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Ed. Note.—This I* one ot .1 se-
■ rlcs of artlclte written by a staff
I'-, correspondent about the many
u'prosperous smaller towns In
fit- Athens territory. Prosperity Is
k- comlnjj to this section through
jr diversified farming and In the de
velopment of many small Indue-
which Is reflected In the
. splendid growth of many of
£ ’ tbeao towns.
i Nicholson, Ga.
I . fWniCHOLSON FOLKS /
Brag of the Best
jSL*\ Farming Section /
They Believe In
•'Live at Home'' .
' Will Build a
W Potato House /
pj) ’ (. Mammoth Crop of
jiwi Potatoes Assured
ra-.-t- targe and Progressive
Farmers
! It
gr?—•—
SM; ' ' (By Henry F. Saxon)
89 YEARS OLD ATHENS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 1921.
ESTABLISHED 1832
NTS
TO\THE PUBLIC
a?
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ilson,- Ga.-r-The town of Nich
olson, Ga., wa« originally established
as r settlement about the year 1876.
the irat building of the settlement
Sniper being erected during that
year. However, there are some older
ifousee In the neighborhood of the
town aa It stands today, one of these
9c Older houses Is said to be more than
^gBpp hundred years old. It Is kmnvn
as ' the James Benton house* Is now
Sh«; property of Mr. J. T. McElhan-
non and Ih occupied by negro tenants.
Sf-Apother one of the known olet
houses Is the property of Mr. J. U.
Campbell and Is occupied by Mr. A.
H. Baeby. This house Is said to be
:hty-flvo years old and Is known as
"Tuck lionse.’’
Other bouses not far distant from
Itho town limits of Nicholson nave
me appearance of not being muen
younger than the two mentioned ana
Rhus give evidence that here was a
community closely allied long before
It was thought to make the place an
jflicorporated settlement; and evident
ly, these old homos, some of them,
mark the sites of what must have
been In tbo younger days lordly plan-
jatlons, when the darkles of slave-
tilde generations tilled and labored m
Ipo fields and the grandeur of "do
figffhlte folks' houso” shone resplend
tally and “ole massa' an’ ole missus"
tyere hold In deep and sincere affec-
llon By their human chattels.
V The Town Incorporated.
JMchoIson was Incorporated by an
H .of the legislature about fifteen
years ago. It was, before Incorpora
tion! known as Cooper Post-Office.
The townds named In honor
present is aSiu£ ^M^lnhabHants,
W- probably more th*n that figure would
' he correct.
6* The community, though n Bnmll
yr\ ene; Is filled with a good citizenship
and Is the center of a fertile agri
cultural section which Is productive
of ghe crops of all kinds. It is said
. thaj .anything In the world may be
grown hero that can be grown at any
. other place and that the land wilt
yield abundantly.
. Tho farmers within this Immediate
territory are following examples set
by Ihelr brothers In other parts of tlie
country and coming to more and more
apply tho dlveralficatlon methods to
. their planting. .Here, aa in other lo
calities, the farmers and people gen
erally have been brought face to face
with the necessity of making prepa
ration to “live at home," In conse
quence of which greater attention Is
being given the growing of food crops
■ !~thaj^_IwretnTnro. While hog and cat-
»**rtle, poultry and the like, are not bid
ing raised for the general markets,*
there are many farms which are en
abled to furnish their tubles with
meats and vegetables raised right at
home.
Live at Home.
The cotton acreage has been de
cidedly cut down and the use of ter-
tllliers accordingly reduced. The
corn acreage has .been largely In
creased and the promised outlook ot
the harvest In this grain is highly
- encouraging. Tho crops seen by the
' writer all along the road through this
section are showing up fine. More
sweet potatoes are planted by the
farmers In the Nicholson territory
this year than ever before and It la
1 expected for the harvest to be a large
one. Plans are on foot for the build
ing of a potato curing house nnd II
the building of a public potato house
la not accomplished it Is the pur
pose of some of-the farmers to buiig
bouses for their own individual use,
as it Is believed that the value ot
such houses has been well establish-!
cd and have proved that the potato
crop can bo kept for a much longer
time than without employing tho cur
lng methods.
jLtfijf ’ > About Jhe Town Proper.
