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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1914
Page
4
Local items describe subscription rates and delivery notices for the Athens Banner. Readers are urged to report carrier issues promptly and note that carriers cannot collect payments. The piece also discusses park sentiment, sports business gossip, and political commentary on Mexico policy and public figures.
The piece critiques Coxey era marches and a current California started movement to Washington. It argues such demonstrations do not reflect real conditions and that ample work exists for able men, urging lawmakers to act without marches.
Britain wrestles with Ulster opposition to Home Rule plan offering six year exemption for Ulster. Ulster leaders led by Sir Edward Carson reject the compromise as a death sentence with stay of execution. Asquith faces a tense, prolonged political standoff as Britain weighs enforcing a law backed by Parliament.
The Savannah Press notes the open day ticket sale for the upcoming grand opera season in Atlanta set a new record, surpassing one thousand dollars in sales. Dr. C Brantley, ex editor of the Valdosta Times, joins the Macon Telegraph editorial staff as a new editor.
Charles F. Murphy James E. Gaffney Thomas Darlington George W. Plunkett and a former state senator were declared not members of the Democratic Club by the Board of Governors for nonpayment of dues. Thos F. Smith offered a dues check but it was refused.
In Washington on March 10 the House rejected a proposal by Representative Sumner of Texas to place the distribution of free garden seeds under the agricultural department. The vote fell 96 to 36 against the measure.
This week in Lawrenceville Georgia the superior court handled a surge of cases mostly involving defendants labeled as foreigners. Convictions include Tom Smith Missouri horse stealing Joe Hodge Baltimore simple larceny J B Link Oklahoma vagrancy and Lucius Smith Tennessee highway robbery. Others include John Johnson Dublin pistol carrying Buck Harris Cobb selling liquor and Houston Culpepper Tallahassee assault to rape a six year old white girl. The Terry of Fulton county is being tried for defamation of a virtuous female. The criminal docket ends tomorrow then civil docket resumes.
In Chicago March 10 the congressional inquiry into the Michigan copper strike concluded with Western Federation of Miners president Charles H. Moyer recounting his forcible deportation from the copper fields two months prior. He described a delegation asking about funds to aid victims after the Italian Hall fire and his removal to the train.
In the city hall office of Marshal B. F. Woods workers install counters grill work and a new desk to improve duties and better accommodate the public.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of militant suffragettes, is on hunger strike in Holloway Prison to force release under the Cat and Mouse Act after being brought from Glasgow. A son named William Flournoy Prater was born to Mr and Mrs John Prater on March 8, 1914.
South African natives say the mopane tree is struck by lightning while the morala tree is never touched by lightning. The proverb notes lightning avoiding morala and avoidance attributed to spiritual or environmental factors.
The American Play Company announces a world wide production of Bayard Veiller's drama Within the Law to be staged at the Colonial Theater on Tuesday March 17 with seat sales beginning Saturday.
Washington reports the rivers and harbors committee approved a 7 million dollar appropriation for the Mississippi river commission to fund revetment work and levee construction from the river headwaters to the passes. Representative J Henry Rainey of Illinois and Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri praised the move and noted Edward A. Glenn of Missouri was named to the Mississippi river commission. Rainey cited extensive private levee building in Illinois and predicted northern levees would receive equal funding to southern works as federal aid expands upriver.
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