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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN*
MONDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1**.
The local papers indorse the candidacy of
R. F. MADDOX for County Commissioner,
as is shown by the following articles:
GIVE US A GOOD
COMMISSIONER.
The office of county commissioner
Is one of the most Important public
dutiea and responsibilities that fall to
a citizen.
It Is more Infportant now than ever
before In the history of Atlanta, be
cause the city and county are con
stantly growing. Their Interests are
multiplying, their necessities are de
veloping, their roads, revenues, police
arrangements, etc., are assuming larger
magnitude and Importance every year.
This, too. Is the growing period In
the history of Fulton county, and a
period of growth is oner in which things
are done, changes made and policies es
tablished.
For this reason It Is to the last de
gree Important that the people who
have votes In Fulton county should
carefully consider the men who aspire
for their Buffragcn tor commissioner,
and should carefully and firmly
choose that man whose business ex
perience has been the largest, whose
business repute has been the highest
and whose Intelligence and proven ca
pacity In the public service Is not a
matter of conjecture.
We trust that this wlH be the spirit
with which the electors will enter upon
this county election, and we only urge
that every citizen, both of the city and
of the county, who has the Interests of
the county at heart, should come out to
the polls and cast a straight, clear and
Intelligent ballot for the man whom he
knows to be the best, the wisest, the
cleanest and the most capable man.
Up to the present stage of announce
ment u*e know no man whose experi
ence and training better fit him for this
responsible position than Robert F.
Maddox.—Editorial in Georgian.
THE COUNTY
COMMISSIONERSHIP
VACANT
In hereby commending Mr. Robert F.
Maddox for the seat upon the board of
county commlesioners, made vacant by
the election of Mr. Hubert I* Cul
berson, as county treasurer. The Jour
nal of Labor departs from its usual
rule of non-interference In purely local
politics, In which organised labor Is not
especially concerned.
But Mr. Maddox Is so peculiarly and
splendidly quallded to discharge the
important duties of this administrative
office that we can not Tefrain from
commending him to the voters of Ful
ton county.
The office of county commissioner le
a most Important one. Nearly a half
million of dollars Is handled annually
by the board.
It la an office which calls for the"
highest degree of business skill, fair
ness to all sections of the county, and
unyielding fidelity to the public Inter
ests.
Mr. Maddox fills these requirements
admirably.
As president of the Chamber of Com
merce for two years this able young
Atlantan won extraordinary and de
served popularity and esteem from all
classes of business Interests.
It Is doubtful. If In the last decade
any cltlsen of Atlanta hae more forci
bly and favorably striven for the pub
lic weal, hae shown more public spirit
and genuine devotion to the upbuilding
of Atlanta, than has Mr. Maddox.
He Is a broad-gauge man, liberal and
progressive, believes In giving a square
deal to everybody.
The Interests of the humblest tax
payer will be absolutely safe In his im
partial hands.
So believing. The Journal of Labor
takes pleasure In commending this
worthy cltlsen to the voters of this
city and county, In the approaching
election.—Editorial Journal of Labor.
THE MAN WE NEED.
The man whom Atlanta honored by
making him president of Its Chamber
of Commerce, and again electing him
to that post, can be safely trusted by
the rest of Fulton county to look after
their Interests when he becomes coun
ty commissioner; and Robert F. Mad
dox will be elected to that office.
The office demands a man of large
experlenca In the business and com
mercial world. It require! a man of
large Intellect and wide breadth of
ideas. He should be a thorough and a
successful business man. He should
be a man who Is above partisan feel
ings and petty prejudices. Such a man
Is Robert F. Maddox, who haa shown
his public spirit In the grand work ha
has so successfully prosecuted on be
half of a world's fair for Atlanta tn
1110. The advanced Ideas hs presented
while engaged In this noble work will
be utilised In Improving Fulton county,
and we are lucky In securing the ser
vices of such a man to aid In carrying
out the work mapped out In Fulton
county.
South Fulton will show Itself fully
alive to Ite Interests when It gives
“Bob" Maddox a rousing majority 1n
October.—Editorial tn Fulton Enter
prise, East Point, Qa.
ROBERT F. MADDOX
FOR COUNTY BOARD
Prominent Banker Announce! That Ht
Will Make Race to 8ueceed
Mr. Culberson.
