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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1916
Page
8
Misc items include insurance offers from Cipscomb and Jester and a cash loan pitch from W L Erwin. Bludwine Crowns promos offer free Elite Theater tickets. For rent several rooms at 224 Baldwin St and a Prince Ave eight room house. Stray Scotch collie reward and Jersey cow up for grabs. Boarders wanted at 235 Hull St and a small family seeks a nice home.
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded monthly from January to July. It lures deposits from 1.00 up and promotes saving habits. Also listed: real estate and livestock ads, sale of sausage and produce, and farm corn for sale at Bishop and home place with Jas. W. Morton contact.
Extra fine car lad mules just received and ready to sell. 4 to 6 years old, weighing 900 to 1300 lbs. Every mule guaranteed. Located at my stables on West Clayton Street. F. Y. ALILGOOD.
Mr Thomas Mell received a unique invite to the anniversary of a friend's ninth birthday. The friend, a North Carolina businessman met in the West last summer, is really 36 and will reach that age on the 29th. He keeps a birthday only every four years on presidential election years.
The Athens Telephone Society will host a February 21 meeting at the Y M C A hall to distribute service record buttons to local Bell System workers. Gold five, ten, and higher year badges will honor long service, with over 3,000 Southern employees expected to receive badges. longest tenure belongs to President W T Gentry at forty years.
A group of about thirty longtime Southern Bell Company employees will receive service appreciation badges during an Athens event on the 21st. Commercial superintendent T. R. Gentry will speak, and General Manager F. L. Woodruff will present the badges along with other officials.
John Muir reflects on mountain days as windows to God and enduring blessings for travelers. The piece then considers the fate of new stars, noting recent ones become nebulae and often evolve into very fast stars that appear normal.
A Detroit Free Press quotation notes laughter at poverty and the hope of being recognized after wealth. An essay discusses imitating good behavior and avoiding imitation of unworthy conduct. Canopus is described as the central sun of the universe with vast luminosity but invisible from the northern hemisphere, cited by English astronomer O R Walkley.
A witty quip celebrates concision in letters. Voltaire credited with two brief notes, Alas and Bravo, in recognition of a woman’s bereavement and her remarriage.
In pursuance of bankruptcy court order the Athens Pottery Company assets including about three acres in Athens Clarke County with the plant buildings and machinery will be sold for cash at 11 a.m. February 28 1916 at the referee in bankruptcy office in Athens. The sale includes one No 1 and one No 2 flower pot machine with dies. bids subject to referee confirmation. The machinery and fixtures are in good condition and the plant has strong business and rail access. Jerome Michael trustee Athens Ga.
Senator T W Hardwick will depart Washington tomorrow night to visit his daughter at Athens Georgia. He plans a stop in Atlanta for the state democratic executive committee meeting and will return to Washington next week.
John Franklin Baker former third baseman of the Philadelphia Americans has been bought by the New York Americans according to Manager William Donovan tonight. The price was not given out.
J S Givens, an experienced miner from Colorado, moved to Georgia and has begun paying gold mining near Centerville on the Latimer tract. Partner James R Turner joins, with weekly visits from Athens. They plan about 15000 of machinery for free milling and pursue placer and fissure vein work with gold values from 50 cents a yard to $8 per ton.
Special to the Banner. Danielsville Georgia February 15 Madison county reports a man shot to death by his nephew. Early Moon grandson of John Moon killed Knox Moon while sleeping in a room on Dr J S Daniels plantation four miles from Danielsville. Early fled and is being sought by the sheriff. Early Moon has prior penitentiary service.
The University of Georgia declares a holiday as the pushball contest between sophomores and freshmen begins at 10:30 A.M. today on Sanford Field. Hundreds from the city and the entire student body expect a record crowd with about two hundred players in the game.
Miss Katherine Jlawes of Richmond Va was delayed by a North Carolina railroad wreck and could not reach Athens for last night’s YWCA jubilee event. Miss Mildred Rutherford addressed the gathering, praised for her leadership, and Miss Hawes will speak at the residence tomorrow evening with details to follow.
Senators Eakes of Rockdale and Representatives Dorsey of Cobb and Barber of Grady County visited Athens to inspect Clarke county convict camps and the roads worked by convicts. They praised camp management and road work, and planned to move on to Comer. They dined with Clarke representative L C Brown.
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