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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1912
Page
5
The Athens Daily Banner urges timely carrier notices for late or missed delivery and asks subscribers to refuse carrier collection. It notes upcoming legislative session, Georgia politics, and possible gubernatorial bids by Slaton and Hardman, with Hardman declining to run for governor for now. Oscar W Underwood is slated for Democratic nomination in Baltimore.
A Chicago scene previews a brutal political clash with Taft and Roosevelt as potential nominees. The writer likens the race to a steam roller colliding with a placid president, forecasting injuries to political careers and a decisive November showdown.
A legislative committee and other educational leaders conducted a comprehensive review of the University of Georgia and State College of Agriculture in Athens. They inspected classrooms, buildings, and grounds, interviewed faculty and students, and gathered input from diverse regions and alumni, urging legislature to heed identified needs.
A scrambled timeline recalls events and figures from 1800s to early 1900s including Wellington and Waterloo, Natchez bishop, Heligoland cession, Pekin legations, Hazen Pingree, Taft and Sherman, Admiral Hemphill, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Tanac Stephenson, Cyrus Curtis, Sir Robert Wallace Best, and miscellaneous ages and notices from public life.
Rear Admiral Joseph N Hemphill U S N retired was born in Ripley Alabama June 18 1847. A 1866 Annapolis graduate he began on the Monongahela and survived its wreck in the West Indies in winter 1867. He attained captain in 1901 and held major naval posts including service in Manila during the Philippine outbreak.
Georgia's reform school near Milledgeville should be a real reformatory turning out capable men. The prison commission will push this in its annual report to the legislature. It urges funding to teach trades. currently youths receive only basic education and farm and building work under staff supervision.
Miss Elizabeth Maguire and Mr A G Roper wed at the bride’s Lumpkin Street home on Sunday morning at ten thirty. The bride wore a tailored light blue suit with a matching hat. They departed on the twelve fifty South ern for a few days and will reside on Strong Street upon return. Numerous friends extend congratulations as academic visitors and relatives arrive for commencement.
The anti fly crusade opens in Athens with civic league and chamber backing. Miss Nell Stovall hosts in Elberton while Henry H. Hart of Atlanta visits. Contestants collect and log filest supplied for cash prizes. a boy brought in 4,200 files, another 3,400, and a girl 3,200 as the twelve days of the contest begin and fly totals rise.
The annual Georgian board banquet at the Georgian hotel honored the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian societies at the University. EB I Ransome of Augusta was chosen editor-in-chief for the term starting next September. A formal menu and toasts followed with students and faculty generating the program.
A Lyric vaudeville cancellation leaves the Majestic with an added performance by Metzelle, a singer and violinist famed for new stunts. The Majestic gains the replacement act while Rose Bon Heur Co joins as European novelty performers with a fresh act not seen in the south.
A historical note extols water as seventy nine and five tenths percent of blood and seventy percent of the body. It asserts purity as essential and promotes Linton's Spring Water as the pure choice.
The funeral of Dr J A Fulcher occurred yesterday morning at his daughter Mrs C A Blassingame’s residence near the State Normal School. Rev S R England spoke of his blameless exemplary life while songs and prayers fit the occasion. He bore his illness with soldierly courage and was buried in Oconee cemetery as many friends paid final homage.
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