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THE ATLANTA UEORGIAX AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. APRIL U>, iwi:;.
Court of Appeals Reverses Judge
Brand in the Griffin and
McCrary Cases.
,T. W. Griffin, president, and R. H.
McCrary, cashier, or the Athens Trust
»nd Banking Company, who ware
ach sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary on pleading guilty to
accepting deposits when they knew
ilioir hank to he Insolvent, to-day
..■ere granted tile privilege of a new
trial and the withdrawing of their
pleas of guilty, by a decision of the
State Court of Appeals, which re-
. prsed the trial judge, Charles H,
Brand, of Athens.
The ruling was made on the ground
that a new trial- should have be i
iranted and that Judge Brand erred
n not. permitting . the accused to
vithdraw their pleas of guilty, which
id been made upon the assurance
if the State's attorneys that a pun
ishment for a misdemeanor', instead
■f for a felony, would be imposed by
the court.
The court noted that the agreement
miong the attorneys as to the defend
ant's immunity to felony punishment
.■as not binding upon Judge Brand,
ind: that therefore to-day's decision
,iould not direct that a misdemeanor
punishment be imposed, but rule sim
ply that the accused men are entitled,
if they desire, to join issue with the
state and go on trial on all of the In
dictments. If they are legally acquit-
ed, the opinion says, the punish
ment to be mried out, within the stat-
.itory limits, is absolutely within the
discretion of the trial judge.
A sharp rap was taken at the prac
tice of "bargain-making" in the courts
if the State, particularly in the cases
where an attempt Is made to commit
(he judge himself.
The language of the piea filed in
tiehalf of Griffin and McCrary before
fudge Brand, on the strength of the
agreement with the States’ attorney,
..as "Guilty, with the recommendation
Unit they be punished as for a mis
demeanor."
hen, instead of a misdemeanor sen
tence. the five-years prison terms
..ere imposed, a motion was imme-
iately made to withdraw the pleas of
guilty', but tills was denied by Judge
Brand.
Mouse in Her Hat;
If She'd Only Known!
It was on a South Pryor Street tar
the other morning. A woman board
ed the car near Georgia Avenue.
She gave her head a peculiar shake*,
and several timer passed her hand
to her hat as if to straighten it Into
position.
Suddenly several men sitting he--
hind her began to smile, looking
toward" the woman’s hat. She gave
it another punch and out popped.' a
small mouse, which scuttled aw$y.
The woman remained in her/scat
apparently unconcerned as to the
young zoo she had been toting* about
in her millinery.
The Waist, Gladys, Is f
Where You Please.
Where is the waist this .year? .
Femininity sounds the eternal query
of spring fashions, a query for whose
answer the About Town man made
a personal investigation aJong Peach
tree Street and adjacent thorough
fares la«t evening.
And the answer, it finds, is an
echoed “where?”
To judge the evidence gleaned from
Atlanta street displays, if the latest
things in sartorial®, the waist, that
acid test of yesteryears, has received
small attention from thore who this
year set the styles.
The waist, Gladys, is where you
please. Those who affect the Bulga
rian mode of questionable etheticism
wear their waists an in (determinate
distance between the hips and knees.
And there are suite and suits on
Peachtree Street whose waists are
snugly belted somewhere in proximity
to the armpit.
First Lesson in
Mrs. Flanders Goes
To Trial To-morrow
Court Officers Summon 248 Venire
men for Jury in Swainsboro
Poisoning Case.
SWAINSBORO. GA., April 16.
Nvery indication to-day is that Mrs.
Mattie Flanders will go on trial here
to-morrow to the— an indictment
■ iiftT-ging her complicity in poi
soning her husband. Fred Flanders, for
which Dr. W. J. McNaughton is un
der death sentence. Mrs. Flanders
has not arrived from her home at
Bartow, but it is stated positively she
will be here for the trial.
Anticipating difficulty in securing
a jury Superior Court officers have
summoned 248 veniremen from whom
to pick the twelve who will pass on
the woman's fate. Solicitor R. I>ee
Moore declares that everything will
he ready for the trial to proceed at
the appointed hour.
f^KODAKSiSE
I mlfli First Class Finishing and En-
larging. A complete stock dims,
'**to* m S plates, papers, chemicals, etc.
Special Mai! Order Department for
out-of-town customers.
Send for Catalogue and Price Lilt.
4. K. HAWKESCO. Kodak Departmenl
14 Whitehall St. ATLANTA. GA.
T
ORPHINE
Opium. Whlakey and Dru* Habit* traatad
•t Home or at Sanitarium. Book on •«kject
Free. DR B. M. WOOLLEY, M-N, Vlctt*
Sanitarium. Atlanta. Giorgit.
