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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1911
Page
2
Real estate and service notes list items from fire insurance and carpentry to milk cows and paint work. Advertisers include Erwin & Company, Jester, Davison, Marriott’s supplies, Georgia Loan Co, Newport Contracting & Engineer Co, King Hodgson Co, and others offering loans, rentals, repairs, feed, shoes, stamps, and white goods. Some entries seek purchases, sales, or workers, with contact details and phone numbers.
Insurance, real estate, and savings ads mix with paint, potatoes, and lodging offers. Lipscomb & Co promote cheap insurance and large savings bank deposits. The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest. notices seek table boarders, paint and wallpaper, Irish potatoes, unknown peas, and summer school room for students at Hotel Sanges.
Atlanta July 18 Representatives Ragsdale and Scott failed to bring a resolution to the Georgia House as the speaker ruled it out of order during the session. The published resolution cites the election of Hoke Smith as U.S. senator and notes Smith's decision to defer qualifying until December 1, 1911 leaving a five month vacancy. The item includes brief classified ads and notes about local rentals and help wanted.
The summer school of the University of Georgia will hold an excursion Friday to Tallulah Falls. The trip offers a pleasant day out for Athens residents and visitors, showcasing the falls and surrounding scenery. A new hydroelectric project is underway, aiming to harness 60 000 horsepower from the falls, an impressive modern development.
Six stores offer Ice Tea Glasses from 75c to 1.50 per dozen and table tumblers from 3c per dozen. Porcelain table plates from 25c per set. English decorated dinnerware open stock and American goods. Silver plated cutlery and a wide range of house furnishing items available.
The House and Senate concur that the General Assembly respectfully requests Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia to resign and immediately assume duties as United States senator.
Atlanta Georgia July 18 Representative Robert Toombs DuBose introduced a bill in the Georgia General Assembly to make a minor's signature on a note for educational money legally binding. The measure aims to aid students who borrow to finish college and protect lenders who loan to youths for education.
W F Dorsey of Dorsey and Funkenstein arrives home after weeks at regional furniture expositions in Wisconsin Michigan and nearby states. He reports a top quality shipment the firm's finest and most up to date line yet and looks forward to continued local business.
Athens social circles welcome back Mr J C Booth a popular bar keeper and prosperous young man after a three week vacation in the middle western states. His friends anticipate a joyful reunion upon his morning return.
Citizens rushed to pay the second installment of the 1911 city taxes with many availing the offered discount for paying the year’s total. The majority paid the first third earlier and now settle the second portion, aided by a plan praised across classes. City Hall urged payment before the deadline of the 31st to avoid issuance of fi fas.
The Elite presents Fighting Blood described as one of Biograph’s best, full of exciting situations that will hold viewers’ attention. Also notes social items from Athens and Toombsboro visits, Niagara Falls trip, University of Georgia lectures, and a birth announcement for Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Elder.
A large agricultural rally is set for Willoughby Park in Commerce Georgia on July 20 with Hon. T. J. Brooks of Tennessee as the principal speaker. Dr. A. M. Soule Commissioner Tom Hudson and R. F. Duckworth will also address the gathering to promote farming and the Farmers Union. A picnic lunch will be served and organizers expect thousands to attend.
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