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CAPITAL *100,0*0.
THE QEORQIA NATIONAL BANK
Of Athans,
Offers to depositors every facility
'their balances, business and respon
sibility warrant
ATHENS BANNER
CAPITAL flOQUOMl
THE QEORQIA NATIONAL BANK
of Athens^
Offers to depositors every Hclllty
tbelr balances, business and (tspon
albillty warrant
CSTAELISHETD 1832.
ATHENS, GA., SUNDAY MORNIN dT DECEMBER 22, 1907.
$5.00 A YEAR.
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W[ShES YOU-
ONE AND ALL
“They really are the most happy, cheerful and merry people on the whole globe.”—Schwatka.
MICHAEL’S
The Store Good Goods Made Popular
A MERRY CHRISTMAS
MAY YOU AND
YOURS BE HAPPY
May each of you be cheerful. May you realize to the fullest the happiness, cheerfulness and merriment for
which this festive occasion stands.
We believe that you will be happy because you have been untiring in your efforts to make others happy.
We believe that no little stocking in North Georgia will be empty when
the dawn comes on the morning of the 25th.
This thought alone will add to your happiness, to your cheerfulness
and to your merry making.
In wishing you a Merry Christmas we desire also to thank you for your
generous patronage, for your patience while our store was so crowded and
for your many kind words to us and to our employees. They join us in the
wish that this may be for you all a happy, cheerful Christmas.
MICHAEL’S
THE STORE GOOD GOODS MADE POPULAR.
THE RAILWAY AGITATION
COSTS MERCHANTS MONEY
Large Merchant in This City Sho^s Wherein the Buii
ness Men are Heavy Losers Under the Present
Condition of Affairs. Taking off the Trains
on Several Roads will Entail Severe Loss.
CAT SUCKS THE BREATH
FROM A LITTLE BABE
Mother Awoke to Find a Big Black Cat With its Head
Close to her Bab\’s Mou h. When She Examined
the Ch Id it Was Found that Death Had Already
Come. A True Story From Hail County.
The decision of the Southern Kail-
way and other roads to take off a
number of passenger trains has cans
ed no end ot discussion among the
business men in all of the cities of
b.r
uf its
tin* general public on tit
inconvenience.
"The farmers and the general pub
lic. however, will not think of the in-
I creased expense to every concern
the state i sending out traveling men, anil to ev-
That this decision was brought \ ery traveling man on the road, to
about by the adverse legislation with j whom time is money. For instance,
which the railroads have been beset j take a traveler on the main line of the
In this state and other states there | Southern railroad between Atlanta
can be no doubt. The roads feel that j and Charlotte, X. C. Reduce the mini-
the reduction of their income has nec- j her-of trains by taking off two trains
essltated a reduction of expenses and i each way per day and in all probabili-
aecordtngly have been laying off work- ty you will make every traveling man
men in .their shops, cutting down the 1 who is making each small town as he
number of men on their trains and goes North lose on an average of
now are reducing the number of 2 1-2 to 4 hours per day in getting
trains.
' This taking off of passenger trains
on the principal railways in Geor
gla will be sure to do great damage
to business. The wholesaler is at
| the mercy of railway schedules. Give
him poor schedules and he is at onc»
badly crippled. The life of his bus-
j Iness depends on quick passenger ser
| vice In getting his salesmen to dif
J ferent points in the least possible
I time.
A large Athens merchant. In speak-
I tog ot this phase fo the cttuatlon,
The few weeks old babe of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Emmett, living at the
Gainesville cotton mills, was buried
yesterday, after meeting death in a
peculiar manner.
The mother was a Wakened by in
indefinable fear and .instinctively
reached out to ascertain if her baides
were safe. Her and touched the soft
coat of a large black-faced eat nestl
ing over the face of one of the little
twins. She struck the animal off,
arose, lit a lamp and discovered that
the babe was dead.
Only a mere scratch back of one
ear, where evidently a claw had pierc
ed as the animal was struck from the
bed was seen.
Many chimney-corner tales of cats
sucking the breath of young babies
till the child smothered or stifled and
old women's stories hare corroborated
these legends. But the instance above
narrated is reputably vouched for.
NEGRO PREACHER HUSTLED
FROM HOME BY NEGROES
Willis was Waited on by Negroee and Made to Runaway
From Home. Sensation in Oglethorpe County, at
First Attributed to White Men. Preacher
Has Not Been Heard of Since.
away from each station.
“As the average salesman on th .*
toad would cost his house at least,
$S.OO per day, this decrease in the
number of the trains has decreased
the traveler's efficiency 25 per cent.,
or is costing his concern about 32.00
per day extra, with less business to
show as a result.
