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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1921
Page
10
The Athens Chamber of Commerce endorsed a plan to create a market center in Athens to unite grain elevators a potato curing warehouse and a cold storage plant. Promoters aim to form a cooperative company to provide a regular market for farmers products boosting diversification and protecting against boll weevil and cotton market shocks.
Washington dispatch describes fires at eighteen Baku oil wells as part of a broader crisis. The piece links fuel shortages to food security, notes historic fire temples, and recalls prewar ties to exploration, transport, and regional upheaval affecting the lower Volga and Caucasus.
The text discusses disruptions in the Baku oil industry during 1917 18 due to labor strife and Turkish actions along the Batum pipeline. It links oil wealth to Nobel prizes and mentions Alfred Nobel and several recipients associated with science and medicine, including references to Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson and others in the context of war era profits and philanthropy.
Wilkes County plans a record agricultural output with an expected 70,000 bushels of Porto Rican sweet potatoes in the current season. A new 30,000 bushel curing warehouse in Washington forms part of a broader marketing center tied to diversified farming. Breland adds anticipated 300,000 bushels of corn and strong velvet bean production, while predicting a drop in cotton ginning due to the boll weevil.
The Presbyterian Church will develop a new property on the south side of Dougherty Street behind the church. Purchased from Charles A. Senter, the lot may host future additions such as a school building. The church board announced plans to pave and landscape as part of the project, with a stated cost around 450 dollars.
Funeral services for D. W. Huff, age 50, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the grave in the Deane county family cemetery. Rev. Brice Nay of the Cheiian church will officiate. He died from a battle wound inflicted by a neighbor. he was born in Ovange County and survived by his wife, four sons, seven brothers, two sisters. The funeral party will depart from Howard Huff's home on Prince Avenue. Brothers will serve as pallbearers.
Secretary of State S G McLendon presents a copy of The Hook of Signers of the Declaration of Independence to the University of Georgia. The volume, written in signer hands, survived the Civil War era with few copies reaching the South. It will be housed in the university library.
Cotton in Athens surged to 15 cents on Thursday, marking a yearly high after an 1 1/8 cent rise from opening to close. Analysts cite export credits influence and wet weather, with prospects of higher prices before fall, though not matching 1918 1919 peaks. The gain signals improving general business conditions and better farm profitability as the new crop begins.
The Eighth District Ginners held a regular monthly meeting at Athens City Hall Thursday evening. Ginners from across the district discussed current cotton conditions and fall season prospects. Speakers included Luther Arnold of Winder M Bo Thompson of Comer Mr Tolbert of Lexington and Mr Crowder of Watkinsville. The meeting was informal with several other members giving talks.
Pearlee White, accused of killing her stepfather John Roberson in Sandy Creek district, was tried before Justice of the Peace Carlyle Cobb and discharged after evidence supported self defense. The case showed Roberson threw a heavy wood, bruising her, then aimed a iron object before she fired.
Dublin dispatch reports Sinn Fein has prepared a reply to Britain's dominion status offer for Ireland and is sending it to London by messenger. No details of the note’s contents or delivery time to Premier Lloyd George were disclosed.
Riga reports efforts to induce Finland to join the proposed Baltic union forming a potential military front from the Arctic to the Black Sea. Latvia and Estonia have signed military conventions. Lithuania is expected to join soon. Warsaw concerns over Vilna dispute may delay Lithuania’s inclusion. officials hope Poland later aligns with the bloc.
Sixteen thousand tobacco growers in Richmond signed a marketing contract after a state wide drive for membership in the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association. The action followed an agreement with the secretary of the agency for marketing.
Washington dispatch reports the weekly national weather and crop bulletin shows no general improvement in cotton across the belt as temperatures stayed above normal. Weavil continued to hinder the crop, with overall conditions remaining mostly poor to fair. The humorously noted line about August replacing summer hints at editorial whimsy in the copy.
Norman Walker, sole American survivor from the dirgible ZR2 wreck, recounts the flight from Howden to Durham coast amid thick fog, describing a loss of control and a split in the airship after a crash. He, from Commerce Texas, was a rigger aboard the airship during the ill fated voyage.
Divers began dawn search for bodies in the Dirigible ZR2 wreck as fire and twisted wreckage lie on the Humber after Wednesday night explosion. Only one American and four British crew survived. many were presumed dead. Names of U S Navy officials and other crew listed for funeral arrangements and official announcements.
Fragments show a sweet recipe using four cups sugar two cups molasses one to two cups vinegar. Instructions indicate heating in cold water then stirring and pouring into buttered pans, with a tablespoon of baking soda added. The text reflects a dated kitchen card with incomplete steps.
Colonel Charles A. Forbes, director, outlines a decentralized Veterans Bureau with 14 regional offices and 140 substations across the United States. Field workers will visit homes to hear claims, provide medical care, vocational training, and insurance adjustments. The program seeks full rehabilitation, civilian reentry, and economic welfare for veterans.
Congress adjourns for a thirty day recess after hurried Senate and House action. Prohibition talks stall. measures including a three month embargo and funding for the Shipping Board are sent to President Harding for signature. Senate debates linger over a property search provision tied to the tax revision effort.
President Porisn issued a decree declaring Panama in morraine for one month. A flag planting occurred at a border post amid an audience from the public as authorities assert control over disputed territory along the frontier.
In Washington, pending cancer-related case delays and a conference with Tope Connissev Blair were reported. The discussion centered on licensing and timing, with remarks indicating uncertainty about the season of the year and a remark about Great Britain not playing the “heads you win tails you lose” game on the Irish.
The Capper-Trade bill regulating trading on the grain exchange was signed by President Harding on Wednesday. Nene plans include 1500 dollars of its own Honda and a loan of 1.0 million for agricultural export financing, plus 50,000 in War Finance Corporation securities to fund radical securities purchases.
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