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4 SINGERS OF NOTE INNEGROMUSIML Anita Patti Brown. Harry Bur leigh. and Fisk Jubilee Vocal ists on Festival Program. Atlanta music-lovers who heat'd the singers at the negro music festival in the Auditorium last rear are looking forward to the second festival, which w 11l be given next week Anita Patti Rronn. Harry W Bur leigh and the Fisk jubilee singers, who made such a hit at the first perform ance, are to retut n. and there are a number of new features Ret H. H Proctor, of the First Con g egatlona’ church (colored! is in charge of the second festival, as he was of the first He lays special stress upon the "Ne gro Passion Play." which will be given on Thursday night of next week. This Is a cantata called "Up to Freedom, and it depicts the progress of the negro race. A number of scones in the tab leaux have been painted for the pro duction. and Anita Patti Brown will be the soloist She is a wonderful singer, according to critics who heard her last y ear. Xn organ recital will be given Thurs day afternoon in the Congregational church, with Roy W. Tibbs as the or ganist. The Fisk jubilee singers, who made such a hit with "Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" and other "corn field” numbers last season, will be heard at this recital, and also at the concert to be given Friday night There will be more than 1,000 seats set apart for white persons, in a sep arate balcony, and it is expected that the space will completely be filled by lovers of music. The sale of seats for negroes will open tomorrow morning at the l-'lrst Congregational church (coloredi, and for white persons at the uptown music stores. INSURANCE FIRM SUES TO COLLECT $4,000 NOTE Suit to recover ft.ooo. with interest, by foreclosing on a piece of property in Carrollton, owned by Jesse D. Smith, was brought today In the Federal court by the Jefferson Standard Life Insur ance Company, of Raleigh, N. C. The bill in equity states that In De cember. 1911, the plaintiffs loaned Mr Smith $4,000 and took a mortgage on the Carrollton property to secure the debt. An Interest coupon due on June 1. of this year, has not been paid. and. according to the contract, the entire note now is due. The defendant was subpenacd to appear on the first Mon day In September -iii.< niiiiimi. i.i!_ [_ _ One of the Three SOUTHERN COLLEGES For Women Whose Graduates Are Admitted to the “Southern Association of College Women” TN ADD! LION to this enviable distinction Agnes * Scott isone of the three colleges for womensouth of Pennsylvania admitted to the “Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the South ern States.” Both privileges have been awarded it beeause ol the completeness of its curriculum, the thoroughness and progressiveness of its peda gogy, the efficiency of its faculty, the high stand ards of its student life and high grade of its plant and equipment. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE offers superior courses in Letters, Science, P hilosophy and Home Economics. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE is ideally located in a delight ful residential suburb just six miles from the Union Passenger Station, Atlanta. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE possesses modern and com modious buildings which are especially adapted to college use. The laboratories, libraries, dormitories and gymnasium are up-to-date in every particular. The faculty and directorate ol Agnes Scott College have at all times striven lor the ideal in all departments of college work and lile, and the spirit of the institution is one of pro gressiveness and high standards. Resident students limited to 300 Next session opens September 18th. 1912. FOR CATALOGUE ADDRESS 1 F. H. GAINES, D. D„ LL. D„ President DECATUR, GEORGIA (WITH 100 suitors, she CAN NOT FINO IDEAL FOR THIRD HUSBAND NF.W YORK. Aug 7 Mrs Jeanette Hodd Rice Francis says today that she has not found an Ideal, though she has one hundred suitors who are anxious to marry her as soon as she can divorce her second husband She has set down six requirements that her third husband must meet These are: He must not have red hair. He moat be intelligent. He must have a fair income He must like music. He must be possessed of athletic prow ess He must be of a joyful disposition DECISIONS RENDERED BY THE COURT OF APPEALS (August 4. 1912.1 Judgments Affirmed. Southern Flour and (train Company vs St Louis Grain Company; from city court of Atlanta —Judge Held. Walter McEl reath, for plaintiff in error. Dorsey & Shelton, contra Muscogee County vs Rodgers. from city court of Columbus— Judge Tigner. Hatcher & Hatcher, for plaintiff in er ror A. W Cozart, S M. Davis, contra. Glausler, Watson g, Co. vs. Whaley et al.; from city court of Thomasville — Judge W. H. Hammond J H Merrill, R. J. Bacon, for plaintiffs In error. Snod grass & Maclntyre, contra Harrell vs. State, from Berrien supe rior court—Judge Thomas Hendricks &• Christian. J P Knight, for plaintiff in error John A Wilkes, solicitor general, contra Cumby vs State from city court of Carrollton—Judge Beall. Buford F. Boy kin. Willis Smith, S C. Boykin, for plaintiff In error C E. Roop, solicitor, contra Couey vs State; from city court of Polk county- Judge Irwin W. W. Mundy, for plaintiff in error J A. Wright, solici tor. contra Williams vs. State; from Irwin supe rior court—Judge George Newborn & Meeks, for plaintiff in error Max E. Land, solicitor general, contra Strickland vs State: from Appling su perior court—Judge Conyers. W. W. Bennett, for plaintiff in error. J. H. Thomas, solicitor general, contra Avery vs. State, from Cobb superior court Judge Morris Mozley ft Moss, for plaintiff In error J P Brooke, solici tor general, contra Hollingsworth vs. Mayor and