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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS I
ON GEORGIA POLITICS
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BY JAMES B. NEVIN.
- cretary of State Phil Cook leaves
arrow for Lake Charles, La., where
goes to testify as to the color of title
I jfe
v\-.' X'!
• o land claimed by
certain parties In .
Montgomery
.aunty, Georgia.
nn der an old so
; . .1 "head right”
by the state
court of land
track iti
1794
That land court
■cuit have been a
and rum I
old court, aU
right: '
If wasn’t
composed of a
lot of first-class
grafters and
crooks It went
through the mo-
•n, ufit;
-ions of the same in amazing good,
order!
The specific case in which' Secretary
Cook will testify is that of one James
Shorter—an enterprising person, who,
n 1794. undertook to annex an entire
Georgia county, in spite of a law which
limited his "head right" to 1,000 acres.
Brother Shorter had away of having
,■ -elf made out a grant for 1,000
cres. "bounded and abutted by the
, lands of the said Shorter,” and
■hat was all the description there was
to it.
VViiat sort of “Hike off" the honorable
ourt got for issuing these grants
a the basketful to Shorter nobody
nowadays knows, but it must have been
11 . lid dandy pickings, anyway!
After a while, Shorter accumulated
in Montgomery county grants to a pal
v 1,181,(100 acres of land—and that
w . going some, too, when one consid
tiiai thei, were only 1.400,000 acres
i t entire county.
lie. old Shorter managed to overlook
, r enaming little cotton patch fur
: -in - food for thought.
;a md by, the legislature of the state
. these old fake "head right"
... is. and few people in the last 50
.;. nave- undertaken to realize any
li.ing on them.
1 : ry little bit. however, some swin
dler gets hold of a "grant,” trades it
■ >. something or other—and then the
se retary of the state of Georgia has to
• i busy explaining how the “grant”
isn'i worth the paper it is written on.
executive Secretary Hardy Ulm has
digging around in old state papers
if one sort and another of late, and
soiiie of tlie things he has turned up
are more than ordinarily interesting.
Among other things he ran across
■ vently is an old agreement between
J Pierpont Morgan and Jeremiah Mill
bank, on the one hand, and the Macon
and Brunswick railroad on the other,
thereby Morgan and Millbank agree to
become trustees for the bonds of the
oad to the extent of $150,000. The in
trument is dated September 1, 1869.
J. Pierpont Morgan’s signature to the
agreement was the thing that particu
larly attracted Ulm’s eagle eye. He
got a blank bank cheek, filled It out for
million or so, and carefully attached
Morgan's signature to the bottom
thereof.
He said he had no idea of attempting
to cash the near-check, but he wanted
o see how one like that would look.
On the state pension lists there are
CONDEMNED ITALIAN
INFORMS ON SLAYERS
OF SLEUTH PETROSINO
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Dec. 13.
Carlo Baptista, an Italian who is to be
i.mged here on December 20 for mur
■■'■■■■. has confessed to the police that
was one of the gang that plotted the
issassinatlon of Joseph Petrosino, the
■ mous New York detective who was
t to death in Palermo, Sicily, on
March 12, 1909.
I ne prisoner revealed the names of
S'-veral other members of the Camorra
■ >xt ngineered the assassination. He
id they had deserted him and refused
to contribute for his defense and he
tinted them hunted down.
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J. L. DICKEY EXECUTORS
SELL TUXEDO PARK LOTS
Mr.'. Gertrude J. Dickey. E. J. Dickey,
; i- - L. Dickey, Jr„ and Eugene Dick-
■ -xeeutors of the estate of the late
L Dickey, have sold to Charles M
“sen the southeast corner of lot 9
in Tuxedo park subdivision. Paces
1 road, for $6,910. The lot is 256 x
” J --x220.5x600 feet. They received
"1.740 cash.
1 same executors sold to the same
for $2,000, a parcel on Tuxedo
' ■' ■ t*t the northwest corner of lot 6,
1 (slicing 200x356.5x220.5x360.3.
' tie T. Candler has given to John
'I illiSms et al. papers of transfer
die property on the south side of
■do wood avenue, land lot 19, Inman
’ "'I . 85x230, for SI,OOO,
NEGRO SAVES LIFE OF
YOUNG WHITE WOMAN
'WANNAH, GA.. Dec. 13.—Miss
~1!l "’annon attributes the fact that
is alive to the bravery of Sam Gar-
■ ti. a negro.
