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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
1
In a belief filled testimonial Bettie Bullock credits Cardus, the woman's tonic, with lifting long standing womanly troubles. Her husband encouraged use after prior remedies failed, noting she regained strength and can walk two miles and perform daily work. The ad appeals to readers to speak to their pharmacist and begin Cardus today.
In Monroe Georgia this week judges deliberated several civil matters. A verdict for Price brothers awarded 4000 plus interest for damages to lands and factory caused by the manufacturers. A daughter settled with her father in a farm dispute. Athens parties attended a case involving W M C Treadwell Holliday Hood and Williams as the court adjourned.
Aug 21 La Predictions suggest this crop may reach twelve to thirteen thousand bales shy of the big 1911 year. If cotton yields well in the South, a large crop could exceed three million bales, boosting financial prospects. Louisiana faces sugar industry risks, but strong cotton and other crops cushion revenue losses.
In Washington Courthouse Ohio a woman named O'Donnell who had her seventeenth child aged thirty nine has died. Her husband and eight of their children survive. Her husband Harry Murphy, a nephew of Mrs O'Donnell, also died today. O'Donnell is the father of twenty eight children, eleven were born from a previous marriage.
W L Barrom architect of Com for building 30 cottages at Helen White county, location of Bird Matthews Lumber Co, the mill will begin and complete a contract operation early in September.
Yesterday morning on Newton Street near Broad and the Pastime theater two buggy teams collided after passing a dead horse. Mrs. Sanders of Oconee County, an elderly woman, was thrown from her buggy and injured but not seriously. Her little grandson, driver of the mule, escaped unhurt. The other buggy carried Mrs. Sanders’ son and his wife. A second crash at Washington and Lumpkin streets involved Messrs. O. G. Thweat and Dock Bone from Madison County as a street car struck their team. Thweat escaped injury while Bone was bruised and shaken. Both incidents required medical attention and disrupted local transit briefly.
Summary of the new Georgia tax revision detailing how to file, assessment by county boards, arbitration steps, and state tax commissioner powers. It outlines deadlines from February to July, the roles of county assessors and the three member board, and the arbitration process to resolve valuation disputes.
The first monument by the Children of the Confederacy in this state will memorialize the father of Mrs. Hugh Price Hinton of this city. The Gabesville unveiling honors Col. Sanders, a Confederate officer, on a United reservation at the Gainesville post office plot. The monument, a white pillar with a seated Longstreet figure, was crafted under Mrs. Longstreet’s supervision. A Gainesville paper previewed the ceremony, noting the approaching unveiling on Wednesday.
The Banner will relocate from Lumpkin street to the Smith building on College avenue on September 1, placing presses and mailing in the basement and ground floor while the composing room sits in the rear and the editorial and business offices lead the front. At home to its friends after September first on College avenue, precisely in the middle of the new block, the Athens Daily and Weekly Banner.
Atlanta Aug 21 Special to the Banner. Western and Atlantic Railroad earnings for the fiscal year show a net of 913 184, up from 813 519 last year, with no deficit and earnings per mile of 6 674. The lease to the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railroad nets the state 34 001 annually and expires in 1919, with officials valuing the lease at at least 75 000 yearly given current earnings. The road is praised as a productive state asset, now named for Col Ganders. A memorial ceremony for Mrs Sanders includes a child choir, a veil drawn by Sanders grandchildren, and remarks by local officials. The event closes with a song “The Jacket of Gray” by two students. The memorial is gifted by the C C Sanders Chapter Children of Confederacy and marks the first such memorial on Federal soil.
A Georgia manufacturing survey shows some mills idle or built but never operated while active mills vary in output. Reports note gendered washrooms, decent mill village conditions, and dinner times from thirty to sixty minutes. Wages range from 3 to 25 dollars weekly, with 1,400 workers mostly female and several mills reporting production gains and losses under varied conditions.
Funeral services for the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Eberhart were conducted by Rev. W. Saye and Rev. J. P. Coolper. Mourners and pallbearers included Apting, Mealor, Bulloch, and Sage. The little casket was laid to rest in Oconee cemetery. Also a note reports a remarkable cure of dysentery after illness starting mid July with weight loss from 145 to 109.
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