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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. 13 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10. : L MISS THOMAS TO ENTERTAIN. Mis, Isabel Ormond Thomas will entertain Informally at a buffet eup. r Tuesday evening In honor of Mies ptvlson. of Nashville, Tenn., and Miss Hutchins, of Athens, tho guest of Miss Mildred IVoolIey. The affair will bo characterized by Christmas decorations. The drawing room and reception hall will be gay with Christmas colors and tho floral decorations will be red roses and ferns. In the dining room vases of red roses trill adorn the buffet and sideboards.- The centerpiece for the table will be a basket of red roses and ferns. Tho appointments will conform to the color motif In all particulars. Preceding the supper will be a game ^MIsa^Thoma* will entertain only a limited number of young women and j-oung men. CHARITY CLUB ENTERTAIN8. On Wednesday, December 18, at No. S1I Myrtle street, the Charity Club will entertain at 3 o'clock In the afternoon ,ud will serve, a dinner at 7 o'clock that evening, a smalt charge being made to raise money to carry on their work. The Charity ClubJs a circle of ladles who meet together socially from time to time, and at their meetings do work of some useful character, making gar ments. bedding, etc., and on-complctlng ■ certain amount they call on the Asso. dated Charities to make effective use of their goods. The Charity Club will raffle during the holidays tho beautiful doll "Chari ty" on exhibition In the show win dow at the corner of Peachtree street ind Edgewooil avenue. There will also h. a beautiful laughing doll included in this raffle, giving each participant a chance at a second prize. Chances range from 1 cent to a dollar, and can lie had at No. 13 Marietta street (next door to Jacobs’), SOCIET Yjl J. M. HIGH CO. J. M. HIGH CO. Miss'OUie Miller Is the guest of Miss May King, at Chattanooga. KELLOGG FAINTS WHILE SPEAKING New York, Dec. 10.—Frank B. Kel lfgg, the deputy United States attorney general representing the government In tho suit to dissolve the Standard Oil Company, fainted In the midst of a de fense of the Roosevelt administration at the Minnesota Society's dinner at the Waldorf*Astoria last night and had to J»e carried out of the room. He received immediate attention from the hotel physician. Personal Mention A charming event of Tuesday even ing will be the dinner which Miss Helen Bagley will give In honor of Miss Ada Norfleet, of Memphis, the guest of her lister. Mrs. Thomas Ifelder. Covers will be .laid for twelve, and the table will have nwlts centerpiece a bosket of rink roses, white narcissi and maiden hair fern. . • , - Mrs. A. W. Powell and Captain Pow ell leave Atlanta on Wednesday for a visit to Cairo, Ga., after which they wlurn to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. In February they go to the Philippines. Mrs. Powell has been charmingly en- Krlalned the past fortnight as the guest of Miss May Bancker. Mr. Russell. Bridges will entertain Ills groomsmen Tuesday evening at the capital City. Club following the wed ding rehearaal at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Pagett, on Forrest avo nue. A pleasant Informal occasion will be the dinner at which Mr. and Mrs. Lu ther Rosser will entertain a few friends Tuesday evening In honor of Bishop’ and "Mrs. Warren A. Candler. Mrs. Will Glenn entertained the Tuesday Morning Bridge Club and a few visitors, on Tuesday. ■ At Miss Martha Lambert’s party on Monday afternoon, Minn Antoinette Blount won the first prize, a pair of silk stockings, and the guest of honor, Mrs. W. A. Powell, was presented with a lire handkerchief. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Bower, of Bain- hrltlge; Mr. and Mrs. Smith Pickett, ■f Albany, and Mr. Kirk Gunby, of Tstnpa, will be among the out-of-town guests at the Howell-Gunby wedding. