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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1913
Page
4
Farmers gather in Athens to discuss farm policy and a unified value standard beyond cotton price. The piece links the Mexico/Wilson debate, currency shifts, and a two week Buffalo school hygiene congress while urging protection of women and a chivalrous society in the fall season.
This afternoon at half past two in the city hall council room a notable farmers meeting will gather. Farmers, farm-owners, and rent-relaters will discuss better rent contracts to move away from cotton-centric values toward growing diverse crops, improving tenant housing, and longer-term terms to foster home interest and place improvement. The Athens conference is expected to yield important results.
The author portrays the Philippines as a land ruled by educated foreigners in religion education and commerce, with Filipinos lacking major posts in the church and business. Foreigners dominate trade finance and industry, while Filipino stores and institutions remain marginal.
A lengthy critique rails at the spread of publicity agents across businesses politicians and charities. It notes newspapers receive free material from bureaus while others pay for boosted notices and outlines a Missouri oyster campaign flooding papers with oyster literature as evidence of pervasive press promotion. It closes with notices of hunting licenses and autumn imagery.
Prof. John C. Koch returned from Greene County where he advised road authorities on improving the system. A mile of road near the river will shift to a high riverbank site for a new bridge, replacing the dangerous ferries and easing traffic during floods. About a hundred Greene citizens enjoyed a barbecue hosted by Will and Frank Griffeth of Athens, supporting good roads progress along the Athens to Greensboro through line, enhancing access to Watson's Springs as a summer resort by auto in all weather.
August 27 marks notable past happenings including James Thomson death in 1748, Fort Frontenac surrender in 1758, Napoleon’s 1813 Dresden check, Algiers bombardment in 1816, Louisville tornado in 1854, Thomas Chandler Haliburton death in 1865, Confederate monument unveiling in 1869, and the 1904 launch of the battleship Louisiana.
Charles P Higgins born August 27 1859 in St Louis educated there rose from telegraph messenger to operator and press correspondent later chair of St Louis elections board and excise commissioner active in Missouri Democratic politics elected sergeant at arms of the U S Senate by acclamation at the opening of the current Congress. Congratulatory notes mention Archbishop Riordan James Linford Dorsey Shackelford Daniel McGillicuddy William Heald.
Mrs. D. L. Kenney reports a fifty year tetter sufferer cured by Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment. The ad boasts burning itching relief and claims a perfect cure accessible at druggists or by mail from Pfeiffer Chemical Co.
Mr and Mrs Hugh Price Hinton and family from Athens arrived by car for the unveiling of a monument to Col C C Sanders, the father of Mrs Hinton. The project is sponsored by the Children of the Confederacy and will take place the following day.
A Snow Hill North Carolina man describes a two month battle with dysentery in which weight dropped from 145 to 126 pounds before two bottles of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy brought permanent relief. The ad notes the medicine is sold by all dealers and promotes constipation relief with Chamberlain's Tablets as a preventive measure. Tariff revision may come next week as Congress advances the fall measure.
The sixth annual Conference of Governors met in Colorado Springs to discuss public problems and promote uniform state legislation. Delegates from across the nation debated administration, efficiency, and rural credit banks, with no fixed program beyond informal topics and papers. Senator Fletcher will report on European farm methods.
Keokuk Indiana August regatta opens at Lake Cooper on the Mississippi River. Commodore Blackton’s Baby Reliance III and Disturber III highlight the field as experts predict new world records may be set in the seven day event running through Friday. Lake Cooper is formed by the Brent Keokuk power dam named for engineer Hugh L. Cooper.
A testimonial touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as curing severe bowel ailments after one or two doses. The note claims it never fails and urges trying it in need. Sold by all dealers.
Mt Vernon Lodge No 22 F and A M meets Thursdays at Masonic Hall Clayton St Max Joseph Bldg. W A Capps W M J H Dorsey Sec Owls Athens Nest No 1460 meets Fridays 8 30 pm at Owl's Nest Clayton St P H Corbett President E A May Sec Keystone Chapter No 1 meets third Tuesday 8 pm in Max Joseph Bldg H P C H Johnson Sec Fred T Moon Sec Athens B P O E No 790 meets Wednesdays 8 45 pm Broad and Lumpkin JOE L Deadwyler E R GEO H Palmer Sec Glenn Lodge No 75 meets Tuesdays Odd Fellows Hall Clayton/Jackson H J Davis N G H L Garebold Rec Sec Williams Lodge No 15 meets Mondays Odd Fellows Hall over Davison Nichols Co L W Cooper N G J A Mealor R S Williams St Elmo Lodge No 40 Knights of Pythias meets Mondays 8 pm Castle Hall Max Joseph Bldg Clay ton and Wall S R McDuffie C C T H Nickerson K of R S Geo B Davis Camp 292 W C W meets Wednesdays Woodmen Hall Clayton St 8 pm first and third for business second and fourth for drill Classic City Council No 315 U C T holds first and second Saturdays W O W Hall Clayton St J H Wilson S C John Roberts Sec
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