Libel for Divorce and Various Clarke County Notices
Legal notices from Clarke County Georgia include Kate Arrington v Jno N Arrington libel for divorce in 1917 with appearances required by October term. Also citations for twelve months support, permanent letters of administration, and executors seeking sales and dismissions. Sheriff sales list Athens property for attachment and tax liens. Notices name R C Orr, W E Jackson, and J H Becker among others.
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Jno
Georgia
Clarke County
Jim Neely
H. A. Nix
Jim Swinney
Lula M. Clemmons
Jane Moore
Walter Middlebrooks
Dora Roland
R. C. Orr
Athens
Hancock Avenue
J. H. Becker
Holbrooks and Morton
Will Gordy
Tennant
D. J. Cook
L. C
W. E. Jackson
Drainage District Suppl Report Adds New Defendants
The court orders owners of lands not yet included in the proposed drainage district to be made defendants and summons issued to those landowners. Viewers gain extended time to file final report to August 2, 1917, with notice posted at the courthouse and five public places. Notices to be published in Athens Weekly Banner, Oglethorpe Echo and Danielsville Monitor for two weeks.
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Georgia
Clarke County
B. A. Crane
George Brown
Court of Ordinary
L. J. Edwards
C. G. Freeman
Tobel
Board of Viewers
Court House
Athens Weekly Banner
Oglethorpe Eco
Danielsville Monitor
Bradley Sheep Club Offers Boys Wool Building Program
The Bradley Knitting Co of Delaware Wisconsin proposes boys aged thirteen to seventeen on farms without sheep join a national Sheep Club. Members receive breeding ewes, a 16 page booklet on sheep raising, and pecuniary remuneration. Applications urged to learn more and help war wool needs.
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Bradley Knitting Co
Delavan
Wis
Bradly Knitting Co
Anthony Gould
Evry Draff
Bradley Sheep Club
Oconee Superior Court to convene Monday in Watkinsville
Judge A. J. Cobb will convene the Oconee County Superior Court in Watkinsville on Monday morning June 23. The docket includes civil and criminal cases and a possible grand jury addition. A bold aviator remark appears as a distant aside in the commentary.
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A. J. Cobb
Superior Court of
Oconee County
Watkinsville
Grand Jury
Uncle Sam to ration neutrals in new export licenses
Plans by which the United States can relieve Great Britain of rationing neutrals have been completed. Within a short time the British method of issuing letters of assurance for American exports to neutrals will be superseded by the export license arrangement.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Millions Added To Dead Man's Fortune
In Chicago on July 19 probate court revealed $2,050,000 added to the fortune of John Stewart, a maker of auto accessories. The sum, distributed among six Chicago banks, was previously unknown to his two small children, the heirs.
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Associated Press
Chicago
John Stewart
Appropriation For Preserving Records
Senate agricultural committee chaired by Senator Gilmore backs a bill forcing commission merchants to itemize goods sold buyers and prices. A joint house senate panel to study state records preservation will propose a small appropriation to build cases on capitol floors for archives.
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Atlanta
Senate Agricultural Committee
Gilmore
House
Senate
Capitol
Death of Mrs John W Glenn at 83 in Jackson County
After a prolonged illness Mrs. John W. Glenn died Thursday at six in the morning at her brother Prof S P Orr’s home on Wray Street. Born 1834 in Jackson County Georgia she was eighty three. She married Prof J W Glenn in 1854. Survived by brother Prof J P Orr sister Miss Mary Margery Orr daughter Mrs W J Davenport of Atlanta and thirteen grandchildren. Funeral from the Wray Street home at noon with pallbearers named W C Ash Tom Comer Bob Washburn Gus Dozier Madison Nicholson and Ernest Youkin. Interment in Scone Cemetery.
