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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1909
Page
7
Today and tomorrow the store advertises 1000 directoire waists on sale for 98 cents each. The waists, priced normally at 1.50 to 2.50, arrived just yesterday and feature French Batiste fabric with clusters of tucks and a Baby Irish band down the center front.
In Youngstown Ohio a midnight siege surrounds David Brenninger's house after a daylong assault. Deputies, aided by special officers, try to smoke him out with a fire set behind the barn. Brenninger fires on them, one officer and possibly a child wounded, as he barricades inside with his wife and children.
Special Commissioner Samuel C. Dunlap sold at public auction the Gainesville Electric Railway Company to R. L. West of Atlanta for $80,000. West represents bondholder trustees. the property was bonded for $250,000 and described as a splendid enterprise. The sale was conducted by Judge W. T. Newman.
In Savannah on Broughton street Gus Armstrong attacked his father Frank Armstrong at the family business. The father stabbed his son before he could die from severed neck arteries. Frank, 63, may lose an eye and was also injured in the abdomen.
The little son of H M Adams of Henrietta Pa suffered five years from eczema and blood disorders. His mother writes seven bottles of Electric Bitters cured him completely, clearing eruption sores and rheumatism. Sold by W J Smith & Bro H R Palmer & Sons for 60 cents with guarantee.
Dublin Georgia March 3 F A Brantley and Whit Brantley shot and seriously wounded their father Jake Brantley in Brewton ten miles from Dublin. The elder fired first then his sons returned fire. All three marks hit the father with birdshot and one shot from a pistol misfired. The two brothers were later released on $500 bond and Brantley faces possible right arm amputation.
Powell Ernest a 16 year old boy shot and killed his father C O Ernest at their Jonesboro Alabama home. Bloodhounds tracked him for five miles before his capture in J M Robinson’s residence at Bessemer. He says his father beat him severely and he fired in self defense. He is jailed in Jefferson county.
Washington March 3 A string of thirty five diamonds and an illuminated friendship book were presented last night to Mrs Theodore Roosevelt by thirty eight prominent Washington women. The donors remain unnamed. The value is suggested by gifts ranging from fifty to one hundred dollars each.
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index reports 24 new corporations seeking charters this week, with minimum capitalization over $1 million. Atlanta plans include a 17 story bank and office building and a $200,000 apartment house. a Birmingham hotel project with $1 million scope moves forward, site purchased for $160,000.
The report urges building modern well-equipped structures to replace older facilities. It highlights advance construction items featuring churches at Dublin Georgia Hartselle Alabama and Milledgeville Georgia as examples of updated projects.
Charles F. Davis was bound over to the May term of the U S district court after a preliminary trial before Commissioner John C. Printup in Rome Georgia. District Attorney Carter Tate and Post Office Inspector Bannerman presented evidence linking Davis to land fraud schemes using the mails. bond set at $1000 signed by his father in law J F Kinnebrew.
The people of Oyster Bay plan a rousing welcome for Mr Roosevelt when he arrives from Washington. A reception committee will meet him at the station and neighbors along the Cove Road will illuminate their houses as the ex president and family travel to Sagamore Hill. The town anticipates a festive evening, hoping for a homecoming that underscores Roosevelt’s unique ties to Oyster Bay.
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