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Newspaper Page TextGeorgia Veterans, Under Tattered Stars and Bars, Parade the Streets of the Historic Old City MARIETTA AGAIN RESOUNDS WITH TRAMP OF THE AGED BOYS IN GRAY r ™ Tw-* 8 WX\ n kk ilr>t ' h sgr |oKail 1 HI •■ ■, ~- • iBRJ®HBF AWi i iK k 'r ■ ® x s« e a«HWa-»MM«OMM»/ *' JbW.vv % • rymW -i& ; ir v x-' w ’* <By*RL. - // ?-- Mml-i MKaL-Xj \l s " // dWBH. ti // \X ifr\\Vv 4 -few <* IML W< ‘// \\XvtJ)Av I iMHb v^ww'' // >y * \ \lj) XA \ isL- -IX s si i - ~■>-/ /.- ! II XX \ \xZ4 \ x- GrandßailTonightEnds Reunion of Confeder ate Warriors—-Final Day Brings Record Crowd—Miss Regina Rambo Heroine in Accident. MARIETTA. GA.. Aug. 29.—Bruns wick won over Columbus today and will entertain the 1913 reunion of Geor gia Confederate veterans. ‘The contest between the two cities was close, the city by the sea winning only after a hard fight among the .delegates for The election of officers followed the selection of the next convention city, after which the business session of the reunion adjourned. The -election of officers resulted as follows: H. T. Davenport. Americus, division i ommander; A. J. Mcßride, of Atlanta, commander of the northern brigade; J. A. Thomas, of Dublin, commander of the eastern brigade; Charles T. Han sell, commander of the southern bri gade; L. B. Mobley, of Vienna, com mander of the western brigade; Colo nel Lyons, Atlanta, commander of the ■avalry brigade. Miss Rambo Shows Pluck. Hundreds of the veterans crowded Around Miss Regina Rambo today when It was learned that she had been knocked down by a dray and after re covering from a fainting spell had re fused to be taken home for a longer time than to change her dress. Miss Rambo is known to r. arly every veteran present, as she has attended many reunions, and last year invited the veterans to Marietta. Her spirit and determination not to let the acci dent mar the day was commented upon by alf of Wiem, who termed her a true daughter of the South and with the pluck and endurance of the women of tire Confederacy. Miss Rambo is ap parently unhurt after the accident, which was caused by unusual traffic conditions in the town. A larger crowd than was here on the opening day gathered for the final ex ercises in the court house. In the ar . mory another gathering took place ith the Sons of Veterans as leaders. To Gather Under the Old Flag. Larger crowds than ever took advan tage of the interurban ear service and came up from Atlanta. Among them w , ,-evera! companies of Boy Scouts, v. : io arc her* to take part in the parade this afternoon. Aft; i the business meeting of early today veterans are looking forward to the parade, which starts at 3 o’clock, and when they again will gather in martial assemblage under the familiar old banner. Bright, new, Confederate flags have been provided for the parade and in it also will be the tattered ban ners that went through four years of battling in Virginia, in the West, and in the battles around Kennesaw moun tain. when the spot where the reunion cit> now stands was the scene of strug gling armies. in the parade, besides the veterans, will be many auxiliary orders. The Sons of the Confederacy will take part in uniform and various maids and sponsors will take part. In addition to them there will be the Marietta Ri fles. a number of mounted police, the file department and numbers of local orders. Boy Scouts from Atlanta will vie with those of Marietta in keeping time to tile steps of the old soldiers. Ball To Be Gala Event. Among one of the most attractive features of tin parade will be the mounted sponsor of the cavalry and her maids of honor. < ither sponsors and maids will ride in carriages. Miss Etta Hardeman, of Gainesville, is sponsor for the Cavalry and she will KW R ™7/ ■" i J, 7/ ..ivy.'?. ..'a / Me )n X/attCTOv9 jf n’X x ’K Colonel R. F. Crittenden, of Shellman, (la., on left. He was colonel of the Thirty-third Ala bama regiment, C. S. A. Lieu tenant Colonel W. .1. Horsley, of Arlington, Ga., on right. have as he: maids Misses Rosa Wil lingham, Marjorie Wikle, Willie Mac Blair, Eloise Brown. Emma Gardner, Ette Cogburn, Laura Margaret Hoppe, Mabel Hardeman, and Mesdames Will Fleming, Amos Way and Tate Hyde, of Marietta, and Misses Margaret Rushton, Susie Woodward and Wands leigh West, of Atlanta; Misses Vera Warlick and Lilah Roberts, of Macon: Miss Mamie Jones, of Cartersville; Miss Fannie McCormick, of Rome; Miss Hattie Sue Lowe, of McDonough; Miss Helen Estes, of Gainesville, and Miss May Woodward, of Griffin. The crowning feature of the reunion will be a grand ball tonight at the audi torium, given in honor of the maids and sponsors and the veterans. This is to be one of the largest social features of the year in the state. BRIDEGROOM OF 60 WEDS PRETTY GIRL OF SIXTEEN PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 29.