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MOCK MARRIAGE
LOST HER DOWER
Mary Lee Turpin Was Not At
lanta Hotel Man’s Legal
Wife, Court Declares.
, DUBUQUE, IOWA, May 13 The
$250,000 fortune of the late F. M. Tur
pin. whose hotel interests in Atlanta
were large, will not be divided to give
Mary Lee Turpin a widow’s share.
Circuit Court Judge Benson has put
forth a decision declaring that Mary
Lee Turpin was never legally married
to the hotel man. in- spite of the fact
that she hhd lived with him in New
York and .L'lucago. ...... .- .
The case was one in which one of
the oldest families of Georgia was con
cerned. September 21. 1910, Mary Lee
Turpin filed a petition with the dis
trict court asking for a divorce from
Turpin, then proprietor of the Julien
hotel of this city, and also interested
in hotel property at Macon. Ga.. Knox
ville, Tenn., and Atlanta, Ga.
Before service could be obtained on
the defendant, he died at the home of
relatives at Macon. A few days after
his death, the woman* claiming to be
the widow", had an administrator of
the estate appointed. This was H. J.
Grace, of Dubuque, a clerk in the office
of the clerk of the district court.
Mother Fought Suit.
March 3. 1911, the woman applied to
the court for. a-widows allowance. Suit
was resisted by decedent’s mother, who
alleged that the woman claiming the
allowance was not the widow of her
son, never had been his wife, and that
he never had intended to make her his
wife.
in the trial, attorneys from Macon
and Chicago assisted the best local
lawyers. Witnesses were brought from
New York, Chicago. Macon. Atlanta and
Jacksonville. Fla.
In her suit for divorce the plaintiff
alleged she and Turpin were married
in New Ydrk city in September, 1908.
and that they lived at the Hotel Girard
as husband and wife. She alleged that
the suit never came to trial before the
death of the defendant.
In the trial under the petition for a
widow’s allowance the plaintiff said
she was 32 years'old; that she was born
at Brunswick. Ga. At the age of about
14 she was married to James C. Smith,
a locomotive engineer. In 1904, saiij he
was killed in railroad accident.
After that the plaintiff alleged she
worked for Captain James McKay, own
er and operator of coasting vessels, as
stenographer, bbokkeper and confiden
tial secretary.
Claimed a “Mock” Marriage.
She was called to Jacksonville by the
Illness of a brother, and there met Tur
pin. From that time on they met fre
quently anti eventually became engaged
to marry, tlie plaintiff said. Early in
’September*'!Wfcsh * r Lurpin sent
her a telegWfH’TO' jotlrtley Tci New York,
■where they■■ were t <■«■+><*■ married. She
made the trip, fnet him in Jersey City,
went to an office building in New York
city, was married by a man she sup
posed was a civil officer. Then the
two went tmt+ie;Hotel~Girard.
She showed In"court pages of the ho
tel register centaHii+ig their names.- ;
In the spring of 1910 at the Majestic
hotel in Chicago the woman said Tur
pin told her they were not married,
and that the ceremony was a mock one.
Then she -tried to- commit suicide by
drinking water which had been poured
over matches. The house physician
saved her life. .
On the part of the defense it was nol
denied that the plaintiff and Turpin had
lived as husband and’ wife at-varied
places, but it was denied that they
were ever married. . .
TWENTY DIE, 15 VILLAGES
BURN IN FOREST FIRES
SAN JUAN. COSTA RICA. May 13.
Twenty persons have been burned to
death and fifteen ( viPages destroyed by
forest fires on ,the % Pacific coast of
Costa Rica. ’ •
Feel Equal
To Any Task
When digestion is good; nerves
are steady, and brain works clear.
Give yourself a fair show to
earn and achieve. If coffee and
tea are found to interfere, stop and
use
POSTUM
It ‘ aids digestion; steadies the
nerves; and clears the brain.
Read letter to right.
a Reason”
Postum Cereal Company, Limited, Battle Creek, Michigan.