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Tharin and Miss Bessie Tharin. who have spent some lime at their home In North Carolina, ore here for a few days before going to Florida for the winter. Miss Anita Phlnlay, of Athens, In expected In Atlanta Friday to visit Mrs. A. W, Calhoun and to be pres ent at the Howell-Ounby wedding on Saturday evening. To the regret of her many Atlanta friends. Miss Verdery Akin, of Car- itrevllle, who wan expected In the city Tuesday to visit Miss Mabel Hurt, has postponed her visit. Mrs. Preston Arkwright left Tues day for a few days’ stay In New York, wenmpanled by Miss Dorothy Ark wright and Master Colquitt Howard. ltev. and Mrs. J. B. Allen, of Cul- Wen. On, left Tuesday after a visit to Mrs. J. w. Moore, on Forrest ave nue, for an extended trip West. Mrs. B. W. Hargrave a lid young son leturned Saturday from Richmond. Va, '.here they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Davenport. Miss Mse Scott, who Is visiting Mrs. I tank West; wtl spend a few days aft er Wednesday with Misses Grace and hula Callaway. Mr. Thomas Williams passed 'hrouglt Atlanta Monday night en route from Washington, Ga, to hla home In New Tork. DROWNED TOTS IN BATH TUB Boston, Dec. 10.—Discovery' of .. double tragedy was made by the resi dents in Somerville, when they rlllMC into a tenement and found two small children named Huntley drowned In a bath tub. Mrs. Huntley is in a cell Evidences of a struggle were shown In the bath room. Tho children ap parently had been held under water until they slowly drowned. SENATOR FORAKER WANTS PRIMARY Washington, Dec. 10.—Senator Fora- ker has addressed a letter to Chair man Brown, of the Republican state committee of Ohio, asking that Its call for representation in the state conven tion require delegate, to be directly chosen at duly authorized primary elec tions. GRIGGS DOESN’T WANT THE PLACE Washington. Dec. 10.—Representa tive James M. Griggs, of Georgia, has onnouncc4 that he would not bo a can didate to succeed himself as chairman of the Democratic congressional com mittee. The committee will hold meeting next month find elect Mr. Griggs* successor, who will have charge of the congressional end of the Dem ocratic national campaign. COUNT BYRON DEAD IN PARIS Part,, Dec. 10.—Count Louis Gontaut Byron, who married Martha Lelslunan, died today after a long and terrible ill ness. , Ml«s Clara Belle Martin will spend Christmas holidays with Mr. and *ti. Grant Martin, at Chattanooga. Mrs. Whltefoord Russell Is expected la Atlanta tho latter part of the week ■nan a month’s stay In Nashville. Lieutenant W.’oT Boswell, of tho oiitc-enth Infantry, will spend a few <*»>•« in Atlanta this week. Mrs. Leon Lewman and her mother, Bpnrks, are at tho Gregorian mo- **'. In New York. n-V.”’ Htnr y Potts and Miss Elisabeth r« *’ ®f Atlanta, are spending the wln- ■«■ In N, w York. MI 1 ', and Mra. Victor Graves arrived jostle ** Tue * dB y and arc at the Ma ' 1Ir - and Mr*. Joseph Oliver Hendley Mrs. Sarah McDonald Sheridan kgs to announce that she will re- Mivc pupils in voice culture at her •tadio, No. 6 East Thirteenth st., TOBACCO TRUST’S SECRET DEALS New York, Dec. 10.—The Queen City Tobacco Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was: organized with the funds of the American Tobacco Company nnd by Caleb G. Dula, one of the vice presi dents of the tobacco Combine, but the consolidation of the two companies was kept a secret, according to Air. Dula’i evidence:, given In the government’* ac tlon to dissolve the combine. Mr. Dula testified that he arranged the organiza tion of the Queen City company with a man suppozed to be Independent of the American Tobacco Company In con trol. ROBERTS IS RE-ELECTED MAYOR OF BALL GROUND. Speclnl to The Georglsn. Ball Ground, On., Dec. 10.—In Satur day’s election of city officials J. B. Roberts again defeated A. J. Lovelady for mayor. Councilmen were elected as follows Charles ltzel. F. M. Howell. W. H. An derson and W. A. While. Three can didates for council tied, w hich will ne cessitate another election to complete the body. Pastor Is Installsd. Special to Ths Georglsn. Opelika, Ala, Dec. 10.—At West Point, Ga. Sunday, tile Presbyterian pastor of that city. Rev. fl. B. Morrow, was Installed by a commission from the East Alabama Preabytery. consist ing of Rev. W. E. Ward, of Auburn, and Rev. K. L. Molver and Elder J, “ Dean, of Opelika $2.75. $2.75 $2.75 V A $2.75 \r $2.75 $2.75 m 1 rt" iSm m Great Stock Re duction Sale . . • wo SSHOES GEORGIA AND ALABAMA VETERINARIANS TO MEET. Special to The Georgian. Opelika, Ala, Dec. 10.