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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1914
Page
8
The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded twice yearly starting January 1 and July 1. Deposits from $1.00 upward are welcomed. Also advertised are hay prices and local business notices including rental listings, live stock offers, and shop services.
A promotional notice explains that anyone aged 15 to 85 with some schooling can pass civil service exams with coaching and obtain positions such as Railway Mail Clerk Postoffice Clerk and Carrier Bookkeeper Stenographer and other clerical posts. It promises good pay short hours liberal vacations and no layoffs with exams held soon. readers are urged to write Webster Institute Dept 582 Buffalo NY for free details.
Lipscomb proposes dividing fire insurance with J C Jester while promoting a Sunday series on Successful Men. Citizens Bank seeks 3000 for long term real estate security. Davison-Nicholson Co advertises Olive Lawn hotel rental. Livestock for sale includes milch cows and registered hogs from S D Fambrough and Asa W Hindsley. Parish area listings note two to three improved tracts near Athens. W H Shelton at Citizens Bank advertises buys. Parma violets offered 75 cents by phone 142-L.
Property listing for a business lot near the new court with investment appeal. Terms available upon request. For further particulars contact E. D. Sledge.
Judge Brand and Solicitor General John Gamble returned yesterday from Lawrenceville where the superior court spent the week on civil business. Court will resume Monday. Brand noted the earthquake was distinctly felt in the courthouse Thursday afternoon as the grand jury observed the shock with excitement.
Georgia benefits from mild winters and strong markets for poultry but lags in egg value. Using pure bred or standard bred utility fowl can boost egg size, uniformity, and prices. The College of Agriculture offers a free bulletin on poultry raising to aid farmers and raisers.
Prof Albert B Welfe of Oberlin College told the Religious Education Association in New Haven that not more than half the men and almost none of the women graduates know anything about city government. He urged a stronger social focus in college studies and warned against equating social service with settlement work.
Lexington Virginia March 6 statistics from Washington and Lee University show 38 percent of 462 students are Virginia natives with 176 from the state. Other states and nations are represented, totaling 488 students in 1913, with Northern men noted for athletics and Southern students for scholarship.
W J Russell of this city has been offered a position by the second assistant postmaster general in the mail service to be located in Washington. The appointment, made weeks ago, reached him only yesterday due to mail delays. Russell has long experience in government service, including work in the post office department in Washington and a senior census role.
The article notes Mr Russell, a prominent local businessman and brother of Judge R B Russell, has been appointed as a special representative for the state government during the census. His selection is anticipated with pleasure by friends statewide and he is expected to decide within a few days.
An old-fashioned advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a remedy for sore feet and uneasy footwear. It urges readers to obtain a free trial by sending a request to Olmsted, Le Roy, New York, highlighting claims of relief and comfort for new shoes.
Local shop advertises genuine O Cedar Mops and Polish with sizes medium and large and O Cedar Brushes. Prices range from 25 to 2.50 dollars and emphasize convenience for furniture piano and baseboard care.
Athens religious work committee of the Y M C A invites a capacity crowd to hear Rev J J Hall in the Colonial Sunday service. His address The Life That Counts follows an orchestral concert led by Professor Walters from 3 40 to 4 and the lecture from 4 to 5. Admission is free.
Yesterday afternoon the Emmanuel Church Guild held its annual meeting at the parish house. The same officers who led the previous year were re-elected: Mrs. John E. Talmadge Jr president, Mrs. H. J. Rowe vice president, Miss Louise Morris secretary, and Miss Basiline Prince treasurer. Reports highlighted notable accomplishments.
Mr Roy Finch resigns after eleven years with Empire State Fertilizer Company and will start his own fertilizer business in Cornelia. He leaves today to prepare for the new venture as friends extend best wishes for success.
A leather bound diary issued for 1914 by the Cleveland American Baseball Club features the American League schedule and blanks for phone numbers and addresses. It was popular last year and will be issued annually.
Mr R H Bickerstaff will join Stuart McCord Company of Atlanta after recovering from an ankle injury. Meanwhile Mr Steelman takes over his former Reynolds Tobacco territory, covering Northeast Georgia and the Carolinas.
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