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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1915
Page
8
Miscellaneous want ads and small notices list rent offers in Athens area properties along with items for sale and service notes. Entries include furnished homes on Milledge Avenue and Prince Avenue, rooms for rent, a Ford roadster inquiry, a good horse and harness sale, a vulcanizing shop offer, land needs near Athens, an art class opening, and scrap metal drives with contact details.
Twenty five young ladies of experience in our line of work to operate power machines. The Bell Overall Co. announces a Winder Georgia arrangement, listing job readiness and location details.
An Athens advertisement notes The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on savings deposits with compounding on January 1 and July 1. Deposits start at $1.00, urging readers to adopt the saving habit.
Edward Peple, Virginian born playwright of A Pair of Sixes, opens the Colonial Friday night September 24 as the regular season opener. Peple has written many plays over ten years, including The Prince Chap, The Littlest Rebel, The Spitfire, and The Love Route, with stars Cyril Scott and the Farnum brothers.
Special to the Banner from Atlanta Georgia on September 17 reports indicate that of about six thousand corporations required to file annual business statements, more than a thousand have submitted. Today's mail adds roughly 150 reports to the tally.
Mrs Harris and her nephew David Gibson returned to Atlanta from Hampton Tennessee after a 900 mile car trip. The governor, recently recovered from a taxing session, appears healthy and lively. Milledgeville delegates urged him to join the Seeing Georgia automobile tour and arrangements in Macon and Athens may be adjusted to welcome his participation.
The University Pi Kappa Phi chapter invited new initiates and pledges to an informal dinner at 298 S Lumpkin Street with Lamar Camp as toastmaster and several after dinner speeches. A YWCA pool stunt featured Miss Clark in a comical full dress dive and wardrobe reveal. A YWCA banquet committee meeting was scheduled for Saturday at 5 pm at Mrs Beecham’s home.
Atlanta dispatch reports that proponents of prohibition in the Georgia House warned Governor Harris they will withhold the appropriations bill and adjourn without action unless prohibition measures are included in the extra session call. They plan caucuses to test strength and push new drafts by the Anti-Saloon League.
The Baptist Tabernacle on Childs Street invites University and Normal students and young women from Lucy Cobb and the High School to a Sunday eleven o'clock sermon on Mary of Bethany and devotion to Christ. A Sunday night address for young men by Mr. Neighbour follows, stressing practical evangelistic focus. The invitation notes seating for 1,200, Athens area reach, and the Tabernacle's strong Sunday school and choir, under Pastor R E H Neighbour who upholds core scriptural truths and the Second Coming.
The Chilean Congress proclaimed Juan Luis San Fuentes president in a ceremony marking the May election victory.
Sebe Johnson, a Black man who on Tuesday killed the three year old daughter of O E B Dean manager of the Naval Stores Co with a shot aimed at Dean, was captured and brought to Alexandria Louisiana for safekeeping as posses hunted him with intent to lynch.
Winston S. Churchill in Enfield argued the Allies will succeed if they marshal their entire strength and national capacity. He noted the Russian retreat placed a new burden on England and warned the situation was serious amid cabinet tensions over conscription.
A South Georgia group known as the Georgia Seers, about 500 strong, plan a tour starting October first visiting Athens. Governor Harris is expected to join the trip and may receive a warm Athens welcome. An aeroplane exhibition is being considered with plans to confirm soon.
Pink Hilliard, once convicted in a five year hold up case, received a full pardon from the governor and was released. His attorney was notified of the commutation to time served just days earlier.
Mr James F Locklin expresses thanks and appreciation to friends for floral offerings and other kindnesses shown after the death of Mrs Locklin.
Savannah Ga Sept 17 The federal grand jury indicted Captain Ek P Westcott master of a US dredge for alleged violation of the eight hour labor law. The case marks one of the first of its kind to reach issue in federal court.
A federal judge denied the motion to dismiss the case accusing Philip A. Wadsworth of mail misuse tied to the Cotton Growers Co operative Society flotation. Wadsworth is sought on a warrant in Atlanta.
Mr. Guy Barnett formerly of this city now of Hoschton was scuffling with friends in the city last night when his foot was caught and his ankle bone broken. He sustained minor injuries and was carried to St. Mary's hospital.
The adjutant general’s office seeks Georgia Confederate veteran who beat the drum at Cold Harbor Va. The drum, now in William F. Scott’s possession in Broadway New York, bears the inscription T. H. Sparks 4th Georgia Volunteers C 8 A. Union soldiers recovered it. recovery to Sparks family or the drummer’s heirs is desired. Contact the capitol with any recollections.
Boston Globe notes a Boston cat that will eat beans when turkey gravy is added, a playful counterpoint to stories about a Boston dog that eats beans. The quip highlights quirky animal food habits in city press.
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