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IFIR^V’
iWISEST
Around Athene
i MR. WOOD ASHFORD of Wat-
kinaville, wa« in town yesterday.
Florida Fruit and
Produce Stand
For Saturday
10 Pounds 4 Of*
Irish Potatoes ""v
Also fancy Beans, Let
tuce, Cauliflower, Toma
toes, Bell Peppers, Cel
ery, Onions, fresh
Cocoanuts and all kinds
Of Fruits'. *
J. G. BROOKS
Fruits and Green
Groceries
Located at
Combination Store
orde:
ttWSoad” of "calcium amen.to
which will be sold to farmers of
Oconee at cost All the farmers
in his county who are able to buy
poison will use it but if they can
not get it Mr. Ashford says it is
a waste of labor to plant cotton.
NMESSRS. BUD MORRISON, Em
ory Lord, George Smith and Joe
| Jarmcr, leading citizens and far
mers of Jackson county, attended
the tax-collector’s meeting Wed
nesday. They say enough labor
is left to make a crop and .«<rm-1
ers will all go to work with a de-
termination t j ’..o something this
y«ar.
CHIEF BEUF.SE says they are
running up on an occasional sup
ply of boot-leg whiskey. It is
(cheap stuff made in the country
and brought to town. The chief
hays Athens is on a steady and
iconstant improve, so far as viola-
jtions of law are concerned.
THE FIRST PEACH trees are
seen in bloom this week. With
the advent of spring it is a de
lightful time to drive out in the
country. The many verdant fields
in smsll grain are a relief to the
eye.
CONSIDERABLE INTEREST
is taken in the race for Queen of
the White Way. That celebration
Drop Into Our
COFFEE SHOPPE
and get—
The best cup of hot
Coffee, the best Cake,
the best Buns, the
best Sandwich — for
light lunch that can
^be found in Athens.
BUY OUR BREAD AND CAKES THERE
AT ANY TIME.
Skelton’s Cakes Are the Better Kind.
SKELTON’S BAKERY
184 W. Washington Street •
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Athens* *** * oec ** ion foT
EVERY DAY strings of tourist
cars are pasing through the city
on return from Florida. Few stop
over in town, but most pass on.
MR. WILL SCOTT is shipping
many settings of eggs from his
White Plymouth Rock firm. He
gets $2 per setting, and says there
is a good profit in poultry. Clarke
county is fast getting to be quita
a center for fine poultry,
MIL SMITH, our postmaster, is
certainly the right man in the
rigM place. He keeps every de-
partment of the office under his
personal supervision and when
work presses shucks his coat and
fills any position.
THE RIVER STREET bridge
i« now complete and is ready for
laying the concrete floor. It is
one of t!-.e ’ best iron bridges in
Georgia.
. THIS WEEk MR. J. T. AN-
DERSON sold the 16-room house
nnd store attached, corner Jack-
son and S-Yong street, belonging
to J. R. Patton, to W. R. Porter.
Mr. Patton bought this property
a few years ago and made a pro
fit of about 12,000 on his invest
ment. The demand for city real
estate is increasing.
THE POPULAR STOKE oi
Henry's 426 Broad street has
beautifully decorated windows,
with the latest spring dresses and
ladies' goods.
MR. IIAKRY HODGSON says
their fertilizer frltory >is now
operated on full time and their
Mutwhas shoWs some improve
ment over last year. He says ev
ery farmer who can get poison
will use it.
MR. HAWKINS, a prominent
young business man of Hartwell,
was in the city yesterday. Mr.
Hawkins says everything is pros
pering in their town and county
No new developments in the oil
situation, but there ii unquestion
ably some, infommable stuff un
der the ground.
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' ■„ THB BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
Married Kiwa&iiansAdopiS. fCS.
But Bachelors Rather Be Adopted
Local “Builders" Enjoy Merry Meeting At State
Normal; Charmfed With Girls’ Hospitality
and Entertainment
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By CHA3. & MARTIN
if there is anything better than
chicken a la king serve*} by
kitchen orchestra with a wash
board, a iiotuto pestle, a dish pan
und skillet as Instruments It
chicken u la roost served In , a. lu
style by a quarter'hundred la
pretty Kiris to hulf a hundred a la
hungry men. And—
If there's anything t)iat soars
sbove> the discordant warbling* of
that Kiwanis Imperial Russian
quartet -that local members have
thrust upon them occusionully on
Thursdays it is the beautiful sing
ing rendered by fifty beautiful girls
—fifty more or less but all beauti
ful.
