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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
6
Legal advertisements record multiple Clarke County actions including libel for divorce petitions in the January 1918 term against Mathes Inacone and John C Hadaway, court citations for estates, guardianships, and administration, sheriff sale notice, and orderly citations by Ordinary R C Orr with names such as Ada May Inacone Francis Lorrine Hadaway Betsy Cole Bart Bruce Martha Smith and J H Towns among others.
The notice cites December 3 1917 as the date for a hearing on an application for twelve months support and a separate petition for leave to sell estate land. It also announces a sheriff's sale on the first Tuesday in January 1918 of a 1 5 acre tract in Athens Clarke County including improvements, described by Franklin Meigs streets, to satisfy a City Court execution in favor of the Georgia National Bank against J W Harris doing business as Athens Paper Company. The sale is public at the courthouse.
Readers struggle to tell time as the city clock and chapel bell fail this week. The clock stops striking and the bell’s clapper was stolen during Thanksgiving, leaving residents relying on other sounds to mark meals and work.
Mrs J P Fears was reported last night to be very low, ill for some time, with conditions critical for the past day or two. The note also mentions a decline in the study of classics and mathematics in higher American education, questioning future prevalence of Greek Hebrew and Latin in curricula.
Instructions describe dampening the area with warm water, covering with brown paper, and pressing with a hot flatiron. Repeat several times to raise the dent to surface level once moisture evaporates.
The fragment indicates a method involving a furniture cube used six times, then soaked and laid on peat as part of a process. Details are sparse but point to a recurring treatment step prior to application or drying. No clear date or full sequence is provided.
The hymn Lead Kindly Light was written by Doctor Newman while becalmed in an orange beet in the Straits of Bonifacio in 1838.
Farmers statewide can obtain a free library of practical agricultural bulletins from the Georgia State College of Agriculture at Athens. Publications cover cotton, pecans, hog feeding, wheat and rye, butter making, farm animals parasites, spray calendars, sweet potatoes, woodland products, silos, apple culture, Irish potatoes, and more. Text also offers plans and materials lists for farm buildings and home systems, with over one hundred bulletins available and new ones issued regularly.
Begin fight on insects that will survive winter. November is the month to spray orchards badly affected by the San Jose scale with concentrated lime and sulfur to kill the pest during the dormant season. One or two applications are advised depending on infestation level.
Ten years of county demonstration work in Georgia have grown from five appointees to a large force. Forty women and forty two men joined agents, with 109 women and 110 men actively aiding farm families under war emergency measures. Every county now has an agent as extension cooperates with federal programs to boost crop production and food conservation.
Deaths reported from Camp Wheeler include Gus Sapp Warrior Ala Samuel Newman Katherine Fla Homer Barnes Liberty Ata and Walter Betz with unlisted addresses all dying of pneumonia. Also updates on coal administration take over deals Burns testimony in Means case Brazilian mission arrival starving Greeks and Macedonians urgent nurse needs Finland hunger crisis and sugar prospects after Jan 1.
Yesterday afternoon at five the prayer service for the nations soldiers was led by Rev 8 R Grubb pastor of the Christian church Rev J N Roberts an uncle of Mr Grubb from Indianapolis on a visit here offered a fervent prayer during the exercises The service this afternoon will be led by Rev E H Jennings of the Baptist Tabernacle.
Athens High School announces its annual Who's Who winners elected yesterday. Awardees include Best looking girl Leslie Quillian, Most conceited boy N. Nickerson, Most conceited girl Dot Rowland, Best pair of dancers Charlie Cox and Park, Best teacher Turnbull, Cutest teacher Pittard, Biggest bootlick James Head, Biggest flirt Emma Moore, Biggest bull shooter Neal Hodgson, Best football players Watson and Moore, Biggest mouth Harry Van Straaten, Most popular girl Park, Smartest girl Dot Rowland, Ugliest Boy Drewy Stynchcamp, Most dignified senior Kenny Beatty, Cutest girl Marjorie Carroll, and Most popular boy Fred Whitehead.
Rev. 8 S Belk pastor of the First Methodist Church returned from a several day visit in his old home state North Carolina as a member of a large hunting party conducted by the East North Carolina Hunting Club The party killed forty deer hundreds of birds and many ducks Mrs Belk accompanied her husband and they visited in Western North Carolina after the big Thanksgiving hunt was over.
Dr. T. H. McHatton announces the semi annual Georgia State Horticultural Society meeting will be held in Athens after the Short Courses at the College of Agriculture. The dates are January 14 15 and 16. Members urged to bring others and encourage farmers to attend the Short Courses and related meetings.
Mrs. Woods hosted a 78th birthday dinner at his Barberville home for J. W. Woods a Confederate veteran of Company D Sixteenth Georgia. Several surviving comrades attended braving the weather and a possum dinner was served a cake decorated with seventy eight candles.
Rev. E. L. Hill pastor of the First Presbyterian church is in Florida for two weeks delivering a series of addresses on Christian Stewardship under the direction of the general assembly who has had Dr Hill to deliver these lectures in Texas Georgia and other states.
Conservatively five hundred young women and girls in Athens work in stores and offices many are from other towns and have no homes. The Y W C A will provide for their comforts and home protection by expanding its dormitory facilities.
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