Council of Carrollton, from Carroll superior court Judge R. W Freeman Buford F. Boykin, for plaintiff In error Emmett Smith, contra. Owens vs State from Colquitt supe rior court Judge Thomas. Edwin Bryan, I> B Nicholson, for plaintiff In error. .1. A. Wilkes, solicitor general; J D. McKenzie contra Strickland vs State; from city court of Statesboro—Judge Strange. J F. Brannen. J .1 E. Anderson, for plaintiff In error Fred T Lanier, solicitor, con tra Warren vs. State: from Laurens supe rior court Judge Hawkins Howard Hightower, for plaintiff In error. E. I). Graham, solicitor general, contra Judgment Reversed. Wade vs. State, from Grady superior court Judge Frank Park W M Har rell. Ira Carlisle. It C Bell. Little & Powell, for plaintiff in error W. E. Wooten, solicitor general F A Hooper, contra THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. W EDN ESP AY. AUGUST' 7. 1912. ZOO REFUGEES IN MEXICO MISSING Nothing Heard From Mormons Pursued by Rebels, and Friends Ask Aid. EL PASO. TEXAS. Aug 7. —Two hundred Mormon refugees from Amer ican colonies in Mexico are missing. When last heard from they were being pursued by a band of Mexican insur gents headed by Roque Gomez. Considerable alarm is felt for their safety and their friends today appealed to Colonel Stet ver, the United States commander here, to take steps to aid them Rebels Defeat Mexican Federals EL PASO. TEXAS. Aug 7.—Fight ing between I.'OO Mexican soldiers of General Huerta's army and an equal number of rebels was resumed at day break today at Villa Ahmuda. 75 miles south of this city, where the battle be gan shortly after 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. General Ferdinez commands the reb els and in a telegram sent to Orozco at Juarez he states that, the insurgents were victorious In the first day’s fight ing, driving off the government skir mish line and taking twenty prisoners. The federals were marching northward to take Juarez when they encountered the rebels. The rebel loss was given as three killed. ARRESTS AND SENTENCES HIMSELF: THEN APPEALS BRIDGETON, N. J„ Aug. 7—Theo dore Sutton arrested himself, tried him self and constituted himself a court to pass sentence for his misdoing. After ward he appealed from the decision of the court." He applied to Officer Smith to be locked up. He had been drunk for two weeks, he said, and he wanted to have a chance to sober up. About four days in jai) would do it. he thought, lie didn't think thirty days necessary. Officer Smith accommodated him by placing him in the lockup and leaving a note for Mayor Hampton to inform him of Sutton's request. By the time Sutton appeared before the mayor he had sobered considera bly and had changed his mind about wanting to go to jail. Mayor Hamp ton would not, however, reverse the sentence of the "lower court," and sent the young man over for four days AUGUSTA MUNICIPAL ELECTION ‘SQUABBLE’ UP TO LEGISLATURE The municipal politics of Augusta, said to be the most strenuous in Geor gia. were aired before the house com mittee on corporations yesterday aft ernoon, when partisans from the Rich mond county metropolis urged and op posed a bill to use the secret ballot in the Richmond county general elections. In a recent mayoralty primary, one Augusta faction withdrew, charging the other side with fraud, and gave no tice of a final fight in the general elec tion. The other side then appealed to the legislature for the secret ballot to prevent, so they assert, the purchase of negro votes. Judge Enoch Galloway appeared for the bolters and talked against the bill, while Clem E Dunbar former legislator, appeared for the reg ulars and urged its passage WESTHOFEN KILLING TO BE FULLY INVESTIGATED MONTGOMERY. ALA. Aug 7 Th. Montgomery county grand jury lias been summoned to assemble in ex traordinary session next Monday The special term is partly due to Governor Emmet O'Neal, who requested Judge Brown to reconvene the inquisitors for an immediate investigation of the mys terious death of P. J, Westhofen, who died here a few days ago from a pistol shot wound. Ike White, a negro chauffeur, is un der arrest accused of the killing. I E. Boyette, son-in-law of Richard Tillis, a Montgomery millionaire, was also charged with the crime, but he was discharged Saturday upon proving an alibi. FAILED AUGUSTA BANK'S ASSETS ARE WORTHLESS AUGUSTA. GA.. Aug. 7—J. P. Arm strong was named by Judge Henry C. Hammond on yesterday as the receiver for the Citizens Trust Company. It is said that $150,000 of the so-called as sets of the institution are worth noth ing. The institution owes depositors •and creditors about $275,000. Mr. Arm strong is cashier of the Irish-American bank. ANNUAL WRIGHTS VILLE EXCURSION. 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Frank Miller and Harry Eastlack, youths residing in the loner section of the city, had their at tention attracted by peculiar noises is suing from the water, and' gazing over th* railing they saw a young man cling ing desperately to one of the pilings of the pier and almost completely at the mercy of the huge combers. Hurrying back to the beach, they reported the plight of the young man to the life guards. The exhausted bathei was just about to release his hold when the lifeguards arrived and hauled him into the boat. When the bather had been partially re vived they endeavored to question him and found he was deaf and dumb. THIS IS THE BIG NIGHT | If you miss tonight at Atlanta s Own Show, you 11 miss the best of all. I MERCHANTS' NIGHT! | All the visiting merchants and their ladies wi 11 be th ere. Big doings are programmed for the evening. f You local merchants: i Get on your gladdest and be on the spot. | You re on the Reception Committee. Take your folks. 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