And you probably^ know what I
mean by now. The* Kiwanis club
was entertained at the regular
weekly luncheon Thursday nlgiu
at *he State Normul School, an in
stitution that Bill Meadow waqtqd
the club to adopt but after a con
sultation with Docs. Gerdlne. “the
little boy with the cute‘little mus
tache” so described by one pretty
little thing in white, Reynolds.
Ware, Fleetwood Lanier and t one
two more of the lovelorn wo
Economy Store Specials
SPECIAL PRICES FOR SATURDAY
10 Pounds Silver Leaf $1.59
24 Pounds Best Self Rising dM 1C
Flour 31.13
24 Pounds Self Rising QQa
Flour
Breakfast Bacon, sliced
Pound
10 Pounds Large Irish 1 Qa
Potatoes IW
No. 2 Can Tomatoes 1 9a
Per Can 1
Full Cream Cheese, 99a
Per Pound
Large Blue Ribbon, 90a
Large Size
Baby Lima Beans I 19a
Per Pound 1
Octagon Soap, Ca
Large Size Cakes
Carnation Milk fi*
Small Size Can i v w
Martha Washington Coffee
Forbes’ Golden Cup Coffee
Lettuce, Celery, Fresh Tomatoes and
Fruits •
COLLINS’ ECONOMY STORE
Comer Hancock Avenue and Hull Street
MR. WILL DOBBS, who was
bom and raised in Athens was in
town yesterday. He is now liv
ing in Monroe and engaged in the
real estate and cotton business.
His brother, John, also lives in
Munroe. They aro sons of Col.
S. C. Dobbs, an. old time Athens
Merchant wno helped to build up
per Broad street. Mr. Dobbs says
the farmers of Walton are this
year going largely in for peanuts
as they say tncre is more mon
ey in them-than In cotton even
with the boll weevil eliminated.
LOCAL FARMERS are supply
ing our market with Velvet bean
seed and which we once imported.
Mr. Busby of Oglpthqrpe, fraught
in a lond-of the ninety-day bean,
for which he found a ready sale
at $2.60 a bushel. The velvet
bean is a new crop for this section
and farmers sty if planted in com
it does not effect the yield of the
crop and the beans are worth as
much as the com. Nothing im
proves and builds up Rind like
this bean.
FARMERS IN TOWN say the
ground is very wet and they doubt
if they will he able to start plows
before Tuesday, But they sro con
siderably more advanced with their
work than at this time last year.
MIL CLAUDE TUCK says the
country is stripped of negroes and
much land must remain untilled.
He says farmers must turn their
attention to cattle and hogs.
There is no money in dairying, or
hogs either If you must buy feed
hut there is a good profit it n
farmer will raise their fed at
home.
Mr. Tuck ia very much
pressed with the peanut.
MR. ROSS OF STATHAM, was
in the city yesterday and rays
his section is about stripped of
negroes and the exodusting move
ments is still on. Every week nc-
groee leaving for the North. But
farmere do not seem much wort led
over the loss, as they never made
anything working negroes but
they were kept in debt to feed
them and had to buy everything
for man and beaat on time at ere.
dit prices.
mosphere and they are favorite*
all over the country, even to those
who were not so fortunate as were
the Kiwantans who could see them
as well as hear them.
MARRIED SET WERE $
ALL A-SMILIN* .
And those Kiwanis ns who Wtye
have not become benedicts were
not the only ones wHo fell benea^H
the charm-spell of the atmospnere
Thursday night. There were B. Du
Bose, Mack Howell, Pat L&mKln.