Efficiency Salesmanship.
A cheerful agent stepped into a bus
iness* man’s office the other day. and
set his grip on the floor.
“I have here.’’ he said, “a patent
glass cutter for 25 cents. It is
known ”
“Don’t need any glass cutter!”
snapped the business man.
“Ah, you don’t need a glass cutter!
Well, then, I have Jiere a vacuum
(‘leaner that sells for forty dollars. It
is* now in use in thousands of homes.
It is ”
“I don’t need a vacuum cleaner.”
“Well, perhaps not; but then I have
something else here that will cer
tainly interest you. It is a phono
graph that retails for the small sum
of eleven dollars. There Isn’t, an
other phonograph in the / world
that ”
“1 wouldn't buy a phonograph on a
bet.” growled the business man, get
ting red in the face.
“Well. I am surprised! Rut then I
have here a camera which sell® for
$27. It will take the widest—
“No camera to-day!” yelled the
business man.
“Well. then. I have- a $400 automo
bile. \v»hieh combines all the necessary
points of the higher-priced machines,
and ”
“For the love of Mike!” screamed
the business man. “Here’s your quar
ter. I’ll take the glass cutter. Now
get out!”
“Thank you,” said the agent;
“that’s all 1 had to sell in .the first
place.”
Gamin Prefers Grand
Opera to Baseball.
A bunch of newshoys were congre
gated about the alley- which leads
from the railroad tracks in Wall
Street to The Georgian press room.
They were waiting for the city edi
tion to come off the press and were
killing time as only Atlanta news
boys know how.
“Wish I could git off dis atternoon
ter de ball game,” said one chap jing
ling the coins with which he pur
posed buying his afternoon’s stock
in trade.
"Well. I don’t," ejaculated another
boy. "I’m savin’ up me money to
hear de gran’ op, I is.”
And he Is, too. He heard three of
the operas last season and he says
nothing can keep him away from as
many this year. He is infatuated
wijth grand opera and being some
thing of a musician—he plays the
harmonica—he declares he simply
can’t keep away.
Opposes LaFrance Purchase and
Says Bids Must Be Adver
tised For.
WOMAN LOSES $8,000
GEMS, HIDDEN IN SKIRT
ALTO«»\A. F’A . A|frii 16. Search
tor a string of p irl* and other jm\ -
I dry yi»lti(-l at winch Mr.*. <’ath-
I dim. (Laddie, of Dayton, < declares
had been stolen • ro'm her while aboard
a Pennsylvania train was resumed
h£re to-ua,v by ire authorities. Tin*
jewelry consisting of penrN and i
diamond ring were tarried in a
•chamois bag ben ath her skirt.
j Mayor Woodward said to-day he.
wanted Council to purchase equip
ment for the Tenth Ward lire engine
house, the failure to do which has
brought severe criticism on the ad
ministration. But he declared tie
would not approve the purchase of
the La France engine which th *
Board of Fire Masters contracted for
last year
This engine would have been, in
stalled hut for Mayor Woodward’s
opposition. The burning of a hbusc
has derided the Board of Fire Masters
and members of Council to secip •
the equipment at once.
“Lei them advertise for bids in
the regular way and I’ll approve ih”
purchase.” said the Mayor.
“The Board, of Ed re Masters ,ha*J,
that engine shipped here .without any
authority .and without any funds
which tp pay for,it.’’
The fire has aroused Councilmen to
the determination to demand Monday
that the new Tenth Ward fire station
be equipped immediately.
“We can not afford to delay longer
on account of the Fin.* Department in
vestigation.” said Councilman Claude
C. Mason, of the Tenth Ward.
“If we had had an engine in the,pew
station at Lee Street and Avon Ave
nue it could h$.vo reached Mr. Han
nah’s home ir) five minutes and prob
ably saved it.”
Alderman A. H. YanDyke said
Council must equip this englrie house
at once.
Engine Ready in February.
An engine for the station was ready
for a test February 1. But just as the
Board of Fire Masters .was ready to
recommend its purchase to c Council
Mayor Woocjward filed charges againsl
Chief Cummings and the department.
The engine is still packed in a freight
car on a railroad siding.
“When a man goes through the
grueling experience of seeing his
home burn dowp a,nd realizes the
'cause of it is directly the result of a
squabble between officials of the mu
nicipality. lie has a kick coming.” said
C. G. Hannah to a Georgian reporter
as he gazed upon the-ruins of his res
idence.
Two blocks away is an unequipped
fire department building, which was
completed several months ago. Down
in the railroad yards on a car, where
it has been fo two months, i& a fire
engine ordered for the Wiilding.
