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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1905
Page
2
A government report notes the cotton crop condition and market adjustments toward year end. It discusses state conditions, Georgia data, added stocks, and global demand shaping projected exports and prices.
Judge Hamilton McWhorter is confirmed as Assistant General Counsel, resident in Georgia, in charge of company law business in eastern and western districts under the General Counsel in Washington. The move confirms he will continue to reside in Athens amid favorable reactions from friends.
Workmen near completion of a new room at Childs Street School. City funds for the ten room building were lacking, delaying expansion. The room will be ready for sixth grade at September opening, with a second room planned once funds are provided.
Ab Buglich reports a method where a note taken in a water depth is heard via a microphone in a hermetically sealed steel box connected to shipboard telephone lines. The system transmits underwater sounds, allowing detection of fish presence and approximate counts, with herring and small fish creating distinctive noises and submarines influencing sea sounds.
An ad touts a miraculous diamond cure for consumption and pneumonia claiming instant relief and permanent cure. It promotes Dr King's Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds sold by H R Palmer & Sons and W J Smith & Bros at 50 cents to a dollar with a free trial bottle, urging readers to try it.
The county rock crusher operates at the new quarry near the State Norm School processing stone for country roads. Delays occur as steam drills are late in transit, with arrival expected soon. Once supplies arrive, grading of Jefferson road from the city Tinus to the Board Mir Line bridge completes with macadam soon.
A Baptist reformer questions Sunday School methods at a University Summer School annex, arguing no church state collusion exists. The exchange asks who claims church state collusion and whether any church has authorized the school, with a final quip urging an easier question.
The laying of Belgian block on South Lumpkin street is progressing up Lumpkin hill. Work will continue until the top, after which the county will macadam the stretch to the old paper mill, producing one of the county’s best roads. Travel on this road is heavy year round. The text closes with a political aside about Nicholas and the Russian royal family.
Bertie Smith of Lexington Georgia slipped from a car on Isle of Palms near Charleston and fell into harbor water. James Harvey and Charlie Sevis rescued her with swift actions. Bertie suffered no serious injury and was cared for by F R Smith’s daughter. She recalled only feeling cold before grabbing a piling. The incident ended with her returning to Charleston and reporting a fine day despite the scare. Bertie plans to visit Charleston again.
The committee seeks to raise fourteen thousand dollars via five annual installments payable each October over five years. Volunteers report generous local support but note the short canvass period makes outreach difficult. Committee members urge busy citizens to subscribe and assist without being seen by the canvassers.
A pleasant surprise party may be given to your stomach and liver by talus a medicine which will relieve their pain and discomfort. Dr King s New Life Pills are a wonderful remedy affording relief and cure for headache dizziness and constipation. 25 cents at H R Palmer Sons and W J Smith Jr s drug stores.
Stockholders of the Athens Say anak held their annual meeting at ten yesterday morning. Officers reported the bank’s prosperity with a four and a half percent semiannual dividend added to surplus. Directors were re-elected: M Stern M G Michael J A Hunnicutt H Phinizy W T Bryan L F Edwards G A Mell T S Mell. Officers reaffirmed: M Stern president M Michael vice president G A Mell cashier.
Beusse Carlton of this city played great baseball for the Columbia team in a 5 to 3 defeat by Augusta. He has filled every position on the nine including pitcher, delivering a quiet, businesslike outing that impressed the crowd. The piece notes support and calls for better funding of agricultural education at the state college, and critiques political figures over education and the experiment station.
William A. Reaves, once of Athens and now a leading Savannah insurer, is slated to sing as a tenor at the Northwestern Chatauqua in Waterloo Town during its fourteenth annual session. As a former Athens citizen he is recognized as one of the nation's best tenors, engaged to perform over several weeks beginning July 1.
Mr John B Brooks president of the Blood Balm Co of Atlanta is in the city. He was a citizen of Athens for years and has supported patent medicine ventures. Brooks leads a well known company and his arrival interests many friends. The piece ends with light remark about a pirate battleship and Captain Kidd.
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