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THE ATHENS itWIIJ B8KA.U)
"MACBETH" ILL
ACTED LAST NIGHT
BT THE
“Macbeth” by the Coburn Players
was thoroughly enjoyed by a large
audience last night on the University
of Georgia campus. The night was
an ideal one for the play, being dark
and cloudy during the first scenes
and clearing off for the last three or
four scenes.
The man who chose the situation
for the outdoor stage should be com
plimented, for he could not have
picked a more ideal spot for the per
formances of the two plays which
the Coburn Players staged here. It
was back on the campus, away from
the noises of the city and it was
cool, a thing which was appreciated
by the audience very much.
As Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Mr,
and Mrs. Coburn were probably at
their best. The Athens people have
seen these two in many roles, but it
is probable that their acting in this
play is better than in any of the oth
ers. The cast as a whole was good
and well balanced. Of course the
scenic effects could not be givon on
this outdoor stage, but some houses
give so many as to make the play too
heavy. In the first scent, where the
witches were holding a consultation,
the scenic effects were actually fur
nished by nature. Dark clouds scur-
ried to and fro across the heavens.
Occasional flashes of lightning and
far-off rumblings of thunder min
gled with the witches’ voices made
their hair stand upon end This
scene was intensely natural.
At the close of the performance
the audience left the ampitheatre
fully satisfied and hoping some aay
to see these players again.
Yesterday afternoon in chapel they
gave “The Imaginary Sick Man,” and
it was a very pleasing light French
comedy. It was presented in chapel
because the weather was a little too
rough to play out of doors. Mr. and
Mrs. Coburn also took the leading
parts in this little comedy and pleased
their hearers as much as they did in
the heavier acting of last night.
JUDGE EVE WE
WELL TD CHAMBER
El
His Address on “Good Roads and
Commerce” Should Have Been
H?ard by AH Athens Citizens
•WEDNESDAY -BVBJJINU, JtJBr.2J, lM«.
Classic
Clippings
SPEAKING
THE PUBLIC
MIND
WANTS TRASH REMOVED
To The Herald:
You have had a good deal to say
about the importance of keeping the
premises clean in order to prevent
disease, particularly in the summer,
when so much extra caution is essen
tial. You tell the citizens to cooperate
and in this way insure the protection
of the health of our people. But what
about the indifference of the sanitary
department itself? What is the use
for our residents to clean up and place
their rubbish and garbage in front of
their premises if the wagons of the
sanitary department fail to remove
it?
Near the comer of Washington and
Pulaski streets is a barrel which has
been standing on the sidewalk for the
past ten days, which is now running
over with watermelon rinds and other
vegetable matter. This barrel was
partly filled ten days ago and has
been added to from day to day until
now, as stated above, it is overflow
ing.
Can the sanitary Inspectors not
compel the'wagon (Divers to do their
duty? It seems to me there is gross
indifference somewhere. If the In
spectors are doing their duty the driv
ers of the wagons would be doing
theirs, it seems to mf.
How can the citizens of Athene be
Expected to cooperate with the au-
Wiorities in an effort to keep the city
"free from disease if the employees
of the sanitary department are neg
ligent in their duty?
The writer sincerely hopes that he
will find this ill-smelling barrel emp
ty when he pastes that way this af
ternoon. DISGUSTED.
ADVERTISED LETTERS
The following advertised letters re
main in the Athens, Ga* postoffleo
July SI, 1916:
Men's List.
B—Barnett, Chess; Bond, C. B.
C—Center, Guy; Cooper, Master
Roland.
J—Jones, Edd.
M—Mackenzie Leras; Miller, G. E.
N—Norris, C. T.
P—Pullnot, George.
®—Row, Wood.
T—Tarver, Hon. Fort
W—White, Willie.
Women’s list.
A—Ansley, Mrs. Chas. L.
B—Bullock, Miss MaNita.
C—Carter, Mary; Clark, Mrs. Ger
trude; Cox, Miss Daisy BeU.
E—Enerethe, Miss Clara.
G—Green, Mrs. Mamie.
H—Henderson Mrs. Elisa; 'Wl,
Miss Emmie Jones.
J—Jones, Miss A. C.
L—Lewie, Mrs. Laura.
