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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1917
Page
8
A collection of small ads and notices from The Banner including personal ads addressed to a general audience. Mentions of insurance options with Lipscomb, the Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest, rental listings for multiple properties, used cars from Athens Overland Co, and various local notices with contact names and phone numbers. Also notes a lost black mare near Lexington and other lodging and service ads.
3000 acre farm in southwest Georgia on the Chattahoochee River three miles from the Central of Georgia Railway station. 2000 acres under wire, 1200 cultivated, 800 free of stumps. Level land with red and grey sand and clay subsoil. splendid stock farm. Long loan 12000 at 6 percent. Quick sale 7.50 per acre. Write or wire Smith & Morgan Dothan Alabama. For rent: in new home two or three rooms for light housekeeping or one furnished room. Apply Box 397 City. Continuous farm listing.
A local ad announces a shipment of mules for sale by K L Caulhen at 167 West Clayton Street. He invites buyers to call before purchasing to ensure the animals meet their needs.
Jere M. Pound, President, invites bids to supply student uniforms for the school year starting September 6. Bids must be received by April 6. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. Specifications furnished on application. tuw-sil
Several members of the Mystic Shrine in Athens attended the large auditorium gathering in Atlanta hosted last night by Yarab Temple.
Georgia Supreme Court returns James M Smith estate dispute to state courts while Northeastern circuit overrules Judge Jones action granting injunctions and naming receivers. Case proceeds as if prior litigation had not begun, with administrators likely to continue estate administration.
Philadelphia March 13 Associated Press reports that stories linking Captain Karl Boy-Ed former German embassy attache in Washington to a recent smuggling plot involving two interned German raiders are denied by Frank G Arbarino head of the local FBI bureau.
The police department is focusing this week on speeding drivers. About half of recent cases involve drivers exceeding the speed limit. The recorder applies a fine of one dollar for each mile over the limit.
Tokio March 12 A special mark of honor to the late American Ambassador Guthrie the emperor is expected to send the body to the United States on a Japanese war ship The occasion is seen as a strong manifestation of friendship toward the United States.
City police oppose county use of their docket as a convenience for state court cases. They argue Sage routes city violations to state courts while city officers bear the workload with no county aid. Athens officials aim to protect citizens and ensure proper punishment in the recorder's court.
Olympia March 13 an armed man forced his way into Governor Lister's office and held control for about an hour before arrest. He claimed to be Charles L Wagner a wanderer. The governor was not present.
The Lucy Cobb basketball team faces Washington Seminary five on Friday evening the 16th at the Institute court. The game is billed as one of the season’s best and will be the last witnessed here this season.
Havana reports Secretary of State Desveraine will travel to Washington on an important mission to take up the case of Dr. Orestes Ferrera in New York. The government accuses him of spreading false news of the Cuban insurrection.
New York March 13 Despite the ruling that Harry K Thaw is insane District Attorney Swan will seek Thaws extradition to New York.
Tampa March 13 Samuel Pasco former United States senator from Florida died here tonight aged eighty three. The friends of Mr M P OCallaghan will be glad to know that he is improving somewhat from a tedious attack of grippe he is not able to be out yet
Washington reports another round of meetings among Democratic House leaders results in a caucus set for April 12 to align for the speakership fight. Republicans plan a caucus April 14 with the five independents, who hold the balance of power, slated to confer about the same time.
Mr Walter Jones underwent a successful operation yesterday at the Mayo Brothers Sanitarium in Rochester Minnesota. Wires from Mrs Jones, who remains with him, report he is doing nicely tonight and improving.
A reflective, aphoristic meditation on humor as a steadying force. The passage links humor to patience, kindness, and restraint, describing it as a companion to love and a necessary counterweight to anger, essential for springtime optimism.
Sorrells Store advertises table butter at striking prices and invites shoppers to call phone number 1117 for details. The message emphasizes value and low cost on dairy staples in a concise retail notice.
Wires from cotton exchanges recount a rumor that Germany has called in all submarines to bases for new orders. The note adds social items: Miss Mabel Pierce and Miss Frances Pierce of San Francisco, and Miss Rachel Keator of Philadelphia, visiting Miss Fink at the Lucy Cobb Institute in Georgia.
The first Athens National Guardsman who served on the Texas-Mexico border returned last night at 11 45 over the Seaboard Ernest Beacham of the Hospital Attachments, Georgia Field Artillery, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. Beacham stood the duty well, slightly browned with clear eyes, and wholesome. He left El Paso early last week and was mustered out yesterday. Accompanying him from the border and stopping off at their hometown in Athens were Ralph Sharton, Lloyd Miller, Roscoe Parke, Jack Daniel, Robert Graham, Ernest Hodges, Terschell Williams, Julius Phillips, and George Burnett. The other Athens Guardsmen in the national guard, with several in the regular army, will be home in a few weeks.
Louisville ball club members gathered in Athens with Joe McCarthy Ralph Stroud and others joining from Atlanta Houston and New Orleans. Stroud shows jaundice impact while others like Whiteman Kirke and Platte arrive ready for training as Corriden’s squad plans two practices tomorrow ahead of exhibition games.
Ferns perish in furnace heat. Fill pots with rich earth and plant grapefruit seeds. Cover half an inch, water well. In about two weeks a green center dish forms, adding color to the table and lasting through winter with proper care. New York Evening Sun.
The text urges cultivating health by expecting health, cheerful daily occupation, optimism in reflections, urbanity toward others, and consideration for their rights. It promotes being healthy in body, glad in heart, and aspiring in spirit within a unity context.
A Boston Transcript report notes a quixotic reform idea where any smoker seeking to quit should tap the ashes from his pipe into a keg of blasting powder, a dramatic and unsafe method reflecting sensational era language.
The South’s YMCA and YWCA training center at Black Mountain North Carolina offers a multi week program for city YMCA and YWCA representatives plus university students. It features Lee Hall Martha Washington Cottage eleven cottages and sixteen tents for 12 to 50 people, a 600 seat auditorium, athletic facilities, three miles of macadam road, and trails to mountain peaks. The program blends inspirational and technical work with delegates from colleges and preparatory schools across the South and states east of the Mississippi.
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