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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1920
Page
8
Local notes advertise lipacomb specialty fire insurance, Athens Savings Bank 4 percent deposits with compounding, and a jumble of ads for plumbing, auto repair, real estate, rooms for rent, furniture, buys and sales across Athens. Listings include sale of a house, acreage, farm lighting, Buick car, and requests for a secondhand safe, with multiple contact names and streets in Athens and surrounding areas.
Retiring seller offers two prime Georgia Railway locations a brick store and storage on a large corner lot and a six room dwelling with store room attached plus an established grocery business total price 7500 may be sold separately Address S Muckells Stone Mountain Ga 10 2 71 Also solicitation for reliable dealers to handle fireworks Halloween campaign and carnival goods at Fink's Curio Shop 203 S Ludlow Dayton Ohio 10 1 8t iv
A bustling market page lists vegetables and fruits from King-Hodgson Co and Costa's Delicatessen Shop plus Arnold Abney Co offerings. Items include lettuce celery cucumbers peppers okra corn tomatoes apples Tokay grapes cantaloupes oysters and a range of baked goods and meats. Died Helen Nesbit, a well known colored nurse, passes away Friday morning. survived by son and four granddaughters. funeral arrangements pending.
A special Sunday School service at First Methodist will honor fallen veterans with a flag lowering of the eighty two star flag. The event includes prayers, songs, and addresses by Dr J Pound and Prof S W Sanford. Offerings go to the Decatur Orphans Home. Associated Press reports a Boston grand jury indicted Charles Ponzi on forty counts for mail fraud in a long running scheme.
Athens High overwhelmed Elberton High 41 to 0 yesterday afternoon. Kilpatrick’s running and the backs’ dumping tactics led a dominant effort with Grayson showcased for his perfect dumping and passing three of four attempts, including a touchdown. Butler Ashford Grayson Ashford key linemen and end play noted.
Notices posted on Garden City and Paneville store doors demand merchants close until cotton reaches 40 cents. A match through notices suggests an effort to keep cotton off the market while current rates hold. Some merchants closed, others remained open in Cullman, Alabama, on October 1.
Dinner options include Barbecued Pork or Roast Beef with Creamed Potatoes Stewed Corn and Salad plus Corn Pone and Apple Pudding with Tea or Milk Supper offers Broiled Sirloin Steak Pear Grits Baked Beans Dutch Toast and Ginger Bread with Cream Sauce and Milk
All Navy recruiting officers from the South gather in Atlanta today under Captain Roper to discuss recruiting across branches. About 159 officers from six states will convene at the Ansley Hotel with lunch, as Simmons and Snider depart for Atlanta and plan to return Sunday. The conference is to unveil new publicity efforts devised by Secretary Daniels to draw higher quality volunteers.
Mayor Stewart of Savannah received a communication from Governor Dorsey with dispatches from Washington about the French sloop of war Antares visiting the port soon. The vessel is to sail from France in September on a West Indies cruise and visit the American coast from Charleston to the Orinoco.
Detroit defeated Cleveland 5 to 3 while Cleveland won 10 to 4 in another game. St Louis beat Chicago 8 to 6 and Philadelphia topped Washington 13. In the National League New York 3 to 4 Brooklyn 4 to 3. Chicago 3 St Louis 2 after seventeen innings.
A nine year old boy, Claude Leathers, son of Mr and Mrs L M Leathers of 889 Hill Street, fell from a tree while playing yesterday afternoon. He sustained two fractures to the right arm but escaped internal injuries and is resting at home.
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