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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1907
Page
8
The Harlow Ridenour revival meetings move from the Christian church to Moss warehouse on Clayton Street to handle larger crowds. Attendance last night doubled previous totals and 200 extra chairs will be added. Mr Harrow will speak on The Gospel Ship tonight.
Mr W J Russell of Timoth y Hill Jackson county spent the week in the city as a grand jury member and returned to his farm. He is noted as an energetic, highly successful farmer who cultivates more land with less labor and once plowed all night to keep up with business.
The Young Ladies Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church met at the home of new president Mrs George A Mell with about thirty members present and several new members unable to attend A hundred dollars was pledged toward supporting the missionaries the four societies plan to send into the field this year The meeting showed strong enrollment enthusiasm and liberality for mission work.
County road commissions report mixed road conditions with several sections noting good to fair maintenance and two roads not yet worked. Farm expenditures include livestock sales and supplies. Clarke County School Commissioners present 1906–07 totals with pupil counts, teachers, and school buildings and libraries valued.
The University of Georgia Semitic committee reports securing a notable collection for the Semitic library. Donations from Oscar and Isidore Straus of New York plus gifts from Hebrews of Rome and Savannah include Gesenius Lexicon Jastrow's Talmudic Lexicon and an Arabic Lexicon. Other Hebrew communities are promised further contributions.
The new business college in Athens will open within weeks with Mr F A Glenn guiding scholarship funding and Mr H E Byrne of Tyler Texas arriving soon to finalize arrangements. Early telegraphy course added and attendance expected to reach 150. The notice also advertises Witt's Little Early Risers pills.
Judge Brand granted a charter to the Southern Patent and Invention Development Company of this city. The firm aims to foster meritorious inventions, aid inventors in securing patents, and engage in buying and selling patents and related rights. It may manufacture or contract for manufacture and deal in real estate as part of its business.
A safe at the store of G. O. Griffith in Danville was blown open by burglars. About $200 in cash was taken along with other store articles. The explosion damaged many items, and total loss is at least $500. The robbery was discovered around 8 o'clock yesterday morning. No suspects have been identified.
Mr W A Jester reports his cow has extraordinary ability by unlocking the house door where feed is kept. A boy told him the cow could turn the key in the lock and open the door, a feat observed as the cow pushed the key with its nose and mouth.
At Macon a Grand Council of the Royal Arcanum naming Jud. R. B. Russell of Jackson county as grand regent for the ensuing year and Col. H. S. West of the city as grand warden was announced.
News arrives of the death of Mr. Fred Flinn in Denver Colorado last week after a lingering illness. He married Miss Irene Grant formerly of this city now in Jacksonville Florida. Flinn had gone to Denver seeking health but his illness prevailed and he died last week.
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