“I am a citizen ‘of Atlanta and a
taxpayer, and am entitled to fire pro
tection,” .said Mr. Hannah. “But it
was exactly 43 minutes from the time
I telephoned in the alarm until the
first piece of apparatus arrived. It
was several minutes later before the
second wagori arrived. The volume**! 7
squad from Fort McPherson, soim
distance away,* had been advised ‘'or
the fire and arrived long before the
fire department.
Worked With Buckets.
“My son and I worked hard to ex
tinguish the fire when we discovered
it. throwing several buckets of wat°r
on the blaze, but-the facilities wei
not enough. 1 immediately telephoned
in the alarm, and was told that the
West. End Company was fighting a,
fire on Beecher Street. ‘For God’s
sake. man. my house is burning dovVn.'
I shid, and tbe man at the other end'
said he would do his best.
“Eleven minutes later my son put.
irfanother call, and it was exactly 22
mir ,, tes later that the first wagon ;n-
tived.
“My house reduced to aslie.s is an
illustration of^the city's farcical fire
protection to the taxpayers in this
part of the city.”
ODDITIES
DAY’S NEWS
eat -
‘been intro-
• at Albany.
SuLONS CONSIDER DISH W A *
TKR A bill which provide:*
i-lran water shill in' used in Hennaing
table and kitchen wfttT 1 1rj p'lblii
ing establishment- has
duced In the Legislatin
N. Y.
KA18KR HINTS Ml VINK RIGHT.
The Kaiser lias again hinted at Ins
"divine right." So Hie Berlin police
ean recognise his automobile ■'
night, ail illuminated loyal standard
with .tile words, "God Is \\ ith i s,
has been placed on t.lie front of tile
eaj\
i.’ATt’HKS i;\GI.F. ON A FISH
HOOK. )•;. I’errv Hler . of Reso-
unir\ Township. Smith Carolina, lias
placed on exhibition at Barnwell, alt
eagle w hieli lie caught with a hook
while fishing. Just «s Hinrs was
about to lake a fish off the line, the
eagle swooped down to snatch the
morsel. The book caught iho bird by
the wing and Hic.r caught it.
TRIED srh’lpE ’J'( > SPITE FOES.
“I hate.them so much that I thought
I would cheat them by killing m*y-
,welf.” said* Salvatore ‘Pnlpcco, who Is
in Bellevue Hospital. New York City,
with two self-inflicted bullet wounds
in this throat. He said bis enemies
would not let him go buck to his wife
Injbies in Italy.
Girl Accuses Head
Of Pittsburg Schools
Educator or> Trial on Charges Made
by Former Maid in
His Home.
PITTSBURG, April 16. Making a
gimernl denial of the charges made
against him’by Miss Ethel Ivy Fisher
the former maid in Ids home, S. U
IDHer, Superintendent of the Pitts
burg public schools, to-dav took the
witness "land in ids own defense.
Tile school Superintendent denied
any misconduct with Ids maid, and
also that he was responsible for the
girl s condition, which necessitated tier
being removed to a hospital.
Miss Fisher to-day resumed her
t<--’tinionx. having been removed from
the stand late yesterday, when it whs
seen that she w i.s on the verge of a
collapse.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
Tno Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
Qoods. Try it!
Atlanta Families Keep Vick's
Vapor Treatment on Hand.
Mr. A. II. Shelton. 52 Alexander
Street, states that ten minutes after
the first application of Vick’s Group
and Pneumonia Salve, his baby was
completely relieved of a severe attack
of croup. Read what he has to say in
regard to Vick's:
“(in the night before Christinas
my baby woke us with a bad at
tack of croup. It was after mid
night and I could not get a doctor.
After using everything In the
house without results I hurried out
to find a drug store and had to go
to Elkin-Watson’s before I could
find one open. Ten minutes after
the first application of Vick's the
baby was completely relieved.
Since then you may he sure we al
ways keep a package on hand.”
Vick’s, the new remedy for colds.
coughs, croup and pneumonia, vomer, '
in salve form and is applied external!' - !
i" the throat and chest, covering with
| hot flannel cloths. The body heat rr-
! lear.es vapors of camphor, eucalyptus,
thymol, etc., which are inhaled with
each breath direct to the inflamed
parts: at the same time the salve is.-
absorbed through the skin.
Attacks of croup are relieved in fif
teen .minutes and colds overnight.
Prompt use of Vick’s will prevent
threatened, pneumonia, while in ad
vanced cases its use greatly increases
the patient's chances of recovery. Of
course, call in a physician at the first
sign of pneumonia. Vick's does not
t-rfere with any other form of treat
ment.
