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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
8
Petition to incorporate The Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company of Georgia for fifty years with no capital stock. Principal office Athens Clarke County Georgia with agencies statewide. Publication of notice to satisfy legal requirements and request charter approval.
Sheriff sale set for the first Tuesday in December at the courthouse for a West Athens property described as a half acre lot with a three room house known as the EB Lyndon lot, levied on for a judgment from October 1904 in favor of Chas Picquet and Louis Brookes against Will Thomas. Also includes incorporation petitions for Bailey Supply Company and Davison Nicholson Company with outlines of capital, offices, and purpose in Clarke and Oglethorpe counties.
The notice lists multiple parcels in Athens and Rabun County including a life estate in the Carr home place of about eleven acres on Oconee street, a twelve acre western adjoining tract, a two acre parcel by Peters Poplar streets and the railroad, a one tenth acre triangular parcel, and mining rights in Rabun County. Florida C Carr deceased. R C Orr administrator announces cash terms and a November 9 1905 date.
Petition filed in Clarke County Georgia seeks to form Davison Nicholson Company as a corporate body in Athens. It outlines stock rights directors elections limited liability and corporate powers including borrowing, holding property, and by laws under state and federal law.
The Atlanta chamber of commerce announced a formal push for an Atlanta 1910 industrial exposition at a Kimball House dinner. Resolutions call for a 25 member committee to plan and finance the project and pledge full support to its timely, beneficial realization for the south.
Athens, Ga November 29 reports New Orleans market showing Liverpool influence lifting prices. Prices advance modestly with 8 000 sold. early gains soften on liquidation. Analysts note numerous crop estimates with Giles figures drawing attention but limited support in spot demand. Market remains cautious, largely local, with potential for future favorable sales if crops stay within estimates.
In Dublin Georgia two Negro barbers Chris Alan and Will Bethea were whipped by citizens after confessing membership in a Black Hand Society that had sent threatening letters to Police Chief J L Cowart and a state legislator from Laurens. They implicated Will Ansley and Cisco Wilson. Wilson escaped. Ansey is jailed. TheLetters warned policemen and Alderman Moore. The article notes Athens growth and progress amid concern.
Henry Jamison remains in Bibb county chain gang after Judge Felton quashed the habeas corpus writ and refused to grant bond. Attorneys plan appeal to higher courts, with potential release if Judge Speer intervenes. meanwhile Jamison may serve out a sentence imposed by Judge Nottingham. An appeal and bill of exceptions were filed, and further action hinges on Georgia and U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
In Savannah Georgia two high school boys Fred Slater and Malcolm Hutton stood in line when Slater abruptly stabbed Hutton in the back with a knife. The blade entered above the kidneys and doctors fear for Hutton's life while Slater, who admitted the act, has not been arrested. A separate ad copy promotes laxative tablets and Bucklen's Arnica Salve for wounds and sores.
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