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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1917
Page
9
Local notices advertise insurance, savings bank rates, loans, moving services, and a range of sale and rental items. It lists automobile rentals, farm plant sales, secondhand items, and a boat ride offer on the net river starting May 19 with evening hours and special rides. It includes Lost items and a list of upcoming meetings and notices for residents in Athens, Georgia.
Chicago dispatches report widespread destruction from tornadoes across Illinois and neighboring states. Mattoon and Charleston suffer heavy losses with dozens killed and hundreds injured or homeless. Westvest sees four dead and twenty injured. rescue work hampered by hail. Illinois National Guard ordered to assist.
Athens hosts a double commencement Sunday at the State Normal School and Lucy Cobb Institute with ceremonies, sermons by Rev. Troy Beatty and Dr. James W. Lynch, plus concerts, pageants, and alumnae meetings. Tomorrow features grad exercises, receptions, and exhibits across both campuses.
A recent inspection reveals Costa's refrigerating plant built underground with a fully automatic ice cream factory. The facility cools and stores ice cream, candy, and dairy products in precision controlled vaults at 45 to 48 degrees and 20 to 33 degrees respectively, with no human handling during processing. The plant touts sanitary, fly-proof, germ-proof, dirt-proof, fire-proof features and aims to invite public viewing.
At Clarke County courthouse the county board named to run registration for men ages 21 to 30 for conscription. The board includes Sheriff W F E Jackson, Clerk E J Crawford, Ordin ary R C Orr, and County Physician S S Smith. Registrars were appointed for city and county precincts. Crawford holds cards for travelers and students to mail to home registrars by June 5. T W Reed acts as special registrar for the University and Georgia students. 49 cards had been completed.
City court held no business yesterday. Judge West will reconvene tomorrow at the usual hour with more criminal business and several civil cases slated for action.
Prof C R Fountaine of the University was granted a one year leave of absence announced yesterday. He will teach in Nashville at the summer school from June 18th to August and return to Athens to resume faculty duties in September.
Special to the Banner. Atlanta Georgia May 26 Governor Harris today appointed five members to constitute the board of visitors of the University of Georgia H R Hunt Powder Springs J W Farmer Augusta G E H Usher Adel A Miller Waycross and Ralph Newton Fort Valley.
The article describes a new ice cream plant claiming modern sanitary automatic operations. It notes police arrests of Geo Cramer and Sam Terrell over alleged drunkenness and liquor violations, and highlights the facility’s cold storage capable of holding 500 gallons with temperatures well below freezing.
Berlin announces policy to sink hospital ships in the barred zone with six weeks notice for voyage to Gibraltar. The report also notes Allied and American movements, including the First Sanitary Squadron arrival in France, and prisoners held in Germany.
In Washington on May 26 Associated Press reports slow progress on a tariff and food bill as objections arise to sections funding cholera and livestock disease control and to a note about the torpedoing of the Brazilian steamship Tijuca by a German submarine. The text also notes international war updates including Italian gains near Trieste and French actions in Champagne.
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