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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1917
Page
9
Joe Jordan a white farmer and his fourteen year old son were jailed in Anderson South Carolina after the killing of Will Pierce a Savannah River ferryman. Tracks from Jordan home to the crime scene implicate them in the Brown's Ferry murder. The farm involved lies between Anderson and Hartwell Georgia.
Superior Court Judge Andrew J. Cobb will convene a one day session tomorrow at the usual morning hour to hear motions and then adjourn until commencement week for admitting University Law School graduates to practice in state courts. Judge Newnan will preside over a concurrent federal court session for the same purpose and other business.
Results across leagues show American games with Chicago beating New York 2 to 1 and Boston routing St Louis 8 to 4. National games include Brooklyn 0 to Chicago 1 and New York 3 to St Louis 1. Additional matches feature Atlanta over Memphis 1 to 0 and Birmingham 3 to Little Rock 6, plus Mobile 3 over Chattanooga 7 and New Orleans 5 over Nashville 1.
The article explains that radium emanations cannot be stopped and a stream of energy is always emitted with minimal material exhaustion. To confine them a containment safe has been built with a thickening of lead inside a steel shell.
A mother jokes with her son about asking guests their ages. The boy pauses then points to a young girl and asks if he may ask her how old she is, noting she doesn’t look like a lady.
An official from Seaboard Air Line Railway indicates a special train will carry about 500 New York troops to Atlanta early today for Fort McPherson concentration camp duties. The report notes this is the first movement and that as many as 30,000 troops may soon be in Atlanta camp.
Governor Harris ordered a meeting of the State Council for Defense in his Atlanta office at 11 Tuesday to review Washington outcomes. The session will address state federal cooperation, food supply progress, Georgia military affairs, and labor needs for farm work.
Mr A A Johnson secretary of the Retail Credit Association spent yesterday in Atlanta. Miss Katie Belle Miller, ill for two weeks, is able to be out again. Mrs R E Smith and her daughter are in Macon visiting relatives for several weeks. Miss Mary Bell is critically ill at her aunt Mrs R J Hancock's home. Mrs Frank Thornton Mrs Ben Thornton and Mr George Thornton Jr motor to Atlanta yesterday. Miss Janie May Webb went to Atlanta for the Georgia Tech game. Rev and Mrs Stanley R Grobb returned from Savannah after attending a Sunday school convention. Mr Bob Dorton leaves tomorrow for Cedartown after accepting a county post. Miss Mildred Rutherford to return home Wednesday.
The University Engineering Corps, led by Press Strahan and Griggs, completed a week long Milledgeville survey. They mapped fifteen miles of riverfront and city boundary, street center points, and block property details for tax mapping and planned public improvements like paving.
The Superior Court of Clarke County hears an application by Andrew J. Cobb BE Bondurant and Bolling DuBose for a charter named The Trustees of the Chapter House Fund of the Gamma Chapter Kappa Alpha Order a Greek letter fraternity at the University to own its new home here.
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