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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1915
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner discusses October First festivities in Athens with heavy traffic on preparations. It notes employment bureau actions, school openings with 250 more white children than last year, and plans to welcome Seeing Georgia tourists with festive Clayton Street lights and shop displays. The item references Germano Americano topics and local civic activity.
The Athens public schools opened with enrollments about 2,700 today, up 300 from last year and nearing 4,000 by year end. Congested grades were reorganized to ensure proper care, and a new manual training department will offer carpentry, cabinet making, and design to teach boys practical crafts and discipline of the hand and mind.
President Yuan Shi kai authorizes an income tax in China starting January first. The levy targets merchants bankers and officials with monthly withholdings for public servants and a plan to extend as income records become clearer. The tax mirrors U S practice though details like minimum income thresholds and rates remain undisclosed.
On September 17, German forces advanced along the right flank toward the seacoast while Joffre concentrated forces on the allied left. British troops forced Germans from trenches past the Aisne as Austrian and Serbian theaters unfold including Krasnik San River junction and Semlin. Washington reports rising peace inquiries.
A fable-style remark contrasts a faithful servant who serves a master named Idleness. The master pays with Poverty and the bonus is Sorrow, underscoring the cost of unproductive labor and idle living.
The Rev W H Mills of Clemson a leading specialist in country church problems will lecture at the Columbia Seminary next year. The United States Department of Agriculture supports his work as he considers rural sociology and ministerial preparation for South Carolina churches.
A Milledgeville delegation led by Dr. Tigner urged Governor Harris to join their auto tour to Macon on Sept 29. Milledgeville plans extensive preparations to impress visitors during their stay.
Monroe Ga Sept 16 Special to the Banner Mr Golden Blasingame reports for the 1915 cotton ginning season that only six bales were ginned in Walton County up to Sept 1 compared with 72 bales the same period last year a notable drop in early production.
Lawrenceville Ga September 16 The Lawrenceville News Herald observes its forty fifth anniversary with current owners D M Byrd and V L Hagood taking over the paper for the next era.
A Milledgeville committee urged Governor Harris and staff to join the Seeing Georgia tour, which starts in Macon on September 30. The governor’s decision depends on health, though he says he is improving. Milledgeville hosts the first night, followed by Athens for the second stop.
Carnesville Ga Sept 16 The Franklin County board fixed the county tax rate at 13.80 per hundred dollars assessed value. The rate applies to all taxable property within the county and is used for funding local services.
Atlanta will host a November session of the federal trade commission as leading Georgia businessmen and producers discuss improving trade, especially with South and Central American markets. Former State Senator Wm. 2. Harris of Cartersville, a Wilson appointee, will chair arrangements and push a southern commission session. The Panama Canal opening raises expectations of closer regional trade relations and key developments for Georgia and the Southeast.
A note on cleaning tools cites wooden skewers for cleaning corners and preventing crystallization when boiling sugar. It mentions commissioners receiving 13.80 per thousand, with 4.00 for roads and 4.75 of the 13.80 allocated to repairs on bridges ferries and other public improvements.
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