"When we think that a larger profit
If not all of the causes which necessi
tated this change came from undue
agitation, such as we had in the last
legislature, trying to" save the 'four
million dollars,’ which Hoke Smith
told the farmers he wtould save for
trains from their runs'apd
1 Air Line six trains early
month.
reduction of passenger trains
course will attract attention from
&P-
I the Seaboard .
id yesterday:
"I notice that the Southern railroad
decided to take off sixteen daily them, the men who are sending these
travelers on ; the road naturally begin
figuring to see how much they save
' to off-set this $2.00 per day extra co6t
on their concents.
“Assuming that the stations at which
our salesmen would stop would aver
age.. fifteen miles apart, which is a
longer distance than the average
stop under the old regime, used mile
age books at 2 1-2 cents per mile,
the mileage would cost 37 1-2 cents.
By reason of the reduction effected by
the legislature last summer our trav
elers would get on the busis rate front
ne station to the other for 30 cents.
The business concerns in Georgia
sending out representatives therefore
have saved 7 cents and have lost ap
proximately $2.00 in effecting this sav
ing.
"The writer has had a sufficiency of
this kind ot “saving,” and trusts that
our legislature at its next session
may be induced to look at this ques
tion ss a plain business proposition
to he worked out by business methods,
rather than as a political deal for pol
iticians to ride into power on.”
MOVEMENT TO ENDOW
PERRY-RAINEY COLLEGE.
Rev. Hiram Rainey Endeavoring to
Raise Fifty Thousand Dollars.
Auburn, Ga., December 21.—Rev.
Hiram X. Rainey, of Bethlehem, one
j of the founders of Perry-Rainey In
stitute, at this place and one of tho
| most popular Baptist ministers of this
section, is heading a movement to
raise $50,000 for the school, half of
which amount is to be spent as soon
as available for better equipment and
the remaining $25,000 for a permanent
endowment. When $25,000 has been
raised the educational board of the
Georgia Baptist convention will accept
Perry-Rainey Institute as one its ac
credited secondary high schools and
will give it support and co-operation.
A few nights since a negro preach- | in this section of the state,
er named Willis was run out of Wolf- i His wife was left in the house and
skin district in Oglethorpe county, lone member of the mob, whose name
and has not been heard of since. I is know n, went into the house and
Reports were circulated that he attempted to assault her, but she
had been called on by KuKlux, giv- ! eluded him. The affair has caused a
en a goad beating and sent out of the great sensation among the negroes
county, and on the spread of this re- , in that settlement,
port several negro families, who ha.l j
recently moved into that section. !
made preparations to leave at once. !
Subsequently it turned out that the j
negro preacher had been run off by
members of his own race. It is said
that the names of some of the ne
groes are known and that the grand
jury of Oglethorpe county will taka
the offenders in hand soon.
From the best accounts of the trou-
JAPANESE DOLLS FREE.
Every child who attends the mat-
I inee at the Colonial Christmas day
j will he given a Japanese doll ns a
; souvenir. The bill includes several
! acts that are sure to please the little
! folks and quite a crowd Is expected.
The admission for children to the
matinee is 25 cents and the curtain
will go up promptly at three-thlrtv.
hie it apj>ears that Willis and his
wife, who is a young negro woman,
had gone to the house of a friend in 1
Miss Sarah May MeElreath is spend
ing the holidays with her mother.
For Christmas:
Pocket Knives, fine quality. Scis
sors to sets, fine quality, at tha Tai
nt age Hardware Co.
Wolkskln district and were spending i bonanZil fnrms ' wlde
A Real Wonderland.
South Dakota, with its rich silrev
ranges
the night there. I&e in the night
a crowd of negroes came to the door
and asked for Willis. He replied and
-they told him to open the door. When
he did so they ordered him to get put
and that quick.
He asked them for time enough to
put on his clothes, which they allow
ed. He then came out of the house
and they told him to bump it and he
obeyed them at once. He ran down
the road and out of sight and has not
been seen since. The next day he
was tracked fpr three miles by his
tracks in the mud. It is supposed
that he will turn up later somewhere
and strange natural formations, is a
wonderful case of healing has lately
occurred. Her son seemed near death
In the home of Mrs. E. D. Clapp ,a
veritable wonderland. At Mound City,
with lung and throat trouble. "Ex
hausting coughing spells occurred ev
ery five minutes.” writes Mrs. Clapp,
“when I began giving Dr. King’s New
Discovery, the great medicine, that
saved his life and completely cured
him. Guaranteed fbr coughs and
colds, throat and lung troubles, by TV.
.1. Smith & Bro.. H. R. Palmer k Sobs.
druggists. 50c and $1.00. Trtxl bet-
tie free.