Volunteers Sought by Mr. Hugh Gordon for Cotton Picking
Mr. Hugh H. Gordon Jr calls Athens and Clarke county boys twelve and older to volunteer for cotton picking Saturdays this fall. Farmers promise pay at prevailing rates. wagons will fetch and return workers. Gordon aims to form twenty teams of five to ten boys to bolster harvest and support the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh H. Gordon, Jr
Athens
Clarke
Clarke County
Uncle Sam
Boys of
H. H. Gordon, JR
Treasury and Committee Fail To Agree On Tax Bill
Washington August 20 disagreement persists between the treasury department and the house ways and means committee over revenue bill provisions. Treasury protests increases in the excess profits tax rates while the two groups align on an eighty percent war profits tax based on prewar earnings. The dispute centers on excess profits classification affecting about ten percent of taxed corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Committee
Survivors of Proteus Landed at Norfolk
Ninety four survivors including twelve passengers of the Morgan line Proteus, sunk after colliding with the Standard Oil steamer Cushing thirty miles off the Diamond Shoals, reached Norfolk. One stoker perished when he jumped overboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Morgan
Cushing
Diamond Shoals
Panish
Card
Profiteering Cited as Cause of Unrest in Japan
Washington reports in official quarters that profiteering on a large scale fuels unrest and rioting in Japan. Wholesalers, middlemen, and grain farmers are accused of withholding supplies to drive greatly inflated prices, with the government observing stores prepared to discard?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Japan
Will Combat Illiteracy Plan Drafted By Panel
The Americanization committee appointed by Secretary Lane, headed by Governor Manning and Arthur Somers, drafted a four year bill for appropriations to educate illiterates and promote English use among aliens, with a focus on service members in the national army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Lane
United States
Manning
South Carolina
Arthur Somers
New York City
Revenue Bill Impasse Delays House Action
Washington Aug 20 after an all day debate on the income and excess profits schedules the House Ways and Means Committee could not reach final agreement on the revenue bill Chairman Kitchin said it was doubtful the committee would report the measure to the House by next Monday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
House Ways and Means
Kitchin
House
DeWitt Pickett Addresses Georgia Voters in Carnesville
Dawson business leader and Chero-Cola Co. president Hon DeWitt Pickett spoke in Carnesville after visiting Danielsville and praised Harris while noting strong support for him across Middle and North Georgia. Pickett has long served in Georgia politics and represents his county in the house and district in the senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt Pickett
Dawson
Chero-Cola Co
Senate
Pickett
South Georgia
Harris
Middle
North Georgia
Danielsville
Carneaville
Fourth War Invention From Clarke Co Colored Genius
De Love Moon, a prolific inventor and educator from Clarke County, has submitted his fourth war invention to Washington. He proposes an accelerating gravity propeller for ships claiming 250 to 600 revolutions per minute and gravitation aided propulsion. A military committee reviewed the model, hearing its claimed advantages. Moon previously sent torpedo shield, long range gun, and a rapid firing machine gun, all intended to aid the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Love Moon
Washington
Moon
Paris
Labor Labor Conference Averts Coal Industry Strife
Indianapolis August 17 labor conditions in the coal mining industry prompt a conference of district presidents of the United Mine Workers in Washington on August 22. Frank J. Hayes, UMWA president, announced the meeting to seek a substantial flat wage increase for all mine labor classifications to avert rapidly developing industrial strains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers
Washington
Frank J. Hayes
United Mine Workers of America
Hayes
Ccal
Sixty Planes Credit To Renowned French Aviator Fonck
Paris Aug 20 Associated Press Lieut Rene Fonck famed French aviator credited with downing three German planes on August 14 in a record twenty seconds. With sixty planes to his credit Fonck is hailed as the greatest French airman since Guynemer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
Rene Fonck
Fonck
Guynemer
Germans Press Gains Halted by Allied Pressure
French Mangin advances three miles and captures a town near Blerancourt as the Tenth Army drives German lines east of the Oise. Paris reports over 8,000 prisoners and multiple villages taken in a broader push along a fifteen mile front from the Oise to the Aisne, signaling a decisive allied effort in Picardy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haig
Mangin
Soissons
Aisne
Oise
Roye
Arras
Lys
Bailly
London
Tenth Army
Cuts
Blerancourt
Paris
Beau-pratenes
Foch
Noye
Noyon
Poyon
France
Czechoslav
Amsterdam
Shadriusk
Anning
Main- Ural
Petrograd
Essen
Mumford Home Drum and Bugle Corps Here Soon
The Mumford Home Drum and Bugle Corps visits Athens to perform a street concert Monday afternoon and a possible night show. The Mumford Home at Macon houses boys without parents and relies on voluntary contributions. About 27 boys from the Macon home are in France, with 16 to be hosted for Monday night in Athens if volunteers step forward. Citizens may phone Miss Lunsford at the Athens Banner to offer homes, with advance arrangements needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mumford
Macon
Athens
Tare
France
Lunsford
P. F. Allen
Caruso Weds Dorothy Benjamin in New York Nuptials
Enrico Caruso the famed tenor married Dorothy Benjamin daughter of Park Benjamin a New York patent attorney in a ceremony in New York on August 20. The brief notice confirms the union of the artist and the young woman from an established New York family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Enrico Caruso
