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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1913
Page
4
Subscribers alerted to report delivery issues only to the office. News items reflect bond elections, education measures, local business investments, and national events with figures on California peas, India trade, and Russia’s tercentenary celebrations. The piece surveys local civic notes, school funding, and political hints from a period-appropriate voice.
A meditation on Easter as the hinge of Christian faith describing Good Friday sorrow and the awaiting dawn of Easter Sunday. The piece contrasts the Friday darkness with the hopeful Sunday light and invites contemplation of Calvary and resurrection.
In Richmond Virginia April 16 to 18 a citywide series of conferences will address farm marketing rural credit country church and school needs. Athens will contribute top students and the program will feature leaders in business education and journalism shaping cooperative action across the region.
The Bureau of Railway Economics details how railway miles rose nearly twice as fast as improved farmland and thrice as fast as crop area during the last Census decade. Rail output per mile grew, while crop output per acre dipped slightly, yet farm value rose. Purchasing power shifts favored crops, with corn wheat and cotton showing notable gains in relative purchasing power and transport miles between 1900 and 1910.
In Milwaukee Wisconsin on March 22 1865 a youth aged thirteen became an orphan and supported five siblings while studying at night. He rose as a messenger boy then telegraph operator, served as Milwaukee alderman, county sheriff, and by 1907 won the Fourth Wisconsin district congressional seat now in his fourth term. Also noting contemporaries Marquis of Lothian age 39 Herman Kohlsaa publisher age 60 Paul Doumer France political leader age 56 and Laura Libbey writer age 41.
Markets pause for Good Friday and Easter. New York reports a quiet week with mixed views on the old crop and looming early drop. New Orleans notes a dull week with price range 11 to 17 points and holidays limiting trading from Thursday onward. Liverpool and London closed, All American markets open Monday. Census figures reinforce holiday mood. ginning totals reach 14,076,000 bales including linters, with varied interpretations on supply.
Florida tops the trapshooting program with its first state shoot of the year. D W Budd of St Petersburg wins the state title with 93 of 100 using a Remington autoloading shotgun and Arrow shells. R H Bartells of St Petersburg is high amateur with 447 of 500. Arkansas follows with a state tournament planned for Hot Springs in April.
The nationwide prize letter contest reports 12 173 pupils registered from 1 214 schools across 29 states with New York leading in both schools and pupils. California and Missouri trail neck in neck for fourth as Remington Literary Committee invites new entrants and distributes blanks.
Commerce Ga March 21 There was lighthearted fun at a justice court trial over a possessory warrant for an old yellow hen and seven black chicks. J W Jewell and Mrs R B Terrell claimed ownership as the hen itinerated between properties, while the courtroom audience watched the chickens chirp witnesses. The case drew a packed courtroom and lively commentary as the judge pondered who deserved the fowl and the brood.
The court assessed the vine crossing the boundary and the melon grown on another’s land, and after mature deliberation found that the old yellow hen was in the peaceable possession of Mr. Jewell when she began setting and when the chicks emerged. The decision favored Mr. Jewell.
The report predicts Saturday fair and colder conditions for Atlanta and surrounding areas with a sharp temperature drop by Sunday morning. Western storms form a severe low between Chicago and Toledo, bringing clearing skies in Texas and expected much colder conditions for Atlanta later.
Mrs Wyche of Montgomery and others from Brenau are registered at the Georgian after arriving for the dance. Atlanta businessman Mr C L Young visits the city. Local returns include Miss Laura Cobb Hutchins from Atlanta and Mr M L Manne from Elberton. Several visitors and Good Friday observances feature in a social roundup with church notes and an advertisement for Bucklen's Arnica Salve for skin ailments.
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