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SMOKE BOARD IS
GIVEN MORETIME
Commission Promises Change
of Its Reactionary Attitude
at Meeting This Afternoon.
Leaders of tile crusatb against »niuk.‘
have their attention rente ed on the
meeting of the smoke commission th,
'afternoon at 4 o’clock, for the commis
sion has promised to redt>-m itself from
a reactionary attitude in the smoke
war.
Councilman Chalies W. Smith said
be intended to wait unill after the
meeting to urge the adoption of his
ordinance abolishing the commission.
Chairman K. M lia'w.ll said he would
definitely put the commission on record
this afternoon, hut that lie had little
hope of it being put on record In the
right way.
Commissioner Oscar Elsas has in
sisted that if th- assailants o*’ She com
mission would wait until after the
meeting this afternoon they would not
be so vigorous in their condemnation
of the commission.
MINISTER IN OVERALLS
WORKS AS RAILWAY HAND
MUSKOGEE. OKLA.. Nov. 12.—The
Rev. George <Aydelott, pastor of the
First Christian church In Muskogee,
got in close touch with the every-day
life of railroad men the other day by
putting on overalls and Jumper and re
porting for a day’s work with tjie rip
track gang at the Midland Valley raiP
road shops. *
’’J am not doing it as an experiment
or to court publicity.’’ Aydelott ex
plained. “It is Just that I used to he a
workingman myaelf and I like to got in
elos 1 - touch with the boys oceaslonally
just as I visit the office workers in
their office.- sometimes."
AT THE THEATERS
l— 11
PRETTY GIRLS AND RICH
COSTUMES IN “MISS NOBODY”
Although "Miss Nobody From Starland’
drags considerably in the first act, its
second act. revealing that mysterious
place generally designated "behind the
scenes." redeems the faults of the intro
ductory very milch, and kept the audi
ence at the Atlanta last night laughing
heart Hi
And although most of the songs arc
old. the rich costumes which envelop
lightly the very pretty girls about twen
ty of them -combined with the willing
ness of the girls to dance ami sing goes
very much further in the redemption
.Miss (Hive Vail as the Miss Nol.odj who
seeks an "angel" to lift her from the
ranks of the chorus Into tin realms of a
star, has a splendid voice, but few
chances to display It. hence site Is very
much at a disadvantage. Her song, "I
Gave My Heart Away For a Host, was
w ell received
Miss Jessie Maker, a radiantly beauti
ful little girl, who wears rich, filmy cos
tumes. and who dances tor, rather, tloatst
with an indescribable grace, was the real
favorite with last night’s audience. She
has only two real opportunities, In the
first and last acts, and she was kept busy
answering encores, ami did so with an
evident relish She plavs an obscure part
of an Italian girl, and her languhHx grace
ful dancing lifted the part exactly
"Miss Nobody From Starlund" Is far
from a greai show, but it should not be
judged by Its first act lire tiie second
act was well on its way last night, the
audience was mirthfully forget tul of its
opener. Here matinee today ind tonight
HENRY E. DIXEY IS HEAD
OF STAR BILL AT GRAND
Henry E Dfxey and Olive Briscoe are
the head lights in this week's vaudeville
bill al the Gland. Mr I >txey lias a
splendid act, and received an ovation
from last night's audience His act Is
billed as a "Mono-Drama Vand-Ologue,"'
ami he makes good with his performance
giving, with equal art. drama, vaude
ville In Its varied forms ami "ologiie”
air o.
.Miss Olive Briseoe. the unUsual come
dienne, sings several fetching songs and
weals some beautiful gowns She has a
winning way with her, and gets her au
dience at erne
The rest of Ute bill is on a level, with
the exception of the Great Jungmann
family, which presents a novi i and en
tertaining aerial act as a closing mimber
on tlie blit.
The three good acts all come together,
at the dost of the performance. Oh the
dogs must not be forgotten the\ serve
to Intrcuuec the bin ami give an excel
lent exhibition of their tricks Taken
as a whole, the bill) is up to the high
Standard ret by the Grand, ami is well
worth seeing.
