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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1891
Page
8
A religious department sermon discusses sourness in believers. It warns sour people hinder others and God, linking happiness to faith in Jesus Christ and urging joy over bitterness. The speaker contrasts a merry heart with a broken spirit and uses an extreme analogy to emphasize harm from sourness.
The piece extols kindness as essential to comfort and happiness. It frames kind words and gentle voices as valuable gifts, likening kindness to seeds and rose leaves stored in the heart, praising Jesus for living a life of doing good.
A miscellany of maxims on religion and virtue, debating Satan, faith, and daily living. The piece urges steadfast Christian resolve, warns against hypocrisy, and notes a home front moral order. Includes an advertisement for a remedy and a note about Miss Sydney Austin returning to the Home School.
Nellie reports Burtie a street boy who smokes and robs behind fences. Gertie says he wants to be a man, but Aunt Lizzie cautions tobacco harms heart and nerves and cites a Brooklyn boy who died from smoking. A Water Lily message urges not to start. The Proof of the Pudding promotes Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier with a money back guarantee.
San Francisco reports from October 2 state the island of Tanna endured a hurricane and civil war with fierce fighting destroying two villages. The German ship Gilde Merstein wrecked near Dianiua bay and the canal with nineteen natives was lost. The Pennonia, long reported lost, was later found wrecked near an island of the Marshal group with all on board reaching Apia.
Thirteen year old Johnny Harper from Whitewater township near Miamitown is now in the house of refuge after confessing to multiple freight car robberies on the Big Four railroad and other thefts. His aunt Lizzie Rice faced nightly stone-throwing, with a posse observing the house and Harper boasting to a detective about his misdeeds.
Citizens weigh the clock issue in Athens asking for a public city clock funded by votes. Supporter urges V W Skiff for mayor claiming the clock would be free of expense and improve city life, stressing the need for decisive action.
The Elberton Star reports Jim W. Willhite, a popular clerk for Gairdner Arnold & Co., suffered a bunion that worsened until Dr. B F Smith of Emiberton amputated part of his foot. He was reported improving after a Tuesday check, though he faces a long return to work.
The report notes an average cotton yield with bottom crops good and top crops almost absent. September receipts set records in Mississippi and North Louisiana. Upland picking to finish within thirty days. Also includes Mobile district expectations a 20 percent decline and earlier marketing, plus local land sale notice and Montana snowdrift impact.
The dispatch from San Antonio notes US Consul Richardson reporting that 180 men crossed from Mexico into Texas to assist General Sandoval with arms money and supplies. Lajero seeks US aid to stop Sandoval before border reach. Also mentions Garcia movement gaining support and tracing Sandoval to New Orleans. The Cotton outlook from Galveston reports beneficial rains boosting crop prospects with top growth continuing, though some damage from heavy rains. North Arkansas reports little change in cotton condition with fields maturing and harvest advancing.
In Macon Georgia on October 8 Mayor Price and John Knight clashed over political differences. In an alley near G W Johns saloon they fought. Smith was stabbed in the shoulder and Knight cut on the head and body. the Mayor struck in the mouth. The quarrel moved to the recorder. No serious injuries reported.
A brief ad extols Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as mild yet prompt for headaches bilious attacks and kidney and digestive issues. It claims one pellet per dose and markets at 25 cents a vial while condemning old style drastic pills as cruel to the body.
A misty scene unfolds with a couple sheltered under a wide umbrella as rain pours over river and mountains. Georgia Roberts is noted in Boston Trail as the setting and participant in a quiet, youthful moment of love amid the storm.
A young Black boy abandons his work to seal a small levee crevice with earth and sand as floodwaters threaten a plantation near Shreveport. Tom Aiken and other workers pursue a race against time while the boy endures cold and fatigue to avert a catastrophe.
In a dramatic river scene Aiken confronts Morton aboard the Marsden as floodwaters threaten Pete and the levee. Aiken weapons and daring save the boy and a local hero is carried to safety while the boat dodges surge and breaches. The dispatches also note various brief domestic and foreign news items.
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