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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1923
Page
5
A glimpse of Athens advertising highlights service specialists across trades from gutter repair and roofing to wallpapering and interior decorating. The ads emphasize veteran artisans with long apprenticeships and seasoned craftspeople ready to handle home improvement and maintenance needs. An example promotes a humidifier as a solution and notes Walter H. Bishop as a distributor seeking agents.
A stated conclave of Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery No 14 will be held at the Masonic Temple this Friday evening January 12 at eight o'clock. There will be no degree work. it is a business and social meeting. All Sir Knights are courteously requested to be present.
Representative Upshaw a Democrat from Georgia will present evidence in the Prohibition violations case. The hearing in Washington will establish key testimonies and relevant documents shaping the outcome of the inquiry.
The bulletin lists schedules for Beatoard Air Line, Central of Georgia, Gainesville Midland, and Southern Railway with northbound and southbound times. It notes train arrivals and departures between Atlanta, Monroe, Birmingham, Mobile, Norfolk, New York, Washington, Wilmington, Macon, Gainesville, Athens, Lula and other points, including daily and weekend variations.
New York report details the marital rift between former opera star Geraldine Farrar and actor Low Tellegen. Farrar sued for divorce. tellegen’s attorney sought a referee hearing, Judge Cohawlin approved. Hearings typically occur behind closed doors with referee Eugene Untermyer.
A committee of attorneys for Murray M. Stewart mayor of Savannah announces a petition for injunction and mandamus against Judge Paul B. Seabrook will be filed in the superior court Thursday afternoon or Friday morning. They say the fight will continue to a final appellate decision.
Albany Ga mayor and city council denied the Ku Klux Klan use of the municipal auditorium for a public meeting announced by Rev Roy E Davis official spokesman for the Klan in this section of the state. The planned gathering featured Col William Joseph Simmons founder and emperor of the Invisible Empire.
Governor Len Small called for a special primary on February 27 and a special election on April 3 to choose a successor to the late James R. Mann of Chicago, congressman from the second district, whose death occurred last November 30. Regular Chicago city elections are to be held the same day as the primary.
Hartwell Bank in Hartwell Georgia, the oldest in Hart county, declares a regular eight percent dividend dated January 1. The bank reports capital stock of 60 000 dollars and a 48 000 dollar surplus, with a history of uninterrupted dividends since its 1888 organization. President D C Alford presides, with M M Norman as vice president and a board including R E Matheson J J Phillips L L McMullan W J Halle and M M Norman. R C Thornton serves as cashier and F S White as assistant cashier.
More than 300 women delegates from about fifty national organizations gathered in Washington for the opening session of a conference on women in industry. The event was called by the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor with Secretary Davis on the program for the opening address. Topics included what women workers mean to industry and what industry means to women workers.
SAN FRANCISCO Deciduous fruit streets and grape varieties across San Bernardino County face an ahead of schedule warm spell. Since December 18, 13 days failed to reach 70 degrees and four days stayed near 90 plus, including a 92 degree day. Growers fear a single frost could ruin next year’s harvest.
The Athens market reached the season’s high as middling cotton moved past 27 cents a pound for the first time this season. New York and New Orleans markets also hit records, with May contracts near 27.20 and March around 26.95 to 27.37, while Liverpool and global demand added to the upward pressure.
Washington Senate agricultural committee reported favorably a bill by Senator Harrison Democrat of Mississippi extending the cooperative marketing law to include naval products and pest control. The measure would permit producers to form cooperative profit-seeking marketing associations. Harrison also sought to attach it to an appropriation bill, but the attempt was rejected.
A fragment notes that Lloyd George is not en route to Algecras and that a contestant asserts he is authorized to say he is in the United States on a secret mission or otherwise. The readable text is garbled and unclear.
Cambridge Mass The Shelton Hale scholarship at Harvard Law School has been awarded to Samuel R of Milwaukee who graduated from the University. The announcement notes the recipient's Milwaukee origins and the merit of his law studies.
Dr Andrew M Soule president of the Georgia State College of Agriculture urges abandonment of aloofness to world affairs to preserve US commercial supremacy He spoke at the University of Georgia Chapel detailing his Rio de Janeiro Industrial Conference experiences and Brazil's growing role in coffee iron and steel and textile industries with 750 in attendance.
A list of delegates to the Forestry convention in Montgomery Alabama July 29 31 was announced by Governor Hardwick upon the recommendation of Joseph Hyde Pratt chairman of the Southern Forestry Association. Delegates include Bonnell Stone Blairsyllie W P Lemon C B Harmon H G Spahr Dr S W McCallie Mrs R L Berner EK M Thorpe J Phibbell Jens W Morton Jays press ah Georgia Federation of Men's Club Charles B Yopp John Yopp Grover Greer Major B Cohan Clark Bowen W T Anderson A Stovall A V Woot Julius Madge Mrs Thornton Miss Alice Ter Uaker Ye Athens and others.
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