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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1916
Page
4
Advertisements in these columns show only a technical address not the advertiser identity. Some listings offer loans and real estate, with several rooms for rent and goods on sale. Public notices reference local businesses like Lipscomb's Specialty-Insurance and Athens Overland Co. and include addresses in Gray and Athens.
The Athens Savings Bank promises four percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1. Deposits from $1.00 up welcome. Get the saving habit and explore housing options with local agents for rent to buy. Also listed are garden and furniture offerings, realty loans, and small ads for services.
Wleming Dearing Co offers stove repairs and heater resetting. They furnish rooms with or without board at 126 Dearing phone 806. Also seeks stenographer and bookkeeper. other notices include an oil painting for sale a 1917 Ford Touring car and furnished room at 298 S Lumpkin St Athens Ga first class table board phone 172 M.
Annapolis Navy beat Georgia 27 to 3 while Princeton edged Dartmouth 7 to 3. Yale defeated Washington and Jefferson 36 to 14 and Harvard beat Cornell 23 to 0. Army routed Villa Nova 69 to 7 with Michigan 14 over Syracuse 13. Wisconsin 30 over Chicago 21. Minnesota 67 blanked Iowa 0. Auburn 7 beat Mississippi Aggies 3. Pittsburgh 20 over Penn State 0. Tennessee 24 over Florida 0. VMI 40 over North Carolina A G 0. Wofford 31 over Guilford 0. Chattanooga 27 over Emory and Henry 0. North Carolina 38 over Wake Forest 13. Davidson 20 over Roanoke College 0. Purdue 7 over Illinois 14 in Lafayette, Ind. Texas A and M 13 over Haskell Indians 6. Alabama 27 over Mississippi 0.
Bishop Georgia reports a busy week with about 400 bales of cotton ginned at a record price of 1934 cents per pound and $66 per ton for seed. One bale plus seed earned $178.25. A 5 room house with 30 acres within the town’s limits sold for $5,500 as real estate booms. The town touts three churches and a fine school.
Colonel William A Wright reports the death of his son Philip C Wright in Morristown Tennessee at age 37. He had been in poor health and had traveled to Arizona for treatment. Survived by widow father sister Mrs Charles Phinizy Athens and brother A R Wright Atlanta. Body to arrive in Atlanta with funeral planned after noon Sunday.
Atlanta agents report the college of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South issued a statement on the reunion proposals involving the three branches. They say southern church action must be decided by its six year old joint federation commission and affirm pride in its history regardless of future alliances.
Johnny Aiken of Annapolis won the gold trophy in a hundred mile race on the Sheepshead Bay track with a time of 56 minutes 37 and 65 hundreds seconds, setting a new American record. Frank Galvin finished second and Howard Wilson third.
Dr. Jere M. Pound president of the State Normal School states Prof. F. A. Merrill prepared the article in the special Prosperity issue of the Bagner Friday. The piece was credited to Dr. Pound in the newspaper.
Gence Street Methodist Church announces regular services today with Sunday school at 10, sermon at 11, children's service at 7:30 led by Rev. W. Jones. West End Baptist Church schedules Sunday school 9:45, sermons at 11 and 7:30 by Rev. J. A. Bell on church relations. all invited. Christian Endeavor notes feature "The Rewards of Religion" led by Ina Mae Penland at Central Presbyterian, with a post devotion business meeting and readings by Mrs. Claude Bishop. all youths invited.
The funeral of Mrs. Camilla Pharr mother of Hamilton McWhorter of this city will be at Washington Wilkes county today at noon. Many from Athens will travel today to attend the services as family members left yesterday for Washington.
Mr. J. D. Moss of Athens contributed to the local Wilson campaign fund yesterday. The amount given, via State FF ace committeeman H. J. Rowe, totaled $398.
Mr. W. H. Davi was seized by sudden illness last night about 11 30 as he prepared to close his new Clayton Street shop. He was rushed home and later reported improved in condition.
Washington reports a new complication with the de facto Mexican government following a statement by Luis Cabrera head of the Mexican commission. The document criticizes U S neutrality and immigration enforcement regarding Mexico and calls for deportation of conspirators swarming in the United States.
Miss Margaret Quincy famed high diver arrives with the Great American Shows in fourteen-car train under W O W auspices. She will dive from 100-foot ladder twice daily and demonstrate swimming from a 10-foot ladder while promoting women’s rights and cosmetics-free beauty. Country Store features benefits for the National Encampment with vendor donations and a chicken wheel for prizes.
Athens residents report heavy requests from Republican and Hughes groups for Wilson opposition funds. A prominent citizen received multiple donation asks and replied with a Bir dollar check equal to the number of requests, indicating mixed responses to the fundraising drive.
Professor Cleveland Abbe, famed meteorologist known as the father of the weather bureau, died yesterday in Washington. The article recalls his pivotal role in creating the national weather forecasting system starting with the Cincinnati Observatory in 1869 and the establishment of a national bureau in 1870.
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