DON’T FORGET
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3.
YOUR VOTE WILL
BE APPRECIATED.
Robert F. Maddox, vice president of
the Maddox-Rucker Banking Company,
and one of the most prominent and pro
gressive of Atlanta's citizens, has yield
ed to the request of a large number of
frlenda from all * sections of Fulton
county, and consented to stand for
county commissioner for the full term,
beginning January 1, 1907.
Hubert L. Culberson had already
been elected for this term, but In view
of his recent election to the office of
county treasurer, will retire at the end
of the year.
Mr. Maddox Is hlmslf absent from
the city on a holiday, but he has been
Importuned by wire and letter to per
mit the use of his name, and it was
announced Friday morning by a num
ber of hts friends that he had given
them authority to announce his candi
dacy. Mr. Maddox Is In no senso an
applicant for the place, hut so many
of his friends from every part of the
city and every district In the county
asked him to run thAt he Anally au
thorised hts consent.
Mr. Maddox, In consenting to run,
authorised his friends to state that he
was willing to contest either In a pri
mary or In the regular October state
and county election. He was specific
to say that he had no suggestions
to make as whether a primary should
or should not be held, and would cheer
fully abide hny decision reached by the
Democratic authorities of the county.
Mr. Maddox Is one of Atlanta's best
known and most respected young men.
He has been president of the <'Humber
of Commerce./and Is now chairman of
thrf committee of fifty which has charge
of the question of the exposition of
1910. He Is a prominent banker, a
splendid business man and the worthy
son of his gallant father, the late
Colonel Robert F. Maddox.—Atlanta
Journal*
MR. MADDOX FOR
COMMISSIONER
In the absence of Mr. Robert F.
Maddox from the city, a number of hi,
former aanoclate, In the chamber of
commerce have Instituted a movement
to have him till the vacancy on the
board of county commlealonera occa
sioned by the election of Hon. Hubert
L. Culberson as county treasurer.
A, the last president of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Maddox
brought to bear a combination of ablj.
Ity, enterprise and energy which made
hi, administration perhaps the most
Hucceaefut one In the history of that
organisation. When the exposition
movement was begun, a little more
than a year ago, Mr. Maddox, as pres
ident of the chamber of commerce, was
(elected to head the temporary organi
sation, and largely as the result of hts
Indomitable energy over $300,000 was
subscribed, when the summer season
Interrupted the work of the canvass,
which ts to be resumed with the renew
al of business activity this fall.
Mr. Muddox Is out of the city, but In
response to telegraphic inquiry, has
stated that If he can be of service to
the public as county commissioner he
will consent to make the race.
No better aelectlon could be made,
and It would be a graceful tribute to
one of Atlanta's most prominent, active
and forceful young business men If he
were tendered the position wit lout op
position. Certain It ts that no man
could be selected who would discharge
the duties of the place with greater
credit to himself, or more satisfaction
to the county, than Mr. Maddox.—Edi•
torial In Constitution.
POLICE COUR7 OF MORNING
LASTED BUT 40 MINUTES;
HE A VY DROP IN BUSINESS
The m»r*Ion of police court Monday
morning proved to be one of the light-
• t tn the history of the municipal
tribunal, in striking contrast to the av
erage Monday morning court.
Herk fronton placed on the recor-
•k'r’N docket a total of only 55 cases
t'T both morning and afternoon ses-
m >ns of Monday’s court, while the av-
• i-.ti'e irt 150 cases. In the 55 cases are
represented several raids, In which a
number ot people were arrested at one
time and for the same offense. +
The morning ?ourt convened at 8:30
o'clock and Adjourned at 9:10, a ses
sion of only 40 minutes' duration. This
Is a record-breaker, something unpre
cedented in the history of the local po
lice court.
Recorder Broyles and police officials
attribute the decrease In the number of
cases mainly to the enforced prohibi
tion In Atlanta.
CLANSMAN ACTORS
CHETRED IN STREETS
kjMflal f#> The Georgian.
