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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1917
Page
8
Short notices list various ads and inquiries including insurance, autos, organs, a rental room, a hosiery sales rep opportunity, a cook needed, a used Dodge roadster for sale, a Milledge Circle home for rent, Buick rental cars, and contact details. The itemization shows interested buyers and service requests across multiple categories with addresses and phone numbers.
Advertisements note Athens Savings Bank pays 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1 and July 1. Deposit from 1.00. Large spring wagons and moving services by Williams Bros. Rent listed for a 7 room cottage on Milledge Ave by Louis Camak.
Chancellor Baron of the University and Prof. M. P. Jarnigan joined a corps of teachers and lecturers in Madison yesterday for the extension school session. Despite poor weather, attendance remained strong with evident interest and enthusiasm as the rural program continues across district agricultural schools. County Farm Agent Joe Woodruff also traveled to Madison yesterday.
Judge George C Thomas will address the Cobb Delony Camp of Confederate Veterans at their regular monthly meeting tomorrow at 11 in the council chamber city hall. The event includes the tribute address plus other business as usual for the veteran group.
The city council and mayor met informally to review the final draft of a special tax ordinance. It will be presented at the general committee preliminary meeting next Monday and the regular March meeting next Wednesday. The ordinance must pass Wednesday to take effect April 1, with taxes due.
Thirty or forty pupils under Miss Patman presented a flag drill and colonial class dances at Childs Street School. Mothers and fathers attended as the children performed patriotic songs, the minuet, and other pretty dances after 11 o’clock.
The Phi Kappa Literary Society selects sophomores Messrs. L Foreman of Atlanta R E L Spence of Albany and Wallace Zachry of Atlanta. The Demosthenians name Debaters Messrs G T Mann W D Miller Glennville and Charles Murphy Candler Jr of Decatur. Debates set for late March with judges Professors Payne Nix and Peacock.
Sam Warren, a grown negro, accused of drunken disorderly conduct, is sought for unprovokedly striking a white schoolboy, Tom Higginbotham, on the head with a rock. Witness J. L. Huett joined the chase as Warren cursed the neighborhood and fled toward the Seaboard Airline station.
Yesterday evening at Emmanuel Church Rev. A. G. Richards preached a strong message on "The Men Who Crucify Christ." The Lenten series continues with Thursday sermons and a usual Friday service scheduled for late today.
Wanted bill poster immediately for Pitner and Beusse's Foundry. White or colored, must be experienced. Call at the foundry. Advertise your want.
The Chamber of Commerce directors and department heads will meet this afternoon at 4 in the Holman building by order of President Tibbetts and Secretary Haselton. Executive committees and officers will present urgent matters and the president plans important remarks for the gathering. Be there at four in the directors’ rooms.
The Athens Railway and Electric Company launched a ten day end of season sale with a daily guessing contest. Miss Mattie Wilson DuBose correctly predicted 2811 paid passengers on February 28 1917 earning an $8 electric coffee percolator. next closest guesses were Carl Sage and Mrs M G Dearing.
The city court adjourned yesterday morning till Monday week March 12. A number of cases not finished were passed over to the 12th for unavoidable reasons.
The Athens High School girls basketball team leaves for Greensboro this morning for a return game after previously defeating Greensboro here last week. Players Mollie Gholston Maude Smith Jessie Bramblett Annie Pendley Ruth Engle regulars and substitutes Katherine Goodwyn Joan Morris join coach Clarence Rawson in leading the squad.
Court notice instructs state and county tax returns for 91 J. H. Dorsey to be completed at the courthouse. Details remain unclear due to partial OCR.
The piece features a declamatory veteran-voiced call to arms urging men to sacrifice for the nation. It contrasts fiery exhortations with a historical aside about General William Hull and his surrender, noting Hull’s earlier service and eventual reprieve.
Mrs. F C Reed hosted the Oglethorpe Chapter U D C with roses in decor and a bright program. Rev Phil Davis conducted funeral services for Mr Gabriel Watson. Mrs Tom Callaway’s funeral drew many outoftown relatives. Echoes from Dixie by Mrs M P Carroll slated. civic league funds buy church carpet. dancing and music fill Lexington life.
Chicago Motor Bus Company will operate 50 buses on the North Park System between Devon Avenue and the Loop in about ten weeks. The Moline Knight Engine is praised for reliability, smooth acceleration, long life, and low vibration, matching the company’s safety and comfort aims.
The article explains that only a few lower animals like some monkeys have true binocular vision, blending two images into one. Dogs, despite forward eyes, focus with one eye. Humans typically use both eyes on a single object, achieving true binocular vision.
Tobacco entered France through Jean Nicot the French ambassador to Portugal who sent seeds and a Lisbon merchant’s herb label to Queen Catherine de Medici with the name Herbe Rele marking its early medicinal use for much of the following century
Capt Tommy Munson’s proud mustache becomes a comic mishap when a dancing partner uses a hairpin to fix her hair and ends up pinning it into his mustache during a midsummer post dance. The incident unfolds with lighthearted embarrassment and local color.
Fragmentary text discusses a method of pain or diet aiming at altering weight. It hints at a past era viewpoint on dieting and genius, but details are unclear and names or events are not discernible from the readable fragment.
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