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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
3
A local shop highlights a complete line of linen coats ideal for hot weather. Available colors include natural Copenhagen lavender tango navy wisteria and white. Prices range from 5.00 to 11.50.
Linen towels in scalloped and plain varieties offered at special prices. Regular 25c towels now 15c and regular 35c towels now 25c. Limited quantities advertised with emphasis on bargain pricing for home linen purchases.
Opportunity to buy serviceable chinaware at very low prices. Breakfast dinner and soup sets with bands and flowered designs priced at 10c to 100c each. Cups and saucers feature pretty flowered designs at 10c each.
Advertises glassware including plain and cut glasses, tumblers, goblets, wine glasses, vases, and dishes. Ice Tea Tumblers glace priced at $1.00 per dozen. Special set bowl and 12 cups offered for $2.48.
Oconee High School celebrates graduation with full ceremonies led by students Leonard McRee Gladys Hodges Moselle Ashford Irwin Bishop Letitia Duggan Isabel Hutcheson Hugh Elder Fred McRee Nancy Lowe Morton Helen Ashford Moselle Ashford Eleanor Meaders and Exa Bae Andrews among others. The week includes plays concerts drills and a Sunday service with Rev William Foster delivering the sermon and a benediction.
Henry P. McFarland urged creating an International Court of Arbitral Justice within two years. He said nine members from United States Britain France Germany Austria Hungary Italy Russia Japan and the Netherlands could form the court. The proposal aims for global respect comparable to Marshall in the United States.
Justice of the Peace Carlisle Cobb bound Willie and Charlie Griffin over to the city court after investigations into their alleged disturbance of a colored school’s commencement on the Danielsville road. It was claimed the brothers, intoxicated, threw large stones through schoolhouse windows during the event and disrupted both the school and religious meetings. A third party faced similar charges, unapprehended at the time.
A troubled mother questioned if a marriage license existed for C. W. Dean and Karleen Marie Wagner after her daughter eloped. Pinkerton detectives traced the couple to Marietta, learned of a marriage on May 18, and found them in Atlanta at 140 Spring Street. The husband was arrested on suspicion. the wife returned to her mother, with further police scrutiny pending.
Dr Branson presents a leading feature at Pea Body Summer School with a specialized course attracting attention.
Special correspondence from Nashville notes the Peabody College summer session opening June 25 offers 200 courses with two on rural life problems by Prof E C Branson of Athens Georgia. Branson’s rural economics and sociology demand field study of a county’s conditions for county superintendents, supervisors and principals. The faculty totals eighty, the largest for a Southern summer school.
Dr Ellery C Stowell of Columbia University spoke at Mohonk Lake May 28 on limited war or reprisals as a tool to avert full conflict. He argued neutrality laws advance peace and proposed Hague discussion of quasi neutral measures guiding state actions between the United States and Mexico. He urged preferring reprisals over war to protect commerce and avoid seizures of Mexican territory.
Advertisement notes Dean, a mechanical engineer, recently relocated to Atlanta from Dayton. Listed as contact at 140 Spring for inquiries about opportunities or inquiries related to his professional services.
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