M—Morton, Mrs. Ella J.; Morton,
Mrs. R. M.
P—Piekrell, Mrs. W. R. .. .
T—Teal, Miss Lena (2); Thomas,
Miss Lillian- \
V—Underwood, Miss Ethels.
W—Watkins, Mrs. Bertha.
Miscellaneous.
Georgia Casualty Insurance £o.
When calling please say advertised
and give date advertised. One cent
due on each advertised letter.
J. fi. RUCKER, P. M. ]
Before Judge W. F. Eve addressed
the chamber o( commerce last night
on “Good Roads and Commerce” sev.
era! important little business matters
came before the meeting. The local
colored Odd Fellows asked for aid
from the chamber in entertaining the
state convention of their organization
here on August 10. This request was
referred to the finance committee.
President Flanigen was given per
mission to appoint a committee to rep
resent the Athens chamber at the
agricultural boosters meeting lo be
held in Savannah on July 24. A letter
from the Georgia chamber of com
merce was read which asked the co
operation of the local chamber in mak
ing a film of moving pictures which
will advertise Georgia. Another let
ter was read from the same chamber
which advocated free trading of cot
ton with the British government.
The following resolution was passed
Free Cotton Trade.
“Whereas, the prosperity of the
south is largely dependent upon the
normal and uninterrupted marketing
of its great staple crop, and
"Whereas, the order in council of
the British government has, contrary
to all precedent and to all accepted
forms of international law, placed an
embargo upon tile free evportation of
cotton to neutral countries, and
“Whereas, such action upon the
part of the British government is lia
ble to bring poverty and distress to
in any who are dependent upon a price
for their cotton that only a free mar
ket will afford,
"Therefore Be It Resolved, by the
Chamber of Commerce of the city of
Athens, That the president of the
United States be respectfully urged to
make such representation to the Brit
ish government, through the proper
channels, as will bring about a modi
fication or abrogation of the order in
council and permit the free and un
trammeled trading in cotto nbetween
the United States and other neutral
countries of Europe.”
On Fake Ads.
The Atlanta Ad Men’s club wrote
asking the assistance of the local
chamber of commerce in the passage
of a measure to prohibit the so-called
fake advertisements. The local mem
bers pledged their support and agreed
to stand ly the following proposed
bill:
“Be it enacted by the general as
sembly, state of Georgia:
“Section 1. That any person, firm,
corporation dr association, or any em
ployee thereof, who, in circular, news
paper or any other publication pub
lished in this state, or by any painted
signs, posters or printed matter of
any kind, knowingly makes or dissem
inates any statement or asesrtion of
fact, concerning the quality, the quan
tity, the value, the method of produc
tion or manufacture, the reason of the
price of his, their, or Its merchan
dise, or the motive or the purpose of
the sale, intended to give the appear
ance of an offer advantageous lo the
purchaser, which is untrue or intend
ed to mislead, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
"Sec. 2. Any person, firm, or cor
poration or association, or any em
ployee thereof who violates any of
the provisions of this act, shall, upon
conviction, be punished as provided for
In section 1065 of the criminal code
of the state of Georgia of 1910.” •
At the request of Mr. A. C. Turner,
of the advertising committee, it was
agreed to take a quarter-page adver
tisement in the special Georgia edi
tion of Hearat’s Sunday American
for next fall. This edition will con
tain a ten page section about Athens.
The Speech.
President Flanigen then introduced
the speaker of the evening, Judge Eve,
of Augusta, Richmond county. He
told of the improvements in the roads
and streets of our county during the
past few years, how thesa could be
further improved, and also recounted
the history of good roads in the Unit
ed States.
He said: “Good roads are not only
an important factor in commerce, but
affect all the people at every turn,
They determine the tTend of popula
tion; hoce seekers search for good
roads and good schools as wall as fer
tile lands. Good roads enhance the
VBlue of land; they enable the farmer
to diversify his crops; to engage in
dairying and fruit raising; to mar
ket his crops at all seasons and when
ever there la a demand for his pro
ducts; they contribute to the upbuild
ing of the schools and the churches
of the rural districts, and add greatly
to the comfort, convenience and pleas
ure of rural life.”