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John W. Glenn
S. P. Orr
Wray Street
Jackson County
Georgia
James
Mary Orr
J. W. Glenn
Glenn
J. P. Orr
Mary Margery Orr
W. J. Davenport
Atlanta
Wray
Sconee Cemetery
W.C. Ash
Tom Comer
Bob Washburn
Gus Dozier
Madison Nicholson
Ernest Younkin
Save Winter Rye for Seed in Southeastern States
The United States Department of Agriculture urges Southeastern farmers to thresh and save winter rye for seed due to widespread oat crop losses, high prices of vetch and crimson clover, and anticipated demand for rye as winter grain, cover, and green manure. Northern varieties won’t suit the south, and local rye stocks are limited. farmers should report variety, quantity, and price to county agents or state station directors.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
Southeastern States
State Experiment Station
R. A. Oakley
Albert W Grant Chosen Vice Admiral in Navy Reorganization
Washington reports Rear Admiral Albert W Grant has been named vice admiral by the president as part of a partial Atlantic fleet reorganization. Admiral Mayo retains command with authority split with Vice Admirals Coffman and Grant. Captain S S Robinson takes over the submarine flotilla. Secretary Daniels notes all battleships are in commission.
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Associated Press
Washington
Albert W. Grant
Atlantic
Mayo
Coffman
Grant
S. S. Robinson
Daniela
Athens Men Working In Big Powder Plant
Mr. John P. Smith, an Athens native, is home on ten days leave from the Du Pont Powder plant at Hopewell Virginia. Other Athens men, T. E. Smith and C. E. Poss, also work there among about 12,000 employees. The plant uses vast cotton to manufacture gun cotton and enforces strict security with daily ID checks, searches, and a 250-strong police force.
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John P. Smith
Athens
Dupont
Hopewell
Smith
T. E. Smith
C. E. Poss
Governor Announces Two Re Appointments
Special to The Banner Atlanta July 19 Governor Hugh M Dorsey announced re appointments and asked senate confirmation Judge John A Sibley to city court Baldwin county Judge Milton Barwick to city court Louisville and John R Phillips as solicitor of the same court
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Banner
Atlanta
Hugh M. Dorsey
Senate
John A. Sibley
Baldwin County
Milton Barwick
John R. Phillips
Louisville
Have You Heard the Children Crying Poem by Amelia E Barr
A poem lament from Amelia E Barr referencing mothers and children amid violent upheaval. It invokes biblical imagery and calls women to bear suffering, urging care for homes broken by revolutionary violence and Russia’s unsettled state.
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Amelia E. Barr
the Vigilantes
Hans
Russia council rejects attempts to influence body
Petrograd July 18 The council of the new body of soldiers workmen and peasants of all Russia passes a resolution rejecting with indignation all attempts to influence the attitude of that body.
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Council OF Russian Workmen and Soldiers
Associated Press
Petrograd
Council of the
All Russia
American Squadron To Visit Brazil Visit to Brazil Confirmed
Secretary Daniels announced acceptance of Buenos Aires invitation for the American squadron to visit the port. The visit will occur within a few days.
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Brazil
NAVY
Buenos Aires
Associated Press
Washington
Daniels
Differences Still Exist Over Program
Washington July 18 reports show members of the shipping board and General Goethals at odds over ship building plans. The central dispute concerns wooden construction. It was stated there is no plan to force Goethals to resign. the board does not intend to compel his departure and reserves full authority to pursue the program.
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Associated Press
Washington
Shipping Board
All Liquor May Be Seized By Government
Washington July 18 liquor dealers across the nation fear government seizure of bonded spirits under the bill terms. They are withdrawing whiskey at a rate of a million gallons daily, pushing internal revenues this month $7,500,000 above last July. This sets a new record.
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Associated Press
Washington
Soldier Killed as Train Cars Derail Near Victoria
Marshall Texas July 18 One American soldier William Stone breaker was reported killed and several others injured when three cars of a troop train on the Texas Pacific railroad were derailed near Victoria Louisiana today.
