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Iniss Thelma Harrell Swims, Rides Motors, Runs, Motorcycles, Plays Basket Ball and Lives Outdoors
ATLANTA'S SOCIAL REALM HAS AN “ELEANOR SEARS’’ ALL ITS OWN
H1 sport swimming. Miss Harrell in basket ball togs. Miss Harrell loves to golf, too, and is quite skillful.
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Alice Overby i o Be Charged
With Carelessness.
us fed by the wheels of an auto- I
mobile, t we've-year-old Allee Overby.
- ’■ of Acs. W. G. Overby, s;| Au
burn ivenue, lies, dying, at the Davis- I
’ scher “anrtarium in Linden street.
H'sit,ning between the curbing and
sT'-rf ear while Titos bound
"ii.ward from the theaters whizzed
' her at Peachtree and .lames*
reels last night at 11 o'clock, the child
f • PI" 1 directly into the path of an
"“‘lie- coupe driven by Miss Har
' ''ole. Befoie the little machine
"ild be halted be,th wheels passed
S'tua.rely over the child's body, injuring
her fatally.
L ording to eyewitnesses, including
diss Graham, who was with Mrs. fiver
" and the girl, the trio started across
whtree street, the child in the lead.
Graham stopped, she says, to let
electric tilled with men and womet
P- gs. As the machine whizzed by she
rd a short scream and found Alice
■ strata <m the pavement.
Miss Cole, who was driving the coupe
| that s'.e stopped long enough to be
'sured that the child was not badlx
1 t. and then drove home. The police
'"'ay wiip make a case against her for
f‘• kless driving. .
l’h« injured girl was first removed
" the Grady hospital, but later was
*n to the Davis-Fischer sanitarium
Fischer said this morning the child
' dd not live.
WEDS SUPERFLUOUS WIFE
OF HIS BIGAMOUS BROTHER
li.'is t'< >x, yf.xss . Sept. 25.—Following
■ discovery that Matthew Connell. Jr.,
rominen' Lynn business man. had two
os. Ft'is brother. John Connell, has mar
one of them ami Matthew has es
®d with a tine imposed bj a Dor-
■ “’er judge.
1 have mat Tied the woman who for five ;
■ thought she was the wife of my i
■th<r." said John Connell, “because I
mt to atone for some of the wrong!
has been done her b\ a Connell I I
""it my brother's child, five jears old.
have the name Connell, for it be- j
■ ' n ßs to him." •
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Cares More for Khaki Than
Silk. More for Bathing Suit
Than Ball Gown.
A pretty girl in a gray tailored suit,
ran out of the Aragon hotel, slipped
under the steering wheel of a green au
tomobile with a young man inside it
ami was off toward East Lake in a
hurry.
“There goes the Eleanor Sears of
Atlanta," said another young man. who
was left behind and looked as though
lie was sorry. "She swims, rides, drives
a motor, runs a motorcycle, plays bas
ket ball and Ilves outdoors. If she
doesn't rid< to hounds, it's because
ther ' no hunt club in Atlanta, nor
any fox s."
The girl was Thelma Harrell, whose
father. B. Frank Harrell, is manager
of the Aragon Miss Harrell lives in a
hotel, but she is far from being a sit
around-the-parlor girl. She's a tailor
made, divided-skirt. leather-leggins
kind of girl, who cares more for khaki
than silk, likes a bathing suit much
better than a dancing frock and stays
she had rather swim than play bridge.
“Oh, swimming." .wild Miss Harrell,
when she was asked what she liked
most of all sports. "I had a dip at East
Lake this morning Yes. it was cold.
This is my last day. and I'm so sorry.
Down at our summer home at St.
Georges Island we swim much later
than this. But that's salt water, you
know
"No. I'm not a horseback fiend. I
used to love to ride, but since I’ve
grown used to motoring I don’t care
for horses. They seem slow, you
know. No, I haven't a car of Any own.
But I have so many good friends with
i motors -that I really wouldn't have any
| use for a ear of my own.
“Os real games, basket ball is my
, favorite 1 played on the Hanna school
team last year, you know. It was lots
lof fun. of course, I like tennis. I'm
I just learning to ride a motorcycle and
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWSAVEDNESOAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1912.
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1 Miss Harrell is riirht at home
on a motorcycle.
it's fine. I wish more girls used them
here."
Just then a card came in, with the
message that somebody was waiting at
the door to try out a brand new motor
car and wanted an expert opinion. So
that ended the Interview.
SLAYS HIMSELF IN FUN
JUST TO PLEASE‘KIDDIES'
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 25.—While his
sweetlieart watched him amuse two
young children by playing with a re
volver in a Kirkwood confectionary
about 6 o'clock last night. Wallace
Spurgeon accidentally shot himself
through th- right temple.
