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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1909
Page
9
The Athens Banner lists annual and short term subscription rates for the Athens Banner and Weekly editions, with payment options by cash in advance, money order, or registered letter. It notes delivery complaints should go to the business office and warns that no carrier is authorized to collect subscriptions or sell papers.
Georgia’s governor elect Brown welcomed as good roads push dominates state talk. Journal-Herald scout party arrives. Julian B McCurry to be senate president pro tem. Athens park bid tied to park use and Southern League inclusion. Auburn Georgia football may return to Athens.
Governor-elect Joseph M. Brown urges prompt payment of common school salaries to spare teachers from high discounts. He proposes a constitutional amendment to issue bonds of six hundred thousand dollars as a loan fund, redeemable over years without raising taxes. The plan aims to pay teachers promptly and support roads, with endorsement from the editorial board.
June 13 entries span 1798 Malta fell to Bonaparte, 1840 Paris hosts a great Socialist demonstration, 1865 William L. Sharkey becomes Mississippi governor, 1867 Gridley Bryant dies noted as a railroad pioneer, 17S birth year for him. 3 Chas Jenkins, Georgia governor, 1805 birth. 5 Sault Ste Marie canal opened, Mint building dedication in Philadelphia, 8 Descriptions include a London suffragette street demonstratio n with thousands taking part.
Calvin H. French, president of Huron College in South Dakota, was born in Williamsburg Ohio on June 13 1862. He studied at Lake Forest University and Union Theological Seminary before being ordained in 1891. He then became a Presbyterian church and education figure in South Dakota, later serving as principal of an academy at Scotland and in 1898 elected president of Huron College, a Presbyterian institution with about 500 students.
A sequence lists events such as the start of the Boston Newport stage line in 1736 and Connecticut's 1776 push for independence, along with battles, births and deaths like Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1811 and the 1863 Winchester engagement. The Merrimac launch in 1854 and the 1903 Hopper, Oregon cloudburst destruction are included, ending with a Hartford statue unveiling in 1887.
Captain Kossuth Niles, born June 14, 1849 in Illinois, commanded the battleship Louisiana on the Atlantic fleet around-the-world cruise. He began as a private in the 142nd Illinois Infantry, attended Annapolis, and served aboard the Sabine Stillman and on vessels including Bennington and Boston before leading the Louisiana.
Monday features openings of amateur golf at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition and the Country Club of Philadelphia polo tournament, plus auto endurance Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Other events include Des Moines wrestling, Virginia tennis in Norfolk, Carolina and Maryland tennis, and more across the country from Klamath Falls to Cincinnati and Milwaukee.
The Tallulah Falls Railway Company issues summer timetable changes effective June 15 1909 linking Atlanta Athens Jacksonville New Orleans Shreveport Jackson Meridian Charleston and Tallulah Falls Clayton Dillard Franklin N C with Southern Railway at Cornelia Ga Timetables show departure and arrival times among these hubs plus a 16 mile drive special from Dillard to Highlands N C.
Am J Abney N G 3B Harper Secy ae0 B Davis Camp No 282 W. W. Meets every Wednesday night at Lodge rooms Carlton Building Jeckson Street. All visiting G overigns invited to attend. Geo B Davis C C 5 GC Cartledge Clerk Athens Rebekah Lodge No 34 L O F meets Thursday 6 36 ieee Pariton building Jackson Street. Members in good standing invited to attend. MISS MINNIE TUCK WN G MISS MAUD NICHOLS Rec Ses Oliver Encampment No 14 BO O F meets Friday night Odd Fellows Hall corner Clayton and Jackson streets H M Williamson C B MBALOR Scribe.
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