys Corn Club and Girls Tomato Club along with Home Life Club plan a county gathering at the Agricultural College at 10 o'clock. Members total 43 in Corn, 48 in Tomato, 17 in poultry, and 45 in Home Life. Activities include farm visits, demonstrations, and talks on poultry and home life. Rev. Crawford Jackson raised about 2300 dollars for the Juvenile Protective Association during visits in Washington.
For sale a furnished residence on Dougherty Street with possession on July 1st. Price is reasonable and terms to suit the purchaser. See Cobb Lampkin at once, 2.
Mt Vernon Lodge No. 22 F and A M meets weekly at Masonic Hall Clayton Street W A Capps W M Clare D Heidler Sec pro tem Keystone Chapter No 1 Royal Arch Masons meets third Tuesday 8 pm Max Joseph building A J Carter H P Fred T Moon Sec J Elmo Lodge No 40 Knights of Pythias meets Mondays 8 30 pm Castle Hall Max Joseph building Clayton and Wall Streets W C Lene C C T H Nickerson K of R and B 8 Athens B P O E No 790 meets Fridays 8 30 pm lodge quarters Broad and Lumpkin Streets H Carithers E R George H Palmer Secy Williams Lodge No 15 I C C F meets Mondays 8 pm 648 Fellows Hall over Davison Nicholson Co All Drethren invited F L Prater N G J A Mealor R S Oliver Encampment No 14 meets Fridays Odd Fellows Hall over Davison Nicholson Co Clayton Street Co A von Er LIeth C P J A Mealor Scribe Geo B Davis Camp 292 W C W meets Wednesdays 8 pm Odd Fellows Hall Jackson and Clayton Streets first and third devoted to business second and fourth to degree team and Uniform Bank drill J D Severns C C C Denny Clerk Glenn Lodge No 76 I O F meets Tuesdays 8 pm Odd Fellows Hall Clayton Street A Tucker N G B Harper Secy.
Athens city schedules show Central of Georgia departures for Macon at 7 80 a m and 4 36 p m with arrivals from Macon at 1 05 p m and 10 20 p m Seaboard Air Line northbound trains 52 68 38 and 41 53 and 67 68 provide Athens times with some services not running north of Athens Southern Railway arrivals 261 217 237 and departures 212 240 and 262 list times with Sundays noting 237 247 and 726 p m Georgia Railroad times show departures and arrivals around 7 00 am 12 15 p m and 8 50 p m
Mixed trains arrive in Athens daily except Sunday at 9:36 AM and 6:00 PM. On Sundays arrivals are 10:40 AM and 7:35 PM. Departures from Athens occur daily except Sunday at 7:20 AM and 4:30 PM. On Sundays passengers depart at 7:45 AM and 6:00 PM.
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