Heath was almost instantaneous. ac- ■
cording to physicians summoned
"See, kiddles, I'm going to point thb
right at my head and press the ttig
| ger." Spurgeon, who was oply eighteer
I years old. .old the eager children who
I were watching his manipulation of th i
weapon
WORLD CHEMISTS
TO VISIT ATLANTA
ON TOUR OF SOUTH
Local cheminis are preparing to re
ceive about seventy-five representatives
of foreign chemical societies who are |
now attending the International congress
in Washington and who will lour the
principal cities of this country. They
are expected to arrive about October 15.
Something of the South’s products and
industries will be shown the chemists
while they are in Atlanta. The details
are in the hands of I S. Brogdon \\ .
II Emerson and*W <*. Dumas, members
of the local chapter <.f .the American
i Chemical societ y
12.000 RAILROADERS
GO ON STRIKE IN SPAIN
BARCFLON'IA. SPAIN Sept. 2.".. -
Twelve thousand of the 22,n0n railroad
employees ordered to strike ouit work
today. As fast as they left the it posi-
tions they wore (ak<>n by .government
soldiers. Attempts tv-re made to wreck
three trains, but only one was success- i
fill. Eighteen persons were injured in I
this. Tin- government has ordered mar. I
tial law along all divisions run by the:
troops.
HIS HYPNOTIC EYE FAILS;
SHOT ATTACKING BANDIT
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.. Sept. 25.
In explanation of Ids action in spilng
ing unarmed upon the bandit who held
up a San Mateo street car and obtained
in money and jewelry from the
I assengers. City Attorney Charles N.
Kirkbride, of San Mateo, who is recot -
|i ring from two bullet wounds. declare!'
that lie belieyi d he hail so hypnotized
the bandit th- latter could not shoot.
Ki’khrlde said he had been reading
about hypnotism and had ro ently seen
a play in which Ute hero had utilized
the strange power to prevent the vil
lain from pulling the trigger.
5,000 MONGOLS
Oil MIK
Soldiers Break All Restraint
! and Massacre and Pillage
in Wholesale Manner.
ST. PETERSBURG. Sept. 25. Ac
cordin'; to a news agency dispatch re
ceived here today from Tsitsihkar,
Manchuria, Chinese soldiers have mas
s icred 5.1)00 Mongolians in the prov
iim os under the dominion of Prince
Odai. in eastern Mongolia, on the Man
churian border.
The Chinese troops, who had been
sent against the forces of the Mongo
lian government, broke all restraint,
pillaging and burning monasteries and
other buildings containing rich loot, and
murdering men. women and children.
Several small towns were burned.
It is reported here that Russian
troops may be sent into Mongolia from
Turkestan to support Russia's profes
sion of friendship for the Mongolian
government, w hich is now an autonomy.
Toe country was formerly a Chinese de
pencency.
According to the telegram, the Chi
nese soldiers are still out of hand, and
another outbreak is expected.
.Millions or bousekei tiers and exper
chefs use SAUERS PURE FLAVOR.
LN'l i'.XTR.'CTS Vanilla. Lemon
indorsed by Pure Food Chemists. (Advt.)
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IN NEW JERSEY
Home State Defeats “Boss”
Smith for Senator, Whom
Governor Opposed.
TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 25.—Today's
returns from the state.-wicbn primaries
in New Jersey show an overwhelming
defeat of James Smith, Jr., in the Dem
ocratic primary contest for United
I States senator and a victory for Gov
! ernor Wilson's choice. ex-Congressman
Hughes The forces behind Wilson
rolled up to about 23,000 plurality for
H uglies. The governor’s friends are
| jubilant, as the Democratic presiden-
I Hal candidate has frequently denounced
Smith as a boss of the old Democratic
regime and until for the I'nited States
senate.
Essex county supported Smith by
about three to one. hut the remaining
twentj counties went for Hughes.
Hughes ran abouts, ven to one agln.st
Smith in Monmouth; five to one in
Mercet* and about three to one in Hud.
son. Smith received about 23,000 votes
and Hughes about 46,000.
I’nited States Senator Frank O.
Briggs, who seeks re-election on the
Republican ticket, was unopposed.
The following, congressmen have
been renominated:
Demoi rats —Thomas J. Scully, VV. E.
Tuttle, Jr., and E. F. Kinkead.
Republican—John J. Gardner.
Foss Nominated
In Massachusetts
BOSTON. Sept. 25. Eugene N. Foss,
for the third time, is the Democratic
candidate for governor of Massachu
setts.
In yesterday's primaries, where Dem
ocrattc voters eame out in stronger
numbers than ever before, he defeated
District A' uney Joseph R. Pelletier,
of Boston. the nomination by a ma
jority of almost 25,000.
Former Spe.ikei of the Hoaise of Rep.
rewntatlves Thomas Walker, of Brook
line. is the nominee of the Republicans
for governor. His majority in the pri
maries over t’olonel Everett G. Benton
is about 10,000.
The vote: Foss. 55.32 K; Pelletier. 33,-
Foss' majority, 24.537. Walker
4X.223; B< nton, 35.432; Walker’s ma.*
jority, 9,791.
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