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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
6
Classified notices run with a mix of personal ads and local business pitches. Listings mention Lipscomb's Specialty-Insurance, Jester’s money lending on farms, rubber stamps by W J Gardner, rental offers by D G Bickers and S Upson, LeMasters Allen razors, Thomas Bros shipments, and Athens Pearl White Shortening sold by local grocers.
Announce savings at Athens Savings Bank with 4 percent interest compounded semiannually on deposits from $1.00. Also notes moving services by Williams Bros. and multiple rental ads for Milledge and Lumpkin area properties. Includes tonic ads and local classifieds with contact details.
Several Athenians travel to Lexington Kentucky for the Great Conference of the Laymen's Missionary Movement of the Southern Presbyterian Church. President C A Rowland and Treasurer W H Linton attend, with secretary J A Morton among those who left Athens yesterday for the event alongside Dr. Marion Hull of Atlanta.
A vintage ad claims LAX-FOS Cascara is improved by harmless chemicals increasing efficiency, making it better than ordinary Cascara. It is pleasant to take and does not gripe or disturb the stomach, suitable for children and adults. Just try one bottle for constipation, price 50 cents.
The Episcopal Diocese of Georgia announces a council in Macon on April 18 to select a successor to the late Bishop C K Nelson. Delegates from the annual church council will join the Macon gathering for the special session.
A nameless young man at a local cafe last night fought himself in a wild display. He boxed and wrestled with himself, bumped walls, struck the doorpost, leaped onto a table, and crushed it before friends persuaded him to leave and escort him to his room.
Prof H L Brock principal of Buckhead Public School died after a short illness at his home in Commerce. He was interred at Beaverdam church near his Banks county home. Brock, a University of Georgia graduate, practiced law briefly before returning to teaching where he became a leading Georgia educator. He married Miss Callie Robinson of Atlanta about twenty five years ago and she survives him.
O J Metcalf of Weatherby Missouri describes a severe cold or grippe on December first. He bought two bottles of Chamberlains Cough Remedy and recovered within a few days. He endorses the medicine as among the very best and says he will use it again if another cold occurs.
Friday evening the local Commandery Knights Templar Godfrey de Bouillon will hold its annual inspection by Grand Commandery officer John W. Murrell of Atlanta. Past Grand Eminent Commander B. F. Hardeman and other grand officers will attend. The Temple degree will be conferred and a dinner at the Georgian hotel will follow.
The Mount Vernon lodge Masons observe the twenty second commemoration of Washington with a patriotic program tonight at the hall. Worshipful Master E C Paine presides. Col Max Michael speaks on Masonry, Dr F K Hirach on Washington the Man and the Mason, and Dr S R Belk on The Moral Influences of a Great Life, with instrumental and vocal music interludes.
Miss Laura McWhorter and Mrs Musgrove spent the week-end at Stephens and Lexington with their parents. Miss Powell of Athens visits cousin Miss Annie Mathews. Miss Ruth Kerlin teaching near Winder is home for the week-end. Mr Harold D Meyer of the State Normal faculty Athens was guest of his aunt Miss Dora Meyer. Mr Charles W Pittard and Miss Cleveland Baggs of Camella married in Atlanta last Thursday. They will reside with Mr J T Pittard until their home on Church Street is finished. A school recital by Misa McWhorter and Mrs Musgroper’s pupils drew large attendance. Winterville experienced several serious accidents: the baby of Mr and Mrs Dock Carter died after a nurse dropped the infant. Mr E T Hale injured, one leg. Mr J W Noell grievously injured by mill shaft, one foot off and legs broken. Mr Hale improving. A young man Todd, age 4, broke his arm cranking a machine. W F Hardeman cut part of his foot while clearing land.
Athens representative Mr. Miller reported on the Fourteenth Annual American Road Builders Association convention in Boston February 5–8. The event drew 4,000 attendees, featured a strong program on federal aid road policy, and included papers on road surfaces and construction practices from experts in Texas New York Philadelphia Minneapolis and Cleveland. A patriotic resolution was adopted and telegraphed to the U.S. President.
The twenty eighth semi annual session of the First District Knights of Pythias Georgia meets today at Sandy Cross. Athens delegates include H Abit Nix S H Dunbar H T Abney Gasper Palmissio and Jack H Morton. Delegations from Winder Commerce Jefferson and other lodges expected strong turnout. Two sessions at 11 a m and in the afternoon feature welcome address by H C White and program including Pythianism and the home and lodge upbuilding. District officers listed.
Greensboro North Carolina February 21 The funeral of Mr John W Loving occurred here yesterday His death at age 38 followed a long illness He is survived by mother Mrs Lucinda Loving two sons Hugh Loving of Athens and J M Loving of Greensboro and two sisters Mrs C S Long and Mrs G F Ware of Rutherford NC Hugh was unable to attend due to his little girl’s illness
A compact paraphrase of the philosopher Joseph Roux on solitude, asserting that neither city nor country grants solitude and it must be found within each person. The remark frames solitude as an inner state rather than a place or circumstance.
In a terse courtroom exchange Mrs. Pry questions tolerating a husband who stays out nightly and suggests divorce. Mrs. Sharp quips about the husband’s elaborate explanations resembling “dandy movie scenarios,” amusing a judge with whimsy rather than facts.
A vintage pamphlet-style warning notes children suffer winter colds with symptoms like fever sore throat and chest tightness. It touts Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a remedy to loosen phlegm relieve congested lungs and stop coughing, claiming antiseptic pine balsams heal and soothe for croup whooping cough and bronchial troubles.
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