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The Georjla National Bank
Of Athens, Capital $100,000.
Offers to depositors every facility their
balances, business and responsibility
warrant.
ATHEN
ANNER.
The Georgia National Bank
Of Athens. Capital $100,000.
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ESTABLISHED 1832.
ATHENS, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1903.
$5.00 A YEAR
THE NORMAL SCHOOL
CLO® YESTERDAY
Sermon by Rev. D. W. Brannen Sunday Morning. Elo
quent and Impressive Address by Pres. Myron T.
Scudder, of New Paltz, New York, Yesterday
Morning. Graduates Given Diplomas.
The State Normal School hu closet;
for the session and will not re opeu until
next September. The more than four
hundred young men and women in at
tendance upon that institution hare re-
turned to their homes and the oampus
has a d serted look.
The annual sermon was preached at
the Normal School auditorium Sunday
morning in the presence of a large con
gregation by Rev. D W. Brannen, of
UilledgeTille. Dr. Bratn >n took as his
text: "Follow Me." and his remarks
were addressed to the various qualities
that go to make up true disoipleship.
The sermon abounded in lessons of the
greatest importance to the young aud
was one of the most profound utterances
ever delivered in this city. The music
arranged for the occasion was inspiring.
The regular commeceement day exer-
olses were held at th auditorium yes
terday morning at eleven o'clook. They
were opened with a song by the school
and followed by prayer by Dr. Isaao S.
Hopkins, pastor of the first Methodist
church of this city. The Glee Club then
sang beautifully the song "I Know a
Bauk Whereon the Wild Thyme
Grows.”
The annual address was delivered by
Mr. Myron T. Scndder, president of the
State Normal School at New Paltz. New
York. It was a masterful address, the
remarks at the speaker being directed to
the subject of Manual Training
Mr. Scndder said in part: “There
never has been a time when the careful,
skillful training of children was so nec
essary as now. The child of today is to
be called on to face greater difficulties,
graver crises, more complicated social
problems than have evet before como up
for solution. Owing to the unbearable
conditions of rural life in many sections
of the country there Is a general exodus
taking place ; people are fugitives from
farms, seeking relief in the more attrac
tive life of the cities. IuvestigstioD
shows the following results: Rosds
deteriorate, mortgages multiply and
value of lauds decreases; churches and
schools weaken aud die out and a gen
eral exchange of foreign for native stock
takes place. With decreasing popula
tlou and bad roads there comes au isola
tion that leads to degeneration and de
moralization. producing such vicious
communities as we are only too well
acquainted with both North and South.
‘If this migration continues,’ says Dr.
Jo-iuh Strong, 'and no new preventive
measures are devised, I see no reason
why isolation, ignorauoe, vice and de
gradation should not tnorease in the
country until we have a rural American
peasantry, illiterate and immoral, pos*
■easing the right of citizenship bat nt-
terlv Incapable of performing or com
prehending its dntiea.’
“Such a condition at this has a pecu
liar significant'a for the South. The
populations of the North will be largely
udbaj in the future. I is probable that
the population of the Sonth will be large
]y rural, and since history shows os that
our Amoricnu farms have developed
praotically all the great leaders in the
history of onr country, the abandon
ment of farms is a most serious menace.
Shall we not have to look to the farms
of the Sonth more and more for onr
great leaders of thought and action?
“Now In the rearing of children three
institutions are vested with great r<-
spontibill y, the home, the ohnroh and
the Sunday sohool and the seonlar
schools. The church and the Sanday
school do not reaoh a very large propor
tion of our children and owing to the
increasing complexity of modern life
with its exceedingly wealthy classes on
one side and desperately poor classes on
the other, a very large proportion of onr
children are praotically without any
COUNTING
THE HOTS
Contest is Now Getting Very
Interesting With Many
Entries.
NlSCHURCH
h >me iiattaeiice, while thw home iollti-
Alice of hordes of other children is vi
tioas. The burden of edunatir'n lies,
herofore, on the public school system
How does it m*-et the responsibility ':
We are obliged to say not very satiafac
'orily. for our schools are not adapt* (1 to
the needs of the civilization of today.
"The traditional school lud for its aim
the development of intellect alone ; now
the development of the all-round man in
the ideal. The school house ev ry where
should be the center of the social life of
the community, promoting general con.
tentwent of the people by teaching and
fostering the simple arts of every day
living, of passing leisure hours, of proper
modes of amusement, of developing
habits of industry and thrift aud of in
culcating right notions of persoual and
oivio morality.
