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THE ATHENS BANNER.
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ESTABLISHED 1832.
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1903.
$5.00 A YEAR.
WILL ORGANIZE
COMMERCIALLY.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce Will be Organ
ized in This City This Month, and Great Good
is Expected to Result From the Organiza
tion. The Organization a Great Need.
At a conference of a number of bnsi
nest men of the city yesterday after
noon. it was decided that an effort should
be made to organize The Athena Cham
ber of Commerce in this city during the
present month. The result of the con
ference, Messrs. T. VV. Keed and B. F
Holder, Jr., will make a canvass for
members during today.
The plan Is to charge members month
ly dues of one dollar each. There shall
be no other expense to the members.
Monthly meetings will be held, and the
members will be required to attend reg
ularly in order to retain membership in
the organization. A permanent secre
tary will be employed with the fund
arising from the membership fees, and
these fees will also foot the bills for pos
tage, printing and other incidentals
All matters relating to the government
o! the organization will be fixed by
the by-laws to be adopted at tin
lint meeting following the or
ganization. At the time at which the
orgauization is to be perfected officers
will be elected and and a plan of cum
paign for new industries and new en
terprises will be mapped out.
The Banner has been advocating the
organization of such a body for some
months. This paper has pointed out t ie
advantages to be derived from such an
organization, and it has been pointed
out that only active, united elTorl
accomplishes a great deal. Ii
is gratifying to The Banner that
the business men discussing the
matter yesterday In conference went
over the very ground The Banner has
covered in appeals to the people for such
and organization, and the efforts of this
paper were highly praised by the busi
ness men present.
A list of the members secured todaj
will be published in The Banner tomor
row, and from day to day uutil t le or
ganization is perfected, which will be
about the 15th mst.
INTERESTING STAGE STORY
IN MRS. LEMOYNE’S COMING.
Among Those Present” Glen Mac-
Donough's new play teaches a lesson of
the ovll effects of extravagance in the
•ooial world. In the course of the in
struction Mr. Macdonough mingles the
serious and comorty elements so cleverly
that the audience is moved from tears to
laughter and vice versa in every situa-
ion In the piece. It is said that the
of "Among Those Present” is one
Of the most interesting that hrs ever
been told on the stage. The dialogue is
brilliant and the opportunities afforded
for good acting are many and varied in
character. The leading role of Mrs.
Clinton is stated to be the best that has
ever been assumed by Mrs. LeMoyne
during her successful career. The other
characters are in the hands of players of
established merit and reputation. In
cluded in the list of Mrs, LeMoyne’s
supporting company are : Harold Bus
sell, Oarlotta Nillson, William Hazel-
tine, Olga Flinck, George Douglas Park
er, George Gaston, Algernon Tassin,
William Olagett. Martia Leonard, Cor
nelia Hunter. Marion Ashworeh, Mary
Blyth, Anna Zorn and Edwin James.
Mrs. LeMoyne will be seen in "Among
Those Present" at the new opera house
tomorrow night.
THE ELKS WILL GIVE SOCIAL SESSION
AND BANQUET NEXJ WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
The members of the Athens Elks’
Lodge will give a social session at their
clob rooms in the Moss building, on
Clayton street, next Wednesday night,
cliicb lift quests have been invited.
The invitod , iests have been limited to
one each for i e members of the Elks
organization, ad it is stated that the
session will be one of the most delight
ful social occasions that ever occurred iu
this city.
Preparations for the social session
have been under way for several weeks,
but the final arrangements were not
completed until Wednesday night, when
at a large meeting of the Elks it was de
cided to hold a social session at the club
rooms on Wednesday night of next
week, and adjournid|{ to the diuing
room of the Commercial hotel, where an
elegant banquet will be tendered.
The Elks Lodge was organized in this
city only a few montbjlago, bat already
it is in the fore ranks-of the fraternal
orders of Athens, Ttv membership, as
has been Btated, now mm ben fifty, and
several applications haire been made by
representative citizen s;|or membership
The club rooms on the third floor of the
Moss bnilding have bMn recently far
nished In most elegan jltyle, and these
are kept open at all hi
until a late hour at n:
ing room is to be foun
of the day aud
it. In the read-
the leading
pipers and periodicals, and this Is oneo'
the most popular featurts of the organi
zation Pool and billiard tables have
also been iustalied, and the members of
the organization find recreation in bil
liards and pool at the E ks club rooms
from time to time daring leisnre mo
ments
The members of the Elks organiza
tion the world over are noted for their
splendid social entertainments and the
members of the Athens lodge are not
exceptions to this rale. Those who are
fortunate enough to be numbered among
the invited guests for the Social Session
n xt Wednesday night are, indeed, to
be congratulated.
