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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1922
Page
2
The famous play Lightnin’ ran for years on Broadway earning its producer John Golden a substantial fortune by breaking records and drawing large audiences through a long run and strong box office performance.
The Coroniarcade presents a single performance Tuesday night December 26 featuring Miltén Nobles as Lightnin Bill Jones. Winchell Smith authored the piece and a London run is planned for spring. The plot centers on a young lawyer and a love story amid hotel schemes and a Nevada backwoods prologue.
The list of cast members includes Frank Thornton Barney Gilmore Dolly W Nobles Nydill Westman Emory Biankall Mine Shirley Milton Woolwine Pauline Moxon Norma Farnsworth Geo Spelvin and Ruth Channin in a Reno divorce themed production.
The Athens abattoir building is finished and awaiting final machinery. Officials say it will run by January first, promising meat protection for local sales. The plant, operated by a company led by H. Cutler, R. T. Wright, and L. O. Price, sits between Broad Street and S A L tracks on the Georgia railroad lines.
California Fruit Growers Exchange officials say orange growers have appealed to Lloyds for insurance on their crops against frost. No decision on whether the Lloyds Insurance Company will assume the risk has been announced.
Floyd Northcutt of the John B. Smith Co. has been elected president of the Atlanta Automobile Association for 1923, succeeding D. C. Black.
Atlanta officers pursued two youths identified as C. R. Owens and H. H. Hopkins who fled in a whiskey laden car. A tire blew out stopping the auto carrying 128 gallons of corn whiskey. The pair were held on a blanket charge of disorderly conduct.
Five Christmas boxes mailed by the women's auxiliary to five Athens ex soldiers at Arenoville base hospital D C. Two boxes go to colored men and three to white men. The Christmas cheer boxes include articles to show the homefolks have not forgotten them.
The city schools closed Thursday afternoon at two o clock for Christmas holidays and will reopen January 3, providing two weeks vacation for city children. The colleges close Friday and resume January 2, with university students due back before midnight to avoid a fine for delay.
Mrs Hammond Johnson, president of the Allen R. Fleming post auxiliary, names Mrs Marie McHatton chair of the auxiliary convention committee. The Legion holds its convention next July. auxiliary meetings begin after Christmas with committee assignments to follow. A joint auxiliary and Legion meeting will occur after those preparations.
County cotton statistician W. C. Ash reports up to December 13 Clarke County had ginned 3133 bales, 6067 fewer than last year and 8 bales under expert predictions. The season was very unfavorable with many farmers dusting on boll weevil control.
A large Alabama Polytechnic Institute trust and supporters arrived for a meeting in Montgomery to consider moving the Auburn campus to the capital. Delegations of alumni and interested parties attended, with some favoring and others opposing the proposal. Trustees plan an extensive building program within months and proponents urge relocation before enlargement plans proceed.
H Abit Nix arrives from Atlanta after the shrine election. Noble W Bayne Gibson reelected illustrious potentate. Officers elected include Chief Rabban Charles Bowen Assistant Rabban Wylie Weat Treasurer James Floyd Recorder George Argard Oriental Guide John Joiner. Imperial council delegates to Washington in June: Gibson Past Potentate Henry Heinz George fh Donovan W Arnold of Elberton. Dues for 1923 remain at 65 dollars after a defeated motion to raise them.
A heated exchange at the Near East commission on minorities between Ex-Premier Venizelos of Greece and Turkish Nationalist delegate Riza Nur Bey led president Signor Montaona to adjourn Thursday morning. They clashed over liberty of emigration and Greek deportations from Anatolia, each accusing the other as voices rose to a high pitch before the session ended in confusion.
Funeral services for Mrs Josie Underwood 88 will be Thursday at 2 p m from the Baptist church in Union Point conducted by Rev Linson. Burial in Union Point cemetery. Survived by husband D T Underwood two children Agnes and James a brother John Brown of Chicago and seven sisters. Bernstein Bros funeral directors in charge.
London reports a German trade commission headed by Chancellor Cuno proposes a delegation of American business men led by Herbert Hoover to survey the German economy. Britain reportedly signals consent and France may back the plan, with Secretary Hughes to discuss with London and Paris.
Police posted instructions to arrest anyone seen in the city wearing Klan regalia. Orders by the common council require unmasking hooded individuals and determining the sanity of affected persons by physicians. Ten days imprisonment applies under the ordinance.
An advertisement touts 666 as the fastest remedy for colds fever and flu like grippes claiming it prevents pneumonia with bold claims and minimal details.
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