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THE DAILY 1 BANNER.
ESTABLISHED 18:52.
ATHENS, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, 1902.
$5.00 A YEAR.
DOT CONTEST RESULTS
GIVEN BY THE BANNER.
GEORGIANS WILL
WORK FOP SCHOOL.
Important Organization of Georgians Interested In
Educational Matters Primarily For The Pur
pose of Raising $25,000 For The State
Normal School in This City.
The Lucky Number is 5,458 and Hr.
F. G. Umbach of This City Wins the
First Prize-=Hundredsof Answers
Were Received by The Banner,
Many of Which Were Very
Close to the Wioners.
M’WHORTER DEAL
HAS BEEN CLOSED.
It was learned yesterday morning
that an important organization of Geor
gians interested in educational matters
was recently formed at a meeting of the
Unirorsity Council in Atlanta. The as
■oclation is made op of well known
oltizens, many of whom are alumni of
the Unirersity of Georgia, who contem
plate doing some practical and substan
tial service to the educational institu
tions of this state in a manner some
what similar to the work done in a wi
der field by the Sonthorn Education
Board.
The organization is to be known as
"The University of Georgia Auxiliary’
and the advisory board and executive
committee which will have active charge
of the workings of the organization are
the following :•
Advisory Board : Dr. J. L M. Curry,
Chancellor W, B. Hill, George Fester
Peabody, Gov. W. J. Northern, Hon.
W B. Merritt, Hon Clark Howell and
Hon. R. E. Park.
Executive Committee :• Harry Hodg
son, Chairman, Athens, Hugh M. Dor
sey, Atlanta; Jere M. Pound, Macon ;
Joseph R. Lamar, Angosta ; P. A. Sto-
Tall, Savannah ; and Edward Maddox,
Rome.
The plans of the Auxiliary contem
plate the raising of funds for the aid of
each educational institutions as seem
most deserving and whose work seems
productive of the greatest good. In
conference with Chancellor Hill and the
presidents of the several branch col
leges which make up the University the
plans of the Auxiliary were heartily ap
proved and it has been agreed that the
need of the State Normal School for a
building in which to do its college work
shall be first presented by the Auxilia-
ry. The school is absolutely without
room to carry on its important and vital
School, Chancellor Hill Baid;
"The formation of the University
work.
Iu speaking about the Auxiliary and
its plan to first aid the State Normal
Auxiliary means a great deal for educa
tion in Georgia While it is acting uu
der the sanction and hearty approval of
the University Council it is a voluntary
labor of love inaugurated by graduates
of the University and others who did
not attend the University but who are
deeply interested in its development
“The Auxiliary begins its labors for
the bent fit of the State Normal School,
which now seems to be in the most
pressing need of any part of our institu
tions, but it contemplates aid to the
whole University iu its collective sense
embracing not only the parent iustitn
non at Athens hut every branch of the
iversity.
At the opening of the Normal School
a few days ago more than sixty tcache; s
were obliged to seek lodgement in the
private homes of Athens. While relief
of the pressure for dormitory room is
promised in the "Winnie Davis Mem
orial Hall” being erected through the
noble efforts of the Daughters of the
Confederacy no provision whatever has
been made for the overcrowded condi
tion of the cla« rooms.
The Normal School is an institution
that comes in close touch with all the
people through its preparation of teach
ers for the public schools. The friends,
therefore, of the Normal School and of
the entire University system through
ont the state, will be invited by the
Auxiliary, according to their liber
ality and resources, to contribute $25,000
towards this need. The remaining
$10,000 necessary for the purpose has al
ready been subscribed to the Auxiliary’s
fund by a native of Georgia, who is in
terested not only in the Normal School,
but in the whole system of colleges com
prising the University of Georgia."
