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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1911
Page
8
Real estate and fire insurance ads from Erwin & Company. Various listings include hotel vacancies, furnished rooms, for rent houses and apartments, board options, furniture and appliance sales, phonograph promotions, stamps and office supplies, shoe repairs, loans, and job requests for delivery, labor, and streetcar positions in Savannah area.
Fire insurance and real estate offered by Lipscomb and Co. The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on deposits with compounding, accepts deposits from 1.00. Longstop Music House promotes double disc records and song hits. Hotel Sanges and Hotel Langes seek boarders and mealers. Misses Bradberry showcase a new line of white hats.
A leading Pennsylvania lawyer spent part of a day in Athens this week looking for a location and planning a fuller investigation. He praised the South and Athens and indicated he will likely return with more inquiries, a sign Athens would welcome such prominent visitors.
Howell Peacock will remain at the University of Georgia for his A. M. degree and return to Athens to teach logic and psychology. The former boys' secretary of the local Y M C A. earned his diploma last June and will continue studies while taking instruction duties in logic and psychology.
Steve Jackson, formerly of C A Rowland Co, was arraigned for larceny in Athens city court. Judge West sentenced him to pay a $75 fine or eight months on the chain gang after he admitted taking a piece of meat in a sack and asking a driver to deliver it to a stable for pickup.
The Utopian club at the University of Georgia has revived the Beta Delta chapter of Delta Tau Delta and secured the Goss house at Pulaski and Hancock as a chapter house. The location is favorable, with several Emory men entering the law school, and the chapter will be installed early in December.
Yesterday in Athens City Court Judge West dismissed the assault and battery case against Lon Moore after a trial waiver, finding insufficient evidence to convict.
The Jewish New Year of 1872 begins at sundown this evening with services at the synagogue at Hancock and Jackson streets led by Rabbi Ble hman who has returned from New York. Friday services at 6 30 p m and Saturday at 9 45 a m. Members’ businesses will close until Saturday evening after sundown.
The speaker recalls Capt J J C McMahan as a tireless public servant, long in the county legislature and city council, noting wise counsel and steady devotion. He is praised as a strong citizen and dear friend whose life aligned with Confederate veterans and the cause he loved. Davis C Barrow signs the tribute.
Over forty men joined the Sanford field practice with Arthur Maddox coaching the third team in Kid Woodruff's absence. The first squad featured Delaperriere at center with Lucas and Peacock as guards and Harley Wood as tackle.
A Housekeepers' Supplies ad promotes coffee pots percolators enamel and tinware Saratoga potato chippers vegetable slicers food choppers roasties and more. It offers Rogers Silverware knives forks spoons ladles butter knives and soup ladles and Haviland Austrian china in open stock and sets with white and gold china in several grades. The seller claims savings and urges readers to visit.
Mr. J. L. Callaway aged fifty six died yesterday at the Lester boarding house 198 Oconee street after a long illness including Brights disease. He was a carpenter and had been in Athens about a month. He leaves two sons including Co P Callany of Talbotton. The casket will depart at 7:05 am on the Georgia railroad to Washington Ga for funeral and burial.
Mrs Joseph M Brown wife of the late governor visits Athens with her daughter to enroll at Lucy Cobb Institute. Her sons Jos Z and Charles are in or entering the University of Georgia.
The Most Exclusive Line for Suits and Coats is being shown at Misses Bradberrys. Viewers can see a curated collection emphasizing tailored silhouettes and premium fabrics in a shopper friendly presentation at the shop.
Last night the registrar at the University of Georgia reported sixty eight more students registered than on the opening Thursday last year. Many old students have not yet registered and several have been required to pass exams before registering. Prospects look strong to push attendance beyond six hundred.
Up to September 21 last year a local cotton firm had bought seven bales. By yesterday the same firm had purchased over fifteen hundred bales. Other firms have bought about four times that amount, and buyers’ offices have stayed open late all week.
Verner Harber of Commerce registered at the University of Georgia this week joining a family tradition that has had a Harber in Athens college life since 1890 with only one year missing. Paul Harber, his brother, is editor and publisher of the Commerce Observer.
Alpharetta, Sept. 21. J C Reece of Crabapple sold six Broadwell double jointed cotton stalks to a Atlanta buyer for 30 dollars. Each stalk must have at least 100 bolls, with Reece planning a center piece of 300 to 400 bolls. The purchaser, Mr Johnson, heads a Southern division of the National Society of Civil Engineers, which will exhibit cotton at the Cincinnati convention. The tale highlights Broadwell and Reece’s farming methods boosting Milton county’s reputation.
Atlanta police and undertakers struggle over a reported suicide of Robert Sullivan in Nashville with a telegram stating his death in Atlanta being possible. No such Sullivan is found. investigators confirm Sullivan alive as new theatrical news and actor updates fill the page.
A clergyman offers a cent a week to a boy to keep his grandpa awake at church. For two weeks the grandpa stays awake, but on the third week he sleeps. The boy explains the change: grandpa now pays two cents to keep him from disturbing the sleep.
A humorous anecdote recalls Alice Jones at eighteen declaring her name with a playful spelling. The Dean asks how she spells Jones and she answers with a phonetic echo, illustrating schoolroom whimsy.
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