Threatened General Strike May Halt 700000 Workers
New York reporters say a broad walkout could start tomorrow affecting about 700,000 laborers. Ernest Bohm of the Central Federated Union announced the plan after talks with labor leaders and a citizens committee. Mayor Mitchell warned he will use full powers to prevent disorders if the strike proceeds. Oscar Strauss supported the warning after the conference. Theodore Shonts stated the Anterborough will not reinstate union men, with returns possible only if workers quit the union. Bohm stressed the potential scope of the walkout.
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Associated Press
New York
Ernest Bohm
Central Federated Union
Citizens Committee
Mitchell
Oscar Strauss
Theodore Shonts
Anterborough
Eberhart Local Resident Dies After Illness
Special to the Banner Bogart Georgia September 21 Mr J W Eberhart prominent citizen dies at 2 PM after illness He is survived by one son W L Janta Funeral and interment will be in Bogart today at 3 PM Services at the residence He was about 64 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bogart
J. W. Eberhart
W. L. Janta
Horace Clements Regaining Eye Sight After Injury
Georgia baseball star Horace Clements who lost sight in one eye and feared damage to the other is reported to be regaining sight. The Red and Black captain was struck by a pitched ball in the summer by Westbrook, a Georgia pitcher of the last Legion, and hopes for a full recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Clements
Georgia
Westbrook
Bank Robbery Report From Homestead Near Miami
Two of the four bandits who robbed a Homestead Florida bank of 6000 dollars are believed surrounded on Key Largo an island south of Miami. The posse has been increased by officers from Key West.
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Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Homestead
Florida
Key Large
Here
Key West
Banks County Court Opens Criminal Session
Banks County Superior Court has begun criminal business after civil matters. Ab Nix returned from Homer where the court has been in session since Monday morning and will clear the criminal docket as rapidly as possible. Fresh potato chips, our own. Arnold & Abney.
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Ab Nix
Homer
Banks County Superior Court
Mohday
Make
Arnold & Abney
Women’s Baptist Union to Meet in Athens This November
The Georgia State Missionary Union of the Baptist church and the First Baptist church women’s society will host a November gathering in Athens on the 7th to 9th. Expect 400 attendees, with about $90,000 apportioned for this year. Leaders from across Georgia will attend, with state officers and committees announced during a recent Savannah convention.
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Georgia State Missionary Union of the Baptist Church
First Baptist Church Women’s Society
Savannah
Union
Athens
State Baptist Convention of Georgia
Commerce
Women In the Baptist Church of the State
Georgia
South
W. J. Neel
Cartersville
Waltonta
H. H. Hele
Atlanta
J./C.Carier
West Point
W. R. Callaway
Clarkesville
D. B. Hamilton
Rome
Northwestern
W. H. Prior
Greensboro
Roy M. Cole
Newnan
G. H. Williams
Dublin
Charles F. Carter
Quitman
P. G. Awtrey
Manchester
Aw.c. Mitchel
Kirkwood
Lucy L. Olive
Stone Mountain
Hewlett Hall
New
H.C. Buchholz
Missionary Society of the
First Baptist Church
J. H. Patman
Pani
Hadaway
C. MM. Wall
Percy
Registration at University of Georgia Tops Last Year
Registration at the University of Georgia reached 408 students, 28 more than at the close of last year’s opening day. The article notes steady class enrollment as many new andReturning students continue to arrive daily.
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University of Georgia
Knights Templar Commandery to Convene Tonight at 8 36
After a summer pause the Knights Templar of Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery will meet tonight at 8 36 by call of officers. All Sir Knights urged to attend for important business to be trans acted.
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Knights Templar
Godfrey de Bouillon
Directors Meet Urged For Chamber Board Assembly
The Chamber of Commerce directors will hold a meeting with Hele and Tecular long women and the board members urged to attend promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Hele, Tecular Long
Calder Victor Over Bacon in New York
Associated Press dispatch from New York September 21 reports William M. Calder leading Robert Bacon by 8 934 votes for the Republican nomination to the U S Senate with returns from all but forty seven districts. Remaining districts are unlikely to change the result.