A BEAUTIFUL AND APPROPRIATE TRIBUTE
TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. M. M. BISHOP.
mm ORCHESTRA
'HAS BEEN ENGAGED
To Furnish Music at Opera
House Tomorrow Night.
Manager Rowe has provided excellent
music for the play “Among Those Pres
ent,” which is to be at the Opera House
tomorrow night.
The Haughey orchestra has been en
gaged, and that is a sufficient guarantee
that the music will be np to the highest
standard of excellence.
The following masical program will
be rendered between the acts by this
splendid orchestra:
March—Sweethearts, - Arthur Pryor.
Overture—Lyrio, - - - Schlepegrell.
Waltz—Love Sighs, - - -
Andrew Herman, Op. 266.
Overture—Flora, --- Schlepegrell.
Two-Step—Kentucky Hot Foot -
Charles Miller.
HULME & GO.
, NOT DISSOLVED.
Mr. Phinizy Will Remain
as ilember of the
Firm.
The firm of Geo, H. Holme & Co. will
remain aa heretofore. There will be no
dtaeolntion on re-organization of the
firm aa announced yeederday.
After deliberation on the subject it
Was determined that the deoiuon to die
solve be reconsidered and hence the firm
Will remain as it has been, oomposed of
Mean. Geo. H Hulme and O. H. Pbin-
i*r-
Having decided to remain in the firm
of Geo. H. Holme & Co., Mr. Phinizy
will not be associated with Mr. F. A
Lipeoomb In the brokerage business.
General debility—failnre of the
strength to do and the power to endure
—Is oared by the great tonio—Hood’s
pauaparllls.
PRESSING PROBLEMS
Of RURAL SCHOOLS,
Five Pressing Needs in Our
Rural School System.
A. O. True, of the United States de
partment of agriculture, sets out the fol
lowing os the most pressing problems of
the rural schools of the country :
(1) To provide schools for all the chil
dren and to briug all the children into
them.
(2) To make the annual school term
long enough to give the children thor
ongh instruction in the fundamentals of
common knowledge during the period of
their school life.
(8) To directly relate the instruction
of the school to the practical business of
the farm through the employment or
teachers in sympathy with farm life and
the enrichment of the school course by
the introduction of agricultural sabjects.
(4) The Improvement of the material
rquipmentment and environment of the
sohool by the consolidation of small
schools, the Improvement of school
buildings and grounds, and the estab
lishment of sohool libraries and collec
tions of materials for illustration.
(6) The makings of the schools more
thoroughly the centers for the Intellect
ual life of the community by the co-op
eration of the farmer and his family
with the teacher through associations
and other agencies.—A. 0. True.
The afterglow is one of the most
beautiful aspects of nature, when the
day, as if loathe to leave ob, flings back
a radiance that makes earth and iky,
aud even clouds, golden and glorious
Iu the long season of autumn through
which we have passed, how many soft,
sweet days came to a close in this beauti
ful way !
This physical phenomenon is a para
ble. When the earthly day of some
iives goes oot, the impression made upon
us by their presence aud influence is so
strong and deep that a mellow light is
left behind iu home aDd heart, diffusing
with its glow even the uight of our
bereavement.
Haring the autumn past, such a para
ble was euacted in the passing away of
one of the blessed mothers of our com
munity, and it is more than becoming
that a larger word should be spoken
concerning her life and character than
a brief aud quiet funeral service affor
ded.
Mrs. Martha Marie Bishop was born
In Cornwall, Vt., May 22, 1830, the
daughter of Jeremiah and Rhoda Bing
bam. She was educated atMt. Holyoke
Female Seminary, South Hadley, Mass ,
of which Miss Mary Lyon was princi
pal. After graduation, she taught school
for a time in Rhode Island and Connecti
cut. She came to Athens in 1853, beiug
brought here by Gen. T. R. R. Cobb, to
teach in Grove Seminary, the buildiDg
of which is now the Oatholio church,
and out of whioh grew the Lucy Cobb
Institute.
