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THE BANNER, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1915.
The Iliion Cafe, corner Broad St. & College Ave. “The Mighty Sweet” proprietor is now ready for the
holiday trade. Fresh and Extra Fine Fruits ot all kinds. Nuts, Candies of all kinds, Raisins,—
“The Best in Town.” Cigars and Tobaccos for regular use and for the Christmas giver at the
lowest prices. Don’t Forget the place. The best Soda Fount Service.
THE ILLION CAFE PHONE 1360
THE ILLION CAFE PHONE 1360
bank in Danielsville with the under
standing that the merchants of this
county would reimburse him, and the
committee has been able to collect
only $1,400.00 of this amount, leaving
a balance due of $1,100.00. '(Mr. Grir-
feth stated to the board that the city
of Athens would appropriate an
amount of $550.00, and had gone on
record to this effect, if the county of
Clarke would appropriate a like
amount. In view of the fact that this
road will bring trade direct in to the
city of Athens
County Joins City in Completing
Work on the Ila-to-Athens Road
i Oconee Council, No. 138, Royal
[vrcanum will hold its regular meet
ing at their hall on Lumpkin street
[tonight, at 1): 30. Election of officers.
By order of C. A. Vonderleith, Regent.
PROMINENT WOMEN OF AMERICA
TO AID ONCE WEALTHY FAM
ILIES OF BELGIUM.
road, an excellent highway approved,
as conditioned, by Prof. C. M. Strahan
of the good roads department of the
University of Georgia, and to meet
the expenses of the completion Mr.
Davis oh his own responsibility and
his faith in the pledges of the busi
ness men of Athens, who were to be
principally benefited by the new high
way, borrowed the money at the bank.
iMr. Davis last fall lost out in the
election which named county commis
sioners for Madison, opposition being
directed against him, it is declared,
by those who believed that the road
to Athena would turn trade away
from some other points in Madison
county.
The situation was taken before the
Athens city council and that body
promptly appreciated the conditions
and passed up the appropriation on
condition that the county help like
wise.
Action by Commissioners.
The section of the minutes of the
meeting yesterday of the Clarke coun
ty commissioners sets forth the ac
tion taken by the board:
•Messrs. Hugh Rowe, Andrew C. Er
win, D. F. Miller, Sol Boley, C. D.
Flanigan, W. T. Griffeth and others
appeared before the board as com
mittees from the Chamber of Com
merce from the city of Athens in the
interest of an appropriation from the
county of $550.00 to ppy J. T .Davis
for an obligation made by the said
committees of $2,500.00. Mr. Grif
feth explained to the board that J. T.
Davis had borrowed this money at the
At a regular meeting of the board
of commissioners of roads and reve
nues for Clarke county held yesterday
morning in the dtfice of Clerk Tate
Wright, the commissioners agreed to
appropriate the sum of $550 toward
the completion of the permanent high
way which now extends from the
city to the county line and from the
county line of Madison through that
county to Ila.
The city oi Athens had already ap
propriated a like sum—on the one
condition that the county do likewise.
The county has now done likewise
and the road project is completed.
•History of the Case.
Two years or more ago it was
planned to build a permanent road
from the Clarke county line to Ila—•
affording a highway into Athens from
one of the richest tributary sections
of the territory, to bring an immense
amount of business to this city.
Commissioner J. T. Davis, of Mad
ison county, got busy and secured
from his county the appropriation of
$5,000 if a like sum were secured
from the busines men of Athens and
the people along the line of the pro
posed road. The subscription from
the Madison county citizens was soon
secured and their $2,500 was in hand.
The Chamber of Commerce of the
city of Athens undertook to raise
$2,500 here. Part of the sum was se
cured promptly from Athens mer
chants and then war conditions broke
and the project lagged.
In the meantime Mr. Davis went
ahead with the work, completed the
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Dec. 21.—A new fund
in the interest of the distressed peo
ple or Belgium, to be known as the
“Cardinal Mercier Fund,” is an
nounced by a committee which in
cludes a number of prominent Ameri
can women, who have been stirred by
the fact that the suffering in Belgium
is spreading among “hundreds of
thousands of families
and other circum
stances of justification it was ordered
oy the board that an appropriation
of $550.00 be made and that the clerk
issue draft to Mr. J T Davis for this
amount to carry out the obligation of
the committee as above outlined.”
