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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1906
Page
1
Hon William Fleming addressed the Alumni Society of the University of Georgia in an influential chapel talk. He argued against disfranchisement, warned of fraud in enforcing new qualifications, and asserted the white majority’s rise while stressing the constitutional limits of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Al Foster, a ne cro man, died yesterday after slipping from a Live Milledge avenue pole while working for the Athens Electric Railway Company. He touched a live wire without a leather strap and was shocked, collapse on the sidewalk. Bystanders rendered aid but he died within minutes.
Mr. EB M Andrews of Greensboro N C opens a furniture and house furnishing store on College avenue in the McDowell building with L I Friday as manager. The Andrews store syndicate will maintain full standards in Athens and invites patronage.
Athens, June 18 1906 Judge Hamp McWhorter defends his neutrality in gubernatorial campaign denies aiding Smith or Morris asserts long representation of Southern Railway in Georgia court arbitration and tax matters and disputes Smiths accusations as unfounded and hypocritical with reference to past interactions and a 1904 letter request for a conference.
George Foster Peabody donates 350 acres adjoining the Carlton farm to the University of Georgia, extending the campus to about 900 acres. The gift, conveyed free of cost, follows prior acquisitions by Chancellor Barrow and Thomas J Shackelford, and is praised as a major boost to the university and state education.
Col James M. Smith the real candidate of the people for governor of Georgia is greeted with ovations in Royston Bowersville Hartwell and at Can on Lavonia He draws large crowds at every stop with undecided voters joining the farmers and business men in backing the candidate Today at eleven he speaks in Toccoa then Mount Airy and later Watson Springs His schedule aims to cover most counties before the August 22 primary Farmers support the farmer leader and Athens expected to draw a huge turnout for a Smith gathering From Athens crowds plan to travel to Watson Springs to hear the speech with thousands anticipated.
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a universal restorative medicine likening serpent bites in India to common liver and stomach ailments. It claims W. J. Smith & Bro and H. R. Palmer & Sons sell the tonic for 60 cents with a guarantee and cites a Bennettsville user praising its cure for dyspepsia and torpid liver.
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