First woman graduate receives world’s first chartered college diploma
The article recalls Catherine J. Brewer Benson as the first woman to earn a diploma from a chartered women’s college on July 18 1840 at the Georgia Female College later Wesleyan Female College. It notes her eighty first birthday in Macon Georgia and that the original diploma remains in existence bearing signatures of President George F. Kerce and faculty W H Ellison and Thomas B. Slade.
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Wesleyan Female College
Catherine J. Brewer
Catherine E. Brewer Benson
Macon
Georgia
Benson
Georgia Female College
Catherine B. Brewer
United States
George F. Kerce
W. H. Ellison
Thomas B. Slade
Foundry at Center Being Established
Messrs. Fouche and White are at work building a house at Center where they plan to establish a small scale foundry and machine shop with ambitious intent. Letters remaining in the Athens post office for the week ending September 8, 1908 list numerous male and female names and titles.
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Messrs
Fouche and White
Athens
Dr Carlton's Superb Clarke County Farm
Dr W A Carlton of this city owns a premier Clarke county farm about 1.5 miles from town on Lumpkin street to Whitehall. The 240 acre estate grows cotton and corn, runs a sizable dairy, bears fruit, grapes, and various crops. 80 acres are in cotton with Nancy Hawke variety. other plots sent by James M. Smith may yield two to three bales per acre. Nasal Catarrh tip offers Ely's Dream Balm at 50 cents.
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Clarke County
W. A. Carlton
Lumpkin Street
Whitehall
Emmett Bond
Dr. Carlton
Nancy Hawke
Carlton
James M. Smith
Oglethorpe County
Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
New York
Georgia projected to win Southern Intercollegiate football season
Captain Harold Ketron claims Georgia will field the season’s winning team in the Southern Intercollegiate Association. He cites a heavier line averaging 185 pounds, two incoming 190-pound players, a transferred quarter from Virginia Tech, and Ketron at center. Ketron plans to start preliminary practices soon. Bucklea’s Arnica Salve promotion follows.
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Harold Ketron
Georgia
Ketron
Clarkesville
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
A Perfect Egg Inside One Large Double Egg
Mr. E A Daniel of Washington Street submitted a curiosity to the Banner office: a colossal egg with no yolk. Inside was another perfectly formed egg, itself containing a yolk, matching a prior instance that measured eight and a half inches in circumference and rivaled goose eggs in size.
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E A. Daniel
Washington Street
Banner Office
Athens to Welcome Large Tile Factory
Athens will host a large new tile manufacturing plant to be run by Emmett J. Bondurant and James H. Dozier. Three carloads of cement and materials are already ordered, with production to begin within thirty days under Livesy of Atlanta, though exact location remains to be decided.
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Athenss
Messrs
Emmett J. Bondurant
James H. Dozier
First Baptist Messengers Named for Sarepta Meeting
The Sarepta Baptist association will hold a meeting in Elberton on the 29th instant. The First Baptist church of this city names as messengers Messrs. M Herrington George O Thomas T Mell J D Mell W P Vonderal G H Holme W B Jackson and Dr W H Young. Also an advertisement for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve claims superiority over counterfeits for piles with a testimonial from W S Ledbetter of Shreveport Louisiana.
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Sarepta Baptist Association
Elberton
First Baptist Church
Messrs
M. Herrington
George O. Thomas
T. 8. Mell
J. D. Mell
W.P. Vonderal
G. H. Holme
W.B Jackson
W. H Young
de Witt
Ledbetter
Shreveport
DeWitt
Duplicate Main To Be Constructed In Athens Waterworks
City council action orders a swift duplicate main from the pumping station to Cleveland avenue and new pipes from the power house to the main. Engineer Barnett seeks stock. Southern railroad route permission likely. Changes to reduce T joint, improve flow. Public assurance the waterworks issue will be resolved promptly with no further danger of breaks. An unrelated obituary note mentions J J Haven, Versailles Ohio, lashed by illness and aided by Electric Bitters.
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Cleveland Avenue
Barnett
Chattanooga
Tenn
Athens
Wood
Baker
Rocker
Major Green
Washington
J. J. Haven
Versailles
W. J. Smith & Bro
H. R. Palmer & Son
Manual Arts bulletin issued by State Normal School
The Department of Manual Art at the State Normal School has issued a new bulletin on Manual Arts under Prof. F. J. Orr with Annie Linton as assistant. It outlines aims, work, and planned year activities for the department. The bulletin, prepared with care, highlights the school’s progress and faculty, and its distribution aims to broaden interest across the state.
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State Normal School
F. J. Orr
Annie Linton
Orr
Stat Normal School
Federal Court Meets in October in Athens
Clerks O C Fuller and W O Carter of the Federal Court visited Athens to review pending ar rent business and found nothing urgent. They set October 12 as the next date to return for trial calls, with possible extra term by Judge Newman. Also notes September 20 as last day to purchase the $100 bottles for 3500¢ Globe Tonio.
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C Fuller
W.O Carter
Federal Court
Athens
Newman
Athins
Queen Quality Shoes Arrive In Fall Styles
A large shipment of Queen Quality shoes for fall wear arrives in all shapes and weights. Known as the best shoe on earth, prices are $2.25 and $3.00. New shipment of school shoes also available.
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