Sow Orion us. Oct. 1.—In the pres-
■ of many public officials'sad th»* t'ircr.tt
n niifiin* «>v**r gathered In the Tulnne thoa-
»• . “The ('Innsninu" was enthusiastically
"Hi'nnifd to this city Hnturday night. New
"il.-.tn* Itnil refused tn bar the play, In*
•loi-Hitur the attitude of Acting Mayor Me-
Itnckcii and the entire newspaper press,
saM in (iff$»ct that to prohibit n
‘ "'‘theru play In it Southern town was an
nl'Mirdlty. Kv
be far
the company arrived only an hour he-
i ; - ijj,. performance, having l»eeii delay-
in central Alnhmnn by the hurricane
' V., I "* 1 «» the !.oul*vlllc and Nashville.
, 1111 ‘ “11'liiges containing the nctors were
" tv.i an tj,e way front the station to
- un iter, nnd when the curtain rose on
,‘Vi J,, t. the audience stood up and
•Tldatided vigorously.
To Lsavt Hawkinsville.
to The Georgian.
Haw kina villa, Oa., Oct. I.—Colonel
Totniitvofi Port nnd family will go to
inhbert to make their future home,
uring hln stay of more than a year In
Hawkinsville, Colonel Fort has made
many friends whose good wishes follow
„' n *‘ n, l his excellent family to their
w home.
MANY MULES BURNED
DURING STABLE EIRE
Roanoke, Va., Oct. I.—The stables
of D. W. Fllckwlr, a Roanoke railroad
contractor, located near Forest depot,
were destroyed by fire last night.
Twenty-two mules and a large number
of carts and quantities of provender
were consumed. There was $4,500 In
nuranee on the building and contents.
Commission to Fix Rats.
Hpeeinl to The Georgian.
Hawkinsville. Ga., Oct. 1.—The coun
ty commissioners of Pulaski will fix the
tax rate for this year at Its meeting
Tuesday. It Is believed by those post
ed on the necessary revenue to he
raised to defray the expense of roads
and bridges, that the rate will be made
$15.20, which added to the state’s rate
of $4.80, will amount to $20.00 per
thousand. - *
*You are the only girl I ever loved!'*
he declared, passionately.
“That's nice," she answered. "But
really, you know, It’s a lot more Im
portant for me to be assured that I m
the only girl you’re ever going to love.
—Cleveland Leader.
MARYE10 DESIGN
Noted Architect Offers Ser
vices to Jamestown Com
mission Gratis.
FURNITURE and HOUSEHOLD
GOODS AT AUCTION
Two flne loti of furniture; one from Windsor «treet and the other
L Fair street, will be sold Tuesday. Oct. 2. at 10 a. m. at 123 White
hall street without reserve; 2 oak and I walnut bedroom suit, cherry
(olillng bed and metal folding bed, sideboard,'wardrobe, dining table,
roll-top desk, refrigerator, Eclipse gas stove, kitchen safe, small Iron
rash register, computing scales, cook stove, heater, standard
sewing machine, rockers. Iron beds, odd dresser and washstand, pair
one portlers, antique table, kitchen utensils, etc.
By order of the consignor.
LEO FRESH, Auctioneer.
t-riSUi
The Georgia State building at the
■fjamestown Exposition will be design
ed hy the well-known architect, P.
Thornton Marye.
Mr. Marye, who le a native Virginian,
though long a resident of Atlanta, ten
dered hie services to Mr. w. N. Mitch
ell, chairman of the Georgia James
town commission, free of charge, and
Mr. Mitchell gratefully accepted his
services.
The Georgia building will be colonial,
and It I, proposed to have some ten
or twelve rooms. Funds to erect this
building will be raised among Georgia
cities, and It la the purpose to name a
room for each city contributing. For
instance, the Atlanta room will be filled
with products of this city.
Under the resolution of the legisla
ture appropriating $30,000 for the
Jamestown Exposition, no part of this
fund can be used for a slate build
ing. Chairman Mitchell believes, how
ever, that the cities of Georgia will
willingly contribute an amount suffi
cient to erect an Imposing building.
Architect Marye ts now at work on
the design and will have It ready to
submit In a short time. He was the
architect of the Atlanta Terminal Sta
tion. He also designed the nt w termi
nals In Mobile and Birmingham and the
mllllon-dollar city hall in New Or
leans, now In course of construction.
no saluteTsfired
TO GREETJAR. ROOT
Washington. Oct. 1.—“I have had a
most Interesting and moet Instructive
visit among the people of the Bouth
| American countries," said Secretary
I Root last evening, shortly after his
: return to Washington. He had com
pleted the trip of 16,000 miles, covering
a little more than three months, during
which time he has visited practically
every country of the Southern hemi
sphere and been received with a cor
diality and expressions of hospitality
and friendship that could not have been
exceeded had he been some crowned
head.
