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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
3
Michael Brothers Company presents a bold holiday goods collection centered under this roof with a wide array of seasonal items. Shop a curated selection of festive decorations, gifts, and accents designed to inspire cheer and convenience during the season.
Judge Russell rules against Alderman Charles W. Cooper in a suit seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the Athens mayor and council from declaring his seat vacant. The decision upholds the council’s right to judge eligibility of its members, deeming the petition a political matter outside equitable relief.
The court held Coop a citizen of Athens and found the Superior Court unable to grant the requested relief. The restraining order was dissolved and the injunction denied, with the decision dated December 1, 1905, by Judge R. B. Russell and S. C. W. C.
Gainesville Ga Dec 2 Mrs Loggins nicknamed Granny Loggins died at her Gilllville home and was buried at Gillsville cemetery. Born in 1788 she was about 117 years old and the oldest person in the state. Survived by many children grandchildren and further descendants. A daughter living nearby is over 80. A prior report of her death proved erroneous.
One hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo endorses the firm as honest and capable. Walding Kinnan Marvin, wholesale druggists, Toledo, endorse. Cure taken internally and affects blood mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 76 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. On Fine Printing The Banner Leads.
Col Webb of Greenville is in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Darwin. He lauds Athens and its people, saying no place compares. He predicts the dispensary will be doomed in South Carolina with counties voting out the system and the state moving toward prohibition by 1906.
Commerce Georgia December 2 Thomas Tyner a prominent planter and country merchant living near Potatigo Madison county was killed last Thursday evening by a falling jug while he pushed a wall in a well. The jug handle broke and the jug struck the back of his head fracturing the skull in three places causing death.
Mr L F Edwards plans a large cotton mill near Comer Georgia using 500 horsepower from the river at that site. He has purchased the Watson Mill property and will install the fastest machinery to produce yarns and later thread and twine. Capital of 100000 dollars aims to create one of the best mills in the state in a site chosen for available water power rather than nearer Athens.
J G Rawlings and his sons Milton and Jesse along with Alf Moore were sentenced to death for the Carter children murder of June 13 in Valdosta Georgia. The execution date was set for January 6. Lena Rawlings receives life in prison.
Trustees led by Chancellor Hill sold eighty acres of the University farm to Jesse L Jarrel for six thousand dollars. Jarrel to take possession soon. Prof J M Johnson to move into nearby Lumpkin street residence. The sale reserves thirty-three acres of wooded land for a potential city park. Johnson to begin improving the new farm for the University agriculture department.
Greensboro December 2 Dr J B Mathews a noted physician was arrested on a murder charge after his wife died following a long ordeal. Coroner Dr J P Turner accuses him of administering strychnine and morphine while the husband was present. Turner also reports a hypodermic syringe found in the wife’s leg and the dying woman directing her son to fetch another doctor. The couple are well known locally and Mathews is in custody denying any intent to kill.
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