—The Georgia State Veterinary Association and the Alabama Veterinarians will meet at Auburn, Ala, December 20-21. These associations will meet at the veterinary department of the Alabama Polytech nic Institute. On Saturday, the 21st, there will be a free clinic day and at these meetings It Is expected will be a large number of fanners and stockmen from both states. WHISKY, 30 YEARS OLD, IS POURED UPON GROUND. Special to Ths Georgian. Valdosta, Ga, Dec. 10.—A queer And was made by workmen engaged In the erection of a new building at Staten vllle, Echolts. county. While the men were making some excavations they unearthed a number of jugs of whisky which bore every Indication of having been In the ground for- many years. Older citizens remembered ihat o bar room, which was run there thir ty years ago had been robbed of sever al Jugs of whisky which had never been traced by the owner or officers. The finders were then satisfied that they had found the long-lost Jugs, which had reposed in mother earth for three decades. If the universally expected theory that age Improves whisky is true, these Jugs ought to have contained a rich mellow article, but that is sup position, as Mr. Garbutt. whose work men dug them up. Is a consistent pro hibitionist. and he opened the Jugs and poured their contents out upon the ground. Morgan After Pagsninl Script. Rome, Dee. 10.—ft Is stated that J. P. Morgan offered .200,000 for the original manuscripts of the ten composition* of after v. . . . Paganini, which were lately discovered January 1, 1908. Bell phone In the archive* of the municipal bultd- 'ing of Perugia. The government has forbidden the tale. ' 1543-1, North. This Great Stock Must Be Reduced At Once. Come Promptly! Women’s Brand New Vici, Patent Leather and Gun Metal Shoes at $2.75 Pair W E’RE OVERSTOCKED ON SHOES and must unload at once; hence this great sacrifice sale. We offer about 1,000 pairs women’s brand new winter models in Vici Kids, Patent Leathers and Gun Metal Shoes, lace and button styles, welt or turned sole, new and stylish lasts. Dress, street and church styles, models for any occasion. Exclusive shoe stores on the street will charge you $3.00 and $3.50 for identically the same shoes. Come and buy these handsome and durable shoes, as long as they-last, for $2.75 Pair Here’s your chance to secure practical and desira ble Christmas gifts at a magnificent saving. Now don’t wait a moment longer than necessary. Attend this Shoe sale nt once. This most extraordinary Shoe Sale will last until the stock is materially reduced. MAIL ORDERS RILLED. In ordering by mail he sure and give correct de scription of style wanted, size and width. Address all orders J. M. HIGH CO., A- gr* Great Stock Ladies’ Fur Trimmed Felt Slippers For Holiday Gifts $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 J. M. HIGH CO. J. M. HIGH CO. BOARD TO COMB POLICE PENSIONS Some definite action for the support of the widow and oblld who survive Policeman J. A. Mauler, who was mur dered last Friday afternoon, probably will he taken by the police board at the meeting to be held at the police station Tuesday night. The suggestion haa been made that the city pension the widows of police men killed while In discharge of their duty. This matter will probably be discussed. Councilman E. W. Martin will offer resolution at the next session of council, providing for a donation of from $200 to $500 for the widow and child. Tha resolution will be adopted, no doubt, without discussion. The funeral of Officer Manler was held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, services being conducted at the home, 31 East Fair street, by Rev. A. R. Ilol- derby. The body was placed in a re ceiving vault at Westvlew. In addition to the pallbearers, who were fellow-officers with the murdered policeman, an escort of police, led by Chief Jennings, marched with the fu neral cortege. The member* of Fulton lodge. No. $2, Independent Order of T>dd Fellows, attended the funeral In a body. The pallbearer* were Captain J. T. Shepard. Sergeant W. M. Mayo, Ser geant J. L. Poole, B. J. Selle, John Gresham. J. A. Chapman. W. F. Har. per and W. H. Andrew*. Negroes Giv# to Fund. One of the most noticeable features In connection with the Mmnter tragedy of laat Friday fa the Interest being shown by negroes In behalf