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IHRRMEEM H
TO METHODIST
MINISTRY
South Georgia Conference Set
tles This Question in Case
From Pelham District.
SAVANNAH. GA., Nov. 29.—The
committee on uppllcations and admis
sions of the South Georgia Methodist
conference today reported a number of
candidates woh were admitted to the
ministry, but not until the application
of James M. Clark, of the Pelham dis
trict, had precipitated a spirited dis
cussion on account of his being a mar
ried man, with several children.
Rev. T. D. Ellis and Rev. Bascom
Anthony objected to his admission, de
claring that, being married, the can
didate would encounter difficulties on
a charge of the character to which he
would be assigned. Others said It was
■not Methodism to object to a. married
man, which would, in effect, be encour
aging race suicide.
The conference decided that marriage
was no bar to the admission of candi
dates to the ministry.
Vote on Advocate Trustees.
Tt was announced that the terms of
Dr. W. N. Ainsworth and Dr. A. M.
Williams, as trustees of The Wesleyan
Christian Advocate, the official organ
of the church, will expire with this
conference. A ballot to name their suc
cessors was taken, but conference ad
journed before the result could be de
termined.
Those who have been advanced to
the orders of elders and deacons will
be ordained by Bishop A. W. Wilson
Sunday morning. This ceremony Is us
ually' one of the features of the confer
ence.
Dr. Stonewall Anderson, of Nashville,
secretary of the board of education, ad
dressed the conference this afternoon,
and Dr. E. F. Cook will speak tonight,
the occasion being the anniversary of
the missionary' board.
Congratulate Carolinans.
Telegrams of congratulations were
exchanged with the South Carolina
conference, in session at Anderson.
The conference proper was not in
session yesterday afternoon, bift, nev
ertheless, two adjunct meetings were
held, one In the afternoon, when Dr.
Stonewall Anderson, of Nashville.
Tenn., secretary of the board of edu
cation, and the other nt night,
when Dr. W. F. McMurray, of Louis
ville, Ky., secretary of the board of
church extension, delivered an address.
Both services were hugely attended.
Bishop Prays For Wilson.
In delivering the Thanksgiving
prayer yesterday, Bishop James H. Mc-
Coy asked for divine guidance for
President-elect Woodrow Wilson, "the
man who, by’ the'suffrage of a great
people, has been elected to the presi
dency of a great nation.” Bishop Mc-
Coy tendered thanks to the Almighty
that He has given to this nation a
ruler who Is a “man of the church, a
man who fears God and believes in
Jesus Christ.” He prayed that the Al
mighty might direct the next president
in all of his labors and “defend him
against the assassin, sickness and
troubles of any sort.”
Young Preachers Advance.
The committee on relations reported
the following who had been received
on trial last year had passed the ex
aminations and were advanced:
J. F. Snell, J. H. Robinson. T. E.
Murray, R. Q. Whittle, Robert Rouse,
E, L. Wainwright, J. C. Bourne, E. W.
Sanders, J. R. Webb, W. W. Hill and
Lehland Moore.
The following having failed to pass
were continued on trial:
C. L. Wall, G. P. Patrick. M. W.
Flanders, R. (’. Dell, Herbert Etheridge,
L. T. Roger.-, W. C. McGill, L. E. Brady,
C. Boland. G. R. Stephens and R. T.
Dennis.
The following who were on trial were
discontinued at their own request:
L. H. Ward and O. B. Close.
John B. Simons, of the class of the
second year, having moved to Texas
college, was continued in the same
class, and J. T. Budd, transferred to
this conference from tne Missouri con
ference and having failed to pass the
examination, was continued in the
class.
GRANDMOTHERS
USED SAGE TEA
To Darken the Hair and Re
store Gray and Faded Hair
to Its Natural Color.
it is easier to preserve the color of
the hair than to restore it. although it
is possible to do both. Our grand
mothers understood the secret. They
made a ‘‘sage tea," and their dark,
glossy hair long after middle life was
due to this fact. Our mothers have
gray hairs before they are fifty, but they
are beginning to appreciate the wisdom
of our grandmothers in u-ing "sage
tea’ for their hair and are fast follow
ing suit.
The present generation has the ad
vantage of the past in that it can get
a ready-to-use preparation <•;»>•<; Wv
eth s Sage and Sulnhur Hair Remedy
As a scalp tonic and color restorer this
preparation is vastly -up.-rmr to the
ordinary "sage tea" mam by our grand
mothers.
The growth and beauty of the hair
depends on a healthy condition of th.
scalp. Wyeth's .Sage and Sulphur Hair
Remedy quickly kills tlie dandruff g- m.-
whlch rob the hair of its life. c olor and
luster, makes the scalp .lean and
healthy, glvea the hair strength, cob-r
and beauty, and makes it g ow
Get a GO-cent bottle from your diuc
atiist today. 11. will giv. voui m. no
if you ar. not satisiled afttr a f i
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DETECTIVES SEEK
BURNERSDFCHOP
Losses From Alleged Nightrid
er Depredations Near Bain
bridge Reach $20,000.
