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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1914
Page
7
The Athens Banner outlines subscription rates and delivery notes, warns carriers not to collect cash, and echoes local concerns like drought, politics, peaches to the north, and Georgia Tech fundraising. It highlights Athens chamber activity, building booms, and calls for optimistic civic involvement.
The article discusses shifting teaching methods from broad geography to local study. It highlights Prof Branson and the Know your own state club at the State Normal School, university rural economics work, Athens city surveys by students, and plans for a July high school meeting and local history focus to foster community interest and pride.
A prominent Georgia farmer told the Banner editor he is moving away from cotton due to unreliable labor and labor costs. He advocates hogs cattle goats as profitable alternatives with steady demand for breeding stock meat hogs milk cows and kid crops. He suggests cotton failure could push more farmers toward diversified livestock and even mules.
A Florida Times Union note cites a trend of falling birth rates in rural areas and cities. A Minnesota township survey by the University of Minnesota reports births per thousand dropping from 41.5 in 1860 to 14.7 in recent years, a collapse to about one third amid prosperity.
A short poem by D. G. Bickers extols June as a divine woodland sprite with golden hair and blue skies. The verse is framed by a weather note about heat and a political jab, ending with an advertisement line urging readers to place wants ads.
Political notes from Atlanta outline opening addresses by Harris Har1 ig Cobb?dawn Anderson and Hard man with June 6 Marietta speech in Cobb County. Mentions Trammell rail classification effort over 30 years and Hoke Smith reelection bid with Washington access. Also notes Brown may speak and Fulton seeks strong candidates for legislature.
The Talmadge Property lots at Springdale and Bloomfield sold with easy terms, drawing buyers like J. Dunaway and L. G. Smith as agents plan another auction. Weather concerns and cotton prospects loom. Athens braces for June university events and political campaigns. A new Clarke county temple of justice nears completion.
Mrs Twickembury dismisses gossip about young Bmith marrying, calling him a sapling. The remark appears in a humorous note from the Christian Register.
Thawing frost and April rains bring cold symptoms with head and chest congestion. Dr Kings New Discovery is promoted to soothe throat and lungs, stop coughing, and relieve fever, with testimonials from J T Davis of Stickney Corner Maine. Bucklen's Arnica Salve also advertised for sores.
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