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THE GEORGIA NATIONAL BANK,
of Athens.
Capital and Surplus $350,000
Offers to depositors every facility
their balances and business respon
sibilities warrant.
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THE GEOf^pUf NATIONAL BANK.
® O of Athens.
Capita ^nd Surplus $350,000
Offers to depositors every facility
their balances and business respon
sibilities warrant.
COTTON, 15 1-4 c.
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ATHENS, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1911.
COURTHOUSE
WAS YESTERDAY POSTPONED
la View of So Many Citizens and Tax Payers Being
Out of the County on the Eleventh and To Give«
„ Full Expression and Free Consideration
County Commissioners Put It Off.
There will be no bo$d election in
Clarke county on next Tuesday. The
question will be brought befor* the
people at Plater date.
Yesterday at the regular meeting
-of the county board of commissioners
the chairman of the executive com
mittee of citizens, Mr. W. PC Dorsey,
president of tbe chamber of com
merce of Athens, and appointed to
head the citizens'.committee that is
1 in favor of'and working for bonds, ap
pealed before Hie board and present
ed a side of the question which hah.
been the theme of earnest'considera-
tiondfor sevsyal days. It was sug
gested to the board that if thcKelec-
tion is held «Hl the 11th—next Tues-
& day—a considerable contingent of th*
taxpayers of the county will not. be
able to e (press themselves at tbe bal-
(Hot box it was cited that there will
be n^ne-tenths of the traveling men
Pilose hemes are here dpt of the city
igor that day—they have property
here and will not be able to sayt
whether or not they want bonds for
a new courthouse: it was also re
mised that there will be n large
number of taxpayers who-kayd made
4*me time ago their arrangements to
out of the city and county on their
summer vacations, .many with their
families at the mountains or springs"
o- seashore resorts—and j$ney would
have no opportunity to vote. It. was
also called to mind that there are
© quite a number o£fj> usInes * lnen who
wtlLbe away at the i<orthejp markets
jus?*about that time and cannot, well
put off thelprjtrip. m View'of thefc
facts it was urged that: there will nop
be a representative showing Of the
taxpayers and tbe taxable property
of thejfounty taking part in the ex
pression at the polls if the election is
held on the 11th. In a mat ter'Of the
unusual importance of the purchase
of a site and the building of a $150,-
OOO^ourthnuse and jail that are to
serve the county for many years to
come it was suggested that whether
® on one side or the other every possi
ble vote should be.caet It was sug
gested also that most likely there has
not been quite ttih time allowed for
the proper discOCsion. consideration
ami digestion of the Important mat-
@ ter which the bond election was to
settle, and if the election is post
poned a reasonable time not-Only will
more nearly all the taxnayelrs be giv
en ample opportunity to' express
themselves, but they will have the
chance to express themselves intelli
gently—fully familiar with every
phase of the question.
On motion of the chairman of the
© hoard, Mr. J. M. Hodgson, it was de
cided by the board that “the election
for courthouse bonds be postponed to
some later date, as the people do not
seem prepared jukt now to vote off
the matter, and since the executive
committee f*ho, by the way, are fa
vorable to bonds) believe that it will
be fairer to the people of the county
generally to have the election put off
for awhile."
In addition, it has been found that
there are about 250 good citizens of
the city and county who did not pay
their state and county taxes till Jan
uary, February or March of this year
—under the state law they are not
eligible to vote in July, but would be
eligible' to vote In September or Oc
tober. There are a number alto of
,-young men who have come of age,
this year—many of whom can regis
ter and vote In the fall but who could
have no hand in a July election.- ^
In vlewgof all these facts it is Re
lieved that there would he a mirch
more nearly full and free expression
of the wishes.of the people If the
election is^eld in the fall.
’ COME SOUTH •
® ® %
While Canada, tbe East
and North and North
west AreSweltering
Here’s Cool.
(-Why swelter and sweat and suffer
and dri (locate with the hotness and
the heat stray up north? Why. «lie Of
sunstroke and prostration and exces
sive calorical effect, all it the same
time in Canada? You can avoid all
that by coming to the Sunny South.