BAINBRIDGE. GA., Nov. 29.—Detec
tives. employed by tobacco growers of
Decatur county, Georgia, and Gadsden
county, Florida, are today investigating
the burning of tobacco barns in these
two counties this week. Losses from
the fires are estimated at $20,000.
Latest reports are that five tobacco
barns were burned in Florida, near
Quincy. Only two were burned in
Georgia. They were on John E. Don
alson’s farm, a few miles south of
Fowlstown.
Sheriff Emanuel went to the scene with
bloodhounds, but the dogs failed to find
the trail. No arrests have been made.
The fires are said to be the outgrowth
of a hitherto peaceful war between
large and small owners of tobacco lands
in this section, that has been in prog
ress for three years.
The barns burned belonged to what
are known as "independent packers and
growers.” There has been some dif
ference between these ami the Farmrs
Tobacco Protective association because
the independents would not cut down
the acreage one-half.
Barn Burners Unknown.
No one knows who did the burning.
The crowd that burned barns in Flor
ida fled toward Georgia, and those
burning bards in Georgia were seen
going toward Florida, mounted on
horses, with guns. There were two ot
the latter, but they were not identified.
It i< unknown whether or not members
of th? association had anything to do
with tile burning. The leaders have
always decried any violence. Some of
the best ireople in Decatur county be
long to tlte organization. They detest
night-riding or any other unlawful acts.
Some believ. a lawless element, apart
from at.x organization is responsible
for the fires. Officials are endeavoring
to i orehend the guilty parties-
To ,iy there is talk of a ma«s meeting
to protect against such lawlessness. Mr.
Donalson. owner of the barns burned
in Georgia i strong card In today’s
issue of The Searchlight, calling on ail
people ci the county to help up
hold law :.nj g| ji r
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29. i£l2.
Atlanta Eats 25,000 Lbs. of Thanksgiving Bird
CITY’S TURKEY BILL $6,875
Atlanta’s turkey dinner weighed
25,000 pounds, dressed, not counting
the stuffing and side-fixings, and it cost
$6,875 at an average of 27 1-2 cents a
pound.
Those are the figures given out to
day by the leading produce house in
Broad street.
“Everybody ate turkey yesterday,”
said the head of the firm. “The de
mand has been far ahead of last year
and the supply rather short. There
was hardly a turkey left in the market
except for the ragtags and bobtails,
the skinny birds which nobody cares to
buy. Os course, every house has some
of those, left on hand.
"The Georgia turkey crop was fair,
but most of our supply comes from
Kentucky ami Tennessee, and the early
rams there killed the young birds and
shortened the crop.
"And the meat business will have a
slump for a day or two. It will be hot
CAR REPAIRER ASKS
$20,000 OF L. AND N.
FOR LOSS OF LEG
Asserting that the Louisville and Nash
ville railroad is responsible for the loss
of his leg through the carelessness of its
employees, T. H. Griffin, a car inspector,
instituted suit for $20,000 damages against
the railroad company in city court today.
Griffin told the court that he was or
dered t<> inspect a coach that was about
to be attached to a He said that
he was standing on the bumpers when a
switch engine pushed the coach into an
other car. He said that his right foot was
jammed between the bumpers and so
badly mangled that it had to be ampu
tated.
BAR ASSOCIATION TO
HOLD ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting and banquet of
the Atlanta Jjar association will be held
on tomorrow evening at 7 o’clock, at Du
rand's case.
Congressman William G. Brantlev has
accepted the association's invitation to
deliver teh principal address.
'The association has been unusually ac
tive the last year, and the reports of the
officers am! cations committees, together
I with the election of new officers for the
ensuing year, will be matters of special
interest.
DAWSON MAN KILLS SELF
WHILE WIFE IS IN ROOM
DAW SOX. x., v eg \\ Sa .
vote, nt fiiiwson. killed himself in llich
land with a pistol today ythile In bed at
the hotel His wife was in’the room at
the time No cause Is known He was
brother of 1; I. Saville, cashier of the
Dawson Natienal bank.
I turkey today, cold turkey tomorrow,
■ turkey hash the next day, turkey soup
the day afterward. There's no end to
a turkey, you know.
“The convicts at the Federal prison
ate turkey, too. The prison’s or
der was for 1,000 pounds. Fort
McPherson’s order for the soldiers' din
ner was 1,500 pounds. The hospitals
and orphanages in Atlanta used 1,000
pounds today.
