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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1913
Page
4
Special notice highlights Athens developments including paving upgrades and lower coal rates for economic growth. It notes rising university enrollment, a push for coal-rate readjustment, and calls for a new University Law School building with a $50,000 appropriation.
Director Walter J. Harris of the U S Census Bureau finds the investigation system faulty and names a committee to reorganize. He seeks a plan to speed and improve the 13th census work and its prompt publication for real public value. The reform aims to end years in a rut and make the bureau a more useful federal department.
The National Farmers Union sets fifteen cents per pound as the minimum for this season’s cotton, urging its two million members to hold their cotton until that price is secured. Supportive cooperation among merchants bankers and farmers could make the holding move successful though not all members will participate. Georgia reports a strong crop outlook with a large, profitable season ahead.
The piece recounts the rise of public awareness about white slavery, praising Mann act prosecutions and urging sustained federal and state action. It notes high profile Diggs-Caminetti cases in San Francisco, calls for continued convictions, and urges Georgia to root out offenders and impose penitentiary terms. It ends with support for federal action to forge stronger shackles for criminals.
A column notes Henry A Cooper born Sept 8 1850 and his long public service in Wisconsin and Congress. Also celebrates Mrs Russell Sage Frederic Mistral Jan Kubelik and Rev Charles P Anderson with their ages today.
In Atlanta dispatch, Dr. L G Hardman of Commerce is again discussed as a likely gubernatorial candidate, with backers noting his farming prowess and strong White County plantation. The piece profiles his dairy herd, emphasis on scientific farming, and the valley’s corn yields along the Chattahoochee, underscoring his influence among local farmers and the timing of any potential race. It also mentions Lord Revelstoke, Pietro Mascagni, Rear Admiral Merrell, and Congressman Murray as contemporaries sharing the page.
September 7 entries recall Ann Lee Shaker death near Albany in 1784, Copenhagen surrender to Britain after a three day bombardment in 1807, Dalhousie leaving Canada in 1828, Jackson ordering naval forces to Mexico in 1823, English author Hannah More dying in 1892, poet John Greenleaf Whittier dying in 1892, and Baron Revelstoke John Baring born September 1, 1863 with title inheritance in 1897.
A Georgia doctor farmer, Dr. Hardman, reports red clay atop soil cured acidity, boosting corn to 10 12 feet and 30 bushels per acre without fertilizer. The piece ties his agricultural work to politics, noting his legislature service and potential gubernatorial run amid GOP Democratic shifts. It mentions Georgia congressional races and candidates Larson Wheatley Crisp, with Athens urged as a convention site.
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