Miss Cannon was playing with the
"hild of her sister-in-law. Mrs. J.
Buckley, when her clothing caught
from an open grate. The girl ran
■ '' the hall, when she attempted io
'other the flames with a heavy por-
Falllng in tills, she ran screaming
’ the yard.
1 -v negro, who had .been attracted by
s. pulled the burning clothing
Miss Cannon's body. Both Miss
m.oii and the negro were badly
but both wil’ recover.
now 32 new names that everybody will
approve of heartily.
They are 32 blind Confederate sol
i diers who, under an act passed by the '
last legislature, have had their pen
sions increased from S6O per annum to '
SIOO.
About SOO new names were added to
the pension roil this year, by reason of
the new law and otherwise—but these
32, somehow, will seem a little more I
welcome to the state's pittance than I
any of them, us course.
Solicitor General Joseph E. Pottle’s
friends throughout Georgia will be
pleased to learn that he is rapidly con
valescing in a local sanitarium from an |
acute illness, necessitating a slight op- I
eration, tor which he has been under I
treatment for the past ten days.
i Solicitor Pottle is the brother of
Judge Robert N. Pottle, of the stats
court of appeals, and is personally one
of the most popular and widely known
men in Georgia.
Joseph R. Wilson, the "kid brother"
of President-elect Woodrow Wilson, Is
a newspaper man of Nashville, and has
numerous friends and acquaintances in i
Georgia.
He is a most likeable chap, and his I
friends in Nashville are giving him a I
"hoodoo dinner" in the Tennessee capi
tal tonight, byway of evidencing their I
friendship, and because—well, becaus
he is the next president’s brother, and
isn’t a bit “swell headed” about, even I
if he is immensely proud of it.
This “Friday, 13, hoodoo dinner” is
to be a "josh banquet"—whatever that
is, exactly—so the announcements say.
and it will be participated tn by about I
200 of young Wilson’s friends and ac
quaintances throughout the Volunteer
state.
All the ancient and honorable “Fri
day, 13," superstitions will be played
upon for “the kid brother's" benefit—-
and tlie president-elect himself Is to
come in for a lot of ’good-natured
banter.
1 iiat Floyd county is in dead earnest
about enforcing, the state prohibition
law is abundantly attested in the fact
that Judge Maddox has sent four well
known white men convicted of violating
the la\v to the county chaingang for
long terms this year, and that without
the alternative of a tine.
Two of these men—one of them at
one time quite a prominent political in
fluence in Floyd—went to the "gang”
without protest, but the other two car
ried their cases to the court of appeals.
In a. batch of decisions handed down
recently, however, the appeals court af
firmed the lower court’s findings and
sentences, and now these defendants
must Join the other two n tlie Floyd |
county convict road camp.
Judge Maddox announced that he
would impose chaingang sentences in
the future, in the event defendants were
convicted by juries of violations of the
prohibition law, and he lias more,than
kept his word thus far.
Captain Harry P. Meikleham, the
mayor-town council-police-force-su
preme court-justice of the peace-and
lord-high-everything-else of Lindale,
came to Atlanta last night to attend
a banquet to General Clifford Ander
son at the Capital City club.
Captain Meikleham is one of the
most enthusiastic officers of the Geor
gia National Guard and is particularly
fond of General Anderson, under whom
he served for several years.
ROOSEVELT, BACK IN
NEW YORK, WILL GET
DOWN TO REAL WORK
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Unrecognized
by a large crowd in the Grand Central
depot and greeted only by a few- news
paper men and two relatives, Theodore
Douglas Robinson, his son, Douglas Rob
inson, and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
arrived ai 9:21 a. m., from Chicago, where
the colonel was th,, dominating figure at
the two-day organization convention of
the Progressive party.
The colonel, smiling and looking in the
best of health, waved Ids hand at the
newspaper men and shouted that he felt
“bully," but refused to comment on the
Bull Moose convention.
"Nothing to say. Nothing to say at
all,” he said, “except that I'm going right
I up to The Outlook office and get down
to work.’’
