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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1915
Page
8
Short notes of interest list multiple rental offers with addresses and contact numbers. Ads include rooms for rent with private baths, a 7 room house, furnished rooms, and a mercantile business for sale on Clayton street plus requests for scrap iron and used bedroom furniture. Also mentions mileage coupons with cash ads and insurance services.
Advertisement from THE BELL OVERALL CO. of Winder Georgia seeking twenty five young ladies experienced in operating power machines. The notice, dated nine August three, reflects early 20th century labor recruitment.
An advertisement page notes Os Mileage Coupons for listed ads and a 4 per cent savings offer from The Athens Savings Bank with deposits from $1.00. Also advertised are rental listings: ideal retail location near J H Epting Co at 364 Broad St with contact. a seven room cottage on College Avenue for $30 per month. and two large rooms for light housekeeping near Dougherty Street with the contact J A Key.
Delegation from Washington and Wilkes COUNTY toured Athens to promote the East Georgia Fair, boasting bigger and better exhibits than Macon’s State Fair. Leaders included Mayor Tucker Irvin Jr and W T Johnson with many local officials and farmers. The group urged residents to return October First for the welcome and fair boost.
Prof. Gus York a University of Georgia graduate nears completion of his agriculture degree and is elected agriculturist at Powder Springs Agricultural High School. He will work with principal Prof Hunt and plans to start in October.
Pierce Chapel once home to a colored congregation on Hancock avenue and Thom as street has been turned into a soft drink factory on the ground floor and a heavy grocery warehouse in the basement. Van Straaten and Warner of Classic City Bottling Works occupy the factory space while Pitner and Beusse use the basement for storage. The Georgia Railroad and Seaboard Air Line pursued the property last year. Georgia secured it, laid a track through the lot, and title passed to A C Erwin.
Athens Business College in Georgia offers free scholarships to prove Byrne Simplified Shorthand and Practical Book-keeping surpass rival systems. It promises three months of study, legible 150 word writings, court reporting, and a typewritten transcript with no charge if not achieved.
Maggie Anthony and W. T. Bridges from Oconee county chose yesterday to marry at Abe Joel & Sons in Athens at high noon. Rev C. C. Jarrell officiated with store staff as witnesses after failing to obtain a local magistrate’s consent and selecting a minister for the ceremony.
There will be a meeting of Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery Knights Templar this evening at 8 30 oclock. Officers urge full attendance due to business of unusual importance.
Aluminum cookware sale runs 1u days with a 112 quart percolator priced at 1.29 and a 2 quart model at 149 alongside quart double boilers at 1.45. Includes CHINA GLASSWARE EN AMEL WARE and housekeeper supplies plus Mops Brooms Brushes and O Cedar items. Broad Street merchant H T Huggins & Son advertises.
Jackson Highway Association decides not to fix the route for the Andrew Jackson road from Chicago to New Orleans via Louisville and Nashville. A pathfinding committee will trace competing claims and the board of directors will choose the route at a November 10 meeting.
A new police desk docket opens with Mack Wilson charged for disorderly conduct and unlawfully soliciting. The morning features the Pope Bray main case tied to a prior injunction and arrest attempt. Other notes include Russ Fanning’s Madison county warrant arrest and a Baxter Street auto incident with a broken leg. A newsboy Wash Howard was fined for disorderly conduct at the 8. A. S. station. Mrs Annie Cody, detained as insane, remains in county jail under care.
The old brick structure at Prince avenue and Meigs street near John Reese's store has been demolished. A new filling plant for the Eberhart-Scott Sporting Goods Company will be erected, creating an up town depot and improving the area’s appearance.
Washington reports the labor department released a May 1914 survey of ninety three trades in forty one cities. It found higher average weekly wages in May 1914 versus May 1913 for most trades with notable hourly increases in beer bottling bricklayers carpenters painters freight handlers and others. Some trades saw reduced hours while several reported no change.
Secretary Redfield explains the Seaman Act test clause as requiring use of any language understood by officers and a proper crew proportion. He says the rule covers normal orders and should include life boat and emergency work.
Miller & Co. will supply at cost tested alfalfa seed for Clarke County farmers. James W. Morton Farm Demonstrator Joe Woodruff and others organized the introduction. Sixty bushels received, fifty two spoken for. others may still request seed. First come, first served as Miller’s stock remains limited.
New York, Sept 23. Part one of the Rockefeller Foundation annual report covers work through 1914 toward hookworm eradication in the South. It outlines continuing the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission program as an educational effort, not immediate eradication, with permanent state agencies needed over long periods.
At the Athens Presbytery meeting in Clarkesville, Jefferson was chosen as the site for the next session. The presbytery will convene in April of next year.
Mr Charlie S Compton formerly of Athens now a traffic agent for the S A L spoke here yesterday in support of reduced rail rates for the Atlanta Harvest Festival. Compton was traveling to advance the festival and its events across the region.
Barnum and Bailey Circus scheduled to visit the city on October 19. The troupe will travel from Atlanta by the S. A. L. railway and depart to Augusta via the Georgia railroad.
Ardmore Oklahoma entrepreneur E M Galt who attended the University in 1969 has found success in oil and real estate in Oklahoma and Texas. He is visiting the Kappa Sigma fraternity and enrolling his sister at Lucy Cobb Institute during a short stay.
A line from Uncle Eben humor centers on a man who talks too much and interrupts others, with the narrator noting the need for listeners to gather enough information before speaking. The remark reflects dialect humor and social observation.
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