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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1909
Page
8
Auction style column notes various local notices. Barber shop adds manicuring, insurance, real estate ads, teaching catalogues from Moler and Moser Colleges in Atlanta, employment offers for salesmen, rent and lost items, and a Rosebud Missionary Society gathering at Miss Mary Hunnicutt’s Milledge avenue home.
A partial baseball score snippet shows games involving Atlanta Memphis Nashville New Orleans Montgomery Little Rock Birmingham Mobile and Birmingham again with various batterymarkings and umpire notes. The text is garbled but preserves team pairings runs and innings fragments along with battery and umpire names.
On June 10 at 11 a.m. in Athens Georgia F L Upson referee will auction the V Retropol cafe and hotel assets under bankruptcy order. Lot 1 soda fountain and fixtures Lot 2 reliable carbonator Lot 3 two cafe cash registers Lot 4 ice cream tables chairs and stew cases Lot 5 other cafe fixtures and stock Lot 6 cigars cigarettes candy tobacco and stock Lot 7 two restaurant cash registers Lot 8 counter stools and counter Lot 9 remaining fixtures crockery stoves utensils linen cutlery and more Lot 10 canned goods and stock Lot 11 hotel furniture fixtures and bulk items Bids may be cash or due three days after court confirmation and inspection is allowed at the Athenaeum on Clayton Street.
Military officers invited to the Georgia convention will visit Governor-elect Brown in Marietta to discuss state military needs. Adjutant-general and quartermaster-general appointments loom large with several candidates named and no firm decision made. Additional notes cover pending arbitration for the Georgia Railroad strike, orders for Captain Seaman in the Governor's Horse Guards, and hundreds of Georgia veterans heading to Memphis for the United Confederate Veterans reunion.
Tomorrow afternoon the George B. Davis Camp Woodmen of the World will decorate graves of deceased sovereigns. Members meet at the lodge at three, march to Oconee cemetery, and a Woodmen member will deliver an oration while graves are covered with flowers.
Mr W L Wakelee died of heart disease at his Savannah home after a long ill health period. He was a brother in law of Mr George A Mell of this city and was highly esteemed by Athenians who knew him. Funeral services were held yesterday in Savannah. Misses Marguerite Vonderau and Annie Bernard returned from Eufaula Alabama where they have served as Brenau college faculty. Both are educators and have been contracted for another year.
A negro man named Judge Daniel, who sustained a severe skull fracture and brain injury after a blow, is expected to recover. His brother, Duge Daniel, is jailed in the city on related suspicions. Authorities report his condition improving with medical care.
Mayor Dorsey tried Lon Barfield, the man charged with selling liquor in the city. The evidence was against him and the mayor imposed the lowest fine of fifty dollars, which Barfield will pay today before his release.
Attorney James W. Austin testified in Atlanta recorder court that the city workhouse used seventeenth century style punishments and humiliations. He presented photos of a bucking machine the stockade vans and punishments aimed at inmates linked to the McAfee liquor case. News notes veterans potential reunion plans but no action taken.
The report covers ruling New York cotton prices and a June 4 bulletin on May 25 cotton crop conditions. It notes the May 25 crop at 81.1 percent of normal, 97.7 percent versus last year, and ten years at 81.4 percent. Area planted is 95.6 percent of last year, totaling about 21,918,000 acres, with revisions to last planted area and expectations for further planting. It includes an Allen's Foot-Ease advertisement and a humorous Weather Bureau anecdote about New England resilience and a dollhouse courtyard mishap.
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