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LAD WANTED TO SEE
TRAIN WRECK. SO HE
THREW SWITCH OPEN
AURORA. ILL. Aug. ILawren'*
Gilman, aged • ievi n had red hr "ide
th’
for nearlx a year and not - ■ n
accident. He read about t ■ n ait ! was
curious. So be threw a switch : on
sat in his mother's lied room w indow
and watched a passcngei train < rash
into a siting of freight i •
Thi' is the lad's story ,i~ it was told
to the officials of the railroad today.
The box confessed tn the polb < after a
vain effort on the put of the authori
ties to discover the cause of the acci
dent. in which a number of pienpie wore
Shaken and Jolted and a fireman was
severely hurt.
No Death Claim Contested
Where proof of death has been established
no claim has ever been contested by The
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With the home office located in the heart of
the South and deposits in many local banks,
The Southern States Life has won an enviable
reputation for prompt payment of claims.
General Asentn wanted for unfilled territory
Local Agents wanted tn all territories
Co-operation of the Company with their agents, together
with their unmatched policies, make agents’ contracts with
The Southern States Life profitable.
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ATLANTA,
GA.
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Sll P cr ' lsor nf Afcnls
WLmck mookc for Slalc " f •“ffi’
For the rest of this week
we are going to sell our
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53 Peachtree Street
nXMJIIGH COMPANY,
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At U Off
/
All cool Summer Underwear, in the highest grades, of
which we show quite the largest collection in the city, has
now been marked down I -4 off regular prices, including:
Genuine Striven l iii<»n Suits | /
Genuine “ Poiosknit" Union Suits /
The famous B. V. T). I’nio ts /
The Best Nainsook Garments /
The Best Balbriggan Garni'nts
Men’s $1.50 Soft Negligee Shirts
A beautiful lin< of patterns in soft, imported Madias zfT>
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VETERANS MEET ON SPOT
WHERE THEY WENT TO WAR
RiIMF: GA Aug 15. —On the same
spot where they gnthered 52 years ago
to tight for the Stare und Bar", the
surviving members of Company G.
I'w enty-«econd infantry, met today foi
a feast and speechmaking
There a e L’’ members of Company G
left <>m i.f them is Policeman Jo
seph Siiaip. of Rome. Hi- is the chief
spirit of the annual reunions
The survivors of this old company
meet etch .'. ear at Sliver Creek, on t tie
spot where they organized. August 15.
1861 and talk of war times and eat
barbecue The "put whe a Company G
was organized is marked The chief
addresses todax xuere made bx Colonel
W S McHenrx and Judge W. H.
H. nr.'
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912.
SMALL MODESTY
IN TAFT CLAIMS
— 1 * I
Hilles Says the President Will
Carry 34 States—Concedes
Wilson 10. T. R. None.
CHICAGO. Aug. 15. -Chai les I>. I
Hilles, chairman of the Republican na- I
tional committee, here to arrange for I
the opening of the campaign, has issued :
his first statement. He ’claims" the
election of William Howard Taft by a
cote of 384 in the electoral college,
which this year will have 532 votes.
One hundred and fourteen of these
votes, Hilles assert:- will go to Wilson
Thirty-four are doubtful. In his esti
mate, the Progressive party Is blandly
disregarded. v
Taft, according to Hilles, will carry
34 states. Wilson is conceded ten. All
Southern and four Western states are
listed as doubtful.
The states given Wilson are Ala
bama. Arkansas, Florida. Georgia. Lou
isiana. Mississippi, North and South
Carolina. Texas and Virginia. The
doubtful ones, according to the Hilles
prophecy, are Arizona, California, Okla
homa and Nebraska. All the rest. In
cluding Kansas, where the Taft men
haxe not yet figured out the way to get
Taft electors on the Republican ticket,
are claimed for the president.
Hilles’ disregard of the Progressive
ticket is based on the belief that it will
draw about evenly from the txvo old
parties, not materially affecting the re.
suit.
MANY FIRMS
INCREASE
ATLANTA PHONE
SERVICE
I ii preparation for t he big
| increase in fall trade, many
Atlanta houses are now or
dering more trunk lines.
