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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1906
Page
4
Miss Rosa Maddox returns home from a visit with her sister Mrs. Umas. The Banner invites short notices to 432 and longer ones to the Banner office. A wave of social moves your clubs to share meeting times and travel to Atlanta, Toxaway, and Grovetown as friends and relatives visit and relocate.
The sixteenth annual Georgia State Agricultural Society convention will meet in Griffin on August 29 and 30. President J. J. Connor and Secretary Martin V. Calvin expect a large turnout, with railroads offering round trip plus a fare and a third and 25 cents. A slate of addresses covers farming progress, fertilizer laws, agricultural education, immigration, banking relations, cotton industry, dairying, the state college of agriculture, the practical farmer, and the cattle tick and Texas fever.
Yesterday morning Mayor Protem Mfahasi fined Norah Joseph, a young boy, ten dollars for an undisclosed misconduct as reported in local dispatches. The incident details remain unclear in the fragmentary OCR.
Mr. H. J. Rowe receives an invitation from Norman E. Mack chairman of the New York Democratic committee to meet Hon. William J. Bryan on his return from Europe. Rowe is named on a Georgia committee of ten to boost Bryan’s visit and ensure Georgia’s strong representation.
Mr Robert L West former superintendent of Southern Bell Telephone Company is in the city meeting friends. He has moved into the electrical business and is currently building a telephone line from Athens to Madison.
The Brittain farm given to the University of Georgia is being topographically surveyed by Col. BE. L. Griggs Prof. C. M. Strahan and university students. Data will be sent to Dr. Peabody and a map prepared like the university property mapped by Charles W. Leavitt. The survey should finish in a few weeks.
The West Virginia Land Company held a large auction yesterday with many attendees from surrounding counties. About sixty to seventy lots were sold and some outside buyers plan to locate in the area. A lunch was served during the sale.
A fragmentary recap shows Nashville beating Atlanta in Nashville while Memphis defeated New Orleans. Shreveport scored five against Little Rock with mixed results, and Renner leads in plating on another line of the brief report.
Yesterday Judge Kinnebrew was tried on the charge of retailing L. M. Hetrick of Statham but the evidence was insufficient and he was released.
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