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Associated Press
New York
William ‘M. Calder
Robert Bacon
Indicted for First Degree Murder in Windsor Home Poisonings
Hartford Mrs Amey and Archien Gilligan charged with poisoning five elderly inmates at Windsor Home for Elderly Persons. Indictment尚 for first degree murder. likely trial in December. Earlier arrest followed exhumation of Franklin Andrews and four other bodies showing poisoning traces. Prosecutors say inmates were admitted after paying $1,000 for life care at the hotel care facility.
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Associated Press
Hartford
Conn
Mra Amey
Archien Gilligan
Windsor
Franklin Andrews
Villa raid report details seizure and escape
Official account from General Bell in El Paso describes Villa’s raid on Chihuahua City on Saturday. Bandits captured artillery, sixteen automobile loads of munitions, freed two prisoners, and fled after being joined by a thousand to fifteen hundred Carranza garrison soldiers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Villa
Chihuahua City
War Department
Bell
el Paso
Carranza
Means Takes Charge of Motorlife Oil on Prince Avenue
Mr Joe Means becomes active manager of the Motorlife Oil Company service station at the Prince avenue Meigs corner. He brings oil and gasoline expertise and promises complete service with top brand products, free air and tire services, quick tube repairs, and gasoline coupon benefits. The station’s phone is 791.
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Joe Means
Motorlife Oil Company
Prince Avenue
Means
Kellys Springfield
Mohawk
Motorlife ‘Oil Company
Meigs
Athens Cotton Quotations Printed in Atlanta Journal
Mr W F Dorsey chairman of a special chamber committee plans to publish Athens cotton quotations on spot cotton in the Atlanta Journal each night alongside inland and port market price quotes from the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.F. Dorsey
Chamber of Commerce
Athens
Atlanta Journal
Probing Freight Rates On Truck from Southeast
New Orleans September hearing opened on a proposed ten percent freight rate increase for truck garden products moving from the Gulf and Southern states to destinations north of the Ohio River and west of the Missouri River. Southern trucking associations filed protests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New Orleans
Charles B. Burnside
Interstate ‘Commerce Commission
Gulf and Souther States
Ohio River
Missouri River
Democratic drive in Athens funds for campaign waged
Clarke County Democrats begin fund drive with a 200 dollar entry toward Georgia presidential campaign expenses. State finance head Mo D. Walker urges traveling men to donate 1 to 10 dollars each, pledging public credit in Atlanta papers. Aiming to surpass prior support, local committee plans city canvass and broad participation.
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Georg
Athens
Clarke County
Democratic Executive Committee
H. J. Rowe
State Finance Committee
Atlanta
Finance Committee
Cient
H.R. Hodgson, Sr
Messrs
J. J. Wilkins
Jerome Michael
John White Morton
T. W. Rucker
John W. Welch
J .H. Rucker
John D. Walker
Georgia
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Party of the Common People
Democratic National Committee
MO. D. Walker
Oconee Alkali and Chemical Company Petition Filed
The petition for the Oconee Alkali and Chemical Company was filed in Clarke County Superior Court. It seeks a Georgia charter with $2,000 paid in stock, possible increase to $100,000, for manufacturing and selling drugs essential oils and industrial chemicals. Offices will be in Athens and Clarke County.
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Superior Court
Clarke County
Georgia
Oconee Alkali and Chemical Company
BE. R. Hodgson, Jr
Harry Hodgson
J.S. Brogdon
Atlanta
Athens
Wife of Mitchell Street Citizen Drops Dead in Yard
Mrs J C Teat aged fifty six dropped dead yesterday morning in the yard of her Mitchell street home from heart trouble. Funeral at Oconee street church at 3 this afternoon with pallbearers E A Cook Weldon Wood H Wynn W W B Gunnells Parker Dunn and Charles James. Entombment in Oconee cemetery. Survived by husband J B Teat daughter Mrs Fred Little and sisters Mrs W T Simmons Calhoun Falls S C and Mrs J B Simmons Comer.
