Grand Prize Contest Opens Next Monday in Five Counties
The Banner will start a grand subscription contest Monday July 10 and run to Monday September 4. Prizes include a Maxwell automobile, mahogany furniture, and a ladies gold watch. Open to ladies in Clarke Oglethorpe Madison Jackson Oconee counties with county prizes and vote rules in the paper. Collect voting coupons and start canvassing now for early entry.
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Maxwell
Clarke, Oglethorpe
Madison
Jackson
Oconee
Oglethorpe
Daily Banner
Weekly Banner
Parnell Monument Unveiling Postponed In Dublin
Dublin July 3 The unveiling of the St Gaudens monument to Charles Stewart Parnell, originally set for today, has been indefinitely postponed due to failure to complete the memorial foundation.
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Dublin
Charles Stewart Parnell
Mysterious auto number Od61 finally solved
The Banner traced the tag 5361GA to W. W. DeRenne of Savannah via secretary of state Philip Cook. A punch hole explains the third mark as a doubly secure misfit from a previous loss on a Savannah tourer.
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Philip Cook
W. W. DeRenne
Savannah
Georgia
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Fund Drives For Tulane Tropical Medicine Chair
New Orleans July 3 Ever since the American Society of Tropical Medicine meeting a fund drive arose to endow a chair of tropical medicine at Tulane Medical College. The need for a school of tropical medicine in New Orleans is clear as local merchants link trade with tropical regions. Dr Isadore Dyer directs the effort though absent now. a $5,000 donation is noted. The Pan American Mall steam line and Mississippi Valley South America line spur commerce, while the town seeks stronger ties with Central America and the tropics. Who struck the famous Billy Patterson?
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New Orleans
American Society of Tropical Medicine
Tulane’ Medical College
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Rupert Boyce
Tropics
Isadore Dyer
Medical College
Mississippi Valley
South America
Orient Steamship Line
North Central
Domestic science classes at university summer school
Domestic science and home making classes run at 11 30 a m and 4 50 p m for boarding students. Mrs Randall leads the program and has just become director of domestic science at the State Normal School. Her Milwaukee background and teaching record are noted by summer school students.
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University
Randall
State Normal School
Milwaukee
Georgia
General Clement A. Evans Recalled as Athens Pastor
The death Sunday afternoon of General Clement A. Evans at his Atlanta home recalls his former residence in Athens where he lived for several years. He once preached at the First Methodist church and was highly regarded in that pastorate, a fact he often shared with Athens friends when met in Atlanta or elsewhere.
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Clement A. Evans
Atlanta
Athens
Nag Te
From Tiny Tot to Professor in Summer School Work
The University summer school hosts children and teachers, with twenty five to thirty tiny tots present and a strong kindergarten course attracting many applicants. Demonstration and practice in kindergarten methods are offered for the first time, led by Miss Carol Oppenheimer assisted by Miss Hortense Orcutt and Miss Jessie McGregor. Over thirty teachers attend demonstrations to observe modern kindergarten techniques.
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Carol Oppenheimer
Kate Baldwin
Black Mammy Memorial Institute Proposed in Athens Ga
Walter A Clark endorses a planned memorial institute in Athens Ga to honor enslaved Black mammy figures. A circular from Prof S F Harris details a memorial industrial building training youths in crafts, with Athens donating 2000 dollars and land. Clark recalls Aunt Hannah and praises the old mammy's faithful memory, urging support for the project.
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Walter A. Clark
The
Black Mammy Memorial Institute
S. F. Harris
Athens
South
W. A. Clark
Harris
Taft Visits Marion on Way to Indianapolis
President Taft arrived in Marion Indiana before noon today to be greeted by a hundred leading citizens and a special reception committee. He planned to visit the National Soldiers Home and speak briefly to Indiana bankers and editors in convention after a cheering opening reception.
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Marion
Ind
Taft
Indianapolis
National Soldiers’ Home
Indiana
Jackson County College Grads Plan First Annual Reunion
Jackson County College Association officers announce the first annual meeting to be held in Jefferson on July 27. A grove picnic at Martin Institute grounds will feature a rostrum and tables for an old time Georgia picnic. Noted educators including Chancellor Barrow, M. M. Parks, and Governor Hoke Smith will speak, with 150 active students and alumnae expected to attend and boost county education.