There are four church organiza
tions established at Nicholson, the
(Uethodlst, the Baptist, the Pentecos-
fal-FIrc-Baptized Holiness, anil the
Congregational Holiness.
Tho Baptist church Is served by
Rev. A. 1* F'ury, pastor of the Athens
West End church.
The Method lets have as pastor Hoy.
I B. w. Mills. There are about l»o
members of this church. This mem
bership was tho first religious organ
isation at Nicholson, and their build
ing was the first church building to
be erected at this place, which was
in J»08.
“‘ Tho Pentecostpl-Fifo-Baplized Hoi
tncsn church was organized- in IfitS,
end was the beginning of the entire
.Organisation at this place. There are
- twenty-one local members “*
Miss Lotta Levlnsohn.
Miss Lotta Levinsohn, of New York
City, is chairman of the central com
mittee of the Hadr.ssah, the woman’s
organization of Zionists, which has
under its direction a training school
for nurses in Jerusalem.
Tliis school will graduate its f^rst
class in November and will send two
of its graduates to America for spe
cial work preparatory to returning to
Jerusalem and taking positions on
tho staff of tho hospital. One of the
young women will train as head nurse
and the other probably as dietician.
The Hadnssah has, in the United
States, a membership of about four-
Missing Georgia
Postmaster Woke
Up Los Angeles
(By Associated Press)
Los Ano e,c s. Cal.— Be n L. Cum-
bu3, postmaster at Hahlra, Ga.,
suddenly came to himself here to
day when a man sitting on a
bench In the park taw him nod
ding and woke him up to prevent
him falling. Cumbus has been
nffsslng from home since March
1st and explained that the last
hd remembered was applying for
a vacation. Physicians thought
him a victim of amnesia. He
served overseas and was shell
shocked.
When the consolidation of the
Athena Banner and the Athens
Herald newspaper properties was
recently effected the new man
agement promised the people of
Athens'-when the trials and tribu
lations of moving, readjustments,
etc., were over, better and bigger
and more worthy newspapers In
the morning, afternoon and Sun
day fields. Perhaps the public
has been Impatient, perhaps we
have moved too slowly in making
these improvements. However
the promise will be fulfilled.
Athens will have better, bigger
> and more worthy newspapers In
the morning, afternoon and Sun
day fields In the near future.
In the short while In which
these necessary readjustments,
moving of physical plants, with
its interruption to operation, etc.,
have taken place effort has
been made on the part of cer
tain business men In Athens to
start another newspaper enter- .
prise to enter the daily field, al-
ready occupied and more or less
acceptably filled by the Banner In
the morning and the Herald In the
afternoon and with their consoli
dated Issues In the Sunday field.
The old owners of the Banner
and Herald before the consolida
tion took place have respectively
spent a good many years in the
Athens newspaper field and have
made or lost, Just as one may
choose to judge the visible result
of their years of labor and effort,
a good many dollars (Jo« or won)
in the newspaper game In Athens.
Incidentally we venture to assert
that If the Banner and Herald
had both been money makers,
that the consolidation could not
have been effected.
Itls also true thi*t in the recerjt
past months both Athens news
papers have been under option for
sale before the'present consolida
tion took i ‘
case was
elgn Interest
Proceedings Have Not, Yet
Reached Stage Where She
is Effected.
(By Associate# Press)
BelfaHt.—Ulster, at tho moment, is
not concerned with negotiations be
ing carried on by tho British gov
ernment and Sinn Fein, it Is declar
ed In Unionist quarters here. These
negotiations. It Is generally assumed
by the public, deal with the fiscal and
financial questions.
it Is conceivable, political circles
say. that In certain eventualities Ul
ster would become Involved, but that
stage In tho proceedings has not yet
been reached. No anxiety 1r express
ed In Unionist quarters, because
they regard the position of Ulster as
secure, holding there is no question
either of granting of a republic or
abandonment of the northern IrUtt
parliament.