of Mrs. Manler and her little orphan son. All of the better claas of negroaa deeply deplore the slaying of Police man Manler and a number of them have already contributed money for the auccor of the grief-atrlcken wom an and child, rendered widow and or phan by a bullet fired by a criminal of their race. Heartily commending the brave act of the negro, Bartow Black man. In chasing and capturing the drunken aasassin, Andrew Johnson, several negroes have also expressed contributing to the fund for hi* benefit. Tom Hunt, a nsgro employee of the Atlanta Oil and Fertiliser Company, who had previously subscribed 50 cent* for the aid of Mra. Manler. Monday afternoon atarted a subscription among white employees of the plant, heading It himself with 35 cents. He raised $2.85 and Tuesday morning turned the money over to Captain Shepard and Station Sergeant Lindsay at the police station. Hunt's list Is as follows: Tom Hunt, colored, 25 cents; Green, 25 cents; J. II. McKensle, 15 cents; cash, 10 cents; J. t\ Lewis, 25 cents; O. D. Williams, 25 cents; G. T. Lane, 25 cents: B. S. Moore, 25 cents; J. M. Poole, 25 cents; R. B. Moore, 25 cents; R. C. Walters, 25 cents, and Henry Perry, 25 cent*. Another list of contributions, made wholly by negroes, for the fund ror Mrs, Manler anil also for the Blackman fund, was turned over to Chief Jen nings Tuesday morning by Plain Clothes Officer Rosser. This fund amounts to $0.60. divided equally be tween the two funds, and Is os fol lows; Banks & Little, $4; Tobias Pughsley, $2; John T. Schell. $2. and Ed Leslie, $1.50. The negroes are still at work, and It Is expected their fund will be consider, ably swelled within the next few days. Fund Growing. To The Georgian's fund the follow ing subscriptions were made Tuesday: For Sirs. Manler— Previously subscribed $51.75 W. A. Brough 4 00 Cash 50 For Bartow Blackman— Previously subscribed W. A. Brough The following letter accompanied Mr. Brough'a subscription: Fitzgerald, Ga., Dec. >. The Atlanta Georgian: Attached hereto and check for $5. kindly request, through you, to donate $4 of amount to the Manler fund nnd $1 to the Bartow Blackman fund. With best. wishes for the success of your noble and timely undertaking, beg to remain, yours very truly. W. A. BROUGH. Care of Plttaburgh Plate Glass Co. their appreciation of his heroism by dent. Meek for Win. J. Bryan. New York, Dec. 10.—Norman E. Mack, member of the national Demo cratic committee of New York, said whllo here en route to Washington to atttnd the meeting of the committee on Thursday that the national convention would be held either In Bt. Paul or Louisville. He declared that William J. Brian should be nominated for preal- MimlllHHIIHII| j AT THE THEATERS 1 AMUSEMENTS. , matinee*' and night, Cyril Hcott in “The Prince Chap.'* TffK IHJOi;—Tuesday matinee and night, Nat M. Wills in '’A Lurk? Dog." THE OBPHBCM—Tuesday matinee .and night, high-class vaudeville. Seldom are humor, pathoe and genuinely good noting ao delightfully combined oa In "The Prince Chap,” presented by Cyril Scott and hla company at the Grand Mon day night. It la a clean, clever, simple bit of a play; not complicated with problomc or morals, but Jammed tight full of that Indefinable, heart-gripping quality of nil good “child ** And though the “Prince Chan” was the hero and Cyril Scott the star, the children made tlm piny. Beryl Pullman, the child Claudia, and Helen Pullman, the girl Claudia, were good beyond belief, ami were the real itors. . The Marcus Bunion of Charles B. \\ ell* nnd the Phoebe Puckers of Mary Keogh were pieces of character-comedy acting that would have convulsed a professional mourner. Cyril Scott was good, of course, » William Pnyta Don’t overlook * ■ ’The Prince Chap." It la here for matinee and night performance* and yon should see It. .. ...... do not laugh with Bunion and Puckers and cry with Mrs. Krrington. and —now nnd ttieii—with “The Prince t.tanu nnd his hard luck, then you are not of the same stuff ns Monday night’s audience. It Is all so simple and so human oud no pos sible that It ehafma the most cynical nnd wearied of playgoers nnd reduce* the aver age audience to an unwonted atate of tear fulness and smJIefillness. P. II. W. Despite the unfavorable weather, a large audience attended the