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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1911
Page
8
A collage of 1911 era commerce notes from Erwin & Co and Bondurant Hardware promoting fire insurance, flour, hardware, clothing, and household goods. It lists Dunwoody flour, Japanese boxes, shoe repairs, labor needs in Winder Georgia, rent notices, typewriter repairs, and millinery openings, with several street addresses and phone references.
Fire insurance Lipscomb and Co real estate cheap insurance best deals Savings Bank in Athens offers 4 percent interest on deposits from $1.00. Dunwoody floor painting Parr painting and wall decorating. Piano tuning with reduced rate until Sept. 15. Walter Mayonnaise Mixers egg whips bowls and spoons. Bondurant Bludwine plain Studwine with fresh orange. Bludwine Milk a fine drink at fountains and bottles 6c.
Music supply and repair ad listing Langston Music House at 187 Clayton St Athens Georgia. It promises repair regulation and tuning of all instruments with guaranteed work and prompt service.
Chilms Cafe advertises quick ice cream service to private families and cafes day or night. Fresh candies daily and a full line of cigars and cigarettes. They offer the best soda water in the city and can be reached at phone 685, P. N. Chilms, Prep, Under Commercial Hotel.
The article describes the training table as a dietary operating table shaping player behavior through strict rules and temperance. Coach Cunningham speaks to the team at supper, emphasizing virtue. A large practice at Sanford Field follows, with fresh khaki uniforms and Prof. Sanford observing from the grandstand as the squad undergoes a second stiff workout.
Tax returns from every Georgia county report total assessed valuation at 680 850 117 for 1911, up from 642 550 112 in 1910, an rise of 38 299 995. The five mill tax rate would yield 3 404 250.58, up 191 499.97, with public service assessments adding about 130 000 000, rising roughly 6 000 000 over 1910.
Mrs W S Robertson and son Willie are visiting in Atlanta for a few days. Mrs H Morgan Looney has returned to Athens after a pleasant visit to Atlanta. Chesley T Barnett of Watkinsville is in the city attending the State Normal. A neighbor mentions Dr King's New Life Pills cured her kidney trouble and made her feel new, offered at local stores.
Baseball notes from Atlanta Nashville and Chattanooga show doubleheaders with batteries led by Atkinson Erkoff and Fritz Baken while umpires Rudderham Kellum and Carpenter preside. Scores reveal Memphis and Chattanooga split a two game set, and New Orleans edged Montgomery 2 to 0 in the nightcap as rain delay and darkness halted play in the seventh inning.
A local supplier advertises Marion Harland coffee pots percolators enamel and tinware, Saratoga potato chippers and slicers, Sisk roaster bread and cake boxes sugar and flour buckets patty irons table mats and more. Rogers Silverware knives forks spoons ladles butter knives soup ladles and Haviland Austrian china open stock and made up sets. Prices to suit all and a claim you can save money on silverware.
The Southern Poultry Association held a key meeting last night with many members present. Thousands of premium lists will be printed and mailed nationwide, and a large order for coops is planned to ensure a successful fall show. Cash prizes and dealer premiums will be offered as fanciers from across the country prepare to exhibit, signaling what may be the largest southern event yet. The fall show, expected the week of December fifth, aims to draw a major city crowd and boost local business. citizens are urged to subscribe within their means.
A leading real estate agent has received a letter from a large nearby manufacturer seeking to move its plant to Athens. The project would create many jobs and a sizable weekly payroll. City officials and boosters plan to offer strong inducements to secure the plant, which Athens is confident it will obtain. The agent was away when the inquiry came, but local officials will pursue full details and a decision soon.
Hundreds of friends of Col Howell Erwin junior partner at Cobb and Erwin rejoice as he steadily improves at his Hill Street home after returning from Baltimore. He is gaining strength and expected to be out again soon.
Mrs Robert Pierce of near the College Avenue bridge plunged into the Oconee River in a spell of temporary dementia. Her daughter, recently ill, followed and fought to save her mother as a white man and two Negroes rescued both from the shallow water. The mother is ill, and a week earlier her twin sister died in Fairview, South Carolina.
A horse hitched to a delivery wagon carrying a twenty foot iron pipe bolted near dark tonight on Jackson Street from Clayton. The animal veered onto the sidewalk, dragging the wagon and pipe, broke through the restaurant screen door at the American Café, and was halted with the wagon, pipe, and horse extricated.
Traveling man J B Harmon of Atlanta spent yesterday in Athens seeking his wife who left Atlanta alone several days ago. He traced her to Athens and to various hotels, with baggage found at a boarding house, while police assisted in the search. Rumors tied her to a close friend of Harmon, a matter he discussed with a local acquaintance.
At a council meeting citizens on Dearing street renewed a petition for granolithic sidewalks after earlier pledges to pay bills. Now opponents plan to attend an adjourned session Thursday to protest the paving and the mayor will hear the matter amid local interest.
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