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THE BANNER, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1907.
THE ATHENS BANNER
Published Daily, Sunday and Weekly.
H. J. ROWE.
. Editor and Proprietor
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TELEPHONES: Business Offlcs 75
President Roosevelt seems of late
to be quite attracted by some of his
"mother's people."
There is one tiling certain, and that
Is that nobody is going to knock a
chip off the shoulder of ‘‘Fighting
Bob" Evans.
There is a growing feeling through
out the North that Uncle doe Cannon
is going to be nominated by the re
publicans for the presidency.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun is ot
the opinion that the burning cf the
Kentucky tobacco warehouses may
bring the Georgia cabbage to the
front.
Atlanta's police authorities are wise
in keeping a part of the militia under
arms during the Christmas holidays.
Atlanta lias had one experience with
riot and desires no more of it.
Chancellor Barrow enjoys the love
and respect of the college boys. Tie
gold watch presented to him yester
day was evidence of this high esteem
And he appreciated the gift, too.
There should lx- something d ne to
decrease the numtier of mine explo
slons in this country. They are be
coming entirely too frequent and ar<
ocasioning too great a loss of life.
Chicago is mad at New York lie
cause New Ycrk took Chicago's good
money and sent her back cer'ilicate-
ln its place, at the same time loan
Ing Chicago's money out at good tig
ures.
The Farmers' Union knows a good
thing when it sees it. Therefore th<
Union is hacking up the University
Cotton Sell col most effectively and
urging its members to attend it wher
ever possible.
The i>eople cf New York had U
put up with another blue Sunday and
they spent their time under griy and
lowering clouds. This led the New
York World to remark that the blue
and the gray had met again.
The tigers in Georgia are getting
ready to swoop down on the different
communities after January 1st. At
the same time, the officers of the law
are getting ready to put the beasts
behind the bars. There is going to
be some fine tiger hunting in thi.-
ebate.
Just eight days more will the Atn
ens dispensary sell its liquors to the
people of Athens. Two Sundays, one
election and one holiday are to come
between now and the New Year and
that shortens the time of the dispen
sary. so far as the days of sale arr
concerned.
Clearing house certificates are still
moving around. If the money strin
gency Is not lightened up soon, the
time for the redemption of the certi
ficates will have to be extended. But,
then that question dees not worry
the Athens banks. They have not is
sued any- certificates.
It some of the people who are going
crazy over the parcels post law would
stop a moerat nand realize that it
would simply mean the crushing of
homo merchants by the big mail or
tier houses, they would not be so ram
' pant The troth is the home merchant
gives you better goeds and in the long
run sells them to you cheaper than
the big houses north, you see just
.What you are buying end if it does not
■nit (you yon can take it back. The -
patronizing of home merchants makes
a city grow-
GEORGIA’S-COURSE JUSTIFIED.
The State College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts was established in
Athens in 1872, and since that time
there has been more or less discus
sion throughout -the state as to the
wisdom of selecting Athens as the lo
cation for the college. There have
been many fights waged in the state
legislature on the subject cf the re
moval of the college from Athens.
The argument has been advanced ev
ery year during these contests that
the state agricultural college should
be a separate institution from the Un
Iversity of Georgia. This has been
the slogan of those who in time past
have attacked the University and de
clared tliat the funds arising under
tile Morrill bill for the support and
maintenance cf the state agricultural
college had been misused by the Un
iversity. It was declared that the
young men who desired to come to
tliis college (lid not care to do so be
cause they did not care to be thrown
in contact with the University boy
All this has been threshed over for
years until at last the legislature put
an end to it by appropriating one hun
died dollars to the state college with
which to erect, suitable buildings, and
now the college is an absolute fix
ture here in connection with the Uni
versity.
The position maintained by the Un.
iversity all along has been.a just
and sensible one. The fight to keep
the University and the state college
agriculture together has- been a
hard one, lmt. one that was backed
by the facts and the sound arguments.
fact, such was the idea of Senator-
Morrill, who might be called the
father of those colleges.
This was brought out most forcibly
a speech made a few days since
Burlington. Vt , in the state where
Sen.it: i- Morrill spent his life. A
plendid hall had just been completed
t the University of Vermont, a hall
o be used by tlie departments of tile
tate college of agriculture. Presideni
Siickuum in bis address said, among
Jtlier things:
And this is wh.it led me to say at
he outset that this would have been
v happy day for Mr. Morrill, not only
hecause here in his own state he lias
ceived. though late, yet heartfelt
md worthy recognition and honor, but
ilso because the one Morrill institu
ion among the fifty or more esta fi
lled under his act, the one institu
ion to which for :'.:i years he gave
hought and counsel and care, lias
it last a building which grr.ups agri-
tilture coordinately and self-respect-
ugly alongsi le of o:her department-
>f learning."
