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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1921
Page
8
Health claims say vitamins are lacking in modern foods and yeast supplies them. Concentrated liquid brewer's yeast with iron forms IRONIZED YEAST tablets, a tonic for run-down conditions and neurasthenic symptoms. Each 10-day package costs 1.00, touted as pleasant to take and well suited for children, from Ironized Yeast Co. Atlanta Ga.
The article promotes a Salesmanship Club campaign urging systematic cultivation of votes through subscriptions. It offers $5 gold pieces to the first hundred members who enroll, turn in $20 in subscriptions, and collect new or renewed payments by August 20. It emphasizes planned effort over scattershot campaigning and notes additional 400,000 votes with the $20 milestone. A stray note mentions Mr Bolton detaining a sheep for twenty cents.
Clarke county commissioners met at the Athens courthouse and decided all county bridges and culverts will receive immediate attention and be put in first class condition. Workers have nearly completed topsoil along Lexington road and will move to bridge work once final touches are added.
Athens officials led by City Clerk James Barrow burned $31,500 in matured bonds and coupons to supply heat for Costa's Ice Cream on Tuesday. The action, ordered by Mayor Andrew J. Erwin, used $26,000 in matured bonds and $5,500 in coupons, in a bid to save fuel during hot weather.
Property owners who previously funded bonds through taxes now face relief as redeeming bonds is no longer tax based. The shift reduces local tax burdens and alters public financing expectations for future projects. Community discussions focus on budgeting adjustments and long term implications for municipal services.
The Southern Tariff congress in Greensboro North Carolina ended Tuesday by adopting a resolution urging a protective tariff on southern agricultural mineral and pastoral products equal to other regions and maintaining the embargo on foreign dues. A committee left for Washington Tuesday night to present the resolutions to the senate finance committee.
Augusta Ga with cotton receipts for the first fifteen days of August six times greater than 1920, local brokers on Cotton row report booming business. Prices are rising and farmers are unloading as optimism grows for 15 cents in the next sixty days.
Weekly shopper note lists fresh produce and prices at Piggly Wiggly including lemons peppers tomatoes okra eggplants and beans. Also mentions Arnold Abney Co Club House canned goods coffee and daily Herald delivery for ten cents a week.
Mr George Bolton of 780 Hancock Avenue received an unusual gift on the twentieth anniversary of a Monday when a real four legged black sheep appeared in his backyard. Residents note Bolton is a straightforward citizen and not given to superstition, yet he bought his superstition and kept the animal on his property for the day.
A special committee of the American Bar Association recommends advancing the presidential inauguration from March 1 to the third Monday in January and moving Congress to meet on the second Monday of the following January. The report cites the long interval between election and inauguration and Congress convening as a reason.
A trio of Monroe, Georgia girls visited Athens Tuesday when their car collided with Mrs. T. J. Ingram at the Han cock and Lumpkin streets corner. No injuries occurred though Ingram’s car suffered bent fenders. witnesses deemed the crash unavoidable and not the fault of either party. Charges for reckless driving were served on Mrs. Ingram and Miss Sarah Joane of Monroe for recorder's court Wednesday morning.
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