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ODD FELLOWS IT|l BEGOHD BANOUET ’nitiation of 103 New Members i Celebrated by Big Feast and Speeches. The members of Fulton lodge No. 190, Odd Fellows, are shaking hands with themselves today on the most success- 1 ful banquet the lodge ever has given. < The feast took place last night at the 1 Case Durand, and the speakers declared 1 that the order had just entered on a 1 period of unparalleled progress. The ! occasion was In celebration of the re cent initiation of 103 new members, ' said to have been the largest “swing” in ’ rhe history of such organizations in the 1 state. on November 29 the lodge had its big function. On October 1 two teams were Picked—the Reds, captained by W. Tom ■ Tomlinson, noble grand, and the Blues, ' captained by J. C. Williams, vice grand —and they went out after novitiates. The team that landed the most mem bers was to get a turkey dinner, while the losers were doomed to bread and water. Toastmaster Marcus C. Strickland declared that he thought it best for both teams to eat dinner before the umpire had announced the winner. This was done, and Recording Secretary W. Martin then declared that the Red* '1 defeated their rivals by a score of 1,4 l ’ 60. Whereupon the captains of the two teams were called on to cite how the winners wen and the losers lost. Among others who spoke were Judgi T. Daniel, deputy grand sire, of littin; T. H. Robertson, of Gainesville, '’and secretary; W. D. Sloan. of '•-dnesville, grand warden, and W. H. Abbott, of Atlanta, grand scribe, W ' oleman, grand master; T. M. Hoynes, deputy grand master; A, "nderlelth, grand treasurer, and G. O Hooks, grand patriarch, were absent. 1 he committee on arrangements was "’’’Posed of A. G. Sanders, P. G.; R. .1 -• I'. G.. and M. C. Strick rhe lodge has 3'37 members. Its ' is locat'd at 430 1-2 Mark tta street 1 “ its officers are W. Tom Tomlinson " ,|p grand: ,T. <Williams, Cice grand, N. Martin, recording secretary 550.000.000 ADDED TO PENSION ROLL BY BILL 'WASHINGTON. Dee. 14. - The ornnl- 13 piivate pension bill, providing pen tor 22S pensioners, has passed house, it adds about 350,000,00 bie v pension roll. LOBOS DIDN'T dimmd Convicted Gem Thief Expected to Return for Hearing of New Trial Plea. Superior Judge Price Edwards, of the Tallapoosa circuit, who presided in Fulton criminal court during the trial of George Wren, convicted of complici ty in .he Piedmont hotel diamond rob bery, has declared that he did not au thorize a bond for the prisoner pending a motion for a new trial. Judge Edwards said that he opposed the law that permits the release of i c-nvit."' -1 criminals pending a motion for a new- trial. In making this assertion, Judge Ed- . wards sustained Solicitor Dorsey in the latter’s position that bond was never authorized for Wren and that the clerk’s office had one slipped over it. < Deputy Frank Meyers approved the i ’•bond" upon which Wren was freed. Solicitor Dorsey has ordered Sheriff Mangum to rearrest Wren, who is said to be in Birmingham attending a med- ■ ical college. Requisition papers will be ■ forwarded to Alabama shortly, Gober and Jackson and J. H. Dodgen, ■ attorneys for the convicted man. said today that Wren would fight an attempt to bring (him back to Georgia. Judge Gober said that he hail talked • with Wren over long-distance telephone and tile latter declared that be expect- . ■cd to be in Atlanta on December 2X. the date set for hearing his motion for a , new trial. He said he thought ills pres ent bond was ample for bis appearance here and he would consider any effort to bring him back to Atlanta before , that date “persecution." RAILROAD Y. M. C. A. TO HEAR DR. B. F. FRASER Tile meeting at the Railroad Young Men’s Christian association rooms, 31 1-2 West Alabama street, will be addressed tomorrow at 3:39 o’clock by Rev. B. F. Fraser, pastor of St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church. South. Dr. Fraset is known as one of the stro.ng revival preachers of Atlanta and a spirited meeting Is expected. The sing ing will he led by a fine orchestra. All are invited. EJECTED PASSENGER SUES. SAVANNAH, GA.. Dee. 14—Claim ing that he was ejected In the woods near Hut rough station last March, whit tle was critically ill, Charles Bather has tiled suit in the city court against the Atlantic Uoas-i Line ruijwaj for S2,S<JO. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1912. 'rios- iitlle misses surely h.tve caught the yuletide spirit. They arc, left to right, Dorothy Rodgers. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julien Rodgers. liß6 Piedmont avenue; Erskine .Jarnagin, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. U. -larntigin. 