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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1917
Page
4
The Athens Banner outlines subscription options including 5.00 per year 2.50 for six months 1.25 for three months and 10 cents per week. It details delivery methods carrier or mail with various payment methods and requests prompt reports of delivery failures.
The text contrasts rural and urban child worth and notes shifting views on foreign missions. It warns the Russian bear is dangerous without restraint. It asserts local taxation as the only safe method to improve permanent school conditions in the country.
A call for swift action by Congress as the United States bears the war burden. The editor laments slow war measures, noting weeks passed since war declared with little done beyond loan and bond authorizations. Emphasizes urgency to empower the president, naval and army boards, and agencies to act to defeat Germany.
A cautious outlook from the era notes Russian factions showing signs of unity toward a coalition government. Dispatches indicate soldiers and workers’ committees favor a shared leadership to sustain the fight against German autocracy, with hopes the democracy will stabilize in coming weeks.
The University of Georgia honors R. M. Guess, exemplary Y M C A secretary, as he leaves for Fort McPherson to lead Y M C A work and perhaps serve in France. A supper at First Methodist Church paid tribute to his four years of superb service and to the students who presented him a loving cup.
A judge warns a speaker to avoid bad company while a satirist responds humorously about never returning to court. The brief exchange highlights courtroom banter and social humor.
A historical discussion outlines daily and yearly food requirements for a family of five. It lists specific rations for an adult man, including eggs, milk, meat, butter, bacon, beans, corn, potatoes, bread, and sugar, with adjusted amounts for women and children. The passage also details yearly stock needs such as flour substitutes, corn meal, milk, bacon, lard, meat, eggs, fruit, canned goods, syrup, and root vegetables, plus storage and planting guidance. It concludes with substitutes for wheat and ways to create nutritious light bread and varied meals using corn meal and potatoes.
Georgia State College of Agriculture professor urges farmers to expand food crop acreage and boost yields. Henotes using waste land along rail rights of way for corn peas beans and tomatoes and stresses soil preparation manures and fertilization to conserve and increase local food supplies.
Two accounts detail recent meetings of county agent Miss Oliver’s rural school clubs. At Tuckston, 18 members attended on May 3 1917 with song, minutes, member reports, student projects like a gly trap and bird house, a Clean Up Day dramatization, and praise for Oliver. The April 12 meeting featured soil preparation talks for tomatoes okra beans and related planting, with candy served at close.
Two wealthy ranchers in Santa Barbara County are sued over a dispute about morning glories invading and fouling land. One rancher accuses the other of seeding his soil with the radiant but hostile plants to claim vegetable honors.
Clara laments her brother's shift from composing poetry to giving gifts and clipping household pages for recipes. Dora notes the change, joking that the brother is pursuing cooking scraps rather than romance, suggesting he is serious in a quirky way.
The twenty-eighth chapter of Job presents mining in ancient times as a poetic depiction. It notes Egyptian gold mines worked by convicts and captives in fetters while fire cracks hard rock before picks and chisels are used. The text describes miners as naked, drawing a painful parallel to present African diamond mining.
The Christian Herald recounts Little Eva in Brooklyn recalling a river trip on the Hudson. On the return voyage her father asks for thoughts and she quips that the river is like any other, adding the sides are pretty.
An anecdote from Gamaliel Bradford's Portraits of Women recounts George Ticknor’s reply to Lady Holland who quips that New England was settled by convicts. Ticknor retorts that some of the Vassalls were early Massachusetts settlers, noting a correction to the line of ancestry.
"Babl" says Ulinkers, a Divid tapping the house woke him last night. He found the window shutter fastened broken and used his necktie to secure it. Morning reveals the tie he planned to wear turned into a four in hand knot.
A compact fragment notes bees with a 12.6 reference and mentions DN 18 30 6 6, suggesting a publication indexing or ledger entry. The readable line hints at a beekeeping or apiculture reference within a historical issue.
Train No 2 leaves Athens at 7 20 am for Winder Monroe and intermediate points. Train No 4 leaves Athens at 2 20 pm. Train No 1 arrives Athens at 11 40 am. Train No 4 arrives Athens 6 40 pm. Nos 2 and 4 connect at Belmont for Winder and Monroe and with the Georgia Railroad for all points and at Gainesville for Gainesville Northwestern stations and with Southern Railway north and south.
Southern Railway announces Athens Branch departures daily at 8 20 am 8 mm All Points daily at 1 00 pm and 3 15 pm Sunday only 3 15 pm daily except Sunday 3 30 pm Trains arrive daily 11 40 pm 6 50 pm daily and 9 45 am daily except Sunday For information contact BE Williams Commercial Agent Phone 61 E Shelton Ticket Agent Phone 1924.
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