Dorothy Benjamin
Park Benjamin
Pottle Named Georgia Division Commander of Sons of Confederate Veterans
Jos E Pottle Esq of Milledgeville Ga is appointed by Carl Hinton commander in chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans as commander of the Georgia Division for twelve months He will soon select staff sponsors and maids of honor for the Tulsa reunion and a brigade commander for each of five brigades Georgia recipients will correspond with him for organization matters
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Hinton
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Denver
Colorado
Jos. E. Pottle
Milledgevile
Georgia
Pottle
Tulsa
This Athens Colored Boy Was Determined to Fight for Freedom
Pred Harris, aged nineteen, son of Prof. H. F. Harris, principal of Athens High and Industrial School, showed strong resolve to serve. After early refusals due to heart trouble at eighteen, he crossed into Canada and last week enlisted in the British army at Windsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pred Harris
8. F. Harris
Athens High and
Windsor
Canada
President's Outing Boosts His Health in Manchester
Manchester Mass Aug 20 The president's outing has done him a world of good though the first day was unusually hot. His condition is described as steady with improvements noted overall and better spirits after the trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Mass
Vardaman Loses Big in Mississippi Primary
Jackson Mississippi August 20 incomplete returns from central and southern cities show B P Harrison of Gulfport leading Senator James K Vardaman and former Governor Noel in the senatorial primary. Harrison backers say a second primary is unlikely. Vardaman lost decisively in his home city Jackson and in his home precinct. Wilson's letter is seen as a factor reducing Vardaman support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vardaman
Mississippi
Wilson
Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
B. P. Harrison
Gulfport
James K. Vardaman
Noel
Harrison
Race to Pass the Manpower Bill for a Greater Army
Washington date Aug 20 Both senate and house move to start consideration of the manpower bill on Thursday in a race to enact the measure quickly. The house committee has closed hearings and nearly completed the bill. Chairman Dent predicts possible passage in a single day. Senate passage planned for Saturday amid a sharp debate over the work or fight amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
HOUSE
Associated Press
Washington
Acree Teleivy
Dent
House Military Committee
No Opposition For The Jackson County Elections
For the first time in years Love in no opposition candidate in Jel county for the Lower House and for senator of the Sun District. Hoyageo N. Hon speaker of the house and Hermon DeLaperriere are candidates for the lower house, Jerem Ayers is the unopposed senate candidate. Holder brings long experience in both chambers, Ayers will move from the lower house to the senate, DeLaperriere will seek election without prior service.
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Assocected Press
Jel County
They Sun District
Hoyageo N
House
Hermon’ DeLaperriere
Jerem. Ayers
Senate
Holder
Jackson County
Ayers
DeLaperriere
Two Chinese Men Admitted to Church at First Methodist
Two native Chinamen Shan Chang Wang and Shen Jot were received into membership at the First Methodist Church in Athens after Sunday morning services. They had been part of Mr. C. W. Crook's Sunday school class and were baptized and formally welcomed into the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist Church
Shan Chang Wang
Shen Jot
Athens
C. W. Crook
Seventy Six Members Joined Church In Meeting
Rev. Sam H. Belk pastor of College Park Methodist church closed a religious meeting in which seventy six new members were received, increasing church membership by about fifty percent. He was assisted part of the time by his father, Rev. Dr. A. R. Belk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam H. Belk
8. R. Belk
College Park Methodist Church
R. Belk
Will Install Telephones In the Canadian Armies
Mr. F. R. Church has been in Athens for months installing new equipment in the Southern Bell quarters. He leaves Saturday for New York to enlist in the Canadian army at Ottawa and expects to be overseas soon. He is an experienced telephone man in demand for installing extensive army phone lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. R. Church
Athens
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York
Ottawa
Request for Surveying Instruments for Army Overseas
The Department Engineer urges securing surveying instruments for overseas use. Citizens may offer plane tables and alidades, listing maker, original cost, year, condition, and lowest cash price delivered to Charleston. Offers to be sent to South eastern Department, Peoples Building, Charleston, S C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South- Eastern Department
U. S. Army
Department
Eniiineer
Peoples du Ting, Charleston, & Co
Southeastern Department
Peppies
Charleston
8. C
Support for schools urged by President amid war time
President Wilson calls for generous, continued support for schools of all grades during wartime. He backs the Bureau of Education’s campaign to maintain attendance and quality, stressing training for war service and postwar leadership, with unity from schools, families, and the American Council of Education. The piece includes verse praising horse sacrifice in war and the human and equine bond.
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Wilson
Lane
Bureau of Education
Acaptia
Bureau of Eden
American Council of Education
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Proteus
Carnesville
Colored Genius of
Clarke Co
Fonge
Nowere
Russia
Baikal
Alies
Caruso
The
Sons of Veterans
China
President Wilson
Etla Wheeler Wilcox
Red Star Animal Relief
Wien
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