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Capital and tlllyMIi
The Georgia National Beak
of Athao*.
Offer* 1* depositor* mi? I*
clllty their balance* and M
net* re*pon*ihillty vramM.
ATHENS, GA, FRIDAY HORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1910.
The Scene of Freshman
Banquet Yesterday Aft
ernoon. Sophs Kid
naped Freshmen.
extent that the annual gross profits
rfom It are In the neighborhood of
transfer is as good as concluded. The
monetary consderation Is not of as
much Interest to Mr. Hoxie ns Is the
assurance that the collection will he
taken good care of. The collection is
now housed 1 on the ground floor of the
Hull street place, where It will remain
until the representatives Of the Uni
versity claim possession.
FROM STATE BANKS
; 1 State Treasurer and Bank Examiner
.7 Pope Brown yesterday called on the
state banks of Georgia for a statement
of their condition at the close of busi
ness on January 31, the same, date as
has been fixed by the comptroller of
the currency for statements from the
national banks
'll There are now 497 state banks in
Georgia, nine of these having been
added since the first of the present
year. ■
RICHARDS—FELLOWS.
Popular Young Athens Couple Married
Last Evening at the Home of
the Bride.
It will be of more; than ordinary in
terest to their many friends in the city
to learn that Mr. Charles Stephens Fel
lows and Miss Rosa Virginia Richards
were last evening quietly man led at
the home of the bride In the city. Mr.
Fellows holds a responsible position,
with the Athens Engineering Company
and has hundreds’ ot-*flends who sin
cerely congratulate him upon his spe
cially good fortune jn winning the
hand and heart of so fait a bride.
Referee, Donahue of Auburn,
Umpire, Heidler of Athens.
Halves, 20-15. .
MR. .LOCKLIN OPENS ~*
Hew MEAT MARKET
At the corner of Baxter and Bloom
field streets Mr. Locklin has recently
opened up a new market and will op
erate it along lines which will appeal
io the patrons of the markets of this
city. He has long been In the stock
business and knows the markets for
good cattle and where to get hem. Ho
will endeavor to merit a large share
of the best trade.
The many friends of Dr. Henry It.
Palmer will, regre to know that he is
still confined to his home. He lias
been threatened with a severe case of
grip for some days and Is staying close
In to avoid further complications. The
many friends of the councilman will
hope for his speedy recovery.
LaGrippe pains that pervade the en
tire system, LaGrippe coughs and
strain, are quickly .cured by Foley’s
Honey and Tar. .Is mildly laxative,
safe and certain in results. X
1 ..NOTICE, 1 . ; .
We will have our office temporarily
it. the Commercial Hotel, office until
tka Improvements on the Nicholson
building are completed. , t-V ’
ERWIN & CO., Phone 345.
Dr. George B. Eager for many years
pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Mobile, Ala., will preach the Baccalau-
reao sermon at Brenau May 32. il
Smoke V. P. Cigars.
Smoke V. P. Cigars.
BARNETT SHOALS m * ™ aB
Nature Has There Provide
ed Advantages for De
velopment Not Found
in Many Places.
A force of half a hundred bands ia
busy at Barnett Shoals making pre-
paration for the immenso dam which
opment of electric power for more
wlR soon bo completed for the devel-
lights and motors for the city of Ath-
Thero is not a place in the entire
South possible so advantageously lo
cated for the building of a dam In a
short length of time as Barnett Shoals.
Nature seemed to have bad in mind
the plan that sometime man might
want to quickly harness the Oconee
for his use and comfort. These spe
cial advantages peculiar to the new
place now being developed are
brought out In a communication con
tributed to the Banner by "A Citizen.”
The letter is as folows:
Hr. Editor:—Will you kindly allow
apace in your paper for a little trip
and what I saw of a short trip
Harnett Shoals as what 1 saw there 1
know will be of interest to hundreds of
lieople in Athens. All may not know
that two Oconee's with many small
streams come together above Barnett
Shoals, making a large stream: the
waters of which furnish power to run
a large factory. Now below this fac
tory the river was divided by an island
with a good size stream on either Bide.