Here she met and married Edward
Payson Bishop, who was born in her
native state of Vermont, the son of
Thomas Bishop, and one of the long
time aud successfnl business firms of
Athens, Thomas Bishop & Son. This
marriage took place Dec. 13, 1855, of
which there were seven children, Mer
ton Holt dyiog when an infant; Ed
ward Thomae dying in yenng manhood.
Mrs. I. H. Pittard, of Athens ; Mrs. H
K. Milner, of Birmingham ; Miss Lnoy
M. Bishop, of Athens ; Rev. Arthur F.
Bishop, pastor of the First Presbyterian
chnrch of Denison, Texas ; B. M. Bishop,
M D , of Hillside, Texas, and Cnarles
B Bishop, of Madison, Ga She passed
away Nov. 12th and was laid to rest
Nov. 15. 1802.
Nearly fifty years of her consistent,
exemplary and useful life were spent in
Athens, where all who knew her bear
witness to her substantial, influential
and benevolent womanhood—a woman
hood of the old and trne type, as qniet
and unobtrusive as it was faithful and
foroeful. This signal fact concerning
her made it possible fott her pastor, on
the occasion of her far rnl, to read the
31st. chapter of Prove) i, as truly del
criptive of her, with A app opriiteness
that evoked hearty api oval from many
who had long known h V, and in bar
mony with the sentiment of faithful
children who "arise lip and call her
blessed.”
Doubtless she inherited from her par
ents that granitic quality of character
so typical of the New j^uglaod people,
but there were mouldiqg influences in
her life, which wrought towards the
sweetness as well as the strength by
which she became a marked woman
if
among women.
One thing, she gave her heart to God
in early life. When onjy twelve years
of age she became a communicant in the
Congregational Chorohi As a snbject
of God's grace, the Christian influence
was realized in her character from that
early age. She "grew.ln grace and in
the knowledge of
that maturity ol
ship.
AT THE COMMERCIAL.
A. W. Price, High Shoals j Ula G.
Hardeman, T. W. Baxter, Atlanta; S.
M Knox, Baltimore; W. C Parks, N.
Y.; Arrnond May, Atlanta; W. W.
Blaine, H. O.; M J. Armstead, Atlanta;
J. W. Barnett, D. L Peacock, Oity; J.
B. Comer, Nashville; G. O. Elfe, At
lanta; I. S. Peeblee, Jr., Gibson; O. H.
May, R. I.; O. N. Hunter, Ga ; Hamil
ton MoWborter, Lexington; E. L. Berg
strom, Atlanta; R L. A Clark, Chicago;
H. F. Todd, Atlanta; J. W. Greer,
Texas; J. G. McIntyre, Atlanta; A. A
Ryle, Lexington.
which made her
the round, ripe oharacter of abiding
memory and influence. She was wbat
she was, because Bhe was Christian.
But along with the work of grace
within, came the environment of
privileged school-life. How many
noble, useful women were sent out
from Mt. Holyoke during the dozen
years in which Mary Lyon, of sainted
memory, wrought there! Under this
favoring impress and irflaence the sub
ject of this sketch became a thoroughly
educated and deeply earnest worker in
home and church and social circle. Her
Christian life took on the larger form of
culture and force because of the prayer
ful, plastio touch of this wonderful wo
man.
Discipline of suffering began early
with her, toe, and she was not long, at
aDy time of her life, ont of the crucible
that makes refined gold. It was not
very long after her marriage that the
trying times of the Civil war came on.
Her hnsband was a Confederate soldier
While he was away from her side, an
infant (Merton Holt) was born and
buried. The testing trialo of reconstrno
tion had not long passed away when Bhe
was called upon to give np her life-com
panion and her oldest son (a student for
the ministry in Prinoeton Seminary)
both within two short months, the one
Aug. 28, the other Oot. 20, of 1881. Left
now alone as she was to train and gnide
her household brood, how well she met
and mastered the trial is manifested in
the characters and useful lives of all the
children thus left to her sole guardian -
The last two years of her life were
Bpent in the fires of intense physical suf
fering. The peculiar ailment of thise
years was Buch that, at times, from mere
physical humors her conscientious earn
estness led her to sit in suffering search
over her faith, so intent was she upon
having "the faith that saves." But her
doubts were but flitting clouds, out from
which her faith, always strong, only
lost to consciousness because of physioal
iuflrmity, at last emerged, satisfying
aud serene. Until mind gave way, un-
der pressure of disease, how oalmly she
lay and waited for the day to go I And
her day is not gone t Tne afterglow fills
the hearts and the homes of her chib
dren.
