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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
5
J D Bradwell Attorney offers farm loans with interest rate reduced to five percent and modest expenses. Office located at 603 South Exchange Mutual Blog, with phone numbers 293 and 1012 for contact.
Advertisements detail various notices from Lipscomb's Specialty Insurance to local sales and services. Items include bank savings, loan offers, moving services, furnace and water products, autos for rent, rooms for rent, farm and real estate listings, found items, lost diamond, and a river motor boat ride schedule with times and contact points. The piece also notes an annual meeting for Southern Mutual Insurance Company on June 5th, 1917.
An old home remedy using Sage and Sulphur hair dye is now sold as Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound. Aimed at restoring natural color, the product claims to darken gray hair evenly and become a thick glossy finish with each application, while noting it is a toilet preparation not a disease cure.
Special to the Banner Decatur Ga May 30 The largest Agnes Scott college class in history numbering forty received diplomas after Lucien L Knight of Atlanta delivered the commencement address The B A degree conferment featured a hooding ceremony for each graduate with awards in scholarship including Thigpen Seay Lampkin Dean and Lawrence in voice and piano Debating medals went to Ramsey Donaldson and Leo Hated The B A recipients included high honor May Smith Newton Thatch er Isabel Dew India Hunt Elizabeth Gammon Katherine Lindamood Margaret Pruden Augusta Skeen Charlotte Hammond and remaining graduates Amelia Alexander Gertrude Amundsen Louise Ash Marie Caldwell Loriie Carter Martha Dennison Agnes Scott Donaldson Mary Eakes Gladys Gaines Mildred Hall Jane Harwell Willie Belle Jackson Annia Kyle Annie Lee Mary McIver Mary P Neff Ruth Nisbet Mary S Payne Regina Pinkston Ellen Rarsay Louise Roach Rita Schwartz Virginia Scott Katherine Simpson Marguérite Stevens Emma Louise Ware Sarah C Webster Georgiana White Yallie Young White and Mary Virginia Yancey.
A periodical advertises a home remedy claiming corn pain relief without trimming. It describes pressing a button to simulate a shock and recommends free zone to remove hard or soft corns, claiming quick, painless root and tissue safety.
The Colbert High School commencement in Colbert Georgia closed successfully with praise for teachers and pupils. Rev E W Jones of Athens preached an engaging sermon and Hon H A Nix of the University of Georgia gave a patriotic address. Special music by the Bogart band complemented a school year noted as highly successful.
A called communication of Mount Vernon Lodge No. 22 F and A M will be held at their hall third floor Max Joseph building this Thursday evening May 31 1917 at 8 30 o'clock Work in the Fellow Craft degree All duly qualified brethren invited to be present By order of E C Paine W M MO G Quinn Secretary
A homemaking note promotes a cheap lemon skin lotion made by mixing juice from two fresh lemons with three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint. Strain to remove pulp, store for months, and apply daily to face neck arms and hands to whiten soften and beautify skin while reducing freckles sallowness and tan.
A compact critique argues that imagining executive skill suffices to govern a nation fails to make a competent book agent. The remark mocks overconfident individuals who equate private prowess with public leadership and bargaining success.
At the adjourned meeting of Athens Virginia Chamber of Commerce directors, D P Haselton secretary W F Dorsey Homer Stark R C Wilson J Z Hoke and H M Palmer present W F Dorsey to act as Chairman. The New Enterprise Committee report on a demonstration popcorn plant from Mr McKeever found great investment potential and the board unanimously adopted the report and instructed publicity.
Louis Chevrolet won the 250 mile international sweepstakes race at Sharonville Ohio. Time two hours twenty six minutes forty seven seconds. Gaston Chevrolet placed second and Ira Vall finished third.
The city court was engaged all day yesterday in the trial of the damage suit of Dr. J. C. McKinney against the Athens Railway and Electric Company, arising from a collision between Dr. McKinney's auto and a Milledge street car some months ago. In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, In re L B Flatow, trading as Athens Motor Co., Bankrupt No 738. A petition for discharge has been filed and a hearing is set for June 23, 1917 at ten o'clock A M in Atlanta. Creditors and interested parties are ordered to appear and show cause why discharge should not be granted. O C Fuller, Clerk. G Cornet, Dep. Clk. 21 May 31 June 9
A Colorado resident has forged tools from a steel alloyed with a recently discovered mineral. The tools reportedly cut the hardest woods and can shave without needing sharpening between uses, signaling a notable advance in tool hardness and self-maintenance.
In the fjords on the Norway coast the clearness of the winter is wonderful. Objects may be seen at a depth of twenty five to thirty fathoms.
We present a selection of graduation gift items including Waterman fountain pens, fine stationery, memory clocks, picture albums, leather bound books, a tennis racket, and pennants. Explore a range of other articles suitable for graduates and discover options to suit different tastes and budgets.
Five Regular and Twenty Domestic Science graduates were awarded diplomas at Athens High and Industrial School. Principal Harris presided as 25 graduates received diplomas, 500 seated guests attended. T J Shackelford delivered a practical address, Aaron Cohen presented diplomas, prizes were given, and two student recitations closed the exercises.
Patriotic citizens urged to purchase Liberty Bonds with each bond valued at fifty dollars or more. At a People's Bank directors meeting, all directors bought bonds as a public example, endorsing the Cantonment initiative and backing a Cham ber of Commerce drive to secure a local division fund. Bank officers and directors listed include J. B. Bernstein president J. H. Dozier vice president J. H. Hubert cashier and directors Miesers Paul M. Smith Abe Joel A. H. Davison Aaron Coljen O. H. Arnold R. S. Crane.
Stockholm May 30 The peace program of Austrian German delegates to the Socialist conference here provides for no annexations no indemnities and restrictions on mechanical means of warfare in maritime and air combat French attitude to be asked Paris May 30. The government will be asked in the chamber of deputies and will await the official attitude with attendance by French delegates at its conference in Stockholm. Germans are delighted.
American games saw Chicago St Louis rath, Cleveland 1 Detroit 5 Washington 2 Boston 3 Philadelphia 0 New York 2 in 15 innings. National scores include Pittsburg 2 Chicago 1 New York 5 Philadelphia 1 Boston 2 Brooklyn 0 Cincinnati 8 St Louis 1 Cincinnati 2 St Louis 4 all after noon. Southern results list Memphis 4 Atlanta 7 Memphis 18 Atlanta 8 Nashville 2 New Orleans 6 Nashville 19 New Orleans 3 Little Rock 6 Mobile 4 Little Rock 2 Mobile 1 Chattanooga 42 Birmingham 6 Charleston 7 Jacksonville 0 Columbus 3 Auguste 4 ar Pt man socialist leader smid the decision was foster what was expecta
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