Now below this factory the writer was
amazed to find a large force of hands
at work employed by the Jim White
Power Company, and walking over on
the grey rocks over which one of these
streams a short time ago was flowing
unmolested to the foot of Barnett
Shoals. Now not only the water from
the race that the machinery above by
a dam constructed in short a time was
carrying one of these streams to eon-
‘ poet With stream on far side of island
from Barnett Shoals and now the
hands as 1 said are vigorously at work
preparing to finish a dam in the not
distant future again harness the wa
ters of Oconee river that Is soon to
turn spindles to give employment to
thousands of workmen in Athens. The
beauty of it is that all this going on
without injuring a single person as the
steep banks on both sides of Oconee
prevent the waters backing or injuring
anybody. I for one am ready to say
God bless Jim White and his compa
ny, for while I do hope it may pay
them yet for their money invested.
Athens will ho well paid in having her
Idle employed and all from the least
to greatest benefited, and nobody can
say you are backing your waters on
me, injuring land and causing sick
ness, death and sadness, by making
stagnant waters to kill the people of
Athens.
Ladies of Athens Are Already
Beginning to Prepare
For It.
The meeting of the Ladles’ Garden
Club Wednesday
Interesting yet
tion.
The ladies sp
cussing the best
gardening and the
i one of the moat
by that organlza-
! some time in dis-
ncthods of spring
. turned their atten
tion to the question of arrangements
for the fall exhibit, which Is always a
great feature of the work of the ctuo.
It is necessary to start this work
some time in advance of the exhibit,
as it takes time in which to get the
premium list in shape and thus let the
ladies know what they are to contest
for.
Each member of the club is expected
to secure as many premiums as possi
ble for this exhibit and a little later
the committees on the premium list
will be announced and will go to wont
with a will to arrange the best premi
um list yet secured by this club.
Since the meeting of the club the
president, Mrs. E. K. Lumpkin, has re
ceived an offer of a flve-dollar premi
um from the W. Atleo Burpee Co. for
the best sweet peas grown from Bur
pee’s soed.
UNIVERSITY PURCHASES
VALUABLE COLLECTION
Of Birds and] Animals of Chat
ham County. Collected by
Mr. W. J. Hexie.
For the Southern Mutual
Fire Insurance Company
For the Six Months
Ending Dec. 31.
From Auburn Five in
Hardfought Game by
Score of 40 to 35.
Peacock Star Red.
The semi-annual 8tatement of the
condition of the Southern Mutual Fire
Insurance Company of Athens for th^
six ihonths ending with the close of
December indicates the splendid shape
in which this home company ia found
to be. It has, of course no capital
stock. It has assets amounting In ac
tual cash market value, to the sum
of $1,109,709.44. These assets' are in
realty of the finest type and safest In
terest bearing security: bonds and
stocks, cash and interest. It has divi
dends declared and remaining unpaid
or uncalled for scrip to the amount of
more than $125,000; reserve for rein
surance, fifty per cent of the annual
premiums, nearly $1S9,000; surplus be
yond all liabilities, nearly $800,000.
The total Income from premiums,
rentals and interest for the six months
was more than $200,000 while he ex
penditures — expenses, losses paid,
(about $45,000) and scrip redeemed—
were a little- less than $180,000. The
amount of insurance in force outstand
ing was nearly $36,000,000, the greatest
amount insured in any one risk being
$10,000.
This makes a very fine showing of
the business done and the strength of
the institution.
Lucas House is To Be Moved
aad Thoroughly Re.
modeled.
SKATING ON SIDEWALKS
IS NOW FORBIDDEN
During the past few weeks I have
endeavored to persuade the older
children of tho city to discontinue
skating on the sidewalks so that the
little ones could enjoy themselves,
hut the nae of the sidewalks by larger
children with skates, bicycles, wagons
and other vehicles has become so an
noying and dangerous to pedestrians
that the practlec must he discontin
ued from this date. This is therefore
to notify one and all that all skating
on toe sidewalks of the city Is forbid
den under penalty of the law.