The eeeretary of state reached the
navy yard yesterday nfternoon aboard
the United States yacht Sylph. There
was no ceremony In the reception of
.Mr. Root upon ills arrival. The marine
guard was not turned out and on ac
count of a navnl regulation governing
the observance of Sunday, no salute
was fired.
/(REWORKS CUTOUT
BY SPECIAL ORDER
OF MRJODSEVELT
President, Starting For
Washington, Vetoes
Demonstration.
Oyster BaS*. N. Y., Oct. 1.—President
Roosevelt'* vacation officially ended at
0 o'clock this morning when he boarded
special train on the Long Island
Railroad and began hi* Journey to
Washington. He Is due to arrive at the
national capital at 4: IS p. m.
At Long Island City he will take a
special boat belonging to the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company for a little
cruise around, the lower end of New
York. At Jersey City the presidential
party will board a special car which
will be attached to the regular train
leaving a't 11:16 a. m. ,
Villager, at Station.
The president Is accompanied to
Washington by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss
Ethel, Archie and Quentin, Acting Sec
retary Latta, the members of the. cleri
cal force who have been employed at
the executive office during the summer,
several secret service guards and rep
resentatives of the newspaper prea, a*-
anclatlona.
About 100 villager* were at the sta
tion to *ay goodbye to the president.
Much to the disappointment of the
"leading cltlsene" of the town, the
president vetoed a proposition to give
him a "send off." They were prepar
ing to shoot off lire cracker* and ora
tory and marshal the school children at
the station. The children were to
render "God Be With You Till We
Meet Again.”
He Vetoes Fireworks
There was to be an effective waving
of flags and then divide honors with
the president on the platform. The
president Intimated that he’d be tickled
tn death tn have this come to pas*, but
after all he would like It Just a little
better If there wa* no demonstration
all. He'd he glad, however, to
shake hands with any of hla old friends
and neighbors who wished to come
down to Ihe station.
Aa the president usually haa hla way
about moat things he had It In this and
the oratory, firecrackers, eonge and
ffags were put away for future ue*.
Shake, Many Hands
Th* president shook bunds for two
or three minutes, the crowd gave a
hearty cheer, the engine tooted abd the
train pulled out.
"Goodbye and good luck." cried the
president from the rear end of the train
and the town of Oyster Bay proceeded
to settle back for a time In lla sleep.
AT DECATUR GETS
BIG SUMJF MONEY
Methodist Ministers Discuss
the Shortage of
Preachers.
Nearly $7,600 of the $6,000 necessary
for the building of the Atlanta dormi
tory at the Decatur Orphans’ Home
was reported aa collected In the Meth
odist churches of the Atlanta district
Sunday at the Methodist minister,'
meeting Monday morning.
This gratifying showing la the re
sult of htfhdreds of people giving the
earning, of their Saturday’s work to
this worthy cause.
For hla work In agitating the "work
day" and presenting the cause of the
orphans the ministers tendered their
thanks to Major R. J. Guinn, and
through the superintendent of the
home. Rev. H. L. Crumley, the truetee*
and the Inmates thanked the preachers
of Atlanta for their co-operation In
the work.
The dtacuaalon of the morning w-ae
on the same subject aa last Monday
the shortage la the supply of preach
ers. The dlscuaalon was led by Dr.
C. E. Dowman, pastor of the First
Methodist church. In his opinion—and
It seemed tn he the opinion of moet of
the other preachers present—there ere
a* many Idle preacher* In Methodism
at least, a* there are unoccupied pul
pit*.
"Where there I* a really deelrable
pulpit vacant, there are plenty of men
'called' to that place," said the epeak-
er. “Of course Methodist preacher*
are placed by the bishop and are not
called, nor do they openly let It be
known that they are candidates for
certain of the better charge*.
"I feel that I would make an egre
gious failure If I had to preach a trial
nermon and be sampled like a bale of
cotton. One trouble Is that so many
TO BUILD RAILROAD
IN NORTHEAST GA,
Special to The Georgian.
