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COINS WOULD SID
MMFIENDS
Proposed 3-Cent and Half-Cent
Pieces Would Be Welcome,
Say Saleswomen.
That the new 3-cent and half-cent
coms, proposed in a bill in congress, al
ready passed, by the house,, would fill a
real want and need in the South, is as
serted by Atlanta saleswomen, notwith
standing the declarations of Atlanta bank
ers that the proposed coins are not
needed.
‘‘Think for a moment of the remnants
and special sales we put on weekly where
prices of 98 cents, 67 cents and 48 cents
are quoted," said one wideawake sales
woman.
"We have to hand out two or three
pennies in change or the customer has to
have them, and as these sales are practi
cally all on women's goods our custom
ers most frequently wait for change to
be made. With a three-cent piece the
customer could hand us the necessary
coin of the present denomination and
add a 3-cent piece and the change would
be made without loss of time.
Could Make Better Bargains.
“If we had half cents we could nut
lots of things at 98% cents and 48% cents,
and they would prove far more attrac
tive. 1 believe, to the ordinary bargain
hunter than a mere 98-cent bargain."
“1 don't see any need for these coins,”
said Robert F. Maddox, vice president
of the American National bank. “I will
admit that I have not given the matter
much thought, but just on the face of
it I see no occasion for their coinage.”
“The 3-cent piece has been tried out
once ?nd recalled,” said George R. Don
ovan, casmer of the Atlanta National
bank. “I believe it would prove con
fusing and useless, except in certain lo
calities, like Cleveland, Ohio, wlfere they
have a 3-cent car fare. Oh, well, they
might start a fight in other places for
a 3-cent fare. That might prove their
usefulness. I see no use for the half
cent. A penny is small enough for me.”
GEORGIA RAILROAD OWNERS
HOLDING ANNUAL MEETING
AUGUSTA, GA., May 9.—The seven
ty-eeventh annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company was held here yes
terday. Reports showed the company's
affairs to be in a very satisfactory con
dition. Officers were chosen as fol
lows:
Jacob Phinizy, president; Rufus H.
Brown, cashier; directors. Henry D.
McDaniel, Leonard Phinizy, James
White, William A. Latimer, Billups
Phinizy, Henry B. King, T. M, Green,
Edward W. Butler, Tracy I. Hickman,
John P. Mulherin, Porter Fleming, W.
J. Hollingsworth H. C. Boardman, W.
B. White and Ernest Woodruff.
ChamberlinJohnsonDußose Co. Atlanta-New York--Paris Chamberlin=Johnson = Diißose Co.
Now Comes the Sale of Silk Dresses
Tomorrow morning at 8:30 the Sale begins. If yon would like to own a silk dress that
has all the beauty of coloring, style and line that silk dresses have shown this season, be here
when the clock shows 8:30.
Like the Suit Sale that carried its tremendous savings to so many women Wednesday—
these dresses are this Spring’s favorites. They are the limited fews of styles that have proven
their attractiveness—as is evident by the fact that there are only one and two and three of
a style left.
It is not a question of profit now with us—it is a “let-go” sale, timed to the time when
women’s needs will help us to the greatest extent.
Also, like the Suit Sale, the dresses have been divided into two lots. And there being so
few of any one style means that a very wide choice may be yours.
’ll 75 $ 16 75
For Silk Dresses That Were $18.75 to $23.75 For Silk Dresses That Were $25.00 to $31.75
Thirty-four in all. Two-toned and plain taffetas and Fifty-five of these. And every one has its own par
foulards—plain taffetas in black, navy, brown; the two- ticular charm. Plain and two-toned taffetas, foulards and
tonedin attractive combinations of blue, tan, grey and crepe de chines. Dresses for street and afternoon wear,
the like. Foulards in light and dark grounds with little About as many light colorings as dark, which includes a
figures, dotsand stripes. The styles are, some, very simple number of blacks. Some of the prettiest styles show a great
and lovely, while others are as frilled and lacy as any one deal of chiffon about the waist, and rich, heavy laces,
could wish Wonderful values !
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None Sent C. O. D., or on Approval. None Exchanged or Taken Back.
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Chamberlin=Johnson=Dußose Co.
Gas Company Is Sued
For Removing Meter
That Burglars Looted
J. M. Dix. nf 50 West Peachtree place,
has filed a joint mandamus and damage
suit in the superior court to require the
Atlanta Gas Light Company to restore a
slot meter, taken from his house, so he
asserts, because he refused to pay the gas
company the amount stolen from the me
ter by burglars.
As a result of the gas company’s re-,
moving the meter after the argument
about tfe stolen money, Dix, who oc
cupies a second floor apartment, says that
his wife has been forced to do her cook
ing in the basement and carry food up two
flights of stairs. The food is cold when
it reaches the table, he complains.
