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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1911
Page
8
Short notes of interest promote sales at Rhodes Hardware Co and related merchants. Advertising real estate rentals, shoe repair, furniture and stoves, poultry supplies, laundry and foods, with discounts up to 25 percent and calls for carpenters and loan services. Includes product prices and local services across Clayton Street and Athens area.
A collage of local notices includes insurance and real estate pitches by Lipscomb & Co, savings bank rates from The Athens Savings Bank, housing and lodging offers, furniture and hardware deals, farm and produce listings, job pleas for printers and factory work, barber training ads, and a Masons lodge notice for Mount Vernon No. 22 with meeting details and refreshments.
Southern Railway and Frisco System inaugurate a through Pullman drawing room buffet sleeping car service between Atlanta and Memphis via Birmingham. Departure from Atlanta at 4 19 p m arrival in Memphis at 7 30 a m effective Sunday July 2 reservations through Main 142. city ticket office No 1 Peachtree St Atlanta Georgia.
The Banner contest gains momentum as Miss Helen Lacy joins with over two thousand votes. Voting continues busy from morning till night with premiums at stake. The daily twenty five vote coupon ends Sunday, encouraging active participation before close.
We carry six styles of Ice Tea Glasses priced from 75 cents to $1.50 per dozen. Table Tumblers start at 35 cents per dozen. Porcelain plates from 25 cents per set. English decorated porcelain dinnerware and American goods offered in open stock and sets. Silver plated cutlery and a wide range of house furnishing goods also available.
Athens letters from Dr J H Goss and Mr M L Troutman praise Linton’s Spring Water for purity and taste. J R Crane Water Co of Athens notes growing customers and offers information. Linton Springs Water Co advertises call function and managers.
A U S revenue officer staying at a city hotel with Capt Hill Col Felton was “taken in” after breakfast by police following a night of drinking. He lives nearby and was in Athens overnight to pursue illegal liquor sellers. The piece promotes Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
The twenty fifth annual meeting of the Georgia Weekly Press Association opened in Cartersville with President A. S. Hardy of Gainesville presiding. Officers for the year will be elected tomorrow. A drug advertisement promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds without opiates or harmful drugs in a yellow package and states it is sold by all druggists.
L. T. Davidson from Habersham county, new in Athena, is bound over on a larceny after trust charge. He borrowed a gold watch from his friend Thompson to time streetcar runs, pawned it after a crash, failed to repay, and was sent to prison when bond could not be posted.
In Buford Georgia a revival ends with 94 joining the Buford Baptist Church. On Sunday at 3:30 p m Rev T T Twitty will baptize 53 converts in a pool prepared for the purpose. The group includes a ten year old girl and a 14 year old, others range 20 to 60.
The Banner yesterday reported a misstatement in the notices of the annual stockholders meeting. It should read that 4 percent is paid on time certificates instead of 5 percent, clarifying the bank's certificate rate.
Atlanta reporters were tipped that a quiet conference tonight at the Piedmont Hotel would discuss Hon. Tom G. Hudson's possible governor bid. A group of state senators representatives and leading citizens were invited to advise on a possible course of action with the agriculture commissioner.
In Detroit, Philadelphia 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 nine runs. Detroit 2 runs on six hits. Batteries for Detroit Donovan and Stanage. Philadelphia Krause Martin Thomas. Umpires Perrine Donen. In Atlanta Memphis beat Atlanta 6 to 4 in seven innings with Newton Adams for Memphis Foxen Wells for Atlanta. second game Memphis 4 Atlanta 0. Umpires Carpenter Hart. In Nashville Chattanooga 3 12 1 Nashville 1 6 2. second game Chattanooga 2 Nashville 2. umpire Colliflower. Second game ended sixth due to darkness. At Birmingham New Orleans 17 1 1?
The Banner carries a continuing serial about Galvin Potter, detailing his past as an ex convict, capture by the Jackson county sheriff, and pending charges including obtaining clothing under false pretenses. It notes a reward for capture and railroad officials delaying him before Jefferson sheriff custody. Also brief notices on Ely's Cream Balm and Chamberlain's Liniment, plus a rain-ruined game between Montgomery and Mobile.
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