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THE LAGRANGE REPORTER
FRIDAY MORNING
AUGUST 29, 1913.
Little Stories of Interest
From the Capital City
WM. HURD HILLYER NOW LOAN
CORRESPONDENT COLUM
BIA LIFE.
Atlanta, Aug. 28.—William Hurd
Hillyer who sold his controlling in
terest in the Atlanta Trust Company
about three months ago and has since
been conducting a private banking
business in the Trust Company of
Georgia Building, has been appoint
ed to the position of exclusive loan
correspondent of" the Columbian Na
tional Life Insurance Company of
Boston, Mass., for Atlanta and vi
cinity.
This announcement comes with par
ticular interest at the present time,
not only to Mr. Hillyer’s friends in
financial circles throughout the South,
but to all property owners in this
vicinity, as indicating a renewed wil
lingness >on the part of large Eastern
interests to place their funds in real
estate mortgages secured by Georgia
property.
The Columbian National is an old-
line Massachusetts company with $8,-
000,000 of surplus assets and $60,000,-
000 of outstanding insurance. The
company has not, heretofore, been
lending on Atlanta real estate.
NOTED THEATRICAL TALENT
FOR ATLANTA THE COMING
SEASON.
Atlanta, Aug. 28.—Indications are
that this part of the South is to be
Unusually fortunate this year in the
number of famous actors and noted
theatrical productions which it will
have for the fall and winter season.
Atlanta has already booked attrac
tions of world-wide fame which will
bring visitors and parties of theater
goers from surrounding towns and
even adjacent states.
Mrs. Fiske, Henry Miller, William
Faversham in his all-star presenta
tion of Julius Caesar, Ben Hur, the
opera Salome, Nazimova in Bella
Donna, Pavlowa and the Russian
daners are among those already
booked for the Atlanta Theater. Man
ager Homer George, who has just
returned from New York, has
nouneed that the season here will
open next Wednesday, September
Nvith the musical comedy, “Mary’i
Lamb.”
GEORGIA NEWS BRIEFS.
“TELEPHONE MANNERS TRULY
PROCLAIM THE MAN.”
CONSTERNATION OVER RETURN
OF MAN REPORTED DEAD.
Atlanta, Aug. 28.—Believing they
saw a dead man walking along the
street, friends and neighbors of J.
B. Mathis, of this city, fled shrieking
in terror when he appeared to them.
When he tried to approach his own
cousin, the latter fell fainting to the
ground. Such a true ghost story At
lanta hasn’t had in twenty years.
J. B. Mathis is a popular traveling
man who comes to Atlanta about
once a month. Three or four days
ago the daily newspapers carried the
announcement that J. B. Mathis of
Atlanta was dead. His friends
mourned. Then the notice of the
funeral occurred.
Then, one evening about twilight,
neighbors sitting on their porches
along the block on Pryor Street on
which Mr. Mathis boarded, saw
familiar figure approaching from the
direction of the railroad station.
“My God, it’s Mathis!” whispered
somebody, and a general panic fol
lowed. The explanation was simple
enough. There were two J. B. Ma
thises in Atlanta, and it was the other
who had died.
FOUR YEGGS GET TWENTY
YEARS EACH.
Atlanta, Aug. 28.—At least four of
the professional yeggmen who try to
make their annual springtime trip
through Georgia on their way north
profitable and interesting by blowing
a few small safes en route, will re
main in Georgia a good while longer
than they originally intended. In
fact, they will enjoy an enforced resi
dence of twenty years, since the rural
sleuths of Lumpkin county proved
too keen for them.
The four men convicted are Charles
Miller, William Thornton, William
Flynn and John W. Harris. Just be
fore daybreak one morning this
spring they threw the town of Dah-
lonega into consternation by breaking
into and blowing the safe of the Bank
of Lumpkin county. They were
caught, convicted, sentenced, and now
the Court of Appeals has refused
their pleas for a new trial.
Atlanta, Aug. 28.—That telephone
manners are a true test of character,
and that the man who is continually
impatient and insulting while using
the phone, is likely to be the same
way in dealing with his wife, is de
clared by a bright and thoughtful ope
rator in the local Southern Bell ex
change.
She says that years of observa
tion have taught her that the man
who bears the reputation of being
petulant and unreasonable at home
and in business is usually the one
who delights in quarreling at the
operator, while the man who talks
in a quiet, low voice, always main
taining his politeness almost invaria
bly is somebody who is looked-up-to
and amounts to something in the
community.
She says that the natural voice as
serts itself over the telephone, and
that the operator can get the speak
ers true number in more ways than
one. The people who shriek and
rave and continually complain, she
says, and lose their self-control, sim
ply hamper the efforts the operator
is making to give them good service.