-ARMERS' UNION AND
THE COTTON SCHOOL.
The Farmers' Union of Georgia is
icking tin- University Cotton School
a most effective manner. The Un-
on News, the official organ of the up
on in Georgia. is urging the farmers
to attend the Cotton School, and as
i result of ihis strong endorsetpem
here will lie a number of additional
students here. The Union News says:
The members of the Farmers' Up
on throughout the state who want to
ittend the Cott n School to he taught
it Athens under the supervision of the
Dean of Agriculture, should write
M. Soule. Athens, Gn.. send him $]
or registration fee. also send him one
>r more samples of cotton, and thi J
houfil be done before December '25th
f you expect to attend the school.
"Brethren, remember til t a failure
'n your part to act promptly prevent
ed the Georgia Division of the Farm
Union from teaching a cotton
school last summer. Now do not wait
mil be denied the privilege of entering
school by failure to register iu
time.
"Every warehouse an 1 every county
union in the state should send a man
to Athens to attend the Cotton
School.”
Automobile accidents are now oc
curring in Georgia in larger number,-
ill soon lie difficult to decide which
causes the greater number of deaths,
the automobile or the steam railroad.
DeWitt's Carbollzed Witch Hazel
falve. Get DeWitt's. Sold by all
lrugglst8.
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4- ' THIS DATE IN HISTORY. 4
4- December 20. 4
4 1789—Bank of the United States 4
■4 began to discount. V
4 1803—The United States took -4
4- possession of Louisiana. 4
4 1848—Louis Napoleon took the 4-
4- oath of allegiance and was 4
■V proclaimed president of the 4
4 French Republic. 4
4 1862—Pegu annexed to the Indian 4
4 Empire. • i 4
4 1863—^General Grant established 4
4- his headquarters at Nash- 4
4 ville. - , -f
4 1864—Gen. Hardee escaped from 4
4 Savannah with 45,000 troops. 4
4 1X74—Italian parliament voted 4
4 an annuity to Garibaldi. 4
4 18S3—Cantilever bridge at Nia- 4
4 gara opened for traffic. 4
4 1X94—War between China and 4
4 Japan declared ended. 4
♦ 1900—Martial law proclaimed in 4
4 Cape Colony. 4
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‘‘THIS IS MY 56TH BIRTHDAY."
Theodore E. Burton.
Theodore E. Burton, the -republican
candidate for the mayoralty in Cleve
land. Ohio, last month, and who was
defeated by Tom L. Johnson, Demo
crat. was born in Jefferson, Ohio, De
cember'20. 1X51. After receiving :t
common school education lie went to
Oberlin College and was graduated
there in 1X74. Three years later lie
was admitted Jo the liar .and began
• he practice of law in Cleveland. He
took an active interest in politics
soon after lie had located In Cleve
land and in 18X9 lie was elected a
representative in congress. He was
lected a second time In 1X95 and has
continued to represent the Twenty-
first Ohio district. In the last con
gress Mr. Burton attained much
prominence by reason of his position
□s chairman of the house committee
on rivers and harbors. In 1902 Mr.
Burton published a notable hand
book. entitled "Financial Crises an 1
Periods of "Commercial Depression."
is a strong aupjrorter of Secretarv
>f War William H. Taft for the re
publican presidential nomination and
luring tin- past summer it was
Burton was favored by the Roosevelt,
unions! in political circles that Mr.
administration for the speakership of
Sixtieth congress, lit preference
oseph G. Cannon of Illinois.
NEAT POINT RAISED
BY THE INDICTMENT
Of Alabama Saloon Keeper
by a Georgia Grand Jury.
Columbus. Ga., December 19.—The
Muscogee county grand jury today
returned an indictment against A. H,
Cogill, a saloon keeper cf Girard,
Ala., charging him with selling whis
key without license, and the circum
stances of the case are quite novel:
On last Saturday. election day
when the Columbus bars were closed
a man in this city telephoned over
to Cogbill in Alabama for a bottle of
whiskey and Cogbill sent it across to
the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee
by a negro. The man paid the negro
for the whiskey and the latter was
instantly arrested by the police, who
saw the transaetten.
Cogldll remained in Alabama
throughout the transaction and there
is much curiosity as. to how he could
be indicted for an offense alleged to
have been committed in Muscogee
county.
The grand jury had legal advice bo-
fore taking the step.
