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SEARCHING SIDELIGHTS
ON GEORGIA POLITICS |
BY JAMES B. NEVIN.
: ,ry of State Phil Cook leaves
• rrow for Lake Charles, La., where
/ .- to testify as to the color of title
F- •
'.j : J claimed, by
ertain parties in /
M ,. t. tgom ery I
count' Georgia. t
undu an old so- >
ad right 1
.. by tlie state 1
court of land J
grant back in ■
1794
Tita land court j
must have been a
famous ano ruin I
old coiirt, ail
right!
jf it wasn’t
compotsedofa
lot of first-class
ers and ||
crook:, it went
through the mo-
.. .
o: the same in amazing good.
(■rder'
•• specific case in which Secretary
t ,, p will testify is that of one James
s , _an enterprising person, who,
■p 1794. undertook to annex an entire
f.. ~rg.. county, in -spite of a law which
"head right'’ to 1,000 acres,
shorter had away of having
pt n wjf made out a grant for 1,000
,•. “hounded and abutted by the
..-.is of tlie said Shorter,” and
. i; . .is all the description there was
to it.
Win.- sort of ‘‘rake off” the honorable
• i; ;d court got for issuing these grants
by th.: basketful to Shorter nobody
n 0;.... . y.-> knows, but it must have been
andy pickings, anyway!
a while. Shorter accumulated
ji, Montgomery county grants to a pal
■■■'. 1. si.onO acres of land —and that
..... going some, too, when one consid
, tint there were only 1,400,000 acres
li. t lie entire county.
11,. old Shorter managed to overlook
...i..lining little cotton patch fur
i.bhes food for thought.
IP cud by. the legislature of the state
■d these old fake "l»ead right”
..r. .... and few people in the last 50
have undertaken to realize any
thing on them.
. . . .y little bit. however, some swin
<: r gets hold of a "grant,” trades It
<.■ •omiethlng or other—and then the
r. tary of the state of Georgia has to
explaining how the "grant”
worth the paper it is written on.
. alive Secretary Hardy Ulm has
.'ii digging around in old state papers
on,- sort and another of late, and
of tiie things he has turned up
more than ordinarily Interesting.
\mong other things he ran across
■ ently is an old agreement between
I. Pierpont Morgan and Jeremiah Mili
nk. on the one hand, and the Macon
Brunswick railroad on the other,
thereby Morgan and Millbank agree to
become trustees for the bonds of the
oad to tlie extent of $150,000. The in
•tr unent is dated September 1, 1869.
J. Pierpont Morgan’s signature to the
agreement was the thing that particu
larly attracted Ulrn's eagle eye. He
got blank bank chepk, filled it out for
nillion or so, and carefully attached
Horgan’s signature to the bottom
Hereof.
IL said lie had no idea of attempting
w sh the near-check, but he wanted
how one like that would look.
tiie state pension lists there are
CONDEMNED ITALIAN
INFORMS ON SLAYERS
OF SLEUTH PETROSINO
'I"VI'REAL. QUEBEC, Dec. 13.
' Baptista, an Italian who is to be
i hwe on December 20 for mur
i confessed to the police that
- one of the gang that plotted tht
- ■niution of Joseph Petrosino, the
"us New York detective who was
to death in Palermo, Sicily, on
.''lurch 12, 19U9.
1 prisoner revealed the names of
o other members of the Camorra
engineered the assassination. He
they had deserted him and refused,
■•ntribute for his defense and he
t* 1 them hunted down.
J- L. DICKEY EXECUTORS
SELL TUXEDO PARK LOTS
'lr-. Gertrude J. Dickey. E. J. Dickey,
L. Dickey, Jr., and Eugene Dick
' ■ executors of the estate of the late
w Dickey, have sold to Charles M.
■ten the southeast corner of lot 9
Tuxedo park subdivision. Paces
’"ad, for $6,910. The lot is 256 x
"w-x220.5x600 feet. They received
5 1 ‘4O cash.
same executors sold to the same
. for $2,000. a parcel on Tuxedo
at the northwest corner of lot 6,
11 *ȣ 200x356.5x220.5x360.3.
- - ne T. Candler has given to John
vV illiams et al. papers of transfer
property on the south side of
•■ •end avenue, land lot 19, Inman
! '5x230, for SI,OOO.
NEGRO SAVES LIFE OF
YOUNG WHITE WOMAN
;J '■'i'ANNAH, GA., Dec. 13.---Miss
Cannon attributes the fact that
alive to the bravery of Sam Gar
i negro.
■ | ' s ' I 'annon was playing with the
hild of her sister-in-law, Mrs. J.