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WEATHER: HOT AND CLOUDY.
THE FOURTH
Natal Day of the Republic
land How It Was Ob
served in the Classic^
©
© City of Georgia.
© _
NUMBER of foreigners ©
CLOSED BUSINESS PLACES
With Exeption of Banks, Post Office,
Telegraph Offices and Some Few
tOher Places Day Was Spent by
Athenians in Following Their Reg-
SJular Vocations; No Public^ Exer
cises Were Held. ©
The weak and 'intermittent pop of
a tire-cracker last'anight soon after
BEUE LAWS
Citizen in Interview Says
That Everything Should
® Be Closed Up On
£ 03 Q5L Sundays.
@ —±. B—
“DON'T MAKE FLESH OF
ONE AND FOWL OF ANOTHER”
He Believes That If the- Law Is
Against Doing Business on.,Sunday
Then -Doing Business on ~ Sunday
Ought to Stop; No Discrimination;
Every Line of Business Treated
Alike. ©
“I do not ''Believe that we should
make flesh of one and fowl of anoth-
dark half a dozen times or so, the er," said a prominent citizen jester-
ascent of;* couple of paper balloons
that quietly stole away to ©their
rooms in the attic, carrying their
candles with 'etn^t.wo flags In front
of a cigar stand arid one stjjjck on one
of the street oars—
And that was about the extent of
the visible demonstration in celebra
tion of Uncle Sam's birthday yester
day In Athens.
The postoflice observed Sunday
hours
day in speaking of the interest that
has been stirred in the matter of en
forcing the sta|e law against follow
ing one's regular vocation on Sunday.
“I remember.” said he, “several
years ago this law was attempted in
enforcement. The lid was tfbt on
tight—screwed down and theft sat on
severely. That list, expression is ad
visedly used. I remember when they
out the sale of soda water,"Ice
which are pretty tight cream, bottled drinks at the restaur-
MUCH INTEREST AEREADY
AUTOMOBILE
And For the Suit of Mahogany Furniture and the
Gold Watches f oj Ladies Which The Banner is
© J° Give ^ Wfl y > n Great Subscription Coo.
test #hicb is to Start Next Monday. » 0
SPEER Will CASE
.©
Now Cause Celebre Finally,
Settled by Writ Being
Dismissed in Su-
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preme Court.
S? The now famous case of the will of
Mrs. Speer, the mother of Judge Em
ory Speer of Macon and of Miss Lau
ra Speer of this city, has been finallj*,
permanently settled.
Yesterday the writ of "error was
at by coming to the Sunny South. li& ' lrs davs; the banking ants; (Agars and chewing gum came dismissed in the supreme court on
itt-Athens during the past few days j houses closed their doirs ttPtheir eus-] U nder the ban. cigars and tobacco j the part of tlle at jj^ rney for , he plain-
j ii_ Inmnro find rBfnolrll nliYoro 1 moot. .1 , at.. c. _ . *. 1 * 1
i: lias been warm—that is generally
admitted. But there have been no
prostrations from the ©heat. The
mercury has not had the temerity to
climb up to the-hundred mark—nor
has it gone above ninety-live. There
haa been all the lime a breeze—at
times more decided than others and
yesterday for awhile a thirty-mikt-in-
hour zephyr.
While in Canada ‘ at one point- tha
thermometer registered 1(1$ Sunday,
at New-York and Chicago," arii Bos
ton and Louisville, and Milwaukee
and St. Paul and all the other plaices
which C$e average Southron is wdftt
to think about as perpetual refrigef-
ntor-like burgs, there was death and
suffering and horror from the heat—
There, was very ilttl* inconvenience
from the heat away down h£re fn
Georgia, where-‘Ihe denizens of the
north are just as wont tochelieve the
temperature is sultry and trweitering
and oppressively intolerable in the
winter, let alone in the middle of the
scorching summertime.