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Associated Press
Marshall
Texas
William Stonebreaker
Texas Pacific Railroad
Victoria
Louisiana
No Investigation Commission Report
London July 18 Announcement in the house of commons by Chancellor Bonar Law that the government will not pursue the proposed judicial inquiry into the Mesopotamia campaign commission report.
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Associated Press
London
House of Citimans
Bonar Law
Mesopotamia
Twelve Reminders of Virtue and The Nation Needs Ships
A 19th century reflective list praises time, perseverance, effort, simplicity, character, kindness, example, economy, duty, patience, talent, and initiative. It ends noting the nation’s urgent needs for ships and food and urges readers to aid by improving food production.
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Marshall Field
Rumored Disaster to U S Warship
Passaic New Jersey July 18 A man tied to rumors of a disaster to American warships is believed identified as V Knapp United States Attorney Lynch reports a confession describing the imagined explosion of a dreadnaught that never occurred.
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Associated Press
Passaic
N. J
V. Knapp
United States
Lynch
Knapp
British Shipping Suffers Heavily
London July 18 fourteen British ships totaling over sixteen hundred tons were sunk by submarines or mines last week it has been officially announced. Four smaller ships and eight fishing vessels were also sunk.
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Associated Press
London
Emperor William sought to dump Bethmann Hollweg in peace talks
Paris reports Jules Cambon asserts the German emperor wished to rid himself of von Bethmann Hollweg who followed him during the prewar era. Cambon says the aim was to ease peace negotiations by sacrificing the chancellor, though Germany will still blame him as the scapegoat for war faults.
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Paris
William
Jules Cambon
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Associated Press
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Germany
Officers And Men For Merchant Fleet
The Shipping Board announced a special bureau to provide officers and seamen for a merchant fleet. Recruits are expected from schools currently teaching seamanship.
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Shipping Board
Washington
The
Shipping Licenses Soon To Be Issued
Washington July 18 The department of commerce will issue licenses for shipping goods from the United States soon in most important ports. Instructions have been given to arrange licenses at Philadelphia Norfolk Charleston Savannah Galveston and Los Angeles.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Charleston
Savannah
Galveston
Los Angeles
Big Foot Ben Collier Plans Summer Singing Dates
Jackson County figure known as Big Foot Ben Collier arrived on official business and announced two major singing events. A Harmony Christian church gathering near Commerce is set for Sunday the 22nd, followed by an all day session at Pendergriss on the Gainesville Midland on Sunday July 29th. Several Athens residents will attend both events.
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Ben" Collier
The
Christian Church
Harmony
Commerce
Pendergriss
Gainesville
Athens
Scormick Declines Japanese Ambassador Offer
Washington July 18. It is understood that Vance McCormick Democratic chairman has been offered the ambassadorship to Japan but has declined and recommended H B Morris of Philadelphia who has been elected.
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Washington
Vance McCormick
Japan
H. 8. Morris
Philadelphia
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Kate Arrington
R. K. Reaves
And.s. P. Reaves
M. P. Reaves
J. H. Towns
A. H. Towns
Clarke, County
N. E
W. J. Zachery
Barrett
Barrett St
Oconee River
Zachery
Moore’s
Zachery Lot
Lou Ella Stewart
R. L. Moss Mfg. Co. I
Lou Ella
L. N. Betts
W. P. Betts
Geporgia
Rufus
Crane
Jas. R. Crane
Gporgia
A. & Towne
Sally Reed
R. R
Fourth St
Ida H. Hills- Man
Ida H. Hillsman
Odd St
O’kelly
Coley Harris
Eliza Bell
Said Coun
H. H. Hampton, R. W. Davie, Et al
Bradley Boys
Oconee Superior Court
Uncle Sam
Great Brittain
U. & Navy
Sibley and Barwick
Phillips
Mary
Russia
Goethals
Texas Pacific
No Investigation Commission
U. S
Chas. Knapp
Bethman-Hollweg
Big Foot
Ben” Collier
Jackson
Scormick
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