“But if you're talKing high prices,
look at eggs. Fresh eggs are selling at
35 cents by wholesale today, which
means’4s cents to the retail trade. How
fresh? Why, in this kind of weather
an egg is fresh for two or three weel«
after it is laid.
“The laws requiring cold storage eggs
to be so branded has boosted the price
of fresh hen fruit. People used to buy
storage eggs, thinking they were fresh.
Now, when they insist on fresh eggs
the increased demand has put them at a
premium. And the supply is short
apt to stay so for a while.”
NEGRESS KILLS WHITE MAN
IN A SHOOTING GALLERY
MONTGOMERY. ALA., Nov. 29.
News reached here today that a young
white man named Fuller was shot and
killed in a, shooting gallery at Wetump
ka last night by Ida Pruitt, a negro
woman and ex-convict, who is under
arrest. The woman used a target rifle.
The shot entered Fuller’s neck, shat
tering the "Adam’s apple.” He lived 30
. minutes. The woman claimed the kill
ing was accidental.
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RAISES 177 BUSHELS
OF CORN ON ONE ACRE
i SAVANNAH. GA., Nov. 29.—The
largest product of corn for a single
I acre raised by a boy competing in the
Savannah corn show and probably the
best acre of corn raised in the state
, this year, is the 177-bushel crop of
' Byron Bolton, of Sr ven county.
Bolton is seventeen years old and
lives near Zeigler. He made a net
r piotit of $150.19 on his acre of corn.
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CHILD CATCHES FIRE
AT OPEN GRATE: DIES
NEWARK, OHIO. Nov. 29.—Edith
Merrill, aged five, daughter ot Danirt
t Merrill, was burned to death at her
home this morning Her clothing
~ caught tile from an open grate during
the absence vs her mother.
IEVELYN WHEN ON
SLOT MACHINE
MENACE
Council Soon to Banish Devise
Whose MoVo Is: Go Broke
or Get Drunk.
Continued From Page One.
you know the method of play? It hasn t
that insiduous delight of a poker game,
where man matches his brain, his
nerve and his skill against his fellow’s
brain, nerve and skill. It has none of
the glamour of the roulette table where
a few dollars may become hundreds on
a single turn of the wheel. It doesn’t
even possess the pleasant bandinage of
the dealer that has made hundreds
smile as they were being robbed in a
shell game.
The player dVops a nickel in a slot.
He pulls a lever. A series of pictures
revolve. If the pictures appear in cer
tain combinations he gets from 2 to 20
checks. The Checks can not be con
verted into cash. They can be spent
for nothing but beer and tobacco. But
those combinations rarely come. When
they do come a player can buy a dol
lar’s worth of beer instead of the
nickel’s worth he contemplated when
he entered the saloon. The machine
holds out but two alternatives. The
player must either go broke or be as
sured a “jag.”
Where Do Wife and
And Child Come In?
Where does the wife profit in either
case?
How are the children made happier if
the player wins than if he loses?
On the winning combinations are
written words that are supposed to tell
the. fortune of the player. The first of
these reads:
“Your desire will be realized.”
It’s not the desire of the waiting wife
to welcome a sober, saving husband. It's
not the desire of the children, perhaps
longing for warm clothes, or a new toy,
or a set of school books.
The only desire that can be realized
is a desire to return to a home where
the wife shudders as she hears the
lurching footstep, where no childish em
brace greets the home-coming father,
but where childish fear takes the place
of childish kisses.
“You will succeed where others fail,”
reads another combination.
No success can await this “piker”
gambler. A man with brain so small
as to play one of these devices with
any’ other intent than “to pass the time
away” can never know the flush of vic
tory in any walk of life. His very
playing dooms him to a life of strug
gling and drudgery to keep body and
soul together.
"Prosperity awaits you,” says a third.
“What prosperity? A prosperity that
can buy only beers. A prosperity that
can produce only a drunk. A pros
perity that means that wife and chil
dren must go hunry, while the father
swills and staggers.
"You will hear good news,” says a
fourth.
And the news will probably be infor
mation imparted by a judge in a dark,
dirty police court, where the player f
M I nlyj,
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The best gift
ill of all
H I There isn’t a woman
® anywhere who wouldn’t
” ke more than delighted
|| toreceivea Victor-
Victrola on Christmas.
Victor-victroia xiv, $l5O This wonderful musi-
Mahogany or oak , • , x • zl • i i
cal instrument is the ideal
Christmas gift and the wide range of prices
puts it within reach of all—sls, $25, S4O, SSO,
$75, SIOO, $l5O, S2OO.
Don’t longer deny your family the pleasure
derived from the Victor-Victrola. Stop in today
and get a line on this ideal Christmas gift.
Terms to suit your convenience can be
arranged if desired.
Phillips & Crew Co.
82-84-86 N, Pryor St.