Let the sorrte South to spend a
pleasant summer!
tomers and held stockholders* meet- and?Xhe deadly cigarette could not be
ings in f.he rear rooms and declared baa^without subjecting the procurer
prosperous dividends: the telegraph to the vision of a zebra suit. The
oflice" closed foftjai^ile and the opgj milk „ afi: ons w*te halted in the
ators and messengers boys sat on the j street®and turned back to the dairy
door sills j*»t outside the offices on —and til* n.ilk soon turned in’- the
the door of which was the slgn^ch
“Closed for th# Fourth." Several* to
Stores closed. In proportion to the
relative numbers there q^re more
business places operated by those
ri?lose nationality was not originally
American who closed their doors yes
terday here than of native Ameri
cans. -•
churns. The. ice man nobody wanted
l^jrbecaiise he was arrested in
the early quiet of the Sabbath morn
g>r carrying little^ white-strehked
lumps of water flavored with am
monia and uytting fourteen pounds of
iPin citizens back porches $0 the ice
tiffs and the operation of law makes
this action result in the affirming of
the judgment of tile lower rourt-“e1n
favor of setting up the will just as it
was written by the late Mrs. Speer in
this citj'^ :© ®
Thd&ase will he well remembered.
Mrs. E. W. Speer left two children—
Judge Emory Speer of Macon and
Mis*. Laura 3peer of this cihy—and
there was another daughter whq#e
death occurred some years ago, but
who had children living. The will
box or refrigerator before the pro-; ltft the estate, a considerable proper-
. , p RS tor awoV< " at the so,md of the 1 ty, by the wav, to Judge Speer and
There was no public speaking, no church bell—not for doing it in that,,,, is sjster _ Mjss Laur g )
way but for dilitig it at all he
picnic, no parade or military event,
no gala-time or holiday-a ttgje-spell
that anybody could see. The fire
works -jore nature's own last nighfjwash till slje just got the ironing
done at three minutes till twelve Sat
urday night and^k'ho was slipping ol'
MRS. W. FeCMG’S
FUrajJESIERDAY
Remains of This Good Lady Laid
to Rest Beside tbe Body of
Her Husband.
Mrs. W. E. Canning's funeral oc
curred yesterday afternoon at Gaines
ville, her home before the family
moved to Athens, and the casket was
borne to Alta Vlstx: cemetery, where
the view looks out to the mountains
of the Blue Ridge, and th£te the sim
ple interment service dreurred. The
pall bearers here escorted the casket
to the early morning traltl yesterday
and quite a umber of friends of the
family accompanied the bereaved
ones to the train and several went on
to Gainesville.
CHRISTIAN PASTOR
OFF TO HORTHFIELD
Rev. Mr. Grubb, After Running
a Meeting at Maysviile,
® Mil Go North.
Rev. Stanley R. Grubb, pastor of
the Qbriataiii church, will leave In a
few days for Mftysville where he will
conduct a "series of meetings. The
people of Maysviile have a real treat
In store for them and a good meeting
is predicted. After bis return he will
LAND SOLD CHEAP AT go to Northfieid to attend the great
THE SHERIFF'S SALE Moody Bible Conference the sum-
Yesterday Sheriff Walter Jackson
sold at the courfSouse for the city a
pi^ce of land belonging to W. P. Von-
derau, three and 'fi half acres on Wat*
er street, sold for city taxes. The lob
broughL-$12!j;and was hid lii by D. | each week will be made of the ser-
Mosa. ^ ® ® ‘ vices at the Chrlstain church.
mer—remaining there for ®ten days
or two weeks. $1 rs. Grubb will gO'dbn
to Buffalo to visit her father. -In his
ahUence »he®pulplt has been well
Just as the natal ,jjgj-. of the rqgjjiblic
was about to slide oif the calendar—
when the brilliant electrical storm
set the skies on fire—and it a-Taining.
