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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1922
Page
6
A race dubbed the Kentucky special set for Saturday June 24 in Cincinnati features Tunat and Lajonia in a three year old event. The Kentucky Jockey Club offers a $50,000 purse, aiming to rival the Derby and Preakness in prestige.
A compact notice urges customers to call for best service and deals. The terse message emphasizes quick response and top results from a local business.
An advertisement urges men to ask their barber about Mahdeen a guaranteed dandruff treatment that promises quick effective and permanent relief with no cost if it fails. It claims the product leaves no odor and directs readers to write to the Mahdeen Company in Nacogdoches Texas if unavailable locally.
Larry Gantt argues that farmers need clear guidance on crop choices and methods. County agents provide essential services and general supervision of farming interests, aiding rural communities and businesses. If economies are sought, cut elsewhere than reducing support for the farmers and the man behind the plow.
Rumors circulated in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies that Emile Vanderveldt former minister of justice and Russia based counsel for the socialist revolutionists had been assassinated in Moscow. No official confirmation was available.
The University of Georgia board of trustees granted nine diplomas at the commencement exercises. The resolution included awarding Alexander H. Stephens’s diploma to his great great grand-niece Miss Queen Elizabeth Holden, a current graduate. Governors Hardwick and Howell received sympathy resolutions. The meeting also addressed branch reports and adjourned to resume at 4 p m.
Authorities report a suspected wholesale theft ring in Newton area with arrests and ties to a delivery scheme. They allege Lee operated with McWhorter and Ford to smuggle goods from a store using regular deliveries, linking to freight thefts totaling over a hundred thousand dollars in Athens.
Columbia SA residents J J Kirby Jensa Gapins and C O Fox were electrocuted at the penitentiary shortly after 6 am for the murder of William Brazell taxi driver. They died singing and praying with Kirby resisting restraints and later forced to forgo a last statement. Fox and Gapins gave final warnings to youth. It was the first white man executed in the state since 1913 and the first day three executions occurred in one day. Convicted September 14 1921 for the August 1 1921 murder near Columbia.
At The Hague conference a younger set of leaders may steer talks as absent Genoa figures give way to Philip Lloyd Graeme and others. They outline a Russia question and plan technical studies on credits debts and private property for foreigners in Russia. Reports note press access clashes with officials and a separate local incident from Georgia and South Carolina.
Alfred Barker of 1061 Avondale St E Liverpool D writes of a seven to eight week bronchial cough in his boy being eased by Foley's Honey and Tar. He says the remedy has done wonderful good and that he shall always recommend it. It soothes and heals. Sold everywhere.
A funeral for Jeaneth icpoy, aged four, will be held today at four oclock at The Seaboard Avenue. The notice confirms the death yesterday and requests attendance at the service.
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