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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1921
Page
1
Ed note outlines a series on flourishing smaller towns like Prosperity and Prosperous towns near Athens. The piece highlights diversified farming and development of small industries fueling regional growth and modernizing communities in this section.
Bostwick Georgia profiles the small town near Apalachicola and Athens. It notes incorporation around 1904 and population over 500, lists municipal officers led by Mayor G H Wagnon and council members L Lill H C Echols J K E Rooks James McGaughey, the town marshal W W Nowell, and postmistress Margaret Pendergrass. The piece reflects on the Silent City cemetery and the town’s founder John Bostwick who arrived in 1885, with descendants and early settlers named.
Washington report notes after late night Senate farm relief bill conference, Rep Brand of Georgia predicts improved cotton markets and general business as the farm relief bill moves under War Finance Corporation administration. He says relief could aid banks, factors, and farmers, with possible price rise for cotton once enacted.
Conflicting reports reach Charleston of a gun battle near Blair involving Logan county deputies and 300 armed men. Sheriff Chafin denies releasing details while Racine dispatches cite thousands marching from Marmet to Mingo county to protest martial law.
Fire rages through Hoboken Pier Five causing extensive damage with estimated losses between 500000 and 10000000 dollars. Authorities investigate the blaze as workers report casualties and the scene draws rapid response from fire units and police.
In Athens Georgia the passing of Dr J H Goss is mourned as the loss of a devoted physician and loyal neighbor who served rich and poor alike. Known as Dr Oh he brought gentleness and humor to care, strong in duty and ready to help even when money failed. His aim was a public hospital in Athens and his final weeks included guiding the Athens General Hospital effort, a testament to a life spent serving friends and community.
York S C J S Wannamaker president of the American Cotton association warned at a farm meeting that unless Congress amends the federal reserve act to provide liberal, lower interest credits for farmers from planting to selling time, he would call a national convention in Washington to discuss a possible nationwide agricultural strike. Twenty two organizations had pledged to cooperate.
Officer Joe Johnson of Monroe was arrested and jailed without bond after shooting Cecil Hawkes of Athens in a speeding car. Hawkes lies in grave condition in a local hospital after two operations to remove a bullet and debris from his head. Authorities say Johnson was off duty and opened fire when the car ignored his stop command, wounding Hawkes and another youth.
A Paris dispatch reports King Constantine II of Greece seriously ill with intestinal trouble after visiting Asia Minor battle fronts. He reportedly fainted Thursday and was unconscious for about twenty minutes before regaining consciousness. Local medical staff described the condition as unstable and under close observation.
Elvaso Texas report states the Chicago bank president was found in Chihuahua Mexico with about $50,000 in cash. He was accompanied by a woman and was returned here Thursday by a Chicago select person.
Jackson Mississippi reports several anthrax cases to the state board of health near Hazelhurst with investigations to follow. Jefferson County grand jury adjourns without finishing the Rev Edwin Stephenson murder case as witnesses will be called. Piedro Gussman held on suspicion in Birmingham and Peoria linked to a wife’s death and a priest’s murder case.
D W Huff, 58, a night watchman at the International Agricultural fertilizers plant near Athers on the Whitehall road, was fatally shot in the abdomen early Thursday. John Thompson, already under bond for a prior murder, was arrested and taken to Atlanta for safety. Huff identified the suspect as a large black man before dying at a local hospital. Funeral set for Friday at 3 p.m. in Oconee County.
Berlin crowds showed little enthusiasm as thousands of World War I veterans marched before Gen. Ludendorff Prince Maurice Friedrich Count Waldersee and Gen. Van Der Golty at the old Berlin Stadium. Only a few spectators uncovered when Die Wacht an Rhein was played by a veteran band.
The air ministry summoned a court of inquiry on Thursday to investigate the wreck of the airship Rez which broke in two and sank in the Humber near Howden. Survivors include Norman Walker, an American rigger, and Night Lieutenant Wann, commander of the craft, with three British crewmen. Wann said most victims died in the post crash explosion as girders snapped and the ship slowed from sixty to about fifty knots. All wreckage remains British property with investigations supervised by the Air Ministry and American observers invited.
Washington treasury officials said beer as a medicine faces doom unless Congress acts after recess. Secretary Mellon ordered that regulations permitting physicians to prescribe beer per case should be held pending Congress decision.
J. B. Rowling, 46, prominent planter, died on Lexington road near Athens at 9 30 Thursday morning after a year of illness. Survived by Florence B. Cowling and siblings Walter Bowling, Lizzie Neil Bowlin, and others. Funeral arrangements to be announced as brothers arrive. Cromebay Dunaway funeral directors. Railroad officials recall orders to rush three coaches for troop transport after midnight, Norfolk and Western prepares for possible mobilization.
The treaty of peace between Germany and the United States was announced at the state department. It outlines three articles and a preamble, with guarantees of rights and privileges under the Versailles framework while excluding U S from the League of Nations and reparations commissions participation. It states the United States assumes no Versailles obligations on German boundaries or European affairs or China provisions.
About five hundred Logan county citizens, armed, gathered near Logan to march toward the Boone county line as a marshal and sheriff report a Marine invasion attempt. Senate committee to resume investigation on military troop availability and policy following rapid dispatches.
A crowds of 5 000 to 6 000 men from Marmet arrived in Racine and Blair as the mine strike tensions rise. Reports say miners and service veterans join the march protesting the mine guard system while armed groups gather near Rock Creek and Blair prepares for possible clashes. Federal troops are being prepared to restore order in West Virginia.
A fragmentary sketch of Joel Alexander Wien a Georgia resident born in South Carolina noted as Abe Wien by some and linked to Athens Engineering Everything Electrical with a degree from Clearsett College and a Mexican joke sense He is a Mason lodge member and social figure with ties to the Presbyterian church and a marriage to Miss Rosens Thorman of Athens Residence listed as Milledge Avenue Birthday given as October 27 but text is incomplete.
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