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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1911
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists delivery and subscription rates and notes carriers should not collect payments. It reports on local political chatter about governors candidates, upcoming fairs, the Beattie trial, Labor Day activities, cotton prospects, a flower show, and Seaboard railway improvements. It mentions post office additions, unions, and the city court judgeship test case, with speculation about Joe Hill Hall’s gubernatorial plans.
The tick eradicator is crucial to cattle breeding profits. Efforts to eradicate ticks are advancing satisfactorily in several counties, with Clarke among the areas praised for progress in the state.
The piece discusses recall as a tool for removing officials, noting mixed experiences in the United States and elsewhere. It cautions against universal adoption, arguing it would increase political agitation, while acknowledging foreign use and potential for swift reform. Calls for cautious, gradual integration aligned with traditional standards.
Athens seeks broad manufacturing growth arguing the city already hosts ideal climate health labor and transport links. It emphasizes abundant cotton nearby stable banking capital powerful electric power and plentiful sites with future expansion and investor incentives.
A compact list of historical milestones including Cromwell’s first parliament in 1654, Stuyvesant’s 1655 expedition against Dutch colonies, 1774 Continental Congress, 1795 first commercial topics newspaper, birth of senator John W. Daniel, 1863 fort bombardments, 1887 Labor Day as a legal holiday, 1889 Old Log College anniversary, 1898 Queen Wilhelmina’s accession, 1905 Portsmouth treaty, and 1910 Taft speech at the National Conservation Congress.
A young student at Oxford led a party through the Mu seum and produced a rusty sword claiming it was Balaam’s identical weapon. A guest quipped Balaam had no sword, only a wish for one, to which the student replied that it was indeed the very sword he wished for.
A brief humorous exchange unfolds as a visitor notes nearly touching her husband in town while the hostess quips that at home he is untouchable. The joke pivots on public proximity versus private distance.
Judge Arthur Drysdale of the Nova Scotia Superior Court was born in New Annan on September 5 1857. After law studies in Windsor Nova Scotia he was called to the bar in 1883 and moved to Halifax. He entered politics in 1891 and later served as commissioner of public works and mines before joining the bench in 1907.
A plain boy pauses before a blacksmith shop and gawks at the fiery forge. The smith threatens to heat a tool under the boy’s nose. The boy offers half a dollar to be beaten. The man gives the coin, the boy licks it, pockets it, and walks away whistling.
A professor asks why Willie attends college and he answers with a crowdful of motives. Mother says to fit him for the presidency, Uncle Bill urges sowing wild oats, sister wants a marriage chum, and father hopes to bankrupt the family.
A doctor tells the gravely ill patient that the condition is serious and asks if there is anyone to see. The patient answers yes, requesting another doctor. The moment hints at seeking a second medical opinion amid a fragile bedside scene.
A historical civic charm outlining a year by year clean up plan. Each letter of the alphabet suggests a civic action from eradicate unsightly areas to educating households and organizing children for a cleaner city. The exhortation emphasizes public participation, moral duty, and adherence to sanitary laws.
At a Waldorf dinner Mr. Choate declares he has never tasted wine or tobacco nor played any game of chance for money, aged fifty five. Sen Walcott sighs that he wishes he could say the same, as Mr Reed comments on the boastful remark. The tale is recounted in Success Magazine.
A speaker recalls a sudden illness with a French menu and Latin prescription leaving them unable to identify the cause or nature of the disease. The dialogue hints at confusion over medical and dietary clues from a past meal, implying a puzzling medical mystery.
By order of the Court of Ordinary Clarke County the August term 1911 sale is set for the first Tuesday in September 1911. The auction at Athens courthouse will offer a house and lot on Grace and Elizabeth streets 61 2 3 feet by 105 feet with a four room house and a half interest in a well. The property is part of Lot 74 of the Joel Hart Survey and traces through deeds in Clarke County court records. Terms cash. Mrs Virginia Lilly executrix of Mary W Williams.
A house and half acre lot in the first ward of Athens Georgia bounded by Trilby street Georgia Depot street Mrs Ima Hughes and A G Freeman is to be sold at public auction to satisfy the city of Athens tax for 1910. The sale is set for the first Tuesday in September 1911 at the courthouse door in Clarke county. Cash. Written notice given to tenant in possession. Aug 11 1911.
Petition to the Superior Court requests incorporation for F A Lipscomb W H Bishop Fulton E Warner and associates in the state and county as requested by the group seeking corporate status and rights under the law.
The Lipscomb Realty Company seeks incorporation for twenty years with renewal, aiming for pecuniary profits for stockholders. It will conduct general real estate, collecting and loan business, owning and handling property, notes, stocks, and securities, with capital of 25000 and potential to 100000. Principal office in Athens with possible branches. It requests legal powers to sue, borrow, regulate by laws, and perform necessary actions for the business. attested August 1911 with Clarke County Clerk certification. The passage ends with a joke exchange about deafness between a doctor and husband.
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