STATE ROAD A VALUABLE
PROPERTY.
SNAKE CHARMER GETS BITE
WHICH MAY PROVE FATAL.
Atlanta, Aug. 28.—Georgia’s first
and only snake charmer, by name
Will Thurmond, lies at the point of
death as the result of being bitten by
one of his pets, a poisonous pilot
snake.
Thurmond, who is a Lindale mill
operative, had the snake in his hands
and offered to bite its head off for
two dollars, when it turned and hur
ried its fangs in his arm. He may
or may not recover.
Thurmond has handled hundreds of
snakes with impunity before, and this
was the first one that had ever bit
ten him.
Atlanta, Aug. 28.—Chairman Bar
ry Wright of the joint committee ap
pointed by the Legislature to look in
to the question of what to do with
the Western & Atlantic Railroad
after the present lease expires, is
planning to call a meeting of the
committee at some date which can
be made convenient to the members.
When the committee gets to work
it will have some interesting new fig
ures to deal with, showing that large
gains have been made during the
past year in both the gross and net
earnings of the State’s road. It will
be shown that the gain in gross earn-
lings over )ast year is more than
$270,000. The gross earnings per
mile of the W. & A. are nearly three
times as much today as those of the
Southern, Central and Coast Line,
respectively.
The committee will carefully go
over the question of what disposition
to make of the road, and will report
back at next year’s session of the
Legislature.
Col. David C. Barrows’ nomination
as port collector at Savannah has
been confirmed by the senate.
The famous Berry school for boys
and the Martha Berry school for girls
will open at Rome on Thursday, Au
gust 18, each with the largest enroll
ment in its history.
Pleasant A. Stovall, of Savannah
Ga., presented his credentials as Unit
ed States minister to Switzerland at
Berne. He succeeds H. S. Boutell, of
Illinois.
Custis Nottingham, who was ap
pointed postmaster at Macon to suc
ceed Harry S. Edwards, has received
his commission from President Wilson,
and will assume charge of the office
August 30.
The first bale of cotton this season
was sold at Elberton by Pierce Hall,
bringing 14 1-2 cents a pound. It was
bought by T. O. Tabor & Son.
A farmer from Ludowoci. a few
miles from Millwood, tells of a yel
low jacket nest at that place 38 feet in
circumference and 10 feet in diameter
and steadily getting larger. He sayi
that the curious for miles around are
coming to see the wonder.
Dr. Robert H. Harris, of Cairo, i
former resident of Thomasville, hai
been tendered the position of chap
lain general for the state of Georgia
on the staff of Major General Preston,
state commander of the United Con
federate veterans.
Three wives in South Carolina and
one in Atlanta, all within the space
of twelve months, is the record estab
lished by W. J. Orr, 11 Todd street,
according to Sheriff Rector, of Green
ville, S. Q., who came to Atlanta to
take Orr back to Greenville on a war
rant charging him with bigamy.
Atlanta’s auto show for this year
has been set for November 8 to 15.
The committee on arrangements de
cided that point last week and have
already begun to set things in order
for the big event.
Mrs. B. F. O’Shields, of Atlanta,
fired a revolver at her husband fol
lowing a family quarrel, the bullet
penetrating through O’Shields’ coat
and being deflected from its course by
some heavy papers in his inside pock
et, which probably saved his life.
Eugene Baldwin, who owns a fine
orchard near Dawson, and has met
with much success for several years in
marketing his peaches, is preparing to
set out 3,000 more trees of the early
varieties, which will give him 30,000
trees, whose fruit will ripen during the
month of May.
W. H. Fortune, of Augusta, Ga.,
while standing in the surf at the Isle
of Palms, Charleston, S. C., with his
wife and several friends was fatally
stricken with apoplexy and fell, head
first, into the water. A physician said
FRANK GUILTY OF
PHAGAN KILLING
Verdict Received Wltlr
Demonstration
GREAT CROWDS IN STREETS
One of the Most Celebrated Trials In
Georgia Court History Closed When
A Jury of His Peers Found Frank
Guilty—Motion for a New Trial Will
•Be Made.
that death was virtually instant. The
body was carried for interment to
Augusta.
WHITE SLAVERY ALLEGED.
GREAT SINGING CONVENTION
IN ATLANTA SEPTEMBER
TWELFTH TO FOURTEENTH.
Announcement is made of the
eighth annual assembly of the United
Sacred Harp Musical Association at
the Auditorium-Armory in Atlanta
opening Friday morning, September
12th, and closing the following Sun
day night.
It is expected that this will be the
largest gathering of vocalists ever
assembled in the Southern States, in
cluding noted musicians and dele
gates from fifteen states.
All music classes, choirs and con
ventions are "tyvited to send dele
gates. \
Girl’s Story Sends Georgia Farmers to
Jail.