Will Resist Order
To Increase Rates
(By Associated Pres,)
Montgomery, Ala.--According to l«
formation given out at llie capitol thlB
afternoon. Governor Kilby and other
state officials have decided to resist
ivllh every available resource the
execution In Alabama of a recent or
der of the interstate commerce com
mission for the Southern railway. Mo-i
Idle and Ohio and the Alabama Great |
Southern to Increase certain freight'
rates In Alabama to a level Vtth
rates between Meridian, Miss., and
Alabama points.
« me |«ii-gciis uviisu'iud' It
i place and (hat Ipvbeither ( ‘
i either a lpcit.or‘a lor- V V.
elgn Interest found tti*tAyat>flll- , !
option and for sale* V i
by Mr. Albert Davison for publi
cation.
As we have stated, the news
paper field; in Athens Is not pre
empted. It is open to all comers.
The new paper, If it should enter
the Athens field in either the
morning or the afternoon field,
will be Judged by a fair minded
public not by its promises before
publication but by its perform
ances after publication, just as
the Banner and the Herald will
be Judged by their delivering the
goods.
The costs of newspaper pub
lishing are familiar naturally to
newspaper publishers. They are
not so familiar to the general pub
lic. With no idea of discouraging
the new newspaper enterpriae for
Athens wc mention In passing
that 1$ cost to operate the Athens
Herald last'year over $72,0004)0
and the costs on the Athens Ban
ner were materially more than
they were on the Herald. In other
words the costs of operating the
Banner and the Herald last year
were around $150,000.00. For a
third paper to enter the flofd
means to divide the possible rev
enue on one hand and at the same
time to increase the prorata costs.
If It costs the new paper $75,-
000.00 a year to operate in line
with the yearly costa fast year
of the Hcr.ald and Banner respec
tively, it means that the Athens
field will have to pay $225,000.00
a year for the support of three
dally papers before any of these
publications can declare a profit
or a dividend to stockholders.
Frankly a third daily newspaper
in Athens to be eventually suc
cessful will have to either put the
Banner or the Herald or both out
of business, as the possible reve
nue to be developed In the Ath
ens field, at the present cost of
operation of modern dailies, will
not support and maintain and pay
a profit to three modernly oper
ated daily newspapers In Athens.
It Isn’t doing It in Atlanta. Will ^
It do it In Athene? •
of operating space and I
to ebourV«44i£lRment hs'
acts for enlargemsAT'to
lng and for new mi
The neW management which J’ chlhe^rT Within the next sixty
finally effected the consolidation S days we will be giving to the pub-
of the Banner and Herald took* 5 ,lc th « *ull and comoletc Asso-
over the properties, including the
new Herald building at $107,500.00
as a fair valuation of these prop
erties. The new management to
day stands ready to transfer these
properties to any reputable group
cf Athens citizens who may wish
to own and operate the Athens
newspapers for the exact cost to
them of these / properties and
without a single dollar of profit
to the present owners.
We make this frank statement
to the public because of a certain
advertisement appearing in to
day's paper that has been offered
Mic the full and complete Alto-
flated-Pf*’* neWB service and ths „
people pf this section will hs '0
an afternoon and morning paper
comparable to papers published
in Atlanta, Macon, 8avannah and
Augusta,
We make this statement to the
public in Justice both to them and
to ourselves, as our answer to
the advertisement referred to.
When the promoters of the new
paper actually publish their first
Issue, we will gladly welcome
them as contemporaries In the
Athens field, either morning or
afternoon, as the case may be.
Miss L. Trickey.
Cheyenne, Wyo.—The worse they
buck, the better Miss Lorena Trickey
likes to rjde ’em. No wonder—she’s
the world's champion horsewoman.
She won the title at the Cheyenne
frontier days celebration, against the
best women riders of the west. Miss
Tricked used to punch cattle.
