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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1921
Page
1
An Athens area feature by staff writer Gorreapordent notes prosperity spreading through diversified farming and new small industries. The piece highlights steady growth and upcoming development in several local towns.
Henry F. Saxon profiles Pendergrass Georgia noting mayor Thortley and councilmen Alt Marlowe, J S Brooks, Foot Getzen, and W P McDonald. The piece describes churches, missions, business life, a 25 000 dollar bank, a bonded cotton warehouse, a brick school building serving 125 pupils, and community efforts including Ladies Civic Club activities and reclamation projects along Walnut River headwaters.
The story reports a dramatic exchange between Eamon de Valera and Prime Minister Lloyd George amid political turmoil in Dublin and Paris. De Valera’s delayed reply to government proposals triggers speculation of a broader crisis as Lloyd George and Paris aides react to rapid shifts in strategy.
Augusta Georgia, a war time ballad resonates as J S Fox, father of C O Fox, speaks at the county jail about his son the alleged murderer. He recounts a rough upbringing and army service that he says ruined the boy and led to his fall. Fox describes a troubled marriage and a single child, with other family members described as respectable.
Franklin Stevehs Stephenson, born in Slmonia Georgia, long time banker in Athens, joins Kiwanis. He studied at the University of Georgia, is a Werner of the ATO fraternity, and active in the church and Knights of Columbus. His election highlights leadership in business and civic life.
Paris Premier Briand told the Hitlst delegation he would accept as a sort the Sforza line in Silesia. The arrangement would grant Poland the western part of the Industrial district, according to Havas.
John N. Holder of Jackson County, former speaker, was confirmed as chairman of the state highway commission for a six year term beginning January 1. Governor Hardwick sent Holder’s nomination after an amended highway law authorized the governor to appoint the chairman with senate approval.
In Anguilla Mississippi a Yasco and Mississippi Valley passenger train struck a motor truck pulling a crowded trailer. Five people were killed including Chas Brown and John Vaner from Pickens and three Black workers. Nine others were injured.
Report from Mountlake shows the body of Miss Gilbert found in the canal after a touring car with E. F. White reportedly plunged into the water Wednesday night near the canal bank. Body partially clothed.
A Red Cross appeal describes a once educated ex-soldier with a wife and children relying on him for support. Despite a good education and willingness to work, he cannot find employment and faces hunger unless he secures a job soon.
Senator L. C. Brown pushes for appointment to the state agricultural committee and board, aiming to secure abolition of a fund and enhance farm support programs.
In Monroe Michigan, on a Thursday night, Dr George Tis Harding father of President Hare was married to Miss Alice Forergnant after a formal ceremony at the stenographer's office. The couple then left in a car to celebrate and return to the doctor's home four blocks away. Reports of the marriage were denied earlier in Toledo.
C A Box Gappins and Fox, accused in a killing near Augusta, were rushed by car to Savannah after a mob from Columbia threatened to seize them. Sheriff Plumkett and two deputies transported them to Chatham County Jail, which refused out of town prisoners due to crowding and sent the pair to the nearby police barracks.
Arthur ch was indicted on murder charges in Los Angeles for the slaying of John Belton Kennedy. An indictment was also returned against Madalyne Abenain who was with Kennedy at the time of the killing.
A collage of items notes Philadelphia ship capture with a thousand cases, Harding era headlines on beer and taxes, Leonard Wood’s return to the Philippines, a quiet mob at Augusta jail, and Kansas debt imagery. Dairy men in Elberton push a local creamery, while AK College hosts dog interests.
In Birmingham Alabama on Thursday night Father Jas E Coyle pastor of St Pauls Catholic church was shot and killed by Rev BR Stephenson a Methodist minister who surrendered He reportedly killed Coyle over a marriage ceremony Coyle performed for Stephenson s daughter and Pedro Gussman a Catholic Stephenson nicknamed the Marrying Parson is a longtime local figure
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