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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1892
Page
2
A report notes the college prepares for graduation ceremonies with plans to honor the class and notable speakers as students cross the stage. The event highlights academic achievements and institutional traditions guiding the commencement.
Extensive fabric clearout lists yardages and discounts on lawn muslin dimity and ginghams with pieces priced from 3 to 18 cents per yard. Includes embroidered lawn robes and white lawn robes offered at heavily reduced prices, plus table coverings, napkins, towels, and shoes marked down across multiple lots.
In Scene IV the Hoop drill ends in brilliant display by a group of young ladies led by Annie Pearson and others. The performance includes archways and wheels with gold hoops, and a song by Miss E Tyler and Prof Strahan. Other entries mention a medal recital and upcoming commencements. The ice rate in Athens rose to one cent per pound with existing half price tickets honored.
A 1892 Athens council meeting approved an ordinance authorizing taxes to fund interest and principal on a 125000 share water works bond issue. The measure allocates funds from the city tax levy to cover semiannual interest and thirty year principal payments. The ordinance passed unanimously with Aldermen Hodgeson O Farrell Gerdine Hodgson Talmadge Booth supporting.
The article notes a directive to credit the public school account with 17 percent of general taxes and to charge that account for all school expenses. The Board of Education is informed to keep expenditures within the appropriation as the council adjourns.
An advertisement-style testimony by William Ackwell of New York praises Bray Drera’s Pinta pills as a cure for bilious headaches and dyspepsia. He claims two pills nightly for a week then one nightly for thirty days removed pain and even added three pounds. The piece promotes purging diseased matter to prevent systemic decay.
J A Mason and Sons, Atlanta furniture dealers, open a Athens branch on Clayton Street in the former T B T furniture space. The staff were busy all day moving in stock and expect rapid trade. The Banazs welcomes Mason and Sons to the Classic City amid other business ventures.
Frederick F Moore M D specializes in diseases of women and rectal disorders including piles and fistula. He offers non surgical treatment without knives and without detention, with conservative methods for women issues. Offices at Hotel Lanier with electrical appliances and facilities for successful practice.
A notice dated the 26th announces a Third party gathering in Clarke county to be held on the 25th. The call is signed by thirteen citizens, a number deemed unlucky by superstition. It questions Clarke county’s future within Georgia if Democrats dominate the state.
Special offer on ladies footwear featuring Pt Tip Oxfords priced at 125 with usual values 250 to 300. Common Sense Oxfords marked 100 against 185 to 200. High cut hand made Oxfords priced 110, typical worth 165 to 175.
A clipped ad lists Rio Coffee at 6 pounds and 21 pounds of granulated sugar for a price not shown Ot 5 pounds of soda at 25 cents per can of canned fruits and vegetables labeled at 12 cents each
In Montgomery on June 17 a crowd of Montgomery witnessed the University of Georgia baseball nine defeat Auburn College. Georgia dominated with strong fielding led by Sibley Hale Foster and Calloway pitching, while Auburn struggled to hit curves. The Georgia team claimed the laurels from Alabama in a decisive victory.
A three year old girl, the daughter of farmer Will Wade, died after a wagon with two young, skittish mules ran downhill near Stone Mountain. Wade leaped from the wagon to save her but was dragged by the lines. the child was crushed and died from skull fractures. The tragedy occurred on a pine wood wagon trip to town.
Atlanta reports J D Tollerson president of the Empire State Bank fined 100 dollars and cost with a 500 dollar bond after a case alleging mistreatment of Miss Pierson a young woman brought from Detroit for a private secretary and clerk post Tolleson faces prosecution for pressuring and assault in a scandal that sparked public outrage and a courtroom confrontation with a pistol drawn during defense attempts by Weldon and Crawford.
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