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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1915
Page
8
A miscellany of small ads and notices appears. Rentals offer 3 rooms and a 7 room cottage with contacts in Prince Ave Broad St College Ave Henderson Ave and Strong St. Items for sale wanted or lost include a Shetland filly scrap iron and a black shawl with red border. A quip about George Bolton and a wild duck delivery joke closes the column.
Four and one half miles out on a splendid road this farm offers a fine front on the Mitchell Bridge road and is a bargain at 40 dollars per acre. The land lies well and promises good value for buyers seeking rural acreage.
Local ads offer 4 cent mileage coupons for cash ads and advertise Athens Savings Bank 4 percent interest, hot blast stoves, and a bicycle motorcycle sale. Listings include rental houses on Barber Street Milledge Terrace and Milledge Avenue, a P.O. Box 208 contact, and various buy or sell notices for nuts, trees, and a King-Hodgson syrup order.
Twenty five young ladies with experience in operating power machines are sought by The Bell Overall Co based in Winder Georgia. Applicants are directed to respond to the firm as listed with the date 9-3-3.
The 1916 Appalachian Good Roads Congress intends to meet in West Virginia in a few weeks. Athens is asked to assemble the nearly hundred road engineers and experts, with Prof. Strahan or Prof. Slack from the University likely in attendance. The Athens chamber of commerce plans to pursue hosting this important southern congress.
H. T. Huggins and Son advertises a ten day sale on aluminum ware including percolators and double boilers with low prices. The offer lists 1 1 2 quart models at 149 and 2 quart options at 1 45 plus housewares in china glassware and enamel ware with cleaning goods and mops. Broad Street contact.
The Red and Black set the second game of the year against the North Georgia Agricultural College Huskies for Friday at 4 30 pm to welcome visiting South Georgia tourists to Ath ens. Georgia coach Cunningham says scrimmages will be held this afternoon tomorrow and Thursday with secret practices daily this week. Whitey Davis and Knox are sidelined with ankle injuries.
Lively race for the queen of the street soiree heats up as organizers urge readers to vote. Readers are asked to sign a coupon with a candidate’s name and return it to the Banner, which will forward ballots to the committee led by Hollis Lanier Henry Brown and Ross Coker.
A traveler requests entry on the Second Seeing Georgia Tour leaving Macon at 3 00 P M on September 30. They expect to arrive in Macon at a specified time and will report for car number assignment and rules copy.
Hoyt Hale, three year old son of Mr and Mrs Allen Hale, died Saturday at their Attica home. Funeral and burial conducted Sunday afternoon at 3 30 by Rev W M Coile in Attica.
At Red Stoke Sunday the Clarke County Choir held a strong monthly meeting. The choir is expanding in numbers and interest with new members joining and shared enthusiasm.
A persuasive appeal urges youths to enroll in Athens Business College highlighting rapid salary gains and abundant bookkeeper and stenographer job calls. It claims unmatched instruction, expert teachers, and a guaranteed position after training, while also promoting a distant sales notice from W. T. Rawleigh Company and a weekend visit by local residents to Athens.
Glenn Lodge I O O F plans a significant meeting tonight at 8 o clock in the lodge room. The second degree will be conferred. All members in good standing are urged to attend.
Lima Ohio September 27 The first football fatality of the season was recorded when Don Appals aged fifteen, a high school player, died from injuries received in a practice game.
The Vitagraph Blue Ribbon feature The Chalice of Courage by Cyrus Townsend Brady opens in Athens. The drama starts with a cliff fall featuring a young woman and a horse, delivering startling thrills to the powerful audience. Previously shown at Vitagraph Theatre in New York, it played for two dollars. Athens admission is ten and fifteen cents.
Friends of Mr. Tom Elder of the E. H. Dorsey force report he remains ill and unable to leave his home or attend his place of business. He has been confined to his room for a week or more, with some improvement but not greatly improved yet.
The October issue of Educational Monthly edited by Prof. Fred A. Merrill from the State Normal School is praised as the best yet. Noted contributor editor H. C. Branson of the University of North Carolina joins the periodical, with a robust table of contents including editorials social ideals rural education and community life topics.
In a quarrel over a fifteen cent dispute Char lie Terrell sustained a severe gash requiring sixteen stitches after an attack by Frank Hill who stayed at the scene and was arrested. A separate incident involved Jessie Landrum and Noah Alienwine over Alienwine’s wife with both men facing docketed cases in recorder’s court. Two young boys Hol and Jim Jones were chased and locked up for stealing a horse and buggy during a joy ride from Broad street, returning after four hours and being captured after a lively pursuit.
Athens residents can order pure clear water with same day delivery for emergency calls. The Linton Spring Water Co invites friends to the spring opening and notes phone service at 604.
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