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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
5
The Banner notes past improvements on the Athens to Lula road but urges urgent action. It calls for newer, comfortable coaches, a more useful daily schedule, and a Sunday departure, citing travelers diverted to Atlanta. The Chamber of Commerce will press the issue at the next meeting.
Sunday morning at the First Methodist Church Mr Cobb Lampkin prominent church member and city merchant was injured when he fell on the stairs from the gallery as services were held in the remodeling period. He suffered a fractured rib near the heart but was taken home for care and his condition arouses concern among relatives and friends.
Prof. W. H. Sanford returns from Sewanee where he represented the University of Georgia at the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association meeting. The session produced few rule changes. NC A and M was blacklisted for using ineligible players and breaking a game engagement with Georgia. A four year playing limit was adopted, signaling big implications for Vanderbilt. The president denied asking Pope Pius to elevate Archbishop Ireland to cardinal in response to Bellamy Storer.
Brigadier General A J West of the Georgia Division of Confederate Veterans announced that Capt J J C McMahan will hereafter be known as Major McMahan. West appointed his staff and praised McMahan as devoted to the Confederate cause amid notes on fine printing in The Banner Leader.
Chancellor David C. Barrow spoke Sunday night at the Georgia Students Mission Convention in Macon. He addressed an audience on Jesus Our Lord a Regulative to the Highest Life, delivering one of the convention’s notable speeches before delegates from colleges statewide. Also advertised are Dr Kings New Life Pills claimed to cure epilepsy, with medicinal pills priced 26 cents at local druggists.
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