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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1920
Page
8
A compilation of local notices includes savings bank offer at 4 percent interest, plumbing and hardware ads, real estate and rental listings, vehicle sales, hay and wood for sale, subscription reminders, and job notices. Reads like a dense community classifieds page with multiple addresses and names such as The Athens Banner, W. G. Arthur, J. R. Short, Mrs. Arthur Burch, Crawford & Merry, and Georgia Land & Loan Company.
Emmett J. Hale, Briscoe dealer at 149 Lumpkin Street, offers 1920 Briscoe sedans with mohair velvet upholstery at 10 percent off delivered price for cash. Limited show room days Fridays and Saturdays with discounts on other models for cash.
Notice that Piggly-Wiggly and all KING-HODGSON CO stores close at 2 o’clock today. Readily available produce listed includes Iceberg Lettuce Tomatoes Celery Peppers Eggplant and fresh fruits such as Cantaloupes Watermelons Peaches Pineapples and Grapes. The July August schedule notes Thursday closings for Costa’s Delicatessen Shop with 65c pecks for Cox cooking apples.
Antique menu fragment lists Thornton's Luncheonette items priced 60 cents for dinners. Entries include hamberger with gravy beans with ham hock fried squash Carolina Rice light bread or corn pone sponge cake with pan sauce coffees milk or tea. Date shows Thursday July 22 19 zero.
The second installment of City Taxes is due from July 15 to August 1 inclusive. Taxpayers failing to pay by August 1 will incur a $1.50 cost on fi. fa. assessed against delinquents. G. E. O'FARRELL, City Marshal.
181 acres near Milledgeville Georgia 14 miles from Merriwether Station 200 yards to neighbors 1 mile from church and 400 yards to school. Fourteen miles from Merriwether Station. Good 7 room dwelling gin house barns cribs and outbuildings two tenant houses 765 million feet saw timber 40 acres pasture 90 cultivated 60 woodland. Soils dense clay loam suited to cotton peaches alfalfa clover cattle dairying. J L Sibley and Son Milledgeville Georgia.
Madison, Georgia defeated Washington 2 to 1 in a fast game lasting 1 hour 25 minutes. Gibson delivered Madison’s only extra base hit with a third inning three-base hit, as Cy Pierce and Joe Thorburn held Washington to five and Madison to five hits. Madison heads to Elberton for the second half opener Thursday with Pierce and Gibson noted in the battery.
Jack Patrick Jr nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Jack Patrick died at his father's home after a week long illness. Funeral services scheduled for 3 pm at the residence conducted by Rev Willie Sage with burial in Oconee cemetery. He is survived by his parents three sisters and one brother.
Watkins key note speaker at the Prohibition Party convention opening session. He declares the party’s reform record since 1876 and notes plans to field a presidential ticket of real size in upcoming campaign. Watkins cites prohibition as a successful experiment and asserts a decisive path forward.
An Ohio professor in GermanTown urged Prohibitionists to build a strong, radical but dignified campaign. He criticized Wilson’s approach to the league of nations as autocratic and urged decisive action against wet forces, urging steadfast faith and aggressive organizing for victory with no apologies.
A Georgia legislative discussion centers on highway funding and the proposed state highway department. Figures show state, county, and federal funds totaling over 7.5 million with 1.3 million spent on road work. critics urge immediate action rather than delay.
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