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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1918
Page
6
A collage of local ads lists sales, trades, jobs, and services in Athens. Items include Ford and Overland trucks for sale, furniture and hardware bargains, lodging and room offers, employment notices, lost items, and classifieds from The Banner including real estate, insurance, and banking promotions.
Mrs. LaFayette Lanier and Mra Bryant Dixon of West Point attend Mrs. Dupree Hunnicutt. Mrs. J. X. Abrams of Savannah registers at the Georgian hotel visiting her son in the Students Army Training Corps at the University. Reverend and Mrs. J. V. M. Morris depart for two weeks to relatives in the old Dillard settlement. Also a testimony promoting Chamberlains Tablets for indigestion and sleeplessness by Miss Agnes Turner of Chicago.
Clarke County Georgia commissioners set 1918 tax levies on state and county property. State 140 percent, county seven mills, with specific percentages for debt, bridges, roads, courts, officials, poor, jurors and legal charges. A separate two and a half mill local tax to support public schools outside Athens city limits, to be collected by Clarke County Tax Collector and kept separate. Surplus, if any, may fund other lawful county charges.
Evening gathering by patriotic citizens of Maxeys to support Liberty Loan drives. Local committee reports strong interest in war effort and promising subscriptions from prior bond issues. Chancellor Darrow and Private John McDyer planned to attend and speak, urging further pledges.
Rev. 8. J. Cartledge and Private Tashjian travel to Philomath to deliver addresses at a Fourth Liberty Loan rally. The organizing committee expects the county to subscribe well beyond its quota.
The passage promotes cleaner blood as the key to health and vitality for both women and men. It envisions fewer sickly complexions and nerve wrecks, replaced by a vigorous, rosy, energetic populace. It suggests drinking a peach morning tonic on waking.
A batch of obituaries and funeral notices from local sources lists Melba Jordan aged 4 at 670 Nantahala Avenue, Mrs H J Zimmerman of Westminster South Carolina died from injuries in Farmington Georgia, Homer Appling died in Nashville, Leonard Whitfield of Whitehall died after pneumonia, Miss Jane Estes of Center Georgia died at 76, Ruby Bradshaw daughter of Mr Bradshaw died at Whitehall, and other memorials for residents of Commerce Georgia and surrounding areas. Remains and services to follow with churches and Bernstein Bros arranging.
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