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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
8
Have you joined Erwin's growing list of satisfied policy holders. If not you should get on. Efficient service strong companies and prompt adjustment of losses. Our policies cost no more. Phone three four five.
A collage of local ads lists mileage coupons for cash ads and a reminder to ask for the coupon. The Athens Savings Bank touts 4 percent interest on savings deposits with semiannual compounding starting January 1st and July 1st. Other items include sale of a tan male goat, a 1914 five passenger Ford, and notices for rental of the Will Fleming home at 165 Reese Street.
Community notices advertise mileage coupons with cash ads and urge readers to ask for them. Local businesses offer insurance discounts, life loans, housing for rent, and floor coverings. Employment ads invite men to learn barbering at MoJler Barber College in Atlanta.
Washington reports South Carolina and Texas have enacted compulsory school attendance laws in 1915. The Texas act requires ages 8 to 14 to attend increasing days yearly, with attendance officers and penalties. South Carolina's law is optional but urged for adoption. Officials anticipate broader impact on remaining states and ongoing campaigns to enforce longer attendance. Alabama advocates for a strict, progressive compulsory system to compel parental school enrollment.
At a directors meeting the Southern Mutual Insurance Company voted a sixty percent dividend for the year ending April 30 1915. Premiums totaled about 390000 with losses of 125000 producing a 32 percent loss ratio, well below many Georgia peers. The annual policy holder meeting is set for June 1 to publish year’s business.
Judge West of the city court announced to the Banner that the May term is adjourned to June 7. Jurors and witnesses are told not to appear until that date. Pleas will be filed next Monday. non jury business proceeds, all civil and criminal matters push to June 7.
The Fox feature A Fool There Was shows scenes aboard a ninety-foot gasolene cruiser off the Florida coast. During a fast pass at twenty knots a sudden jar split the bow with two halves of a severed shark streaming aft. Edward Jose leads the cast and claims to have carved the shark, preferring to serve the fish course in the usual way next time.
The U S Engineering Corps surveying the Savannah River, delayed by high water, came to Athens to attend the Tech Georgia football game. The party included B P McWhorter C D Flanigen Jr and W S Pottinger. After completion the federal survey will be led entirely by University of Georgia School of Engineering graduates.
Edward Payson Powell obituary notes the author and journalist died at his home in Sorrento on May 14 after illness started during a fishing trip with his daughter. Born in Clinton New York he was eighty two.
Evans Heath of Waynesboro and Emory graduate lawyers head a list of old boys returning for the series. Enoch Benson of Hartwell, former Georgia Glean and Mandolin Club leader, also attends. Col Warren Moise, Georgia graduate and Rhodes Scholar, is present, along with Henry Lanier of Americus and Marcus McWhorter from Atlanta. Others include Paul Harber of Commerce Observer and Kappa Sigma Walton Griffith, insurance man now in Atlanta but Athens roots. S. O. Smith of Gainesville and M. B. Perry of Atlanta also represented publishers and firms.
Doctors say electric shock terminates life by disrupting heart rhythm and depressing lung function similar to an anesthetic overdose.
Judge Pettingill of Chanute notes in a Kansas City Star quote that a treaty and a married man’s promise to his wife share strong common points. He likens formal agreements to personal commitments made to stay faithful and stay home.
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