In conclusion Judge Eve told of the
interest over the United States in
the national highways and especially
in the south in the Dixie Highway.
His speech was well worth tearing
and was full of good thought* on the
good roads movement
BOf SCOOT PUNDIT
Whenever Yon Need a Omni Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s 'Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable aa a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties of QUININB
*nd IRON. It acts on the Lhrer, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole Syatcm. 50 cents.
WEATHER FORECAST.
Washington, D. C., Ji|ly 21.—Fore
cast for Georgia: Fair tonight and:
Thursday; not quite so warm in tern-'
perature. , . •
Judge Charles H. Brand returned
to Athena last night, after a very
pleasant trip to Moorehead City,
N. C.
Col. A; 0. Adams, of Cochran, was
in Athena yesterday on business. Mr.
Adams is a prominent attorney Of
this section.
A promise of good weather from
the weather man today makes us
want to forgive him for ruining our
Palm Beach date suit yesterday.
Col. Frank Shackelford and Mr.
Jim Baker motored over to Daniels-
ville yesterday and spent the day
there, returning last night to Ath
ens.
My little Ford typewriter and me
are scared. You see sometimes it
drops the letter. “R” and limps along
through the rest of a sentence. The
detectives will think that we are
Pearce, the dynamite man.
Our bid friend, the grizzled far
mer, breaks into the Classic Clippings
again today. He came in this morn
ing weighted down with a huge, lus
cious watermelon and presented it to
the bookkeeper. We are jealous, but
he . romised to" bring us one pretty
soon.
The Cobum Players have come and
gone and the weeks, and days of the:
summer school are numbered as being
very limited. The Clipper saw fill
three of the • •performances* by the
Cobum Players and was immensely
pleased with them". /
MAYOR DORSEY RETURNS
TO ATHENS TOMORROW
Mayor W. F. Dorsey, who has been
out of the city for about two weeks,
■will return to Athens tomorrow night.
He has visited Chicago 'And Grand
Rapids oh<his trip, attending the fur
niture sales at several of the large
manufacturing plants up there.
Scoutmaster C. C. Jarrell Will
Begin Building as Soon as
$25 More Is Secured.
Scoutmaster Charles C. Jarrell is
meeting with a very gratifying re
sponse to his appeal for funds with
which to construct a lodge .for the
Boy Scouts on a bluff near the river.
Mr. Jarrell wants to see every moral
safeguard possible thrown around the
boys and also to provide healthful
amusements for them. He feels that
his present plan will serve his pur
pose splendidly and asks our people
to cooperate with him.
The total amount received to date
is $112.50, and Mr. Jarrell states that
if another $25 is contributed he will
feel perfectly safe in proceeding with
the work of erecting; the lodge.
The largst contribution to date
came from far-off Maine, Mr. T. H.
Nickerson, who is spending the sum
mer there, sending a cheek for $10.
The full list of contributions to
date is as follows:
C. H. Phinizy
H. B. Gordon
B. F. Hardeman
Banner
Mrs. G.-T. Hodgson ......
B. F. Fortson -.
J. K. Patrick ...........
R. P. Stephens..........
Allen Moore <Boy Scout)
Clay Shelton (Boy Scout) .... $
T. F. Green $ST<
Judge A. J. Cobb $l.(
H. C. Erwin $1.00
J. C. Jester $2.00
J. W. Barnett $2.00
J. D. Moss $5.00
Bernstein Brothers $1.00
H. W. Odom $2.00
D. C. Barrow $5.00
Aaron Cohen $5.00
Cobb Lampkin $2.50
J. M. Hodgson $5,00
Deupree Hunnicutt $2.00
W. C. Pitner $5.00
A. H. Davison $2.00
Albert Davison $2.00
L. C. Quin $2.00
Mrs. J. A. Hunnicutt $5.00
Andrew Erwin $2.00
M. G. Michael $2.00
W. T. Bryan $6.00
E. R.. Hodgson, Jr $2.00
F. J. Orr $1.00
T. H. Nickerson $10.00
Carl Crossley $1.00
Britain Must Economize to Avoid
Economic Crisis, Peers Are To/cj
Lord Lorburn Declares There Is Prospect of European Bankruptcy
in Near Future—Appeal for Change
in Civil Finance,
London, July 9, 1915.—While Vthe
government was proclaiming the-ljedl*
essity- for economy in every sphere
of life, it was being accused in the
House of Lords on Tuesday with ex
travagance, and a strong call for
economy was made by Peers.
