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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1910
Page
7
Special to The Banner from Atlanta reports Hoke Smith wins Georgia with a majority estimated between 10 000 and 20 000. Supporters throng the streets as Brown backers fade, with late returns showing Smith carrying multiple counties and officials near 10 PM.
Vulcanite roofing is advertised as a reliable, long lasting option costing less than expected. The ad urges local shoppers to visit Talmanse Hardware Company to see a tested product and compare prices in town.
Returns from Athens and surrounding counties indicate Judge Brand with a lead in out-of-town precincts, while Gordon Lee and T. W. Hardwick win in several districts. County officials list Hawes Felder and Brittain in key state offices as results trend toward early winners.
Atlanta dispatches report the death of Jake Grogan from typhoid fever, the passing of Dr Abner W Calhoun, a public playgrounds closing festival at Ponce de Leon park, and efforts to raise 15000 for the Georgia Technological School with state funds totaling 35000. Also noted are Hoke Smith carrying Fulton county by 661 votes, Howard's likely congressional victory, and baseball notes including Snodgrass leading NL batting and manager moves as 1900s era context.
The twentieth national convention of Kappa Kappa Gamma opens in Bloomington Indiana with a reception for over three hundred delegates from prominent colleges. The five day program features business sessions and social events guided by national officers Edith Stonier Parker Koble and Margaret Bailey among others.
Municipal problems of varied scope will be discussed as the League of Cities of the Third Class of Pennsylvania opens its annual convention in York. Mayor Jacob E. Weaver welcomed visitors, with Frank P. Cumings of Williamsport replying. The three day session will cover parks and playgrounds taxes grade crossings sewage disposal municipal legislation and the commission form of government for Pennsylvania cities.
In St Paul Minnesota and Minneapolis Minnesota the fourteenth annual convention of the League of American Municipalities opens with sessions starting tomorrow and continuing the next day. The event draws many US and Canadian city officials and is expected to be the largest and most representative gathering in the league’s history.
The Clarke County and Elbert County returns show Governor Brown's campaign strength and a final two vote majority for W M Howard in the Eighth Georgia congressional district. County totals fluctuated as ballots were counted amid late-read results from Elbert precincts and Tribble supporters.
On the eve of his western departure Roosevelt reviews Taft's letter, learns Longworth and others arrived at Sagamore, and comments on Sherman, Root and party antagonsims. Roosevelt releases a statement reaffirming his position and aims. Sherman declines comment and plans a campaign tour as Murdock speaks for Dexter.
Bt Louis Aug 23 A successor to Mark Twain as chronicler of Mississippi river romance has been found in Stoughton Cooley of the Cooley family famed on the water For years Cooley has written The Captain of the Amaryllis a novel that portrays river men with fidelity and unfolds the lives of steamboat crews His mother now 85 helped rear ten children and rode the river with her son aboard the boat
The piece lists Eliza Proctor Otsts in The Girl from Rector's and Bessie McCoy in The Echo in Atlantic City. It notes Brandon Tynan remains Naximova's leading man, F C Whitney to stage The Chocolate Soldier in London, and Margaret Anglin under Liebler Co. Louise Sylvester in The Wire Tamers, Mary Shaw for New York's New play, Jeabel D Armand with Billy Gaston in Nifty Nonsense, Margaret Illington in Medea, Marguerite Gylva to sing Tieland, Burr McIntosh as a Westerner in In Gods Country, John Drew in Smith by Maugham, Alice Neilson studying Pacini’s The Girl of the Golden West, Mildred Starr in The Storm, Isabel Irving as John Drew’s leading lady in Smith, Alice Yorke in The Sweetest Girl in Paris under Harry Askin, and Mrs Thistleton’s Princess by Liebler Co.
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