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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1919
Page
2
The Heathens Weekly Banned is Clarke County’s official organ edited by H J Rowe. Subscriptions available by mail at yearly 1.00 six months 0.60 three months 0.25 all paid in advance via express money order post office money order or registered letter.
The Chamber of Commerce plans a campaign to attract home seekers and investors to Athens and Clarke County Georgia. Emphasis is on livestock farming and diversified industries as safe, profitable undertakings, with the region praised as an ideal garden spot for newcomers and business.
The Chamber of Commerce opens 1919 with strong leadership and solid finances. President Madison G. Nicholson, Vice Presidents J. W. Jarrell and Sidney Boley, and Treasurer J. Warren Smith are named, bringing wide business ties from Davison Nicholson Company, Southern Bell Telephone, a shoe firm, and Georgia National Bank to propel community growth.
A letter argues government railroad operation has failed, raising rates and deficits. It urges senators to recommend returning railroads to private owners, claiming private operation offers better service and lower costs, while politics dominate during public control and threaten taxpayers.
The Manner Sunday proposal for a Home-Coming Day in Athens finds broad support. The Banner urges honoring returning soldiers, with Chamber of Commerce President Nicholson backing the plan and city officials preparing to organize a citywide event. The piece also endorses stronger traffic enforcement and more motorcycle police to curb reckless driving fears.
An Irish laborer named Pat struggles with breaking a large stone on the road while a passing friend offers help. Pat jokes that he spent half an hour softening the stone before his friend could break it, highlighting the humor of slow progress and morale on the job.
A Detroit Free Press note tells of a clubman who reads about farming and food conservation and decides to try farming. He asks an old friend what makes a gentleman farmer, who replies that the simplest path is to stay in town all winter and make money.
A party out motoring stopped for an open air meal. In a village store a Welsh rabbit request triggered a cracker size debate. The clerk offered small crackers but the party insisted on large ones, remarking the rabbit appears a faddy eater.
A compact roundup of cheeky quips and light notes from multiple papers. Jokes about Miss Antique and Miss Caustique appear alongside hoax lines and a cabbage joke. A London visitor meets Gunner Brown, and a child mocks slang while a Boston Transcript quips about propriety.
Cliff B. Leathers writes from a base hospital in France describing life after battles. He recounts three over the top assaults, gratitude for safety, wishes for comrades Homer and Fred, and hopes to return home with his division. He includes moral exhortations about courage and duty in wartime.
Paris January reads that President Poincare will likely travel to the United States late June or early July. He told the Associated Press he seeks no grand reception, only to thank America for aiding liberty and justice.
Physicians question alcohol as influenza remedy noting no solid evidence for whisky’s curative powers. Dr W A Evans cites lack of medical authority recommending whisky while admitting rare use. Portland studies show alcohol harms healing and increases pneumonia risk, Philadelphia counts high influenza deaths despite plentiful whisky. The Atlanta Constitution reports.
The Banner proposes a Homecoming Day to honor soldiers with overseas service and home camp duty. Citizens and leaders including Mayor Erwin, M. G. Nicholson, GG Bond, Captain J W Barnett, John J Wilkins, and J Warren Smith back the idea, aiming to bring former residents together for a spring celebration across Athens Clarke and surrounding counties.
New York January 6 Lieutenant David L. Fultz of the United States Army was unanimously elected president of the new international baseball league at a meeting of clubowners here tonight. He requested the term be limited to one year.
President Wilson is due back in Paris at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning for peace conference talks at the Murat residence. Lord Cecil and Lloyd George are expected to join in the week, with Balfour set to travel from Cannes as needed. In Turin, a large crowd greeted the President and Mrs. Wilson as the royal train halted overnight for rest.
The W. T. Collins Company offers a calendar titled Miss America in the Clayton Street shop. The public is invited to visit the business to view or obtain the calendar, noting its attractive presentation and availability.
An Albany Herald retells a naval academy tale of Worth Bagley Daniels, son of the secretary of the navy. A plebe challenges a first class bully who had mistreated him, and the fight ends with the bully humiliated. The piece condemns hazing and praises justice served on the aggressor, noting broad applause for the outcome.
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