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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1912
Page
8
Nine vacant lots in Athens area on Broad Street with twenty acres unimproved land on a grade road outside city limits. Seventy seven acres with good public road access, one third inside Athens city limits, includes a six room dwelling, former Rice orchard, pasture and running water. Property may be subdivided.
Short notes show a jumble of ads from Weir Vulcanizing to Maple Wood Inn. Entries include furniture, stoves, and shoes discounts, rental listings, a Maxwell car offer, typed requests for canvassers, and garden plant sales. Also listed are calf, sable, and Jersey cow ads, key finder, and item buy requests. Local businesses like Georgia Brick Co and plow equipment buyers appear among mixed notices.
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded semiannually with deposits from 81.00, noting January 1 and July 1 compounding. Also listed are items about Wear-Ever aluminum, Wanted table searchers, Hotel Sanges, Plante Suncrest Farm, and job ads for barber training with Mo ler Barber College, plus a June 1st rental for a 19 room house.
Warm damp day boosts tally as downtown and uptown fire halls report thousands of flies caught. Willie Eppes nets 2400 and Ramond Short 4800 to push totals toward the cash prizes. With four days left, groups of boys and girls are urged to pool efforts, form committees, and continue the contest.
The regular annual meeting of the Citizens Bank & Trust Company stockholders will be held at the banking rooms on College avenue at 3 30 July 3 1922.
Prominent Winder boosters open Kimball House headquarters to advocate creating Barrow County from parts of Jackson Gwinnett and Walton with Winder as county seat They want constitutional amendment referendums and swift passage in both houses The push traces back to 1905 and names tied to Chancellor David C Barrow and prior Stephens Toccon episodes Leaders include Dr S T Ross W H Toole J T Strange and Robert Carithers
Atlanta June 25 The Ault committee proposes sweeping changes to the state agriculture department. Bills would require daily action reports, cut fertilizer and oil inspectors to six, employ extra short term inspectors in busy seasons, route all fee and fertilizer tag revenue to the treasury, pay out by warrants, reduce oil inspection fees to 100 dollars for the first three cars and five dollars per extra car, and punish companies or inspectors for improper practices. Also notes Julian Eltinge to start a new Atlantic City season in August with The Fascinating Widow and about 20,000 dollars spent on dresses. originally staged November 14, 1910.
An advertisement lists items for the home including fireproof cooking ware aluminum ware enamel wares nickel plated ware table glassware china porcelain dinner wares Rogers 1847 silver ware and staples in these wares. It also promotes Twentieth Century water coolers galvanized lined water coolers ice boxes refrigerators Frost King freezers fly fans traps Mason jars jar tops rubbers jelly tumblers brushes paints and plaster. H T Huggins and Son phone 125.
At yesterday afternoon’s City Board of Education session the county unit system was referred to a committee for study and report next Tuesday. The board will study the proposed bill for possible improvements and discuss adding a commercial course to the high school. An office of supervisor of buildings and grounds was created and William T. Williams elected to it, tasked with maintaining plumbing and repairs to keep all buildings in good order. Considerable routine business was completed before adjournment.
Georgia cantaloupes praised as ripe and sweet but contrasted with tasteless greens on the market. Georgia raised, ripe and sweet. Robert S. Raiford returns from Athens after three years at the university and is elected secretary and treasurer of the athletics association and the German club. Harriet Calhoun Martha Phinizy Saran Rawson Marjorie Brown Smuart Witham Floyd McRae Jr Henry Newman head to Flat Rock North Carolina for a house party hosted by Edward King at the King family summer home.
A younger brother of Rudie An holz is making his mark in Australian boxing. Peter Maher will follow his hat into the ring to face Luther Mc Carthy in Brooklyn. Kid Parker, once the Denver lightweight, is confined in an insane asylum in Nebraska. Ad Wolgast is sued for 50000 by a Los Angeles man who claims his leg was lost in an auto accident caused by Wolgast.
George Wingfield, newly elected United States senator from Nevada, was born thirty five years ago in Fort Smith Arkansas. He worked as a cow puncher in Oregon before moving to Nevada where he accrued a fortune estimated at fifteen million dollars through mining speculation.
Mr J H Mapp exhibited a remarkable double egg from a Black Orpington hen. The large egg measured nine inches long and eight inches around the waist, with a thin brittle shell and unusually large white and yolk inside. A second, much smaller egg with a thicker shell nested within, just able to turn inside the outer shell. Local chicken raisers report nothing similar previously observed.
Southern results show Memphis 1 Atlanta 0 and 5 0. Mobile 2 New Orleans 0 Nashville 4 Chattanooga 3 and 3 5. South Atlantic Savannah 3 Columbia 5 and 3 6. Macon 7 Columbus 1 Albany Jacksonville rain. National Brooklyn 7 Boston 0 Philadelphia 1 New York 2 Chicago 11 Cincinnati 0 Cincinnati 3 Chicago 1 Pittsburg 10 St Louis 4 St Louis 3 Pittsburg 19 American St Louis 7 Chicago 2 Detroit 5 Cleveland T. Rained out games noted. International all games rained out. Pure Honey in the Comb new crop from Arnold & Abney.
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