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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1917
Page
6
Short notes of interest advertise services and listings in a community column. Notices include advertising care rules, insurance offers, used goods, rentals, wanted help, and personal notices. Listings mention items for sale or rent such as a Dodge car, a second hand typewriter, a cow, a piano organ, and a house for rent near Milledge Circle. Names and addresses point to local advertisers and contact details.
An advertisement from the Athens Savings Bank promotes 4 percent interest on savings deposits with compounding. Deposits from $1.00 are accepted, and the notice emphasizes personal address handling and confidentiality in accordance with advertisement practices.
The Georgia State Board of Health endorses the Greek motto Nothing too much as a guide for Georgians. It cautions against excess in clothes, food, sleep, work, and play, and urges a balanced life to achieve health, wealth, and wisdom. The piece emphasizes moderation for overall well being.
Kansas City March 2 United States faces serious economic strain from war burdens and thriftlessness says S W Straus president of the American Society for Thrift In a National Education Association committee session he warned that abnormal commodity prices and high living costs reflect systemic waste He cites Surrogate Court records showing low income producing estates for men and widows left with little means He argues wartime expenses and pervasive thriftlessness will keep pressure on the economy long after peace is reached and urges shared sacrifice across society.
In this city a small family of two, an elderly man and his wife, lost their cow and now rely on aid to buy another. They earn from milk and butter sales and aim to support themselves. Contributions can be sent to Mr. J. H. Stone or the Banner office for directing toward a cow purchase.
Atlanta won the National Educational Association Department of Superintendence convention for 1918, likely February or March, after bids by Prof J C Wardlaw and M L Brittain. Delegates include superintendents, school board members, professors, and teachers from state to city levels, with emphasis on thrift and foundational schooling.
Rain prevented a large turnout at an Athens and Clarke County Medical Society open meeting at City Hall. Despite poor weather, organizers planned future sessions and hoped for better weather to allow hundreds of men and women to hear physicians' addresses.
Washington March 2 The Southern Railway issue a flyer showing an 1854 Orange and Alexandria Railroad ad with a wood burning engine and coach versus a modern double track electric block system train. It touts frequent omnb buses from Washington to Alexandria, Gordonsville transfers to reach Richmond by 2 30 pm and claims no ice delays as a safer, faster line.
The schedule lists games by date and opponent with locations in Atlanta and surrounding cities. Key matchups include Bingham School Mercer Sewanee and Georgia, with others at Auburn Clemson Vanderbilt and Washington and Lee. The sequence ends with Georgia at Athens on May 18 19.
Mobile March 2 Judge R T Ervin of the United States court southern district of Alabama showed leniency to Elisha Aaron father of twenty eight children He lives with his family in Conecup county His attorney asked for a continuance noting the large number of children and the prosecutor joined in the request Judge Ervin granted the continuance.
Lawrenceville Ga March 3 Free mail delivery begins March 15 with two service areas one delivering three times daily and one to residences twice daily according to government orders.
Sam Warren, who struck a small schoolboy named Tom Higginbotham with a rock, was arrested by police early yesterday morning and sentenced by the recorder to sixty days straight in the stockade.
John saw the New Jerusalem with 12 gates facing every quarter of the globe. Dr C L Goodell notes this suggests every nation shall have a chance, underscoring universal access and meaning for believers.
Macon Georgia March 2 Women of the South will play a prominent role in the Chautauqua of the South opening March 18 for a three week session. Mrs Nellie Peters Black will preside over Southern Women conferences and guide discussions on the high cost of living and solutions through household management scientific cooking home gardening and improved farming. The program will cover rural recreation marketing curbside markets city country club cooperation and related topics. Mrs T Dr Owen of Montgomery Alabama daughter of Senator Owen is vice president and Miss Leila Russell of Rock Hill South Carolina is secretary.
In Saaz Bohemia on the Eger river a display depicts a 15th century assault on Glatz fortress in Silesia using war automobiles. The flat armored cars carried large front shields and crewed cranks powering cogwheels to drive road wheels. They reportedly reached about four miles per hour.
A reader summary notes that if a normal human body were disassembled the iron would forge seven large nails and the fat could light 14 one pound candles. Carbon would provide the lead for 65 gross of pencils and phosphorus could tip 20 000 matches. Salt, sugar, and water totals are 20 teaspoonfuls, 50 lumps, and 88 quarts. The piece portrays the body as a great chemical factory with considerable material value.
A historical quip reflects on shifting values from a bygone lyric to a modern phrase about perpetual desire. The author notes a change in words while implying the same sublime longing for everything in sight and all the time.
Mrs W F Otis of Danby Vermont claims ownership of a January 12 1770 pamphlet published by Sole Southwick. The document reports an assembly at Faneuil Hall Boston that passed strong resolutions against Jackson Theophilus Lillie and the sellers.
A bishop, while passing through the back hall to the stables, stops to question a maid about a child. The maid curtsies and replies, “Between the cook and the housemaid,” and the bishop moves on after a brief thought.
A quotation from the St Louis Post Dispatch contrasts thrift and ambition in beggars, arguing that a beggar should seek work rather than charity. The dialogue emphasizes careful selection of whom to approach and offers a job instead of a dime as a remedy for poverty.
A fragment cites Henry Ward Beecher praising a happy home as a public benefactor, noting that making home seem vital makes the young dearer and happier. The line reflects Beecher’s sentiment on domestic virtue and social good.
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