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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1914
Page
8
Erwin and Company offers 24 hour rent collection services with trained personnel. Clients provide a list of properties and the firm handles all remaining collection tasks at reasonable charges.
Lipscomb voices a financial question about sharing fire insurance with a company and Jester. The notice lists local ads including CLARKE COUNTY BANK savings rate 4 percent, rental housing on Franklin Street, DuBose & DuBose ink stamps, and For Sale items. It also mentions Anderson Banking Co stock, farm land sales, and Home and Farmstead listings.
The first scrimmage at Sanford Field shows a Georgia squad with heavy linemen and promising backs. Key players include Paddock absent with backfield questions, Thompson and Broyles impressing, Selig showing strong gains, and Cunningham highlighting material for an effective unit as fans urged support.
J L Sibley of Milledgeville announces independent bid against Senator Hoke Smith for the long term in the U S Senate. He asks Governor Slaton to include his name on November election official papers and notes protest at national cotton policy.
Local retailer in Athens markets open stock and made up sets of fine china, crystal glassware, enamelled and aluminum cookware, woodenware, silver and plated ware, cut glass, claiming to be the sole supplier of Genuine items in the area.
Ocedar offers quick delivery on maps and telephone services with a focus on prompt, reliable service. The message emphasizes ready availability and fast fulfillment for customer orders.
Public notice offers one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The remedy is taken internally and advertised to purify the blood. Price seven cents per bottle. sold by all druggists.
The Majestic offers Mary Pickford in As It Is in Use and A Daughter of Eve along with a two reel Thanhouser feature Biograph and Keystone comedies. The theater promises top companies actors and producing houses and a strong bill for value.
Mr J H Dorsey begins a small enterprise to train a Clarke county boy for business. A subscription list raises five dollars toward a fifty dollar full course plus expenses at a business college. The crippled boy uses crutches but is eager to learn and work.
Firefighters were summoned yesterday forenoon to a small blaze in a cottage on Billups Street. The fire broke out in a joloset in a dwelling occupied by a colored family but caused no damage to the building.
Mrs. Mary Minor Morris widow of Prof Charles Morris longtime University of Georgia English professor, died at her Milledge Avenue home last night after a several day illness. Native of Virginia she lived in Athens about forty years. Survived by Rev James Morris, Dr Sylvanus Morris, Prof John Morris, Charles Ed Morris, Garnet Nelson, and Miss Pottise Morris. Funeral arrangements pending.
Yesterday at 3 pm the funeral of Mrs. Lula Galloway widow of the late Dr. N L Galloway took place at the old home in Monroe. She was 75 and had been ill a year. She was mother of Dr J W Galloway of Orr Drug Co and widow of a Walton county physician. Her niece Annie Mae Bell of this city attended. Hundreds mourn the departure of a woman with wide affection and community regard.
Mary Sue Johnson dies Sunday night at her Nicholson Georgia home. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 3 PM conducted by Rev. Coile of Winterville.
Jefferson Ga Sept 21 Miss Willie Isbell attending a party at Mr W A Carters Apple Valley community fell ill and died within a short time Acute indigestion was given as the cause The notice appears in the Banner listing local events and obituaries accompanying a grocery ad for Pink Meat Cantaloupes from Arnold & Abney may indicate a local sales feature.
A religious talk extols Bible study as God guided truth. It offers methods by book, character, topic, or verse, urging daily time with God, memory of verses, and sharing learned truths with others, to live out faith and holiness. It includes a devotional stanza and an advertisement for Foley's Honey and Tar.
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