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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1905
Page
5
Rev. W. Wiant pastor of Christiansburg Methodist Church was held to the grand jury on a slander charge after affidavits claimed he branded all dancing women as unchaste. Wiant denied the remark though several witnesses testified to hearing it.
In Pittsburg on May 23 Special Officer Copper at Union Depot caught Maggie Lockhart a Grove City Penn girl posing as a boy at the ticket window. A hat pin betrayed her disguise and she is jailed at Central Police Station stripped of her clothing. She ran away a month ago from her coal merchant father and hid in Allegheny.
Cuyler Doddridge a young white man formerly from Tyrone Kentucky and resident of Bainbridge for several months attempted to take his life at the Fordham hotel. He took morphine amounting to two to three grains but was saved by heroic measures. His condition is now a practical consciousness and he is expected to recover.
Rehearsals for The Varsity Girl, a college play at the opera house Friday evening, progress well and promise strong local talent. Several entertaining specialties will be offered between acts, with ticket sales starting Thursday morning at Palmer's. Seats expected to sell quickly due to Athletic Association interest.
The senior class at the University of Georgia will start its final examinations this week. Other classes follow a few days later as the entire college prepares for the annual commencement. The year has been one of the most satisfactory in the university’s history.
Postoffice records reveal unclaimed letters with an added one cent charge. Males include Cane George Childers T R Coffee L W Griffeth W E Hansford W W Hardeman J D Patman W H Turner T G Fred Patman W H Turner D G Whelchel Frederick C Williams Jnc J Wright N S and females such as Miss Pearl Arthur Miss Mamie Barton Miss Fannie J Cole Mamie M Durham Mrs Rosa Green Vara Hall Mrs Bessie Harris Miss N Hill Mrs Cynda Jackson Mrs Hattie Johnson Mrs Harvey King Miss Ellen T McWhorter Mrs Millie Mann Mrs Frank P Moore Miss Mattie Moss Mrs Joe Sykes Miss Fannie Mac Wilsonf Virginia and others listed.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Gin and Buchu for diabetes and Brights disease. A caller asks about pneumonia fears, and a doctor replies that pneumonia comes from overheated steam flats, concluding with the caller feeling reassured.
In Blackshear Georgia on May 23 T B Crawford a 21 year old white farmer was instantly killed by lightning while fishing with friends east of Blackshear. He sheltered under a tree with a companion who recovered consciousness to learn Crawford had died. Crawford hailed from a prominent local family.
Will Sims, a Black man, is to be hanged in Conyers on the 2nd of next month for shooting his wife who wanted to visit her brother. The infant in her arms survived. This will be Rockdale’s first execution since becoming a county fifty four years ago.
A group of thirteen Randolph-Macon Academy students visiting Bedford City was fired on by shooters from the Jeter Female Institute early Sunday. Five boys were hit by shotgun pellets, one sustaining facial injuries. no arrests have been made and details on the attackers remain undisclosed.
A Chicago Daily News excerpt notes Cheney's Expectorant cures coughs colds and croup priced at 25 cents a bottle available in all drug stores. A humorous exchange follows about vaccination and bravado.
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