(Special to the Banner.)
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 21.—By what ap
pears to haye been the merest chance
in the world, a new kind of cotton
bas been discovered and developed in
kleongia, in which the government has
interested itself.
| A couple of years ago a man by
(the name of A G. Spiller, of Pike
Icounty, farming near Barnesville, re
ceived a shipment of goods from Eu
rope and in the packing were several
seeds having much the appearance of
cotton seed. Out of curiosity he plant
ed them and from the first planting
grew what was a peculiar stalk of
cotton. It was carefully cared for and
the seed taken from the lint of that
. one stalk were planted the last sea-
f son. Out of the second plant other
i stalks were grown and from them
| was gathered about 25 pounds of lint
I cotton. It is of a very fine texture
resembling closely wool. The staple
has been exhibited to a number of
people, among them agricultural ex
perts, and has attracted a great deal
From a number of
heretofore
wealthy” and to educational and
charitable organizations whose work
is being abandoned or curtailed be
cause their formerly wealthy Belgian
patrons are unable to render their
usual aid.
The Committee of Patronesses in
clude Mrs. Gerald Borden, Mrs. C. G.
K. Billings, Mrs. Joseph H. Choate,
Mrs.. Edwin Gould, Mrs. E. H. Harri-
Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. J. P.
The building committee, headed by
Mr. E. J. Bondurant, for the new in
firmary of the State Normal School,
an appropriation for which new
-building was recently passed by the
legislature, will in*a few days be ready
to advertise for bias for' the construc
tion of the build'ng.
A site has .been decided upon—on
the rise between the big dining hall
and the Mitchell’s Bridge road.
man,
Morgan, and a number of other well-
known women. Headquarters have
been established at the Belgian Bu
reau, 10 Bridge street, New York,
where the work will be directed.
The announcement says the fund
will be formed under auspices of the
Belgian minister at Washington, Em
manuel Havenith, the Belgian minis
ter of state, Louis de Sadeleer, who is
in New York, and the Belgian Consul
Pierre Mali.
ichigan and Vermont May both
Adopt Georgia Auto Law Out ight
Friendship.
There is no half-way house on the
road of Friendship; if you don’t go the
whole distance you have started
falsely
General at. New York,
The committee’s statement reads, in
part, as follows:
“From many authoritative sources
we learn constantly of the extremely
miserable conditions of Belgium. Mil
lions of men, women and children are
Hundreds of thou-
of attention, ft
sources where the cotton had been
heard of, or by those who have seen
it, Mr. Spiller was offered a dollar
each for the seed, but he declined, to
sell.
The matter was brought to the at
tention of the agricultural department
at Washington, and announcement is
now made that experts are to be sent
to Pike county to make \a survey at
the soil and an elamination of the
product and conditions under which
it was proauced. In order to make
further experiments it is said the fed
eral department will, if it finds it nec
essary, trace the origin of the seed,
secure a lot of them and find out what
can be done with the new cotton in
this section. .,
pamphlet form and mailed a copy to
the secretary of each state. tHe has
received communication's from the
secretaries of Vermont and Michigan,
both of whom liberally praise the new
Georgia law. Both those officials say,
in their letters, it is their intention to
present the >111 .to their own legisla
tures and ask that it be enacted for
those states at once.
(lipecil to the Banner.)
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 21.—The states
of Michigan and Vermont will be
asked, when their legislatures con
vene next tame, to adopt the new
Georgia motor vehicle law outright.