At the county courthouse there was
unusual activity—sale (UP 4*d jSrtice
of the peace court in regular session
and the monthly sitting of t.he or^in-
busy (loings;; going on. 'At the ©ty
na#
vasf
pulled. The colored woman whom
the rain h*i delayed with the week's
Speer. i\
grandson. W, B. Thomas. ,Tr., of Fior-
mistis her ruffled things early in the
morning so she could go to meeting
and sing in the choir—she was ac
tually arrested in the streets of Ath
ens with her basket of clothe? on her
bead and was haled before the court
court and otter rather fliusualy^ :,and faced with a notice of trespass
on the ten commandments. They
hall tten» was equally as busy a time pulled a colored man for wheeling a
—thdugh the police had little to do
nil t.he day. The mayor held qourt,
(he clerk sat at the receipt of custom
as his custom is and gave receipts
out for. good chink, the marshal was
busy arid the other officials celebrat
ed the day bj-putting in a g(M»d day’s
work for nalive land and Athens.
The summer school at the University
.went right on with its work and a
more profitable and pleasant day has
not been spent in any ten* of the
summer school to date. The freight
depots were closed yesterday, but
the passenger agents did double duty
while the freight agents were off.
Indeed the day was % spent in
*1 raigh t American" fashion—every
body attending strictly to his own
business and doing it as quietly and
as well as might be.
Rife amfsane? Well, “shorely!”
A REAHTIFUt PIANO
1 EXHIBITION
At the Store of Mr. f). P. Hasel*
ton. Was Used by Con
testants at University.
Miy. Haselton ordored one of the
famous Pease Pianos several weeks
ago, and on its arrival iL.was at once
sel^ptei^for the Use of tie young la
dies who wtteri! contesting *8r the
$300.00 prize, last week at the cbapg(
of the State University, at the meet
ing of the prize winqers inPthe iririslc
departments of the Sigh schools all
over the state. The Pease Plana*
have.^en on the market for sixty-
seven'years and r©k ■with the very
highest .grade.
wheelbarrow half a block. Well, that
may sound exaggerated—just ask
anyone who has lived'in Athens for a
dozen yea rs!
“I believe in the enforcement of
law ” he went on. "If t.he law says
that one’s regular "Vocation must not
be followed on Sunday, then one’s
regular vocations must he literally
tied out in the pasture by the police
man or t.he sheriff over Sunday; it
mustn’t he allowed to gambol about
the back lots even, let alone being
permitted to lope up the main streets.
But I want to see the thing done
right—make everybody who is not
doing a work of necessity or mercy
quit wortt on Sunday. The street
cars are not necessities—we did with
out them for quite awhile, if 1 remem
ber correctly and got. on very well,
too. The livery stables are not ne
cessities except in rare eases—there
are no livery stables in Greenland
and the people there somehow worry
along pre# well. The Sunday train
rarely carries a paWenger. who is
really obliged to travel on Sunday.
Cut. out, all these things along with
the refreshments and the comforts
that are sold in the summer.”
LADIES’ DARDEN
CLUB MEET THIS ,
IN6 ATJ
<§r
Thecladies' garden.^lub of Athena
willghold its re$jjlar meeting this
morning at 11 o’clock at the usual
place of meeting—the parlors of the
Young Women’s Christian Assoda-
ington and Thomas streets. There Is
taken care ot awl announcement!*! The piano Is on exhibition at Mr. business if extraordinary importance
—v ——v —mi »»-- —' Haselton's music store on College and every member is urged to be
'avenue. It |present promptly.
Ida, through Sis attorney^R. P. Jones
of Atlanta, attacked the will. From
the ordinary's court it went to the
superior court of this county and af
ter a hearing which last several days
Judge Brand directed a verdict in fa-
01 of setting up the will. The case
with its voluminous documents went
tc the supreme court. Tt had never
come to n hearing there when j-ester-
day the attorney for Mr. Thomas
dismissed the writ of error. Judge
Brand’s directed verdict stands as
the final adjudication of the matter.
The grounds upon which the will was
attacked were alleged in two counts:
Undue influence upon the mother by
her son. Emory Speer, and her daugh
ter. Laura Speer; and further, that
the testator was incapacitated to
make a will. These grounds were
swept away by the outcome of the
case.
MRS. J. W. DUNCAN 0
IRIED IN OCONEE
YESTERDAY P. M.