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Mitchell Street
Mitchel Street
J. C. Teat
E. A. Cook
Weldon Wood H. Wynn
W.W. B Gunnells
Parker Dunn
Charles James
Oconee Cemetery
Reed sizes Hughes on Adamson law at Missouri rally
Springfield Missouri September 21 Senator Reed defended the Adamson law at a Democratic state rally. He charged Mr Hughes with pro railroad bias and warned that Hughes would have left the nation in catastrophe were his plans adopted. He claimed Hughes accused organized labor of approaching congress.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Tus
Senaitor Reed
Missouri
Hughes
Organized Labor
Congress
Atlanta Girl Alexa Stirling Wins Berthellyn Cup Match
Miss Alexa Stirling of Atlanta and Mrs. C H Vanderbeck of Philadelphia won their Berthellyn cup matches in Philadelphia. Stirling set a new course record with a score of 84 as the semifinals were set for tomorrow with Stirling facing Miss Mildred Caverty and Vanderbeck facing Mrs Caleb Fox.
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Associated Presa
Philadelphia
iMiss Alexa Stirling
Attlanta
C. H. Vanderbeck
Elphia
Miss Stirling
Mildred Caverty
Vanderbeck
Caleb Fox
Bloomfield Warehouse Construction Advances On Foundry Street
Work progresses on the large triple warehouse of Dr J C Bloomfield on Foundry Street. One house will be used by the brokerage Pitner and Beusse as a offices space.
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Bloomfield
J. C. Bloomfield
Foundry Street
Pitner & Beusse
War fronts show mixed gains and retreats across regions
Reports from Bucharest Berlin and Vienna say German Bulgarian and Turkish troops were driven back in Dubruja and are retreating southward burning villages. Russian forces attacked along a twelve mile front near Lutsk with heavy fighting and high losses as battles continue in the Somme. Rumanians halt retreats in Transylvania as Vulcan Pass area is reoccupied. Venizelos signals possible Saloniki moves amid political tension.
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Associated Press
iField
von ‘Mackensen
Romanian
Dubrudja
Bat
Bucharest
Ber
Lin
Vienna
Eebe
Washington
Lutsk
Volhynia
Berlin
Somme
Petrograd
Stokehead
Carpathians
Pantser Ridge
Transylvania
Tudja
Conspiracy Found to Kill Venizelos in Saloniki
Milan dispatch reports a conspiracy to kill Venizelos discovered near Saloniki. The guard around his house has been increased and two trench lines are built around King Constantine's palace in Greece.
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Associated Press
Milan
Italy
A. Saloniki
Secolé Safsa
Traffic Manager Grimes Visits Athens on Trip
Assistant General Traffic Manager Grimes of Southern Bell telephon e company, based in Atlanta, stopped in Athens between trains on his way home from Madison and other points. He met Commercial Manager J W Jarrell and reviewed the business and service, expressing pleasure at visiting a lively city on his first trip to Athens. Arnold & Abnee advertise produce including Tokay grapesExtra pine eating apples and beans in nearby copy.
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Grimes
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Atlanta
Madison
J. W. Jarrell
Athens
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Calder Vitor
Ruth M. Jackson
Tabernacle Church
Fred Davis
Warren J. Smith
M. E. Haygood
Arthur Cox
iMrs
C. N. Walker
C. H. Arnold
F. A. Lipscomb
L. F. Edwards
J. H. Griffeth
Maria Price
G. C. Armstrong
First Church
Tab
G. H. Hulme
J. C. Hutchins
C. M. Waff
F. P. Griffeth
J. D. Price
W. G. Carithers
M. M. Arnold
3. M. Burton
D. G. Bicklers
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Sen. Reed
Venizelos
Constantine
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