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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1916
Page
4
A column of ads lists rooms for rent near campus, lodging and board offers, farm and city loans, employment inquiries for sales staff and stock-keeping helpers, a car for sale, a white delivery boy job, and living spaces at 445 South Milledge. Addresses and names shown.
Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on deposits with semiannual compounding starting January 1 and July 1. Various classifieds include a used Maxwell for $150, Walnut and birds-eye maple furniture for sale, and rooms for rent near Hancock and Pulaski Streets. Also featuring spirella corsets, cooking oil savings, loan ads, and local business notices.
More than 110 students filled Denmark Dining Hall for supper last night, far surpassing every prior Saturday night before opening week. Attendance is expected to set a new record as students arrive by train and reservations pour in for final arrangements by the chancellor and dean.
Athens readers learn Roscoe Peacock known as Emp Peacock, football figure and University of Georgia law graduate, has won a large majority to the Georgia Senate from the 15th district. The piece also notes several other recent University graduates elected to the state legislature from various counties.
W R Haynie, candidate in the 27th district, announces plans to contest the recent senatorial election. He notes Walton and Oconee counties backed him under the county unit plan, while Newton and Rockdale supported his opponent Hugh Price, and cites a 1914 rule allowing district wide voting.
Epting & Behrhart presents bankrupt stock with lengths up to 100 yards of taffetas fancies and stripes in widths up to 12 inches. The widest variety and best prices promise savings, with a bold call to choose early at Broad Street showroom.
President Wilson cancels engagements for early next week to travel to Columbia South Carolina for the funeral of his sister Mrs Anne E Howe. He will miss speaking at St Louis and instead address the National Grain Dealers Association in Baltimore on September 25.
Early signs of college life show as incoming freshmen and hometown students visit local barbershops for haircuts. Patches of hair are shaved across the dome as part of customary grooming before the fall term. The piece notes local political rules favoring the county unit plan for nominating a senator.
The Eighth district convention met in city hall to nominate Congressman Tribble and form a new executive committee. Hon. A. C. Stone was named permanent chairman and tribble received broad county majorities before a unanimous re nomination. Tribble praised Wilson and the Democratic Party and pledged continued district defense. A new Democratic executive committee was announced with members from Clarke Elbert Franklin Greene Hart Hart Madison Morgan Newton Oconee Putnam Walton Wilkes and others.
The new Greek cabinet led by Kalogera poulas is viewed as a capable but service-oriented government. With past roles in finance and interior, he has long ties to France and Britain and is friendly to Venizelos yet not a partisan of his policy. The cabinet supports Greece's participation in the war.
The card from Hon C A Stevens thanks voters of the 30th Senatorial District for the nomination. He expresses gratitude, hopes for forgiveness of opponents, and vows cooperation among citizens to advance justice, progress, and state welfare. He pledges faithful service.
A retired businessman with livestock seeks a competent married man to share rooms and live on campus two to three years. He hopes to be mutually helpful in the College of Agriculture and invites responses through the Banner.
Bankruptcy trustee Henry H. Wesst announces a Wednesday sale of all bankrupt stock of B. R Pickrell at noon. Items include black smith supplies moulders joiners saws laythes planers and related tools at Pickrell's old stand on Washington street behind the courthouse subject to court confirmation.
A listless trading day in New York shows early hedging in March options, later mixed by local and Southern selling. The market closed ten to fifteen points below the open as opinions diverged among brokers over current pricing.
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