Initial presentatluu of the week’s hill at the Orpheum Monday night. This wn* tho flrat of a series of aeven per formance* which will be given thl* week, from which a large part of the proceeds will go to the widow of Policeman J. A. Mauler, who was shot down last Friday afternoon. . night performances. The audience had no reason to regret the visit to the orpheum, for the management put on a bill of VHUdevllle calculated to suit the most critical and foatldlons theater goer. Vesta nnd Wentworth, billed n* “unique clowns.” started the fireworks frith a clever and amusing act, and the bonfire of the kind of vaudeville that makes vaudeville worth while kept sizzling and popping and luirnlug brightly all the way through, even the mr- 4 Joe Flynn, has a liquid flow of conversation that Is amnslng and a monologue and several tong* that make the liquid flow easily. The lloldsworths are slugers, dancer* and batijolsts, and are about ns good at one a* the other, and exceedingly clever at all. Their work with the banjo Is unusual. Adele Palmer and Dennis Mullen In “The Ice Man,” will not bo arrested for exceed ing the fun limit, bat are funny even nt tbit. Jacobs’ arohatlc dogs are worth any body’* scylng. Jacobs himself, by the way, Is sii uuusually graceful aerotmt. Friend and Downing are a funny pair ami the Golt* trio of equilibrists, who precede the moving pictures, have an act that Is ns novel as It is entertalnlug. Performance* every^nlght and matinees every day.^begln- Late Comers at Grand. It is “wait until the Intermission or go ’way back and sit down” for all late comers •t the Grand opera bouse now. Thanks to the management of the popular playhouse, n response has been made to the appeal of those who go to the show for other reasons than to see and be seen, and a rule has been made and Is being enfnreed that the late ar rival with tickets for the orchestra must take a back seat aud wait nntll the first Intermission. The rule leaped Into popularity at a single bound and the visitor at the Grand may hereafter enjoy the play In peace, secure In the knowledge that he will not have to rise In his se«t nnd let a man* of furs, feathers and lace brush by Jnst at the thrilling moment when the vlllnlu Is about to get It where the rooster got the axe. Nat Wills at the Bijou. Sat Wills opened a week’s engagement at the Bijou Monday night In “A Lucky Dog” to standing room only, and although this Is the second time In AtlanU of the produc tion, it Is better than ever. It’s the same show and again It lan’t. For Nat Will* Is here with more goods In the shape of new by the ninny encores Mr. Wills and hla appearance of the show was fully evidenced company reeel veil. In addition to the sf.ir lilin*«.|r. Hilda Carle and her “Bed Raven Cadets,” Miss norland, Peter Grifflu and Charles W. Odell stand out prominently. It’s nil to the good and is well worth raring again. Here all the week. P. K. W. Ethel Barrymore Next. The announcement of tho Grand for Wed nesday and Thursday nets forth that Ethel Ilsrrymore I* to appear then* ou that date In n new piny entltlri| “Her Ulster,“ whb-h Clyde Fitch and Cosmo Gordon Lennox have expressly written In collaboration for her by order of Charles Frohman. Mis* Barrymore Is one of the very few Mars whom the public never tires to see In any play In which they bare scored with credit to themselves and profit to their respective j managements. Though Mr. Frobmau Is alive to this truth itud has ever been un willing to alter its course, he has. In tbl* case, undoubtedly endowed Miss Barrymore with n decided novelty In the form of n modern play collaborated by on LnglMi author nnd nn American one, and thl* for the first time In this country, and It Is chronicled that the young actress has proven her worth lu the matter. Miss Barrymore’* engagement will In clude a matinee Thursday. “The Lion and the Mouse.” “The Lion and tho Mouse,” the greatest dramatic success the American stage lias known, will be presented Friday and .Sat urday nt the Grand by Henry B. Harris with a company of exceptional strength ment that Mr. K^eln representing the Influence which the mr Scarf Pi ms Rose, Roman or bright gold finish. Set with dia monds, pearls and other precious stones. Eugene V. Haynes Co. Jewelers. 37 Whitehall St