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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1915
Page
5
Market notes show middling cotton prices in numerous cities with steady to quiet quotes. Futures for cotton, wheat, corn, oats, pork, lard, and ribs hover near recent levels with minor daily shifts.
New York May 28 Cotton was quiet then steadied after opening down 1 to 2 points on crop optimism from eastern belt areas. Futures rose to about last night’s close on shorts covering ahead of the holiday. Western forecasts, rain reports, and slow Liverpool trading kept activity muted with modest gains of 4 points at times.
Athens Public Library reports on the Story Hour for local children from March through June at the high school auditorium. The program featured weekly music stories and activities with many local teachers and supporters thanked for their efforts.
An advertisement urges health through digestion and regular bowels. It promotes Dr. King’s New Life Pill taken at night to ensure a full free bowel movement by morning, claiming better appetite and digestion and overall well being.
Special to the Banner reports Atlanta data from a forthcoming auto year book showing 3,870 owned and operated cars in the city. Of these 3,352 are gas passenger cars, 295 gas trucks, 215 electric passenger cars, 7 electric trucks, and about 700 motorcycles, with 160 makes represented.
Hamilton Jackson, a negro representative in the Danish West Indies, arrived in Copenhagen to press for universal suffrage for black residents, literacy based voting, and reforms. He urged self run press and public meetings, with a June conference planned with the governor and finance minister to address grievances and calls for a reform administration.
The forecast calls for unsettled weather through Saturday with the chance of showers and warmer temperatures. A western storm over Missouri brings rains elsewhere with notable totals in Des Moines and Vicksburg, while Louisiana receives good rainfall and Texas reports smaller amounts. Temperatures are cooler in the east and Georgia but expected to rise tonight in Athens with southerly winds.
A Harrisburg Pennsylvania couple, Mr and Mrs T B Carpenter, aged in the seventies, credit Foley Kidney Pills with curing long term kidney trouble and restoring vigor. They say they are as vigorous as thirty years ago and report relief from bladder weakness backache rheumatism and aching joints. H R Palmer & Sons. Advertise your wants.
The Georgia peach crop will reach New York Friday morning May 28 one day earlier than last year. The first car left Atlanta at midnight Wednesday in a special Southern Railway train. Officials anticipate about 5000 cars with refrigerating cars in service near orchards and 15 to 20 special trains nightly during peak season.
Announcement of new train times effective May 6 1915 for Seaboard Air Line south north bound schedules. Details include departures to Birmingham Memphis Atlanta and Richmond with times 5 35 a m 7 10 a m 3 46 p m 6 17 p m and northbound departures 10 40 a m 6 17 p m 7 45 p m 11 42 p m plus comparison to existing timetable. Also notes effect on Athens travel and a market advertisement for Foley Kidney Pills.
An advertising notice touts Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as antiseptic and healing for throat and head congestion. It promotes healthful pine forest essence and urges readers to buy a bottle at all druggists.
Forsyth editor O H Bloodworth Jr of the Monroe Advertiser was chosen to deliver the sophomore cup debaters medals and the junior orator medal at the University of Georgia commencement. The 1905 class will hold a ten year reunion in Athens and the prizes will be awarded June 15 in the college chapel. Bloodworth recently spoke at Hamp ton high school on Christianity as the Emancipator of Woman.
Clarence Rawson, a junior Athens boy and standout guard for Georgia, was elected captain for 1916 at a University Gym ceremony. Henry Brown was the only other player to receive votes, highlighting Rawson’s defensive skill and noted passing.
In Willoughby park and surrounding areas commerce residents note various urban wildlife. Mr J A Bellamy on Central avenue shot what he believed to be a monkey or possum but found a red mud creek muskrat that feeds on green corn along the creek banks in June.
A Chicago based Calumet Baking Powder Co promotes a new recipe book with 252 recipes and colored illustrations. The ad urges readers to mail in for the free book and to try Calumet as a wholesome economical baking powder.
Commerce Georgia to host a major 1920s style commencement with visitors from nearby towns. Sermon by Rev Ela Dempsey of Oxford and literary address by Rev Ashby Jones of Augusta lead a varied program including musical solos and choruses with students like Grace Hood Margarite Massey Edith Nix and Helen Hardman performing in numerous acts.
Jefferson Ga May 28 The Jefferson Banking Company and the Jefferson Cotton Mill dispute with Martin Institute intervenors faces trial tomorrow Judge Brand moved the trial to Jefferson due to many witnesses and interests The case centers on who holds preferred stock or mortgage liens and issues of notice to creditors with a large crowd expected.
In Atlanta on May 28 the Sherman anti trust act is cited as overlooking a long standing “Newsboys Trust” that governs street paper stands. The article describes a mutual aid group among barefoot newsboys who enforce exclusive client access and discourage newcomers, effectively shaping stand ownership and placement on the streets.
Alabama announces a practical 1915 football schedule with games in Tuscaloosa Birmingham and Atlanta. Opponents include Chattanooga Sewanee Georgia Tech Texas Texas A&M Mississippi and a Texas trip to Austin. Freshmen may play and all games listed with dates and locations.
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