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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
10
Legal advertisements from Clarke County Georgia announce road changes, property sales, and executors sales. Notices include road commission actions near Mt Sinai church and public road declaration on November 3, 1908, property auctions with detailed land descriptions, and executor sales by Patman Lester estate with multiple parcels and terms.
Public sale notices outline administrator W L McManus selling Minor W Brown estate lots on Mitchell's Bridge road in Athens with home place terms cash or five yearly installments at 8 percent interest. Clarke County Clarke County offices publish real estate divisions including Lumpkin street parcels and Georgia avenues with multiple lots. Local notices include road petition hearings and letters of dismission for estate admin and creditor notice for Patman Lester estate.
The exchange showed tone steady to barely steady with middling around 9.55 to 9.56 cents for different months including July at 8.90 and October at 8.55. Liverpool cotton in New York trading mirrored a barely steady tone with 12,000 sales and middling around 57 100d.
Local druggists promote Dr Kings New Life Pills claiming they keep biliousness malaria and jaundice out of the system. Available for 25 cents at W. J. Smith & Bro and H. R. Palmer & Sons drug stores.
New York society watches the divorce case of Mrs Frances Work Burke Roche against her husband Aurel Batonyi an Austrian coach driver amid counter charges from Batonyi. The couple married in 1905 after her Delaware divorce and have faced financial strain and family entanglements in Newport and beyond.
Waterloo November 18 delegates flood Waterloo for the thirty second annual meeting of the Iowa State Dairy Association. Decorations adorn merchants as creamery and dairy displays go on view. President W B Barney of Hampton presides at the opening session with H R Wright of the State Dairy and Food Commission delivering the principal address.
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index reports the South’s focus on the December 7-8 Southern Commercial Congress in Washington. Georgia and Alabama leaders, including Dawes of Montgomery and Betjeman of Albany, push for strong exhibitor data and capital interest, with several Georgia and Alabama projects cited. The piece notes Alabama furniture factory plans, Selma office building bid, Rome furnace deal, and major bond actions in Columbus and Waycross, as well as regional timber and mill developments tied to Okefenokee lands.
Charles E. Davis faces forgery charges over alleged printed certificates from the Atlanta clearing house worth 200000. The case in Rome Georgia federal court was continued to the May term 1909 as defense demurrer and abatement failed and lead attorney Jock Branham, 73, citing illness, could not proceed. Davis allegedly acted as attorney for Columbus merchants in the scheme.
Notes from the labor world cite upcoming conventions of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes in New York and other unions, plus new state laws on school books with union labels. They report labor commissioners, compensation acts, and court rulings upholding union contracts, while noting anti union sanction laws in many states and moves to remove political ban clauses from union constitutions.
Washington notes the 25th anniversary of the adoption of standard time on November 18 1883 when four time zones one hour apart were established across North America. The piece credits Charles F Dowd and Sir Sanford Fleming with ideas, cites W P Allen in New York for the plan, and praises its smooth implementation and adoption by many nations.
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