We bore her reverently from the home,
in which she had spent her life since
marriage, to the Presbyterian church, of
which she had been a faithful and use
ful member for near half a century, and
asleep in Jesus,” her precious
THE BANNER OUT
IN A NEW DRESS.
Style of The Banner Changed From Six Page Six
Column to Seven Column Four Page Paper, In
Order to Avoid Printing Single Sheet, About v t
Which Much Complaint Has Been Hade. _
The Banner goes to its readers this
morning in a new dress. It has been
decided to print the daily edition in four
pages, seven columns, instead of six
pages with six oolnmns. as has been the
style for many months. This change
has been determined on because of the
fact that maDy complaints bave been
made about the single sheet that has
been folded on the inside of the paper
heretofore, and in order to make it eas-
,er to handle.
A number of improvements have been
made in Tne Banner during the past
year, and a large number of attractive
features will be added curing the pres
ent year. The management proposes
to keep The Banner np to the highest
standard of excellence, and to make it io
every way worthy of the community in
which it is published.
Daring the past year The Banner ac
complished much with the assistance
aud support of the good people of this
oity. The Banner put on its feet the
movement which is to result so glorious
ly in a great Summer School iu Athene
this summer. The Banner has inau
gurated a movement which will result
in the organization of a fair association
under whose auspices a great agricul
tural fair will be held in Athens next
fall. It was The Banner that first
sounded the appeal for a new city hall
in Athens, and it is gratifying to 'note
that the progressive people of this grow-
iog oity have said, at the ballot box that
a city hall bnilding entirely in keeping
with Athens, shall be built here at an
early date. The Banner raised several
hundred dollars during the past year for.
charitable purposes, and by the side of
the good citizens of Athens battled for
the handsome appropriations thvt were
made by the general assembly at the
recent session for the edaoational Insti
tutions of this city. In short, The Ban
ner has advocated a large namber of
measures that will be of great benefit to
Athens in the future.
For several months past The Banner
lias been calling on the people of Athena
for the organization of a commercial
body to take care of the interests of this
city in the matter of future growth and
development. This movement will re-
ult in the establishment of the Athena
Chamber of Commerce this moath, and
many beneficial results will be obtained
for Athens through the efforts of this
' . f i ", \ ' ^
organization. ,
Other plans for the beBt interests of
Athens are under way and The Banner
will be entirely satisfied with the labor
if as much can be accomplished doling
the next twelve months as has been ac
complished during the past ye'T for
Athens—the greatest city of the size in
the whoia country.
The Banner returns thanks to Its
many friends who have so nobly stood
by this paper in its efforts tor the Im
provement of Athens, and pledges its
hearty co-operation in every future
movement looking to the welfare of the
city.
someth.
As on the evening, when she passed
so peacefully away, her children
gathered around her in sabdned sorrow,
their sentiment of reverent and unself
ish love oonld well have found expres
sion in the beautiful lines read at her
funeral:
O come to the bedside iu silence;
Our mother is going to Bleep I
We’ll watch in the hush of the twilight.
And praise God while we weep,
While we weep.
Her bright hair has long since been sil,
vered,
Our own has grown faded and gray ;
There’s no light ’neath her tremulous
eyelids.
And now she is passing away,
Passiog away.
O the life-long love of a mother,
19 a guerdon to guard and to keep;
And we’ll cherish its memory oloser,
Now our mother Is going to sleep,
Going to sleep.
From our childhood in beauty before us,
Ou Jesus, her guide and her stay,
She has leaned, and with calm eyes up
lifted,
She gave him her hand, night and day,
Night and day.
And while walking in dread and in
darkness
Through the valley of fears and alarms,
He encouraged her tottering footsteps.
And now she falls into His arms,
Into His arms.
She hears his dear voice in the darkness,
O let us all thankfully weep,
He has called her His ‘child’ His ‘be
loved,’
And now she has gone to sleep,
Gone to sleep.
J. W. W.
AN HWGAflflNALJl
PRAISES BRANSON’S WORI
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The Southern School and Home, an
ednoatlonal journal published at Talla-
h 18)6, Florida, in the current issue, has
a very complimentary article, covering
a page, abont the work of President E.
O. Branson of the State Normal School,
from whioh the following paragraphs
are taken:
A tall form move acrosB the campus.
Feet with long and rapid strides seemed
trying to overtake a head which rushed
on in advance ; the sooner to get at some
task. The whole personality breathed a
restless, eager energy, a haste to do
things that made the loiterers under the
trees, desire to be np and about some,
thing.
