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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
2
Local classifieds list rent notices for front rooms and two room apartments near College avenues and Cob street. Businesses advertise furniture, groceries, auto tire repairs, brick products, and typewriter servicing. Colonial and Evans mentions appear in laundry of housing and retail notes with phone numbers.
Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest with midyear compounding and deposits from 1.9. Stone’s market advertises eggs butter and broilers with pricing details. Lost Saint Bernard pup reward offered for return to Mrs J A Moore. Calves wanted Suncrest. Store for rent on Boulevard and Caase street. Irish potatoes tomatoes beans fresh cabbage at Stone’s. Rent available rooms at 192 Cedar street. Miss Jennie Smith’s art class starts June 6 at 9:30. Rooms and board at 75 Harris St. Road horse for sale cheap through Atlantic Ice & Coal. June 1 rent 10 room house phone 282. Houses to rent listed by E and Lynden.
The Dorsey Funkenstein firm, the oldest furniture house in the south, dissolves as Peter Funkenstein retires after a long decade in business. Dorsey and Northcutt form the Dorsey Furniture Company, preserving the Athens stock and reputation while expanding with fresh leadership from Marietta. The change covers Broad and Clayton street operations and aims to keep the business the largest under one roof in the state.
In Jackson Mississippi a large crowd gathered at the state capitol for the cornerstone ceremony of a Confederate women monument marking Mississippi's observance of Jefferson Davis birthday. Dignitaries from United Confederate Veterans United Daughters of the Confederacy and other patriotic groups attended the event.
A bolt struck a house on North Main Street during a ramping storm, shocking a negro woman and a ten year old child severely, with fears of death or lifelong injury. A months-old baby seated between them remained unharmed. The bolt followed a telephone wire inside the room after the phone was removed, shattering windows and light fixtures. Also noted: Sam Langford and Joe Jeannette to clash at Vernon, California on July 27. Two Boys from Evane’s Minstrels at Colonial. William S. Cowherd seeks Democratic nomination for Missouri governor.
Crowds enjoyed Gilmour and Latour at the Lyric on College Avenue the ten cent house. Today is the last chance to see their clever funny musical stunt and the vaudeville program with pictures. Enjoy the show and get your money’s worth today.
W O W Look urges members to attend a Wednesday night meeting at 8 20 in the Woodcraft forest. The Uniform Bank to be in full uniform and visiting Sovereigns invited. Aern, pleasant and profitable evening promised.
Washington reports 25 states represented in a Bureau of Education review of high school fraternity crackdowns. Thirteen states have laws hostile to secret orders, with penalties including suspension or expulsion. Courts largely back school board discretion, though bans on classroom use are rare. William R Hood notes college fraternity status unlikely for high schools.
Real estate notice offering multiple parcels within two blocks of Milledge avenue for 600 dollars with 25 dollars down and five year balance if purchaser builds. Includes two modern cottages on Bovievard, an eight room house on Deering Street for 5900, a seven room cottage on Virginia avenue for 3000, and a two foot frontage on country street tied to Georgia Railroad improvements. Prices described as reasonable with values rising.
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