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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1921
Page
1
A brief note highlights how prosperity in small towns hinges on farming activity and the growth of modest local industries, fueling broad community development and reflecting the era’s rural progress.
Local farmers in Nicholson Georgia tout a thriving rural district with a strong belief in the live at home farming philosophy. Reports celebrate a mammoth potato crop anticipated this season and note plans to build a potato storage house to safeguard the harvest.
Henry F. Saxon reports Nichol son Ga the town dates to about 1876 with older homes nearby. Notable houses include the James Benton house now owned by J T Meckshan and a property once owned by J K Campbell. a fifty five year old structure known as House is occupied by A Bagby. The town was incorporated after a state legislative act around 250 years earlier, and area farms are diversifying toward home food production with fewer cotton acres and more corn and potatoes. Four churches serve Nicholson with Baptist under Rev A L Flury and Methodist under Rev B O W Mills. Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness organized in 1918.
Miss Lotta Levinsohn of New York City chairs Hadassah central committee which runs a Jerusalem training school for nurses. The first class will graduate in November and two graduates will go to America for special prep before returning to Jerusalem to staff the hospital. One will train as head nurse and the other as dietician. Hadassah’s U.S. membership reaches about four thousand.
Ben L. Cumbus, postmaster at Hahira Georgia, awakened in a Los Angeles park by a bystander who stopped him from falling. He had been missing since March after applying for a vacation and was thought to be a victim of amnesia. He served overseas and was shocked by the episode.
Belfost Ulster says it is not concerned with talks between the British government and Sinn Fein. Public belief centers on fiscal and financial issues. Some foresee possible involvement, but Unionist quarters feel Ulster’s position is secure and there is no move toward a republic or disbanding the northern Irish parliament.
Governor Kilby and state officials say they will resist with every resource the Interstate Commerce Commission order to raise freight rates. The move targets Southern Railway Mobile and Ohio and Alabama Great Southern and aims to align Alabama rates with those from Meridian Mississippi to Alabama points.
A promotional piece encourages readers to start a Banner Herald Want Ad to attract desired items such as positions, lost articles, rooms or houses. It praises the ad’s reliability and speed, noting it works continuously until goals are achieved and provides the Athens telephone number 216 for placing or requesting ads.
The new Athens newspaper management pledges better, bigger morning and Sunday papers after consolidating the Banner and Herald. They warn a third daily paper could double costs and may force a price of about 225,000 yearly to sustain three papers, urging fair competition and readiness to publish AP news in sixty days.
Washington D C The Hall of the Americas at the Pan American Union building may host the international disarmament conference, rivaling Versailles Hall of Mirrors. President Marv dling called for the event likely in November with Dr L B Rowe saying the building is the most suitable. Twenty one nations contributed to its fund.
Miss Lorena Trickey of Cheyenne Wyoming has earned the world title as the top woman horsewoman at Cheyenne frontier days. She previously worked cattle and now leads the West with her riding skill and competition.
President Harding spent a weekend in a tented camp in Maryland hills. He rode horseback, chopped wood, and faced mosquitoes with his companions Henry Ford Thomas Edison Harvey Firestone and Bishop William Anderson.
Stockholders at a special meeting in Louisville authorized a 53 million dollar increase in the railway's capital stock. They directed the board to seek ICC approval to distribute the proceeds as a stock dividend and to execute a blanket mortgage to secure first mortgage and refunding bonds to cover the road's debt, which stood at 165 million last December.
Navy seaplanes off the Atlantic coast are reported to aid a coast guard search for liquor smugglers. Air scouts may sweep northern New Jersey to Norfolk as guards monitor vessels. Florida waters are said to be infested with craft and seizures rise daily.
Local groups led by Athens Chamber of Commerce officials say plans for a permanent Athens fair are rapidly coalescing. New committees will handle exhibitions prizes catalogs and site selection as they prepare for an October readiness. Women clubs state colleges and civic groups join the effort with the Rotary and Okivania clubs backing the project.
Cleveland police chief Lana Downe and three Sharon detectives traveled to arrest a woman tied to a $50,000 kidnaping fraud claim against Sharon merchant E. Y. Randolph and his son Thomas M. Randolph. The woman reportedly left town amid the height of the case.
Interior advices report Angota the nationalist capital being evacuated as residents head toward Sivas, 230 miles eastward, amid upheaval in Anatolia.
William Bancroft Steedman known as Billie from Charleston, a popular bully and Athens merchant broker in business since 1900. He is Episcopalian and a member of the U C T s Y M C A and Cloverhurst Country Club.
The subject has become a golf convert and enters as a contestant for the Illustrated Cup. He avoids fraternal orders and politics, yet is a fine citizen active in community improvement. Office on Foundry Street, home at 735 Milledge Avenue, birthday November 10.
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