"A word with you, Doctor,” stopped
him at the foot of the steps, and au in
terested face, all attention, was turned
to the Interrupter and engaged in con
versation for a moment, while the body
like that of a rnnner awaiting the start
er’s signal, was all tense for the instant
Juts
A LOT OF FINE
HORSES RECEIVED,
Messrs. James S. Cheney and B. C.
MoWhotter, who have formed a part
nership in the stook business, have just
received a lot of fine horses which they
will sell at prices that will astonish the
purchasers. These horses are now at
Carlton’s stables on Jackson street.
Mr. Cheney is one of the moat expert
enetd stook men in Athens, and Mr,
McWhorter, who comas to Athena from
Greensboro, and who will soon move
bis family here, has also had yean of
experience.
They are j adges of good hones if there
are any judges in Athens, and it will
pay any prospective purchaser to call
on them at onoe.
THE YOUNG NECRO
OF THE SOUTH.
Rev. W. D. Johnson, of
Athens, Writes on This
Subject.
Rev. yt. D. Johnson, of this city, one
of the ablest colored ministen in the
state, his published a pamphlet on "The
Yonng Negro of the Sonth,” it being a
commentary upon a letter written by a
white man savesal yean since abont a
yonng negro sohool teacher named Por
ter Tamer.
It is a pamphlet containing very inter
esting news on an interesting subject,
and handled by a writer who is very
highly esteemed by his white Mends in
Athens and elsewhere.
MR JOHN R. GAIN'S
NEW YEAR'S DINNER
He Entertained a Number
of Friends Yesterday
Mr. John R. Cain was the popular
host yesterday at an elegant New Year’s
dinner at his home on Oconee street.
A number of his friends were the
guests of the occasion and they sat down
to as elegant a repast as they ever en
joy ed in their lives.
Mrs. Cain and Mrs. Lettie Shy by
their gracious hospitality made eaoh
guest have a most enjoyable time.
The occasion wat one of great pleas
ore long to be remembered by eaolr one
present.
spring upward as the next to the
word was being uttered.
Such was the first impression of that
personality which, upon inquiry,
found to be Dr, Eugene O. Branson,
President of the Georgia State Normal
School.
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Dr. Branson is eminently a doer. Has- /
is so because with a great deal of natur
al ability, he is a “tremendous toiler."
He is one of those men to whom every ;
moment is precious. He seems to have
planned to do as much os the total name
ber of minutes of his natural life will
permit, and to constantly realize that
the duty of that passing moment most
be done then or the opportunity is gone
forever.
Such is the man who has made the
Georgia State Normal School in so brief
a time rise from obsourity to a leading
place in the South. Such is the man
who is attracting nation-wide attention
for his original and effective ideas of
what a normal school shonld be.
mt
NEW MEMBERS ADDED
TO THIS BIG
flessrs. C Q. and J. Y.
Talmadge Become Mem
bers of Talmadge
Bros. & Co.
Yesterday there was a ohange in the
firm of Talmadge Bros. & Oo.
Messrs. Olem G. Talmadge and Julins
Y. Talmadge were admitted to the firm.
This large grocery firm is now com
posed of Major John E. Talmadge and
his four sons, Charles A., John E., Jr.,
Olem G. and Jollns Y. Talmadge.
The story of the development of this
immense bnsiness is well known to the
peoplo of Athens. Major Talmadge
started in bnsiness with little or no cap-
itol thirty-seven years ago and has
aohieved success in a marked degree
until the firm now ranks at the very
top of tho grocery world of Athens,
The two new members of the firm are
strong and active yonng bnsiness men
unit their many friends wish them much
tunoess in theL- new business relations.
JUDGE M'WHORTER
MOVES NEXT WEEK,
Will Become a Permanent
Resident of Athens.
Next week Judge Hamilton McWhor
ter and his charming family will be
come residents of the Olassio Oity.
His elegant new home on Mill edge
avenue has been vastly improved and
beautified and It will be one of the Ideal
homes of the oity.
A worm welcome awaits Judge Mo
Whorter and family from their many
friends in this oity.
MR. L. H. BURGH
IS A CANDIDATE
In addition to the parties already i
tioned in connection with the raoe for
Sanitary Inspector, Mr. Lather H.
Burch is a candidate. This oontest is
i ii i i’ifli~ wHtffi
lively enough, and it is hard to predict
the outoome.