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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1912
Page
9
For rent listings include multiple houses with varying room counts and prices. Properties listed on Milledge Grady Pulaski Boulevard Pulaski Street and College Avenue offer rents ranging from 10.00 to 60.60 per month or year with several two to six room options and several “Groom/Gom” houses noted.
Secretary Callaway of the Athens Chamber sent letters to five railroads asking for special Thanksgiving Day fares from all points to Athens on Nov 28 for the Georgia Auburn football game. The event, the first Turkey Day clash in years between two major Southern teams, is expected to draw about ten thousand visitors to Athens.
The University of engineering students society elected J. Rhodes Slade as president T. M. Vonsprecken as vice president and B. Fisher as secretary. Editorial staff named R. T. Goodwyn Jr as editor in chief and R. D. Short as sophomore editor. M. W. Fitzpatrick is business manager with Co. V. Middlebrooks as assistant manager.
The Banner promotes Mr. Cobb Campkin entering real estate, noting his city service as chairman of the board of assessors and his strong business reputation. His new office has opened recently and he has handled several important cases with a substantial portfolio of properties for potential investors to inspect.
The piece calls thousands in Georgia to raise funds for state orphanages. It urges all to work hard to earn more than average to support fatherless and motherless children, noting Athens will contribute as always.
A one room house on Nowhere road near Athens burned with contents. Athens ladies organize help to restore a simple room for Mrs Nix, asking residents to donate cash nails bricks or lumber. Mrs A H Davison and Mrs J C Hutchens lead contact via the Banner for donations or subscriptions.
Matinee show this afternoon at 4 o clock at the Majestic offers ten cent admission for pictures and matinee. Night show tickets cost twenty cents and ten. Keiths vaudeville headlines the Majestic with three reels of fine pictures and audience members with time matched tickets can win a bag of Aunt Rose flour. The day promises a top musical program and a final chance to hear the season’s best music.
Tonight the visiting University of Chattanooga football team and the Georgia Red and Black Warriors will be hosted at box parties by managers Bishop and Goodale. Coaches expect the Georgia squad to attend together, with colors on display, as the first in a series of season courtesies.
Hon W M Howard has reopened law practice in Lexington in the courthouse upstairs room once used by the solicitor general. He will be in daily when not away on business and will greet friends and former clients. The community welcomes his return in business and social life. Football Night at Celénjal tonight.
Georgia and Citadel meet today as Tech heads to Charleston. The Red and Black parade and a student petition for a Vanderbilt game holiday frame a day of football in Athens with Powell and Dutch Sancken spotlighted for early action and strategic questions on new rules and quarterback roles.
Secretary Callaway of the Athens Chamber of Commerce visited Jefferson, capital of Jackson, to report on Athens membership doubling and to encourage Jefferson’s board of trade. He was joined by W. F. Dorsey M. J. Abney and C. D. Campbell. The visit highlighted friendly ties and mutual trade interests between Athens and Jefferson as fans planned to attend today’s football game.
American League results show Washington beat New York 4 2 Philadelphia defeated Boston 4 3 Chicago topped Detroit 7 2. National League action had Brooklyn 8 New York 3 and Boston 14 Philadelphia 2.
A birthday party hosted by Mrs A W Wilkins in Crawford Georgia celebrated Miss Hazel Barge of Brookhaven Mississippi. Guests attended from local families, the hall featured pink and white decoration with an eight pink and white candle cake as the centerpiece.
The Bell Brothers Marble Company under Frank M Bell and with Tom Bell as a partner has grown from a $10 000 start in 1904 to an expected annual business over 40000. The firm employs 5 sales staff across Georgia North Carolina South Carolina and Florida and operates with up to 15 local salesmen and modern machinery for marble granite and monument work.
A dense mix of notices and ads includes brick for sale from Ga. Brick Co. with phone numbers, livestock and plants sold, painting and gypsining services, and various asks and offers. Local business names appear alongside home items, real estate notes, seed oats, parlor or horse for sale, a piano tuner, orchestra director, table board for five at Y W C A, fern and asparagus for sale, rubber belting wanted, and a Banner office pickup.
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