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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1915
Page
8
A jumble of small notices lists coupons with cash ads, rental offers for homes and rooms, requests for scrap metal and rags, seeking a traveling shoe salesman, second hand motorcycles for sale, eye exams and low priced glasses, real estate services, farm and town properties, and a note about Shivar’s ginger ale at a new store. Includes various contact names and locations.
Advertising coupons for cash ads. Savings bank offers 4 percent interest on deposits from $1.60. Lost fraternity pin reward. New Athens pennants at 50c. Bulbs for sale from Jones Greenhouse. Borrower seeks $2,500 on farm valued at $5,500. Shivar's ginger ale ads and optical repair services promoted. Real estate notes and a house for rent listed.
Four and one half miles out on a good road this 33 acre farm offers a fine front on Mitchell Bridge road and lies well priced at 40 dollars per acre a strong rural deal for buyers seeking land with accessibility and value.
The Uniformed Rank of the Woodmen of the World is convened at their armory this evening at 7 30 by order of Capt. Carl A. Von der Lieth.
Mr Langdon C Quin announces the removal of his office to Atlanta Georgia on October 1 1915. The new address is 8809 815 Fourth National Bank Building and the notice is addressed to friends and patrons.
The Itinerary of Seeing Georgia Tour 1510 with over 125 cars and 600 people begins October 1 leaving for Milledgeville with a night barbecue. Stops at Eatonton Madison Athens Jefferson Commerce Homer Cornelia Demorest Clarkesville Turnerville Tallulah Falls Nachoochee Valley Helen Dahlonega Gainesville Forsyth Cumming Canton Tate Rome Cave Springs Cedartown Marietta and Atlanta before disbanding in Macon.
The University of Georgia meets North Georgia Aggies at Sanford Field in a 4 pm exhibition game. Coach Cunningham tests two backfield players and a new end, with public admission set at fifty cents amid expected lively play and improving Georgia form.
On request of President Wilson Governor Spry of Utah granted a reprieve until October 10 to Joseph Hilstrom the Swede sentenced to be shot tomorrow for the murder of a grocer and his son. The Swedish minister at Washington asked for the reprieve and should come to Utah to investigate. The Swedish vice consul here found no reason to change the sentence.
Special to the Banner reports Atlanta will test a one dollar movie format next week. Geraldine Farrar in Carmen will be shown for a week at a local theater not a movie house, with prices likely between 1 and 2 dollars for The Birth of a Nation later in the season.
Aluminum-ware stock highlights a ten day sale featuring 1 1 2 quart percolators at 22 to 1.29 and 2 quart models at 35 cents above cost. Also 2 quart double boilers at 1.45 and a wide range of CHINA GLASSWARE EN AMEL WARE and housewares. Cot ton Mops Brooms Brushes Feather Dusters O Ceder Mops and Polish. Broad Street contact H T Huggins & Son.
The Rev A L Flury Athens Baptist minister will assume duties as pastor of Jones Avenue Baptist Church in Atlanta on Friday. A welcome reception will be held at the church with Dr J J Hall of the American Peace Society delivering the welcome address. Also speaking are Rev John P Gleer and J H McCoy of Druid Hills Baptist Church along with musical numbers and refreshments. The Sunday school will host special welcome exercises before Flury preaches his first sermon.
Washington reports Col. Harding acting governor of the Panama Canal Authority cabled the War Department that further earth movements will delay the canal reopening until October 10. This is five days longer than earlier estimates.
Banner's Special Correspondence reports a very light turnout in the Atlanta city primary for ten alderman and general council seats. A cold rain all day was blamed for low interest, with expectations of little afternoon increase in what was anticipated as Atlanta's hottest city election in years.
Atlanta September 30 publication notes the Garland Jones automobile tag tax law will likely pass during an extra session. The law’s enforcement is stricter and its constitutionality unquestioned, affecting how residents obtain and use auto tags. Under the old law tags bought now last until March, but the new provisions change enforcement and validity.
Atlanta on September 30 reports a constitutional objection to the city police court practice of sentencing drunkards to ten days in a cell on bread and water. Drunks argue the punishment is unusual and beyond the recorder's authority, asserting no right to impose special diets without consent. They contend it violates protection against cruel or unusual punishment.
Atlanta interests push for river barges on the Chattahoochee to sustain favorable intrastate freight rates. Plans involve dams jetties and government help with engineer P M Churchill coordinating surveys and potential river channel work to establish a water transport alternative.
The November session will amend the law and Secretary Cook faces a flood of automobile tag applications. Many come from counties previously slow to adopt tag use, signaling a shift in compliance across regions.
Atlanta readers learn that California girls are praised for the shapeliest legs and graceful carriage. Experts credit San Francisco’s hills for leg, waist, and back strength, while swimming among Atlanta girls boosts health and figures.
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