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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1916
Page
4
Ads advertise Lipscomb Insurance Jester cooking oil and Athens merchants pure foods. Rentals include a two story Hunter Heights house, a Hancock avenue home, and one to three furnished rooms. Loans offered by Dozier & Catussuts, plus Athens Hide & Rubber Co buys old tires.
Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent savings interest compounded semiannually on deposits from $1.00. Money to lend on farm lands or city property. Local ads list stock for sale, room requests, and job openings including a clothing salesman for a New York tailoring firm. Address notes refer to Banner office in Athens, Georgia.
The Georgia State Horticultural Society closed its fortieth annual convention in Albany with Macon chosen as next meeting site and Athens as the winter session host. All officers were reelected: C. Berckmans president B. W. Hunt vice president T. H. McHatton secretary and J. B. Wight treasurer.
Clarke County Georgia notices cite creditors and kin for letters of administration and guardianship. Various entries name John H. Neal, Susie T. Smith, Wesley Cheely, Mrs. Susie T. Smith, Mrs. May A. Weatherly, Henry H. West, and others with hearings set for August and September 1916. Sheriff sale and leave to sell notices accompany probate actions and related legal processes.
The Clarke County Superior Court accepts an 1916 petition from J White Ware Cassie Ware and Ed G Gidley requesting incorporation of Athens Photoplay Company to operate amusement and moving picture shows with capital of 500 shares at 100 each, and a 20 year charter. The filing notes principal office in Athens and authority to conduct business inside and outside Georgia. The petition is certified by Clerk I E J Crawford and dated August 17 1916.
Crawford Ga August 19 A series of evangelistic meetings begins today at the Baptist church and will run a week or longer. Pastor Rev P W Davis is joined by Rev W H Faust of the First Baptist church of Winder. Advertise your wants.
In Atlanta on August 19, reports indicate newspapers nationwide are boosting prices due to higher costs for white paper and supplies. Local publishers note white paper costs have doubled from last year and per copy price increased from two to three cents, with ad rates still normal and further increases anticipated.
Lamie Culverson a white man and Otho Landrum and Nathan Lumpkin colored were reported by neighbors on Lumpkin and Hoyt streets to have been drunk and disorderly yesterday afternoon. A small barrel of beer containing about sixty four-ounce bottles was seized along with the arrest.
Washington Georgia August 19 Prof R E Park of the University of Georgia spoke at the East Wilkes Club annual family meeting at the fair grounds His educational speech was praised as the best in Wilkes county in years and attendees hoped for more future appearances by the visiting professor during this county’s events.
Secretary-Manager E. Y. Clarke proposes an advisory cabinet of active secretaries from Georgia commercial groups and calls a Macon meeting Monday. Attendees include Brinson Augusta Mock Albany Bush Thomasville Royster Griffin Henderson Johnson Macon Rome and Clarke. Griffeth of Denmark Hall leaves today for a country trip through fall term start.
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