News reached Rome, Ga., of a
shocking case of alleged white slav
ery, which has caused the arrest of
George Walker and Will Walker,
prominent farmers of Walker county,
who are now in jail in Lafayette un
der indictment for kidnaping and
awaiting trial in Walker superior
court. It is alleged that they lured
from her home Susie Fricks, the pret
ty 14-year-old daughter of James
Fricks, a neighbor, took her to George
Walker’s home, in the absence of his
wife, where she spent the night, con
cealed her the next day from her pa
rents and put her on a train bound for
Alabama City, Ala., where George
Walker, it is said, promised to join
her.
The child attracted the attention of
the railroad conductor, who persuaded
her to return home.
Leo M. Frank, superintendent of the
National Pencil factory; president of
the B’nai B’rith, graduate of Cornell
university, student of literature, and
until recently regarded as a man of
unblemished character and reputation,
and a leader among his people, has
been declared guilty of the murder of
Mary Phagan. a 13-year-old employee
of the factory of which Frank was the
head.
The jury was out only a short time
after being charged by the judge and
returning to the courtroom solemnly
declared the guilt of the defendant.
Thus ends one of the most sensa
tional, and at the same time, the long
est trial known in the courts of Geor
gia, extending over a period of four
weeks.
The best legal talent in Atlanta was
arrayed in the case and hundreds of
witnesses were called to testify dur
ing the trial. It clearly stands as the
most remarkable case that has ever
been tried in Georgia.
The verdict did not recommend mer
cy of the court and the prisoner will
be condemned to death when he is
brought before Judge Roan. The judge
says he will defer sentence for a few
days.
Two thousand people, mostly men.
awaited the announcement of the ver
dict in the streets around the court
house and the demonstration following
the news of the verdict drew doubls
that number to the scene. The win
dows of the cowrt room were ordered
closed, so great was the din from with
out the court.
The prisoner was not in court, noi
was his lawyers. Frank, with his
wife, who has remained loyally by his
side throughout the ordeal, awaited
the news from the jury in his cell in
the Tower.
Solicitor Dorsey wept as he polled
the jury. He asked each member sol
emnly, “Is this your verdict?” and
one by one replied, “It is.” As he
asked the sixth juror, tears began tc
trickle down the solicitor’s cheeks and
his chin began to quiver. He told his
friends that his sorrow was caused be
cause he was thinking of the con
demned man’s mother and wife.
Each juror in tHrn congratulated the
solicitor, and the judge congratulated
the jurymen.
As the solicitor passed from the
court house door he was picked up
bodily by members of the waiting
crowd, and on their shoulders carried
to his office in the Kiser building
across Pryor street. The shouting
was deafening when the solicitor ap
peared in the street.
He announced that he had no state
ment to make.
Two ballots were cast by the jurj
before an agreement was reached. The
first ballot cast showed eleven mem
bers for a verdict of guilty withoul
the recommendation of mercy and one
in doubt. After one more ballot, ar
hour later, the twelfth man came ovei
to the majority and made the earlj
verdict possible.
Judge L. S. Roan declared that nev
er in all ef his experience had he wit
nessed such a demonstration following
the announcement of a verdict. The
shout from 2,000 gathered outside the
court room attracted more,, and in ter
minutes after the verdict was made
We try to make the rest of
the paper as interesting
as the Want Ads—
but it is not al
ways poss-
ible !
The want ads come direct from the people—talk directly
to the people, in the language of the day’s needs, desires
and urgencies. They are of the people, for the people, by
the people. They emerge from the heat and the heart of
the day’s life—reflect unerringly the little incidents that
make up the sum total of minor events in the city.
It is not often that we tell, in the news columns, of the
near-tragedy of a lost job—or of the related and cheering
fact that the job-loser is wanted in a better position. Yes,
these daily events are vital in the lives and the affairs of the
people of the. city. They spell hope, or its waning, to many
people every day. They spell opportunity to employers—
the chance to get the sort of help for lack of which business
has been lost, profits unearned.
In many instances a “To Let” ad has back of it a story
of some events that have changed the fortunes of people.
The little ad is often eloquent, in suggestion. To those who
take an interest in “life as it is lived” there is a possible
’’story” in a majority of the want ads.
They are adjusters of the little difficulties of daily life.
They serve. They reconstruct. They make for content.
They are “Humble Interest Documents.” No issue of this
paper can ever be dull that contains an average volume of
want advertising.
Atlanta & West Point
Railroad Company
Arrival and Departure of Trains
at LaGrange, Ga., Subject to
Change and Typographical
Errors.
Eastbound.
No. 42J For Atlanta
No. 44f
No. 38
No. 40
No. 34
No. 36
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Atlanta
Leave.