Harding In Camp
Slaps Mosquitoes
During Week-End
(By Associated Press)
Big Pool, Md.—Far from the
care, of the presidency, President
Harding spent this afternoon and
night In a tented camp sequester
ed among the Maryland hills. His
companions are Henry Ford,
Thomas A. Edison, Harvey E.
Firestone and Bishop William F.
Anderson, of the Methodist Epis
copal church. The president
chopped wood, rode horseback
and, if fie had the experience of
those at adjacent press head
quarters tonight, he also slapped
mosquitoes.
L
VOTE INCREASE FIFTY
M
New Issuer t® Be Used As
Stock Dividend and Re
funding Debt.
Louisville.—Stockholders at a spe
cial meeting here today, on recom
mendation of the board of directors,
authorized an Incrcaso of $53,000,01*0
in the capital stock of tho Loufsvfllo
and Nashville Hallway company and
authorized the board to apply to tho
interstate commerce comuitaxton (or
permission to distribute tho proceeds
of the new issue as a stock dividend,
Steps also were taken to execute
a blanket mortgage on the company *
property as security for first mort
gage and refunding gold bonds to fund
as much as it was deemed neces
sary of the road’s debt, which, last
December, was $165,000,000.
SHAPE RAPIDLY
Important Matters Relative'
to Big Project to Be Dis
cussed Monday After
noon.
SEVERAL SITES
BEING CONSIDERED
A Number of Local Organ
izations Are Co-operating
in the Movement.
According to statements made Sat
urday by Sec. E, W. Carroll, of the
Athens Chamber of Commerce, ana
John A. Darwin, plans for the big
Athens fair this fall are rapidly round
ing Into shape and by the time the
month of October gets here every
thing will be In readiness for the big
exposition. The various committees
that have been at work for the pest
week bare about completed their
work apd will be ready to report at
the meeting of the executive com
mittee, which Is scheduled to meet on
Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Several altes for the fair have been
considered during the week and It Is
believed that when the committee
that has this in charge reports Mon
day 'afternoon It will have something
definite to say. The fact that the ‘
committee intends obtaining a per
manent site was made known late Sat
urday afternoon. The Athene fair Is
to he s permanent affair and It was
with this In mind that the committee
went into the selection ot a location
for the big project.
New Committees Named.
John A. Darwin, the chairman of
tho executive committee, announced .
Saturday afternoon that he wllMW;>
point several new committees at the
meeting to be held Monday afternooni
Theae committees will have charge
of the details of tho fair, such at tne
exhibitions, the prizes, the catalogs,
etc.
It Is understood, that a committee
from tho executive committee will at
an early date go over to Atlanta to
Interview the officials of the South
eastern Fair association, who ■ "
so kindly offered their assist*
making the Athens fair a bui
cesa. Secretary Carroll, of t(%
bor of Commerce, la keeping: In
touch, through corresi
the Atlanta association
that they wiU prdvc of material
/
keeping:lnVloso .
ipondonce, nvUh.,
on nhd It Is V- A
i4a
Where Disarmament Meeting May Be Held
START SOMETHING
Stop wishing for things: A bet
ter position; a lost article;
rooms: apartments; houses; or in
fact anything. You are not liv
ing the age of miracles and the
la mo thnt Atladin used to rub has
been lost, not-with-Btanding Chin-
Chin.
The way to get what you want is
to start it toward you, and the
best HMIe starter Ih a Banner-
Herald Want Ad. Once started it
will never stop working for you.
and a steady worker is even bet
ter than a fast one; but the Ban
ner-Herald Want is also a' fast
worker, therefore ideal. These
want ads keep right on working
for you until you get what you aro
after.
To reach the people of Athens
effectively— telephone 1216 and
give them the ad, or ask them to
send for it.
Pan- American Union Building in Washln gton.
|j^. (Continued on Page 4) *•* TELEPHONE 1216
Washington, D. C—The Hall ot
the Americas, the assembly room ol
the Pan-American Union building
here, may take a place in history be
side the famous Hall of Mirrors It
Versailles, where the world war peace
treaty was signed.
