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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1907
Page
4
The Athens Banner notes a three month decline in disorderly conduct and drunkenness in mayor court records. It credits Mayor Dorsey and the police for firm, fearless enforcement and calls the city orderly and proud of its peace. It also discusses Roosevelt and Southern Democratic loyalties in politics.
The piece argues Roosevelt cannot win the South in 1908 or 1904 style, despite third-term talk inspired by John Temple Graves. It cites New Orleans States critiquing his ties to trusts and tariffs, insisting Southern voters favor principle over expediency and would not support Roosevelt regardless of ticket or platform.
The piece argues patience is essential as immigrants adapt to new surroundings. Commissioner General Sargent says the goal is to settle homesteads and farming rather than keep immigrants in cotton mills, predicting future factory growth and better labor quality as families become familiar with American life.
The piece laments Democratic support for Roosevelt on a Democratic ticket, arguing Roosevelt is a Republican at heart and opposes Democratic tariff principles. It defends Jeffersonian ideals of government by the people and states rights, urging Democrats to resist centrist or Republican alignment.
Georgia educators grapple with rural school betterment and agricultural education. The piece notes the need to keep farm youths on the land by improving country schools and cites progress driven by teachers and active Women’s Clubs across the state. The Banner leads with this agricultural education push.
The backbone of the cold weather seems broken, but it is doubtful how much of Georgia Crust crop remains this year.
Georgia fruit crop doubts persist after severe frosts in Adairsville Baldwin and Cornelia with opinions split on peach survival State Entomologist Smith cautions frost may have damaged but not killed all orchards Others fear total loss potentially costing the state up to two million dollars. Prior year shipments reached 8000 carloads. current outlook remains uncertain.
Yesterday morning Joseph M. Hodgson was elected by the grand jury to succeed himself as county commissioner of roads and revenues. He has served many years on the board and is the current chairman, with expectations to remain in that role.
In Superior Court the State v Jim Sims ended with a jury convicting Sims colored of voluntary manslaughter in the Charley Drake case. Judge Brand to pass sentence today. minimum four years and maximum twenty.
Mayor L H Chappell of Columbus and president of the League of Georgia Municipalities is arranging a program for the May 28 meeting in the city. Atlanta Commissioner of Public Works H L Collier will discuss street paving, a topic on which he is highly qualified to speak.
President Roosevelt’s peace conference letter urges international arbitration while warning against universal disarmament. He calls for peace through righteousness and justice, cites U.S. efforts, and notes self government for the Philippines. Secretary Root’s South America trip strengthens Western Hemisphere ties as the Hague delegate is instructed to aid peace.
Macadamizing the Princeton road to the Oconee river bridge is finished but halted due to a light bridge. The Cord Mill segment will be gravelled into a sand clay road. County commissioners plan to start on Tallassee road and repair portions of Jefferson road. A new quarry will open, rock to be quarried promptly and grading around the Normal School to begin. Work aims to reach the eastern county by fall.
United States Senator Philander Knox, once a Pittsburgh lawyer, is set to defend Harry Thaw in his next trial, a decision reported by Mrs. William Thaw, his mother. Delphin M. Delmas, famed California advocate, is withdrawn from the Thaw case.
James H. Eckels president of the Commercial National Bank and former comptroller of the currency died at his Chicago home of heart disease. A butler Frank Evans discovered him after a telephone ringer went unanswered and found him unresponsive in his room.
The cotton fleecy staple nearly ceases arrivals in Athens with under two hundred bales received last week signaling most local crop is sold. A season comparison shows stock on hand and receipts across wagon and railroad totals for 1907 and earlier years, with shipments and local spinner activity noted.
The convention of county officers will meet on the third Wednesday 1 June at Indian Springs. The association of county officers has proven of much benefit to the officers in this state and the conventions are largely attended each year. The officers of this county will attend the convention and take a prominent part in the proceedings. Special rates on the railroads have been secured and a reasonable rate at the hotels have been accorded by the proprietors.
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