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American State Bank
I ATHENS, GA. ,
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $144,000.00
Georgia National Bank
ATHENS, GA.
TOTAL RESOURCES $1,800,000.00
A. good resolution to make
is to put yourself in a position
banking connection.
Apply to the masses or men any tests indicates success or
ure in life, and none more clearly tban thrift will separate tk<
spectful and useful from tke unsatisfactory members of so<
Tbat is Andrew Carnegie s opinion.
Saving money now while you are
day by day, is like storing up p
you resources to use when yox
capacity.
A Savings Bank account 1
it provides you with a surplus
special incentive to save money.
Investment paying 4 per cent interest compounded semi-annu:
is worth your consideration.
iron
this institution opens to you its many
business relations.
laking more t
• future use.
needs exceed
Becoming a depositor
lig es and leads to broa
you
privi
your earning
This institution has the equipment and the organize
in a great many different ways in connection with
the best debt
d compound i:
preventive, because
terest gives you a
Consideration invited.
Your account invited.
ins. President Howell C. Erwin
Cashier Warren Smith
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THE BANNER, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER
1915.
FEDERATION 0 WOMAN’S CLUBS
Eighth District of Georgia
OFFICERS:
MRS. S. B. YOW, LAVONIA, PRESIDENT.
MRS. J. Z. HOKE, ATHENS, VICE PRESIDENT.
MISS LUCY ROBERTS,LAVONIA, SECRETARY.
[ acted upon later.
The ladles were delighted and com
plimented by the presence ot such a
strong, intellectual and co-operative
body of men and feel inspired to press
on in their civic work till our city
“blossoms like a rose” and may be
hailed by all who enter its gates as
the city beautiful.
HARTWELL’S CLUB’S
EXCELLENT RECORD.
The Woman’s Club of Hartwell was
organized in 1912 and federated the
same year.
The meetings are regularly being
held the third Monday in the month
at the homes of the members, taking
them alphabetically.
The club colors are white and yel
low and its flower the daisy.
The various departments under the
head of Civic, Education, Health, Lit
erary, Home Economics have a chair
man and working committee.
The civic department has just com
pleted a neat granite entrance to the
cemetery with some inside improve
ments, hedges, etc., at a cost of $300.
“Clean up day” is observed each
year, the council co-operating with
the club.
“Arbor- day" was observed this
year and a tree planted in the play
grounds of the public school. The
club was instrumental in having in
stalled drinking founts for the ben
efit of the school children. Last year
we gave a half scholarship to Can
ning Club girl for a six weeks course
in the State College of Agriculture.
Paid pledge of five dollars for sup
port of the Tallulah Falls Industrial
school.
Five dollars for premiums for chry
santhemums at Hart County Fair.
In November thiB year at the air the
club realized a clear total of. $59.00
from sales of- sandwiches and coffee.
Wo have now on hand $64.00. Wo have
no definite plans for future work bnt
hope to begin soon on a city park.
MRS. J. W. MORRIS, Reporter.
GEORGIA PRODUCTS DAY
OBSERVED IN ELBERTON
This day was observed by the ladies
of the Civic League in a sumptuous
dinner given to the dly officials at
the handsome banquet hall of the
Elks, which they generously tender
ed the ladies for this purpose.
Mrs. E. B. Tate, president of the
Civic league, took an active and zeal
ous part in arousing the interest of
the members of the league in a proper
observance of the day and arranging
to make the occasion -a success. Mrs.
Tate’s zeal and energy is sure to win
In whatever she undertakes. Misses
Nora Jones, Addie and Irene Brewer
with Mrs. W. O. Jones were appointed
to prepare the table and lay covers
for twenty-four gentlemen, and faith
fully did they perform this service.
The decorations were artlstioally and
appropriately arranged, making a pic
ture of beautiful designs and happy
suggestion. The dinner was served in
courses, every course conforming
Btrictly to the Georgia product law.
Oysters were served first, and thanks
to the generosity of our splendid mar
ket men, Parker and Evans; a Bruns
wick stew was sent up from their
establishment sufficient for the entire
company. Then ham, vegetables, fried
chicken, rice, pickles and salads, “fat
possum” and potatoes. A delicious
desert of charlotte and cake with an
ample spply of potato custard closed
the menu.