Mayor J. F. Rhodes, one of the judges iri^^he Banner’s dot contest,
received a letter from Mr. 1. R. Colburn, thooriginatorand patentee
of the dot puzzle, yesterday, enclosing the Allowing statement:
To whom it may concern :—This is to cer@Fy that I am the origina
tor, designer and owner of the dot plate emjjgjpyed by The Banner ol
Athens, Ga., and that the exact number jffrdots contained therein
accurately counted am) duly verified, is J. R. Colburn.
On receipt of the foregoing statement J. F. Rhodes and W
F. Dorsoy, two of the judges of the contesumet and went over tin
several hundred answers received by The Banner, and which had been
previously furnished them, and made the vwrds of the eighteen cash
prizes, which follow their statement. Tbftls ilowtng statement was
issued by them:
To whom it may concern :—This is to 'a ’
signed judges in The Banner’s dot cont
cash prizes in this contest according to‘I
the ligures furnished directly to us by
York, the originator and patentee of the|
Following are the prize winners, which
the date each count was received by The 3
fy that we tho under
have awarded the IS
aditions set out, and
R. Colburn, of Now
J. F. Rhodes,
W. F. Dorsf.y.
finning numbers and
Judge Hamilton McWhorter Has Paid Over the Mon
ey for the Property and the Deeds Have Been
Filed for Record in the Office of the Clerk of the
Court-Club Will Get Other Quarters.
STORM DOTS DAMAGE
Two Planters Suffer from
Results of the Storm.
THE ELKS CARNIVAL
NOW BEING POSHED
The following article from the Ooonee
Enterprise will be of interest ,o the peo
pie of Athens:
Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock
was witnessed one of the most violent
eleotrio storms that has visited this see
tion in recent years.
Mr. F. M. McRee, who lives near
Barnett Shoals, lost his barn by light
nlng striking it and setting it afire.
The barn contained fnll S.OOO handles of
fodder and other forage whioh was all
horned, as was also Mr. McRee's buggy.
A tenant honse on Mr. G. S. Moyne's
plantation, near Farmington, was alsj
■track by lightning and waa quickly
burned to the ground, the inmates nar
rowly escaping the flames. Five dogs
and a hog that had taken shelter under
the honse were burned to a crisp before
they conld escape.
For Whooping Cough
use Cheney’s Expectorant
Railroads Will Soon Be
gin to Advertise The
Attraction.
July 22,
Aug. J3,
F. G. Umhach,
A. L. Mitchell,
•^Ist Prize
^2ud “
$15.00
10 00
July 18,
Dr. D, L. Peacock,
^ 5,459,
3rd “
5.00
Aug. 13,
W.H. Fuller,
5,459,
4th “
2.00
July 19,
F. H. Bowden,
5,460,
5th “
2.00
July 21,
Goo. C. Thomas,
5,460,
6th “
2.00
July 28,
Mrs. M. D. Browning,
5,456,
7 th “
2.00
Aug. 13,
A. L. Mitchell,
5,450,
8th “
2 00
July 18,
Hal Wright,
5.461,
9th “
1.00
July 18,
Goo. C. Thomas,
5,455,
10th “
1.00
July 23,
W. E Epps.
5,455,
11th “
1 0()
Aug. 18,
F. 1’. Talmage,
5,455,
12th “
1.00
Aug. 10,
W. W. Keown,
5,454,
13th “
1.00
Aug. 18,
Alice Hardeman,
5,454,
14th “
1.00
July 19,
F. H. Bowden,
5,463,
15th “
1.00
Aug. 13,
Miss C. B. Durham
5,464,
16th “
1.00
July 27,
J. W. Gallaway,
5,452,
17th "
1.00
July 28,
W. S. Elder, Elder, Ga., 5,452,
18th "
LOO
Total $50.00
Checks for tho respective prizes were mailed to tho successful i
ludge Hamilton McWhorter, former
ly of Lexington, bnt now temporarily a
citizen of the Greeno county watering
resort. Watson Springs, will become a
permanent citizen of Athens about the
m.ddle of November or the lirst of De
cember. This is now a settled fact, and
there are no conditions, except the pres
ent good health of the members of the
McWhorter household, to be depended
on.
