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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1911
Page
3
A compilation of classified notices and ads from Erwin and Company and other local businesses. Items include real estate notes, fire insurance, poultry supplies, gas and coal, paints and supplies, hardware, bakery sales, farm equipment, shoe repair services, plumbing and glass, loan offers, livestock for sale, and small lost and found notices. Pages list contact numbers and street addresses for each advertiser.
Fire Insurance Lipscombs Co Real Estate Lipscomb Co Cheap Insurance Get the best We have it Lipscomb Co Bank in Athens The Athens Savings Bank pays 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1st July 1st Deposits received from 1 00 up Get the saving habit For Sale 1 four seated survey 1 physician s phaeton 1 set double harness 1 set single harness All In first class condition Dr W A Carlton or 750 Milledge Ave cod 3t Wanted A collector at a salary of 40 00 per month Must be sober and industrious No other need apply A permanent position for the right party Address E care Banner 31 Big Frying Chickens 25c Massey Skelton The Adams Market having recovered from the recent fire is now ready for business Here you will find everything in groceries meats vegetables fruits chickens eggs etc Phone 1083 and your orders will have the very best attention For Rent A nice house on Franklin street DuBose DuBose Agts it Mrs M J Epting of Williamston S C is visiting her sons Messrs Jay H and H O Epting in Athens for several weeks
In Success Magazine a tale recalls how gulls saved Utah crops when black crickets threatened settlers. Since then gulls have been revered by Mormons, seen as a heaven sent miracle and annually assist beet and alfalfa fields by feeding on field mice during irrigation.
The plantation worker Uncle Mose explains he is a preacher but avoids preaching the gospel, saying he touches the subject very lightly. The exchange appears in Success Magazine, illustrating his cautious approach to religious discussion on the plantation.
Muscogee Elementary School at the State Normal School opens Tuesday September fifth with C. H. Bruce directing the new elementary division. Miss Kate E Hicks will be principal with Miss Marjorie Ford teaching grades one through eight. Other staff include Miss Iris Callaway, Miss Elizabeth Young, Miss Mary M Woods, and Miss Louise Hemingway. Applications by letter to Miss Hicks, Normal School Station, list child name age and grade. limited enrollment and a 5.00 registration fee split between entrance and January 18.
Gainesville in hot pursuit of the state amateur title after a bid for two series wins. Commerce defeated Gainesville in a Monday Tuesday Wednesday set and claimed the upper hand as C Peeler starred for Commerce in midweek action. Beusse, formerly of Rome, joined Commerce as a temporary asset and hit a grand slam riding the momentum for Gainesville’s late season push. Gainesville plans three game sets with Cartersville and Elbert on the slate to bolster its championship claim.
Send us your order for fruit jars rubbers jar tops jelly tumblers. We carry Mason's Jars and Automatic Sealing Jars with large stock for wholesale and retail trade and prompt delivery. Full line latest patterns in China and table glassware. Everything for the house keeper in enamel tin aluminum wooden wares. The most varied line in Athens. Your orders appreciated.
Miss Lucy Stanton of Atlanta has paintings in an Athens show. The Atlanta committee will send her works to the women’s department of the Appalachian exposition. Stanton studied abroad, now lives in Athens and paints southern life and scenery from North Georgia to North Carolina. Her miniatures include notable southern figures such as Joel Chandler Harris.
Mr J Warren Smith of Watkinsville a rising local businessman and cashier moves to Athens this month and from September will be officially connected with the American State Bank of Athens formerly University Savings Bank. He is well known here with many friends glad to see him assume full Athens rights and social standing.
Mr. J. R. Hunter of Jackson Street makes about a hundred artificial acorn charms using remnants of the Toombs Oak once near the University of Georgia chapel. The brass swivels allow use as watch charms or fobs. Pieces from the historic tree, struck by lightning twice and largely destroyed, were salvaged after a negro worker burned most of it. The souvenirs, sold for one dollar each, carry a link to university tradition.
Bob Cole, a renowned colored comedian and songwriter born in Athens, Ga., aged 45, walked into Catskill creek with two friends and drowned. Though he could swim, witnesses believed it was deliberate despondency after illness. Friends watched for minutes before realizing he was sinking and could not be saved. Cole had performed nationwide, often portraying a tramp and singing his own songs.
In Athens City Court Judge West tried George Craft, a Black man accused of stealing fowls from several matrons. He was found with the feathers on him. owners identified the plumage. Craft received a $75 fine or three-quarters on the chain gang.
Joe Smith, a colored man, was sent up for three quarters of a year in default of payment of a fine of three quarters of a hundred dollars yesterday in the city court. He was found guilty of larceny from the house on Sunday, specifically for feloniously taking a bottle of ginger ale from the Orr Drug Co. on a Sunday.
An old drug advertisement touts Foley Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney and bladder troubles by removing the cause, urging readers to try the product and note that it is sold by all druggists.
Wagons from the up country bring pottery churns jars and jugs to the city seeking better prices. The sales show there is strong demand and potentials for a pottery plant here, with makers traveling long distances to dispose of wares at local markets.
Messrs Rupert Hutcheson and George Davis returned from a bicycle journey from Athens to Atlanta and back. They completed the trip in nine hours and forty minutes and report the ride as a pleasant experience with a safe return.
Athens and Clarke county will be represented in the land show of the Chicago Land and Irrigation Exposition in November. The aim is to create opportunities to secure advantages for Athens and the state before the throngs traveling to Chicago in search of suitable business locations.
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