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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1911
Page
8
Real estate and fire insurance ads by Erwin & Company appear alongside assorted notices. Items advertise renting apartments on Cobb Street and a five room cottage near downtown, lost jewelry, a Jersey heifer found, and various sales and services from Bondurant Hardware and Dunnody’s Best Flour. Local offerings include shoes repair, percolator promotions, and a call for cash coal orders.
A compact page of local promotions includes Lipscomb & Co real estate and fire insurance ads, Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent on deposits, painting and wall decorating prices, piano tuning with a September deadline, Dunnody's Best Flour claims, Massey & Skelton specials on groceries, stenographer wanted, Essanay at Elite, Bludwine beverages, A H Cook hack service, oyster and croquette provisioning, and Dundwody's flour highlighting gluten content.
Ball game reports show Atlanta and Chattanooga facing off with batteries listed for both sides. Umpires Fitzsimmons and Rudderham presided, while Chapelle and Higgins served as umpires in Birmingham for New Orleans against Birmingham with Hess Angermier and Foxen Smith Elliott named as battery players.
A H S announces football practice starts next Wednesday the thirteenth. Captain Ed Dorsey Jr. mocks the number as good luck while Coach D R Cumming leads the squad with manager Howell Cobb. Seven holdovers return with five or six new players expected to join the eleven.
City court will not convene this morning as jurors called to appear are excused. Judge West notified the clerk of the change yesterday afternoon and no further business is required of jurors today. A new convening time will be announced.
Judge Wingfield announces pension forms have arrived from the state pensions office and should be filed by November first. Papers are identical to last year and Clarke county receives about ten thousand dollars annually from the pension fund.
Miss McDorman expresses sincere thanks to hundreds of friends who cheerfully loyally and liberally assisted in the Banner contest that led to her winning the Maxwell automobile. She says she could not have earned it without their support and appreciation.
Negotiations are underway for a four story modern office building at the Hancock corner on Broad Street where the Johnson Shoe Company's wholesale business was. Plans are to be finalized soon. Mr Bernstein will start work on the Griffeth Implement Company building front to match the new structure.
A reflective verse marks the close of a year and the dawn of a new one. The speaker bids farewell to failure and doubt while greeting hope and duties. The piece invokes a midnight bell as a somber knell for the past and a hopeful morning for the future dated September 1911.
Marion Harland Coffee Pots Percolator pots enamel and tinware Saratoga Potato Chippers Vegetable Slicers Food Choppers Meat Roasties Silk Roaster bread and cake boxes sugar and flour buckets patty irons table mats We carry Rogers Silverware knives forks spoons ladles butter knives soup ladles Open stock Haviland and Austrian China In white and gold china Prices to suit all.
Tonight the chamber holds its regular meeting with notices sent to members and in the morning paper. Plans outlined in the Banner suggest pressing issues and a fall campaign to boost Athens, aiming for a mass booster turnout.
The State Normal School updates its faculty list with three changes. Miss Kate Hicks becomes principal of the practice school. Miss Sara Webb is named assistant in psychology. Miss Katherine Herron is named assistant in music. The revisions complete the printed corps of teachers.
Messrs. Er win and Co sold another lot from the Erwin and Hinton subdivision on Milledge avenue. The building site went to Mr L C Quinn assistant secretary of the Columbia Fire Insurance Company.
Emmanual church Sunday school teachers will gather at the church Friday afternoon at five o clock. The evening service begins at six, so punctual start is urged by Rector Troy Beatty.
Mr. Holcomb has moved to Columbus after years running a cabinet and upholstery shop at Prince avenue and Meigs street. Messrs. Williams and Moore renovate the building to establish a milk station there.
Henry Miller, a Black man, was found dead in a public road about one mile from Penfield, with a head wound and broken ribs. He had been driving a wood wagon. the wagon and wood were scattered along the road. The coroner ruled death from the wagon running over Miller after he fell from the wagon, and noted it was unlikely he fell asleep.
In Athens yesterday a planned ten round bout between two rival fighters collapsed amid crowd excitement and police scrutiny. One contender, a 200 pound army veteran, faced a quicker lighter challenger who demonstrated power by lifting a 150 pound man overhead. The anticipated match drew bets, a referee, and sheriff presence as authorities feared legal restrictions on boxing would halt the event.
A playful report describes a Masonry gathering with informal rites and side degrees, noting secrecy and mystery. The piece emphasizes fraternal camaraderie and wholesome entertainment, with social refreshments enhancing the evening.
One of the advance agents for Haag's big show, Mr. Whitney, is in the city making preparations for the November appearance. He is here much earlier than usual to organize travel and stage details.
A Freeville New York man, H J Barnum, reports a dreadful fever sore healed entirely by Bucklen’s Arica Salve. The product also treats burns, boils, eczema, cuts, bruises, and piles. Available for 26 cents at W J Smith & Bro and H R Palmer & Sons.
A humorous vignette shows a Sunday school teacher asking Willie about heaven and a gold crown. The piece contrasts with a medical notice touting Chamberlain's Liniment claiming a sprain heals in two to four days if used per directions, noting it is sold by all deaths.
The Houston Post quotes a man saying he does not see why they want to marry her after only a week of knowing her. A second line repeats the remark as the “answer.”
Gilmore Neb Sept 7 Thomas Iler a milk man drowned near here today when a tank carrying 1 000 gallons of buttermilk overturned in a road depression. He was trapped beneath the tank and died, found about an hour later.
Advertisement extols Dr King s New Discovery for lung and throat ailments. It claims a home cure for coughs colds and lung trouble with testimonials including W R Nelson of Calamine Arkansas who gained weight after treatment. Trial bottle free at local outlets W J Smith & Bro and H R Palmer & Sons.
A Manville Wyoming neighbor testifies Mrs W P Spaugh noted Dr Kings New Life Pills cured her obstinate kidney trouble and made her feel like a new woman. The ad claims easy relief for stomach liver and kidney troubles with a 26 cent price at W J Smith & Bro Palmer & Sons.
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