Dog-Fondling Women
Not Worthy of Name
Os Wife, Says Pastor
Dr Chariest O. Jones, of Grace Meth
odist church, thinks that a woman who
fondles a dog instead of a- baby is un
worthy of the name of wife.
He told his congregation so tn a ser
mon on "The Duties of Motherhood,”
preached last night.
"They as-ked Napoleon what was the
greatest need of France,” said Dr. Jones,
“and the emperor answered that France
needed mothers.”
Dr. Holderby, of Moore Memorial
church, took occasion Sunday to criti
cise the action of the Methodist bishops
in recommending that the ban be lifted
from theatergoing, card playing and
dancing.
"It is a clear compromise with the
devil,” said Dr. Holderby. "Should these
recommendations be adopted the whole
church will receive a tremendous blow.
“In this compromising the church is
surely losing power. The old-time gos
pel of sin and judgment and eternal
punishment is no longer being preach
ed. The world is demanding a soft gos
pel of the church, and 1 am ashamed to
say it is getting it.”
Dr. E. Dean Ellenwood, of the First
Universalist church, took the opposite
view of the question. He told his con
gregation that the old-time religion
would not satisfy the twentieth cen
tury.
"Not that there is a lack of religion.”
said Dr. Ellenwood, "but the religion
that is- preached fails to appeal to the
love of reason, to the love of fair play,
which is the predominant character
istic of our enlightened age. The old
time religion is not enough."
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
INSTALLS DR. WALKER
AT NOTABLE SERVICE
Dr. Hugh K. Walker is today official
ly pastor of the First Presbyterian
church. He was installed at a. special
service attended by the entire member
ship of the church and many- visitors.
Since coming to Atlanta from Los
Angeles two months ago. Dr. Walker
has become one of the most prominent
figures in Christian work in the city.
Officiating at the installation service
weie Dr. W. L. Lingle, of Richmond
Theological seminary, who preceded Dr.
Walker in the pastorate; Dr. A. R
Holderby, who presided: Dr. J. Lynn
Bachman, of Knoxville; Dr. A. A. Lit
tle. Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden and Elders
John J. Eagan and S. M. Inman.
Dr. Lingle read the Scripture lesson
and delivered the sermon; Dr. Bachman
delivered the charge, expounding the
duties of the pastor to the church, and
John J. Eagan, one of the elders, closed
the ceremonial part of the service with
prayer.
PICTURE SLIDES TO
HELP DEVELOP LOVE
OF ART IN ATLANTA
- Reproductions in hand-colored slides of
the world’s famous art masterpieces with
a short lecture on each one is planned
by the Atlanta Art Association for every
Friday afternoon from 3 to 6 o'clock at
the Montgomery theater.
There will be no extra charge for the
slides, which have been secured by the
local association with a view of educating
Atlanta people to an appreciation of art.
The slides have been secured wMh the
co-operation of the American Federation
of Arts, the Metropolitan museum and
the Detroit Museum of Art. Rev. W. W.
Memminger will make a short talk ex
plaining each picture as it Is shown.
On next Friday samples of English art
will be shown. These will be followed
by French, Flemish and Italian master
pieces
LANDSLIDEJN VIRGINIA
DELAYS THE SOUTHERN
Passengers on Southern train No. 29,
the Birmingham Special, did not arrive
today at 10:30 o’clock as scheduled, and
will not arrive until 5 o’clock this after
noon. A landslide in Virginia covered
the Southern tracks and delayed service.
No trains were caught in the slide and
no Injuries except to the tracks were re
ported.
GOVERNOR FIGHT
IS ND LOVE FEAST
Slaton’s Friends Consider Un
derwood Victory Helpful to
Their Cause.
Despite recent pious protests from
prospective participants therein that
the forthcoming gubernatorial primary
is to be devoid of factional feeling or
endeavor, and notwithstanding evidence
cited to prove this significant conten
tion true, it is becoming painfully ap
parent that factional feeling may once
more be invoked, nevertheless, in de
termining the identity of Georgia’s next
governor.
From the Slaton side of the guberna
torial controversy there came Sunday
this- significant promulgation!