STRIKERS CAUGHT TRYING
TO DYNAMITE RY. TUNNEL
HACKENSACK, N. .’ . Dec. 13.
Strikers were discovered tempting to
dynamite a shaft leading • the Erie
tunnel, near Edgewater, N. •!., today,
and were tired upon by deputy sheriffs
and railroad detectives guarding tlie
coal pockets and yards of the Erie and
the New York and Susquehanna rail
roads. The strikers returned tlie fire,
but no one was injured.
GRAND JURY WILL HEAR
NEW DARROW EVIDENCE
LOS ANGELES. Dec, 13. —A special I
grand jury to hoar new evidence against
Clarence S. Darrow, attorney alleged to I
have bribed jurors in the McNamara
trial, will be empaneled soon at tlie |
request of District Attorney John D I
Fredericks. Cleveland Dam, a San
Francisco attorney, will be one of the i
witnesses. It is expected lie will be
questioned about a SIO,OOO check given
Olaf Tveitmoe by Darrow.
ADELAIDE THURSTON TO
AID SANTA CLAUS FUND
SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 13.—50 eage i
is she to maki her two Santa Claus
benefit fund performances in this city
next Tuesday a big Success that Miss
Adelaide Thurston l.a telegraphed her
willingnes- to sell .-ouwni" programs
in tie- lobby of the theater before each
performance. I
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS .TODAY. DECEMBER 13, 1912.
STATIONERY |BB]K]ljl V DRUG CO. I THREE "STAR” SPECiALS I I
While planning to get your i ;pw f i /nw / non - FREE to every lady who makes
Christmas present, don’t forget • BJK ; gWtftWHjR 1— . = a pur. lias, in ir i'ertunie Depnrt-
STATIONERY. Our stock is | ; IHpU I M - went (Saturday onlv) of $1 or B
wonderfully complete. Nothing Ksßf ■ more, a beautiful box of Face
makes a more appropriate gift than KEeX-I I VV, i 40A Powder.
*per‘"a*n<l’°erivelopes re ' S We’’hTve'all aa of''"''!"' Rogers’'''' Tension
Ae MMlKil !M H IM MI ■ mb • ■ ■
are of red satin; others are made HMS H HMI H |M fInAH All NlOrltT i.w u e.
of wood an<l have locks. In every 1 111 ■■■ ILa J LwJ Bwa B I I ■ ixß B 11 ■ ‘ Hl.I-., a fine Wash Cloth to
Instance the paper could not be s ® " ■ * eyerj- lady who on Saturday pur
improved upon. chases a cake, of Harmony Glycer- gg|
Branch store . GRANO PHARMACY, Grand Theater Bldg. S " BJJ " ~ I
A Dollar Spent at Elkin’s Gets As Much As Two Dollars Elsewhere I
We have the goods. Our prices are right. We make a fair profit. That’s all we ask. That’s all anybody should ask. Our line of Holiday Goods
is complete in every respect. It is varied to suit every taste and every pocketbook. We have toys, perfumes, candies, toilet articles, stationery, fountain
pens, kodaks, razors, scissors, manicure sets, toilet sets, rubber goods—in fact, any and everything that heart could wish.
PF These Prices Are Also Good at Our Branch Store, the GRAND PHARMACY, and Are for Saturday Through Monday I
THERE'S NO GIFT NICER
THAN A FOUNTAIN PEN
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Ml We are agents for the rt?*
; celebrated Water ma n LI
Fountain Pen, which is
known the world over. We have this pen in
all styles and sizes. Come in and make a se
lection. We have pens for Christmas gifts for
men and women. A Fountain Pen Is just the
thing to give as a holiday gift. We have tlie
Waterman at $2.50 and up.
We also sell the Rexall $1 Pen. It is handy
and gives splendid satisfaction to those who
do not care to spend more than a dollar for
a pen. It writes smoothly, never elogs, and
is guaranteed for a year. With careful han
dling, it should last a longtime. We also have
Rexall Pens up to $5 in price. They are self
fillers.
Holiday Towels
Right now we are closing out our large
stock of Turkish and Irish Linen Towels. You
can get genuine bargains in our TOWEL DE
PARTMENT. These towels are extra large
and guaranteed to give satisfaction.
