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Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

May 29, 1914

Page

8

Short Notes of Interest from Athens Savings Bank

The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1 and July 1. Deposits from $1.00. Also listed are local notices: Kefir drink for sale at Reid Drug Co. phone 1104 prepared by Miss Rosa Buchwald. Jockey Club Coffee. For Rent a six room S-room cottage. For Sale Baldwin cottage on Boulevard with big lot and outbuildings. Lost items including gold frame spectacles and bunch keys with rewards. groceries from Fears Grocery Co. "Perils of Pauline" Elite today.

Athens Athens Savings Bank Reid Drug Co Rosa Buchwald

Bowman Head Is Elected For '15

Bowman Ga May 28 The trustees of Gibson Mercer Academy Bowmen reelected Prof J P Cash as head for another year. Teachers will be chosen later by the president with trustees approval. Visitors from Winterville Comer Hartwell Ashland and others attend the commencement events with a long list of local students and guests.

Bowman Gibson-Mercer Academy Bowmen J. P. Cash W. M. Colle Winterville L. W. Collier Comer James H. Skelton Hartwell T. H. Strange Ashland

Remarkable Liver Cure by Chamberlains Tablets

Mr Albert Walker of Precious West Virginia suffered fifteen years of stomach and right side pain and consulted eight or ten physicians who all agreed on liver trouble but gave no relief. He was cured by Chamberlains Tablets. If you have stomach or liver trouble these tablets will help. For sale by all dealers. adv.

Albert Walker Precious W. Va Chamberlain Adv

Dr Vorter's Antiseptic Healing Oil Ad

An old reliable dressing offers instant relief from pain and promotes healing. The notice promotes Notaliniment in sizes 25c and 1.00 for preventing blood poisoning and providing surgical care.

Why not divide my fire insurance with J C Jester

Insurance and real estate items list various ads from Macon and Athens Ga including fire insurance, shoe repair and harness by Martin Brothers 455 Clayton St phone 621 parcel post paid. Rentals include a six room cottage Grady Ave phone 541-1 and unfurnished rooms at 125 Clayton St. potato plants sold at $2 per thousand by Geo A Willis. A local ad seeks a soliciting experienced woman for a permanent Athens position with a promise of quick money, address 220 Twelfth St Augusta Ga. Also notice two rooms for light housekeeping and 4 room house for rent or sale A H Davenport. Also a testimonial on Chamberlain's Tablets from Jacob Hindelang Chelsea Mich claiming quick stomach cure.

Athens Twelfth St Augusta

Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery Plans Vacation Meeting

The Eminent Commander and Secretary of Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery Knights Templar issue a call for a special last meeting of the season. Members will attend as warmer weather prompts many to leave the city. refreshments will mark the closing term along with routine and committee duties.

Godfrey de Bouillon Knights Templar

An Excellent Cough Medicine for Colds and Coughs

The soothing healing properties of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy make it valuable for coughs and colds. It is pleasant and safe to take and contains no narcotic. For sale by all dealers. adv.

Nationalistic view of treaty making praised at Mohonk Conference

Dr. Howard S. Corwin of Princeton, addressing the Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, argued that the current administration shows a nationalistic approach to treaty making. He cited European pacts on women’s night work, white phosphorus in matches, and worker insurance as evidence that treaties extend to previously noninternational matters, with the U.S. empowered to regulate via federal authority under constitutional law.

Associated Press Mohonk Lake N. Y Howards. Corwin Princeton University Lake Mohonk United States Hoke Ul. S Minnesota Congress

Warn Against Hog Cholera Cure Promoted as Government Approved

Washington May 28 evidence shows a coordinated campaign to mislead farmers into buying Benetol claiming government approval. The Agriculture Department states it has not endorsed any proprietary hog cholera cure and only promotes anti cholera serum. The spread of unofficial statements from promoters is noted and hog owners urged to verify with authorities before trusting such claims.

Washington, D. C United States Department of Agriculture Minnesota Department Journal of the American Medical Association

Eccentric Funerals From Chester to the Atlantic

A report recalls remarkable funeral requests including an engineer’s coffin made from 4000 match boxes with a battery inside in Chester. It mentions a French maiden who wished tobacco filling and a Liverpool woman who sailed to scatter ashes on the Atlantic from the Cunard vessel Lucania. A New York man’s will called for cremation and ashes cast from the same ship with coordinates logged by the captain.

Chester England Ato Calemis-sur-Lys France Liverpool Lucania Atlantic New York Cunard

Teeth Filing For Beauty Among Bagobo Tribe

Teeth filing as a beauty practice is widespread among adult Bagobo men in the Philippines. U.S. officials in the islands have tried to curb the custom without direct interference in tribal customs. Despite health and dental damage, authorities say no explicit policy has been applied due to the policy against intervening in local customs unless laws are violated. The Bagobos trace their roots to Malay migrations that settled much of the archipelago.

Philippines Uncle Sam Philippine United States

Auto pulls a locomotive in daring Los Angeles test

A Los Angeles car dealer demonstrated the pulling power of an automobile by attaching a rope from the car to a 110 ton locomotive. Starting from rest, the car struggled as the locomotive seemed stuck, then six men added weight and the tires gripped, slowly turning the locomotive wheels. Witnesses who doubted the feat saw the locomotive move, confirming the pull.

Los Angeles Cal

Couple Married on a Raft at Palm Beach Beachfront Ceremony

Frederick Kirchner a Palm Beach lifeguard from Hamburg wed Misa Single Lund of Stockholm on a raft in the surf. About 1700 visitors watched as 700 young swimmers stood up to their necks in the water to witness the unusual ceremony with the officiant in clerical garb.