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Kidneys
Inflammation of the blad
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A Week’s
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By direction of the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Athens, the follow
ing call of an election for Alderman
from the Fourth Ward, with notice
of the time and place of said election
is hereby given.
This December 9th. 1907.
W. L. WOOD, Clerk of Council..
.Vhereas;
By reason of the death of alderman-
leet T. p. Oliver, a vacancy has oc
curred in the office of alderman from
the Fourth Ward In -the incoming
ouncil, and that said Fourth ward
will be without full representation at
the expiration of the present term of
Vlderntan Rowe, whose term of of-
Ice expires on the first Wednesday in
January, 1908,
And, whereas, it being provided by
law that in case of a vacancy, it shall
the duty of the Mayor and Coun til
of the City of Alliens to advertise for
new election to fill such vacancy.
Now, therefore, by virtue of the au
thority as vested by law in the Mayor
and Council of the City of Athens, an
election is hereby called to be had in
the said Fourth Ward on the 20th
Jay of December, 1907, for the purpose
>f electing an alderman from said
ward to fill said vacancy.
And, whereas, under the charter and
laws of the City of Athens
is made the duty of
the Mayor and Council of the City of
thens to designate tlie managers
of such elections, and also the place
in the ward where the said election
is to he held and the time when the
polls of said election shall be opened
and closed.
Therefore, Be it resolved by the
Mayor and Council ot the City of Ath
ens, that the place for holiing said
election In said Fourth ward shall
be at the county court house, located
on Prince avenue, in said city, and
that the following freeholders be,
and they are hereby appointed man
agers to hold said election in said
ward, towit: H. C. Conway, Louis
Camak and John Bird.
Be It further resolved, That the
polls of said election shall be open
ed at 9 o'clock, a. m., and closed at
4 o’clock, p. m., on the day of said
election.
Be It further resolved. That the
Clerk of Council be and is hereby di
rected to give notice of such election
by advertising (as notice of the tlma
and place of said election) these reso
lutions In the Athens Banner, for at
least ten days before the date
'tohlch said election Is to be held.
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afford quick relief from all forms of
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NOTES FROM THE
LABOR WORLD.
• • •
• •
Union labor of Everett. Wash., has
launched a plan for a co-operative
grocery store.
Among the latest recruits to the
ranks of organized labor is a union
or the musicians cf Santa Cruz. Cal.
Organized labor of Seattle is said
to have carried out its proiiosed plan
of obtaining a coal mine.
Tlie Central Labor Union of Scran
ton. Pa„ has decided to build a 150,
000 temple for the use of the trades
unions of the city.
Trade sehiols to make "all-round
printers" out of apprentices will be
opened in every large city by the In
ternational Typographical Union.
America's first school for teaching
tlie' technology of banking is to be
opened soon at Purdue University un
der the auspices of the National As
sociation of Bankers.
Tin- Canadian government lias de
filed to enact legislation at Hie pres-
nl session of parliament providing
pensions for old age. The chief pur-
s to encourage thrift and sav
ing among the working classes.
carpenters’ union of Winnipeg
Manitoba, bosats of three men who
been continuous members of the
organization for more than thirty-six
ars. The union believes this sets
t record.
The Amalgamated Window Glass
Workers of America have obtained a
r cent increase in their wage
scale from tlie window glass manu
facturers, as a resuli of a series of
conferences rectnly concluded at
Cleveland.
I-aor Commissioner Doherty of Vir
ginia has begun an Investigation of
alleged violation of the labor laws
of tile state. Ten hours are fixed by
law for women and children under the
age of fourteen years, and there are
said to lie many firms which have
failed to observe the regulation.
At a recent meeting of the Woman’s
Trade Union League .of Chicago, the
committee on benefits reported a pro
position whereby all women trade
unionists of that city can have the
service of a physician for 10 cents a
year. The plan will probably be put
into practical operation in the near
future.
The Georgia Federation of Labor
has gone on record as deploring the
reduction of railroad rates and fares
by legislation, and opposing any fur
ther legislation of the kind. The con
tention is that labor conditions in
tlie south have been disturbed by
such legislaion and that the discharge
of men and (he reduction of wages
have resulted.
The 6.000 carpenters of Boston and
vicinity are to ask for an increase of
wages from May 1 next of 50 cents
an hour, or for the regulation estab
lished eight-hour workday. The wage
rate under the agreement now in
vogue and which expires May 1 of
next year is 43 3-4 cents an hour, or
in other words $3.50 a day.