As was stated by the Banner yester
day morning, Mr. L. H. Graham one of
the directors of the British-American
Mortgago Company, has been here to
settle the dispute that arose as to the
option held by the Country Club for the
purchase of the property. How well
Mr. Graham performed his duties iB
best told by ihe fact that the money for
the property has been paid and that Mr,
Graham has returned to his homo in
New York. Judge McWhorter, who
was also here in conference with Mes-
s. Graham and DoBose, as stated iu
The Banner, left Athens Wednesday af
ternoon, fully assured that he would
make bis home at the Country Club
place.
The people of Athens will await the
coming of Judge MoWliorter, and the
members of his family, as residents of
testants by Tho Banner last night.
As has been stated, several hundred counts were received by The
Banner, and it will be seen that the prizes have been won by parties
guessing from start to finish One count which came to this ofliee
the day tho contest opened, won a prize and one which reached thi g
ollice the last day of the contest won a prize with winning numbers
all along between these.
Our next contest will he inaugurated within a few weeks and tho
people will be duly notified when to get ready for it. In the mean
time watch The Banner grow.
Athens with much interest, and will
be prepared to give them a warm wel
come to this city.
It is understood that the members of
the Country Club will at once set abont
to find new quarters, and that the sale
of their present quarters will not have
any serious elTect on the Clab. It is an
institution that has had a moat prosper
ous oarcer, and one that the people of
the city want to see preserved. Mem
bers of the Club who were seen by a
representative of the Banner yesterday
did not care to discuss the matter of the
future location of the quarters of the
Club, but all parties seemed agreed
that tbo Club would continue as in the
past.
It is understood that Jndge MoWhor-
ter has notified the officers of th3 Clab,
by letter, that the members conld con
tinue to occupy the present quarters
until the first or middle of November, if
it would be inconvenient for them to get
a suitable location before that time.
As has been stated in The Banner, the
price paid by Jndge MoWhorter for the
property was $11,500, which make this
one of the most important real estate
transfers that has occurred in Athens
in some time.
SUMMER SCHOOL MOVEMENT IS
ASSUMING LARGE PROPORTIONS.
The Athens Elks Carnival is being
rapidly pushed.
Meetings of the board of directors
have been held from time to time, daring
the past week or tep days, bnt as the
matters coming before that body have
only been business matters of a routine
oharacter, there has been bnt little for
publication. It can ba stated, however,
that the mombers of the various com
mittees as well as the board of directors,
have been hard at work and mnch has
been aooomplished.
Mr. W. P. Briggs leaves this morning
for Atlanta, where he will make ar
rangements for the low railroad rates,
and these will he announced within the
next few days. The railroads in Athens
will begin to send out advertising mat
ter for the carnival within the next
week or two, and before this time the
Elks will have the country surrounding
Athens flooded with good literature
describing the fine features to be pie-
seated to the people.
COLONEL WILLIAM HEMPHILL LEFT
A LARGE ESTATE TO BE DIVIDED.
Col. William A. Hemphill, who died
in Atlanta suddenly, Sunday night, left
a large estate, amounting to something
in the neighborhood of $250,000, accord
ing to the executor, Mr. Robert A.
Hemphill, a brother of the deceased
The will was filed for probate in the of
fice of the Ordinary of Falton county
yesterday.
To his mother, Mrs. S. A. Hemphill,
Colonel Hemphill left $800 a year, to be
paid to her monthly daring her life. To
bis sisters, Mary, Sallie and Nela, he
left $1,500 each. Those who will each
reoeive one-eight shaies are his two
sons, William A. Hemphill, Jr., and
Robert Hemphill; four daughters, Mrs.
Lola Belleninby, Emma, Julia Margu
erite; his granddaughter, Ruth Erwin,
and his widow, Mrs. W. A. HemphilL
He also set aside various sums for
•haritable Institutions as follows:
the ereotion of a mission on the lot on
Walton street, whioh he bad previously
deeded to this charity; Reinhardt Col
lege for girls, at Walesoa, Ga., $1,600;
St. Mark Methodist churoh, $5,000; Em
ory college, $5,000 and the Decatur Or
phans' Home, $1,000.
