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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1913
Page
8
Ina Lehr company opens today with Beyond the Law a lighthearted melodrama that showcases each cast member. Miss Lehr praised for her clever acting and the troupe gains popularity. Matinees daily at 4 15 admission 10 cents. nightly shows at 8 and 9 45.
The Athens Savings Bank announces 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1 and July 1, with deposits from $1.00. Also listings include help wanted for a seamstress and a stenographer, rental ad for a 6 room Meigs street house, and items for sale or exchange including bluegrass land in Pearisburg Virginia and a used gas range.
Classified items include insurance and real estate notes, loan offers, sale of a home near Cloverhurst Avenue, jobs for coat alterations, fresh produce from Williamson's, room finding by Banner reader, dental services at Modern Dental Parlors, and a loan advertisement. Listings mention names such as Jester, Devpree Hunnicutt, Dr Otis Johnson, Michael Bros, and addresses on College Avenue.
Mr. Lauren Smith has joined the Georgia office and traveling staff of American Coal Products Company. The Southern offices are in Athens with manager W. F. Dobbs. Smith will embark on a 40 day tour to demonstrate ammonia as a fertilizer at fairs and expositions and will also visit Alabama offices opening this fall.
The Crystal Theater shows The Dead Secret in three reels today as the feature attraction with an advertisement notice.
Mr T W Dennington has pruned and trimmed shade trees along College avenue and Washington and Hancock avenues. He removed overhanging limbs and treated wounds with lead paint to improve growth for the next season. Just three more days until Norman Field players return to the Colonial.
The Y M C A building committee meets at the association building at 8 30 this evening to hear the treasurer W P Brooks report on cash collections and expenditures for the new building. Secretary Forbes will outline subscription due dates and unpaid accounts. two Mason purchase houses are to be sold Thursday by public outcry.
Yesterday morning at 5 o clock, two year old Joseph T Wigley, son of Mr and Mrs R W Wigley, died at 425 Nacoochee avenue after membranous croup struck Wednesday. The funeral will be at 3 this afternoon at Princeton with Rev S R England of Young Harris Memorial Methodist church officiating.
Mr John O Farrell relocates to Columbia South Carolina to become city salesman for Lorick Bros Hardware Co a leading firm in the state He and wife depart October 1st and leave many friends in Athens sad but glad for his advancement in the new role
R T Goodwyn Jr son of a local realty man recently graduated from the University of Georgia School of Engineering joins the United States Surveying Corps in Brunswick for tidewater entrance improvement work. Engineers on site formed a baseball team last week and selected the Athens man as captain for winter games.
News from Pekin reports the death of Grant a British telegraph operator who with Henningsen and others ventured into Mongolia to repair government lines. After division the party learned Grant had been captured by Mongols and killed despite his defiant stand before the firing squad.
Fresno California resident C E Mustoe endorses Chamberlain's Tablets for sick headache and constipation after two years of use. He states no other preparation has matched its effectiveness and notes it is for sale by all dealers.
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