"A purely literary education is devi
talizing to children, yet as a matter of
fact most of our schools are devoting
their entire time to such culture. Ol
vast importance is it to so shape our
courses of study that the active physi
cal side of the child, as well the men
tal, has fall opportunities for expres
sion. The difference between a child so
trained aud one brought up in a purely
literary education was brought home by
the following experience : In our home
a Swedish girl of 14 years of age, was
employed to help care for baby and do
some up stairs work." She cohfd'see
when things needed to be done and with
out waiting to be told would uke the in
itiative, go aud do them. The spirit of
Swedish industry had done its work in
her life. She had had a schooling that
drew out the active side of her nature
and continually enabled her to contrib
ute materially to the happiness and com
fort of the family witn which she lived.
Her immediate predecessor in this j op
tion was an unusually attructive Amei-
lcan girl. But she was as useless and a-»
helpless as so many American girls r.re,
when it comes to the actual doing of
things arouud tho home. l£ was diffi
cult to see what her nine years of Mtht o
ing had done for her further than to
teach her to read and write. Daring
the formative period or her lif*’ she h id
beeu kept at her books in the attempt to
gain information much of which was
useless for mental discipline, inspiration
or utility. During these years the echoo
had, in a measaro, prevented her from
getting an adeqnate training in those
domestic arts in life that more than any
others underlie the comforts and hapui-
ness of humanity. Mothers are fre
quently blamed for not properly train
HANDSOME PRIZES
Will be Won by Those Who
Count Accurately—Guesses
are Coming in Rapidly
Prom the People.
if
Oconee Street Methodist
Clutch Building Occupied
|unday Morning.
THE FIRST SERVICES
l $T
Were Full of interest and the
Church Building Was Filled to
Its Seating Capacity— Build-
• ing Quite Attractive.
The Banner’s dot coute a t goes merrily
on.
From th^ number of answers that
rolled into thip office yesterday it was
evident that many people had been
counting the dots on Sanday. The
answers began coming in yesterday
morning early and jast before the office
was closed last night several more at-
wers were received.
There is still a wide difference in the
tUNwers. In some instances the answers
are several hundred apart. Is seems
that the people are not counting as ac
curately at the beginning as they should,
in their anxiety to get their answers in
ear:y.
The Banner has received several quer-
ries as to the prize list. If may be stated
that the first prize will be $25,00 in cash,
with additional cash priz s amounting
to as much as $25,00.
In addition to the above mentioned
cash, prizes amounting to as much as
$50,00, making a total . in prizes,
-iu~ - cash and oth«rwiee. _ of
at least $100,00. It will probably
be several days before the total prize
list is made up, but the foregoing an
nouncement should bo sufficient to war
rant the counters g«tting in their ana
wers as rapidly as possible.
The dots can be counted and they will
be counted accurately. The question
is, who will be the first to couut them
accurately and thereby secure the first
prize of $25.00 in cash?
BARNETT SHOALS
MAYBE DEVELOPED
Movement That May End in the Construction of a $500,-
000 Cotton Mill in This County and the Extension
of the Street Railway to Whitehall. This
Will Mean Much for Athens.
and card playing in an unknown art to
tin* vast majority.
"We do not believe that parents fully
realize the importance of training their
children iu the industrial and domestic
acts. Industrial werk has great discipli-
n iry value for the mind. It develops
the powers of obsercation and attention ;
it trains the eye, ear aud hand to preci-
sion ; it produces order, neatness and
accuracy ; it inculcates habits of indus
try aud thrift Thus it gives a toy more
than a trade, it givts him power to Bnc-
c-t d at any trade or iu any walk of life.
But it does more than this It li a is one
into a Aider, deeper sympathy with all
manual laborers. Fur if a man’s liras-
tnew building of Oconee street
idist ohntch was occupied by the
congregation for the first time Sunday
morning.
The and!orinm was filled to the ut
most sea'..ng capacity and the services
wet* of the most interesting charact r
Tbp services were opened with the
song.vOome, Thon Almighty King,"
and following tin song came remarks by
the pastor R -v. M. H. Kikes.
All Hall the Power of Jeans’ name,”
was then sung by the congregation and
a fervent prayer was off-red by Rev.
Ellison D. Stone. Lessons from the
Scrip tares were then read by Mr. Eakes
Rev. E. D. Stone addressed the con
grcgfUiou for about twenty minutes
during which time he gave a number of
interesting reminisc mces of the old
h, the different preachers who had
ipied its pnlpit and the good work
thgt.had been accomplished since the
organization of the cuundi.
itr. T. W. Reed in xt spoke on the
anwRpt' of "The Herbage of Oconee
tflfCPt’* -r.- . «
were addressed chiefly to the duty of
the members to hand down that glo
rious heiitage untarnished and m.diwin
ished to posterity.
