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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
8
Local classified items include real estate rentals a nine room house on Washington Street and various service ads. Businesses such as Pittman Furniture and Jester fire insurance options. Promotions for typewriters, hairdressing courses, barber training, shoes repair, and Moler Barber College. Also offerings of drinks and fresh water delivery and brickwork products.
A compact notice sheet lists Lipscomb & Co. fire insurance and real estate, The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 1 per cent interest on deposits, and various rental and sale ads for homes, rooms, furniture, and services. Also present are ads for wood, bulbs, produce, flour, a missing card case, piano rental, and a new Oliver typewriter.
Georgia gears up for Saturday’s game against South Carolina with plans for a 4 00 kickoff and low ticket prices. Coaches urge a chapel rally at 3 15 and the band leads a town march. Officials include Wahoo as referee and Innis Brown as umpire. Georgia lists a strong lineup featuring Covington at center and Sancken at quarterback.
Frank Mack a negro chauffeur from Dublin was lynched by a posse near Eastman Georgia after an attempted assault on the wife of a Dodge county planter. The mob overpowered officers and tied Mack to a tree where he was riddled with bullets.
Washington reports confirm President Taft approved the verdicts. Cadets Ralph Sass Delaware James Christian Virginia Tatnall Simpkins Georgia and Elliott Freeland Florida were dismissed for possessing liquor at the academy. Simpkins is noted as a former Athens boy whose family once lived on Dearing Street near the Sigma Chi chapter house.
Mrs. L. V. Johnson, a well known white resident of Statesboro Georgia, was fined 300 dollars and sentenced to thirty days in jail after pleading guilty to violating the state prohibition law. Her son Lester Johnson was charged but did not appear and his bond of 500 dollars was forfeited. TheJohnsons run a store just over the city line in the southern part of town and have long been suspected of operating a blind tiger.
A southbound Georgia Florida and Alabama train collided with a wagon at a crossing near Colquitt Georgia. The horse died instantly and the wagon was shattered. Tom Hill a negro farmer was seriously hurt and his wife and son were found unharmed under the engine.
Cartersville Ga October 5 C F Price a leading county resident died Monday after a long illness He was fifty two and the funeral was held this afternoon He is survived by his wife and four daughters.
Beautiful goods in various pat terns. Will be pleased to show you our line.
The synagogue celebrates Succoth with Friday evening and Saturday services led by Rabbi Blechman on October sixth and seventh. The festival lasts seven days with a solemn assembly on the eighth day. Devotions include bringing citron, palm, myrtle, and willow into God’s house and sharing gifts with hospitals and the poor.
In Tifton on October 5 Captain John Brodle, a high diving act performer with Barkoot Amusement Co, died after a 700 foot fall from a balloon during a race with aero naut Prof Gowdy. Brodie, from Crystal Lake Wisconsin, tangled ropes at parachute release and crashed onto the fair grounds.
Richard Davis Jr. filed for divorce in Macon superior court claiming Celice V. Davis acted improperly after he brought home a basket of eggs for baking a cake. She allegedly hurled the eggs at him, breaking them all and saying she would cook the cake her own way.
In Jesup Georgia Riley Williams a desperate Negro killed by Chief of Police Williams at Majesto's still near town after firing on officers who were pursuing him for a child’s death in Douglas. Williams was wounded slightly by the officers before dying in the first volley.
In Waycross Georgia a mule and an automobile collided while turning the same way. The mule escaped unscathed while the auto suffered a black eye as its headlight was kicked out. The mule was knocked down then rose and kicked the front of the machine. The car belonged to E D Brinson.
Waycross Georgia council debates raising street carnival licenses to two thousand dollars citing strong citizen opposition to carnivals. A resolution proposing the increase has been introduced and is likely to pass.
Milledgeville Ga Oct 5 Lanier High School Macon opened football with a 11 to 2 defeat at Georgia Military College. The team was mostly green but shows promise for a solid season. Possible one more game against Athens High School may be added.
Waycross Georgia October 5 Jude Smith a white man who escaped from the county chain gang while serving a sentence for violating the whiskey law was rearrested yesterday and is again in the gang.
Albany Georgia October 5 prisoners will be kept in cages on the courthouse lawn until the new county jail is completed. The cages from the old jail will be removed and used, covered with flaps, and every effort made to keep inmates comfortable during the interim.
Albany, Ga Oct 5 The Supreme Circle of Benevolence a Negro order with about 25000 members plans a 50000 dollar temple to be built in Albany soon. The decision was made at a recent Brunswick convention setting a bold project for the organization.
Savannah, Ga Oct 5 Savannah will not be represented at the unveiling of the Gate City Guards monument in Atlanta next week. The cotton season is cited as the reason the men cannot leave home during this busy period.
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