Colonel W. F. Jones, our efficient
city clerk and gifted poet, was toast
master and delighted the company
with a pointed and charming personal
poem as a prelude to the dinner. ’
After dinner, before leaving the
table, Colonel Jones called on Colonel
J. N. Worley for a speech. Colonel
Worley, who is a modern solon in
legal lpre and who can measure
lances with Pitt in oratory In the
courtroom, on the occasion tried to
play the role of blushing maiden, but
failed in impressing his audience with
his modesty, wound up in his usual
happy manner.
Judge George C. Grogan was next
called on and responded In his wonted
flowery style, throwing bouquets with
gracious prodigality. Mayor Nal, in
response to his summons, gave a very
bright, characteristic speech that
everybody appreciated and enjoyed.
Colonel Z. B. Rodgers gave a very
timely and well-appointed response
when caled upon,. offering some valu
able suggestions that were l'stened to
with interest and will doubtless be
The following-prizes were recently
awarded by the Civic League: Mrs.
T. O. Tabor, for the best kept lawn;
Mrs. Lon Brown and Miss Nora Jones
for the .most beautiful pot plants, and
Miss Ada Almond' for the most attrac
tive porch box. The prize offered by
the league to the colored people of
the town for the best kept yard was
won by Rosa Burden.—Elberton Star.
“CIVICS:”—LAWS EVERY
CITIZEN SHOULD KNOW.
(From the General Federation of
Woman’s Clubs’ Magazine.)
(By Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley.)
The following article by Mrs. Oak
ley, published in the Bulletin, issued
by the Civic Club of Philadelphia, is
a sample of the many interesting and
suggestive articles to be found in this
little Bulletin, which is issued month
ly during the club year for the small
price of 25 cents. It is well worth the
price to civic workers. The address
is Civic Club Bulletin, 1300 Spruce
street, Philadelphia, Pa*
Rubish.
The street of Philadelphia ought to
be clean if laws are all that are nec
essary to make them so. By an ordi
nance of councils, approved Dec. 3,
1879, it is forbidden:
“To cast or throw on the sidewalks
or public footways any fruit or the
peelings thereof,” under penalty of a
fine of $5.
By an ordinance of council, approv
ed March 7, 1882, it is forbidden:
“To cast or place in the streets of
Although the ordinance forbidding
fruit skins on the pavements, was
passed 36 years ago and the one for
bidding waste paper on the streets 33
years ago, it is .very evident that a
large majority of our citizens have
never heard ot either. No question is
more frequently heard in this city
than “Why canfiot there be a law
against littering the streets?”
At first thought it seems strange
that our citizens do not know of these
laws, but it Would be stranger if they
did know. Our people learn of the
doiag3 of council only through the
newspapers. Very few read the full
reports of councilmanic proceedings
unless something of vital interest is
going on, so it is highly probable
that very few knew even at the time
these ordinances were enacted, that
after date all careless citizens who
should drop fruit skins or papers on
the street would he subject to a $20
fine; and it is quite obvious that In
thd thirty years which have elapsed
since then the -knowledge of the <
istence of these ordinances has not
spread.
Why is there not some method of
proclaiming the fact to the public
when an ordinance is passed that af
fects every man, woman and child in
the city?
Why canont all the people be in
formed that after a given date it will
be against the law to do suph and
such a thing, and those who persist
in doing it will be subject to fine or
possibly imprisonment?
Would It not be a good plan to post
the text of new ordinances conspicu
ously in the court yard of City Hall,
that all who pass through may read,
mark, learn and digest?
Would it not be a still better plan
to have municipal billboards in the
different sections of the city, on
which, for the edification and instruc
tion of all citizens, the substance of
the city, or on the footways thereof, | new laws could' be posted?
any paper advertisements, hand hills,
circulars or waste paper.”
Notwithstanding this last ordinance,
the waste paper nuisance continued
so serious that on March 30, 1900, an
amendment was added, according to
which It is forbidden:
“To cast into the vestibule, or yard,
or upon the porches ot any dwelling
or other buildings within the limits
of the city, any paper advertisements,
handbills, circulars, or waste paper,”
and it is provided that “Any person or
persons .violating any provisions of
this ordinance shall forfeit and pay
the sum of $20 for each and every
offence." i
So far as" the laws against expec
toration and refuse are concerned,
Pittsburg has set a good example,
which we might follow with profit
To every lamp-post in that city is fix
ed a net metallic sign, wfiich an
nounces:
Spitting Upon Sidewalks or
Throwing Vegetable Matter There
upon Prohibited by Law.
Penalty—$1 to $50, or 1 to 60 Days’
Imprisonment. Policemen Will
Arrest All Violators.
The citizens of
learned from these
Pittsburg
lamppost
have
signs
that streets must be kept free froip
refuse.
