Hopes for Peace Dash For Germany Speech
London and Berlin reports recount renewed German opposition to early peace, with Von Bethmann-Hollweg arguing peace proposals must suit Germany. Gallipoli activity continues, Greek politics grow tense as Entente forces advance. Italy notes minor gains on the Isonzo front amid wartime weather. The Ancona sinking dispute factors into a U.S. note to Vienna.
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Associated Press
London
Reichstag
von Bothmann-Hollweg
Germany
Hher
House of Commons
Asquith
Serbia
Saloniki
Memirkapu
Gallipoli
Champagne
Isonzo
Greece
Berlin
Balkans
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Sigma Chi Dance Tonight at Hancock Avenue Chapter House
Sigma Chi fraternity invites townspeople to a formal dance at the chapter house on Hancock Avenue. Members will entertain with a house dance and guests from the town are expected to attend, continuing the fraternity's hospitality atmosphere.
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Aeenleht
Sigma Chi
Four National Defense Plans Outlined for Congress
Washington on December 9 outlines four defense plans to be considered by congressional military committees. Senator Chamberlain proposes doubling the regular army, while Hay favors a continental army with no bigger regulars and higher National Guard strength. The War College hints at a much larger regular army expansion, and the administration defers merchant marine plans to January 1 following talks with McAdoo Redfield Fletcher Simons and Representative Alexander.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Senator Chamberlain
Representative Hay
Senate
House
The
War College
Congressional Military Committees
Chamberlain
Hay
War Department
National Guard
McAdoo
Redfield
Fletcher
Simons
Alexander
Carmen at Colonial Theater Reveals Foxs Grand Musical
William Fox presents Carmen at the Colonial with Theda Bara in the lead. Screenings start 3 PM and repeat hourly until 11 PM, with Haughey's orchestra providing Carmen music. Admission is 15 and 25 cents as this lavish moving picture promises a landmark production.
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William Fox
Colonial Theater
Haughey
Fox
Moving Picture Houses
Colonial
Theda Bara
Carmen
Geraldine Farar
For Sale Mules and Mares and Fresh Deli Ads
For sale mules and mares advertised by Ralph Walker at Frank Allgood’s Sale Stables on Clayton Street. Also local produce and delicatessen ads tout fresh snap beans cabbage Stayman Winesap apples cranberries and various candies and confections with daily made fudges and peanut brittle all priced to draw shoppers.
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Tennessee
Ralph Walker
Frank Allgood
Sale Stables
Clayton St
St&w
Fire destroys cotton warehouses in Eatenton
Eatenton Georgia December 9 a two hour blaze destroyed G J Richey cotton warehouses and 2000 bales of cotton with a loss estimated at 125000 the residential section was threatened by the fire which origin remains undetermined
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Associated Press
Eatenton
G. J. Richey
Senior Round Table Entertained at Denmark Hall
The Senior Round Table of the University was delightfully entertained last evening at Denmark Hall with host Gale Bush of Barnesville. A feature was Miss Augusta Center delivering Lowell's The Vision of Sir Launfal, enjoyed by the eleven attendees listed: Brown Bennett Bassett Callaway Folsom Sanford Segall Sorrells Scott Tanner and Bush.
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University
Denmark Hall
Gale Bush
Barnesville
Lowell
Sir Launfalt
Augusta Center
Oratory Department
State Normal School
Messrs
Brown
Bennett
Bassett
Callaway
Folsom
Sanford
Dustin Farnum in The Iron Strain at the Elite
Dustin Farnum stars as an Eastern man who roughs it in Alaska and marries a fashionable society girl. The play centers on a subtle transformation of the heroine amid a powerful triangle of story, direction, and acting. Chaplin comedy shown as added attraction. Admission today is 10 cents, children 5 cents.
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H. Ince
Alaska
Dustin Farnum
Wilds
Handsome Farnum
Dinner prices corrected at First Christian bazaar
The Ladies Aid Society of the First Christian church announces a price correction for the bazaar dinner on Jackson street. Dinner will cost 50 cents per person, not 30 cents as previously printed. Local readers are advised to note the updated price.
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Ladies Aid Society
The
First Christian Church
Hilley & Jones
Jackson Street
Blazes Call Department Out Twice Near Small Homes
Fire department answered two calls to boxes 49 and 41 reporting fires that damaged only a few shingles on small houses. A false alarm occurred near the university campus. Delicatessen items advertised follow the notice.
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Antee Eee
Fire devastates Hopewell gun cotton plant town of 25000
A massive fire wiped out Boom Powder Town Hopewell near Richmond destroying a Dupont gun cotton plant district. Militias and troops from Richmond and Newport News occupied the area as 10000+ residents were left homeless. A possible accomplice of a German arreste d yesterday was suspected as the cause while the blaze raged under a 30 mile gale with injuries reported.
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Stuart
Richmond
Newport News
Powder Company
Associated Press
Betersburg
Hopewell
Dupont Powder
Britain agrees to release ships in Trans-Atlantic case
Britain notified Washington that the Winnebago and the Kankakee will be released under bond after yielding to the US protest. The Mocking and the Tennessee orders were cancelled and prize court tests will be held for the two remaining vessels. The British side claims part of the Trans Atlantic Company stock is German owned, while the company asserts all stock is American owned.
