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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1909
Page
8
Legal advertisements publish Clarke County health rules for disease control. Notices include guardianship petitions, administration letters, road changes, corporate incorporation for Standard Lumber, and various local court and tax related citations.
The article notes a scheduled inauguration at the palace with the city filling for the occasion. It mentions American visitors and tourists gathering for the event as officials proceed with charter petitions and court filings in Clarke County Georgia.
An advertisement claims Mother Gray's Australian Leaf provides relief for back pains, urinary and bladder troubles, and female weaknesses including inflammation and ulceration. Sold by druggists or mailed for 50 cents. sample offered free with address to The Mother Gray Co. Le Roy, New York.
The Georgia Alabama Industrial Index notes a springlike rise in land sales with $25,000 in Muscogee County and $40,000 in Harris County. Savannah sees a $59,000 wharfage property purchase as Birmingham and Atlanta plan contracts and new apartments. Georgia Alabama firms form 30 new corporations with $535,990 stock. Avonnta Ga forms a $150,000 auto mobiles firm. Valdosta to host a soap factory. Manchester Ga eyed for a big cotton mill. banks raise capital. hotels and factories announced. The week also covers forest reserve debate in Congress, Weeks bill advancing to protect watersheds and manage national forest lands.
Waycross Ga Jan 27 Fifteen indictments were returned by the Ware county grand jury against alleged night riders for the recent Beach town shootings. Miss Maggie Taylor 14 was shot and seriously wounded. The indictments allege riot assault with intent to murder and describe five youths as suspects who rode into the town at night firing over 500 bullets into houses and groups, terrorizing the community. Leonard P Taylor father of the wounded girl appeared as prosecutor.
The Daylight Saving Bill, favored in the last session, will be reintroduced with minor amendments. The select committee proposes a Sunday hour shift in April and September, instead of a 20 minute monthly change, aiming to avoid stock exchange objections while preserving markets’ simultaneous open hour.
In Indiana today fifty eight saloons were driven out of business as four counties Hamilton Putnam Decatur and Tipton voted dry with large margins against the wet party. Dry celebrations rang church bells and meetings featured hymns and speeches while Pike Wabash and Lawrence had already gone dry earlier and ten more counties were set to vote within ten days on saloons.
Eminent bench and bar members attend the twenty sixth annual Kangas State Bar Association meeting in Topeka with sessions on civil code probate practice and procedure inter state commercecommission Torrens land law and criminal law administration. Noted speakers include S B Gregory from Chicago Judge Gordon Finley Arthur M. Jackson George H. Whitcomb J D. Houston and W B Higgins.
The Western New York Horticultural Society held its fourth annual convention in Rochester starting with committee reports and addresses by Prof. P. C. Stewart and Dr. L. Van Slyke from the State Agricultural Experiment Station. The two day session will feature papers, talks, and discussions on fruit growing topics.
Augusta Ga Jan 27 at a banquet the Augusta chamber of commerce hosted Harriman the railway king outlined Georgia railroad policy If the state ceases antagonism he will invest ten million dollars in the Central of Georgia and expects other roads to follow He praised Gov elect Brown for prosperity prospects He came to Augusta for health and plans to return to work He urged Georgia to lift the embargo and promised railroad extension only if public sentiment and law justify over a hundred local business leaders attended including Judge Callaway Colonel D B Dyer and William E B Bush
New York on January 27 shows active trading with 6,000 bales offered and May deliveries marked. Prices edged slightly higher but remained barely steady amid modest demand and a cautious tone across the market.
Rome Ga Jan 27 Among the Floyd county grand jury actions was a strong recommendation to issue 200000 in bonds at 5 percent interest. The bonds would be paid in blocks up to ten to thirty five years and proceeds used to improve roads and bridges across the county under supervision of a road engineer and assistants.
Austin Jan 27 In the senate judiciary committee No 2 killed by a vote of two to one the senate bill providing for the establishment a statutory prohibition in Texas This ends the prohibition fight in the legislature though the statewide prohibition submission bill remains under vigorous debate in the senate and a bill barring sales within 10 miles of schools is pending in the house
In Floyd superior court the State vs Sherman Thomas resumes with testimony placing him near the wreck. Miranda Ward swears he admitted the act, saying he valued money over women and children. Alibi and impeachment efforts follow, with a possible long session tomorrow. Separate note: Frank Gotch sails home from London after failing to secure a rematch with Hackenschmidt.
Mrs. Allee Thompson of Fort Worth Texas told Recorder Fogarty she killed her adopted infant and sought punishment. She said she strangled the child January 13 1907 after losing temper when he cried for milk. Officers deem her possibly insane and investigate the claim.
Dr Sloan's Liniment and Veterinary Remedies are promoted as a national standard in horse care. Letters from Georgia and Kansas praise its cures for sweeney spavin abscesses and swellings. Ads urge requesting the physician’s treatise and claim kidney remedy benefits when early signs appear.
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