Frederick Kirchner Palm Beach Fla Hamburg Misa Single Lund Stockholm

North Pole all metal cream freezers and refrigerators on sale

Advertises all metal cream freezers lasting ten years and Snow White all metal refrigerators from 27.00, solid oak galvanized lined models from 10.00 to 50.00, oak ice boxes 5.50, water coolers 1.50 to 12.00, cream freezers 1.25 to 5.00, plus dinner ware and crystal glassware. Encourages inspection and mentions liberal credit for approved buyers.

North Pole

John A Stewart at Mohonk Conference on Peace

John A Stewart of New York, chairman of the American Peace Centenary Committee, addressed the Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration. He reported progress toward a Universal Peace Celebration marking a century since the Ghent Treaty, urging broad friendship among peoples and the English speaking world. The message linked peace to national welfare and divine regard amid debates over Mexican relations and treaty interpretations.

Associated Press Mohonk Lake, N John A. Stewart New York Lake Mohonk Mexico Congress Great Britain Ireland Germany

Two-year-old questions chick cackle in rural scene

In a country setting a two-year-old girl interprets a chicken's cackling as requests for things. She playfully wonders if the chicken wants a drink or her grandpa, then bluntly tells it to be quiet.

Chicky Grampa

Four Sides To The Elbert County Legislative Race

In Elbert County Virginia a special election for representative on June 10 is nearing. Four candidates compete: M. H. Wyche A P Deadwyler W T Brownlee and Peter V Rice. Ordinary L C Edwards has issued election blanks and urges district officials to prepare promptly. Brownlee favors tax reform opposing the five dollar auto tax while supporting value based taxation and opposes double taxation on land and note holders.

Elbert County Hiserton J. N. Wall M. H. Wyche A. P. Deadwyler W. T. Brownlee Peter V. Rice L. C. Edwards Justices of the Peace Brownlee

Ninth District Rural Carriers Meet in Gainesville

The Ninth district Rural Letter Carriers Association will convene at the Gainesville courthouse on Saturday May 30. Decoration day, no mail on rural routes, promising large attendance and an engaging program with invited national speakers.

Eighth District Athens Danner Gainesville Ninth District Court House

Double Track Planned for Southern Railway Line

From Charlotte North Carolina May 28 a dispatch from Washington reports the Southern Railway will double track its main line from Charlotte to Gainesville and already doubles from Washington to a point in the state and from Atlanta to Gainesville. The policy signals strong southern development amid east and midwest cutbacks.

Charlotte N. C Southern Railway In. C Gainesville Washington Southern East Middle West Atlanta

Gainesville Teachers Resign in Numbers

Gainesville Ga May 28 Prof Edgar B Dunlap will leave for Michigan to study this summer and return to the University of Georgia next fall to teach and study law Ed has done fine work in the High School this past year and wishes him well Prof S P Kenyon principal of the High School the past term left yesterday for home and will not return to study medicine Major R E B Nickles has been with Riverside Military Academy and will join Castle Heights School at Lebanon Tenn for the coming year He leaves next week to begin summer work traveling the country

Gainesville Edgar B. Dunlap Michigan University of Georgia S. P. Kenyon R. EB. Nickles Riverside Military Academy Castle Hights School Lebanon

Fire Insurance Office over Athens Savings Bank building

Lodges and fraternal groups listed with meeting nights and locations in Max Joseph building and Jester Building. Includes Knights of Pythias Mime Lodge and several Masonic bodies with officers named and meeting times as weekly, biweekly, or monthly gatherings.

James C. Mell Athens Savings Bank Classic City Council K. of P. Hall Jester Building Clayton Street Edwier John Roberts Mt. Vernon Lodge Mt Vernon Lodge No. 23 Masonic Hall Max Joseph L. N. Betts W. M J Quinn

Also Mentioned on This Page

Fidelity Underwriters America Milledge Harria and Hancock Streets Milledge Avenue Daxter Street R. T. Goodwyn Nea Company Southern Mutual Jockey Club W. H. Weatherly Baldwin Pevesich Mitchell's Bridge Clover Nurst Avenue C. Briffith J. F. Kirk H. C. Kirk Park Ave Fears Grocery Co Bowman Head Nina Teasley Ora Gainer Floyce McGarity Royston Jewell Burnette Clifford Burnette Colbert Maude Eunice Adams Rock Branch Dixie Cleveland Thelma Maxwell Zora Rice Jessie Hulme Elberton Maude Blackwell Lessie Duncan Ruth Brown Susie Myers Sallis May Brown Canon Insurance & Real Estate, Lipscomb J. C. Jester Martin Brothers Grady Ave Geo. A. Willis Macon Clayton St A. H. Davenport Jacob Hindelang Chelsea Mich Godfrey DE Bouillion Childs Street Eice D. G. Anderson & Co H. T. Huggins & Son Broad Street Broad St McGregor Mohonk Conference J.C. van de Lande Kirkland Ill Lipscomb & Company THE Athens Audit Co J. F. Hart Inc Clara Oster House Springs Edgar Dunlap Lodge Directory Ienn Lodge Ode Fellows W. V. Parnell N. G. J. W. Anthony W. G Keystone Royal Arch Magoua W. C. Jordan H. P Elmo Lodge K. of P—St Mime Lodge Knights of Pythian Castle Hall S. R. Grubb C. C L. Jones N. G A. Mealor Lodge Quarters Broad and Lampkin Streets J.C. Haynes E. R, Geo. H. Palmer
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