H. J. ROWE,
Feb. 3, 1910. 3t Mayer.
The news that tho University of
Georgia has about completed arrange
inents whereby it becomes the posses
sor of one of the best collections of
the birds and animals of Chatham
county, will received with interest
here. Prof. DeBoach of the State Cal-
lt-g of Agriculture has been conducting
the negotiations for this collection and
the following dispatch from Savannah
tells what has been arranged.
Savannah, (!a„ Feb. 3.—W. J. Hoxie,
taxidermist, of No. 1522 Bull street,
has determined to transfer his tine col
lection of the birds and animals of
Chatham county to the University of
Georgia.
The University already lias an op
tion on the collection, and the transfer
will be made probably in the early
spring. The price to be paid to Mr.
Hoxie for the specimens has not been
decided, but it is not believed there
will be any bitch in that connection.
it had been the intention of Mr.
Hoxie to have his collection taken over
and preserved by the city of Savannah
or by some society of citizens organ
ized for that purpose; but he says that
very little interest has been taken by
Savannahians in the matter of retain
ing tho collection here, in view of
which the taxidermist has decided that
the University is the proper place for
Mr. Hoxie is very reluctant to s-
the collection moved from Savannah,
which he says is the proper location
for it inasmuch as it deals specifically
with the feathered and furred inhabi
tants of Chatham county.
Mr. Hoxie has been very much in
hopes that an association might be
formed among the citizens for the tak
ing over and preservation of the col
lection In connection with one of the
schools of the city or some public
building. If a hundred citizens, he
says, had or would contribute a small
amount It would he sufficient to insure
the retention of the collection here.
As tho matter stands, the University
is almost sure to obtain possession of
the collection In fact, the negotia
tions are now so far advanced that the
FARMERS URGED
TO RAISE STOCK
Commissioner of Agriculture and
Assistant Commissioner Talk
on the Subject. $ ,
Atlanta, Fob. 3.—Agitation against
the meat trust and against tho increas
ed cost of living generally has given
he state agricultural department an op
portunity to call attention to tho fact
hat it has persistently and continually
urged the farmers aud producers of
Georgia to raise moro cattle.
Georgia has every possible advan
tage as a cattle raising state, says
Commissioner T. G. Hudson, who as
serts that the producers of the state
are simply sleeping over their oppor
tunities.
And yet. he points out the farmer
who raises meat enough even for his
own use is the exception rather than
the rule in Georgia.
“There is no telling how much the
state is losing as the result of failure
to give more attention to cattle rais
ing,” said Captain R. F. Wright, assist
ant commissioner of agriculture
Georgia buys approximately 225
carloads of dressed and cured western
meats, every week, at a cost weekly
of about $750,000. it is easy to figure
out what that would amount to within
a year’s time.
"There is no question that a speedy
market could he found for every pound
of beef that could be raised within the
state, and found right here at home.
We now have an up to date packing
house in Atlanta ready to handle the
Georgia product, as well as smaller in
stitutions of the kind in various parts
of the state.
“In addition to this there is another
advantage, the fertilizaion of the land
which comes through raising cattle. I
know of one farm in this state that
cannot be bought for $500 an acre.
Several years ago the same land could
have been had for about $25. But cat
tle raising has enriched it to such an
The University of Georgia basketball
five, going against the veteran team
that represi nted Auburn last night at
the local Y. M. C. A., managed to pull
out a well deserved victory from what
looked like a certain defeat, and the
largo crowd that filled the galleries
and {hronged the downstairs space,
was delighted with the contest.
From start to finish the game was
rough and though there was no inten
tional hard play, there was about "Ss
thrilling a struggle pulled off on the
local court as has ever been played May Ist -
anywhere. From the first whistle the
game was seen to be close, and It-ful
filled the seeming equality almost to
the last.
Georgia’s green five, only two of the
men having played varsity ball before,
held their own remarkably well
against the heavier and more experi
enced Auburnltes and by their accura
cy in shooting baskets when the
chance was given them won out
against heavy odds. The final score of
40 to 35 spells the closeness of the
hard-fought game.