Jimmie Bruce “Old Man” Ed Dor-
Bey, tne genial captain, and Pres*,
and “Marse Jim” 'tjrice wearing
smiles that wreathed their cromos
with oa inuca delight as XAitner
Stapleton's registered emharrsas-
qient as he was Introduced as
new member, along with Walter
Sams, who said he was In business
with A*a Candler' but who failed
to mention just which line of busi
ness of Mr. Candler's he wps :n
with,—Atlanta or New Orleans, and
John T. Pittard who will take tne
spirit of Kiwanis to Wlnterville.
Some interesting and heretofore
unknown facts were brought out
could not see It that-a-way and of- Thursday night relative to the S. N.
fered the suggestion to Dr. Pound S. First thing it developed tnat it
that Bill's slogan be adopted by was years younger than Billy Bar-
the married contingent of the club nott is old, that Fleet Lanier, wno
but for us—Ah, let us be adopted contlnualy attempted to flirt with
singly by, some one from the Nor- the third girl from the lert on* thet
mal (fhcol. Bill readily seconded fourth rdw back in the Glee clunV
the proposition. * was one of Its first graduate*, tnat
Col. Phil Instilled so muen main
BUT THE “ADOPTER" knowledge Into the heads of some
MIGHT OBJECT of his studes whiles a toutor there
that most or them had become :n-
The only \rodble to this scheme ternationally famous and that Dr.
would t»e a decision on the adopter. Pound rated his girls too cheaply,
that is if the ones willing to be He said they tvere w.ttli 53011.00
the adoptees were to have tne —to the Athens trade com*
choice, because on one aide were munlty and Captain J. Willie cor-
those charming misses under the reeled him and placed the rigute
tutelage of Miss Bessie M. Baird *t a cool million .stating all he had
of the Domestic Science deport
ment who prepared and served that
delicious und delactabe dinner,
served with grace and ease compar
able to their striking beauty nnd
evidenced ability while on the oth
er /were, those members of tne
Glee dug under Miss Esther Benson
who sing gij sweetly that their
voices permeate the entire at-
VAN-NIL Satisfies
Tender green beans,
Fresh from Florida.
Snow White cauliflower
Shipment Saturday morn
morning. 'A i
Fancy Iceberg Lettuce,
Large White Heads.
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Indian River Qranges,
Thin skin, sweet, juicy.
Indian River Grape Fruit,
These are especially good.
Fresh Potato Chips—
We make them daily.
Parker House Rolls 12c
dozen—We have them
fresh morning, noon
' and night
ARNOLD ABNEY AGO.
especially these who knew
so well 1 the way of a man and his
appetite were worth that much,
certainly.
Moses, Mnnne, ucky winner of
the sttenGavice prize, a waste bas
ket made in the Domestic Bnlence
department, made three speeches
of acceptance, all loudly applauded
VAN-NIL Never Disappoint!
Thornton’s
SATURDAY DINNER
DINNER 50c
Vegetable Soup
Barbecued Pork
Macaronic and cheese
Coliard Greens Candled Yams
Sweet potato Pudding
Muffins and Biscuits
Coffee, Tea or Milk
50 Cents
T Supper
50 Cents
Sirloin'Steak, Country Stylo
Pearl Grlta Potato Salad
American Fried Potatoes
Cocoa nut Pudding
' . Hot Biscuits
Coffee, Tea or MUk .
50 Cents
bV > then ao(slid"6Feft"^ut n 'wHM
bad to ucespt"It' frem the dainty
hands of Miss Ruble park he waa
speckle*,, and therefore so unlike
most members of the club that he
won tho appall is of pll.
But M. L. wasn't the only prize
winner of tho evening because
drawing b:Xe* of bon bans nn«
chocolates were Miss Esther Ben
son, Mis* Esther Hines, Ml*> Katn-
erln? Adams and Miss Mpry Hall/
the latter received hers vflth a
touch of gallantry from the handa
of Jllnmle Bruce, who had pre-
vloualy set him,ef v up us an Idol of
the jazz lovers with his latest barn
yard fling at clog dancing.
