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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1902
Page
4
Short, miscellaneous notices from Athens area: stray pig reward, church services, photo studio specials, coal and wood prices, housing for rent, tax deadlines, job requests, local vendor ads, and small items about local commerce. Includes a stray boar notice, a church service reminder, and promotional lines from M. M. Arnold’s and The Hajov Studio.
Dec 12 report from Glee notes Myos. Captain RH Sejad and six aboard the schooner Belle Wooster were rescued by the Patriots after hours adrift in a blizzard. The Wooster, bound from Stennington Maine to New York with lumber, sprang a leak in a bilge and the crew abandoned ship as it sank.
An old advertisement promotes DeWitt’s Early Risers pills as a cure for constipation and headaches. W. H. Howell of Houston, Texas, testifies that his family’s health improved after using Little Early Risers. The Orr Drug Co is mentioned as a distributor.
The senate immigration committee today continued hearings with Fuller of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers as the first witness. He favored the bill as amended by the senate while Richard K. Campbell and Robert Watchyu of the immigration bureau offered detailed suggestions and generally backed the house version over the senate measure.
Rev Joel T Daves preached his first sermon as pastor of the Elberton Methodist church and impressed a large audience. Presiding Elder Quillian introduced him and welcomed the new pastor. He spoke confidently on his subject and delivered another strong sermon at night about a family illness. Daves will visit weekly until his child improves and plans to move soon.
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