“Friends of John M. Slaton consider
the situation very much simplified since
the presidential primary of May 1.
While he personally took no part in the
presidential contest, it is well known
that the Joe Brown element, with which
Mr. Slaton has always been allied,
though he has many friends In the
other political camp, was back of the
candidacy of Oscar W. Underwood, of
Alabama, who,carried Georgia by a plu
rality of some 15,000 votes'.”
A great many observers of events and
things are taking this to mean that Mr.
Slaton will be the avowed candidate of
the "Joe Brown element,” of which the
promulgation speaks, and that the time
has come when Georgia may as well be
acquainted frankly with that fact.
Watson For Slaton.
In addition to this. Thomas E. Wat
son. in the current issue of his Pro
gressive Democrat, practically declares
himself in favor of Slaton.
Watson quotes Senator Hoke. Smith
as having said, when governor: “If
Jack Slaton had not held up my- ap
pointments I would let him become
governor." Watson then adds: “We
can elect Jack Slaton governor, even
if he did hold up those appointments. ’
. Watson then warmly commends Sla
tons attitude toward the income tax
amendment to the Federal constitution,
when it came to the consideration of
the Georgia senate, and, speaking of
certain offices in the state, says: “After
we have elected Jack Slaton governor
we will make those offices elective, and
we ll put into them men more worthy
than Smith’s appointees.” Mr. Watson
does not recite the names of the Smith
appointees, however.
Looks Like Old Line-up.
Looking things over, many politicians
seem to find these significant facts: Mr.
Slaton’s "friends” are expressing pub
licly much gratification that Under
wood swept Georgia, because "it.is well
known that the Joe Brown element,
with which Mr. Slaton always has been
allied, was back of the Underwood can
didacy;” that Thomas E. Watson, who
also was more or less "back” of the Un
derwood candidacy, and who has been
Identified with the "Joe Brown element”
in Georgia polities for several years, Is
supporting Mr. Slaton and fighting Tom
Hudson, and that Senator Hoke Smith’s
acts as governor already are being set
up as targets at which some of Mr.
Slaton’s supporters are to fire their
heavy artillery. •
Wherefore, these many politicians,
bj'ing human and apt at putting two
and two together, opine that there is to
be, after all. no small degree of faction
alism manifested in the forthcoming
gubernatorial campaign in Georgia.
WOMEN WILL BE GUESTS
AT NEXT REALTY DINNER
A Sinner will be given by the Atlanta
Real Estate Men’s association at Du
rand's case Wednesday evening, at
which wives, daughters and other rel
atives and women friends of the mem
bers will be entertained. This is the
first time such a dinner has been
planned by the association, as at all
former ones only men attended.
SOAKED IN COFFEE
Until Too Stiff to Bend Over.
"When I drank coffee 1 often had
sick headaches, nervousness and bil
iousness much of the time; but about
two years ago I went to visit a friend
and got In the labft-of drinking Pos
tum.
"I have never touched coffee since
and the result has been that I am now
entirely well of all my stomach and
nervous trouble. (Tea contains caf
feine, the same drug found In coffee,)
"My mother was just the same way.
We all drink Postum now, and have
not had any coffee in the house for two
years and we all are well.
"A neighbor of mine, a great coffee
drinker, was troubled with pains tn
her side for years and was an invalid.
She was not able to do her work and
could not even mend clothes or do anj -
thing at all where she would have to
bend forward. If she tried to do a lit
tle hard work she would get such pains
that she would have to He down for the
rest of the day.
"I persuaded her at last to stop
drinking coffee and try Postum, and
she did so, and she has used Postum
ever since; the result has been that she
can now do her work, can sit for a
whole day and mend an,] can sew on
the machine and she never feels the
least bit ,of pain in her side. In fact,
she has got well and it shows coffee
was the cause of the whole trouble.
“J could also tell you about several
other neighbors who have been benefit
ed by quitting coffee and using Postum
in its place.” Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Creek, Mich.
latok in pkgs, for the famous little
book. "The Road to Wellville.”
