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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1920
Page
8
Short notes list insurance, banking, real estate, auto repair, and job wanted offers in Athens. Items include Lipscomb Fire insurance, Athens Savings Bank 4 percent deposits, sale and rental notices, farm and vehicle listings, and assorted wanted ads from The Banner.
Fresh snap beans and okra will be available today with tender produce. Arnolds Abney & Co offer trout, winesap apples at 30 cents a dozen and Pippins at 40 cents a dozen. Also Graham bread and Quality bread daily, new currants 35 cents a pound and Dromedary dates 25 cents.
Luncheonette menu notes a Thursday September 23 1920 dinner offering barbecue pork roast beef new turnips stewed tomatoes Carolina rice pone egg bread light bread chocolate pudding tea coffee and milk with sides including smothered chicken grits beans hush brown potatoes hot rolls and assorted puddings.
A high school style duel on the Y diamond ends in a scoreless deadlock as Dorsey and Conolly play error free defense and tough pitching. Fleet Lanier and W T Forbes star in the tight game while Erwin eyes a pennant and the leagues finish heats up with a post season three game series drafted.
The National League results include Cincinnati beating Pittsburgh 2 to 0 with Luque Ring and Wingo Adams and Schmidt as batteries. Umpires O Day and Quigley. Additional line shows Cincinnati 8 Pittsburgh 3 with Ruether Ring Win go Ponder and Haeffner. Umpires Quigley O Day. Chicago vs New York lists Mattories Tyler Batley Martin O Farrell Douglas Snyder with Klem Emilie as umpires. Boston and Brooklyn sections show further battery names and umpire pairs.
Cook County grand jury opened a probe into allegations that the last World Series between the Chicago American and Cincinnati National League clubs was not on the square. Hartley Replogle, prosecutor, said seven Chicago players were implicated while none from Cincinnati were named.
Cincinnati was eliminated from NL pennant contention after dropping a doubleheader to Pittsburgh. The defeat left Brooklyn and New York in a race, with Brooklyn five games ahead.
Police report Carrie Smith 17 daughter of C. Smith of Moshein Tenn left three weeks ago and may be in Atlanta. believed working as a waitress. Also missing are Lawrence Lacy 16 of Lacy 780 Highland Ave Griffin Ga and Raymond Butler 16 and Arthur Thompson 16 both of Griffin Ga who are said to have come to Atlanta to find work.
Atlanta announces the Plattsburg faculty for the Pan American Commerce course opening September 27. Officials include William A. Reid, Boris Aronow, John Barrett, Clarence Owens, John Crenshaw, Bust Getsinger, and a cadre of Atlanta and other lecturers.
Atlanta policewomen, fresh from a theater, blushed at a performance that reminded them of Montmartre and triggered talk of supposedly suggestive dancing. Chief Beavers warns that city ordinances forbid such dancing and orders strict enforcement as the beauty squad is told to watch their shoulders.
Atlanta notices a proposed salary raise for the mayor to 6000 dollars starting January. Councilman Nutting urges action, arguing the dignity of the office. Separately, candidates announce bids for alderman positions in the Second and Fourth Wards in the Democratic primary.
Governor Me B Weilborn of the Federal Reserve and Dr. R. S. MacElwee among officers will be present for a few days during the course at the school or another Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce representative.
The article outlines the annual Feast of the Tabernacles, noting it begins Sunday evening September 26 and ends Monday evening September 27, lasting eight days. It describes ceremonial laws including palm, myrtle, and willow offerings, and emphasizes gratitude to God, harvest themes, and charitable acts to hospitals and the city poor.
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