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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1920
Page
4
The Athens Banner publishes from 176 Lampkin Street with H J Rowe as editor. Subscription rates are weekly and Sunday 0.46, daily and Sunday six months 2.60, daily and Sunday one year 6.00. All notices include AP membership and republication rights.
The piece argues 1920 should mark Athens banner growth with a Greater City mindset. It highlights a strong Chamber of Commerce, Rotary and Kiwanis booster clubs, and plans to annex a populated river area to add thousands of residents. The essay urges legislative action to extend city boundaries and capitalize on prosperity.
The February Southern Underwriter highlights live stock insurance and stock-raising growth in Georgia and the Carolinas. It argues Georgia leads in successful stock raising, notes favorable climate, and calls for higher livestock insurance values to match real worth. It contrasts western feed costs with southern potential for independence and wealth through reduced cotton acreage and more foodstuffs.
The text argues that live stock production outgains the entire national insurance on livestock and that Southern breeders have earned many top honors at shows. It claims the industry can become the most profitable in the South, surpassing even cotton, and urges increased livestock raising to raise food production and wealth in the region.
A compiled quiz with ten Qs and ten A s, covering weekdays, geography, materials, notable writers, nautical terms, and idioms. It includes corrected meanings for terms like vapier mache, parchment, and mortises, then shifts to new questions about language, church terms, and general knowledge, followed by a lengthy art lithograph poem about collecting portraits and a political fund drive.
The essay argues the Bible as the sole enduring light in a dark world. It warns that without Scripture doctrine drifts into error, pride, and despair, while faith anchored in the Word endures all storms. Read the Bible and heed its light.
The East Point girls basketball team travels to Athens to face the Y W C A squad at 8 20 PM in the gym of the YMCA. The East Point squad aims to extend its district league lead despite key injuries reducing the Y W C A lineup to two regulars with several players unable to join.
Georgia will receive about 4.31 million dollars for federal aid in good roads construction for fiscal 1919 and 1920. The share comes from a 50.2 million lump sum, with 60 percent state and 40 percent federal funding. Georgia has 307 miles in approved reconstruc tion projects totaling about 32 thousand dollars per mile, including bridges and concrete roads.
Road conditions report from Atlanta Georgia dated February 6 1920 notes muddy and slippery northwest toward Chattanooga from Atlanta with vehicles facing difficult travel conditions and reduced speeds as teams work through the stretch toward Chatto nuga.
Up to February 4 the Reckmart roads were very soft and muddy though not wholly impassable. Conditions will hinder regular traffic next week. Side roads are impassible. large cars cannot pass. The Atlanta to Julah Falls route is bad but passable with difficulty. Atlanta to Macon to Savannah roads are generally poor with many impassables. Between Stockbridge and McDonough in lowlands the Big Cotton Indian Creek road is impassable due to deep bogs. All routes to Newnan Columbus Atlanta are bad, many impassable. Southward roads show similar poor conditions, especially in Thomasville area. Waynesboro to Sardia and Sylvania in Screven county are wet with holes. Macon county roads are very bad.
Chicago reports that Jack Johnson may be allowed to reenter the United States. District Attorney Clyne said negotiations would begin if Johnson returns, facing a sentence of one year and a day for violating the Mann Act and previously jumping a $15,000 bond after fleeing in 1913. Clyne also indicated a 36 hour freedom to settle affairs before a subpoena is served.
Readers are urged to write with stamped self addressed envelopes for replies to information requests. The columnist notes heavy mail, explains that only selected questions are printed, and warns against asking for riddles, personal addresses, or opinions on medicines. Free government literature is available by mail.
A Friday evening event at the Capital City club features a dancing party hosted by Miss Marion Smith in honor of Miss Nina McCleskey of Little Rock Ark guest of her grandparents Judge and Mrs Pish. The verse references and comparisons close with a note on human relatability and the uplifting tone of the program.
Dr. Isaac M. Yonan arrives in the city to address public meetings on Armenian relief. He will speak at First Methodist Church Sunday morning and at a Presbyterian church Sunday evening, detailing wartime suffering, Turkish atrocities, and the need to aid 400000 orphans and displaced Christians. Mrs. Yonan accompanies him to Athens for a Sunday afternoon women’s session.
Washington February 6 Representatives of the Union Railroad Workers and the railroad administration were unable to complete negotiations for wage demands.
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