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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1908
Page
4
The Athens Banner notes a housing shortage as demand in Athens grows. Investors are urged to act, claiming houses can be built 10 to 20 percent cheaper than a year ago. Visitors seek homes, many families rent rooms or storefront space, while the city markets Athens as Georgia's rising metropolis.
Messrs Price and Holder introduce a bill to postpone this year’s uniform textbook commission meeting. The Banner supports delaying to save funds, noting current books satisfy schools and no urgent revision need exists, while urging only up-to-date texts when changes are truly needed.
Georgia voters favor a reduced three member railroad commission and the abolition of the special attorney's office. The plan would curb centralized power, cut wasteful spending, and redirect funds to beneficial state needs. Gov. Smith may be asked to sign the measure this session, then face the public verdict.
Georgia lawmakers face requests from the State Normal School for money to expand teacher training. Officials note the need to graduate more teachers for common schools, estimating about ninety normal school graduates annually with potential to raise total output. The argument centers on aligning funding with the state’s growing demand for qualified instructors.
The Martin bill to raise Georgia fertilizer tax to twenty five cents per ton sparks debate. Proponents say higher tax funds state colleges and benefits farmers via price fairness, while opponents argue it unjustly burdens farmers and could shift tax to others. The piece argues farmers would gain from state schools either way.
The article argues the Martin bill benefits every farmer in Georgia by funding educational institutions through tax shifts. It asserts the farmer would not face higher taxes, despite claims of a fifteen cent per ton levy, and urges investigation of the state college of agriculture and district wheels to see current and future gains for farmers and their families.
A. Conger of Tift county was fatally shot and his two sons Abraham and Barney wounded at Selma church near Tifton. Dempsey and Jessie Taylor fired after a dispute over a legal case. Conger died around 10 pm from chest wounds. the Taylors fled but are ready to surrender.
Rochester July 7 Standard Oil defense urged Judge Hazel for a new trial in the rebate dispute where a guilty verdict ended a ten day trial. The case charged the company with violating the interstate commerce law by taking concessions on oil shipments from Olean to Rutland and Bellows Falls. Forty counts stood in the indictment with a potential total fine of 800000 if upheld.
Dr King s New Life Pills praised by Mr A A Felton of Harrisville New York as a remedy for constipation biliousness and malaria the 26 cent pills sold at W J Smith & Bro H R Palmer and Sons drug stores
The famed Toombs Oak, a landmark near the University believed linked to Robert Toombs, toppled between midnight and daybreak Sunday after standing for more than two centuries. Lightning once lashed it, ivy later hid the stump, and decay had nearly collapsed its base before the final crash.
Avlanta Georgia July 7 telegraph firms failing to deliver messages promptly would incur a 25 per offense penalty if the bill passes into law. The measure, introduced by Dykes of Sumter, originally set a 50 penalty and spurred debate over its impact on small offices.
The American Institute of Instruction opens a three day session in Burlington Vermont with many teachers and visitors from across the country. Governor Proctor will welcome delegates. Topics include child labor in public schools school administration industrial education recruitment of teachers and normal secondary elementary and rural schools.
Mrs. Lillian M. Cheshire notes the oyster crab or pea crab on American coasts where it appears in oysters mussels and scallops. Legends from Aristotle to Cicero describe myths of its bond with hosts, while science shows the crab feeds by filtering with the bivalve and does not cry or hunt for food.
A naturalist describes oyster crabs common to Indian and Pacific oysters with a focus on a specimen where a male becomes enshrouded in mother of pearl within a shell. The piece explains coral crabs living in coral forks, slowly being surrounded as coral grows, creating a mutual, safe home as currents and polyps shape the final passage to the crab’s body.
A Mansfield man Ira W Kelly writes that two years of kidney and bladder trouble were cured by Foley's Kidney Cure after costly medical consultations failed. He urges others to seek the remedy, noting it restored health. Also promotes a tonic, Buchu and Juniper, as a general health aid from Stuart Drug Manufacturing Co. Atlanta Ga.
In Atlanta on July 7 the Georgia House debated a satirical bill proposed by Mr. Glenn reviving a British act from 1679 to curb women’s wiles. It would void marriages if a woman used perfumes or cosmetics to ensnare a man, a proposal met with laughter and gallery disapproval, and was referred to the committees.
A chaotic travel exhortation urges readers to escape to woods and seashore with a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It warns railroad and steamship travel may lack supplies and lists sellers H. Palmer & Sons, W. J. Smith, L. P. Canning, E. C. McEvoy Drug Co as distributors.
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