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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1911
Page
5
Offers advertise subscriptions for Dally Banner at $2.50 for Wiz months, $1.25 for three months, and Weekly Banner at $1.00 yearly or 50 cents for six months. The copy urges women across five counties to join “handsome prizes” and “abtle work” worth their effort for themselves or friends.
In Union Point, Georgia, Syrian peddler George Macias faced street tax demands after living in the U.S. a year. A confrontation with Mayor Asa Rhodes led to arrests for disorderly conduct. Macias and Rhodes seek legal action with Brown & Shipp and plan to appeal if rights are denied.
In Gainesville Georgia on Route 6 a stalk on J A Peck’s farm grew a single eight foot stalk with one large ear and 34 small ears around it. The freak of nature drew many spectators and prompted remarks on its origin. Peck noted another stalk with similar growth though not as prolific.
August 14 report notes Richmond County legislator Garlington introduced a bill to consolidate Glascock with Warren County. Glascock, smallest county at 95 sq mi and 4,669 residents, united locals opposed. Committee visited Atlanta, objected, bill withdrawn. Glascock remains on the map.
Atlanta August 14 The Georgia House of Representatives passed a new game law amid farmer concerns. The bill creates a state game warden position at 2400 dollars yearly and local wardens under him. Hunters would pay one dollar per county or three dollars for the state to cover costs. Open season shortened by six weeks. Sales of game birds or animals banned. Daily bag limit set at 25 quail and similar limits apply. Traps snares and cats forbidden and hunting on another's land requires written permission.
A Clarkesville meeting organized Habersham Good Roads Association with William Eberhart as president and committee drafting district plans. A livestock-friendly barbecue is set for August 22 inviting officials from Clarke, Jackson, Hall and Banks counties. Athens promotes cotton warehouses and open cotton boll reports mark fall business, while Gov. Hoke Smith seeks $25,000 school fund cut.
Atlanta August 14 Governor Smith personally urged a major cut in the general appropriations bill before the senate appropriations committee in an unusual appearance. The panel trimmed $58,000 from the House bill with reductions spread across the Academy for the Blind, the School for the Deaf, the Soldiers Home, the tuberculosis sanitarium, State University, Tech, the Normal and Industrial College, and the State College of Agriculture, plus the common schools. The governor warned of a potential deficit if at least $150,000 was not cut. The house acted on several special appropriations and passed a deficit printing fund of $15,000, while a waterpower and swamp land investigation bill was killed. The redistricting bill creating twelve congressional districts passed. New district changes altered the Eighth, Twelfth, and other boundaries.
The report touts North Georgia as fertile for farming in the Justice Edwards property case near Gainesville with cotton corn and cane thriving and values rising from 5,000 to 10,000. The article abruptly shifts to note a shocking lynching of an unnamed Black man, describing no details of the crime.
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