In the first half Georgia opened with
a rush, and after Gordy had tossed the
first sensational fiold goal, ran up a
lead, which they managed to retain to
tho finish of the chapter. Five points
separated the teams when the whistle
blew for the end of the twenty min
utes, and athough Georgia showed lack
of endurance in the last few minutes,
both teams were going good. The
score was 25 to 20.
In the second half, the Auburn five
opened up. and with Wright replacing
the star forward Thomas, who had hurt
his ankle in a cou...,on, played a more
The University trustees will provide
an official residence for the Dean of
the University on the campus.
it h« been decided to thoroughly re
model [the Lucas home and make It
one of, the most convenient residences
on thejeampns wtihin'the next fe
months
The house will be mo'ved about two
hundred feet to the southwest of its
present location in order to conform to
the general plans of.Mr: C. W. Leavitt
for the improvement of tBe campus
property.
This work will be started within the
next few weeks and will be completed
. INLETS .
SENTELL WEDNESDAY
Two Lightweight Boxers Will
Go Eight Rounds in Local
Ring Next Week. *
The boxing bouts that had been ar
ranged for tonight at the Athens Ath
letic Club have been postpbned, and
will not be pulled off until next week.
Wednesday night is tho date, sfct for
the bouts, having been postponed from
Tuesday on account of coriflifcting at
tractions, and Glenn Colby has pfam
ised the fans an unusually good card
that night.
There will be a couple of classy pre
liminaries. two of the members of'the
club taking part in.each, and if poisi
be the ones Wednesday night-will be
even better than those of last week
The fighters in the prelimiifaris have
. . . not been yet iinnonuced. but the pub-
open game and had many more ljc ^ ^ the^-ill be.
“There’s money in it and I cannot
Forbes
— -— Gordy
understand why more of our people
Golden
—forwards— Thomas
have not. taken hold of tho cattle in-
— r — Wright
dustry.”
Peacock
—eenter— Locke & Major
Fort
— — Locke
Carter
—guards— Major
COUNCILMAN PALMER
— — Parker
chances than Georgia, but failed to
take advantage of them. The Red’
and Black five rallied after Auburn had
run up several goals, and with Peacock
and Carter playing all over the field,
managed to eke out a scanty lead and
held it to the last. The final score was
40 to 35. and only ten points f were
scored out of the 75 on fouls. Auburn
getting 4 and Georgia 6.
The offcials allowed the men to play
a hard game and the spectators cer
tainly got their fill of speedy scrappy
basketball, and from the mad enthu
siasm which greeted every Georgia
goal, and the applause that followed
tho sensational shots by the Auburn
forwards, the crowd took to tho- game
immensely.
Peacock was the whole show for
Georgia, but was aided nobly by all
Ids teammates Carter doing splendid
work at guard, Forbes and Golden run
ning well at forwards, and Fort played
a steady gaino at the other guard. Pea
cock scored an even 20 points, 6 com
ing on free throws from fouls, and his
“•ability to play all over the floor was
clearly demonstrated.
Major and Gordy were the stellar
j performers for the Auburn five, and in
the second half Major scored 8 of the
15 points made by his team, and also
got several pretty goals in the first.
The lineup was shifted after Thomas
was hurt and tho five semed to play
all the harder for the Iosb of their reg
ular. Gordy made several spectacular
field goals in the first half that receiv
ed merited applause.
Auburn plays the Atlanta Athletic
Club tonight on tuelr own court, and
as Georgia has a game with the Atlan
ta five this month, the result will give
some idea of the comparative strength
of the two teams, though Auburn will
be strengthened by another player.
Seals who could not work against
Georgia.
The lineup last night was:
Georgia. Auburn.
goodjonesA -
Th« main bout wilt be between
HaCkcnschmidt, the New York light
weight, and Jack Scntell or Atlanta.
