Balkans Tale Could Shape War Fate More Than Battles
London and Sofia report Balkan events may decide Europe’s fate more than major battles. Greece’s king holds power amid cabinet turmoil while Allied troops land at Saloniki. Rumors of a half million Austro German troops moving toward Serbia swirl as fronts show little change.
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Associated Press
London
Balkans
Europe
Constantine
Greece
Near East
M. Zaims
Hemen Enaittaen
Govinet
Bulgaria
Russia
Serbia
Macedonia
Saloniki
Rumania
Hungary
Fron
von Hindenburg
Wvinsk
Champagne
Tarhue
Summit Hill
Roverto
MOUASK Retains Sugar Tariff Policy
Local trade board reports that MOUASK will maintain the current sugar tariff policy amid ongoing industry pressure. Officials emphasized tariff stability to protect domestic producers while balancing market competition. No changes announced at this time.
Goethals Withdraws Resignation as Canal Governor
Major General George W. Goethals arrived in Panama from New York and announced he has withdrawn his resignation as governor of the canal zone due to recent slides that halted canal traffic. He will stay until traffic resumes and he has notified Secretary Garrison this decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Panama
New York
George W. Goethals
Canal
Goethals
Garrison
Big Rise in U S Cotton Exports in August
Washington reports a sharp rise in cotton exports in August with 162 059 bales valued at over seven and a half million dollars, up from 21 210 bales valued at over a million last year. The eight month period also shows large gains in foods, oils, and cotton exports.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
France Provides Aid to Storm Victims in New Orleans
New Orleans reports the French government via Foreign Minister Delvasse authorizes the consul general to deliver five hundred dollars for storm relief and to convey France's sympathies. Also noted is a lost note about a sphinx fin and a reward at the Bannner Office for C. E. Martin.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Delvasse
France
Sphinx Fin
C. E. Martin
Banner Office
President Wilson Announces Engagement to Mrs Norman Galt
President Wilson disclosed his engagement to Mrs Norman Galt of Washington. The wedding, not fixed, will likely occur in December at the bride elects home. Mrs Galt, widow of a Washington jeweler, was formerly Edith Bolling born in Wytheville Virginia.
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Associated Press
Steele
Washington
Wilson
Norman
Galt
White House
Tumulty
Margaret Wilson
Helen Woodrow Bone
Edith Bolling
Wythevile
Mrs. Galt
Notice to the Bar Athens Meeting October 7 1915
A meeting of the Athens bar is called for Thursday October 7 at 12 noon in the superior court room at the courthouse to make the calendar for the October term 1915 of Clarke superior court. All attorneys with business before the court are requested to be present. By order of Judge Charles H. Brand. October 4 1915. E J Crawford Clerk.
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Superior Court
Athens
Court House
Clarke Superior Court
Charles H. Brand
E. J. Crawford
Wadsworths Scheme 15 Faces Trial and Funding Gaps
H F Stillwell testifies the Cotton Growers Corporation lacked capital to fund an educational campaign for South farmers, hindering its success while promoter Phillip C Wadsworth fights removal to Atlanta for mail fraud charges. Stillwell calls Wadsworths scientific marketing scheme worthy of success.
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Associated Press
New York
South
Cotton Growers Corporation
H. F. Stillwell
Society
Phillip C. Wadsworth
Atlanta
Wadsworth
Midvale Steel Creates World Scale Steel Group
New York Oct 6 announcement that Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company has formed a hundred million corporation under William E Corey. It now owns Midvale Steel Co Worth Brothers Coatesville Rolling Mills and Remington Arms Co and holds ore ore options totaling three hundred million tons. Excluding United States Steel Corp it becomes the nation’s largest steel concern by capitalization.
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Associated Press
New York
Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company
William E. Corey
Midvale Steel Co
Worth Brothers Company
Coatesville
Pennsylvania
Coates
County Education Board Grants Licenses to 16 White and 21 Colored Teachers
At its regular meeting the county board of education renewed licenses and issued new ones. Sixteen white teachers and twenty-one colored teachers received licenses. First grade white renewals total five, colored four. Primary white six, colored fifteen. General elementary white five, colored two.