IShortly after the law. was enacted
in the recent extra session of the
Georgia legislature, Secretary of
State Philip Look had it printed in
ATHENS SAVINGS BANK SPACE ATHENS SAVINGS BANK SPACE ATHENS SAVINGS BANK SPACE
in abject poverty,
sands of families heretofore wealthy
or at least in comfortable circum
stances have lost everything. Includ
ed among these are owners of de
stroyed or idle factories and stores,
business men, professors, teachers
and artists. Many of them have gen
erously contributed of their own mon
ey to their less fortunate countrymen,
but, owing to the long duration of the
war, they are now, in their turn, com
pelled to seek assistance. And besides
these individuals, many most popular
educational institutions, charitable or
ganizations, orphan asylums, day
nurseries and societies for the pro
tection of young girls, which render
ed immense services) are at present
powerless to render their usual sen
vice, for lack of sustenance.'
“From such institutions, organiza
tions and individuals without number,
desperate appeals reach Cardinal Mer
cier every day, because he is the prin-
| cipal figure in authority now remain
ing in Belgium, to whom the suffering
people can confidently appeal for aid.”
BROOKLYN CEMETERY
WORK DONE BY COUNTY
Two college boys can get a nice fur
nished room with bath, after the holi
days, in good location, by applying to
Phone 947. dhtf
Deputy Warden Estes reported to
the board of commissioners yesterday
that the work he had been inptnicted
to do in improving Brooklyn cemetery
had been completed.
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Found: Nice pair gold eye-glasses.
Made by Moore, Atlanta Phone 272,
Mrs. Ussery. it
The Real Thing.
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portance.—
Y. W. C. A. Tea Room
Wednesday, 22nd, December
DINNER, 50 CENTS.
Grape Fruit 10c ’ Turkey Soup
•Roast Chicken with Dressing
South Carolina Rice Cranberries
Potato Chips 'Corn in Cream (Sauce
•Beaten Biscuit Quality Bread
Cheese Meringues. coffee
Vinaigrette of Asparagus 15c
Mrs Peeples’ Salad 15c
AFTERNOON ■ EA.
Tea 5c Coffee 5c Chocolate 10c
Egg Sandwich 10c Tea Biscuit 5c
SUPPER, 35 CENTS.
Hamburg Steak . Sirloin Steak
Creamed Potatoes Boiled Hominy
Batten Cakes Coffee Tea
Suggestive Gifts cf Practical and Permanent
The county, through its com-
m ssicners, will care for the <_>
deserving poor and will in emergent ^
cases lean a little to the side ol «
charity rather than let one in need hi
suffer, but it has determined that ^
those who ought- to care ior some of m
the poor who are wards of the county- »
bounty shall be compelled to do their ,z
duty. •>/, /- . j >
Yesterday at Jthe board meeting it
came to the knowledge that the hus- M
band of one of the beneficiaries of bhe z
countv’s poor fund had been employed x
for some time on a br-dge construe-
Uon gang near Howell’s Station, was
getting good wages, and was able to
care for his wiie and family here.
The board communicated with Jbe uj
brldga gang foreman and was in-
formed that the man, who had been ft
until reoently in his employ, had left
and was supposed to be near Athens. z
The board promptly directed a war- <
rant issued for his arrest on a charge i ^
of non-support of his wife and chil- o
dren. The county will not let tnW ?
sick and needy go without help, but ^
the authorities are determined that 05
those who can and should work for ®
their families shall be forced to do iu
Pocket Knives 10c to $100
Embroidery Scissors ... 25c to $1.00
Celebrated Clarke Safety-
Razors . 50c to $2,50
Old Style Razors .. . .. 50c to $250
Alarm Olocks ... ... 75c to $2.50
Air Rifles ....... ... 50c to $3.00
Iver Johnson Single Gun, with
One Box Shells ... ... $5.00
Oft Heaters ....... $2.75 to $16.00
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Cast Cooking Stoves with
ware ... ... ... $7.50 to $50.00
Turkey Roasters ... $1 00 to $500
Shears .;. ... .T. 10c to $1.p0
Razor Straps 25c to $1.25
Pocket Electric Flash Lights.
Pop Guns ... 25c
Hot Blast Heaters ... $10.50 to $33.00
Fleming-Dearing Hardware Co
STORE OPEN EVENINGS ULTIL CHRISTMAS
fve rtise your warns,
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