Dix says the meter was installed in
the apartment when lie rented it three
months ago. On March 25, he asserts,
his place was entered and ransacked. The
burglars pillaged the meter and dam
aged it.
The gas company, after the meter had
been repaired, sent him a bill for the
money stolen and the cost of repairing.
This, he maintains, he refused to pay.
The company removed the meter.
Judge Pendleton today ordered the gas
company to appear on May 25 and show
good reason why the mandamus suit
should not stick. Dix asked the court
for SSOO damages for the inconvenience
caused by the basement cooking arrange
ment.
FELLOW OFFICER NABS
A MACON POLICEMAN
FOR SELLING WHISKY
MACON, GA.. May 9.—Policeman B.
J. Hunt was arrested today for violat
ing the state prohibition law. He was
arrested by a brother policeman, D. J.
Griffin, who charges that he witnessed
several sales of liquor by the other of
ficer. When arrested Hunt had two
bottles of whisky on his person. Hunt
was on duty at the time of his arrest.
TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WINS.
SPELLING 4.000 WORDS
KINGSTON. MO., May 9. —The coun
ty spelling contest here resulted in first
honors for Gladys Frazier, ten years
old. Hazel Sloan was second and Hazel
Wonsettler third.
The contestants spelled more than
•1,000 words.
Little Miss Frazier will be Caldwell
county's representative in the state
spelling contest at Jefferson City. She
has never yet been spelled down in a
contest.
APPROVES SON’S CHOICE:
MARRIES HIS WIDOW
TOLEDO, OHIO, May 9.—John C.
Baird, sixty-three, of Zanesville, was
married today to the widow of his own
son. Mrs. Mary H. Baird.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912.
INELTNER HITS IT
POLICESYSTEM
Atlanta Man Likens City Courts
to Quack Doctor in Speech
to Sociologists.
NASHVILLE. TENN., May 9.—Philip
Weltner, of Atlanta, general secretary
of the Prison Reform Association of
Georgia, arraigned the police court sys
tem today in an address.
He termed the whole system a jug
gernaut by which those prosper who of
all persons ought to suffer.
“As at present administered,” he
said, “a police court is good for but two
things—cash revenues and convict 11-
bor. The ordinary police court may be
likened to a quack doctor dispensing a
dose, as distinguished from a treatment.
And the dose is inflicted, regardless of
the offender’s conditions or circum
stances. Go into a police court in one
of our large Southern cities and you
will sometimes see 150 cases tried in a
day. The judge has no time for indi
vidual eases. He has in most instances
only the arresting officers to look to for
assistance, and this man is usually in
terested only in establishing his case.”
Probation System Favored.
He suggested that a system of record
cards for offenders and an effective sys
tem of probation officers be inaugu
rated. “Stop dealing with the case
and begin dealing with the individual,”
was his message.
Prison reform was the subject before
the congress, and Mr. Weltner treated
the police court as the bottom round.
“The indeterminate sentence and the
probation system," was the subject of
Professor C. S. Potts, of the University
of Texas. The indeterminate sentence
theory, he said, based incarceration on
an entirely different ground from the
present doctrine that the amount of
guilt connected with each crime could
be determined and suitable penalty at
tached.
"It starts," said he, "with the funda
mental proposition that the criminal
must be restrained because his conduct
has proved him dangerous to society.
Nothing but a long period of instruc
tion and training under the closest ob
servation by experts in criminology can
determine when he will be ready to re
turn to society.
Should Learn Some Trade.
"No prisoner should ever be released
until he has learned some occupation
by which he can earn a living, and the
prison management should find him
employment and turn him over directly
to a responsible employer."
Tom Finty, Jr., of The Dallas News,
blamed the lease system in the South
on the military or reconstruction gov
ernments. the false notions sown by
that system being in part responsible
for the slow movement in .reforms in
the section.
Louis J. Bernhardt, of Atlanta, gavg
the prisoner’s side.
Seven Are Drowned
As Storm Hits Boat;
Search For Bodies
FOX LAKE. ILL., May 9.—Seven
persons, six of them Chicagoans, were
drowned in a storm that swept Fox
lake and caspized the boat in which
they were seeking to cross the lake.
Although the accident occurred shortly
after 8 o'clock, it was not until day
light today that the launch, bottom up,
was found floating on the lake. Search
was at once begun for the bodies:
The dead: Mr. and Mrs. Louise Han
sen, Chicago; Jack Hoefer. Chicago;
Lewis Truschke, Chicago; George Rus
sell, Ingleside. Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. J.
Hume, Chicago.