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Commerce
Jackson County College Association
Jefferson
Martin Institute
Jackson County
Georgis
Barrow
M. M. Parks
The
Georgia Normal and Industrial Zallone
Hoke Smith
Aluminiam
Soule to Speak at Georgia Cotton Seed Crushers’ Meet
Atlanta July 3. Secretary P T McCarley announces the seventh annual Cotton Seed Crushers Association of Georgia convention at Sweetwater Park Hotel Lithia Springs July 3 4. Key speakers include Dr Andrew M Soule president of the State College of Agriculture and B F Taylor of Columbia, S C with sessions and officer elections planned.
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Atlanta
P. TD. McCarley
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Asociation of
Georgia
Sweetwater Park
Lithla Springs
Tve
B. F. Taylor
Columbia
S. C
Inter-State Cotton Seed Crushers’ T Association
Andrew M. Soule
State College of Agriculture
Athens
W. A. Reynolds
Charlotte
N. C
Southern Cotton Oil Co
W. W. Abbott
Louisville
President Taylor
Reynolds
Georgia women to be notaries public in state law
At this session Representative Walter Defore will introduce a bill to appoint women as notaries public, a move currently restricted to men. Drafted by Emmett Barnes and supported without opposition, the measure follows a common practice in other states. Macon News notes unity among legislators over Jack Slaton’s annual Cold Springs barbecue.
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Walter Defore
Emmett Barnes
Defore
Macon News
General Clement Evans dies in Atlanta after illness
General Clem ent A. Evans died at his home in Atlanta at 4 40 pm after a prolonged illness. He served on the Georgia prison commission until his death and had been named adju tant general to succeed General Scott by the new governor. The funeral will be at the First Methodist church with capitol closure and likely adjournment of the legislature as thousands of veterans attend. Evans, born February 26 1833 in Stewart County, rose from law to judge, state senator, Confederate general, minister, educator donor to the Educational Loan Fund, and leader in Confederate history and Georgia civic life.
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Athens
Mministers
Evangelical Minister’s Union
M. L. Troutman
Troy Beatty
A. J. Sears
A. J Smith
Hannah
Nes
Col
Evan Howell
Atlanta
Marie Evan
Chattanooga
Mammy
Charles T. Walker
Col. Howell
Lfe
Walter A. Clark
Clement A. Evans
Bis
Scott
Smith
First Methodist Church
Clement Anselm Evans
Anselm Evans
Stewart County
Lumpkin
Augusta Law School
Bedford C. Worrill
Stewart C
Senate
Benjamin H. Hill
Breckenridge and
Lane
Evans
Jot A. R. Lawton
Lawton
John B. Gordon
Savannah
Virginia
Stonewall
Gordon
Lee
Petersburg
Appomattox
Evane
Augusta
Emory College
Educational Loan Fund Association
W. ¥. Atkinson
Atkinson
Confederacy
Minstry
Georgia
Snd
United Confederate Veterans’ Association
Battle Abbey
Jong Ife Jie
Tennessee
Carolinas
Georgia Soldiers
Alice Walton
Mre. W. P. Eve
Lawton B. Evans
Paul H. and
Clement W. Evans
Mexico City
Robert G. Stevens
General Evans
Sallie Avary Howard
Sarah Leo Evans
Marion Elected Principal at Danielsville
The Danielsville school board elected Prof. J. W. Marion as principal for next year. His daughter Ruth Marion and Misses Blanche Gwyn and Edith White were named assistant teachers. The tenth grade may be added to retain pupils locally, if assistants accept.
North Carolina Builders Convene at Oceanic Hotel
The North Carolina Builders Exchange met in annual convention at the Oceanic Hotel in Wrightsville Beach. Members from across the state attend and the meeting will continue tomorrow.
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Wrightsville Beach
North Carolina Builders’ Exchange
Oceanic Hotel
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A Ghai
Tulane
Billy Patterson
Uncle Remus
Bf, Harris
Aunt Hannah
Jena
President Taft
Jackson County College Grads
DR. Soule
Crushers
Mei
Agricultural College
Seed Crushers’ Association
N. P
Jack Slaton
Cold Springs
Danielsville
North Carolina
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