The truly phenomenal
' o-rowth of our traffic and
I subscribers and the present
efficiency of our competitive
service has occasioned care
ful investigation and then
additional trunk lines.
Modern and progressive,
the Atlanta Phom* service
is typical of the ’‘Atlanta
Spirit.”
Atlanta Telephone
and Telegraph Co.
A. B. CONKLIN, Gen. Mgr.
SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
i For a time last night the atmosphere of
: reeked with sentiment
1 In the senate, along about midnight.
Senator Roberta, on behalf of the entire
’ membership, presented President Slaton
i with a beautiful loving cup.
, Senator Roberts made a great presenta
ificn speech, too. It took Mr Slaton off
his feet, and he experienced considerable
1 difficulty, despite the traditional senato-
I rial dignity theoretically attaching to him,
• in gening his response of thanks and ap
; predation out of his system.
Finally he did get it out. however, and
when he sat down the senate was thor
oughly epnvinced that it loved <Jd Jack
Slaton to a fare-you-well, and that old
-lack returned the sentiment beyond the
shadow of a doubt!
Apparently it was just between Jack
and the senate- right in the family- and
if anybody there thought of the fact that
the presiding officer is more than ordinar
ily sure to be the next governor, why
well, that idea likely didn’t cross any sen
atorial mind at all’
It was a happy occasion and a pretty
incident and well worth sitting through
a lot <>f preliminary legislating to witness
But the sentimental business in rhe
senate had nothing whatever on the sen
timental business in the house.
Over there Hooper Alexander. Joe Hill
Hall. George Brown, et al., were garland
ing rainbows, all around and about the
place, and forgiving and forgetting was
running wild and riot’
George Broun presented, on behalf of
the house, a lovely—that’s what Mrs
Holder called it -silver bouillon set
that’s also what Mrs Holder called it to j
the speaker.
And Dr. Brown certainly used up a
picturesque lot of language handing John
Holder that silver thing!
The gentleman from Fulton soared aloft
and snatched a handful of stars from the
vaulted dome of azure blue—or words to
that effect—and then he dived tn the
dark, unfathomed caves of the ocean to
‘'ee what was doing there in the wav of
beauty and gems of purest ray serene.
He wandered by the wayside looking for
flowers that might there he blushing all
unseen, and such things as he gathered
he laid a willing tribute at the speaker’s
feet!
That was some speech old Doc Brown
delivered last night, and it will go down
in Georgia legislative history as easily
18-carat fine!
Mr Holder s response was all it should
have been. He declared in the words of
one <>f the “latest and most popular songs
of the day," that all he wanted was love,
sweet love!
And lie said he felt satisfied that he had
it great gobs and festoons of it—all
wrapped up in the bouillon thing, the
which he expected to hand down in the
Holder family for the next 2.000 or 3.000
years, he didn’t know’ which, and didn’t
care particularly; it was ail so delightful
and generous, and so forth and so on.
And then Carl Vinson, the speaker pro
tern, got his. and John T. Bolfeuillet and
Matchless McClatchey and Bismarck
Moore got theirs, and “Rob" Hardeman,
the chairman of the pestiferous commit
tee <>n rules, got his. and there was some
eloquence and near-weeping and no wail
ing and gnashing of teeth, and—oh, it was
a great, little old night, gentle reader!
And. oh yes, the “young gentlemen of
the press.’ who sit away down front, at
INVALID WHO SHOT
HIMSELF TO RID HIS
WIFE OF CARE DIES
McGhee Ferguson. former Southern >
railway conductor, who shot himself at
his home, 165 West Pine street. Mon
day morning because he felt that he
was a burden lo his family, died today.
His body is at Bloomfield’s chapel
awaiting funeral arrangements
Monday morning, when alone in a I
room, seated in an invalid’s roller
chair. Ferguson wheeled himself to a
dresser, took out his revolver and fired
a bullet through his head. He had been
despondent because of two yea’s of
confinement by a broken back. He was
injured by a fall from a car when on
duty in the Atlanta yards.
Four children, the oldest thirteen, the
youngest two years old. and a widow
survive him The Atlanta lodge of Ma
sons No. 59 is arranging for his burial.
