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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1914
Page
6
Draper North Carolina resident Mrs Helen Dalton says years of left side pains and near suffocation ended after using Cardui the woman’s tonic. She recommends the medicine to other women and notes its long history of helping female troubles. Write Chattanooga Medicine Co for guidance and the 64 page Home Treatment for Women booklet.
Miscellaneous notices include candidates for Clarke County offices in Georgia with names such as W. H. Mallory, H. Linton, Walter E. Jackson, Elmer J. Crawford, J. H. Dorsey, N. Weatherly, Ben H. Barrow, A. S. J. Stovall, and C. H. Arnold. Auditor calls, tax collector race, and sheriff re election are listed alongside campaign announcements and local advertisements.
Engineer George C Scales arrives in Athens with Mrs Scales to supervise a government road maintenance project from Washington City to Atlanta. He will base in Athens, meet county commissioners, and prepare maintenance cost estimates for the route. The effort aims to prove a long experimental roadway as a model for nationwide adoption.
An advertisement touts Pope’s Diapepsin as a quick remedy for indigestion gas and dyspepsia. It promises relief within five minutes, noting the product digests food and stabilizes the stomach, with a large case costing fifty cents at drug stores.
A fragmentary notice advertises Kit Carson's Buffalo Band Buffalo Banch Wild West at the fairgrounds with a worldwide menagerie from largest to smallest. It urges families to visit and contact details are partially legible.
The colored Pythians of Athens filled the Morton theater with 1290 attendees for their anniversary, while a long street parade featured five lodges, Calanthe courts, rank companies, a cadet corps, and a women's drill corps. Rev. S. F. Harris gave the sermon and Maj. L. M. Bill delivered the annual address amid a full program of songs, papers, and readings.
Mrs Glennie Marlow of 243 S Jackson Athens Georgia testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured her child’s serious kidney disease after doctors failed. She recalls the girl’s two year illness with weakness and paralysis, claiming permanent health improvements since taking the remedy.
Washington March 30. A report from the federal reserve organization committee outlines the new currency system and district locations. The conclusions remain secret but speculation grows on the number and placement of reserve banks across the Atlantic coast and South regions.
Judge Carl Crossley will move from the Shackelford building to the Holman building this week. He will occupy suite No. 211 on the second floor and continue serving as a justice of the peace, while Judge Carlisle Cobbwill is expected to take one room in the new courthouse.
In the District Court of the United States Northern District of Georgia L L Flournoy bankrupt case creditors are summoned to a first meeting at the Referee's Office Athens Georgia on April 5 1914 at 11 in the forenoon Creditors may prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and transact related business Frank L Upson Referee in Bankruptcy dated Athens Ga March 25 1914
Washington reports a forecasted busy anti trust week with settlements or suits planned in the Metropolitan Tobacco Company case and the Elgin beard of trade matter. Final reports expected in the United Gas Company case while tobacco case conferences proceed in New York and Chicago law officials near a decree. New York testimony contends Charles H Allen did not set prices or methods after becoming president, and directors did not authorize such actions.
In Juarez rebel agent Pesquiera says fighting continues with rebels holding most of Monclova and Torreon reports unsettled. Carranza reports no progress on Benton inquiry while a released American doctor and a captured Spanish steamer Bonita are noted in networked dispatches from El Paso and Douglas.
Kit Car son presents privately owned double-length double rail trains bringing the Buffalo Ranch Wild West act to town. Reported to deliver an outstanding performance with well equipped equipment and high audience expectations for today.
A notice urging caution about catching cold and advising prompt use of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It touts the medicine as excellent, effective, and safely obtainable from all dealers for a shilling amount.
In the House of Commons the Premier stated he would accept Col Seeley’s resignation and assume the war secretary duties. He plans to resign from his seat and seek re election in East Fife Scotland. Field Marshal Sir John French and General Sir John Ewart declined to withdraw their resignations amid the army crisis. Also noted is Mr Euler B Smith, former English teacher at State Normal School and a traveling representative, visiting LaGrange.
The report lists college football scores by region with teams such as West Virginia Wesleyan, Washington and Lee, Vermont, Lafayette, Georgetown, and Amherst securing varied wins or losses. It notes games across Lexington Virginia, Raleigh North Carolina, and Atlanta Georgia with multiple 2 to 6 point results.
Three houses have already been completed on Woodlawn Avenue with more than a dozen expected by year’s end. The street, praised as one of the prettiest in Athens, features granite sidewalks, water, electric lights, gas and sewerage in a cool and quiet residential area.
The Indies of the Sunday school class of Dr. Stephens thank all who aided the Destrick Skule event, especially nonmembers. They appreciated the full house and hope everyone felt repaid for the effort.
The Brunswick News reports Washington sources suggest impeachment of Judge Emory Speer is unlikely. The paper defends the judge, praising his integrity and anticipating vindication, while condemning critics as small and conspiratorial.
The Athens audience can see Kit Carson's Big Three Ring Ranch Wild West Circus for two shows on Tuesday March 31. The program touts trains and a Curtiss airplane, a menagerie, and daring acts as the largest amusement enterprise of its kind.
A dense roster of fraternal groups in Athens notes meeting times and places including Glenn Lodge No 75 I O O F Max Joseph building Keystone Chapter No 1 Royal Arch Masons Elmo Lodge K of P St Hime Lodge Knights of Pythisa Jester building Clayton street Classic City Council No 315 U OT O T J H Wilson John Roberts Athens BPOE No 790 Mt Vernon Lodge No 15 I O O F Masonic Halls Woodmen of the World entries list regular meetings with officers and invitation notes
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