ARTI8TS, ALL
OF THE8E ARE
Ml>ses Lily Muc . Kelly. Mary
Hall, Katherine Adams, Qullta
Brown, Esther Hines, Rutn Comer,
Gladys Cory, Mavis, McCreei Lillie
Rivers. ,Mary .Grace Kehrcr Mary
Vetter. Mary Penteqo,). (Carolyn
Fullllove, Selma Shadburn, Carrie
Johnson. Harriet Stephen* Alice
Hllli*. Susan Bryan, Esther Ben
sen, Louise Jenkins, Christa Shan
burn. Prances Bond, Florp Wal
lace. Evelyn Orr. Olln Bland At
hene Chambers. Murgaret / Dough
erty. Elizabeth Morten, - Edith
Wheeler. Martha Barnswell Julia
LaLwrenc®, Fannie xjlu C'ohyero,
Lurline Alman. Ehdlne Meadows,
Mildred 8trlck|a1ld, .Margaret Clay,
Emma Burks. “Kitty" Thomason,
Lucih Saprey. Myrtls McGee, lnes
floater, Sara Macolm, Luclle Hmltn.
Ruble Park. Priscilla Collins, Louise
Palmer,- Emela Roberts, Annie
Vandiver. Ruth Head. Eather
Befson, Ploy Crowe. Lillie fhoup
eon Jeaunette Elrod, Grace Kemp,
Martha Rcblnson, Eulu Bleckly,
Buch Davis. Bess M. Baird. Fran
ce* Sue White Bill Mean*. Lillie
Mao Smith, Mannah Hanson. Doris
M. Robertson. Saha McCook. Min
nie Perry, Alice Mae Taylor. Eunice
Reid. Sallle Taylor, Estelle Phillips,
Lucy Palmer. -Irma Hicks, Mrs.
Chandler.
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Athens Visitors
, Our Meats Will Meet
.-in- hoi Your Approval
Our customers know that the best
Western and native meats and all
market products await their week
end orders at this store.
Fresh sfhipments of Western beef
and pork received daily. Native
meats are slaughtered at the Athens
abattoir and put in cold storage—
thoroughly chilled.
- Service and Satisfaction Our Aim
a yi.onu(f\r, jPhtnies jeie«i A
| PJEDMONT^MARfcET
| 1 240 North Lumpkin Street
Among those vieltiog in Athene
Friday were: D. C. Llnsey, De
catur; Lois McMillan, Bridgewater
Maaa.; J. C. Thomson, Atlanta; A.
B. Creasy, Atlanta. 7
O. H. Hull, of Atlanta was visit
ing In the city Friday. Among
other visitor! ware: M. Morse,
ieveland, Ohio; W. a Cats. Knox
ville. Tenn.; R. a Aiken, Atlanta;
E. C. Ayers, NaahviUe.
H. O. Horton, Roanoke, Va.; Jos
S. Cook, Jr., Atlanta; J. A. Davie,
Atlanta; W. 8. Atkinson, Jackson,
Miss.; R. O.. Turner, Atlanta;
David Waxelbeum, W. M. Coffan,
Now York City.
W. B. Nichols, Dallas; H. M.
Fisher, Atlanta; H/ L. French, At
tanta; w. M. Letter, Augusta, Oa.;
W. A. Roberto. Qainesville, Oa.;
O. W. Adams, Covlagton; John &
Cbumbley. Nashville. Tenn.; Mrs.
Haskell Porter, Gainesville, Oa.;
•Miss Oene Wlae, Gainesville, Ga.;
Hugh C. Dobbins, Atlanta.
NEGRO DRIVER IS
8HOT BV WHITE
WAYCROS8, Oa. - O. K. Haw
kins. », nsgro taxi-driver of Way-
cross was shot and probably fatal
ly, wp^wded Thursday night by an
wmoatified while than according
t°l|i jhcpoJIcc^ Hnxktaa-
The Wier Grocery Co.
Phone 166.
When you want the best the market affords,
buy from us and get it for less <
SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY ONLY
24 Lbs. Selzwell Self Rising
Flour
98c
24 Lbs. Portell’s Self Rising
Flour r.
$1.21
10 Lbs. No. 1 Irish
Potatoes
21c
1 Lb- Four A
Coffee v..
