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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1891
Page
7
Investors purchased large tracts in Athens praising future growth and city improvements. Citizens and outsiders alike foresee housing development, rising land values, and ongoing land company works boosting Athens beyond the current sale.
Madison County residents raise ten thousand dollars to support a new railway route through Potulelsville Carnesville and Cross near Five Forks. Col James M South of Ocelorpe guarantees the road if funds are met, connecting with the Georgia Carolina and Northern line. The effort draws wide support as subscriptions pour in from Tay Hin to Chesth Cit.
Danielsville High School closed its term with recitations, speeches, and a notable address by HC Tuck of Athens. Trustees announced Profae Gresham and Miss Minnie McDan would return as teachers, with many visitors from Athens, Winterville, Fort Lamar, and nearby towns attending the events and celebrations.
In Atlanta on June 25 1891 a Fulton county jury declared Charles M Ozburn sane though extremely feeble and recommended a thirty day respite. Governor Northen granted the delay to allow Ozburn to improve physically while awaiting fate.
Carnesville Ga June 25 a prominent Lavonia grocer J C Bond died after a short illness. Bowersville High School commencement concluded with a public entertainment under Principal P O Steinson and Miss Nannie Burton. Farmers report good crop prospects with grass out and corn looking unusually well. A N King visited Bowersville. San Francisco June 26 Warden McHale at San Quentin uncovered arms and a convict signaling code but saw no uprising planned. Texarkana Ark June 26 mad dog rabies panic and a man bitten by a rabid dog. Staunton Ky June 26 John Young Brown Democratic candidate for governor spoke to a large crowd with strong Republican themes. Nashville Tenn June 26 Southern Press Association fund meeting for Davis monument to be held in Atlanta.
Captain Owen leads the Athens Rifles as they deck a special train to Chickamauga for encampment starting Tuesday noon. About 35 to 40 men, mostly Athens youths, will join drills, parades, and field duties under Col. Jones and Col. Yancey while facing basic shortages and preparations for improved armory and quarters.
George W. Malcom Sr. of Walton County Georgia dies after hydrophobia from a dog bite. At Mercer June 26 his convulsions intensified, he refused medicine, foamed at the mouth, and died after a brutal struggle, aged about 60, leaving a wife and ten children.
A temperance gathering in a whisky town ends with a burly man from a barroom admitting that early influence on boys matters more than adults. He says if someone had pursued him and kept bars closed in his boyhood, he might have become a better man. Skiff the jeweler is noted as the Diamond Spectacles agent.
The Fulton Grand Jury severely censures Dr. Griffin who attended Ozburn and recommends removing him. They will appoint another physician for Ozburn and extend county medical investigations over the next thirty days.
A massive hillside collapse on G W Fristoe’s farm near Dunkinsville, Ohio, slid five acres wide and up to 100 feet high, rushing 300 to 400 yards into Brush creek valley, after a ground tremor mistaken for an earthquake. City note mentions May Temple’s return with railroad chief engineer Bolton.
A scattered digest of brief items reports a cornerstone laid for a large Equitable Building project in At aig, job losses at a Alabama finishing mill, a Newark court suit over alleged permanent injury, and robbers near Shanghai using lure of beautiful women. Other notes cover coinage topics in Ottawa, a fast Empress of Japan voyage, a professor’s abrupt resignation, a New York tycoon’s son drowning, a murder attempt conviction, and local accidents and deaths in Indiana and Georgia.
Verses describe fleeting reflections and memories as mirrors reveal past figures. A twilight scene unfolds with distant mountains and a sea, while the speaker recalls loved ones passing in a blurred corridor of time as if seen in shining backward mirrors.
In a Montana style reminiscence, Bob Gorman illiterately receives a letter from his wife Nance in Mingersville. He plans to return home at once, hoping for good news, but a second letter from Newt Tremble via Clapper reveals Nance’s death. Gorman’s hopes crumble as he learns the truth.
A collage of short items ranges from a tragic tale of Bob with a suspected foul fate, to humorous quips about Eugene Field’s clock watch, rubber industry notes, bald head humor, Romulus jokes, lamp physics, a Craven’s station youth, and Athens hotel scheme chatter tied to an upcoming election.
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