—True , love did not run smooth for Levi Quad- ' onfield, a wealthy contractor of Eighty- ■ ■ first street and Mingo avenue, but the obstacles that attempted to bar his hap piness were quietly and effectively re- ' moved by Cupid, and today a proud husband is observing a double celebra tion—his sixty-first birthday and his second marriage. Just as elated as Quadenfleld over the happy culmination of a romantic and exciting courtship is his pretty 16-year old wife, who was Miss Marla di Gia como, The youthful Mrs. Quadenfleld ■ was a worried fiancee yesterday morn ' ing, but last night she was a smiling bride and the owner of a $5,000 house ' and lot at Eighty-second street and Holstein avenue, which her husband presented to her as a wedding gift. •HELLO’ FOURTEEN BILLION TIMES IN U. S. DURING 1911 BOSTON, MASS.. Aug. 29.—Accord ing to figures compiled for the Ameri ' can Telegraph and Telephone Compa ny. there were 22,000,000.000 telephone calls throughout the world in 1911. Os this total the United States had more than 14,000,000,000, or 66 per cent. In ' the year 1911 579,000,000 telegrams were sent in the world, but the United States used only 17 per cent of the total. The world’s investment in telephones is more than $1,795,000,000. and the gross , yearly earnings are $329,000,000. The , average annual earning for each tele phone is more than $32. ' BALLOON RACE FIZZLE: POOR GAS IS BLAMED COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO., Aug. 29.—The balloon race from Colorado I Springs has proved a fizzle. The Kan ! sas City II landed 40 miles north of here, the Goodyear X traveled only 22 > miles in the same direction, and the I Uncle Sam went 33 miles. Aviators say the trouble was in the quality of gas . furnished. “Initials Only,’’ by Anna Katharine Green, author of “The Leavenworth Case,'’ “The Fili gree Ball,’’ one of the most en thralling mystery stories ever written, will begin in The Geor gian next Tuesday. Be sure to i read it. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN A XT) YEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1912. ■» ~ ~ ~ ~ ' Just one of the tables and a group of attractive guests at the luncheon given by Fielding Lewis chapter D. A. R., at the residence of Mrs. -John Graham, Forest avenue. From left to right: Miss Beverly Dußose. Columbus. Ga.: Miss Cora Brown. Marietta; Miss Mira Birdsey, Macon. Ga.; Miss Laura Hoppe, Marietta, and Miss Mildren Brown, Marietta. ENJOIN STRIKERS IN FOUNDRY WAR Two Companies Say Moulders Used Violence and Make an Appeal to Court. The Spalding Foundry Company and the Southern Iron & Equipment Com pany, against whom the local union of iron moulders declared a’ strike re cently, secured a temporary injunction against the International Moulders as sociation of North America today, by which members of the organization are enjoined from doing physical vio lence to strike-breakers now being employed. The order, signed by Judge Bell, of superior court, will be given a final hearing tomorrow. In the petitions of the two compa nies they assert that moulders now on a strike have picketed grounds of the two companies with men who are seeking to force the present em ployees away and tie up the concerns. B. L. Brooks, as president of the local moulders union, is made the principal defendant in the two charges. According to attorneys for the Spalding company, the strike there be gan July 22 when an apprentice was set to work to fill the place of a union man who failed to appear for work. The others immediately walked out and have since refused to fill their former positions. The Southern Iron & Equipment Company asserts that the moulders have been molesting their employees because that companj runs an open <xr non-union shop. Nearly 50 mould ers constitute the regular force at the two places. STEEL ORDERS SHOW BIG SUMMER TRADE NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Since the first ■ of the month orders of the United States I Steel corporation exceeded production, and it is likely that unfilled, orders in Au gust will show another increase. When the fact is taken into consideration that orders have been scrutinized very closely in order to eliminate speculative business, and that August is an unusually poor month in matter of incoming business, the showing v\ ill be regarded as remarkable by the steel trade. One producer figures that the United States Steel corporation and independents now have on their books a total of more than 10.000.000 tons'of unfilled orders. L. & N. DIRECTORS FOR $12,000,000 MORE STOCK NEW YORK. Aug. 29.