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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1903
Page
7
The Athens Wheat and Oat Fair highlights a strong wheat crop and improving oat yields in Northeast Georgia. The event, now in its third year, expects about 200 farmer entries for the cash prizes as contest entries close mid March and premiums are set for August. Prime wheat plantings and favorable seasons boost prospects despite a smaller oat crop.
A testimonial from Barclay Kansas praises Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery for curing a chronic cough and bronchitis after four bottles. It warns against substitutes sold by dealers and promotes The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, available free with postage.
The Schoomasters' Club concluded its last session Wednesday morning and members returned home content with the progress made. The next meeting is set for Atlanta, beginning the fourth Monday in January, 1904.
Dr Ulrich B Phillips a Georgia native and UGA graduate will lecture on the political and economic history of the South since the Revolutionary War at the University of Wisconsin Madison as part of the university's history school program. He holds a Columbia fellowship and earned a PhD with the thesis Georgia and States Rights, winner of the Winsor prize.
Jerome Eberhart alias Joe Colbert, a colored man, was found guilty of murdering his wife Belle Colbert at their plantation home. The death sentence was pronounced with execution set for March 26. The term, held in Watkinsville, opened with limited sessions due to illness, and several lawyers attended.
Governor Terrell has issued a formal rule on rewards for fugitives charged with felony. Applications have arrived from many counties but were improper and returned. The rule requires a county judge or county commissioners petition plus sheriff affidavit confirming a felony process has been filed and attempts to execute have failed in that county.
Supt G G Bond of Athens city schools travels to Montgomery to urge Alabama teachers and school authorities to attend the Georgia Summer School for Teachers in Athens next June. He will meet Alabama educators, distribute literature, and hope for several hundred Alabama teachers to attend. Bond will be away until Saturday.
Mr Claud Anderton formerly of this city now lives in Watkinsville visited The Banner with a statement condemning Athens liquor sales. He blames churchmen and the dispensary for disturbances and calls for payment of a $5 fine as a financial sanction, urging residents to consider the human cost.
Southern cotton yarn spinners with about 200 000 spindles met in Obsilottee North Carolina to set an advance scale and instructed a six member committee to draft a schedule and confer with New York and Philadelphia commission houses for a price raise likely to be small to avoid encouraging feverish yarn production.
Mr Zack Cobb formerly of this city and now in El Paso Texas sought the recorder post with a bright speech that won friends and showed his ambition. Although he fell a few votes short on the first ballot Cobb withdrew to back democracy, amid a lively convention where Eylar ultimately led on the ballot with support from Wallace and Cobb.
On Tuesday at six o’clock Mrs Ferdinand Phimsy hosted a dinner for Mrs Bishop Ween of Florida. The table featured bridesmaids roses, white hydrangeas, maidenhair ferns, pink ribbons, and pouveuiers at each plate. Violets honored the gentlemen as parlors and hall glowed with roses carnations narcissi and unique glass and silver shimmer.
The county jail needs more cells and a new layout to meet Clarke county standards. Complaints cite shared wash basins and crowded conditions for white and Black inmates. The unfinished second story offers space for several cells, which should allow proper racial separation. County commissioners are expected to act promptly to fix the situation.
Little Eleanor Robson resisted Paris art study to pursue acting, prompting early theater work in 1897. At sixteen she joined Daniel Frawley's San Francisco stock company, stepping into minor parts when the leading actresses left, leading to her eventual stage career.
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