25c
No. 2 Can Cut ,,
Okra
17c
No. 21-2 Can White House Pie
Apples : ...;
23c
Extra Large Grape
Fruit
10c
$1.00 Value, 5 String ;/£.£
Broom
88c
Large Size Bee Brand
Mayonaise
32c
WE DELIVER YOUR ORDER PROMPTLY
Trade with us,
pa;
difft
y cash, and save the
erence.
(red Mm to drive out
on the Valdosta road, told him to
get out of the automobile and then ‘
phot him.
The Wier Grocenf Cft,
Phone lOtfW W
Last Year's Champions
And Locals, Both Light
ening Fast, Open Tour
ney Session At 7:45.
The quintet of Greensboro High
School, which last .year won the
championship of Northeast Geor
gia at tha tournament held here,
will take the floor against the
strong Athens High School five
j a* seven forty-five tonight, with
the probability of the wining team
going into the finals for the title.
The Tigers jis the Greensboro
team ia called, brought a splendid
quintet to- the Uoumament. last
.year, and annexed the title after
a hard fight with WatkinsviUe
High School in the finals. The
team this year is said to be even
stronger itian last season’s squad.
Several of the ehampionship,crew
are back and with the new men,
the Tigers are confident of mak
ing it two straight
Greensboro has an excellent re
cord for this season, having played
ten games, with -some of the
strongest teams in this section of
tha state and emerging the vic
tors in nine of them.
Athena High has had' one of
the beat seasons which the Red and
White has experienced for many
yean. ' The locals ha# played-
ten games during the season,
Coach Wain men wining every
battle.
' The opening game tbnight will
bring these two teams and one
of the best games o'f the tourna
ment should be^he result Both
quintets are in the best of shape
and ready for the ref vee tb call
them on the floor for the game
that may mean the titli for the
winner.
The games are being played at
tha Moss Auditorium, with the op
ening game of the nigttJs ai ‘
starting promptly at (even
Find 3 Guilty
of Gambling
Three white men were- found
gully of gambling by a jury In
City Court Friday morning. Each
was sentenced 150 and cceta. The
men. Abe Fnrbsteln. Max Penson
and A. R. Wood, were bound over
from Recorder’s court. Appeal for
new trial was made.
Cable Walton, negresa, waa tried
for having liquor Friday Burning.
The fury mas i unable . to agree;
Judge Bradwel will hear motions
for new jrlah Saturday -inornma
at 10 o’ettek. .
Negro Badly
Injured Friday
Lewis Turner, a negro man
about thirty years of age waa sen-
oItaly Injured Friday afternoon
whia unloading a car of lumber at
the Athena Planing Mill, on Barber
street.
Party of the lumber fell on the
man, breaking a leg In two places
and severely bruising him around
the face and head.
An ambulance was called and the
Injured man rushed to St. Mary’s
hospital, where It waa stated
though he was badly Injured be bad
good chance to live.
COLDS* ARE™ ONTAGIOU8
Coughs and Colds are contagious
and require prompt treatment as
they spread or develop irtto Flu
and Grippe. Take no chances
when you cgn get Foley’s Honey
and Tar fog a few cento and quick
ly check cmafts and colds. The
constantly increasing demand for
Foley’s ■ Honey end'Ter,' lot' tbrhe 4
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Bloaters.
Stone’* Cake*. Geo. Washing-
ton Instant Coffee. Freih
Potato Chips, New York State
Cream Cheese, Philadelphia
Cream Cheese.
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Special price on canned
fruitd and vegetables by
- by the dozen. :
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IceWorg
Tomal
Beans,
k<rg Lettuce,
latoefe, Caul
ns, Rutabaga
Celery, Fancy
Cauliflower, String
it&baga Turnips.
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Established 1887
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Qts........
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No. lOCrystal
Flake Lard ....
24 lbs. Town Talk
Plain Flour V..
$1.23
$1.19
No. 10 Crystal a .
Potatoes
Noo-Name Coffee,
18c
lib.
(One of the very Unset)
38c
No 2 can
Tomatoes
11c
Eagle
Milk ....
No. 11~2 Del Monte
Spinach
19c
22c
No. 2 Del Monte
Grated Pineapple.
22c
Mrs. Schlorers
India Relish
25c
FVesh Vegetables
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