—Directors of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at a meeting here this afternoon voted to recommend the stockholders an in crease in capital stock from $60,000,900 to $72,000,000 and to offer the new stock to the shareholders to th extent of twenty per cent of their holdings at par. ATLANTA GIRL IN TALLYHD CRASH Miss Charlotte Middleton Seri ously Injured in Accident in Tennessee Mountains. MONTEAGLE, TENN., Aug. 29. Miss Charlotte Middleton, of 616 Pied mont avenue, Atlanta,'was injured se riously and three other young women were hurt, when the tallyho in which they were returning from a mountain excursion was overturn' d, the mules being frightened at the approach of three automobiles on the narrow road. Several of Miss Middleton’s teeth were knocked out and she was rendered un scious, Miss Katherine Brooks, of Se wanee; Miss Caroline ednger, of Se wanee. and another young woman were cut and bruised. The party mas in a tallyho, return ing from a visit to the great cave in the valley. The road is winding, narrow and precipitous. One sitie rises a cliff; on the other there is a sheer drop of 60 feet. There is hardly room for two vehicles to pass. They were coming up the mountain when three automobiles appeared sud denly at a curve. The tallyho driver signaled the ears to stop, but they came on. and the mules, frightened by tlie strange sight of automobiles, turned and dashed down the mountain side, Barely escaping falling over the preci pice. The tallyho was overturned atid its passengers thrown out on the rocks. The auto owners mere asked to take the injured women to Monteagle for medical aid. but they refused, saying they could not turn their cars in the narrow road, Th< y drove on. the driver being unable to learn their names. MAN’S BODY FOUND IN RUINS OF BIG WHARF FIR-E NORWICH, CONN., Aug. 29.—Fire early this morning, whicli started in tile office of the Edward Chappell Com pany, on central wharf, wiped out prac tically all the buildings on the wharf, which is Situated at the head of Thames river, causing a loss estimated at $200,- (100. The body of a man wa« found binned to a crisp in the office of tin: Chappell company. He Is believed to have wandered in there to stay for the night and accidentally to have set the place on fire. ALBANIAN PEASANTS RAID CITY: WHOLESALE LOOTING SAL(»N4KA, EUROPEAN TURKEY. Aug. 29. -Albanian ixasants ha ve raid ed tlie city of Ipek, looting the bazar, a number of shops and many private res idences. according to a message just re ceived heie from the scene of the out rage. The Albanian authorities ar? powerless to check the depredations of the peasantry, tlie message added. Sol diers who tried to stop the looting were filed upon and driven to cover. OREGON GOVERNOR’S VICE CRUSADE LAGS AS OFFICIALS FIGHT PORTLAND. OREG., Aug. 29.—Dis trict Attorney Cameron has been oust ed. So says Governor Oswald West, here personally to supervise a war on vice. District Attorney Cameron him self says he has not been ousted, al though he has refused to assist the governor in the crusade and still re fuses to do so. Cameron plans an appeal to the courts that will involve many interest ing legal questions, principal of which Is the right of the governor to turn a • district attorney out of office. In the meantime the war on -vice . languishes. All parties are waiting for ( the legal tangle to be straightened out ( before any other move is made. Wal , ter Evans, who has been appointed by . the governor to take Cameron's place, doe’s not know whether he has a job or not. He intends to be sure before he , acts. . Governor West says he has found an old law that gives him the right to . act. He says Sheriff Stevens will lose , his official head unless he co-operates in the anti-vice war. Stevens is pon dering the matter and watching the ( Cameron fight with interest. So far he , has refused to aid the governor. • SUES HER DIVORCED ’ HUSBAND FOR KEEP OF THEIR LITTLE SON ’ Mrs. .June M. Hall, 221 West Peachtree ■ street, says it costs her at. least $32 per » month to care for her infant son, Jack, j So she asked superior court today to order her divorced husband, Thomas Hall, to pay her sufficient alimony to care for the child and herself. Mr. Hall Is estimator i I for the Withers Koundry and Machine • j Works and also operates a loan associa- • I tion, from which she says he makes over r I S2OO per month, so she believes he is , | amply able to meet the expense of his ’ | child’s welfare. Mrs. Hall’s Itemized expense account for her baby runs like this: Eor clothing each month, $10; for a nurse. $10; for the nurse’s board, sl2. And that is the min imum of expense, she says. . hi her request for alimony Mrs Hall asserts that she and Mr. Hall wert di vorced in 1910, at Uhattanooga, and that ■ upon the promise of her husband that he ! would provide for them, she did not seek alimony. Now he has stopped giving her anything, she says. WANTS DIVORCE FROM MAN SHE LOVED 1000 YEARS AGO 1 ST. LOUIS, MO., Aug. 29.