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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
8
Short notes list real estate rentals sales services and business opportunities from Erwin & Company and others. Includes rent notices for Cobb Street and 236 Dougherty Street, shoe repair ads, hardware discounts, music classes, a Pope motorcycle for sale, and a large shoe manufacturer business opportunity inviting inquiries in St. Louis.
Local items advertise fire and life insurance from Lipscomb & Co, savings bank rates at Athens Savings Bank, painting and piano services, Bludwine beverages, two-reel films, hackman services, and various sales. Rentals, furniture, poultry supplies, percolators, cooling devices, and bulbs also promoted along with music lessons and room rentals. Contact numbers and addresses included.
Athens will send multiple cars in the Glidden tour from New York to Jacksonville this fall. F. E. Warner W. F. Cook L. C. Brown and L. B. Flatow are named entrants alongside several other autoists. The move promises advertising value for the city as entries are expected soon.
A busy program for city public school teachers runs all week under Superintendent Bond, with Mrs. Barclay of Texas leading drawing demonstrations and guidance. There will be no morning lecture but a heavy business session on examination lists, supply lists, and year planning as harmony between teachers and administration is reaffirmed.
Mr. E. S. Price, Athens attorney, seeks the Clarke County game warden post. The new law shifts appointment from the superior court to the state warden Jesse Mercer of Fitzgerald who selects county wardens.
Mattie Creighton and Ida Creighton express gratitude for the many friends who helped during the illness and death of their aunt Dorcas Bone and mother Saran Creighton. The memory of these acts is a ray of sunshine in their hour of sorrow.
Isaac Johnson, a colored man, was tried in Athens city court and found not guilty of abandoning his child. The record shows he was moved around by his wife, settled, and found work, while she moved again and he did not follow, leading to the lawsuit for abandonment.
When you need lime for building or sanitary use call with your order. Special low prices on large lots. We handle Portland cement wall plaster calcium for tinting, ready mixed paint, carriage paint, white lead linseed oil turpentine hard oil varnish stains. See us before buying paint.
City court proceedings in Athens begin at the usual hour for the regular term. Today several damage suits are docketed, including Baker versus S A L railroad T N Cook versus city of Athens and Mrs Pelfry versus Central of Georgia Railroad. Additional cases Hartley versus Vonderau and Bank of Lavonia versus Powell and others are scheduled.
The charge against Love Whitehead was dismissed after a Jackson county wedding of Luther Whitehead and Vera Thompson at Ebenezer church. An uncle objected, swore out a warrant for Love’s brother short of a second legal ceremony, but the matter was resolved with license and affidavits verified by the Clarke county ordinary. Columbus Thompson withdrew the false swearing warrant.
In Maxeys Georgia a two year old child of L H Campbell of Watson Springs played near a three foot rattlesnake with seven rattlers in the yard today calling for its mother to witness the pet. The reptile lay coiled four feet from the child as it toyed with its head.
Sophie Willingham a colored woman was yesterday found not guilty of larceny after the skirt she borrowed from a friend turned up at the accuser’s home and the charge collapsed.
A man in a convict’s coat, G. L. Smith, tours streets with a book claiming a life of crime across North and South Carolina. He is guided by W. B. Conyers of Atlanta to sell The Life of GEORGE L. SMITH, detailing 23 chains, 208 imprisonments, and 64 towns driven out, with a motherly message urging Christian living and warning of hell.
Early morning fire bell caused debate as officers, hackmen, and editors misread the taps. Conflicting reports suggested numbers 16 25 and 115, with a newly installed River Street box causing the mix up. No fire found, no box known in directory two years old.
In Saint James Church episode on Children's Day a riot occurred after the dinner on the grounds program ended. Will Johnson, a colored man, was found guilty of riot and fined fifty dollars. Fred Thomas faced trial with proceedings to continue.
In Athens city court Thomas McWhorter of Stephens Oglethorpe county faced a speeding charge near Tuck's crossing. Witnesses ranged from fifteen to seventy five miles per hour and prosecutors alleged the crash injured Jonas Hawks and his mule. The jury acquitted McWhorter, finding no case against him.
Yesterday T J and F C Shackelford sold their Prince avenue home to W T Bryan president of the Athens Electric Railway Company. The historic Athens home of Dr Crawford W Long founder of anesthesia passes to Bryan who will improve the Long residence.
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