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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1908
Page
2
Mr. A. W. Brooks of the Athens Cotton Exchange leads a membership drive urging all local business houses to join. Daily market reports will be provided and no separate organization is needed to conduct business, with The Banner endorsing the move and urging participation for public benefit.
The Hart County Singing convention met in Viola Shoal Creek district, drawing the largest crowd yet. Attendees included a broad delegation from Franklin and Elbert counties and South Carolina. Col Julian McCurry spoke on music in business, praising Weldon and Brown from the 32 year-old organization. A large dinner followed under the oaks at Vidia with plans to reconvene the second Saturday in October at Redwine.
New York May 12 A meeting of the Co-Operative Education Association was held to promote adult schools in the Southern mountain regions. Miss M Reif Hofer opened the program outlining aims to engage educational clubs for a mass fall Cooper Union meeting. Professors Claxton Smith and Snedder spoke on Southern conditions, urging elimination of ignorance to uplift poor whites and unlock regional wealth. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup ad follows.
The forester’s goal is to bring forests to full productiveness by cutting over and cultivating like a crop. Last year 280 million board feet were cut on about 360000 acres, a small fraction of total government forests. Selection cutting keeps trees growing and seeds ground, with stamps to prevent miscuts. Total national forest cuts were tiny against overall timber and future capacity, yet much growth is in immature stands. Foresters warn against overcutting and stress the need to plan for long term demand, noting timber remains in Washington and Arizona faces future supplies.
Montezuma Ga May 12 excitement over mad dogs as nearly a half dozen residents, including Miss Nepple Davis’s pets, head to Atlanta Pasteur Institute for rabies treatment after a dog bit or tried to bite many. A dog head was sent to Atlanta for analysis and a full rabies case confirmed.
The Athens Bar petition leads to a postponement of the May term due to Supreme Court attendance and late season rains. Jurors, parties, witnesses and attorneys are excused from May 18 and all attendances are reset to June 9, with undefended cases allowed to proceed on June 19. Judge Stoned Nowell Cobb presides. clerk K R Crawford records the order.
Washington May 12 The final section of a bill to abolish betting on horse races at Bennings race track and prohibit gambling in the District of Columbia was adopted under suspension of the rules. The amendments widen Bennings road and add an anti-gambling rider. The vote was nearly unanimous. The Washington Jockey Club, owner of Bennings, did not oppose the bill and plans to move the track a quarter mile across the Maryland line for a better course.
Mr. E. Humphrey of Omega Ohio, owner of a large general store and president of Adams County and Pike County telephone firms, praises Dr King s New Discovery for stopping his cough and repairing throat and chest damage. Sold at W J Smith & Bro and H R Palmer & Bons drug stores, 60c and 1.00, trial bottle free.
Washington May 12 A federal grand jury indicts Representative Thomas Heflin of Alabama for assault with a dangerous weapon in three counts. Two counts allege beating a black man named Lewis Lundy on a street car on March 21, while the third accuses striking Thomas McCreery of New York with a pistol on a sidewalk. Lundy testified. McCreery did not appear.
May 12 Baltmore Mil. The Methodist Episcopal and Methodist Protestant churches push for a total abstainer in the presidency and discuss bishops, assignments, and consecrations. Rome of bishops, racial talks, and the resolution to bring New Orleans as a designated bishopric site feature in a busy Lyric session with leaders from Japan Korea and Howard University among those named.
B G Stewart of Cedar View Mississippi promotes Dr King s New Life Pills sold at W J Smith Bro and H R Palmer & doa drug stores for 26 cents with a guarantee promising value for constipation malaria and biliousness.
Dr James McF Gaston and wife were appointed missionaries to north China by the Foreign Mission Board of the South during the Baptist convention in Richmond Virginia He will head Tyzzar hospital at Laichou Fu in Shantung province across from Port Arthur The region is densely populated with eighty villages visible from a nearby mountain top
Dr H F Harris, secretary of the Georgia State Board of Health, has accepted an invitation to deliver the baccalaureate address at next month’s commencement exercises. The chancellor aims for a practical health topic given Harris’s authority on typhoid fever and infectious diseases. The baccalaureate sermon will be by Dr E M Poteat of Furman University, with the alumni address by Rev Lucian L Knight.
In Venice on May 12 a prominent lawyer Giambattista Munari, seven years lover of Teresa Valin, was found murdered in his former sweetheart’s house with a stiletto in his throat. The woman, who later died by her own hand after a struggle, had threatened to kill the rival if Munari wed another. Police say the crime grew from jealous passion and a planned drugging of the victim’s wine. The case echoes last summer’s Count Kamarlovsky tragedy in the same city.
The trap shooting tournament at Dallas Gun Club opened in Dallas Texas on May 12 promising one of the Southwest’s largest events. Added prizes total $1,000 plus valuable trophies attracting top shooters from Texas and nearby states. The four day program runs through for the event.
Mrs William King reads a memorial for Mrs Theodore W Birney founder of the National Congress of Mothers at the International Mothers Congress in Washington. The tribute praises her gentle spirit, leadership, and lifelong dedication to educating and uplifting mothers, noting her 1897 founding of the organization and her impact on child welfare. A closing note urges health vigilance with a brief ad for Foley's Kidney Cure.
Washington May 12 bids opened for a new assay office in New York City to rise on Nassau Street near Wall Street. The reinforced concrete building will cost about half a million dollars and feature a towering chimney over 400 feet to vent furnace fumes, surpassing nearby structures like the Singer building.
The lone State Hahnemann Society opened its annual meeting in Des Moines on May 12 with many leading homeopathic physicians in attendance. The gathering continues over tomorrow with sessions and discussions expected to cover medical and professional topics.
Five hundred delegates from across Alabama attend the grand lodge of Odd Fellows opening in Montgomery on May 12. The Commercial Club provides prominent hospitality and entertainment for visiting delegates.
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