50c value ....35c each | $1.25 value ...98c each
$1 value ... 76c each I $1.50 value $1.15 each
Scissors Sets
f Nothing pleases a
woman more than tlie
possession of a good
pair of scissors. A
pair of scissors, or a
set, such as we carry
in stock, make a most
appropriate gift for
the holidays.
We have a set for
use in the Library. It
consists of a large
pair of scissors and a
paper knife. Each is
made from the best
imported steel. The
handles are hand
somely engraved. The
make is the famous
Henckel’s, than which there is none better.
Once you possess the set you'll wonder how
you were able to get along without it.
We have other eases containing two, three,
four and even five of scissors of differ
ent sizes. These are put up in beautiful
leather cases, plush lined. Some of the scis
sors have handles silver and gold enameled.
They make splendid presents.
Sets from $1.25 to SIO.OO
SPECIALS ToFsATURDaF -
Through Monday
$1 Listerine 59c
50c Bromo Seltzer 34c
50c Hinds’ Honey and Almond Cream .. ,33c
25c Lyon’s Tooth Powder 14c
50c Pebeco Tooth Paste 29c
25c Kolynos Tooth Paste 17c
25c Daggett & Ramsdell’s Cold Cream... 17c
35c Java Rice Powder 29c
10c Palm Olive Soap 8c
25c Packer’s Tar Soap 15c
25c Frostilla 17c
25c Dioxogen 17c
50c Dodson’s Id ver Tore 34c
50c California Syrup of Figs 34c
$1 Pinkham's Compound 69c
$1 Wine of Cardui 59c
35c Castoria 23c
25c Eagle Brtftid Milk 15c
$1 Horllck’s Malted Milk 75c; 50c size. 37c
50c Swamp-Root, 36c; $1 size 72c
50c Pape’s Diapepsln 36c
25c Laxative Bromo Quinine 14c
25c Carter’s Pills 13c
$1 B. B. B 59c
$1 Quaker Herb Extract 67c
25c Simmons’ Liver Regulator (powder
formi 17c
25c Sloan's Liniment 17c
Cascarets . 9c, 21c and 42c
$1 Scott’s Emulsion, 69c; 50c size 34c
50c Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair
Tonic 36c
50c Parisian Hair Tonic 38c
25c Danderine, 17c; 50c size 37c
$1 Herpicide Hair Tonic, 75c; 50c size. . . ,37c
25c Sal Hepatiea, 19c; 50e size 39c; and
$1.25 size 99 C
TOYS
Novelties TOYS I
Here s something new and
wor th while. We have a big stock
Y amous Steiff toys and nov
MaHA elties. We have dogs cats, ducks, # ABIA
Dutch girls, dolls, sheep, monkeys
and various other animals made
up in a new material. They are v
wonderfully life-like and are certain to be more than satis!’actor,t.
I'he children will be pleased beyond measure with these novelties.
They are light, easily handled and last well. They are difficult
to tear up. Some of them tire jointed and can be made to assume
all mariner of amusing positions. If you are looking for some
thing out of the ordinary to give your little boy or girl, come to
ELKIN’S and take a look at our stock of these Steiff novelties.
They are made in Germany. The prices are mighty reasonable,
too. Most anybody’s pocketbook can reach them.
They range from 25c to $5.00.
Ivory and Ivoryoid Goods
Our line of these beautiful goods is the most elaborate in the
city. All the sets are attractive and well worth having. They
consist of nail brush, tooth brush, nail file, nail scissors, buffers,
etc., put up in a nice box of Ivory or Ivoryoid. Prices:
$3.50, $4.50 and $5.00 per set.
Also have traveling cases for gentlemen with the shaving
brush, tooth brush, etc..put up in a leather ease, silk lined. Prices:
$2.75, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00.
Manicure sets put up especially for the pocket , coinpleti.
SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00 and $3.00.
Christmas Candy
We have just bought a full TON of the
finest candies in the world for our Holiday
trade. We do not handle any candies that
are not of known quality.
80 Cents a Pound
Is the price of Park & Til-
ford’ s and Liggett’s Chocolates.
You may search the whole world over
and you’ll never find candies with a better
reputation. These makes are known every
where. And they sell for 80 cents a pound.