The party set out from the Lippin
cott hotel to cross the lake to the Bay
view hotel. A storm came up and the
lake became extremely rough. The
heavily laden launch was soon swamped
and sank. Persons on the veranda of
the Lippincott hotel heard screams.
They gave the alarm and searching
parties were sent out. They were un
able to find any trace of the boat in the
darkness.
BUSINESS LOTS BRING
HIGH PRICE AT AUCTION
Morris Brandon bought the two lots
offered at auction by the Edwin P.
Ansley Realty Company today for $640
and $7lO per front foot, respectively.
The lots are located on West Hunter
street between Forsyth and Madison.
Each has a frontage of 19.6 feet, and
they brought a total of $26,460. The
property was sold for the former own
ers. Shewmake and Murphy. Steve R
Johnston was auctioneer.
SOUTHERN RY. CHANGES
SCHEDULE TO MACON
Effective May 12th, Southern railway
trains 5 and 6 will be operated between
Macon and Cincinnati instead of be
tween Jacksonville and Cincinnati.
No. 6 will continue to arrive Atlanta
from Chattanooga and Cincinnati at
11:10 a. m.. leave Atlanta 12:40 noon,
arrive Macon 3:25 p. m.
Northbound train No. 5 will leave
Macon 2:05 p. m., arrive Atlanta 4:55
p. m. and leave Atlanta on the present
schedule, 5:10 p. m., for Cincinnati, ar
riving there 8 o'clock the following
morning. This train will run solid
from Macon to Cincinnati, carrying
electric lighted coaches, sleeping car
and dining ear from Atlanta; also
through sleeping car from Macon to
Louisville. J. L. MEEK,
Assistant General Passenger Agent.
Cilrcle No. fn of the Second Baptist
church, of which Miss Josephine Smith
is chairman, will give a cake and candy
sale Saturday. May 1. at Rhodes-Wood
furniture store, corner of Whitehall and
Mitchell.
MARRIED BLISS FADES;
WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE
Mrs. Willie Smith Hudson says that
she knows what married bliss really is.
She experienced it for three years. But
after that, she says, her husband. Lynn
W. Hudson, Jr., whom she has made de
fendant in a divorce suit, converted her
erstwhile peaceful home into a place of
turmoil.
Mrs. Hudson, in asking the court for
total divorce and alimony, recites cruelty
as cause tor action. Lynn W. Hudson.
•Jr., is secretary and treasurer of the Mi
lam A- Miller Stable Company. The pair
had lived at 835 East North avenue.
“THE NEW STORE”
BARGAINS for FRIDAY
HATS 69c
One table of choice Untrimmed Hats, all good shapes—Chips and Milans, in black, white, and
burnt. Values to $1.50. Choice, Friday 69c
HATS $1.98
One table of stylish Trimmed Hats; hats really worth $5.00 to $7.00. On sale Friday only $1.98
FLOWERS 25c
One table of choice Spring Flowers—-pretty roses iu white, pink and other colors; values 50c
and 75c; choice Friday 25c
TAILORED SUITS $8.75
One rack of Spring Coat Suits; serges in blue, black and mixtures; $12.50 and $15.00 values;
choice, Friday $8.75
SILK PETTICOATS $1.98
One small lot of Messaline Silk Petticoats, with Persian flounce; $3.00 values; choice. Fri
day '■........ $1.98
WHITE WAISTS 69c
I One table of Lingerie Waists: all good styles; high neck and Dutch neck; lace and embroidered
styles; SI.OO and $1.25 values; choice, Friday 69c
WASH SKIRTS SI.OO
One lot of White Wash Skirts, new styles, well made and worth up to $1.98; choice, Friday SI.OO
THE BON-TON
94 WHITEHALL STREET
WOMAN IN PARK WITH
KNIFE; MUST PAY FINE
Josephine Leathers, a young woman
living in Marietta street, was arraigned
before Recorder Broyles today to explain
why she was in Grant park very much
excited and carrying a long knife in her
possession. When first arrested, she said
she had cut another woman "all to
pieces.” but later denied this.
She told the recorder she had some
words with another woman and merely
went to the park to escape the other
woman. She was fined $5.75.
CONVICTS ARE FIGHTING
TO SAV£PLANTATIONS
BUNKIE. LA.. May 9.—Fifteen hun
dred convicts are fighting the flood in
various parts of Louisiana today. One
hundred men left here before noon for
Evergreen plantation near Plaquemine,
while 150 more were sent to Iberville.
The town of Peaehville is in the path
of the torrent sweeping from the Torras
break in the levee and is threatened
with destruction. Residents of the
town built a levee about the town dur
ing the night and hope to save a por
tion of it at least.
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