Frame Ordinance
To Banish Machines
The first step toward sending the
nickel slot machines to the junk pile
will be taken at the meeting of the
council committee on legislation this
afternoon. ’lhe committee will recom
mend an ordinance to council barring
the machines from locker clubs and
near-beer saloons. The ordinance was |
introduced in council some time ago
by Councilman C. D. Knight. It has
been approved by the police commit
tee.
Carlos H. Mason, chairman of the
police commission, is known to be in
favor of the abolition of the machines.
On account of the legal technicalities
he believes the simplest way to do it
would be for council to pass the ordi
nance prohibiting them in saloons and
locker clubs. Chief Beavers and his
policemen would do the rest.
Saloon Men Have No Regrets.
Near-beer saloon men themselves de
clare that the machines should not be
permitted. While the large manufac
turing company that owns them gives
the saloon men 25 per cent of the prof
its, many of the saloon proprietors say
they have allowed them in their places
only in self-defense. Their competi
tors had them and they were losing
trade without them. •
It develops that after endeavoring to
comply with the law with all sorts of
technical mechanism, the promoters of
this gambling system have finally put
out machines that are as pure gam
bling devices as a roulette wheel.
There is not even any of the cheap
chewing gum in the late machines. In
stead of the indicator showing what
the result of the first play will be, every
play is a gamble.
Winnings For House Heavy.
It is said that the plan showing what
the winnings of the first nickel would
be hurt business.
One proprietor of a downtown saloon
said that the winnings of the machine
in his place averaged about $75 per
week. Another said the profits from
the machine in his place reached $125
a week.
If these figures are near the average
profits from the machine, the total an
nual income from these machines would
be nearer $500,000 than $200,000, the
figures originally given as the total
annual profits.
The men who pay this profit by play
ing the machines get nothing in return
but the excitement of gambling.
stands with the other “drunks.” "Ten
days” will be the news.
The last legend reads, “You were born
under a lucky star.” And there is
probably truth in the last. "Only fools
are lucky,” says the proverb and when
the player reads the letters of this com
bination lie can braiji himself as others
have already branded him—a fool of
fools.
But just as society protects its own
from the terrible bondage of poisonous
drugs, so it has striven to protect its
weak from the lure of gambling, and so
in Atlanta, it will wipe out this menace
—a menace that is not even a gamble,
for there is no chance. It is all cer
tainty—certainty of wretchedness on
one side and profits, h.uge and untold,
on the other.
That vision of the empty Christmas
stocking will dissolve in a thousand
homes when council does its duty and
abolishes this illegal and inexcusable
gambling trap. And council will.
PRISONERS IN TOWER
THANK JAILERS FOR
THANKSGIVING FEAST
William Young Howard, who was re
turned from Toronto - Canada, on
charges brought by the Buick Automo
bile Company, acting today for ii le
prisoners confined in the Tower, issued
a card of thanks for the splendid
Thanksgiving dinner furnished the pris
oners by Sheriff Mangum and for the
generous treatment by tile jailers.
lie made special mention of the sys
tematic manner in which the big din.
ner was handled by Inside Jailer Wilev
Roberts.
In his card, Howard makes a special
plea to the Men and Religion movement
loaders to visit the jail and talk with
the prisoners, saying this would carry
sunshine and cheer to many gloomy
hearts.
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|"One Minute from P«achtree"|
SILK
Neckwear
SALE
SATURDAY
37c
EACH
3 For SI.OO
One hundred dozen of
these beautiful Silk Tie«,
and not one in the lot
worth less than 50c. On
sale tomorrow (Saturday)
at 37c, or 3 for SI.OO.
Buy Your Xmas
Ties Now
ALLEN M?
PIERCE
“Men’s Dept. Store”
| 16 Marietta St.
ATLANTA THEATER
TONIGHT 8:15
LAST TIME
BEST COMED IN YEARS
Henry W. Savage Presents
EXCUSE ME
25c, 50c, 75c, SI.OO and $1.50.
nWSNh kdth Mat. rodarj.3o
VAUDEVILLE Tonight S:3O
A REAL SHOW next week
tom NAWN & COMPANY Mclntyre
Kate EHnore & Sam Williams &
JULIET? Heath
Lo Tosca Mullen (j Coogan an< j Bia
3 Escardos The Shillings bhow
I FORSYTH BUNTING
I This Week—Tues., Thura., Sat. Mat:.
LITTLE EMMA BUNTING
—Playing In —
MARY ANN”
Next Week—“LOVERS LANF” - _
LYRIC TH WEEK j
Matinees Tuesday, Thursday a ntl
I Saturday
“The Shepherd of the
Dramatized From Harold Be
Wright’s Novel.
Next Week “Happy Hoohgar-
NIGHTS «: 15 I VR IC M * TS
MVS - 2 30 X'ext Week I ”
HAPPY HOOLIGAN
ALL NEW
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