Yesterday afternoon after the ar
rival of the vestibuled train from At
lanta occurred the funeral and burial
of Mrs. John W. Duncan, formerly
Miss Christy of this city The ser
vices were conducted by Rev. Ilr.
Troutman, pastor of the First. Meth
odist church and many friends of the
family which lived here so long were
present' to express their esteem and
affection for the” deceased and their
sympathy for the living so sorely be
reaved. ®
Much interest is already expressed
ir the prize contest opened by the
Earner—the congest to begin neft
Monday. " ® -
1 esterday ti)ere were several who
stated that when the lists are opened
they, will have names of ladies to en
ter. At,.least, two entries ar« in sight
for the first day after the announce-
meitt appeared-y-two from the city of
Athens. One of them is a young lady
of sixteen; the other is an older lady
a married lady. There were sever
al yesterday in the city from sur
rounding counties and when the plan
was communicated to them it was
soon decided that Jackson and §co-
nee counties at least will start” off
when the entries begin with a con
testant. There will be others and
t.he outlook from the very beginning
of the Contest is that there wij$ be
enough to make Jhe running interest
ing and to give a fair chance -to all
-to win one of the prizes.
"It’seYour Automobile.
You have wanted 0 an automobile
and you did not. feel that you cared
tc spend several hundred dollars for
a machine. ? llere is the opportunity
to ge£. a standard, latest model Mai*
well, ' sixteen-horsefiower runabout,
easy and noseless, cheat! upkeep—
pretty and graceful in appearancer—
® And at negligible or no expense "at
ail. Your friends place your name In
the list of contestants. ’ They request
certificates for Votes for all money
paid to the Banner on subscription—
Daily or -Weekly. BannCT—from now
UU th«- contest closes thfcy cut oik
every coupon in the paper (and
there's one ift thif paper good for ten
vot**),— ^ ^ ® ®
Arid directly others of ywir friends
will see that you have a good many
votes. The standing .Will be frequent
ly published in the Banner. If you
get the highest number of votes be
fore the closing hour you get the au
tomobile absolutely free. ' ®
If you do not get the automobile
you have a chance to get as a second
prize, a splendid suit of mahogany
furniture—> - ou can see the suit*', at
Dorsey & Funkenstein’s. Or you
may get a handsome gold watch. In
addition you have a chance to get, A
watch anyhow—there are watches of
fered to the lady or itrl getting the
highest number of votes in Clarke
county outside of Athens, or In Oco-
M«, Oglethorpe. Madison and Jack-
son. One of the five ladies' gold
watches may .lie a very easy prize to
obtain.
Read the announcement on another
page—the conditions are plain and
the exact manner in which the auto
mobile. the suite ot mahogany furW-
ture, the five gold watches are tif be
given away is fully explained.
SPECIAL OUSINESS
MEETING TONIGHT
Tbe£e will be a special business
meeting of ' the members of the
Chrlstain church, comer of Pulaski
and Prince avenue, in conectfen with
tion building at the comer otgnfash^ the usual prayer services at 6 o'clock
this afternoon. There are several
matters which should^be brought be
fore the members and all are urged to
attend. _
B. P. 0. E. DELEGATES
WILL LEAVETHIS WEEK
Grand Lodge Will Meet in At
lantic City Next Week. Sev
eral Athenians To Go.
A number of Elks will attend the
meeting of the Grand Lodge of Elks
in Atlantic City next week. Among
tlio.se who will go from here are:
Messrs. E.. Bancroft, E. D. Wier, Her-
schel Carithers, M. C. O'Farre’ll, R.
E- Weir, C. B. Crowe, of Commerce,
Leak Smith, of Winder, and Dr. H. B,
Heywood. of this city.
Mr. Bancroft will stop over in
Richmond, Va., to visit his soa, who
Is attending a medical college in that
city- .Mr. Bancroft, Jr., haa. spent
three years there and has made a
most enviable record. He has been
appointed as one of the house ihysi-
clans, something unusual before grad
uation. His-tnany friends in this city
will be pleased to learn of his success
in his chosen profession.