. .5:35 A.M.
...7:18 A. M.
...8:38 A. M.
..11:50 A. M.
...4:21 P. M.
...9:20 P.M.
Westbound. Leave.
No. 35 For Montgomery ..7:47 A.M.
No. 33 “ Montgomery .11:50 A.M.
No. 39 " Montgomery ..4:21P.M.
No. 37 “ Montgomery ..7:18P.M.
No. 41 “ West Point ..8:23P.M.
She had $13 in
her possession, which she said George ! public the crowd was so great that the
Walker had given her. She is said
to be unusually attractive and intelli
gent. She left a note for her mother
bidding goodby and stating that she
was to be married at an early date
and that she and her husband expect
ed to go to Oklahoma. In her note
she promised her mother to “be a
god girl and say my prayers every
night before I go to bed.”
The parents of the little girl were
alarmed at her absence and made a
careful search for her, but were un
able to locate her. Will Walker is
accused of being an accessory. George
police reserves began riding through
it in an effort to disperse it.
A motion for a new trial will be
made immediately by attorneys foi
the prisoner.
KILLS HIS RESCUER.
From
Inhuman Act of Man Saved
Drowning.
A posse is searching the Ohio
river bottoms for Lewis Phillips, who
is accused of the eold-blooded and un
explained murder of William Zurelbry.
committed only a short time after
Walker, the alleged instigator of the i Zurelbry had saved Phillips from
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crime, is a married man, his wife be
ing a daughter of T. J. Bandy, a
wealthy citizen of Walker county.
Solicitor General W. H. Ennis states
that he expects to call the attention
of the United States authorities to the
drowning.
Phillips and several other men were
pitched into the Ohio late when theii
skiff overturned. Zurelbry, an aged
man, who witnessed the accident
swam in and rescued Phillips, whc
matter and have Walker prosecuted j could not swim. Not long afterward
under the white slave act, inasmuch
as he sent the child into another state,
Alabama.
The affair has caused much excite
ment and indignation in Walker coun
ty and it is expected that prompt ac
tion will be taken at the court term.
SENTIMENT DIVIDED.
Diversity of Opinion In Regard To
Speer Charges.
The charges which have been made
it is said, Phillips went to Zurelbry’a
house armed with a rifle, entered th«
house and asked whether Zurelbrj
were his rescuer. Upon receiving ar
affirmative answer Phillips is said tc
have shot the old man through the
heart.
Phillips, though .fired upon by a
posse, which quickly formed, escaped
across the river.
t Daily excapt Sunday, f Sunday only. All other trains daily. Trains
Nos. 35 and 36 have through coaches between Washington and New Or
leans, and sleepers between New York and New Orleans, Asheville and
New Orleans.
Trains Nos. 37 and 88 (New York, Atlanta & New Orleans Limited)
Solid Pullman train between New York and New Orleans.
Trains Nos. 39 and 40 carry Washington Sunset Route Tourist cars
between Washington and San Francisco.
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic R. R
THE STANDARD OF EXCELLENCE INI SERVICE
Summer Schedules, Effective May 25th, 1911
Trains Leave LaGrange As Follows:
(West-bound)
Train 23 for Roanoke, Talladega and Birmingham 6:05 A. M.
Train 21 for Roanoke and Talladega 5:25 P. M.
(East-bound)
Train 22 for Manchester, Fitzgerald, Thomasville, Waycross
and Brunswick 9; 16 A. M.
Train 24 for Manchester, Fitzgerald, Thomasville, Waycross
and Brunswick 10:35 P. M.
Train No 24 will connect at Manchester with sleeping cars for
Thomasville and Brunswick, the latter arriving at Brunswick at 9 A. M.,
making close connection with steamer leaving Brunswick at 9:30 A. M.
for St. Simons Island.
Week-End, Ten—Day and Season Excursion Tickets to Seashore Resorts.
W. W. CROXTON, A. D. DANIEL, W. C. MATTHEWS,
General Passenger Agent. T. P. A. Ticket Agent.
10,000 Want His Autograph.
Ten thousand requests for his auto-
Deen maae graph and 6,000 for his photograph
Eh Qt U f ge H 7 ry * Spee f r ', 0f £ e l have been received by Francois Fer-
United States district court for the tiall of the Societ of M and L t .
States district court for the
southern district of Georgia, and
vhich may possibly result in his im
peachment, if proven, form a house
hold topic- in Macon now, overshad-
iwing the Frank trial and sharing
honors with the municipal campaign
which is just now hitting its stride.
ters, who has just celebrated his 100th
birthday. The old man became famous
immediately. He was born in 1813
and published his first book in 1830.
His latest volume was published Iasi
year. Though he has been a hard
working writer he is poor.
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