Athens, Ga., Oct. 1.—It Is said that a
contract has been made to build a line
of railroad from eome point between
Marietta and Rlue Ridge to the Frank
lin mines, located at Hightower on the
border of Forsyth and Cherokee coun
ties, nnd had virtually promised to ex
tend It on to Frngtown In Forsyth
county. It appears that the promise has
been given the proprietors of the mines
to give them a road. From a point
near Ballground, on the Atlanta, Knox
ville and Northern division from Mari
etta It Is said that It would not cost
a great deal to build the line propoeed.
It does not appear as If the Gainesville
Midland Railroad, which will soon en
ter Athens, will be content to allow the
other end of Its line to stop for any
great length of time at Galneevllle, and
while there Is as yet nothing positive
about future movement! nf the roads,
It seems as If the time will soon come
when the Gainesville Midland will be
extended, making connection with the
road that will be built from Ballground
nnd going on through to Knoxville, giv
ing a through connection with the
West.
John Carson Disappeared
Saturday—Police Aid
Wife in Search.
MAUD.
Ut get to be moaa-backa. The con
etant study of the thsolngy of 100 years
sgo to the exclusion of other things
has this tendency.
■Of course I don't mean to say that
preacher should try to run away
with the wagon, but he should keep
from being run over hy the rest of the
team.
Seme Churchst Want Hsll-fir*.
Another thing which has largely
been responelble for the shortage Is
the varying standards of preacher* and
churchea. Bo many preachers want to
preach all love and sweetness when
the church which they serve wants
them to preach hell, and preach It hot.
Then sometimes It's the church that Vlnlngs
•“"its th* sweetness preached. There Kirkwood
are not too few preachers, but may be
too few available.
“Rut, granting a shortage, one fen-
son Is a failure In this day and lima tn
recognise a divine call to th* ministry.
A call doe, not have to come In dream*
and visions, but In most cases la from
a combination nf a man's conseloua-
nesa that there Is a place for him to
All and the efforts of others to Dll that
vacancy.
"Other things which have had their
effect In creating any shortaga which
may exist are the commercial spirit of
the age which measures success by
dollars, and the heavy demands of the
social life In the circle In which the
pastor's family ha* to move.”
One of the ministers present read
statistics to show that as a matter nf
fact there had been no Shortage In
the Georgia conference, and that the
supply now was even better than it
had been In some years past.
Subscription List.
Here are the amounts subscribed, by
the member, of the various churches'
of the city to the Orphans' Home at
Decatur:
Trinity $3,100
First church 1.600
St. Marks 700
Park Street 500
Grace church 300
Wesley Memorial 266
College Park 203
Walker Stfeet 200
81. Johns no
St. Paul 120
Inman Park 100
Battle Hill 60
Payne Memorial 61
West Side <0
St. James
f'openhlll
Anbury .. .
Dunwoody
With a little child In her arms and
an expression of worry on her face,
Mr,. John Carson, a young woman re
siding at 117 Main afreet, near the Ex
position Cotton Mills, walked Into th*
police stptlon Monday morning and
asked the police to be on th* lookout
for her husband, who haa been missing
from home since Saturday mornlnp.
Mrs.' Carson stated tlfnt her huaband
left home with the statement that he
wus going to Social Circle, but she said
he had failed to arrive there and that
nothing had been heard of him in any
way In that place.
Mrs. Carson has six children to car*
for and la much distressed over th*
dlsanpearance of Ihe husband and
father. Th* entire police force will be
put on notice of the disappearance.
STUDENTS' CLOTHING
BURNS IN DORMITORY
Rperlal to The Georgian.
Hamilton. Ala., Oct. 1.—Tin* dormitory
of the Went Alabama Agricultural acbool
burned Inat Thuradny night. The flames
were flrat dlsmtml In the celling of tha
second story, ami, notwlthntainllng the rain
that ana falling, the bollfling aoou went
down. The building was nett to the largest
of them being left only that wbleb waa
on their backa.
The cause of the Are la not knowu.
CROWDS, BRIDGES, PLATES.
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24
20
15
11.50
BEST ON EARTH
$3, $5, $7
ATLANTA DENTAL OFFICES
39J WhitehaU St.
Pbon* 2563-J. (or Dr. Lanier or Dr,
Lovalaco.