—Artist Ralph Chesley Ott Is th" defendant In a suit for divorce filed by his wife, Mrs. Jam j»chaufert Ott, In Hie circuit court this morning. Mrs. <>tt alleges that , her husband was insanely jealous and 1 drank to excess. Sh> asked tin custo dy of their two baby girls. Mrs. Ott declares that when she at- , tired herself in her fashionable gown her husband accused her of dressing to • attract other men. % Shortly after their marriage a full- • page feature story appeared in a news, f paper ami was syndicated throughout the United States, In which it was set forth that the romance of the couple began thousands of years ago in Egypt. General G. L. Carson, Commerce, Ga., one of the famous Morgan raiders, recounting exciting experiences of ’6l to J. G. Russell, of Marietta, a Boy Scout leader. KILLS POHEjBKERS Three Dead and Three Injured From Blast at Rand Mill Near Dossett. Tenn. KNOXVILLE, TENN.. Aug. 29.—The Rand powder mill near Dossett, 25 | miles west of Knoxville, was the scene I of a fatal explosion today. Three men I were instantly 1 killed while moving a I car from the mixing plant. Three oth ers were seriously Injun (1. The dead: F. R. Barrett, of I’etosky, Mich.; John Giles, of Dossett, and George Newbill, of Gammon. The injured are: George Walters, Henry .Nelson and Downes, all of Dos sett. The cause of the explosion Is un known. BULL CALVES NAMED FOR WILSON AND MARSHALL VIDALIA. GA., Aug. 29.—W00d row and Tom are the names of a pair of blooded Jersey twin bull calves born this week on the Linn of J. \V. Sharp. T’he calves are named in honor of* the Democratic probabilities this year and will be exhibited at the Telfth District fair to be held in Dublin this fall. i _ JOHN WANAMAKER UNDER KNIFE: CONDITION SERIOUS PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29.—John Wanainaker, former postmaster general ami millionaire merchant, is reported to be in a serious condition at his home today, following an operation for blad der trouble. Hi- physicians decline, to make any statement infc to his condi tion. CONDUCTOR Kii.LS a man WHO IS BEATING TRAIN BLOOMINGTON. ILL., Aug. 29.—Lee Wrighthousc, of Jeffersonville, Ind., was killed by Conductor Phillips, of a Big I Four freight train, il. was beating his i way on the train. —. Fest Toasties nutritious are simply delicious; They’re flaky and crispy and brown; Their exquisite flavor has surely won favor, Just try them and banish that frown. Written by D. WHEDON. I 531 Millard Ave., Chicago, Bl Ono of the 50 Jlnzles for which the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich., paid SIOOO.OO in June. iREBELSTOSLAY ILLWIGINS Campa, a Mexican Insurgent Chief, Fixes Sept. 15 as the Slaughter Day. El. PASO. TEXAS, Aug. 29.—After September 15 all Americans In Mexico wilt ■ lie put to death, according to a threat made by General Emilio Campa, who has I an army of 400 insurgents in the -Sonora district. News of this menacing statement was brought here today by Thomas Holland, a former Texas ranger who recently lias been foreman of the San Geronimo mines in Mexico. It is thought Campa's threat was re sponsibk for the message to General Steever from the war department asking if more troops were needed on the border. MAN WILL LIVE WITH HIS BRAIN PATCHED UP NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—Surgeons of St. Josephs hospital, Yonkers, proudly announce that John Martin, whose skull was badly fractured, is recovering and will live with part of his brain missing. Martin is 28 years old. He was found unconscious on the New York Centra) tracks four weeks ago. His skull was badly mashed In at the fore head. Dr Mendelsohn and Dr. Lopez who operated upon him, found that several bits of brain tissue had been torn away and were lost through the opening in the skull. Tlv y did not believe he could live 24 hours, but they set to work delicately mending the torn tissues and patching the broken bones. SAVANNAH COMMISSION ELECTION NOVEMBER 12 SAVANNAH, GA.. Aug. 29.—Instead of November 5, the date first selected, the commission form of government election will be held November 12. Separate registration lists will have to lie used for the presidential and commission form elections, hence the change of date for the latter contest. 3