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY. MAY 13, IHI2.
Special Train Takes
Atlanta Baptists to
Southern Convention
A special train bearing several hun
dred delegates to the Southern Baptist
convention will leave Atlanta oVer the
Seaboard Air Line for Oklahoma City
this afternoon. Among the delegates
are many prominent Atlantans.
The train will leave at 4:40 o’clock,
going byway of Birmingham and
Memphis, »thence to Oklahoma City,
where it will arrive early Wednesday
morning. Among those in the party
will be Dr. John E. White and Rev. U.
I. Masters, M. M. Welch. Walker Dun
son. Dr. J. J. Bennett, Rev. William
Russell Owen. Rev. B. P. Robertson,
Charles E. Smith, lieutenant governor
of South Carolina; Mrs. W. J. Neel,
president of the Baptist Women's Mis
sionary union, and Miss E. L. Amos,
secretary of that organization. The
party will remain in Oklahoma City
four days.
Atlanta Seeks Convention.
OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA.. May 13.
Three Southern cities are contesting
for the 1913 meeting of the Southern
Baptists convention, which opens in
Oklahoma City May 15. They are At
lanta. Ga., San Antonio. Texas, and
Asheville. N C. It has been 20 years
since Atlanta entertained the Baptists,
and in the meantime the organization
has doubled numerically and in impor
tance In the religious world.
B. N. SEVIER SLASHES
OWN THROAT; DIES
IN GRADY HOSPITAL
Funeral services over the body of B.
N. Sevier, of 172 Oakland avenue who
slashed his throat with a razor in an
unoccupied house on Sat
urday night, will be held as soon as
the father of the dead man arrives
from Louisiana.
Despondency over continued illness
is given as the reason for Sevier’s sui
cide. He had been a patient in the At
lanta sanitarium, on North Boulevard,
and was out for a walk when, it is
presumed, he became morose. He went
to the cellar of 668 Eair street and with
a rusty razor cut a deep gash in his
throat.
From the house he crawled 100 feet
on his hands and knees and begged
several children to give him aid. The
police who picked him up found this
note: "B. N. Sevier; been • sick so
long.”
Sevier died at Grady hospital Sun
day afternoon at 6 o’clock. He was
connected with the Southern Publish
ing Company, and leaves a wife and
four children.
PIONEER’S BODY BORNE
TO GRAVE WITH HONORS
The funeral of Sampson A. Morris,
one of the best known of Atlanta's
pioneer citizens, at St. Pauls Methodist
church yesterday afternoon, was at
tended by an honorary escort from
among the most prominent residents.
Rev. B. F. Frazer officiated and the
interment was in Oakland cemetery.
Mr. Mor is died late Saturday after
noon at his home, 236 Park avenue,
from a stroke of paralysis. He was 69
years of age and as one of the city’s
most active business men had accumu
lated a considerable estate. He was a
Confederate veteran, served two terms
in the city council and was affiliated
with a number of fraternal organiza
tions. He is survived by his wife, one
son. T. J. Morris, and a daughter, Mrs.
J. H. Ewing
| AT THE THEATERS'
FADETTE ORCHESTRA
HEADS FORSYTH BILL
This week the Forsyth has a bill of
vaudeville that is of a class almost su
perior to any other offering of the season
It has features that are out of the ordi
nary, and stars that are classed with
the positive successes of this class of en
tertainment.
There are more than 40 people in the
combination of acts, and none of them
have ever appeared on the same stage
before. There will be music, instrumental
and vocal, comedy that is real, novelty
that is unusual and a sensational playlet
that will add materially to the drawing
power of the show
The star feature will be the Fadette or
chestra of Boston, a combination of pretty
girls, eighteen of them, under the skillful
direction of Caroline B. Nichols, one of
the best known musical conductors in the
country. This act is classed with the
tremendously big features of modern vau
deville and will be an act of wonderful
drawing power in Atlanta.