At the time the will was made St
Mark chnrob was known as the Sixth
Methodist church of Atlauta, and the
sum set aside for it was to be used for
the purchase of a churoh lot, and the
foundation of the edifice to be built
within twelve months after the pay
ment waa made by tis executor The
church now has the lot at the corner of
Peaohtree and Fifth streets.
It is provided that should any of the
children die without issue during the
ten years, that the estate is to be kept
intact, his or her share shall revert to
the estate, to be divided equally among
the remaining beneficiaries.
Prof. Marvin M Parks, of Savannah,
in enthusiastically in favor of the pro
posed Summer School, on which The
Banner has been working the past few
months. The following article from his
pen to the Constitution of yesterday
will be of great interest to the people of
AthonB:
Editor Constitution: Today 1 re-
tamed from Athens, I found that the
people of the Classic City are talking of
the establishment of a summer school
for next year. Chanoellor Hill, Presi
dent Branson and The Athens Banner
are displaying much interest in the pro
posed movement. The wonderful suo-
ness of the school at Knoxville, Tenn.
iaa opened the eyes of the people to the
marvelouB possibilities of a summer
ichool, and Chancellor Hill is giving
continued and increasing attention to
t he movement in which he has been in
terested for several years.
In my opinion this premises to be for
Georgia the greatest educational under
taking of the last ten years, and as a
teacher in the public schools of Georgia
I ask this space in your paper, believ
ing that in urging the establishment oi
the sammer school I represent the opin
ions and wishes of the teachers of the
state. It has been my privilege in re
cent years to attend the summer schools
at the University of Chicago, at Ox
ford uuiveni y, England, and at Knox
ville, Tenn.. and I am impressed with
the fact that everywhere the eummer
school is a success and that everywhere
it is accomplishing much good. The
long summer vacation offers a fine op
portunity for study and improvement
on the part of the teachers, and in hun
dreds of cases the more ambitions and
competent teachers are seeking to avail
themselves of the opportnties for a bet
ter professional training.
Scores upon scores of Georgians from
year to year have been attending the
summer quarters of the University of
Ohioago; scores have gone to Harvard,
to Cornell and to Chattanooga, rad this
year more than two hundred went to
Knoxville. Nearly five hundred teaoh-
ers left Georgia this summer in order to
find desired training and instruction t
Many of the more advanoed students
will continne to go to northern institu
tions and some ought to go, bnt the vast
majority onght to find what they wish
and what they need in a Georgia sam
mer Bchool.
At Knoxville every one wa9 snrprised
at the large attendance. President Dab
ney had been planning for several hun
dred students, but to the amazement of
himself and the people of Knoxville,
nearly two thonsand teachers came for
admission. The papers of Tennessee
took great pride in wbat they consid
ered the new edaoational awakening of
the south, and modestly gave Tennes
see the first place in the movement.
Governor MoMillian, who is a member
of the board of trustees of the Universi
ty of Tennessee, spoke before a large
audience of teachers at Knoxville. He
was proud of the sammer school and
stated that it must continue and that it
should continue. Next year he wishes
to see five thousand teachers at Knox
ville.
Hut Knoxville was not the only success
ful summer tohool of the south. At the
University of Virginia the attendance
went beyond a thonsand. And look,
loo, at the State Normal school at
Athons. President Branson advertised
bat litile, and planned for seventy-five
students Instead of seventy-five he is
crowded with hundreds.
I mention all these facts to show that
the teachers want snch opportunities.
The time is ripe for a great sammer
school for Georgia, and next year is the
time to inaugurate the movement. Chan
cellor Hill is planning wisely for the un
dertaking and under favorable condi
tions a thonsand teachers will attend
the first session of the rammer school of
Georgia.
MARVIN M PARKS.
Savannah, Ga.