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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
8
A scattered collection of classified lines shows rental offers for homes and rooms at 1035 Prince Ave and 229 Broad St, plus private baths, furnished options, and space on a telegraph company line. Also requests for two or three boys with wheels and an insurance sales pitch.
A collage of small ads includes auto insurance and savings bank pitches, real estate rentals, a mercantile business for sale, used furniture requests, steno lessons, cane syrup orders, and a note on moth prevention. Numerous 1900s style items mention phone numbers, addresses, and business names like King Hodgsin Co, E. D. Sledge, and Bezezjoel & Sons.
Che-Foo hosts an American hospital described as among the best in major Chinese cities. It sits on four acres atop Temple Hill overlooking the city and harbor and cost $50,000 gold to build.
In Elberton Georgia Nelson Statham an escaped suspect from Tignall was cornered in a Rambert place house. Neighbors and officers forced him out after the blaze. he fired on them injuring Sheriff Haley and Officer Irvin who returned fire killing Statham. Conductor Tom Robinson was wounded but expected to live.
Cotton brought a little more than eleven and a quarter cents yesterday on Athens streets. The best grades led the rise with middling quoted around eleven cents. The price increase improves business activity, boosts store trade and tax collections, and encourages student enrollment at the university due to better staple prices.
After a White House meeting President Wilson and Acting Secretary Polk said the U S will not seek safe conduct for Dr Dumba until Vienna replies to the recall request. Dumba telegraphed he is recalled on leave and plans to sail September 28. The case of Captain Von Papen remains under consideration.
Theo E. Burton former Ohio senator told a Denver banquet that the present war will yield higher interest rates less capital for investment a drop in railroad construction and a temporary shrinkage in commercial and industrial activity. He spoke at a banquet of the Investment Bankers Association.
University of Georgia students joined Phi Kappa or Demosthenian societies with new initiates reported. Officers named Frank Golden, James A. Lowrey and W O White led Phi Kappa, while Demosthenians chose debaters league members W H Sorrells and Dan Upshaw.
The Todd family expresses heartfelt thanks for sympathy shown after the loss of Grady a cheerful and industrious boy who helped his mother cared for siblings and ran errands. They request God’s strength for reconciliation and guidance in the resurrection. MR. & MRS. THOS. I. TODD.
A cache of letters from soldiers in Belgium shared via Nickerson in Athens offers a rare, personal wartime view. Sgt. A. O. Budd writes from a quiet trench line about mud, fatigue, and the pace of war, mentioning St Stephen friends and the 15th Battalion of the Canadian expeditionary forces.
In Cristobal at the northern end of the Panama Canal, two 1,000-foot piers are inadequate as traffic surges since opening a year ago. A third pier is under construction with plans for a fourth. Congestion causes ships to queue and delays reshipped cargo to Central and South American ports. Balboa’s expected rise as a transshipment hub appears unlikely for years as South American lines favor Cristobal due to lower costs and ballast tolls, aided by high Balboa tides and Panama Railroad rates.
Glasgow authorities limit liquor sales to five and a half hours daily. Pubs close in the morning to keep workers sober, ban treating and credit, and forbid carrying drinks away. Early results show fewer drunkenness arrests, 325 men and 88 women previously, then 210 men and 84 women after curtailment.
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