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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1915
Page
8
Short notes advertise rent items scrap metal requests and business exchanges. Mentions furnished rooms two occupants old compress depot opposite location bargains on second hand motorcycles and real estate prospects plus service on typewriter repair and steno work with contact hints.
A collage of classifieds including savings bank rates from The Athens Savings Bank, real estate listings in Georgia with farms near town and town properties, rental notices for residences on Milledge Avenue and College Avenue, job inquiry for alterations, and shop ads for cakes and fresh produce from local merchants. Also notes on meat treats from Frank's Milwaukee Meat Delicatessen.
Broad Street store H. T. Huggins & Son advertises coal related items from 25c coal scuttles to 25c spring top coal tongs and 10c coal pokers along with oil heaters for bathrooms. They highlight a wide range of china crockery glass aluminum enameled wooden wares and 20 open stock china patterns, Rogers Silver Ware and O Cedar products plus kitchen and dining room goods.
Seaboard Air Line directors approve consolidation with Carolina Atlantic & Western Railway and a 300 million mortgage. The merged line will be named The Seaboard Air Line Railway Company with 100 million authorized capital, 27.28 million preferred shares and 40.041 million common shares. The new common stock exchanges equal amounts of the present company stock and 2.28 million of Carolina Atlantic & Western stock. Seaboard operates 3100 miles and Carolina 250 miles in the Carolinas.
The Athens Woman's Club presented The Belles of Darktown as Lady Minstrel at the Colonial to strong praise. Local performers drew laughs with jokes on town celebrities, songs, and dancing, while the pantomime impressed an eager audience and the review calls it the best amateur performance Athens has seen.
Florida team scored 1814 of 2000 to win the southern championship at the Southern Rifle Association shoot in Jacksonville. West Virginia took second with 1810, followed by Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina in order.
In Memphis on October 7 Auntie Ma Kaley Gibbs aged 137, once claimed oldest Negro in the United States, died. The report notes her long life and local recognition of her status.
Phoenix Arizona October 7 Governor Hunt ordered the Arizona national guard twelve hundred men held in readiness to move to Clifton where copper miners are striking. Company F composed of seventy Indians from the Phoenix Indian school left for Clifton.
Washington reports the Naval Consulting Board adopts a resolution to urge Congress to fund a new research and experimental laboratory costing five million. Thomas A. Woli elected chairman of the board. The group will be known as the Naval Consulting Board. Also advertised: Genuine Bermuda Easter Lily Bulbs for sale at $1.25 per dozen by Mrs. R. S. Griffeth of Bogart Georgia.
The Farm Mortgage Bankers Association of America opened a two day convention in St. Louis Missouri. Delegates from Missouri Illinois Kansas Iowa Georgia Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Texas Montana Washington Tennessee Nebraska Indiana Louisiana and New York attend. The meeting centers on rural credits and farm mortgage investments with aims to encourage legislation and educate the public on safe securities.
Judge Brand presided in Jackson county over the case of Mrs. M. E. Cooper against J. H. McEver. The heirs sought an injunction and receivership for about 450 acres valued at $15,000. The court granted the injunction and appointed McEver as receiver under $10,000 bond, under court supervision and reporting duties.
Friends note Judge Edwin K Lumpkin remains at home with a badly sprained ankle and unable to walk. The court official is improving and expected to return to work in a few days.
E M Gunter seriously hurt by a fall from a car on the S A L railway at Comer last Saturday evening is much improved and “getting on very well” according to attending physicians. Lost Wednesday SPHINX PIN reward offered by C E Martin at Banner Office.
The Senior Round Table of the University of Georgia held its 1915 initial meeting with Noble Bassett of Fort Valley hosting. Eleven members attended the banquet at the Holland as plans for the year were laid, with future entertainment scheduled at Prof. R. B. Park’s Dearing Street home on the evening of the 21st.
At the Hiawassee Settlement House Bible class meeting last night a large attendance enjoyed a social evening. President Lindsay Tucker and Vice President Robert Hidam were reelected. Crabb and Williams joined the music committee as plans for winter activities unfold including a Hallowe en party.
New York October seventh J P Morgan announced that all sixty underwriters in the syndicate will sign the contract for the French loan this week once the remaining details are completed.
The funeral for Miss Mamie Kennard was held yesterday afternoon at 4:30 at Emmanuel Church, where Rev. Troy Beatty led a simple service. Interment followed at Oconee Cemetery as friends gathered to honor a devoted and Christian life. A separate tribute to her memory appears in another Banner issue.
Sir Knights of Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery Knights Templar summon a special meeting at the Masonic Hall this evening at 8 o clock. All Sun Knights are reminded to attend. important business to be transacted.
Athens residents can call for pure water delivery from Linton Spring Water Co today. The firm invites friends and patrons to the spring event, with phone contact at 504.
The hurricane reported today over the Gulf is reduced to negative proportions by high pressure over the U S interior. Gulf coast warnings have been lowered.
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