•tley. when her clothing caught
om an open grate. The girl ran
th' hall, when she attempted to
uer the flames with a heavy por
f‘ailing in this, she ran screaming
' the yard.
negro, who had been attracted by
pulled the burning clothing
Mi“.-- Gannon's body. Both Miss
'Hou and the negro were badly
ned, but both will recover.
now 32 new names that everybody will
approve of heartily. !
They are 32 blind Confederate sol
diers who, under an act passed by the
last legislature, have had their pen
sions increased from S6O per annum to
SIOO. |
About 800 new names were added to
the pension roll this year, by reason of
the new law and otherwise—but these
32, somehow, will seem a little more
welcome to the state’s pittance than
any of them, of course. i
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
eration, for which he has been under
treatment for the past ten days.
Solicitor Pottle is the brother of
Judge Robert N. Pottle, of the state
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
Georgia.
He is a most likeable chap, and his
friends in Nashville are giving him a
"hoodoo dinner” in the Tennessee capi
tal tonight, byway of evidencing their
friendship, and because—well, because
he is the next president’s brother, and
isn t a bit “swell headed” about, even
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 in by about
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 the president-elect himself is to
come in for a lot of good-natured
banter.
That Fioyd 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 law to the county chaingang for
long terms this year, and that without
the alternative of a fine.
Two of these mbn—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 eases to tlie 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 in the 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 ths
prohibition law, and he has 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 dub
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 at 9:21 a. m„ from Chicago, where
the colonel was the dominating figure at
the two-day organization convention of
the Progressive party.
The colonel, smiling and looking in the
best of health, waved his 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
up to Tlie Outlook office and get down
to work.”
i STRIKERS CAUGHT TRYING
TO DYNAMITE RY. TUNNEL
HACKENSACK. N. J., Dee. 13.
Strikers were discovered attempting to
dynamite a shaft leading to the Erie
tunnel, near Edgewater, N. J., today,
and were fired upon by deputy sheriffs
and railroad detectives guarding the
coal pockets and yards of the Erie and
the New York and Susquehanna rail
roads. The strikers returned the fire,
but no one was Injured.
■ GRAND JURY WILL HEAR
NEW DARROW EVIDENCE
LUS ANGELES. Dec. 13. —A special
grand jury to hear new evidence against
Clarence S. Darrow, attorney alleged to
have bribed jurors in the McNamara
trial, will be empaneled soon at the
request of District Attorney John D.
Fredericks. Cleveland Dam, a San
Francisco attorney, will be one of the
witnesses. It is expected he 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 eager I
is she to make her two Santa Claus
benefit fund performances in this city
next Tuesday a big success that Miss
Adelaide Thurston has telegraphed her
willingness to sell souvenir programs
in the lobby of th" theater before eacn
performance.
itiK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1912.
STATIONERY DRUG CO. I THREE "STAR” SPECIALS
While planning to get your eshS i 1181 IBbI/abT laSll FREE to every lady who makes
■ hrlstmas present, don t forge' r IH jflßf/ BHI ■ « piir, 'mm- i. ■■or !■■ rom. F'eiart-
STATIONERY. Our stock is J SWI iWW 1 MM! 8 I _ ment <Saturday only) of 31 or
wonderfully complete. Nothing ! 1 8/gaßSf mHi ISHF 1 fin !• *• more, a beautiful box of Face
makes a more appropriate gift than 1 W| M IBS 3fia j VV. KCMMOzHIOA Powder.
Raw t Iw II l I :===_
ar:S nu IIIIHHIWn " ■ ftnen All Niffht Hll e ,
iLiUnet a th d e ’^r° C c k <>u!d In not Ve be * VpCll Mil IX I§i| T every lady who on Saturday pur°
Improved upon -
Branch Store: GRAND PHARMACY, Grand Theater Bldg. " ” c
A Dollar Spent at Elkin’s Gets As Much As Two Dollars Elsewhere
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.
W These Prices Are Also Good at Our Branch Store, the GRAND PHARMACY, and Are tor Saturday Through Monday
THERE’S NO GIFT NICER
THAN A FOONTAIN PEN
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“The Present
With a Future”
I Wj»Jeman!s k
Ideal ] g
I FbunU&jPen
■ We are agents for the
■ t celebrated Wator ma n Mbs
’NBA 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 the
Waterman at $2.50 and up.
We also sell the Rexa.ll $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 clogs, 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
P-ight 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 $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 the
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 tb get along without it.
