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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
4
Subscribers are urged to notify the business office of late delivery or missing papers. Special notice declares no carrier may collect subscriptions or sell papers. The piece surveys weather, crops, court house pride in Clarke county, and political chatter across Tennessee, Wisconsin, Roosevelt, and upcoming governor races with multiple candidates and a note on Rio Teodoro.
The passage states the county unit system remains in effect as endorsed by the Democratic State Convention and the State Executive Committee cannot change it. It argues the system will hold through the August primary and that Georgia will fare well despite more candidates for higher offices.
News accounts claim Colorado women organized a mass meeting of over a thousand, pressed Governor Ammons for aid, and sent a telegram to President Wilson requesting federal troops. The governor approved the request, prompting federal troops to restore order and ease labor disputes in the state.
The Smith Lever bill establishes a large federal appropriation for agricultural extension, increasing annually for eight years and distributed to states by rural population. Georgia will start with twenty five thousand dollars and rise each year. The program funds skilled demonstrators to educate farmers in soil, planting, cultivating and marketing crops, with possible use for household economics.
Accompanied by the mayor and council the entire police force posed for a group portrait. Chiefs captains plain clothes officers and others stood in uniform with hats caps and new white helmets. The photo was developed printed mounted and exhibited yesterday and praised as a fine representation of the beet-town force compared with the best in the country.
Col John B G Logan of Homer Banks county arrived yesterday on professional business.
The University of Georgia sophomore class election for president is set for tonight at eight. Candidates Howard McWhorter and J. E. Everett are prominent athletically and socially with loyal support from friends on both sides predicting a victory for either.
The Balkan Commission of Inquiry of the Carnegie Endowment released a seven chapter report detailing wartime barbarities against noncombatants in the 1912 13 Balkan conflicts. It condemns all contending forces for violence while highlighting Greek Bulgarian and Serbian excesses and calls for arbitration treaties and judicial settlement to avert further suffering.
A pithy aphorism notes that blaming misfortune for drinking misreads cause and effect, urging personal responsibility. The line implies that choices precede circumstances, challenging a blame-shifting excuse. It frames self-control as the true remedy for hardship.
TM M. Elmo Lodge in Clayton street holds Monday night meetings at o'clock in Castle Hall. Visiting Knights invited. Also notices for R. & Classic City Council 315 U G T meet first and third Saturdays in K of P Hall Clayton street. Mt. Vernon and Williams Lodges announce regular Thursday and Monday sessions respectively at local Masonic venues.
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