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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1922
Page
8
A Protestant style excerpt presents a reflection on moral balance and fairness. It cites Proverbs and Pascal to contrast a false balance with a just weight and to argue that justice and truth require precise, honest measure.
Commerce Georgia notes a life like bust of Chancellor David C. Barrow by sculptor P Brisson. The display sits with Isaiah 32 2 in a Bible on a pedestal. Athens hosts artists authors and shops as Christmas trade begins with Skelton Coffee Shoppe opening on Clayton street.
The banks report plentiful money and record savings deposits. On January 1 near one hundred thousand dollars in interest and savings will be paid to savers. Farmers are urged to capitalize ready money crops and boost foodstuffs, hogs, cattle, and poultry for self sufficiency and surplus. The Rotary club promoted highway signs drawing tourists to Athens and the Georgian Hotel. A January farmers meeting at the state college of agriculture is expected to boost Athens economically and civically.
Barrow County faces a tense period as a grand jury indicts fifteen to twenty citizens for night riding and alleged depredations. Foreman Robt L Woodruff and Col Duke Ross face anonymous threats while a law and order meeting condemns invisible government. The piece questions innocence and calls for level headed handling to restore order and public safety.
The article discusses Arctic winter wonders with ptarmigan and weasel turning white for camouflage and insulation. It cites Prof. J Arthur Thomson on winter as a season of shifting effort and natural laws, and questions living naturally with seasons. It mentions whisky inventories, Maine’s ice prohibition in hotels, and individualist reactions to regulation.
A fragment from Berton Braley's daily poem rambles through Santa Claus imagery and a cheeky proposal framing romance and marriage, with playful lines about gifts and a dancing frock beadwork. The piece ends with a note about the Bible published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in many languages.
A daily puzzle hints at a well known Christmas name. Reading letters across yields one word and reading from top to bottom yields another, together forming a widely recognized figure associated with the season.
The worm advances four feet each day and loses two at night, reaching the 40 foot mark after 19 days and 18 nights. After 15 days it would be up a specified height, and on the following day it climbs to 40 feet.
The article lists R H Hosch as noble grand J L Lord as vice grand R C Nix as secretary F H Adlehold as treasurer and IP D Howington as trustee for the incoming term. Appointive officers will be named at the first regular January 1923 meeting, with confidence in continued harmony and flourishing affairs under current administration.
At Comer Lodge No 154 K of P regular convention the following officers were elected and installed for the ensuing year J P Moon C C M T Hopkins V C Coil Cox Pre late J A Sims K of R and 8 5 and M E W A Rowe M F J E Cook M W J H Cooper M A R Turner I G H Moscow Georgia A thickness of nine feet of were Antionia Raesed to make one foot let coal
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