The debate started with a resolu
tion moved by Viscount Midleton
“that in view of the necessary .ex
penditure on the war it is, in tthe
opinion of this house, incumbent on
His Majesty’s government to take
immediate steps to reduce the civil
expenditure of the country.”
He proceeded to say that the posi
tion which the government had to
meet at the end of March next, on
the assumption that the war was
over, wouid be a total debt of £1,293,-
000,000 ($6,465,000,000.) Considering
that national savings were estimated
at £300,000,000 to £400,000,000, that
some £112,000,000 had been added to
expenditure, and £80,000,000 a-year
to taxation, he was not sure that sta
tisticians would not" say . the nation
had made as little of civil preparation
for the exigencies of a state of war
. as of'military preparation.
$2.0Q.: - Viscount Midleton said he wished'to
appeal for a complete change ot
,$Vil finance. Twenty years afo civil
service estimates amount" to £20>000,-
000; today they were close to £60,-
,000,000. Thousands of civil servants
pad been appointed in- the last eight
years, he said,; and the expenditure
on practically all services had -in
creased considerably. He was quite
sure that a committee of publ:
ice men could, be appointed and effect
a reduction of from £5,000,000 to
£10,000,000 before the end of this
year.
Total
$112.50
One victim of infectious tumors dies
ivery ten minutes in Germany.
000. Such. d thing had not
(toadied of.In foe financial hUten
of foe country for at least one W
dred years, he said. He asserted that
England awt casting foe wnole nit
of the war on posterity. *
This he characterized as bad p*u-
which was a disgrace to the preset
generation, and he said the go Ten .
ment was to blame when the war u
gan In’not at once imposing addition
al 'taxation, and was pursuing p«'
dsely the same policy now.
Lord Lorburn closed foe debate l,
saying the figures Lord Midleton
gave related to the most wealth,
the most powerful and the most oil
during of all foe nations engaged j
foe war. The situation amounted to
this—that if wisdom did not come to
foe councils of Europe there w» s t
prospect of European bankruptcy i»
a comparatively brief time.
The motion was agreed to after
substituting the Word "efficient" for
“immediate."
CR/IZY WOMAN RELEASES
AT
Ljjd Landsowne for the govern?-
lent agreeT that the financial posi
tion of foe country required foe great
est attention of parliament if “we
are to place ourselves in a sound and
satisfactory financial position.” He
also said retrenchment was going on
slowly but surely, and promised that
a careful scrutiny should be kept on
all expenditures.
Lord St. Aldwyn, one of the fore-.
most English economists, said h(J
could not quite agree with Lord Cqi-
zon that this country was in “grave
peril,” but he thought it was iu>t too
much to say that foe financial situa
tion was very grave. There wotfld
be on March 31 next a deficit, as
matters stood, on the- payment of
interest on the war debt of £14,000,-
Es*ie Durham, the wife of Bill
Durham, who works at the Georgiu
hotel, was released by Chief Broob
this morning at foe request of her
husband.
She was locked up the other day
serv " as she seemed to be crazy. She wu
having a fit of some kind and Officers
Short and Paul thought that they hid
better lock her up. The hu3b»ni
promised to take good care of her.
LYRIC’S PROGRAM
FOR THURSDAY
“Captain Maeklin,” a four-reel
Mutual Masterpicture featuring Miss
Lilliaii Gish, and “The House Break
ing Hound,” a Keystone comedy.
Coming Friday, “The Stain,” 1 six-
reel sensational drama by the Electie
company.
Lost, Diamond ring, either on
Clayton and Lumpkin or Broad
and Lumpkin, between HoS
street. Return to Nick Gross at
PetropoPs Fruit Stand. $100
reward. It
You must have a
good Refrigerator to
save your family’s
healh this Summer.
Sanitary
Ice
Saver
Belding Hall Refrigerators are thorough
ly insulated—they will save ice.
There is no excuse for you not hav
ing a giood Refrigerator. 'j
The prices are low. H
BROAD STREET.