Vick's can be obtained at all drug-
cists in 25c. 50c and $1.00 sizes, on <
.”0 days’ trial if you do not find it j
does the work quicker than anything y
you have ever tried, your druggist will (
return ypnr money. s
: xWiimit.1 Complete Lines of Summer Furniture and Draperies.
‘ RICH & BROS. COil
SAVES ELDERLY PEOPLE FROM
KIDNEY AND BLADDER MISERIES
Sleep Disturbing Bladder Weaknesses, Backache, Stiff Joints
Rheumatic Pains Disappear After Few Doses are Taken.
While people along iii years are
naturally (more subject! to *weak kid
neys, they can avoid the tortures of
backache and rheumatism and be
saved the' annoyance Of getting up.
at* night with .disagreeable bladder
disorders, for the new discovery,
t’roxone, quickly relieves the most
severe and obstinate cases. *
Groxone relieves these conditions
bv removing' the daifse. It is the
most wonderful remedy ever de
vised for ridding the system of
uric* acid. It is,entirely different
from : all other remedies. It is not
like anything else- ever used for the
purpose. Groxone makes the kid
neys filter the blood and sift out
all the poisonous acids and waste
matter that cause these troubles.
It soaks right in and cleans out
the stopped-up, inactive kidneys
like water does a sponge, dissolves
and drives out every particle of
uric acid and other poisonous im-
lwrities that lodge in the joints and
muscles and caii-e rheumatism. It
neutralizes tin* unine so it no longer
irritates the bladder, overcomes un- (
necessary breaking of sleep and re- )
stores the kidneys and bladder to <
health and strength.
It matters not how long you have
suffered, how old you are, or what <j
else you h i\ ' used. The very prin- )
eiple of Groxone is such that it is j
practically impossible to take it >
into the human system without re- j
suits. It starts to work the min- >
ute you take it and relieves you <
the first time you use it. You can j
secure an original package **f Crox- \
one at trifling cost, and all drug- >
gists are authorized to return the s
purchase price if it fails in a sin- j
gle ease.
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Southern Suit & Skirt Co.
43-45 Whitehall Street
Southern Suit & Skirt Co.
GERANIUMS
10 and 15 Cents Each
I-
At last the right weather for planting out
geraniums and all other tender plants.
We are specializing on geraniums this
week. Plants in bloom. Best shades and
'colors. By the dozen $i.oo and $1.50, ac
cording to size.
Tomato and Pepper Plants
In fresh every morning from our green
houses. Clean, healthy transplanted plants,
not the sickly spindling kind pulled direct
from the seed beds. Best varieties of to
matoes 20 cents dozen. Sweet and hot Pep
pers, each, 25 cents dozen.
Double Daily Delivery Service
All parts of Atlanta reached twice daily
by our splendid delivery service. Orders
placed by 2 p. m. delivered the same day.
U P iiAOTiypo 9. PH 16 W. Mitchell St.
Hi Ui HAO I mbO & UUi Both Phones 2561
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3 T0*M0RR0Wd=A Great Special Purchase Sale of Newest
l Spring Dresses at $6.95
These Modish LittleDresses \\ ill Fairly Fly Out 1 o-morrou)
At This
Little Price
ACTEAL
$10.50
$11.75
AND
$12.50
VALUES
Up
ABSOLUTELY THE LATEST ANI) BEST STYLES — they arc
wonderfully graceful and appealingly pretty. Beautiful Ratines,
Crash Linens, Striped Voiles, Imported Piques, etc., in ail the love
ly new shadesy-featuring the Russian Blouse, Coat Effect, and
numerous other FASCINATING NEW STYLES. Here’s your op
portunity to give a REAL test of QUR G R E A ’I' PURCHASING
POWER. Our New York connection made this RE
MARKABLE SPECI AL PURCHASE and the dresses
have just arrived—actual $10.50, $11.75 and $12.50
Dresses. Choice
q K( 11.USING
$6.95
APRIL WAIST SALE--:
For Thursday, wo off or 200
brand-now shirtwaists, now
being unpacked—the latest
and loveliest styles—featuring any number of smart high and low-nook
models and dainty little style- touches. Extraordinary values here to
morrow at
See Our Ad in To-day’s Journal For Thursday’s Suit Sale
Southern Suit & Skirt Co.
‘Atlanta’s Exclusive Women’s Apparel Store,” 43-45 Whitehall St.
J A Disposal of 187 Silk Dresses I
nil 1 m 01 nmv muraBiima-i bmuimbwh uw A* ®
J at Prices You Will
Because the wholesale season is about
three months ahead of the retail, many
dressmakers are now turning to the manu
facture of cotton and linen dresses.