A SUPERSTITIOUS LITTLE
'GIRL IS EMMA BUNTING
"The Wishing King." played by Emma
Bunting ami associates at Hie Forsyth
this week, is one of those whimsical little
rules which Just suits the dainty little
ytlanta favorite. \ splendid audience
greeted her last night at the opening per
formance ami she and her players con
tinued their pest successes
Miss Bunting's part this week suits her
better than any she lias essaved since her
return in winter stock The other parts
are well distributed among the capable
players surrounding the young, star.
The play is well dressed, ami is inter
esting. abounding in lots of splendid
coined?
Jt will be repeated nightly all week, and
at matinees today, Thursday an<k Satur
day. » •
“THE WINNING WIDOW" MAKES
HIT WITH LYRIC AUDIENCE
“The Winning Widow" is the name,
but "The Winning Musi, would perhaps
be the more appropriate title for this
sparkling. ever*-popular musical eomedv,
which opened for a week's run at tiie
Lyric Monday night.
It fairly bubbles over with the ihrobbv.
, snaking kind of music, the kind of mel
ody. that starts you to keeping time be
fore you realize it. Such • ateli? ragtime
airs as “Everybody Loves a t’liieken "
"Ragging the Bab? to sleep ’ "You're
My Baby." “Buzzing Bee "I'ollege
' Boy.” “Circus Day." "itagtime Soldier
Man,” and many others, make up as mer
ry a musical melange as one would care
to hear. Lovey Marie Green, as "the
widow.” makes a decided hit The bal
ance of the cost, as well as the prettx
chorus, also come in for a full share of
the liberal' appMktse
"The Winning Widow" is well worth
keying Here all the week, with usua'
matinees.
"THE PINK LADY" WILL BE
BIG SHOW OF THE SEASON
It is seldom that a work so popular at
"The Pink Lady” is seen with all its
wealth of glorious scenic, electrical and
costume elegance en tour that marked its
initial and important engagements in
America and abroad. Nevertheless, for
the coming engagement at the Atlanta
theater for three nights and matinee com
mencing November 14. It will be emblaz
oned with all the production and organize
tlon and ever? detail that mark'd its
original presentation at the New Xinster
•lam theater. New York, and tiie Ugobe
theater. la>mlon.
Beats have bem placed on sals and tiie
■ leu and shows that this fact Is i.opri
elated. This attraction Is the biggest
thing of the Heason, and comes here with
the finished details chariot eristic of Kluw
* Erlanger's greater prodm lions even
the s|,e. ml "Pink orchestra
Up and Down
Peachtree
Bull Moose Cry
Recalls the Frog Story.
“I am surprised and disappointed that
if th* papers has resurrected and
published that story about the farmer and
tne frogs, in view of the alarming
amount of talk put up by the Kull Moos*
o? s of Fulton county previous to Novem
I • r 5. taken in conjunction with the num*
J er of ballots cast for the colonel on that
fateful day.” said a caller in tiie c ustoms
house today. “It is a good old story, and
1 l ate to have It forgotten. If you in
sist. I ll tell it myself.
“This farmer got extravagant one day
in town and went to a swell restau
rant. The first thing on the bill that
struck him was ‘Frog legs. 60 cents.'
” 'Say.' gays the farmer, 'that’s mighty
high for frawgs. There’s a million of
♦•m in the pond below my house; so many
I <an’t sleep for their bellowin’. What’ll
you give in* to bring you some?’
‘ ‘I ll give you 40 cents a piece.’ says
the restaurant man.
‘‘‘('an you us» a thousand tomorrow?’
says the farmer.
“’I reckon so Bring ’em in.’ says
the restaurant man.
"Next morning the farmer comes In,
tent lies down in his pocket and digs up
one poor, skinny frog.
•AVhere’s the other 999'.” asks the
restaurant man.
“The farmer looks kind o’ sheepish.
