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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1917
Page
8
Advertisements from The Banner note privacy for advertisers and list rental offers, used goods for sale, rooms for rent, and services. Items include insurance leads, razors, college avenue listings, a second-hand Dodge sale, a Milledge Avenue rental, a hackman Buick rental, typing services, moving ads, a lost item on a streetcar, and multiple furnished rooms and dwellings for rent with contact names and phone numbers.
The Attensa Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on savings deposits with monthly compounding starting January. Employment ads seek experienced stenographers and sales ladies, with payment by piecework. Also listed: a used roadster for sale or trade with Klein and Martin Co.
Records from the Athens street railway show 504 daily trips, 3 024 over six days, with only 27 trips where cars were crowded enough to force passengers to stand. A guessing contest at the Electric Store offered seven dollars in prizes for the nearest count of the exact number. Mrs. Wed Brown won after registering first. others guessed 26 and 28. Prof Sanford, University of Georgia English, left for Southwest Georgia to speak at Appling county teachers meeting, Wayne county, and other venues.
The Supreme Court ordered the return of the liner Appam and its cargo, valued up to four million dollars, to British owners British & African Steamship Co. The decision resolved a long legal dispute over prizes captured by the German cruiser Moewe and brought to Newport News Virginia in 1916, clarifying treaty interpretations between the United States and Germany.
Police took two small colored boys, known as Pig Adams and Harry Hitchcock, on a burglary charge. They allegedly broke into a River Street store Monday night and stole sardines crackers cigars and other items, much of which was recovered.
Washington March 6 Oldest at the White House regard President Wilson as methodical and time saving, maintaining a strict schedule for working hours. Visitors are limited. five minute interviews are exact. He walks to departments, reads poems, plays billiards, golfs with Mrs. Wilson, and imports a regular daily rhythm even while facing Mexican and European duties. He rises 7–7:30 in winter, earlier in summer, and favors daylight saving. He reviews mail at noon, with cabinet meetings on Tues and Fri. evenings are for reading or theater. He is sixty, healthy, with digestion issues and a steady diet.
The article portrays President Wilson as a breaker of precedents in social and official life. He avoided inaugural balls, declined exclusive clubs, reduced armed aides, abolished the motorcycle guard, and preferred direct action. He delivers addresses in person, visits banks and senators in person, and uses the telephone to speed talks, emphasizing direct action over tradition.
The YWCA girls overwhelmed Athens High School with a 16 to 4 victory at the YWCA gym. Athens led 3–0 after the first quarter before the Association team surged ahead, and Miss Catherine Eppes filled in admirably for absent Mrs. Ben Barrow. A large crowd saw the contest and enjoyed the game.
County commissioners discussed potential expansion of the county farm to care for the needy as applications rise. Several families received cash aid after losing homes and work, with the poor fund strained this winter. warmer weather may reduce need as farm work resumes. Road, work and bridge projects were planned pending milder weather while Commissioner Hodgson was absent and Bramblett attended in his stead.
Washington March 6 Supreme Court decides in favor of the government against importers in the five per cent discount cases. The ruling voids a tariff provision granting five per cent reductions on duties for merchandise imported in American ships, amid protests from nations with and without favored nation treaties. The treasury had held 25 to 30 million dollars ready to refund if the clause was struck down.
The US Supreme Court upheld Washington and New York compulsory workmen's compensation laws. The Washington act required employers and employees to accept benefits, removing court liability disputes. Other states like California Maryland New York and Ohio adopted similar compulsory schemes in the early 1910s.
The Supreme Court denies habeas corpus to Werner Horn charged with dynamiting the International Bridge at Vanceboro Maine. Horn’s Boston trial over the February 2 1915 attempt to dynamite the Canada Pacific railway bridge across the St Croix River was suspended by the habeas corpus suit. He remains jailed in Boston in default of $10000 bail under a federal indictment for unlawful transportation of explosives from New York through Massachusetts to Vanceboro.
The many friends of Cashier W P Brooks of the Georgia National Bank are glad to see him back at his place again in the bank after an absence of several weeks. He has been at a sanitarium near Atlanta for some time and has regained his health.
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