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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1914
Page
13
Short notes cover fire insurance, bank deposits, stationers, fruit sales, office space, rent, and staffing in Athens. Ads mention Lipscomb, Jester, Clarke County Bank 4 percent savings, Holman building offices, W. S. Holman, Athens Savings Bank 4 percent, Oak Street rent notices, and wanted help including a stenographer and alterations staff. Also includes theatre notice for Morton Theatre two weeks' run and sales of oats and apples.
Old time remedy promise claims to stop headaches and neuralgia at once with a dime package. The advertisement urges readers to send someone to the drug store and notes relief within moments after taking a powder, touting magical effects and urging to be sure to get what is asked for.
The Men’s League will replace the usual service at Tabernacle with a singing service this evening. Ladies are invited to attend as Prof Moore Mamghan Kemp and the blind song leader join for a preparatory event ahead of the Union singing at the auditorium on Saturday.
The first game of the world series will be received in Athens by a special arrangement with Mr N Goglowski and the Colonial reserved for the matinee. A play by play report will bring the game near as being there at six hundred miles away with a small admission. Tickets at the Colonial cost two bits. Advertise your wants.
The advertisement markets Beaten Biscuit Machinery, Bread Mixers, Ocedar Mops, mop w alarms, 8 day clocks, and cold weather items like coal scuttles and shovels. It notes import toys arriving, including boys wagons and Velocipedes, warns Europe’s war may limit future doll availability, and encourages shopping now for the holidays.
A yellowed 1854 University of Georgia Sophomore Prize Declamation program, won by John R. Lyle's father LeRoy Holt for the second medal, reemerges after thirty years and is returned to Miss Annie Lyle of Athens. The rediscovered item, found in old John A. Cobb books in 1871, ties to the Southern Banner Job Office imprint and honors a historic student contest.
A short humorous note about why Captain Spearpoint is called a veteran and a reflection on lasting romance after marriage. The piece cites a joke where Johnny suggests the nickname stems from horse doctor work, followed by a quip on honeymoon endings and romance fading.
A fragile miscellany from Commerce notes a Presbyterian rector's departure to Sardinia South Carolina and his Ath ens Presbytery release. It reports Commerce High School football plans with coach Steve Crump and potential games. Oil inspector duties, post office site bids, and a temperance lecture by Dr. J B Richards are listed amid traveling singers and a Norman Field Players tour ending with a Jones play.
The Woodruff Fair will stage its annual exhibition in Winder from Oct 6 to 10 featuring School Day Agricultural Day Automobile Day Old Folks Day and Colored Folks Day. Carnival shows flying machine exhibitions daily and entries from other states highlight agricultural product prizes.
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