Endorsement for Salary Increase of Western Circuit Judge
Judge McWhorter urges Clarke county and Athens to supplement the Western circuit judge’s salary to parity with other circuits. He argues the judge’s independence is crucial as the office guards rights and lives, noting outsider appeals and contributions to local causes. The letter, dated Oct 6 1915 from Athens, Ga, calls for prompt action.
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McWhorter
Western Circuit
Banner
Clarke County
Superior Court
Athens
National Guard Would Shrink From Its Size on Paper in War
The national defense conference ends with resolutions for immediate military and naval increases and a call for a national defense council. General H Oden Lake says the national guard is virtually useless as constituted and would drop to about twenty five thousand in war time.
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National Guard
Associated Press
Washington
National Defense Conference
Congress
National Defense Council
H. Oden Lake
Army and Navy Union
Stepdaughter Wins Estate Rights Over Sisters
Judge C. H. Brand rules stepdaughter has prior claim to the late J. J. Pettijohn estate in Jackson County. Pettijohn died intestate, his wife died soon after, and the stepdaughter Mrs. Tolbert inherits through the first wife, while Pettijohn’s sisters in Gwinnett County contest. Estate valued at $16,000. Williamson's advertises produce and coffee.
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C. H. Brand
Western Circuit
Annie Tolbert
J. J. Pettijohn
Jackson County
Court of Ordinary
Jefferson
Pettijohn
Jackson
County
Interstate Commission suspends coal rates tariffs
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended until February 4 the supplements to the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway tariffs. They cover canceling joint coal rates in carload lots from Tennessee mines to Gainesville Georgia and other Southern Railway points. If the joint rates are cancelled the proposed rates would rise 10 to 70 cents per ton.
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Associated Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nashville, Chattanooga
British import permits rules for German Austrian goods
Washington reports the British embassy informed the state department trade advisers that all applications by American importers for permits to release German and Austrian goods held abroad must be filed by November 1. Applications will be accepted if payment or contract for the goods occurred before March 1.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department
Five Years in Federal Penalty for False Bank Reports
New York reports Henry C. Haff son of Hank Haff skipper of American cup yacht defenders was sentenced to five years in Atlanta penitentiary after pleading guilty to making a false report on the condition of the National Bank off slip Long Island where he served as cashier.
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Associated Press
New York
Henry C. Haff
Hank Haff
American Cop Yacht Defenders
Atlanta
National Bank
Long Island
Belles From Darktown At Colonial Tonight
The Belles of Darktown will headline a minstrel show at the Colonial theatre tonight. Miss Lillian Hall directs the benefit for Athens Woman's Club with many local girls in the cast and a 5 o'clock parade of minstrel maids planned this afternoon.
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Darktown
Colonial Theatre
Lillian Hall
Woman’s Club of
Athens
Oyster Supper and W. O. W. Dance
An oyster supper and dance are planned tonight at the W. O. W. hall hosted by the Uniformed Bank of the order. Attendees can enjoy oysters served by the ladies of the local W. O. W. Circle. hall opens at 8 o clock.
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Bank of the Order
W. O.W
Resignations Sweep Through City Board and Officials
At the October meeting the mayor and council hear rapid resignations from Alderman J F Tibbetts, J E Talmadge Jr, C D Flanigen, and Simon Michael from the bond commission. New appointments follow including Flanigen to the board of education and Dr Howard Odum to fill Talmadge’s term. The council also addresses waterworks ordinances and accepts Brittain avenue as a city street.
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J. F. Tibbetts
Fourth Ward
John E. Talmadge, Jr
Board of Education
C. D. Flanigen
City Educational Board
Simon Michael
Bond Commission
Flanigen
Talmadge
Howard Odum
University Peabody School of Education
Janigen
W. T. Bryan
S. Michael
Council
Hinton
Brittain Avenue
S. Michaels
Messrs
Jo. Y. Carthers
C. H. Newton
Bryan
Dad Health
Talmafige
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Wildada
Dieveaber
Norman R. Galtesse
Sofia
Mouask
Goethals Will
Col
Norman R. Galt
Arnold & Abney
Hamilton McWhorter
Athens, Ga
Bell Peppers
Williamson's
Tibbetts
Gainesville
Southern Railway
Belles
Woman’s “Club
Colonial
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