157 Juniper street, and Frances Higgs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Higgs. 24 East Eighth street. u r uni i iiicnnr u.jJILLMnt PARCELS MAILED But a Fee of 10 Cents Will Be Charged—Rules for Sending Packages Issued. WASHINGTON. Dec. 14.—Packages sent by parcels post will be insured by the government against loss to the value of ssii so: a fee of ten cents, ac cording to regulations issued today by the postoffice department. The new parcels post system will be effective throughout the entire postal service on January 1 and will affect •■very postoftiee, city, rural and railway transportation route in the country. The regulations provide that parcels of merchandise, including farm and fac tory ptoduets (but not books and print ed matter! of almost every descrip tion up to eleven pounds In weight anil measuring as much as six feet In length and girth combined, except those < al.'u! ited to do injury to the mails in transit, may lie mailed at any postoffice f<;r delivery to any office. Delivery will be made to the homes of people living on'rural and star routes, as well a= those living in cities and towns where there Is delivery by <-arri<:. Where there Is not delivery by carrier tin- par cels will go to tin- postoffiee as is the custom with ordinary mail. The posted rate for the first zone that 1.-, within distances not exceeding 50 miles —will be live cents for the first pound and three cents for each addi tional pound.. The rates increase for each successive on- of the eight zones into which the country is divided, the maximum rate being twelve cents a pound, which will carry a parcel across the continent, or even to Alaska or the Philippines The law providts so the use of dis tinctive postage stamps and there is now being distributed to postmasters for use In the parcel’system a set of stamps of twelve denominations. Parcels post maps with accompany ing guides arc to be sold to the public at their cost. A I Up and Down Peachtree Who’ll Help the Doctor Translate Confederacy? Dr. P. W. Douglas, the lecturer at the cyclorama at Grant park, is per plexed. even discouraged, at his work.- The thou amis who have heard him tell the wonderful story of tin battle of Atlanta as they looked at the pic ture in the cyclorama have been im pressed with his eloquence. Dr. Doug las himself was satisfied and enthused with his effort for a long time. But ’ now he feels dejected, for, to his own sensibilities, that speech lacks a classic peroration, and lie has as yet been un able to master the words of charm. When he has completed the story o£ the heroic fight of the Confederates, 1 the retreats of the Yankees and then the final ignominious defeat of Hood’s men. he always ends his talk with the phrase: , “Thus passes Hie glory of the Con federacy." Dr. Douglas lias decided that tilis phrase lacks “punch,” and that It should • be quoted in Latin, and there’s the rub. He knows the first part- "Sic i transit gloria" but he can't adapt the ■ word Confederacy to the Latin. i His artistic sense is sorely wounded ■ and he has been compelled to make bis I appeal general for the magic word to ; complete tlm bewitching phrase. H' includes the school teachers in his : plea for the word. Six CLERGYMEN ARE TO ACT AS POLICEMEN t LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14. —Six clergy - t men are on the rolls of the police de- ■ partinent today as special officers. They ' are to wear stars and are empowered to • make arrests. Their special duties are ‘ the enforcement of the juvimile laws i and the regulation of dance halls. <. - MAN DEAD 100 YEARS IS SUGGESTED FOR OFFICE ■> WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. —In declln ' irrtf to allow a new organization to use his name. Governor-elect Sulzer said no - man's reputation was safe while he .- lived. He advised tlte use of the name 'of a man dead 100 years. CHAUFFEUR, IIELD FOR DEATH, GOKE Negro Driver Believed to Have “Escaped” on a Small Su persedeas Bond. Court officials ar- searching today for Ed Hayes, a negro chauffeur who ran down and killed a young woman in Gordon street a year ago, and who has disappeared after making SI,OOO bond. They have followed several false trails and now believe Hayes will be added to the list of “escapes.” The disappearance of the negro is another case where the granting of a small “supersedeas” bond pending a ! second trial has resulted in the escape of a defendant. Attaches of the sher iff’s force are preparing to declare the SI,OOO bond forfeited. It was put up ' for the negro by J. M. Noil and Lucius ' Hayes. Haye- was convict, d of Involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. His layyyers asm- l a I. -w trial . ltd pending the hearing on this point the m gi’o was permitted ’o go free on bond. When Judge Price ’ Edwards, acting for Judge Roan,, de clined to g'ant a new trial and ordered the negro brought before him to be re sentenced, the defendant had disap peared. He has not been seen since. The case follows on the heels of that ■ f George W/ren, accused diamond rob s her, yvho has obtained his freedom on a similar bond whloh never had been au thorized by the court. Wren is In a medical school at Birmingham and says ' he will not submit to rearrest without ' requisition papers. WAYCROSS COUNCILMEN TO DISTRIBUTE CITY PIE WAYCROSS, GA., Dee. 14.