Rev. George E Stem made beautiful
and impressive remarks in the congre
gation, after whicn tho patter m \de a
closing address. The pas’ur announced
that revival services would begin at once
and that they would be held each night
during the week ac the new church
building.
Sanday afternoon the Sunday school
met for the first time in the new build
ing. Nearly one hundred and fitty were
present and the Sanday school started
off well in its new homo. The new
building is in every w ay tetter and
more attractive than the o'd building
and the membership are already show
ing much enthusiasm iu the work. The
future of O'onee street church seems to
be bright with promise.
VETERANS LEAVE
FOR NEW ORLEANS
Quite a Party Left Yester
day From Athens to
Attend Re-union.
MaDj members of Gobb-Deloney
Gamp, U. C. V., loft yesterday for New
Orleans, where they will spend several
days thiB week in attendance upon the
annnal reunion of this organization.
The Athens party left yesterday after
noon on the Seaboard Air Line. They
went by Atlanta, where they took the
Atlanta and West Paint railroad. The
route was selected and all preliminary
details arranged by Captain J. J. O. Mc
Mahan.
Following is a list of the Confederate
veterans who went in the party :
F T Berry, J O Eidson, J F Payne, J
J Jennings, Robt Flonrnoy, W G Ca-
rithers, J G McElroy, W B Hosey, J W
Davenport, R W Pitman, J A Garebo'.d,
J H Jordan, Jas Wright, T A Jo' aJ
David Carithers, Whitson Jarrett, W F
Black, M W Pledser, S H Black, W T
Sorrell, J F Finch, J T Hamilton, S O
Daniel, John Potts, J J C McMahan,
Po^Uardeman, A P Oochran, G H
Smith, JOG Stephens, R J Sorrells, J
A Hunuicatt, Joseph Wotd.
The following visitors went along with
the local visitors:
Mrs J J O McMahan, Miss Helen Mc
Mahan, Mrs J P Fears, S A Fambrongb,
R M. Hall, A J Crowley, J C Sorrells,
and mind have by practice been ad-
iug their daughters when the blame j justed to the nicety requisite to produce
should rest upon the schools. ThH casa a finished piece of work, then will he
W A Mallory, H B Barber, J T Mar
shall, L T Carithers, J S Oldham, T P
Cooper, Alva Harris, Miss Rath Jack-
,on, Miss Annie Lon Matthews, Jas
Camak, Louis Cautak, J H Rucker, Miss
Mary M Hill, Dr and Mrs G W West
brooks, E S Dobbins, G W Qniuby,
Yancey Harris, F F Dawson.
There is a probability of tbedevelof.
meat of the waterpower at Barnett
Shoals and the nse of a portion of the
power in a big cotton mill in this connty.
Oapt. James White, owner of the Bar
nett Shoals power, has for some time
contemplated ti e development of the
power at that place, and there is now
ou foot a movement to consnmmate
those plans.
The fall at Barnett Shoals will fam
ish fully three thousand horsepower.
This is the largest waterpower in this
immediate section of the state. If it ia
developed about one thousand horse
power will be used in driving the ma
chinery of a new cotton mill that will
be bnilt.
In connection with the same move*
meat is one to construct an extension of
the Athens Electric Street Railway to
Whitehall, Ga., in the vicinity of whieh
place the new mill will be erected.
These plans have been discussed by
Capt. White and several Athens par
ties, and while nothing definite has yet
been agreed on it may be stated that
there is every probability of the enter
prise being carried to a sncoessfnl con
summation.
The proposed new mill will be a f600,000
affair and will be the largest mill in thia
section of the state. It ia not stated
what will be done with the remaining
two thousand horsepower that will be
ready for me when the falls at Barnett
that the owner of that property will
hold it for such manufacturing plants as
may be in the near future be established
iu this connty.
The development of this magnificent
waterpower will bring great prosperity
to this connty and the people of Athens
await with great interest the announce
ment that the plans for its development
have been completed.
KEYSTONE CHAPTER
MEETS TONIGHT
L. C. I. ALUMNAE
TO MEET FRIDAY
Important Gathering of the
Local Alumnae of That
Institution.
A LITTLE BABE
PASSES AWAY
Death of the Infant Son of
Air. and Mrs. W. T. Bryan,
of This City.
is bnt typical of hundreds of thousands
throughout this country.
