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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1917
Page
8
Advertisements show a generic address, not the advertiser, with items like insurance, savings, used cars, sewing machines, rentals, sales and displays. Notable entries include Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest, Levy's Togger y Shop promotions, Singer Sewing Machine Co. rentals, and Curtis Cameron picture displays at McGregor Co. Includes sale notices for 7-room cottages and various goods around Athens.
News reached Athens yesterday by telegram to Knights of Pythias officers that Mr. Champ Ward, former resident and manager of the Chero Cola plant, was killed in Hickory North Carolina in an accident. Advices say he was backing onto a railroad track when struck by a train, his neck broken, death within minutes. His son, about 15, is in Hickory, other relatives notified. he was about 40 and well liked in Athens.
The fire department was summoned to Mrs. Alice Adams's Hill Street home yesterday morning after chimney sparks ignited the roof. The blaze was quickly extinguished with only minor damage reported.
William H Penland aged 26 died yesterday evening around 7 30 at his home after a long illness He is survived by parents Mr and Mrs H M Penland four sisters Mrs Robert Ray and Misses Wessie Anna May and Ruby Penland a step brother E B Baker of Savannah He belonged to First Presbyterian Church and was a devout Christian The funeral will be from the residence on Satula avenue at 4 30 this afternoon Rev B J Cartledge officiating Interment will be in Conee Cemetery.
Members and friends of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are called to meet at 8 30 this evening in the K P Hall with Imperial Wizard Col. W J Simmons present to organize the Klan.
The county board meeting is postponed due to the absence of Commissioner Hodgson. It will now be held Tuesday next week, March 27, at 10 a.m. at the usual county venue.
The Octagon auditorium on the University campus hosted a large gathering led by Chancellor Barrow as Vice President addressed a crowd of nearly two thousand. The program opened with prayer and the audience sang My Country Tis of Thee as the national colors adorned the platform. The speaker praised the Red Cross as a symbol of human love, resilience, and relief amid war, pestilence, and disaster, urging unity and the noble role of womanhood in the order.
The Honorable Thomas Riley Marshall spoke to students in a college town, praising equality, fraternity, and the Golden Rule. He contrasted true patriotism with mere wealth or education, urged universal brotherhood, and urged a league of peace despite wartime tensions.
A brief note warns that microbes causing colds thrive in damp cold. It recommends Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as an effective, long trusted treatment, claimed popular endorsement by many years of use and widely obtainable.
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