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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
8
A collection of small ads and notices including rent offers for multiple properties on Prince Avenue Broad Street and College Avenue, a livestock and jewelry related item about a Shetland filly, needs for scrap metal and packing material, a job query for a traveling salesman in Georgia, a request for a missing black shawl, and a prompt for fire insurance from T L Mitchell.
A dense page of Athens Georgia classified ads and notices. Items include for sale real estate rental bargains pennants and household goods plus requests for loans and employment. Also listings for heating stoves pecans bulbs and farm financing along with lost fraternity pin and mortgage requests.
Four and one half miles out on a fine road an attractive 33 acre farm. Frontage on Mitchell Bridge road with good land and parcel offered at 40 dollars per acre. A solid bargain and land lies well.
Aluminum ware sale offers 1 1/2 quart percolator for 1.29, 2 quart at 1.49, and 2 quart double boilers at 1.45. Includes CHINA GLASSWARE EN AMEL WARE and mops brushes and dusters. Broad St shop advertises everything for the housekeeper by H. T. Huggins & Son.
An old recruitment note from The Bell Overall Co at 9.3-3 Winder Georgia seeks twenty five young ladies with experience to operate power machines.
Mr. C. D. Heidler hosted visiting laundry proprietors from Atlanta at an annual Athens meeting. The group toured a Georgia barbecue at Percy Johnson’s country home near Bogart and were entertained at the Elks Home. Attendees included George H. Foss, E. H. Wilson, George H. Beck, B. Dunaway, A uw. Kurfees, B. A. Porter, E. Knight, T. A. Martin, and A. A. Glass from various firms.
Yesterday on a Madison county road during a collecting trip the vehicle overturned. Mr Hodgson escaped unhurt while Mr J A Pitner suffered two broken ribs and considerable bruising.
The Athens post office will close its box rental receipts at six this evening and all boxes with unpaid quarterly rents by six will be closed at midnight. Fewer boxes are available now and many applicants seek first vacant boxes. Pay rent today to avoid losing your box.
The Dixie Highway Association Georgia Florida convention in Jacksonville adjourned without selecting proposed rates for the Macon to Miami route. Georgia delegates halted routes discussion while considering a request to ask Georgia and Florida commissioners to recommend one route to the national group. consensus indicated national officers already have sufficient information.
Mr and Mrs Paul Smith return from the West with time in Utah for mining interests and a coast exposition. Mr M L Manne and his mother plan to move into the Tribble home on Milledge avenue for the winter. Father Clarke of St Josephs returns from Gainesville after spending Sunday and Tybee for priests retreat. Mrs R C Orr and Miss Julia Orr return from Mountain City after several weeks away. Judge Brand comes back from Winder where he held the Barrow county superior court. For sale fine bulbs Narcissi Jones Greenhouse Co Phone 364 Advertise your wants.
Rev. John Wesley Hill former Metropolitan Temple pastor and lecturer on politics and peace is named as defendant in a $100000 breach of promise suit filed by Lucile Covington of New York, also a lecturer.
The Athens Gas Lights and Fuel Company presents in window display what is claimed as the first revolving gas light demonstration. A large art glass shade houses a high powered burner with several smaller lamps circling around it. The display is described as an original idea from the gas office designers and may signal more than a mere exhibit.
Clifford Duffey sixteen, messenger for the Western Union, slipped on Michael's store floor and crashed into a curved showcase. Glass shattered and his arm and hand were severely gashed requiring sixteen stitches and more for the forearm hand and wrist. Duffey has also faced a recent run of misfortune including a mistaken report of an attack after a bicycle incident.
Central Market advertises staple and fancy groceries with fresh meats. Weekly specials include steak 15c lb, beef roast 12 1 2c lb, stew beef 8c lb, mixed sausage 12 1 2c lb, pork chops 17 1 2c lb, pork roast 16c lb, pork sausage 18c lb, flour 85c for 24 lbs, 65c to $1.65 for other sizes, sugar 1 45, lard and compounds priced, fresh eggs 25c a dozen. Telephone 741, 441 Broad Street.
The Athens chamber of commerce calls all boarding houses able to accommodate tourists and visitors to register today. Provide name and location, and either phone 272 or report to Mrs. Ussary at the Rest Rooms office 195 East Clayton Street. A large turnout tomorrow and tomorrow night could tax local capacity if the weather cooperates.
A Commerce boosters tour arrived in Athens to promote the Four County Fair opening October 11. The Commerce High School brass band of twenty boys performed on the street and amid handbills and cordial invitations. Col W D Martin led speeches across seven counties, aiming to generate visitor turnout and make the fair Georgia’s greatest success.
The West Hina Baptist church held a crowded farewell for Rev. A. L. Flury who has led the congregation for two years. He and his family depart today for Atlanta to begin a new pastorate at Western Heights Baptist church. Tears and warm goodbyes marked the service as the church thanked him for his messages and leadership.
J L Berryman offers the finest mineral water at 6 cents per gallon with 5 gallon deliveries in city limits. Phone 62731.
A partially legible note references an apprenticeship action at Mount A with an apprentice and a master. The fragment hints at a formal arrangement or appointment but lacks full details and context.
The Boston Braves will train in Miami Florida for the next five years under a contract announced by the president. The agreement with the Miami chamber of commerce creates a field with four thousand seats for team use. For contact there is a furnished home for rent at 290 South Milledge Avenue, listed by Louis Camak.
The Linton Spring Water Co announces readiness to serve Athens families with pure water today. They will deliver to emergency calls and invite friends and patrons to the spring, open to all. Phone 604.
J P Davis, colored, traveled to Oklahoma to bring back the body of his brother Rev Will Davis bishop of the colored Methodist church. His death saddened the race and the community in Athens prepares for funeral rites.
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