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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1916
Page
8
Short notes advertise Lipscomb's specialty insurance and a request to share fire insurance with J C Jester. Also mentions loans on Athens real estate with W L Erwin and Equitable Life policy options. Includes sale, rent, and employment notices for Athens area, plus local merchants advertising Georgianne Cooking Oil.
The Athens Savings Bank advertises per cent interest on savings with compounding on January first and July first and accepts deposits from one dollar. Rentals listed include 159 Virginia Ave second floor, 454 College Ave, and a six room house on Grady Avenue. Also promoting Foley Kidney Pills with patient testimonials and Honey and Tar cough remedy by H R Palmer & Sons.
Dan Sweat aged 12 and his brother Charles aged 9 killed the largest wild cat ever seen in Georgia near Waycross. The forty pound cat entered a barnyard attacked a dog, and the boys parked the animal with clubs after a short fight.
Mrs Mary Powell Reaves wife of Rufus K Reaves was laid to rest yesterday at 3 30 pm from First Baptist Church with Rev James W Lynch officiating. Interment followed at Oconee Cemetery. Pallbearers included M G Michael W C Ash E I Smith Sr James W Morton Geo H Hulme T P Stanley B A Crane and D G Anderson.
The Southern Railway will build two telephone circuits from Alexandria to Monroe to extend dispatching via voice orders 330 miles from Alexandria to Salisbury. W. W. Potter will supervise crews installing lines and station gear. The Monroe to Salisbury section already uses telephone dispatching and the system promises faster, clearer orders.
Yesterday afternoon at 4 o clock the funeral of Miss Mary Allan Peebles was held from Mrs. E A Crawford Hill street residence. Rev E L Hill and Rev Troy Beatty led simple services. Interment followed at Oconee cemetery with pallbearers Billups Phinizy Harvey Stovall R W Lamkin C H Phinizy J W Welch Barrett Phinizy J W Morton H H Linton.
The Eighteenth Annual Farmers Conference at Georgia State Industrial College Savannah ends after three days of lectures on farming, fertilizers, boll weevil, dairying, poultry, stock care, health, pellagra and farm management. Negro farmers from across Georgia attended, with notable speakers including Chancellor Barrow, Agricultural Commissioner J. D. Price, Dr. R. J. H. DeLoach and Judge C. N. Fidelson.
These lamps are of highest grade and will give satisfactory wear and service. Metalyte Tungsten Lamps give twice the light at the same cost on the same light at one-half the cost of ordinary carbon lamps. Should be used around the house and lot during the warm damp days as a sanitary precaution. We have it, let us have your order.
Meager reports from Brewton indicate a tornado virtually leveled Appleton, ten miles away, with medical aid dispatched and unknown injury extent. A heavy storm swept central Alabama today.
Marvin McGee of Atlanta was arrested after federal agents uncovered a concealed still beneath a fireplace. A flue system allowed heat and smoke to vent through the chimney, and the discovery followed suspicions raised by fifteen barrels of beer stored in the residence on Adamsville road.
An editor urges Athens readers to donate to a widowed mother with a feeble state, little flour, and a worn stove. Contributions from five cents up are asked via the Banner office to buy an oil stove so she can cook the remaining provisions.
A mill proprietor shows off calico patterns to a visitor who boasts superior product from his own works. The host replies with mild offense, and the visitor asserts a different line, claiming their own goods are superior in craftsmanship.
The article notes annual U S bird imports near 500000 with up to 17000 becoming residents in a day. It lists 1500 species mainly canaries parrots and game birds. It then details a French army corps built from 24 battalions about a thousand men each and organized into regiments belandes and battalions.
In Lumpkin County Georgia on February 23 Jack Wehunt Henry Wehunt and Charles Gaddis were drowned while attempting to recover sour mash dumped by revenue officers after a still's destruction. A rescue party arrived to find them dead as witnesses heard shouts.
Prepared by Pictorial Review for this newspaper, the feature presents lessons in dress making by Gary and Practical Famé. It outlines basic techniques and tips aimed at home seamstresses, with step by step guidance and illustrations.
A sewing description highlights blouse styles in dead leaf brown crepe with optional yoke shapes and two style options. It covers fabric yardage, construction steps, and color trends with crepe Georgette, satin stripes, panne velvet, and chenille among vogue materials, plus a note on Mohammedan Hafis title in memory of the Koran.
The saying warns that happiness and trouble come naturally to a person. Uncle Eben asserts these outcomes arise from one's own disposition and choices.
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