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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1913
Page
1
The text argues religion strengthens healing, noting faith improves medicine’s effectiveness and that a religious outlook aids recovery. It asserts medicine and faith were once united, urges using remedies wisely, and promotes Peruna as a leading treatment with accompanying booklet and free samples.
Special to the Banner reports The Industrial Index notes extensive southeast progress with bridges roads and tax funded projects. Birmingham backs a new railway and river trade to the Gulf, timberland sales reach 700000 dollars, and numerous construction contracts span Georgia Florida and Alabama including apartments hotels schools churches and light plants.
New banks have been organized at Ft. Ogden and Lake Worth in Florida. Albany, Georgia will vote on $100,000 of municipal improvement bonds, Bartow Florida on $80,000, Auburndale on $20,000, Monticello Alabama approved $16,000 in improvement bonds. Twenty-one new corporations formed with minimum capital stocks totaling $411,210.
Inquiries to State College of Agriculture show a greatly increased interest in the summer course on cotton grading. Prof DeLoach and Mr B A Crane report strong demand for the short course, attracting more practical cotton men than in prior years. The course runs with the summer school and is expected to fill beyond capacity.
Five hundred delegates and officers of the grand lodge of Knights of Pythias of Georgia are in Waycross for a welcome. Notable Athens veterans Tom Nickerson Martin Abney Tom Mell and Father Beatty lead the Georgia Pythianism contingent. Madrid hosts American exhibits at the International Cattle and Agricultural Machinery Fair with King Alfonso opening remarks.
A jury returned verdicts in two suits by Williams against Southern National Life Insurance Company of Kentucky. One policy awarded $1,000 and the other $750. The insured died at his Lynwood Park home from a gunshot wound ruled a self-inflicted crisis.
General Dairy Inspector J. M. McLain of the U S Department of Agriculture toured the Athens area yesterday. He expressed interest in the State College of Agriculture model dairy and Clarke county’s two year cattle tick eradication effort. McLain, formerly at the Georgia Experiment Station near Griffin, now serves the southeastern states with headquarters in Washington City.
Mr. D. G. Anderson arrived home yesterday from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore where he had been treated for weeks. He was not seriously ill but physicians here failed to diagnose the trouble and he remains improved though not well. Mrs. Anderson had been in Rome with relatives and returned home yesterday.
California university athletes selected to uphold the blue and gold in the intercollegiate championships began their journey to Boston today. The group departed San Francisco as the opener to the Harvard Stadium event set for next week.
In Oglethorpe County near Dunlap Georgia railway agent M P Martin about forty five was shot and killed by his brother in law TJ Smith known as Mike Smith. The men were middle aged with Martin married to Smiths sister. Differences between Martin and his wife and heavy drinking were noted. Smith claims self defense saying Martin advanced with a knife. Five shots at close range struck Martin, causing almost instant death. Smith surrendered as coroner from Lexington prepared to investigate. an inquest was due next morning.
Washington officials visit Athens Griffin and Atlanta to confer with Dr R J H DeLoach the Georgia station director elect and with Dr H C White. Dr BE W Allen acts as U S Experiment Stations director and inspects Griffin station while noting substantial federal funding and future plans for the state experiment program. He leaves for Atlanta to meet Governor Brown and discuss further details.
The Georgia Court of Appeals holds a judge cannot suspend a sentence imposed by another judge or by the judge himself. The case Albert Norman v. L F Rehberg involves Norman’s larceny conviction and an eight month sentence suspended on good behavior later overridden. The ruling states only the governor can alter a sentence after it is declared. Norman’s habeas corpus petition was denied and he must serve the sentence.
Atlanta May 21. The State Court of Appeals rules it is illegal for an employee of a social club to sell whiskey even if no profit is made. The decision comes in the case of Ian Rothchild, steward of the Brunswick Oglethorpe club.
Georgia archives scrutinized for plats and grants to be used in the state versus the Georgian Railway and Power Company. The Tallulah Falls lands dispute lies at the heart of a $27,000,000 electrical enterprise supplying North Georgia. The case, after eighteen months of prep, may yield the final word at Clayton in Rabun county. The matter traces to governors Smith Brown and Slaton before legislative action directed the suit by the attorney general.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce plans to send a committee led by secretary C C Calloway to Anderson, D C, to discuss developing an interurban trolley line to Athens. The effort includes distributing a facts folder highlighting Athens strengths, such as major wholesale markets, manufacturing, education, utilities, and ongoing construction projects. Prosperity is framed as widespread in Athens with a call for 50,000 new citizens.
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