‘Friend,’ lie says, ‘from the noise they
made I’d have sworn there was a mil
lion frawgs in that pond. But when I
killed this feller the noise stopped. He
was the »inly frawg on the whole blame
plantation.’ ”
REJECTED. KILLS SELF
IN A CROWDED SALOON
ST I.< il’I.S, “Nov. 12—While others
stood at a crowded bar in Marie’s sa
loon at tiflij Washington avenue, a
young man seated at one of the saloon
tables drew a revolver and tired a bul
let into his chest, lie died fifteen min
utes later without regaining conscious
ness.
When the body was searched letters
we • ■ found a<l<i<s<ed to Albi it Balz.
2708 Blair avenue. The motive for his
suicide, as revealed by a memorandum
book in Ills pocket, was tiiat he ha I
called nightly for two months at the
home of a young woman and had tailed
each tini” to see her.
ASTOR BABY IS AWARDED
$3,333 ANNUAL INCOME
NEW YoRK. Nov. 12.—John Jacob
Astor. Infant son of Mrs. Madeline
Force Astyr. will have tin income of
$3,333 ;i year for his support the next
three years. Surrogate Fowler has
gumted a petition filed by'Mrs. Astor
and appointed her as Hie child’s guard
ian with limited authority, until he
shall t etich the age of fourteen.
POSTOFFICE SAFE IS
BLOWN: $5,000 TAKEN
SYRACUSE. N. V., Nov. 12.—The
■postoffiee at Liverpool, live miles from
this city, was robbed of $5,000 in stamps
eash and postoffiee savings deposit to.’
day. Nitroglycerin was used to blow
the h.iic.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANB NEWS.TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1912.
LUTHERANS HERE
FOR THEIR SYNOD
Eight Southern States Repre
sented at Atlanta Meeting,
Which Opens Tonight.
Distinguished ministers and laymen
of the English Lutheran church are
gathering at the Church of the Re
demer, in Trinity avenue, today for
the United Synod of Lutheran Churches
in the South, which represents eight
suites and a membership of about 52.-
(ino persons. Several hundred delegates
t<> this meeting and that of the Wom
an’s Missionary conference, to be held
in cofinection with it, are expected at
the opening session tonight. ,
Dr. J. A. Morehead, of Roanoke col-I
lege. Salem, Va., is president of the
synod and will preside. The other of
ficers are M. G. G. Scherer, of Charles
ton, S. C„ vice president; Rev. S. T.
Hallman, D.D., of Spartanburg, S.
secretary; J. E. Cooper, Winchester.
Va., treasurer, and Dr. G. H. Cox, Sails-,
bury. Va., statistical secretary. The
synod is tiie guest of the Atlanta
church, of which Rev. W. C. Shaeffer
is pastor. . • ,
At the opening session tonight the
delegates will be welcomed by Givernoi
Joseph M. Brown and by Acting Mayoi
John 8. Candler. The woman’s mis
sionary organization will also take part
In this session. Executive sessions will
begin tomorrow morning and continue
throughout the week.
Some of the principal matters to b>‘
discussed are the enlargement of the
plant of the school and theological sem
inar j- in Japan, the placing of home
missions on a footing whft h will enable
work in larger cities of the South,
an increase in the faculty of the theo
logical seminary at Columbia, S. C., and
thA adoption of plans for training school
workers and deaconesses. The church
has spent about $2,250,000 on educa
tion in the past twenty years, and the
formation of a board of education and
th# co-ordination of all educational
w»rk into one system is to be taken up
G. A. CARTWRIGHT MADE
A., B. AND AGENT
G. A. Cartwright, district freight
agent of the A., B. and A. railroad at
Fitzgerald, comes to Atlanta Friday to
be general agent of the same road, at
the office at 70 Peachtree. He suc
ceeds George Land, who has been dis
trict freight agent, and who now goes
to tiie Virginia-Carolina Chemical
Company. The office of district freight
agent has been abolished and will be
included in the geifttral agent's duties.
PREACHER RESIGNS; HIS
SI,OOO SALARY TOO SMALL
RIVERHEAD, N. Y„ Nov. 12.—Rev.
