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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1910
Page
1
Capt Reuben Nickerson died yesterday morning at one o clock after a long illness. He was 70 years old and known as a steady, faithful leader in Athens business circles. The venerable resident passed peacefully at his bedside as loved ones watched, leaving a legacy of calm service and community standing.
Esteemed citizen Capt. Nickerson, born in Buckport Maine in 1829, died after fifty six years of service to Athens. He led Athens Foundry and Machine Work, helped form Athens Hardware Company serving as president, and was a longtime Methodist pillar and advocate for children. He supported municipal matters, served as city alderman, and funded charitable causes quietly. He nurtured Sunday schools from 1856 and shaped Oconee Street Methodist teaching until his retirement in 1902.
A strong Athenians delegation from the Classic City plans to attend the Laymen's Missionary Movement convention in Macon January 21 to 24. Rev. W. H. Rich urged attendance at YMC A meetings, and local committees report many Athenians prepared to participate alongside notable speakers and workers.
Governor Brown selects W R Hammontree of Clarke County to represent Georgia at the International League of Highway Improvement meeting in St Augustine Florida on January 26 and 27. The selection honors Hammontree and Clarke County with strong roads, while he continues parish and Sunday school service and maintains ties to Oconee Street church. Capt Nickerson’s family mourns his death with funeral services planned on Thomas Street. he had long service in Masonic circles and a history of marriage to Miss Maria Cook in 1855.
Friends mourn the sudden death of Luther H Burch at his Dougherty street home after a lingering illness. A native of Towns county born near Hiwassee Ga he was sixty eight and a Confederate veteran. Survived by wife and six children the funeral will be at First Methodist Church with Rev M L Troutman officiating and pallbearers named.
Mr B J Crawford Clarke County Superior Court clerk expects another Seaboard Air Line Railway mortgage to be recorded soon for several millions. Weeks earlier the county office recorded two $125,000,000 mortgages by the same company to secure resubance of $125,000,000 of four percent mortgage gold bonds and an equal amount of a one percent adjusting mortgage gold bonds.
Miss Maud Allan, famed as Europe’s mood interpreter through dance, opened her American tour in Boston at Symphony Hall. A San Francisco native who trained in London, she plans to perform her notable pieces including Mendelssohn’s Spring Song and Rubinstein’s Valse Caprice, with possible Salome vision pending.
In New York and Athens reports cover M E C Mercer addressing about 300 University of Georgia collegians in Athens and New York city news about Black Hand activities near Mount Kisco, supper skyscrapers planned for Longacre Square, Washington Memorial Hall funding, theater lobbies fire safety drive, and rising crime with burglars in the Gotham area.
Delegates from Classic City to the Hookworm Conference in Atlanta report a successful session with many prominent physicians and citizens present. The meeting, under the Auspices of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and the State Board of Health, concluded yesterday after three busy sessions. The party, Dr. B Benedict, Mr. C B Griffith, and Dr. H M Fullilove, attended and were guests at a luncheon at the Piedmont Driving Club.
Hon. R. E. Davison of Woodville visited yesterday. He has long represented his county in the general assembly and has been a prominent state figure for years. He serves as a trustee of the State Normal School and has contributed much to the institution in various ways.
Mrs. Victoria McKinney wife of Dr J C McKinney of this city died at her Broad Street home last night at 7 30 from peritonitis aged 35 She is survived by her husband two daughters Edna 15 and Loreta 12 Funeral arrangements not yet set She was a Baptist for life The McKinneys moved from Gainesville recently and had many friends in Athens The funeral will be in this city The Farmers and Farmers Wic Conference at the State College opened with a large attendance and a lively program with talks on dairying livestock and farm economics to benefit the state’s agricultural community with over fifty farmers and professionals expected during the four day event
Athena resident E L Taylor of 1015 Lumpkin Street credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing long standing kidney pain back weakness and lameness. He reports other symptoms disappearing after using the pills bought at Palmer & Son drug store and urges others to use Doan's for kidney trouble.
University students held memorial exercises in the university chapel for Gen Robert B Lee's birthday. Col Snelling presided with short talks by H Av Nix John Moore Walker and R L Ward. The university quartet sang Tenting on the Old Camp Grounds.
Miss Mildred Rutherford will deliver her lecture on Egypt next Monday evening at the Soney-Stovall chapel Lacy Cobb Institute. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Prof Churchill planned a balloon ascent in a local advertising stunt but found a fifteen foot hole in his parachute umbrella just seconds before a planned leap. He stayed with the gas bag and descended slowly, avoiding a dangerous descent though the fall was less spectacular than expected.
Gaines Brown aged 64 married Val Turner aged 70 yesterday at her home four miles from Bowman Georgia The bride has reportedly never visited any town J Q Powell drove Brown to the bride’s home in Jam Port según report
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