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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1912
Page
2
Local column lists life insurance sales, furniture, stoves and farm items for sale with phone contacts. Also notes rental rooms on Cobbstreet and 434 Dougherty St, a brick for sale, and a Maxwell two cylinder two passenger car bargain. Also mentions Linton's Spring Water and Rosa Smith music class opening.
Short notes of interest include real estate ads and savings bank offers from Athens Savings Bank with compounding starting January 1st and July 1st. Notices list lodges, fraternal orders, lost items, wanted positions, rooms for rent, and services. Also promoting Suncrest calves and a combination saddle horse for sale along with a stenographer seeking work.
A committee led by Dr. T J Wooster of Athens J R Mosley and Kyle T Alfriend urges all Peabody College alumni to gather in Athens on Friday July 5 at noon in the University of Georgia chapel to form a state alumni association. Local notices indicate those not mailed will use press notices as invitations.
In Bogart Georgia May 27 1912 Oconee County residents openly back John B Gamble for solicitor general urging the Western circuit audience to vote for him The letter from local citizens led by WwW B Akin J T Brewer WwW P Dean F M Johnson T D Jennings R S Thornton and Robert Thompson asserts Gamble will fight for common people and promises a solid county majority output in the Western circuit
Friends in Athens mourn the death of Rev. R. W. Anderson who died Sunday afternoon at his home in Scotland Neck North Carolina. The funeral and interment were held at his home yesterday.
Jossey’s bulletin lists prices for hens, fries, lard, sugar, beans, and tomatoes with a phone contact. Also notices an amendment to a railroad petition in Georgia seeking higher bond and capital stock, to be heard June 14, 1912 in Atlanta. Athens Gas, Light & Fuel Co. signs. Sweet Peac note to Mrs. Geo. McDorman.
The Collins store advertises staples and household items with low prices including meal sacks 1 to 2 bushels for 55 cents, eggs per dozen 20 cents, corn flakes two packs 15 cents, laundry soaps six for 25 cents, peanut butter 10 cents per 15 cent jars, 10 pounds silver leaf lard 1.25, Lusianne coffee and chicory 30 cents per can, flour in 25 pound sacks 80 to 85 cents, sugar 26 pounds 1.40, Cottolene buckets 55 cents to 1.35, jelly glasses per dozen 25 cents.
Mr. D. H. Winter of Winterville plans a trip to Germany to see his ill cousin in Bremerhaven. He will be joined by his cousin Miss Dora Meyer. The notice notes the prominent local family and the significance of the journey.
Multiple candidates announce runs for Georgia General Assembly and other offices. Frank A. Lipscomb represents Clarke County for the House, C B Griffith, Cobb Lampkin, J F Rhodes seek the legislature, R Toombs Dubose runs for the Thirtieth Senate, and John B Gamble seeks Solicitor General of the Western circuit all subject to Democratic primary or party action.
Revival continues at Young Harris Church with Rev. 8. R. England presiding. Evening sermon titled Behold, I stand at the door and knock. Throughout the week, services are held daily at 10 in the morning and in the evenings.
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