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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1911
Page
8
Local ads list services and sales from Erwin & Co and other merchants. Items include shoe repair, rental offers, hardware discounts, a lost blank book with reward, a music class opening, a Pope motorcycle for sale, and business opportunity for a shoe manufacturer seeking a store in towns including Athens.
A collage of local advertisements lists fire insurance from Lipscomb & Co, bank deposits at Athens Savings Bank, optical services by Pendley at 335 Clayton, painting from Chas W Parr, and various goods and rentals. It promotes Bludwine drinks, hack services by A H Cook, hardware items from Rhodes and Bondurant, and sale prices on glassware, percolators, and bulbs. Also notes rental housing on Milledge Ave, music lessons with Mrs Gamble, and job and stock notices.
Yesterday's baseball results from multiple cities show Atlanta and Nashville each scoring runs in both games with varied innings. Umpires Kellum Collistower and others oversaw contests in Nashville New Orleans Memphis and Montgomery while Philadelphia swept both ends of a doubleheader against Boston and Boston again at Philadelphia.
Mr Will Peek, a longtime local gardener, sent a sample of his tomato harvest. Three smooth tomatoes on a stem weighed over two and a half pounds, a record in the editor's office this year.
Advertising copy lists lime for construction and sanitary use with phone orders, discounts on large lots, and a range of related products including Portland cement wall plaster calcium for tinting, ready mixed paint, carriage paint, linseed oil turpentine varnish stains and other coatings. See us before buying paint.
Miss Beufort Brand sister of Mr H H Brand visits Athens and will perform at the First Methodist church Sunday at 11 o clock. Her reputation as a leading South Carolina singer is noted as she shares her voice with the local audience.
Mr. M. M. Embree of Atlanta has moved to Athens with his wife and will enter business here, purchasing H. C. Compton’s shop at 274 Clayton Street next to the former Wooten Book Store and occupying the second floor as living apartments. Compton and family relocate to College Avenue.
Mrs Eliza Brittain mother of Patrolman Brittain in Athens has recovered from pelagra after months of illness. She now sleeps through the night and eats well following treatment by Dr Hill of Windsor who reports phenomenal progress against the baffling disease.
Mr Cooper of the Three Friends Barber Shop returns from a pleasant trip to Yatesville in Upson County where he visited his brother, a local bank cashier.
Messrs. Alfred T. Conway and H. O Epting have returned from a lengthy trip through the middle west visiting Cincinnati and Chicago. They are planning the work of the Luster cloth measuring and computing machine and have recently organized a $50,000 company with headquarters in Athens to manufacture and sell the mechanism.
Last night the local Owl nest hosted a splendid reception with every man who has ever been an Owl invited. The event drew scores and ran through a lively evening, described as an enjoyable affair for the order’s members.
Mr Lee Michael, long time Bernstein firm member, leaves in days for Darlington South Carolina to start his own business. He has many friends here who wish him well. Found stray white cow Port Jersey owner can claim by paying ad and keeping. Phone 806 126 Dearing St.
Rev. A J Sears of Oconee Street Methodist Church returns from ten days at Royston Toccoa and Carnesville He preached last Sunday at a revival in Carnesville before a tent crowd of more than a thousand He will preach tomorrow morning to children and young people and again at 8 15 p m at his church inviting the community parents to attend
Yesterday morning around 9, a frightened horse pulling a night wagon on Lumpkin and Clayton streets caused a scare. A small black boy fell into the wagon body as the horse bolted, nearly colliding with two other teams before stopping near Williamson's.
A new enterprise adds vigor to the local business scene by opening in the basement of the old Commercial hotel. The factory makes all kinds plain sticks fancy and box candies as part of renewed commercial activity.
The entire police force swaps shifts monthly with the day crew taking the night shift and the night crew serving the day shift. This rotation aims to give officers equal opportunities to work in day and night duties.
Editor W. A. Shackelford and his eldest son Alsa visited the city to gather copy for fall advertisements from Athens for the Lexington Echo. He spoke proudly of his two week old youngest son and mused on him becoming a lively college boy in due course.
Tom Davison a Comer businessman and brother of A H Davison visited Athens yesterday to see his sibling. He has many friends in Athens who are always glad to meet him there.
In a five inning game Prince Avenue Stars edged the Downtown Sluggers 5 to 4. Prince Avenue lineup included Weatherly, Bond F, Davison D, Short, Hutchison, Bond G, R Short, Hutchison, Moody. Downtown lineup featured O Compton, S Compton, Bailey, Bryant, Epps, Moore, Crow, Barrow, Vess. Davison and Moore pitched for the teams.
Crawford Ga Sept 1 The fall term at Crawford High School opens September 11 with principal Miss Ellen Brooks and assistants Miss Bessie Gober and Miss Mamie West. The old building will be used as the new $5,000 structure is not expected to be ready for three weeks.
Judge Thomas G. Lawson of Batonton a former congressman and Mercer University trustee will join the state board of education under the new school code. Governor Smith has named him as the educator-exempt member alongside Dr. Jere Pound of Barnsville and Dr. T. J. Wooster, with one more appointment anticipated next week.
Washington Ga September 1 The local chamber of commerce organized for county interests plots a week of agricultural demonstrations. Secretary Garnett A Green has liaised with S M Down district agent of the U S Department of Agriculture to bring a representative for the Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work with a visit planned for September 8.
James B. Earl, a Forty years delayed veteran from Manver Colorado, was mustered out in 1865 with a pay shortfall of 1.60 and clothing allowance 0.71. The Fifth Iowa Infantry and later the Fifth Iowa Cavalry served him, and the government has now paid the exact amounts he claimed back then.
In Tarrytown New York Max Schwartz 24 quits a telegraph bicycle claiming it is too slow. He now handles deliveries alone after three boys previously served the route. The piece notes his spare time and a curious aside about being played by John D Rockefeller at a local home.
Hartwell public schools will open the regular fall term next Monday. The board of education has secured a staff including W Ariail of Spartanburg South Carolina as superintendent and Vernon Hall of Thomasville as principal. Teachers listed include Miss Jones of Maryville Tennessee for seventh grade, Miss Lizzie Daniel of Gro Georgia for sixth grade, Miss Allie E W head of Vienna Georgia for fifth grade, Marc David of Decatur Georgia for third grade, Miss Lola Skelton of Hartwell for second grade, Miss Lessie Dawson of Ga for first grade, and Miss Garet Wilson of Hartwell for first grade.
A strange case emerges from Washington Georgia on September 1 as a dog was electrocuted during a wind and rainstorm. A damaged live line caused by a blown telephone wire left a mast wire live three miles from the house where the dog tangled with the line. the animal suffered severe injuries to its ears and tongue.
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