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Ancona
Washington
Admiralty
United States
Vienna
America
Associated Press
American TransiAtlantic Company
Great Britain
State Department
Winnebago
Kankakee
Germany
Pressman Williams Slashed in Athens. Suspect Ferguson Fled
J R Williams, a longtime Athens pressman, was fearfully slashed in an open court behind a Jackson street beer saloon. Police seek Rura Ferguson, a young carpenter accused of the cutting. Williams required thirty stitches but doctors deem injuries nonlife threatening and expect scars. Ferguson fled after the attack. no weapon found on Williams.
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J. R) Williams
Athens
Jackson Street
Rura Ferguson
Williams
Ferguson
Bids Open at Noon for New Y M C A Building
The Building Committee of the Y M C A will meet at 11 45 this morning at temporary headquarters on Broad and Lumpkin streets. Bids from general contractors will be opened at 12 noon as representatives arrive by mail. The committee will spend several days reviewing bids to select a contractor for the two acre Lumpkin Broad site opposite the University of Georgia campus.
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Broad and
Lumpkin Streets
Num
Lumpkin
Broad Streets
University of Georgia
Brinson Railroad Plans Extended Line to Washington Georgia
Capital City Gossip reports Commissioner James D. Price returns to office in Atlanta after illness but soon back to work. The Savannah and Atlanta Railway seeks a 60 mile extension via Burke Jefferson Glascock McDuffie and Wilkes to Washington, with James Imbrie of New York and Savannah investors among petitioners. Proposed capital stock totals 500000 with 250000 preferred and 250000 common, plus option to suspend dividends by common vote.
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Banner
Atlanta
James D. Price
Price
Athens
Brinson
Washington, GA
Savannah and Or Western
Burke County
Washington
Wilkes County
Secretary of State
Savannah and Atlanta
St. Clair
Burke, Jefferson, Glascock, McDuffie and
Wilkes
James Imbrie
New York
John H.hunter
Henry D. Stevens
Edwin M. Frank
Thomas. P. Goodbody
Charles E. Gray, Jr
Robi. M. Hitch
Robert L. Denmark
J. 3. Granger
W. P. Tillinghast
Savannah
New Road
Lscal
Ee Ee
Ise Ete Soca
Big R. R. Strike Looms As Union Leaders Meet
Chicago December 9 The presidents of four railroad unions gather for a secret conference to plan a nationwide strike next spring unless eight hour day and time and a half overtime are granted. They warn arbitration failed last spring and may demand more, potentially mobilizing about 350000 workers. The meeting aims to unify demands across the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Firemen Railway Trainmen and Railway Conductors.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
I! .Es
Timothy Shea
Sunday School Convention at Winterville Report
Clarke County Sunday School Convention held in Winterville drew large attendance with many Athens delegates. The Friday program included a praise service, talks by Dr. Pendley Grubb Broughton Sims and others, and adjournment for dinner. The report notes road extension rivalry between Burke and surrounding counties and plans to extend toward Washington Wilkes County and Atlanta.
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Clarke County
Winterville
Athens
K. L. Pendley
8. R. Grubb
Joseph Broughton
Tabernacle Baptist Sunday School
Atlanta
D. W. Sims
Jnc. T. Pittard
Jere Pound
Athens Receives Over Twelve Thousand in School Funds
State funds for 1916 common schools total 2.7 million dollars with Athens city public schools allotted 12 328 dollars and Clarke county 8 244 dollars. The per pupil share rises from 3.17 to 3.35, based on 1913 census data and 1916 allocations. Other cities listed include Commerce Hartwell Lawrenceville Madigan Royston Winder Lavonia and Wilkes with respective amounts.
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Atlanta
M. L. Brittain
General Assembly
Athens City
Commerce
Hartwell
Lawrenceville
Madigan
Royston
Winder
Lavonia
Clarke
County
Barts
Yow
Wilkes
Mount Vernon Mason Lodge Elects Officers for Year
At Mount Vernon lodge of Masons the seventy fourth annual meeting elected J H McKinnon as Worshipful Master Paine as Senior Warden H Abit Nix as Junior Warden John G Quinn as secretary and H R Palmer as treasurer Appointments named C A Von der Lieth W F Dyer T M Forrester W C Thornton Thomas Scott 3rd S T M Forrester Tyler Rev G E Stone Chaplain A program and refreshments for the St Johns event on December 27th were arranged.
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Mount Vernon Lodge of Masons
J. H. McKinnon
W. M
Jossey's Friday Specials Fresh Eggs and Produce
Fresh country eggs 35¢ per dozen. Nice fries and half grown fries. Large fat hens 50¢. Sweet potatoes 25¢ peck. Irish potatoes 25¢ peck. Turnips and salad 10¢ per bunch. Onions 5¢ per lb. Cabbage 2¢ per lb. Lady and Black-eye peas 10¢ quart. Fame corn 10¢ can Ben Hur peas 10¢ can. Tomatoes 3 for 25¢. Prunes 2 lb for 25¢. Dried peaches 3 lbs 25¢. Mountain dried apples 3 lbs 25¢. Raisins 12 1/2 lb. Stokeley’s blackberries 10¢ can. Jersey butter 25¢ per lb. Phone 1176.
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Calif
Stokeley
Lilly Case Dismissed by Judge Crossley
Judge Crossley dismissed the preliminary hearing against Bob Lilly who was suspected of taking F. J. Kelley’s purse after no evidence supported the accusation. The notice follows an ads row for Delicatessen Shop offering extra fancy grapefruit at 75¢ a dozen.
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Crossley
Bob Lilly
F. J. Kelley
Lilly
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Jossey
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