—0 nor I before January 7 city council yvill elect ’ about twenty officials for the ensuing year. Among the positions to be tilled are those of clerk of council, city at torney, health officer, chief of police, city engineer, superintendent of water works. chief of fire department, city > treasurer, city tax collector and build ing inspector. Marion ('obb Hrvan, 893 Piedmont, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Shepard Bryan, on a Christinas shopping expedition. Little Ma rion is one of the contributors to The Georgian’s Christmas fund for poor kiddies. reßition for SHROOERFOUGHT Georgian Held in Oregon as Wife Deserter Seeks to Escape Trial. Governor Brown has agreed to hea ■ objections Monday morning to the granting of a requisition on the govern or of Oregon for John H. Shroder, of Savannah, wanted on a charge of deser tion brought by his wile, Annie Shro der. Shroder went to Reno Nev., two years ago, ostensibly because of 111 health, but really, so his wife thinks, in order that he might bring suit against her for divorce. At any rate. Shroder did bring divorce proceedings several months ago, anil a tew days ago his 1 wife lodged charges .of desertion of herself and one child against Shroder, and asked that he be brought back to Georgia on requisition. Some of Shroder’s Savannah relatives think It Is being brought to bring him back to Georgia merely that alimony proceedings may be instituted against him. and that there is no sincerity in the charge of desertion. The governor lias agreed to hear the arguments resisting tile requisition at 1 10:30 Monday morning. DR. DUNBAR OGDENTO DISCUSS HEBREW FAITH Dr. Dunbar Ogden will deliver a ser , monos special interest to the Jews, as well as the Gentiles, at the Sunday ■ evening service in the Central Pres byterian church on Washington street. "Christianity ami Judaism" will be his subject, and the sermon will be a study of the relationship between these two great faiths, both past and pres , ent. SENDING OF TURKEY BY PARCELS POST IS ISSUE t PHILADELPHIA. Dee. 14.—Postmas ter Thomas B. Smith lias gone to Wash ington to find out if chickens, turkeys, , butter and eggs will be allowed trans ; portatlon in the parcels post. HAVE YOU A DEAF CHILD? The only private school in the South for Deaf Children. Only school South teaching SPEECH exclusively. Most advanced methods; home life. Unsurpassed results. Miss Arbaugh’s School for Deaf Children 110 Rogers Avo MACON, GA. UNCLE SAM AIDS Mlsmt Big Firecrackers Barred Ruling of Interstate Com merce Commission. < The Christmas celebrating small boj who wishes to make a big. big nols« this year must do it with a dozen small firecrackers all set off together, for th< big ones are off the market. Uncle Sam did It. He ruled this year through the interstate commerce com , mission, that no firecrackers more than five inches in length or live-eighths of an inch thick may be transported front state to state. “We used to sell big two-poun( crackers which made a noise like i i cannon," said one fireworks dealer to day. “Yes, they were dangerous. I’v< known them to blow a youngsters ham , off. I think they had something ilia dynamite in them. Hut the buyer! i wanted them, and we sold them. i “This year I ordered more, but th< • manufacturers wrote me they had quil : making them since they had been for , bidden to ship them from state U state." 300 WIR’ELfsS OP’ERATORS GRANTED U. S. LICENSES WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Three hun- I dud wireless operators, amateurs an< professionals, have been granted li censes by the department of commerci and labor. The wireless law, requir ■ ing all operators to account to the gov. ernment, went into effect yesterday Fifte.-n large commercial wireless sta , tlons also are said to have taken ou licenses. PLAYS WITH MATCHES, IS BURNED TO DEATF PEORIA, ILL., Dec. 14.—As the re ; suit of playing with matches while he: • parents were away, Madeline Erring four years old, received burns frorr - which she died at the Deaconess hos- - pital. Neighbors hearing the chiid'i i. screams rushed in just in time to saw - the lives of the two younger children who were seriously burned. 3