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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1920
Page
8
A compact Athens notice sheet advertising savings bank deposits at 4 percent and various local services. Items include insurance agents, plumbing, used vehicles, a Buick Touring Car sale, real estate offerings, and employment wants. Names include Garnett L. Daniel and A. H. Davenport among local businesses.
Fresh gysters this afternoon. Sliced ox tongue, sliced beef. Sliced boiled ham. ARNOLD, ABNEY & CO. Fresh shipment prunes. Seeded raisins new currants. Evaporated apricots. Fresh hot house lettuce. Curly leaf crisp and tender. Fresh shipment cranberries. Crisp white Kalamazoo celery. Fresh hot house lettuce. Nice ripe tomatoes. Small yellow squash. That good round cheese. Fresh shipment just in. ARNOLD, ABNEY & cad. Cooking apples 50c peck. Fresh Devil Cake 50c, Angel Food Cakes 50c. Stone's Cults fresh by express to iday. KING:HODGSON CO. Fresh Tender Corn Okra Turnip Salad Rutabaga Turnips Cabbage. KING-HODSON CO Iceberg Lettuce Fancy Colery Bel Peppers Yellow Yam Potatoes Ikyl Potatoes. KING-HODGSON CO Honey Dew Melons Grapefruit Oranges Peaches Tokey Grapes Grima Golden Apples Cooking Apples Secke Pears. Kingam's Breakfast Bacon Slice Boiled Ham Dried Beet Ox Tongue Bologna Sausage Fish Fish and Oysters Received Daily. Athens Fish & Oyster Co. Wholesale and Retail 661 15 Broad St.
A called communication of Mount Vernon Lodge No. 22 F and A M will be held at Masonic Hall on Thursday evening October 7 at eight o'clock. The M M degree will be conferred and all qualified brethren are invited. By order of H A Nix W M John G Quinn Secretary
Advertises Hamlin's Wizard Oil as a safe simple remedy for sore throats chests colds and minor injuries. Claims rubbing on the chest can loosen a deep cold overnight and recommends keeping a bottle in the medicine chest along with Wizard Liver Whips for constipation and headaches.
Senator Reed of Missouri telegraphed Senator Spencer that President Wilson pledged American military aid to Romania and Serbia at the peace conference. He urged release of stenographic records and cited a May 31, 1919 speech. Reed claims the text surfaced in December 1919 and that Tumulty denied earlier questions.
Mr. Fred R. Hamilton of 544 Boulevard asserts that Bill Hamilton under arrest for robbing Goodman's store on Thomas street last Friday night has no connection with local Hamiltons. He says Bill is a resident of South Carolina where his arrest was effected.
A crowd of Mexican laborers armed with pistols barricaded themselves in boarding houses in the Homestead suburb and exchanged shots with police and firemen. Fire crews began spraying water as the clash erupted after the arrest of a Mexican.
From Houston October 6 Associated Press indicates at the Confederates union opening that General M Vanzandt will be re elected commander in chief of the veterans though not a candidate They also expect N B Forest to be re elected commander of the Sons of Veterans at tomorrow’s election.
Mr W J Smittie Jr university of georgia student badly injured Tuesday morning in a automobile accident on Hancock avenue was reported resting well at two oclock this morning and showed apparent improvement He had spent a fairly good night up to that hour
Offer for an old fashion barbecue dinner from Flournoy Broad street between College Avenue and Lumpkin Street. Ladies invited to stop and purchase for homes. Dinner served daily from 12 to 3 o'clock. Come or send orders to us.
A review of the Adolph Klavber production Nightie Night at the Colonial, Athens. The show blends lingerie spectacle with a light plot about two sets of newlyweds and long-married couples, delivering pep and risqué hints without real provocation.
Julian Edwin and Marion Conolly share first in the YMCA ball league after a 7-2-1 finish. The decisive game for pennant honors is set for 5:30 pm in the Classic City with both teams aiming to cap a strong season. Fans are invited to witness Irvin Conolly and others as the teams meet.
The Georgia Hotel Cafe promotes affordable dining with a 75 cent lunch and a one dollar dinner. Patrons are invited to call 1171 to make reservations or inquire further about banquets and parties hosted at the venue.
Review notes the touring production stars Billy Mottet played by Harry Stubbs and Martha Stanley, with Adelaide Matthews and Thelma White in supporting roles. It praises some cast members while criticizing others for racy elements and scant costumes.
The farce Nightie Night drew favorable reaction with audience praise noting it could return for another appearance and be well received, according to C.E. M.
Providence October 6 The Republican state convention nominated Lieut Governor San Souci for governor without opposition and declared against the League of Nations presented to the state by the president.
Houston October 6 The Revere Sugar Refinery announced a price of 111 4 cents a pound for sugar down from 221 2 cents quoted a fortnight earlier. Foster president of the American Sugar Refining Co told the attorney general that big companies would require wholesalers to live contracts at 221 2 cents despite declines. Foster said the operating profits of its company for the first eight months of the year will be slightly over 11 0.
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