We have other cases containing two, three,
four and even five pairs 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 FOR SATURDAY
Through Monday
$1 Listerine 59c
50c Bromo Seltzer 34c
50e Hinds’ Honey and Almond Cream . . 33c
25c Lyon's Tooth Powder 14c
50c Pebeco Tooth Paste ... . 29c
25c Kolynos Tooth Paste 17c
25e 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 Liver Tore 34c
50c California Syrup of Figs 340
$1 Pinkham’s Compound 69c
$1 Wine of Cardui 59c
35c Castoria 23c
25c Eagle Brand Milk 15c
$1 Horlick’s Malted Milk.7sc; 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
J18.R.8 59c
$1 Quaker Herb Extract 67c
25c Simmons’ Liver Regulator (powder
form) 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 Danderlne, 17c; 50c size 37c
$1 Herplcide Hair Tonic. 75c; 50c size 37c
25c Sal Hepatlca, 19c; 50c size 39c; and
$1.25 size 99c
TOYS
Novelties TOYS I !
Here's something new and
worthwhile. We have a big stock
’5K* of the famous Steiff toys ami nov
elties. We have dogs eats, ducks.
JyllH Dutch girls, dolls, sheep, monkeys
WHMM and various other animals made WHM
up in a new material. They are
wonderfully life-like and are certain to be more than .satisfactory .
The children will be pleased beyend measure with those novelties.
They are light, easily handled and last well. They are difficult
to tear up. Some of them are jointed and can he made to assume
all manner 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 Ivoryold 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 seissoils. buffers,
etc., put up in a nice box of Ivory or Ivoryoid. Price's:
$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 case, silk lined. Prices:
$2.75, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00.
Manicure sets put up especially for the pocket, complete.
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
fl
Bonbons Cf Chocolates
Park & Tilford's
Liggett's Chocolates
These are the candies you know are good.
When you make a present of a box of
Park & Tilford’s or Liggett’s, the person to
whom you send 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.
Come to Elkin's for .your Christmas Candies.
Barr’s Saturday Candy
is equal to any of the candies which sell for 40 cents a pound. We
sell quantities of it every week. It’s fresh as the moment it came
from the manufacturer. Put up in pretty boxes and OQ
tied with dainty ribbon. One pound to the box e&JJC
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.
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Manicure Sets
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. We also have fine Manicure Sets, the sort
that appeal to every woman of refinement.
Some of these sets are made to fit In the
pocket. They are put up In small cases.
They are compact and contain all the neces
sary anl' les. Larger sets contain from three
to ten different articles. We have these Man
icure Sets marked lower than at any pre
vious Christmas.
Prices from SI.OO to $20.00
Usefol Gifts at Small Prices
Solid steel embroidery scissors. ... ~soc
Manicure scissors 50c
Nail files ... ...25c
Household scissors ■ ..75c
Nall buffers 25c
Thermos Bottles SI.OO to $3.75
Thermos lunch sets ...$2.60 to $3.75
Gillette safety razor, complete 55.00
Auto safety razor, complete with strop..ss.oo
Ever-ReadJ- safety razor SI.OO
Gem. Jr., safety razor SI.OO
Ender’s safety razor SI.OO
Durham Duplex safety razor, 35c. $2.50, $5.00
and $7.50
Shaving- mirror SI.OO
Good razor strop, $2.00 value .. 97c
Shaving mug 25c
Pocketknife, pearl handle. Henckel’s steel.
75c to -.55.00
Cigar ash tray, hammered copper, $1.50
to $3.25
Flasks ... ...50c to $2.50
Ideal brushes, $1 value 59c
We have a complete fine of these brushes up
to $350
Military brushes, pair SI.OO to $7.00
Leather cases for military hair brushes, 50c
and 750
Shaving brushes 25c to $3.50
Ever-Ready electric flashlight (pocket size)
Other electric flashlights. .750, $1.90 and $2.10
German nickel clock, with month and day
Metal frames for photographs . 500
Face chamois skin ,5o to $2.50
SAVE HALF YOUR MONEY
We are making a 50 per cent reduction in
all our Leather Goods. We have hand satch
els, pocketbooks, money folders, coin purses,
etc., all of which are going at half the orig
inal price. Come in and get some of these
great bargains. It will pay you to do so.
Tourists’ Cases
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For a serviceable gift there’s nothing bet
ter than a Tourist Case. We have a fine line
of them. They are rubber lined and have
compartments for each individual article.
They are covered prettily with material hav
ing a flower design and tied with ribbon.
Tourist Case 63c
Same, larger, regular $1.50 value 89c
Same, silk cover, extra compartments;
$2.50 value $1.97
We also have Wash Cloth Cases
to match for 230
A Fine Watch
For A 97c
W- SPtkiAi U
5 B))i
Here is an excellent timepiece, one which
will prove of real value and give perfect sat
isfaction to the owner. It Is the Rexall
Watch and comes in three styles—gun met
al, nickel and Imitation gold. It keeps excel
lent time and can be depended upon. This is
a first-elass bargain. aw
Remember, this watch sells wB #
for ** • **
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