For |he international disarmament
conference, called by President Har-,
ding, probably will be held thero 0»
November.
“I am sure that the board of di
rectors will bo glad to place the
building at the government's dispo
sal," says Dr. L. S. Rowe, director
general of the Pan-American Union. |^ng it,
Tho Pan-American Union building
Is the most suitable building In the
world (or an International confer
ence.
Twenty-one nations—republic* ot
North, Central and South America-
contributed to the fund for build-
Seaplanes Search
Coast For Liquor
Smugglers’ Boats
(By Associated Press)
Cape May. N J.—Tho presence of
two navy seaplanes off the coast t<A
day gave rise to reports that air
ecouta wore employed In a hunt for
liquor smugglers. It was reported
that navy aircraft will scour the
coast of northasn New Jersey to Nor
folk and coast guards were ordered
to report any suspicious vessels.
FLORIDA WATERS SAID
INFESTED WITH CRAFT.
(By Associated Press)
Washington, D. C.—I.lquor smug
glers were said today by coast guard
officials to be creeping up the Atlan
tic coast because of increased difficul
ties of transporting liquor to north
ern mnrkets by rail after landing It
In southern waters.
Florida waters are said to be In
fested with swift liquor cralt, but
they are being seized dally.
project. _ • :>
Athens Women caope^st*.
Tho Athena women are cooperating I (
with the men In their effort to gwe <
to this section of the state the MpJ
gest and best fair this fall that W*-*,
ever been held anywhere. Throign
the Woman's club and othnr organ
izations the ladles of Athens are ren
dering this project an Invaluable
service.
Other Institutions that are heartur
rn-operilling In tho movement
State College of Agriculture, the Uni
versity of Georgia, tho State Normal
school, Lucy Cobb • Institute, the
Chamber of Commerce, the Klwanw
and Rotary clubs, anij praetlwuv,
every rivic und county orKftninpq
of any importance.
gw
Kidnaping Fraud
Alleged Against
Man and Womata
(By Associated Press)
Cleveland.—Chief of Police Lane-
downe and three detectives of Sharon.
Pennsylvania, came hero today to ar
rest a woman said to have been with
Thomas M. Randolph. In what the po
lice allege was a (50.000 kidnaping
fraud to victimize E. V. Randolph,
Sharon merchant, father of Thotnai
M. Randolph.- The latter came home
while the kidnaping mystery was st
Ha height. The woman was said to
be out of town today.
Turkish Nationalist
Capital Reported As
Being Evacuated Now
(By Associated Press)
Athens.—Reports that the Turkish
nationalist capital. Angora, Is being
evacuated and the populace tiding
in the direction of Stvaa, 230 miles
to the eastward, were contained In
the latest advices from the Interior
of Anatolia.
#
WHO’S WHO
WILLIAM BANCROFT STEEDMAN
IN ROTARY
l)y CHAS. E. MARTIN.
WILLIAM BANCROFT ST K RO
MAN, calk'd '’Billie" by hi« frieiida,
Ir, originally from Charleston, S. 0„
Kd Porter’s home town and, like Ed,
ho Is a bully fellow and Jt» nothing
if not popular and well liked. He Is
a merchandise broker and has been
In business in Athens since 1900, or
thereabouts. He is an Episcopalian
and belongs to the U. C. T.’o, the Y.
M. C. A. nnd the Clorerburst Country
club. In connection with the latlir
he has become a golf convert nnd In
now one of the contestants for tho
illustrated cup. "BIBIe’’ doesn’t go
In much for fraternal orders and W*
nothing to do with politics, bnt ho
makes a mighty fine citizen nnd Is al
ways found among the ranks of those
who are working for i£e betterment
of the community and d greater city
His office is on Foundry street ftnd
hi* home is 735 Mflledge avenue. Hi*
birthday Is November 10th. ’ •