Mexico, which for years has been
free from the question, is to have her
labor problem. This is made evident
by the call recently issued for a na
tional convention to. be held In the
City of Mexico next month for the
purpose of giving birth to a great
union labor society similar in its
scope and purpose to the American
Federation of Labor of the United
States. It Is the purpose of the pro
posed organization to embrace all
branches of labor in the republic.
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NEW YORK.
In
Use
for Over
Thirty Years
BY PINKERTONS
Xb conding Cashier Located
After Many Months
of Search.
Now York. D< comber lb.—-Tlie
Pinkerton Defective Agency in this
ity confirmed a report tli;n William
Walker, the absconding treasurer
oi tlie New Britain (Conn.) Savings
hank, had been captured at Ensenada.,
lower CV.llfr . nia. Positive identificat
ion has been made and Walker has.
consented to return to Connecticut
without resort to extradition proceed
ings.
Walker was am sted at a mining
•amp 15 miles from Ensenada, lower
California, which is Mexican' territory.
terday. He was taken by a repre
sentative of the detective agency .»
Los Angeles, assisted by a p.irty of
Mexicans. The prisoner was taken to
Ensenada, where his admitted id. ult
ras confirmed. He will be trans
ferred to San Diego. Cal., and thence
brought east at once.
Cured of Bright’s Disease.
Mr. Robert O. Burke, Elnora, N. Y.,
writes: “Before I started to use Fo
ley’s Kidney Cure I hail to get up from
twelve to twenty times a night, an 1
l was all bloated up with dropsy and
my eyesight was so impaired I could
scarcely see one of my family across
the room. I had given up hope of liv
ing, when a friend recommended Fo
ley’s Kidney Cure. One 50 cent bot
tle worked wonders and before I hail
taken the third bottle the dropsy had
gone, as well as all other symptoms
of Bright’s disease." Sold by all drug
gists.
TWff WIEN KILLED
IN FRED BUTTLE :
SPECIAL RATES
On Account of the Cotton
School Held Here January
6th to 17ih Inclusive.
The
farmers of the State will lie
interested to know that the railroads
have agreed to make a special rate
for the Cot ten School to be held in
Athens. Gn.. January 6th to ITtli in
clusive. Going tickets will lie on sale
January 4th to 7th. and will be goo, 1
lo return until midnight of the ISth.
The rate Is four cents per mile for
the round trip plus 25 cents. Tliis
correslionds to the old rate of a fare
and a third, and while tlie saving in
many, instances will not be large, it.
amounts to considerable where I ng
distances are to be traversed.
The [Kiint of importance is for all
who expect to attend the Cotton
School to make certain that they are
beneficiaries of his rate, or in case
the ticket agent has failed to receive
proper notice cf the same to lie sure
to secure a certificate so the matter
can bo adjused on reaching Athens
and a low return rate obtained. We
desire to call attention to the fact that
a farmer from Brunswick can attend
this school at a cost of 12.17: from
Thomasvllle for $10.81; from Valdos
ta for $10.57; and from Dawson for.
$x.41. It is quite clear from these
figures that any farmer in Georgia can
attend the Cotton School at a. cost
not to exceed $15.00 o $25.00 for all
legitimate expenses connected with
the school. This is einsidorably’ low
er than our first estimate and should
encourage many to come who have
hesitated in the past.
ANDREW M. SOULE.
President. Ga. State College of Agr.
Whitesburg, Ky„ December 19.—
Another feud battle was fought be
tween the Stone-Smith factions on
the Letcher Knott border today, in
which some forty shots were fired.
John Stone, reported leader of the
faction, wilto lias killed tiften men
during his day, was killed in the first
charge, while later during the siege
Kelly Smith, member of the Smith
faction, was mortally wounded, dying
an hour later.
Another of the Smith faction receiv
ed ]>erhaps a fatal wound.
Other members of the factions are
terirly wrought up, and another
clash is expected.
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FOR TONIGHT.
Jack Blackburn vs. Jack Mor
gan. six rounds, at Philadelphia.
Pa.
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.
On account of the death of Mr. .1.
W. Wier the members of the Oconee
Benefit Fund are hereby notified that
an assessment is flue. Please be pre
pared when the collector calls or send
to J. H. Mealor at the Athens Foundry
There are a few In arrears on the la3t
assessment which is past due and
should be paid at onoe.
4t J. H. MEALOR.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers ul this paper will be
tleaseo to learn that there is at least
one u.-eaced disease '.hat science has
been able to cure in its rat age’' and
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is the oply positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
onstitutional disease, requires a eon-
tltutional treatment. Hail’s Catarrh
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ly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and aa-
isting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in Its
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PAY COUNTY TAXES.
Pay your county taxes today. Books
close December 20tb. H. H. Linton,
tax collector.