. A .Pittsburgher who was recently
visiting in Philadelphia said to his
host: “There is one thing which we
Pittsburghers can give you pointers.
We don’t brag of our politics, we
don’t excuse our smoke, but we do
keep our streets clean. Why do your
citizens tolerate all these papers and
ashes and expectorators?”
Director Cooke is doing more to
teach the people tnan has ever been
d(>ne before in Philadelphia. He haB
Issued pamphlets and leaflets on the
subject of waste paper, and is always
ready to speak himself or send a rep
resentative of his department to speak
to any public assembly, large or
small. His “Know Your City Better”
exhibit iu city hall court yard was a
step in the right direction and awak
ened the interest of thousands.
'Women’s clubs and college settle
ments are active in spreading infor
mation on how to keep the city clean,
but with all that has been done, and
is doing, only a small proportion of
our great population has been reach-
i ■
Of course, we must infer that the
police are kept informed of such new
laws as subject citizens who do not
obey them to arrest and punishment.
And we all believe it would aid great
ly to keep the city clean if policemen
would stop offenders and .warn them
that it is against the law to expec
torate upon the streets or litter them
With waste. We know tlfkt policemen
do this very thing in European cities.
The trouble here is, of course, that
we permit politics to get into every
thing—even a policeman’s duties to
the public. Director Porter has, it is
true, established a new order of things
in Philadelphia. The force has been
taken out of politics, and policemen
learn the details of their business in
training schools, even as the London
policemen do. But when one of this
organized force arrests a man for ex
pectorating upon the pavements or
littering them with waste, or commit
ting some other so-called minor of
fense, the offender is quite likely to
be released by the magistrate on the
ground that he is too poor to pay the
fine, or that he has a wife and ten
children and therefore must not Hk
imprisoned. If a man is allowed to 1
break one law because he has a wife
and ten children, there is no reason
Why he should not be allowed to
break every law for the same reason.
It is possible, of course, that the mag
istrate, in favoring the man with a
wife find ten children, is actuated by
a desire to encourage the opponents
of race suicide; or, again, it may be
possible that the man is released be
cause he and the ten children are of
may become supporters of the polit
ical party represented by the magis
trate.
A new method of punishment might
easily be adopted which would meet
either possibility. Our proposed lamp-
post signs could announce:
Spibtin Upon Sidewalks or Throwing
Waste Matter Thereupon Prohib
ited by Law. Penalty—Of
fenders will clean up what
they let fall. Policemen
will enforce this
penalty on the
spot.
This penalty, summarily enforced,
might not be strictly constitutional;
but it would doubtless be quite as con
stitutional as to release a law-breaker
because of his political affiliations or
because he has, or says he has, a
wife and ten children.
VHE GEORGIA SOROGIS
DELIGHTFULLY ENTERTAINED
[Mrs. Harry E. Hawes was hostess
for the December meeting of Georgia
Sorosis at her mother’s beautiful
home, “The Oaks.” The house was
ngsonH
artistically decorated and cherry fires
in living room and dining room made
the even more attractive.
Two splendid papers on ancient
Egypt by Mesdames Rich and J. Mat
tox, and vocal and ' instrumental so
los by Mrs. Hunter and Miss Wright,
composed the interesting program.
A delicious salad course was serv
ed and the exquisite Irish crochet .
hutch malts used were the work of
the chatefllaine of the house.
Misses Thelma Wright, Mildred ;
Payne,-Margaret-Jones and MrS'.- R.
F. Wright assisted the hostess.
Those present were: Mrb. Julian
Brewer, Mts. W. F. Jones, Mrs. R. E.
Oglesby, Mrs. W. C. Smith, Mrs. Har
ris, Mrs. J. M. Wester, Mts. C. J. Al-
mand, Mrs. M. S. Stevens, Mrs. Ade
line Deadwyler, Mrs. Rich, Mrs. L G.
Swift, Mrs. Duncan Tull, Mts. Harry
Oeaveland, Mrs. Wtdgbt Tate, Mrs.
W. E. Snowden, Mts. A. S. Hawes,
Mrs. J. A. Champion, Mrs. C. D. Auld,
Mrs. Mary Jim Thurmond, Mrs. Mor
ton, Miu. H. P. Hunter, Mrs. J. Mat
tox, Mrs. A. J. Little, Miss Gertrude
Fortson, Mrs. Dudley Shepherd.
(Signed) MBS J. WRIGHT TATE,
Corresponding Secretary.
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