To have a free hand for this summer
work, many of our best makers sold us
their remaining lots of silk dresses much
•underprice.
We shall sell them the same way.
1 hough sinn!ar dresses from these same
makers have been selling here at much
higher prices, we know we can’t continue
to get full price for them when dres.e;
just as good are selling f:r so much less.
Practically Every Silk Dress in Stock,
Therefore, Is Offered at Reduced Prices
Every smart dress style and every fasli-
ionahlc silk is represented. There are crepe de
chinos, crepe meteor, granite crepes, charmeuse,
moires, messalines. foulards, and liabutais, chif
fons combined with silks, and novelties. Beau
tiful styles that fairly radiate Fashion. Every
smart shade, every new color and combination
its well .is the staple blacks, browns and navies
is represented. You ean surely find the very
dress you want. Here is what you save:
$23 &. $25 Dresses $^,3.50
$27.50 & $29.50 Dr’ss $18.75
$35 & $39.50 Dresses $24.50
$45 & C47.50 Dresses $28.75
$55 & $60 Dresses $39.50
(Sale at 8:30 A. M. 2nd Floor)
Sale of Imported Opera Coats
Just in by express. Eleven elegant opera coats. Imported by
tin* maker for models. Have served their purpose, lienee sold to us
at a great price concession. All silk failles and crepes, plain or bro
caded. White and pastel shades. Just eleven Women can share.
$35 to $60.
Sr
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$1.50 BULGARIAN
FLOUNCING 79c
Imagine a sheer white flakey
voile 4") inches wide with a deep
border of beautiful Bulgarian
embroidery—in the vivid Bal
kan colorings.
It’s extremely fashionable;
can’t you just picture the pret
ty waists and dresses it will
make?
Splendid $1.50 quality for
just 79c; coming?
N. B.—The lace buyer is just back
from her New York trip with many
novelties and wanted fabrics. Yes
terday we advertised the wide ra
tines—already several of the colors
have entirely sold out—better hurry
if you want a chance at the best
things.
(Laces—Main Floor, Right)
A Whirlwind Sale of Wanted 5
Wash Fabrics; Save a Haljf J
rices slashed to about half to speed out various lots
of staple wash goods. -lust the wanted kinds', toj>,
fine ginghams and madras for men's and womenjs
shirts amt tor women ;
Savings are up to half.
4 Cm for real 2Gc ini-
X ported Kinshanis.
neat stripes, plaids and
some with borders.
and children's dressd
19c
25c
for 25c and 35c
madras shirtings,
in black and clored stripes
and designs.
for John & David
Anderson famous
50c Scotch ginghams. Stan
dard 50c ginghams every
where.
25c
for shi
waists.
39c
a fine
terus.
50c
madras.
75c
for 50c Knglilh
madras, in desigls
for shirts and tine shft
waists.
for 05c madras, ofer
best 05c quality. |n
a tine assortment of
terns.
for choice of our
finest 75c and |1
madras.
for $1.25 silk mad
ras and silk ghijp-
hants. Pretty patterns. |
(Wash Goods—Main Floor, Left)
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Spring Woolens Will Go Quick
ly at These Diminished Prices
The dress goods chief is off on a buying trip and in
his absence we prune prices to sprout sales. Women
who need material for a new suit, skirt or dress should
profit by those underprices.
$1 Long; Silk Gloves 59c *
89c
for $1.50 to $2.50
vigereaux, hair line
serges, diagonals, suitings
and novelties.
98c
for $1.50 silk and
wool Imperial crepe
—a handsome imported
crinkly crepe that will drape
delightfully. Nearly all (he
leading shades.
$1.49
$1.49
for $2.50 and
$3.00 popular
ratines for the season's
smartest suits and dresses.
Have neat self-raised stripe'
Black, navy, brown, tan, etc.
54 In.
for $2.00 wool
crash. A beau
tiful spring woolen for suits
and skfrts. Tan, fawn, blue
and grey. 56 in.
(Silk Annex—Main Floor, Left)
t
Their maker thought to scocjp
flu* market by giving retailers
a glove on which they could
make a long profit. His pla
miscarried, because retaile:
preferred more quality and less
profit. The maker closed out
the line and we bought a gre ;t
quantity.
While not as" good as our regular 1
glove, the glove is a really fair 1
quality. Pure thread silk, full-fas i-
loned. finely finished, cut alo] g
perfect lines. Double tip tinge s
to insure service. Black, whil \
pink, pongee and lavender. A II
colors. Buy a summerful at 59c.
(Gloves—Main Floor, Lq] )
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