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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Oct 31, 1913

Page

2

Halloween Week Calendar Highlights In Athens

The calendar lists events for Friday and Saturday in Athens including Twilight Recital at Lucy Cobb at five, Halloween parties at multiple venues, a 39 clock football game North Carolina versus Georgia, a cotillion at Dupree Hall, and a high school carnival at eight. Social notices cover teas, luncheons, and a marriage at 550 North Jackson Street with Rev. J W. Lynch officiating. A Halloween poem and candy sale at Sanford Field are noted along with a Christian Church Halloween invite and Mrs. W D Lamars talk.

Lucy Cobb College Avenue Billups Phinizy Martha Phinizy Adaline Dobbs Albert Davison Philathea J. B. Vaughan Milledge Avenue Colonial Christian Endeavor Omega Betas Sign of the Black Cat North Carolina Georgia Dupree Hall Randolph Huntington Carrie Mae Randolph A. L. Huntington N. J. Mathews North Jackson Street J. W. Lynch First Baptist Church

Memorials Mark Georgia U D C Ventures At Rabun Gap

The Georgia United Daughters of the Confederacy report annual progress with $10,000 raised for a Bartow memorial at Rabun Gap school and plans to buy Rabun county lands nearby for an industrial school. They aim to memorialize Alexander H. Stephens by urging a state university branch at Liberty Hall. Notable speakers included Miss Rutherford and Lawton B. Evans.

Mildred Rutherford Moultrie Telegraph Georgia Bartow Rabun Gap School Rabun County Wirt Andersonville Petersburg the Crater Georgia U. D. C State University Liberty Hall Alexander H. Stephens Miss Rutherford Athens Lawton B. Evans Augusta South Macon Telegraph

Some Day a Star and the Good Looking Girl

An Athens advertiser promotes R. Brandt as the place with “Know-how” in optical service. The pitch highlights that customers will realize long‑ago they should have shopped there. The copy emphasizes attractive eyewear and suggests a skilled optical department through the lens of a fashionable customer.

Athens R. Brandt

The Jeweler and Optician Insurance Building Event

Three Athens society girls present a showing of the latest dances with exhibitions and dancing during and after the event. Also notes the Feast of All Saints observed globally on November 1 with church services at Emmanuel church leading Holy Communion at 7:30 a.m. and Morning Prayer at 11 a.m. An invitation is extended to participate in the festival observance.

Hallowe’en C. E. Society of Christian Church Athens Society Emmanuel Church

A High School tion in Homeburg Women Vote First

George Fitch in the November American Magazine humorously imagines Homeburg as a town where women may vote in school elections and men must. The excerpt follows as citizens rush to the polls with Mrs Chet Frazier and others active outside the butcher shop and post office amid the playful, satirical tone.

George Fitch Homeburg Chet Frazier Chet Attorney Cox Chicago

Voters endure tense finish at school bond election

The scene centers on a crowded polling place as residents, including Judge Hicks and Mrs. Payley, queue to vote before five o'clock. Women drive the outcome while men endure the suspense, culminating in a school funding approval of 453 to 78. Local social notes follow, detailing visits and arrivals in Athens and surrounding towns.

Judge Hicks Tere Gibb Ogle Gibb Africa Mrs. Payley

Rubber tires for sale cheap in Victoria ad

Victoria buyers are told rubber tires in first class condition are available cheaply from Griffith & Welen. Trade in foreign countries is noted with competition from top goods from every land. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is promoted as the popular medicine for coughs and colds, sold by all dealers.

Griffith & Welen Jevery Land

Do You Dread Your Meals Chamberlains Tablets Ad

An advertisement touts Chamberlains Tablets to boost appetite improve digestion and restore relish for meals. Sold through dealers.

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