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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1915
Page
4
Hundreds attended the Oconee county singing convention at Watkinsville courthouse. It was agreed to form an Oconee county choir meeting quarterly, with next convention planned for Watkinsville next year and officers from the convention elected for the new choir.
Federal experts and Georgia officials meet in Atlanta to install a trial model convict camp on Powers Ferry road near Lawrenceville road. J H Pennypacker and Dr W D Draper join Capt Yancey in endorsing the plan, while Yancey argues mental and moral development is the real need amid present road work conditions.
In Superior Court Attorneys H C Tuck Woolver Smith and P J Smith sue on behalf of Mrs Lovie Weatherly against Seaboard Air Line Railway Company for thirty thousand dollars. The case stems from the death of a child struck by a freight train while crossing tracks near a neighborhood store. The accident occurred several months ago.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports the August 25 cotton crop at 69 2 per cent of normal. Decline from July 75 3 per cent and June 75 3 per cent mirrors adverse weather and reduced fertilizer use In the belt. Estimated yield about 11 8 million bales on 31 535 million acres planted with شمال.
Investigators halted as witnesses refuse to answer questions in the Adjutant General Chase charges case. The court’s authority is questioned and the matter goes to the attorney general for opinion. B Hillett and former Captain Van Hise refuse to comply, sparking a tense standoff with Major Broughton at the governor’s office.
Washington reports British Ambassador Spring-Rice told the State Department Great Britain will ease enforcement of the Order in Council to allow shipments from neutral parts of German and Austrian goods contracted by Americans before the order took effect. Proof of consent will be accepted at the embassy rather than London, with details to follow. Millions of dollars of such goods have piled up at neutral European ports.
In Jackson, M A Moses and wife testified that Mrs Mamie Hamlin offered $1,000 to sign a will in the Polly Davies murder case. Davies, a wealthy widow, died by poison. the will would make Hamlin chief beneficiary of a $40,000 estate. Weather notes and crop reports follow, detailing rains and conditions across central and eastern regions with drought persistence in Texas.
Five year average mentioned with dates for the next report. It notes a forthcoming cotton condition assessment due at noon Eastern time on October 2. A September 25 report is referenced as the immediate prior item.
Reported from Tuesday's Banner that the Bank of Colbert closed its doors and cashier Jewell Rhinehardt is jailed awaiting charges. Examiner Martin may finish the bank's books today with an estimated shortage of 31385. A stockholders meeting is planned Thursday to review affairs and discuss possible reorganization.
William Jennings Bryan named president of the reorganized Winona assembly and summer schools association. The association, recently declared bankrupt, had its property purchased today for 100000 dollars on behalf of the board of directors.
Atlanta August 30 state prison commission meets in Milledgeville to review plans funded by a $30,000 extraordinary appropriation. Plans include a new wing for prisoner segregation, a women’s prisoner building, an additional story at the reformatory, and a sewerage incinerator plant. Work to be done by state convicts with a brick mason and carpenter camp.
The Imperial Institute endorses peanuts, or monkey nuts, as cattle feed after tests seeking a substitute for costlier foods. Before the war peanuts moved from imports, with nations like India and Africa the top producers while roasting enhances their value. Notable notes compare sanitation and death rates in cities like New York, Baltimore, and London.
Kansas City report by Frank P. Walsh and labor members cites low wages as the basis of unrest. It says compulsory methods deny workers full product of toil and that state and national labor groups applaud leaders jailed for violence while employers wage intimidation. The commission notes rapid modernization and centralized corporate control intensifying wage earners’ struggle for opportunity.
Atlanta reports state school salaries will be paid later this year as railroad tax receipts, traditionally available by late September, fall short. Treasury Speer expects receipts by mid October, potentially funding the 1915 salary payments and affecting plans for an early extra legislative session.
Atlanta activists led by the Anti-Saloon League flood Gov Harris with postcard petitions and signed letters urging emergency legislation to curb liquor advertising, shipment, locker clubs, and beer sales. The campaign relies on organized county groups and mass mailings, signaling intensified civic pressure.
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