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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1906
Page
4
The Ladies Auxiliary Association postpones their meeting due to Mr. W C Ash illness. It will be held Thursday at 5 pm to decide how to use their bank deposit. Local social notes list numerous visitors and residents in Athens with travels to Atlanta, La Grange, Tallulah, Red Bank New Jersey and other towns.
The Royston Record reports several Athens residents and visitors. Mr Aaron Cohen returned from York, Miss Idale Booth and Miss Alma Booth visited G W Gordon and family, Paul Hadaway and wife returned to Athens, Mrs J B McEntire and Otto McConnell of Athens visited Royston this week.
Walter Scott the Death Valley miner says he prevented Stanford White from killing Harry K. Thaw at Madison Square Garden last January. He asserts two prominent New York club figures witnessed the event and that Garden manager Reynolds knew of it. Scotty is willing to testify, and Clifford Hartridge’s team has opened communications with him.
A Senate filibuster blocked house bills as Senator Wheatley led insurgents in objecting to the lower chamber. The row over pensions for Confederate soldiers stood out as a point of friction. Despite chaos a local house bill passed. The senate approved a $200000 deficiency appropriation and several building and land purchases totaling tens of thousands for state facilities and schools.
The first open boll of cotton arrived at the Banner office carried by Harriet Hirams a 72 year old woman living in the city She cultivates a three acre field and last year produced over three bales and expects to repeat this year She notes the crop will soon be on the market with the field inside the city limits marking Athens first open boll.
Local report says Charlie Watson, a Black man, repeatedly quarrels with white residents and was jailed after a Broad street fight with a white man. He and Queen Milner recently married, but mayor Dorsey warns further incidents may lead to action.
An advertisement for Etzel the Busy Man offers sign painting services for businesses. It notes the office at Warren J. Smith & Bros., Drug Store, corner Broad and Thomas streets in Athens Georgia with phone 178. Also mentions sign bids for the stand pipe and payment incentives from city tax notices.
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