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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1915
Page
9
Scene From The Blindness of Virtue at Elite Tuesday draws praise from press and church boards. Cosmo Hamilton's gray masterpiece stars Edna Mayo and Bryant Washburn in six Essanay acts, offered in a wholesome moral tale. Admission ten and fifteen cents.
The Lasky Feature Play Co presents Kindling with Charlotte Walker in a photo dramatic debut. It depicts Maggie Schultz and husband Heine in a wretched tenement owned by a wealthy widow whose charity ignores her property. The Broadway hit is a daring theme play on earning a decent living and raising a family despite harsh conditions.
Marion screens tonight offers a return run of the drama A Fool There Was after strong demand. Theda Bara’s famous portrayal as the Vampire woman helped launch her fame, and Athens will have one last chance to see the film with no advance admission.
Mr. R. M. Guess the student secretary of the Y M C A at the University came back yesterday from Mississippi where he had been resting since summer conferences and the Y M C A summer school. He plans fall work and aims for improved programs.
Emaciation of Old Brother Feebles noted by Brother Sawney who laments the sickly state of the man. The description compares Feebles’ thinness to a dime placed on edge, underscoring his wasting condition as reported by the Kansas City Star.
Jefferson Ga Sept 5 Webb Jackson, long known for fraud and violent acts, was finally arrested after threats to resist. He previously fled on a train from Hart County, later tied to ownership of an Augusta engine and Hartwell sawmill, and now faces charges including wife beating and other offenses as Sheriff Ben Collier executes the warrant.
Atlanta reports Frank Halsey alias New York Harry escaped Thursday from the tuberculosis camp near Milledgeville state prison. He was serving a 12 month term and is linked to post office robberies and a Birmingham policeman shooting. Federal agents notified and Secret Service men are seeking his capture.
A special program has been arranged for the Rally day exercises at Baxter Street Sunday school this afternoon at 3 30. The public is cordially invited and especially those who are interested in the school.
State Entomologist Lee Worsham reports boll weevils found in multiple Georgia counties including Boston and near the Alabama line. He urges immediate re establishment of quarantine and intensified county by county control measures under Commissioner J D Price.
Dr T J Woofter dean of the Peabody school of education at the University of Georgia returns to Athens after fourteen months away. Mrs Woofter remains in Monticello with her sister for two weeks as he resumes duties and had planned a study trip to New Zealand via Europe before the war disrupted plans.
Mrs Frank M Bell expresses gratitude through the Banner for the many acts of kindness received during the recent death of Mr Bell.
Jefferson Ga Sept 5 Friday the white rural schools of Jackson county met in Martin Institute auditorium for their annual contest. Hundreds of children and many parents and teachers attended. Winners included Ina Fulcher Archer's school and Thelma Eberhart Dry Pond in Recitation and Royce Dobbs Randolph Hall in Declamation.
The Georgia Dairy and Livestock Association announces a semi annual meeting at Washington Georgia on September 8 with topics on feeding beef cattle alfalfa clovers and farm sanitation. A keynote on Feeding will lead a program featuring researchers and extension staff from Athens Atlanta and Elberton alongside local leaders. The annual meeting will follow in Athens at the State College of Agriculture in January.
Newsreel style report from Albany details the close of the New York constitutional convention. President Root adjourned until Tuesday amid heated debate over a living wage law for women and children. Voter attention focuses on revision committee work and a wage vote, with final adjournment anticipated by Friday or Saturday.
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