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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1913
Page
8
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded semiannually with deposits from $1.00. Also lists various notices including rental, employment, sales, and a free trip promotion to Knoxville Tennessee.
Public notices and advertisements for insurance and real estate services appear. A query asks why not divide fire insurance with J C Jester. A sale offers men s trousers one third off at Massey s. An furnished room for rent at 424 S Lumpkin St.
Rural routes clash as Frank James of Royston route one delivers a bantam hen egg measuring 53 by 4 to 7 inches in circumference. The egg tops a prior record from Mr. Chasteen on route four, with route one hens claiming the title through a long standing rivalry. Dividend notices appear from Georgia National Bank and American State Bank offering semi annual dividends.
Citizens urge city street committee to approve a permanent brick or granitoid sidewalk from the Oconee street bridge to the Oconee street school and church. The group says the stretch will soon be much needed as many residents on this river side lack safe passage.
In Athens yesterday residents discussed a peculiar racket at the Electric Shop. The joke centers on a tennis racket described as light, prompting talk among locals about Sam Woods and the unusual soundless racket.
Capt. J. F. Payne of this city will visit Savannah and Tybee today, the first trip there since the Civil War period. He travels with his brother Dr. A. F. Payne, a Port Lamar physician, departing Athens yesterday for the sea coast outing.
We carry Mason and SURE SEAL jars in pints quarts and half gallons with jelly glasses in car load lots for wholesale and retail. Ice boxes refrigerators cream freezers water coolers and glasses. We offer CHINA GLASS ENAMEL TIN and ALUMINUM WARE plus brushes brooms and general house furnishing wares.
John Henderson of Ocilla, a top Georgia football prospect, has joined the local Coca-Cola Bottling Company. He will tour the summer market outside Athens to push the “delicious and refreshing” product.
Special to the Banner Jefferson Ga July 1 the city court of Jefferson will convene July 7 at 9 am The fixed civil calendar will guide case calls while jail and demand criminal cases go first The appearance docket is set for Tuesday morning The court aims to ease farmer absence during the busy season by delaying civil business and adapting the schedule to field work.
Eleven year old Gladys Norton from State Street School in Topeka narrates the life cycle of a fly from egg to mature insect. She describes reproduction in manure, dangers from carbolic acid and fly paper, and the need to keep breeding places clean to reduce flies. The piece ends with an advertisement for Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic and appetite aid.
Victor Buchwald of Buchwald Brothers leaves by Savannah steamer for New York Baltimore and Boston to conduct fall purchases for the firm. He plans a few weeks in the East for business and a short pleasure trip during the hot month.
A regular Wednesday night prayer meeting will be held at the First Methodist Church tonight. With the pastor absent, a competent leader will be in charge. Mr Frank Carthers left yesterday for Tybee for his annual ten day vacation.
Yesterday twenty or more citizens of Athens took advantage of low Central of Georgia Railway fares and began their Tybee trip by the sea. Superintendent W P Walker of Jackson school district attends the high school conferences. Mr Z E Barron, Jenkinsburg schools superintendent, arrived for the high school meet.
Editor notes a proposed gasoline powered train on Central tracks may run four or more trips daily between Madison and Athens to serve stations along Athens Whitehall Watkinsville Bishop Farmington Appalachee and Madison. Citizens plan to push Central of Georgia Railway officials for action, hoping dividends prove the move feasible with local cooperation. Here’s hoping.
Royston Ga July 1 Mrs Alex Johnson who yesterday morning attempted suicide by shooting herself through the head is still alive though physicians say survival chances were slim last night. She has been conscious part of the day and spoke a few words but offered no explanation or motive.
At the close of the Annual Teachers Institute on Friday July 4 at Martin Institute Jefferson educators Chancellor Barrow State Supt Britain Prof J M Pound and others will speak. The public is invited to attend and bring baskets for a picnic dinner at noon.
Franklin County reports a massive poplar near Carnesville along the National Highway between Carnesville and Commerce. The trunk measures 28 feet 10 inches around at about two feet from the ground, and the tree is believed to be the largest in Georgia.
The campus reports a multi conference program listing Geometry and Language tracks. Geometry sessions cover Euclid teaching aims heuristic methods and key points from the Fifteen committee with problem solving. Language discussions address translation use value of light reading and Latin study.
Florence McKennie teaches English at R. E. Lee Institute in Thomaston. D B Hodge of Savannah City Schools presents Grammar in the High School and Correlation of Composition and Literature in this education listing.
Col and Mrs Richard A Denny their daughter Mies LaGrange Cothran and brother Jamie Cothran of Atlanta travel in their touring car from Rome to attend high school contests in Athens. Miss Cothran will represent the Seventh district in the July Fourth declamation contest after winning the district prize in Atlanta.
Deputy Burrell arrested three men in Ben Smith's Gwinnett district on charges of violating federal laws on whiskey manufacture. Several others have been taken in the area for the same offense in the past two months.
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