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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1916
Page
8
A fragmented list of local classified notices and ads. Items include insurance and loan offers from Oscomb and J C Jester, farm land loans, peach land for sale near Gray Georgia, a five room cottage for rent, tire recycling payments, a shirt sale at Levy's Toggery, furnished room rental near 298 South Lumpkin Street, a lost gold brooch with hair, and vacancies for experienced salesladies at Davison Nicholson Co.
Classified items include rent offers and home financing options from Athens institutions and agents. Listings mention pecan nursery stock fruit trees paper shell pecans and November delivery, furniture refinishing and shipping, cooking oil claims, Thornton oysters to take home, and used autos with contact details for Joel A. Wier and Athens Engineering Co.
In town Georgia a 45 acre tract offered as prime farm land with ample woods water and pasture. Terms available. Address Box 11 Stephens Ga. Also horse buggy and harness offered for bargain. Phone Bell Bros. 996.
Police recorder Price reports a busy day collecting fines totaling 155.50 cash, matching last Monday’s sum after the ten o clock round-up. Several speeding and traffic cases, plus a reckless driving incident involving Ardean Tucker, were docketed for next Saturday. Tucker aided the injured before posting bond. The paper notes multiple drunkenness cases and a wife beating incident on Billups street. McWhorter leaves for Charlottesville to resume law studies after attending his grandmother’s funeral in Washington. Local residents and visitors stayed at the Georgian, with several named guests in town over the weekend.
Judge Brand held chambers in Watkinsville and Lawrenceville clearing ten to twelve motions. Merritt gets retrial after certiorari. Par r case overruled certiorari, Van Straaten case sustained new trial. Twelve prisoners remain in county jail. four convicted at recent court sent to county gang. Kennedy and Eddie Harper await state farm. Elder recovering from apendicitis. Jackson murder case motions for new trial. court adjourns to next week for general presentments. Election day session promised with voting access for all court participants.
Mrs. J. M. Gaskill of Atna Green Indiana reports severe back ache and sharp pains. Foley Kidney Pills gave relief enabling her to stoop again with satisfaction. The ad asserts safety and recommends H R Palmer and Sons as sellers of the remedy.
An advertisement warns against mercury containing catarrh remedies and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective when taken internally. The notice claims testimonials are free and lists price per bottle and availability through druggists.
Mrs Chas Reitz of Allen Mills Pa says she has used Foley's Honey and Tar for eleven years and would not be without it. It relieves hoarseness tickling throat and wheezy breathing quickly. Halloween is the evening before All Saints Day marking October 31.
An editorial line asserts national progress depends on individual industry energy and uprightness, emphasizing personal effort as the foundation of collective advancement.
Mrs Thomas Campbell of Kirkville New York says her nineteen year old son suffered frequent bilious attacks. Her husband gave him Chamberlain's Tablets and they helped at once. He began to eat heartily and improved rapidly. Obtainable everywhere.
The Colonial hosts one night only showing Arizona a western comedy drama from Phillips Company with a band orchestra noonday concert and vaudeville stunts. Ticket prices are 25 35 and 50 cents. Also note a New York hotel tale of a lost and found diamond ring on the rocks at low tide.
The quote describes heaven as perfection of organization that completes routine work efficiently, freeing individuals to explore new thoughts and expressions for collective joy. It emphasizes unity of action and freedom for self expression as essential to heaven.
Gentle but sure. Biliousness and dyspepsia are blamed on undigested fermenting food. Keeping the bowels open is urged as first aid to health. Foley Cathartic Tablets are recommended. Palmer & Sons advertise.
The Ohio State Journal notes a woman persuades her husband to wear white flannel trousers to appear socially polished. Yet she fears he will be mocked as referring to them as pants in public.
A playful domestic dialogue questions why the first year of marriage is hard. It notes that the wife must adjust to her partner not earning all the money and the husband to realize his wife has a temper at times.
Dr. Richard H. Hutchings of St. Lawrence State Hospital in Ogdensburg New York and a National Commission for Mental Hygiene member toured Athens and Milledgeville state facilities. He criticized Milledgeville for overcrowding with about five thousand inmates in quarters suited for half that number and said the visit supports a conditions study.
Carnegie Hero Foundation awards a silver medal and ten dollars monthly for life to Julius T. Malone’s mother of Athens Georgia. Malone, a 39 year old hotel engineer, died after aiding guests during a fire at a Los Angeles hotel on November 12 1912. The article notes Malone saved several guests before being overcome by burns and that his father George Malone and other relatives live near Athens. Other Georgia recipients include Walter Crowder Zatella and Isham Hailey Hartwell Julian Wilkinson Abbeville and Oliver Morton Lumpkin with medals for lifesaving acts.
Greene county residents including Judge J B Park and J C Williams flocked to Athens for shopping as good roads and rising car use make the city a regular trading hub. The Monday visit drew many locals such as Hoyt Boswell John T Boswell E R Boswell and Dr T G Rice among others.
Irvin S. Cobb attended the premiere of Back Home with Bayard Veller in Boston. Responding to audience calls, Cobb asked patrons to stay for the third act, joking that it contains the only ring remaining from his original play.
In a tender moment four generation family watched Grandpa lay sod on the grave of a faithful old dog. Little May comforted Grandma, then whispered that the worn watch had gone to dog heaven, a line that moved the aged pair to tears and laughter.
The saying in apple-pie order traces to Hephzibah a Puritan housewife who baked two to three dozen pies every Saturday and labeled them for each day. Her pantry was described as being in apple pie order reflecting orderly weekly provisioning.
A three year old boy on the back porch spoke softly when a neighbor asked what was wrong. He replied that he had a “dweas” or “Cress,” implying illness as the cause of his silence.
A Ruskin reflection on life as music finds no rest in making but emphasizes timing. It notes people miss parts of the melody, rushing onward, while recognizing that counting is hard yet essential to harmony.
A Kansas City Star exchange features a blunt racial contrast as a speaker asserts a Black husband is treated with more respect than another man. The reply claims a Black wife could discipline her husband more effectively, reflecting tense social attitudes of the era.
A restrained exchange unfolds as the Postmaster defends reading mail cards while a curious bystander claims privilege and importance to stir interest in the sorting process. The dialogue highlights tension over access to correspondence.
An old advertisement warns that coughs worsen with time and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a remedy to stop coughing and soothe throat inflammation and irritation.
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