Both of these men are in the very best
condition and will-be ready for a fast
six or eight round go Wednesday
night. Hnckcnschmidt is as clfever a
boxer as he Is a wrestler, and that is
going some, while the Scnteil lad iB
one of the best lightweights in Atlanta.
Colby went to Atlanta yesterday to
settle the details for this match and
will also arrange for some other bouts
in the near future. Since his meeting
with Kerr, the local public is anxious
to see the ex-Georgia athelte in the
ring again, and a match will be pulled
off in the near future.
The second of the annual class ban
quets was pulled off yesterday, but the
neat’ stunt that the Freships had plan,--
3 feed failed partially to materialize. ||
committee had decided that it"?
be a good way to evade the ever ■
watchful Sophs by having the banquet,:
out of the city, besides satisfying a
natural inclination for the county? any- “
way. They had accordingly ’secured
two special coaches on the Central
railroad and had sent all tj» viands
for the so-called feast, to the neighbor
ing town of Watkinsvilie, and planned - '.
to nave their feed eight miles from any
city and out of reach of the vexatious
Sophs.
But the brilliant idea of the Fresh
leaders leaked out, as all such things
will when the spread of the news
mpans a class rush; and the Sophs :
were ready for them at the train. The .jqji $
Freshmen left the University in a body |
and sneaked down to the special
coaches and locked themselves in but
there were only about sixty of them,
and some twenty or thirty were left .
outside. • ,i ['if!
Tho Sophs captured President Pea
cock opd several others before' they
reached the train, and tying them se-
cureiy, carried them to another depot.
and took them out of the city by rail.,
precluding their presence at-the ban.--
quet - -V’-jVij;
At the train the waiting Sophs fonncL
only locked coaches when the train!
backed into the station, and within
wore the gloating Freshles wearing a
sickly grin. The vigilance of the
Sophs was rewarded shortly before the
cars pulled gut by the attempt-ot some
twenty Freshles to -get' Into the coach
es. j These .the Sophs fell upon, gnd
making them captive, tied their handtt
PLANS1SUBMITTEI)
FOR PARISH JOUSE
General Meeting of Emanue|
Church Soon to Consider?!?
Plans and Specifications.
Last night at a meeting of the ves
try of Emmanuel church, Prof. C. M.
Strahan of the University submitted
plans and specifications for'the new
proposed parish house and Sunday
school rooms for the Episcopal church
of this city. These plans contemplate
tho expenditure ’bf libottt; $5,000. The
building will be an elegant one and
adapted perfectly to the uses for which
it is to be occupied.
It was decided by the vestry meeting
to call at an early date a general meet
ing of the parish'at which meeting the
plans and specifications will He sub
mitted to the entire membership of
the church. It is likely that work on
th§ handsome-new structure will tie
beam In the early spring.
trophies of their conquestT
train finally ,-pulled out with the
rest of the Freshles barricaded inside.
Numerous upper.-classmen went silong-
to see the fun and the little towij ot
Watkinsvilie was scandalized by tho.
carryings on of the Freshles. who .held
their banquet, with as much pleasure
to thyir palates as if their class pres
ident had not been Ignomlnfbupiy cap
tured. . ,
Tho captives in this city wore bound!
and forced to wear the red caps’,which
the upper classes decreed should be
the emblem of the freshmqn, and then
after the train had long Reported were-
turned loose to be subjected to the
taunts of the Sophs* while their com
rades were eating up feed they bed
helped pay for, about ten miles away.
ThlB will probably close up the an
nual class scraps, and If the feeling in
the University and among the mem
bers of the faculty can by taken as an
index, this will be the lastvyeor of the
custom. Trying to break up the oppos
ing class banquet has caused*-' more
trouble than any other stunt of the
Freshles anjl Sophs, and this will like
ly bo replaced by some other method
of testing the valor and strength of
the two classes. The Red and Black,
the college paper, hab suggested that
there be an annual cane rush, a push
ball rush, or a tug ot war, and sotqp of
these ideas will probably he adopted to
take the place of the week or more of
scrapping which accompanies the ban
quet season.
ATHEhfs GIRLS AT*
v BRENAU COLLEGE.