Gilbert A. Shaw, rector of the Grace
Episcopal church, resigned, “claiming he
could not live on his SI,OOO salary.
SOCIALIST RECORDER
OF BIRMINGHAM MAY
LOSE HIS POSITION
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Nov. 12.
Clement R. Wood, recorder of the city
of Birmingham, will have to fight to
retain his position, according to law
yers who are making preparations to
take action In the matter.
Wood is a young Socialist. lie at
tends Socialist meetings, takes part in
Socialistic debates and is considered
one of the mo® prominent of the So
cialist leaders here.
The contention is that Wood is not
old enough for the position of recorder,
being under 25 years of afte. The fact
that he is a Socialist does not figure,
says Judge A. O. Lane, one of the (com
missioners of the city.
Since being on the bench, about a
month now, Mr. Wood has been rjuite
severe in his fines against certain vio
lators of the law.
DOCTOR, WHd WEDS
NURSE, WHILE SICK,
BEGINS TO RECOVER
j^VINt ’HESTER. VA„ Nov. 12.—Dr.
Robert P. Cooke, who married Miss
Nellie Virginia Jones, of Winchester,
last' week, while he lay on his bed ill of
typhoid fever at his home in Front
Royal, is' now reported to "be out of
danger, although for some time it was
feared he wwild not recover. •
The* bride, who was and still is a
nurse, is a daughter of Mrs. Page Jones,
formerly of this city, now of Macorff
Ga. She graduated from the nurses
training school of Winchester Memo
rial hospital several years ago.
Dr. Cooke Is a kinsman of the late
John Esten Cooke, the author, and was
for a number of years a surgeon in the
United States navy.
WILL HANG SEVEN MEN
friday l de cember 13
SALEM, OREG., Nov. 12.—Since tiie
voters of Oregon have decided to retain
the institution of capital punishment,
the state officials have set Friday, De
cember 13, as the day upon which seven
condemned men will swing oh the gal
lows. Governor West, while expressing
his disappointment that his measure for
the abolition of capital punishment has
failed of passage, stated that he woffld
go ahead with the hanging.
AUTO BANDITS ROB BANK
IN OKLAHOMA OF $2,005
BARTLESVILLE, OKLA.. Nov. 12—
Two thousand five dollars was secured
today by robbers who blew open the
vault in the Ochelata State bank. A
battle with citizens followed the rob
bery, but the gang succeeded in getting
away. They cut all telephone wires
and escaped in an automobile.
CHURCH CHANGES NAME.
Ct ’LI MBl S, GA., Nov, 12. —The mem
bership of the Broad Street Methodist
church, in Columbus, has changed the
name of the church to that of the Meth
odist Tabernacle. The change in name
was made at this time in order that It
might appear under the changed name in
the minutes of the South Georgia con
ference next year.
BSPTIST IdOMEN
OPENMEETING
Missionary Union of Georgia
Begins Annual Session
at Augusta.
AUGUSTA, GA., Nov. 12.—The annual
meeting of the Woman’s Baptist Mission
ary Union of .Georgia began in Augusta
this afternoon. The sessions will con
tinue for three- days. It is expected that
by tomorrow morning there will be more
than 400 delegates nere.
the opening session heßl at 2:45
o clock this afternoon addresses of wel
come were extended by Mrs. L. S. Ar
rington in behalf of the Methodists, Airs.
Joseph K. Sevier in behalf of the Pres
byterians,. Mrs. B. O. Miler in behalf of
the Disciples of Christ and Mrs. M. Ashby
Jones, president- of the City Baptist Mis
sionary union. The response to the ad
dresses of welcome was made by Mrs.
Neil Kitchens, of Bullockville. Ga.
At the meeting tonight a devotional
service will be conducted by Rev. ft. W.
Thiot, pastor of the Curtis Baptist church
of this city, and the annual address of
Mrs. W. J. Neel, state president of the
Womans Baptist Millenary union, will
follow. *
The sessions are being at the First
Baptist churTh, which has been decor
ated tastefully in honor of the convention.
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