He also was a member of the R. of
R. T.
i YOUNG "BOB’' TAFTS CUB
IS RESCUED BY OLD BEAR
BUNTON. M"NT. \ug. 15. What to
do with the eub bear presented to Rob
ert Taft, son of the president, by a
Blackfoot chief on his arrival in Glacier
National park, has bean solved.
An old bear, hearing the wails of the
cub. made her way last night into the
Taft camp on Red Eagle mountain and
gnawed through the rope that tethered
the cub to a tree. Then she retreated
up the mountainside. Guides started
in pursuit, but young Taft shouted:
It's probably her cub. and there is
no room in the white house anyway.
Let her go."
The Trials of a Traveler.
i "I am a traveling salesman." writes
E. .E. Youngs. E. Betkshire, Vt.. "and
was often troubled with constipation
land indigestion til! I began to use Dr.
I King’s New Life Pills, which I have
> ln d an excellent remedy.” Foi all
stomach, liver or kidney troubles they
are uneuualed. Only 2;> cents at all
druggists •“
MISFIT PRESSING CLUB
MAKES GREAT HIT AT
THE BONITA THEATER
On, of the funniest and most >ntei
tainlng bills that ha- been presented at
a popular priced theutei in Atlanta for
many months is "The Misfit Pressing
Club" at the Bonita Theater. 32 Peach
tree street.
The King - Murray - Jones Musical
Comedy Company is one of the best
tha, has been seen here this season,
land rhe Prettj Girl Chorus," cont-
I posed of Misses Dorothy Vernon. Viola
' King Adella Anderson. Iva Genetc . Joy
Filmore. Corinne King and Midge Wist,
is well worth double the price of ad
m I ssicn
Continuous performances every iff
ernoon and evenings accompanied b'
motion pictures. Children 5< . adults !"•
• • •
f the speaker’s right hand, got theirs, too!
Last night was the first time that no
ble band without whom the legislature
would be a vast and howling wilderness,
indeed! ever was remembered by the
end-of-the-sesslon Santa Claus, and it
i was accordingly appreciative and happy.
Having been furnished with advance
pr< grams of what was to happen, the
f press gang was in blissful ignorance of
P the hig show about to be pulled uff when.
. at 11 42. George Brown started the flow
, of joy that eventually all but swamped
. the establishment.
Not knowing what was in the wind, the
I press gang had selected Angus Perkerson,
of The Atlanta Journal, to make the re
< spense to the speech of presentation.
Perk” readily not to say greedily—
c grasped the opportunity to shine, but, un
fortunately. when the limelight was
; switched in his direction he was deeply I
I absorbed in a high-brow magazine arti- |
t de. and the speech of acceptance w-a* 1
never delivered.
Mr. Perkerson distributed typewritten ,
. copies of his speech-that-was to-be-deliv- ;
ered-but-wasn't to his colleagues of the
I- press, and it was a crackerjack, if only .
, “Perk" had not been asleep at the switch’ I
According to Mr Perkerson. if he had ‘
spoken, this is what he would have said in
» the get-away ;
Gentlemen of the General Assembly
We. tlie representatives of the Fourth
I Estate—whatever that is—thank you
most cordially for this manifestation
a of your high esteem and generous
j c< nsideratlon. 'Applause! There I
have been some fine stories floating
f around this house now amt then.
xx hi< h after having had them carefully
I explained to me by my fellow-mem-
, j hers of the press. I have cheerfully
carried in the columns of my newspa-
[ per. t Applause. I 1. we. all hope to
, see you back next year. I find the
house of representatives a fine place
I for catching up on my magazine
, trading and 1 like this assignment.
> (Great and prolonged applause.) Gen-
■ tiemen, xve thank you for these tie-
i holders, and I say blessed be the tie
f that binds. (Great, wild, long and
tumultuous applause).
It would have been a nifty little speech <
l had not "Perk" become so absorbed in
I that article on the "Whichness and the
, Whatness of the Whence" that he forgot I
to speak It! i
1 I
i Still, in spite of all that, the custom of I
• distributing legislative largess at the end
of the session is a very pretty custom,
t and—long may it wave!
f .
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Pursuant to that fact, the following letter is a complete authentication.
The established reputation of the exceptionally high quality of those
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whose patronage 1 respectfully bespeak.
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