“As a preparation for every day life,
for the kind of thing most children will
be called upon to do for so many hears
during each day of their lives, the enrri-
cnlnm mast emphasize the industrial
arts and sciences. A child when he
leaves school is not going to spend his
boors in reading writing aud arithmetic,
bnt in working, sleeping and eating and
antnsing himself. How important that
at school should be taught those things
that go so far towards making life beara
ble and even attractive in these particu
lars, cooking, sewing, the making of
beds, keeping things cleau, setting the
table, ventilating, caring for the sick,
first aid to the injured, beautifying
house and grounds. This applies also
to that vitally important matter of
pasting one’s leisure time. One doesn’t
want to read and study all the time he
is not working, sleeping or eating.
Proper amusement, play, is therefore
appreciate a welt constructed article
wherever he sees it and enter at once
into sympathy with its maker. Thus,
manual labor, dignified by intelligence
and by high ideals, not only aids in
life’s struggles, but tends to obliterate
class distinctions and to promote general
contentment
In conclnsinu Mr. Scndder paid a high
tribute to President Branson and the
magnificent work being done by the
State Normal School.
Following the address of Mr. Scndder
was a song by the school and then the
delivery of the diplomas to the graduates
by President Branson. The iollowing
re reived diplomas : Miss Xua Williams,
of Muscogee county ; Mub Emily Callo
way, of Troop connty; Miss Myrtle
Miller, of Folron county ; Miss. Annie
Jarrell, of Jones oennty; Mr. Angelo
Williams, ol Bnllooh connty; Miss Ella
Sands, of Harris connty -, Miss Tcmmle
Dczier. of Fnlton county; Miss Lula
Moore, of Greene connty; Miss Mary
Grand High Priest Will Alake
Report of Grand Chap
ter Aleeting.
Tonight at the lodge room in the Max
Joseph building Keystone Chapter,
Royal Arch MaBons, will hold its regn
lar meeting.
It is desired that as many of the mem
bers be present as possible as a report of
the Grand Chapter at Macon is to be
made by High Priest M. G Michael and
Soribe W. H. Shieb. There will also be
other business of importance to be trans
acted.
one of the vital concerns of life How Oreeswell, of Walton connty and Mbs
to enable a c xnpany to pats an evening I Lucile Stephens, of Fnlton county,
profitably without retorting to danolng I One of the interesting features of thia
commencement and one of great ap-
propriutiateness was the holding of Me
morial exerci-es by the sohool Saturday
morning in memory of the late Oapt. S.
D. Brad well, the first president of the
school, who died at his home in Florida
last Friday. President Branson made
an appropriate adirees in whiah he re
viewed the work of Oapt Bradwell and
recounted what he had done for the
interest of the State Normal Sohool
while occupying the position of pres I
dent .
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There will be a meeting of the alnm
nae of the Lnoy Cobb in Margaret Hall
Friday afternoon. May 22nd, at 5 o’clock.
All the old Lucy Cobb girls living in
Athens are earnestly invited to come to
this meeting to arrange for the annnal
reunion June 8th. This annual reunion
s now a permanent feature of the Lnoy
Oobb commencement, and it devolves
upon the local alnmnae to make it lar
ger and more enjoyable each year. Let
the alnmnae rally aronnd their alma
mater, and arouse a lively interest in her
welfare and snccets With the support
of tho vast number of daughters that
have left her halls, the Lacy Cobb will
keep abreast with the finest schools in
the land.
MRS BILLUPS PHINIZY.
Pres. Lnoy Cobb Alnmnae Ass’n.
MISS BASILINE PRINCE, Seo.
Sanday night at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Bryan on Prince avenue
occurred the death of their infant son,
Charles Proctor, after a brief illness.
The little boy was ten months old and
had been in the world jnst long enough
to become the idol of his fond parents.
To them In this honr of sorrow the
sympathies of hosts of friends are ex
tended.
The fnneral services were held at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan yester
day afternoon in the presence of qnlte a
large nnmber of friends. They were
conducted by Dr. I S. Hopkins and Dr.
W. H. Yonng, the remains being in-
terred in Oconee cemetery.
GIT! COURT 15
The X-Rays.
Recent experiments, by praotical tests
and examination with the aid of the X
Rays, establish it as a fact that Catarrh
of thestomach is not a disease of itself,
bnt that it resnlts from repeated attacks
of indigestion. "How can 1 cure my in
digestion?" Kodol Dyspepsia Care is
curing thousands. It will enre yon of
indigestion and dyspepsia, and prevent
or core Catarrh of the Stomaob. Kocol
digests what yon eat - makes the stom-
ach sweet. Sold by The Orr Drug Co.
Yesterday morning the regular May
term of the City court of Athens was
opened, Jndge Howell Cobb on the
bench.
This session of the court will probably
last several days, as these are a nnmber
of oases, both civil and criminal, to be
tried.
Don’t think less of yonr system than
yon do of yonr home. Give it a thor
ough cleansing, too. Take Hood's Sar
saparilla.