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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1911
Page
1
Mayor Rowe addresses Athens City Council for 1911 outlining financial prudence, water purification upgrades, stockade proposal for prisoners, sewer and park expansion, school books sale plan, and stronger enforcement of prohibition. He calls for more granolithic sidewalks, better lighting, and public access to proceedings while urging civic pride and council cooperation.
Yesterday from minutes before six until a little after, no police on the streets of the Classic City. Officers were at City Hall taking oaths of office for the year, lining up to receive obligations and addresses from the mayor and council, a rare hour with no blue uniforms visible on the thoroughfares.
Police probing a safe theft at Mr. Otho Brown’s home uncover a red stock shotgun missing for months at the Brewer woman’s residence. The gun’s paint wear helps identify it. The Brewer woman's son is linked to a separate cattle theft by a young local Black man.
Lynchburg Virginia January 4 the Southern Railway Company finished a major upgrade refining a seven mile line extension through Lynchburg with a 1200 foot tunnel under the James River a 1860 foot steel bridge and several long viaducts. The new double track route will raise the city to a higher grade, easing freight and passenger movements and allowing through trains to bypass steep local climbs. Local and old-line services will shift as described, with through passenger trains over the new line and local operations remaining. A separate burglary case notes a Strickland man and a Brewer landlady involved in thefts, with $131.71 recovered and ongoing inquiries.
Two men Abe Strickland and Luke Dye were jailed on burglary charges after breaking into Oho Browns store on the Danielsville road near the city. Lula Brewer, a Black woman, was arrested on larceny charges tied to the same incident. The case featured a poison of unusual details as an axe used to break open the store was identified.
Yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock Mayor administered the oath to the police force including Chief MeKle Capt Henry Hill and others. It marked the thirty ninth such oath for Capt Hill with speeches by the mayor Mayor Pro Tem Woods and council members.
Prof. John P. Campbell of the State College of Agriculture is in Baltimore where he was notified of his mother's death at her home. His friends at the university and city express their sympathy.
J L G Andrews died yesterday at his Oak street home at age sixty two. He had lived in Athens 18 to 20 years and worked as a university campus watchman, with the Ice and Coal Company, the mill, and most recently for the Central of Georgia Railway yards. He leaves a wife, a daughter Mrs M D Watson, and three sons J C Andrews a painter, A E Andrews at the water and lights plant in Windsor, and C C Andrews in the U S Army in the Philippines. Native of Greene county. Funeral at 3:30 at Oconee street Methodist church with interment at Oconee cemetery.
A timetable adjustment takes effect at 12 01 a m January 8. Train thirty two arriving Athens at 3 45 pm northbound will run at 2 25 pm after the change. The southbound train currently at 2 20 pm will arrive at 3 20 pm. Take Foley's Honey and Tar for quick cold relief. Sold by all druggists.
The city council of 1910 adjourned after a year of steady work as the new council for 1911, including Aldermen Richards Palmer Betts and Young, took office. Mayor Rowe administered oaths, officers were chosen, salaries set, and standing committees announced, with Rev. Beatty opening the session in prayer.
Gainesville, Ga. Jan 4 Mr Will McKinney developer of the McKinney gasoline traction cultivator has been in the city from Birmingham where he worked on the machine. A live demonstration will be given at Gower Springs on land owned by W E Hosch with a Birmingham machinist to operate. The device will break plow plant cultivate and haul produce using patents in the U S and Canada. Hosch foresees a Gainesville plant and a $100000 investment with farmers adopting the engine powered cultivator locally.
A collision on College avenue between an electric streetcar and a Standard Oil tanker occurred yesterday. The front of the car shattered, the tank wagon damaged, but no serious injuries besides a shaken motorman and a bruised wagon driver. Mules pulled away with foretrucks as the vehicles blocked the street and spattered water over the rails.
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