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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1907
Page
5
The city street committee on sanitation proposes a new street cleaning office with a $60 monthly salary. It aims to spray streets, remove debris, enforce waste rules, control standing water, and combat mosquitoes, with membership pricing and expanded trash services. The plan seeks rapid adoption at Friday’s mayor and council session.
Sensational developments unfold before Governor Glenn over charges against L McCoodwin at Morganton School for the Deaf. Prosecution cites Miss Bell’s death by carbolic act amid alleged persecution, while claims arise of misused funds, fake farm yields, and misattributed crafts. Prosecution gains new affidavits. defense to respond before a ruling.
Brown fund alumni consider a granite double bench on the University of Georgia campus to honor Senator Joseph E Brown and his son Charles McDonald Brown. Prof James M Stephenson circulates a letter seeking opinions and a possible next meeting of Brown fund men to discuss memorial options and alumni involvement.
John L. Arnold died Monday night at his Anderson home after a long illness at age 74. He is survived by his wife and six children, with several in Atlanta and Athens. Relatives from this city attend the funeral in Anderson. His first wife was Miss Nettle Banks and his second wife is Miss Ella Johnson.
Ella Slayton of Noland Ark shares that health costs 26 cents in a malaria district for a box of Dr King s New Life Pills. The pills cleanse gently and impart new life and vigor to the system. 25c satisfaction guaranteed at W J Smith Bro and H R Palmer Son druggists. On Fine Printing The Banner Leads.
Building permits granted in recent days include Charles Stern recovering a house on Strong Street. Lyndon erecting a four room house near the old waterworks. Dublin a three room house on Vine Street. Mike Dennis a two room house on Waddell Street. Southern Mutual Insurance Company office building and warehouse on Hancock Avenue. Wingfield and Davis repairing a stable on Clayton Street.
From Puerto Cortez and San Pedro reports describe Nicaraguan troop returns and planned sailings toward Bluefields. Mention cites Isaula tearing down an American flag, prior flag incident at Omoa, railway operations, and local dispatches about Santa Rosa and Chaluma. Includes brief note on DeWitt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve advertisement.
Mr A J Milstead aged 75 of this city died in Baltimore after being missing near the harbor. He had suffered paralysis twice and was staying with relatives. His body was found in the harbor. it is believed he fell in while walking by the water. A H Milstead leaves for Baltimore today. the funeral and interment will be in Baltimore Friday.
The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index reports seven days of developments including coal lands near Tuscaloosa, a cotton mill project on the Oconee river with an electric railway to Eatonton, a $150000 Buchanan cotton mill, Locust Fork water power plus a 100 mile electric railway radiating from Huntsville to Birmingham, a 10 story hotel plan at Montgomery, and multiple new factories, mills and power projects across Alabama and Georgia.
At the Southern Educational Conference in Pinehurst Georgia delegates discussed aligning business interests with education. Hon. Samuel M. Inman led a meeting to enlist Georgia business leaders, with Chancellor Barrow to call a Macon meeting for collaboration and a fifty member committee to organize efforts.
Commerce Georgia mayor calls special meeting to form committees and set an election to issue forty five thousand dollars in bonds for a waterworks and sewerage system. The text notes multiple regional contracts and projects, including paving and building plans across several cities.
An Iowa woman reports eruptions covering her chest face neck and body with scales and crusts. She places faith in Cuthura remedies for skin diseases as a treatment option.
E. Wilson of Liscomb Iowa reports a long lasting skin eruption on chest face neck arms and legs improved after using Cuticura Remedies. He claims three bottles of the ointment and pills cured the case within years with no return and notes a neighbor’s child was fully cured after similar treatment.
Mrs Charles J Holman mother of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw declares in a Pittsburg statement that if her daughter had told her what she testified to on the witness stand it would not have been necessary for Harry Thaw to kill Stanford White. She says Edna Goodrich introduced Evelyn to White and that White appeared to be a decent man.
Fred A. Busse was formally inaugurated as mayor of Chicago at a city council meeting. Republicans take control for the first time since 1887 and all appointments took effect immediately. Ernest Hagerstad named city collector, and John B. Traeger becomes city treasurer after bond approval.
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