Why pay 80 cents a pound for candies
of unknown quality when for the same
price you can get »
Bonbons Cr Chocolates
Park & Tilford’s
Liggett’s Chocolates
These are the candies you know are good.
When yQU make a present of a box of
Park & Tilford’s or Liggett’s, the person to
whom you semi the gift ’knows there’s none
better--that you have bought the best that
could be had anywhere. You can’t afford to
give your sweetheart, your wife, your mother
or your sister any.candy but the best. They
know the difference. We have these candies
put up in beautiful Holiday boxes and
baskets.
Conic to Elkin’s for your Christmas Candies.
Barr’s Saturday Candy
in equal to any of the candies which sell for 4ft cents a pound We
sell quantities of it every week. It’s fresli as the moment ft came
from tile manufacturer. Put up in pretty boxes and on
tied witli dainty ribbon. One pound to the box ZUC
Free Gifts for Elkin’s Customers
Be sure to read our ad. in Sunday’s papers. It will tell you all about
gift-giving day at our branch store, THE GRAND PHARMACY, on Mon
day. On that day every purchaser of goods at the branch store will be
presented with a bag containing a number of very useful articles. This
will be the greatest gift-giving event in the history of the Elkin stores.
Manicure Sets
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We also have fine Sets, the sort. O
that appeal to every woman of refinement. ke|
Some of these sets are made to fit In the M
pocket. They are put up In small cases. SS
They are compact and contain all the nec.es- SH
sary articles. Larger sets contain from three
to ten different articles. We have these Man
icure Sets marked lower than at any pre- KJ
vlous Christmas. la
Prices from SI.OO to $20.00
Useful Gifts at Small Prices I
Solid steel embroidery scissors ...50c f
Manicure scissors 50c
Nail files 25 c M
Household scissors ....' 75c * A
Nall buffers 25c yi
Thermos Bottles SI.OO to $3.75 i
Thermos lunch sets $2.50 to $3.75
Gillette safety razor, complete $5.00
Auto safety razor, complete with strop. $5.00 M
Evet-Ready safety razor SI.OO IO
Gem. Jr., safety razor SI.OO B
Ender’s safety razor SI.OO Ki
Durham Duplex safety razor, 35c, $2.50, $5.00
’and $7.50
Shtiving mirror SI.OO
Good razor strop, $2.00 value 97c
Shaving mug 25c B
Pocketknife, pearl handle, Henckel’s steel,
75c to $5.00 Li
Cigar ash tray, hammered copper, $1.50
to $3.25 I, ’
Flasks 500 to $2.50 L :
Ideal brushes, $1 value 59c
We have a complete line of these brushes up pc
to $3.50 ■
Military brushes, pair SI.OO to $7.00 1 '
Leather cases for military hair brushes, 50c
Shaving brushes . ..25c to $3.50 I?' ,
Ever-Ready electric flashlight (pocket size) B
Other electric flashlights. .75c, $1.90 and $2.10 B
German nickel clock, with month and dav ifcj
Metal frames for photographs 50c if J
Face chamois skin 5c to $2.50 g 4
SAVE HALF YOUR MONEY |
We are making a 50 per cent reduction in
all our Leather Goods. We have hand satch- B
eis, pocketbooks, money folders, coin purses, gl
etf., all of which are going at half the orlg- B
Inal price. Come in and gel some of these
great bargains. It will pay you to do so. J
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Tourists’ Cases I
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F’or a serviceable gift there's nothing bet- Y; f
ter than a Tourist Case. Wei fin< line
of them. They are rubber lined and have
compartments for each individual article. fc •’
• They are covered prettily with material hilv-
ing a flower design and tied v. ith ribbon. fgj
Tourist Case 63 c
Same, larger, regular $ 1,5a value 89c m 3
Same, silk cover, extra compartments; eg!
$2.50 value $1.97 M|
We also have Wash Cloth Cases
to match for 25c BH
A Fine Watch |
For A 97c I
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Here is an excellent timepiece, one which '
will prove of real value and give perfect sat- tea
Isfactlon to the owner it is the Rexall B
Watch and comes In three styles—gun met -
al, nickel and imitation gold. It keeps excel
lent time and can he depended upon. Tills is M
a first-class bargain.
Remember, this wu: h sells
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