Keller Mack and Frank Orth, the popu
lar song writers, the six O’Connor sisters,
the singing sextette. Captain Powers and
company, the ventriloquists, the three
Jossetty brothers In European gymnastic
exercises. Ben Smith, the singing come
dian, and Sullivan and Bartling, In "The
Fighter and the Boss," make up the rest
of the program.
It Is a bill of wonderful variety, with
something to suit the fancy of all classes
of theatergoers, and collectively a bill
that will measure to the highest standard
the Forsyth has yet established.
There is an unusual demand for reser
• vat lons.
MERMAIDA IS FEATURE
OF BIJOU’S BILL THIS WEEK
The sensational feature of this week's
Bijou bill will be Mermaida, the Diving
Venus. This is one of the most remark
able bills in vaudeville, and its booking
for a bargain price house is unusual.
Mermaida is one of the biggest drawing
acrds on the vaudeville stage and pa
trons of the Bijou have a treat |n store
for them. Mermaida is called America's
most scientific diver, and her wonderful
feats in diving and swimming will prove
an exciting novelty. The other three acts
on the bill will prove quite as entertain
ing as the headline feature, and com
prise Al an eccentric comedy
juggler, Qulgg and Nickerson, comedy
blackface musicians, and Bessie Brown
ing, a character impersonator of charm
ing stage presence and an elaborate and
beautiful wardrobe. These . four acts
make up a bill that will be hard to equal
!at bargain prices. In addition there will
be the usual Interesting run of motion
plctuers to open and close each perform
ance Matinees are given dally at 2:30
and 4, and night shuns at 7:30 and 9. '
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SPOTLESS TOWN
•w
Hobart, a city in far-off Tasmania, enjoys the
distinction of being called “spotless town.” Help make
Atlanta “spotless” by using
“GEORGIA CLEANER”
I /
(’leans instantaneously. For use on any painted
or varnished surface. Removes every particle of soot,
grease, grime or soil of any description. Get a 30c can.
If it doesn’t do more work than can be done in any oth
er way for $3.00, your money back.
Georgia Paint & Glass Co.
35-37 Luckie St.
CHILDREN’S LIVES ARE SAVED
t .
Mrs. A. L. McClendon, who resides at 175 Kelly street, and is the mother of
three children, aged respectively six years, ten years and thirteen years.
All of them have been in very poor
health for the past two or three years.
They seemed to be in a weak, run-down
condition, had no appetite, no ambition
or life to play that children should have
at these ages; very restless in their
sleep, bad dreams, screaming out. grat
ing of the teeth, foul breath, especially
in the morning: dark circles under the
eyes, fevers, bilious attacks, kidneys
very weak. The mother said at Cour
sey & Munn's drug store that her medi
cine bill ran from $6 to $lO a month for
the past two yeafs. "and if the children
were improving I would not mind the
price at all, but thev seem to be getting
worse. A neighbor of mine told me
Mtw.ut thia Quaker Extract and how
many children had been brought back
to a healthy condition after using it,
and that many of them excelled mon
ster worms, and 1 am going to try one
bottle."
The mother went home, commenced
giving it to the children and in a few
days the thirteen«year-old girl expelled
a number of stomach worms. The child
was being eaten alive. No wonder she
was delicate. She commenced to im
prove right away. The other children
did not expel any worms as the mother
knew of. but the weak kidney trouble
they hadt al night, has dis
appeared and there is no more bed wet
ting at that home. The child! en all eat
well, sleep tine and they are getting as
red and rosy as can be. “and I wish to
say I believe Quaker Extract the great
est medicine in the world, for when it
can restore my children to the perfect
health they are in today, and in such a
short space of time, they’re worth their
weight in gold." Quaker Extract, 6 for
$5.00, or 3 for $2.50, SI.OO a bottle; Oil
of Balm, 25c or 5 for SI.OO.
Tiie Health Teacher w hen here said
again the wonderful power of the Qua
ker Extract is shown. < 'ases of this
kind should convince even the most
skeptical of the wonderful p avers of
the Quaker remedies that he has intro
duced at Coursey & Munn's drug store,
29 Marietta St.
We prep.n express charges on all
ders of $3.00 or over.
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