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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
5
Washington reports United States Steel Corporation earned about 90.6 million dollars in the second quarter after deducting 54 million for taxes. The company expects to pay roughly 200 million dollars to the government during the year.
A color-cover Walton County Fair premiums catalogue for October 9 to 18 showcases extensive exhibits and prizes, with added awards promised. It lists officers and directors in Monroe and Social Circle districts, plus department heads for Agriculture Ladies Poultry Boys and Girls Clubs Negro Social Circle Buncomb and other districts, naming many local individuals.
The first day of the great British French offensive in Flanders yields extensive gains. French hold two lines of captured German trenches. British hold three lines and control over ten villages with more than 3,500 prisoners. Attacks exceed initial objectives, with French advancing two and a half miles and British pushing two miles inward. Russians clash in east Galicia, retaking several positions while evacuations occur in western Bukowina as German forces suffer heavy casualties. Local reporting notes Washington views the assault as aimed at Germany’s vulnerable flank and contemplates Dutch frontier extension. An Amsterdam dispatch cites Liege authorities sentencing a merchant and his family to death on espionage charges.
Judge Pritchard of the Federal circuit court warned the Southern Sociological Congress at Asheville on July 31 that failure of the people to recognize constituted authority will cause internal trouble. He urged greater concern for home training to protect democracy in America amid discussions of European democracies.
Washington reports the government lost about 40 million dollars in revenue over the last three weeks as whiskey withdrawals surged from warehouses in anticipation of higher taxes. Representative Hull of Tennessee released the statement today detailing the impact on tax revenues.
New York July 31 stockholders Ernest Turnbloom and Delvan Holmes filed a supreme court action to remove President Philip Dodge and other International Paper Company officials. The suit alleges arbitrary actions have brought the company into trouble with Congress.
A Georgia farmer William Tyson killed his wife then died by suicide after being summoned for draft examination. The incident followed reports of marriages to dodge service. The article notes the draft context and cites local exemption board actions in Nashville, Georgia. Other items report New York marriage records and alleged evasion schemes.
Washington July 31 Seventeen thousand men at officers training camps who will not receive commissions or be selected for further training are to be offered appointments as non commissioned officers in the national army with chances of promotion General Bliss acting chief of staff issued a circular to this effect today.
The United Mine Workers convention in Birmingham district twenty adopted three wage-scale recommendations. They include recognition of the union re-employment of workers discharged for joining the union and an eight hour work day for all mine labor a basic price of seventy five cents per ton to mine coal.
Yesterday afternoon at 3 oclock at her home on Pulaski Heights died Mrs. George Preston Elder following weeks of illness. Daughter of Henry M. and Asenith Fullilove, she married George P. Elder on February 19, 1880. Survived by three daughters Mrs. T. H. Ert of Atlanta and Lilly Mendo Elder, and two sons T. L. and Harry Elder, all of this city. Also sister of Mrs. A. G. Elder and Mrs. A. C. Jackson.
The midsummer commencement at Georgia will be held tomorrow evening in the chapel. Examinations for teachers are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. The summer school enrollment totals about 1,300, up from just over 1,000 last year, with over 1,000 regular teacher-students and several hundred in special courses and coaching programs.
Washington July 31 the senate finance committee decided to revise the war tax bill raising total to about two billion dollars mainly through added levies on intoxicants personal incomes and corporate incomes they plan to report the measure by week end
Prof Sanford head of the University Summer School received a War Department wire officially authorising the Quartermasters Corps School. The class, comprising about forty young business men from Athens and other towns, has studied for weeks. A later wire asked for the number of men available for enlistment to issue orders.
Conference on the food bill provision for war expenditures recessed again with hopes for agreement tomorrow. Overnight, conferees planned to confer with Senate and House leaders to seek a compromise.
Two Athens notaries public, Phil McDorman at Dorsey Furniture Co. and D. G. Bickers at the Banner office, volunteer to attest exemption papers for drafted men seeking dependents or relatives exemptions at no cost to claimants.
Government agents said experts found what is believed to be anthrax germs in court plaster sold by a local vender in Binghamton New York. They issued a warning to residents and local authorities.
Newport News July 31 Col R R Moton principal of Tuskegee Institute addressed 2000 negro dry dock employees urging them to raise soldiers as well as those on ships and in trenches to wake up the nation and secure opportunity for service and progress.
The Chamber of Commerce and sustaining members launch a Buy At Home drive with weekly sale days and free banner space for members to advertise special offers. The Banner will publish daily articles on buying at home with input from business members, aiming to enroll 100 new members in August and boost Athens commerce.
The Clarke County Board of Education met to adopt textbooks for rural schools under the Yeomans School Text Book Bill of 1916. It kept existing basic books, adopted high school texts including Practical English for High Schools and Civic Biology, and named MacGregor Company as the official book agent.
Washington reports a continuing heat wave likely to persist for several days. New York records eight deaths and 165 prostrations as temperatures reach 98 degrees the highest in six years. Philadelphia endures a 101 degree day, the hottest in sixteen years, with eight deaths in two days.
Athens business leader Andrew C. Erwin announced he will run for mayor this fall after weeks of urging from citizens across professions. Born and raised in Athens, he is a prominent local figure praised for community service, business success, and leadership potential. Election is expected without opposition.
The chief of army engineers outlines the expeditionary force in France facing a vast program. They must build rail lines and bridges, roads, wharves, and piers, cut lumber in French forests, train foresters, install underground power plants for trench electricity, and lay water pipes across miles of terrain.
A new act lets hunters shoot doves in August while all other game seasons stay closed until the quail season begins November 20. Licenses are required and Game Warden Joe H. Lumpkin asks sportsmen to report any hunting without licenses or out of season quail.
Rev EB Hill pastor of First Presbyterian returned from Montreat North Carolina where he attended missions conferences. His stewardship lectures were printed as a pamphlet after requests from attendees and thousands of copies were produced. He was invited to present the series in Arkansas and Texas already heard.
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