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Til_£i AJ.ijjVi.Niii ujMjmiiAjN AM) i\i!iWS. Tl EKDAY. APRIL 22. 1013.
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List to the Tale of a Hoodoo Auto!
Tried to Explore Cotton Patch SCHOOL STRIKE
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5 Even Its Rescuers Came to Grief
Planter, Held as Slayer, Says
Neighbors Have Driven Off All
His Tenants by Threats.
MACON. DA., April 22.—Forty -
seven resident* of Wilcox County,
nearly all farmers, have been tempo
rarily enjoined from interfering with
or intimidating the croppers and ten
ants of W. A- Coleinan. the wealthy
planter, who, together with his son,
l .I. Coleman, and a neighbor, Peter
Stevens is in the Ben Hill County
mil, gt Fitzgerald, cnargea with the
murder of seventeen-year-old Leon
Melvin.
On April H Leon Melvin was shot
to death in the roadway near his fa
ther’s farm. The next day the tw r o
('olemans and Stevens were arrested.
Tlie coroner’s Jury ordered them held
for the crime.
Then croppers and tenants on the
Coleman farm received threatening
letters, advising them to leave the
State within 48. hours. T.wo of them,
Will Finch and Monroe. Robinson,
were* arrested, and while in an auto'
on route to Rochelle, were taken out,
whipped and instructed tprgo back
to the i farm and advise, $11 of the
other tenants to leave. As a result,
not a single hand is now* on rthe Cole
man farm, and crops estimated to be
worth 425,U00 are going .to : ruin.
The foreman of .the; plantation.
Rnocli McElmore. has. been arrested
on a warrant charging- him with a
misdemeanor, and is/in the Irwin
County jail, a( Oci 11a. : ; '
The defendants so named in Cole-
nmri'fi petition are as follows: Rob-
Rainless Week for
Opera Is Promised
• Weather Man Will Not Predict Tem
perature, but Says Skies
Will Be Clear.
Write ‘Atlanta. ±914,’
When You Register
Convention Bureau Asks Travelers to
Aid in Attempt to Get
Shriners Here.
J. B. Cleveland, who sells pianos in
Atlanta, this week offers for sale one
little underslung automobile, name
furnished upon application.
It's a good little automobile in its
way, but Mr. Cleveland thinks it’s
hoodooed, so far as he i9 concerned,
and, as he is more or less supersti
tious, he is willing to part with it for
a song, not even necessarily a song
of the Caruso persuasion.
It is this way. Yesterday Mr. Cleve
land and his associate, Harold
Holmes, found it necessary to get from
Cedartown to Atlanta by early Mon
day morning, but they did not discov
er the necessity until after the last
train had left Cedartown for the day.
in looking around for an automobile
Mr. Cleveland ran across one so at
tractive looking that he bought it,
right off the reel, and started motor
ing to Atlanta.
They used two good hours getting
to Rockmart, for one of the machine’s
lungs got wheezy pretty soon, and on
the way from Rockmart to Carters-
ville the lights went on the blink for
the evening. Between Cartersville
and Marietta something on the
thing’s insides slipped its trolley, and
between Marietta and Atlanta the
rear axle broke down. •
Rescuers Need Rescuing.
Fourteen miles from Atlanta, at
11:17 p. m., Mr. Cleveland phoned to
Atlanta to A. L. Belle Isle, and asked
that a machine be sent out to get him
and his crippled machine into the
city. Belle Isle said, "Sure, Mike,"
and started for the spot where the
Cedartown automobile was snugly
stuck in the mud. Within 100 short
yards of the stranded ones Belle Isie’s
machine went "dippy” somehow and
undertook to explore a nearby ox-cot-
tpn patch, some 0 feet down a steep
embankment, end not* worth explor
ing. anyway.
Three yards of fencing were em
ployed from a neighboring farm, ob
tained .surreptitiously. In an effort-to
get Belle Isle’s machine back up in
the road. Finally it was pried back
up where it belonged, but refused to
stay put. It immediately ambled down
the other side of the embankment and
into a vacant corn Held, equally ms
uninteresting as th,c cotton patch.
This is where tlie Belle tele chau?-
feur got mad. It was right at this
point that he began saying things.
And he gp.Id some things that tan not
be printed in a family newspaper.
Suspects It’s “Hoodooed.”
Among other things, however, he
inquired: "What sort of buzz eart. is
that thing of yours, anyhow-? Here I
have used three hours 1 'good time un
dertaking to help you and I haven’t
been able even to get to you yet. Is
that loose-jointed, crazy-headed,
know-kneed, bughouse machine of
yours hoodooed?"
Cleveland said he was blamed if
he didn’t believe it was. And right
then is when he determined, finally
and positively, to sell it—if he could
find somebody to buy it.
At 2:34 a. in. all hands .started
walking to Atlanta—for Cleveland
had to make that Monday morning
engagement. At 5:57 the procession,
minus anything like an automobile,
reported at the Piedmont Hotel.
And when Cleveland reported for
his engagement at 9 o’clock he found
a wire telling him that the other par,-
ty to it would not reach Atlanta until
next Friday.
ert Brazeal, Harry Bussell. H. J.
Brown. Ed Blalock, Grover Carr, D. J.
Christmas; Jr., Adie Christmas. W. H.
Collins, J. H. Crumney, Brice Crow,
Bill Conner, C. W. Doster, Tom Fenn,
John A. Gordon. Duff Gordon, Jr..
Harvey Gordon, John Hendricks,
James Hendricks, George Helms, G.
W. Holliday. Frank Jones. W. E.
Knox. .1. W. Lacey, J. R. Lacey, Wil
liam Lacey, W. Harry Lee, Joe Mel
vin, John McDuffie, Jr., Fred Miller,
Ed McDuffie. Tobe Martin, J. F.
Nance. Joe Noble, T. Hady Owens,
Ijonnie Pierce. P. G. Pilgrim. Dan
Revals, Leon Revals. Hugh Rodgers,
E. G. Smith, Cleve Strickland. John
Tyson, I*. P. Tyson and William Ty
son.
Maysville Woman Dead.
MAYSVILLE.—Mrs. Maud Dead-
vveiler, wife of A. Paul Deadweiler, a
planter near Maysville. is dead, after
an illness of several weeKi'.
Thousands of Children Out as
Protest Against Retention of
Superintendent.
Southern Suit & Skirl Co.
43-45 Whitehall Street
Southern Suit & Skirt Co.
PITTSBl'RC, April 22. The school
children’s st/ike against the reten
tion of S. L Heeter as superintend
ent of the Pittsburg lAiblic schools
continued to spread to-day. Reports
from .nearly every, part of the city
told of boy and girl students refusing
to re-enter the school buildings. The
situation was admittedly serious.
Superintendent Heeter last week
was acquitted of charges made
against him by Ethel 1. Fisher, a for
mer domestic in his home, Lu t the
trial created much feeling against
Him. and public demands have been
made that he resign.
Thirty boys at the Forbes School
to-day refused to return to their stu
dies. and. carrying signs, paraded
th/ough the downtown streets. Oth
ers at the Miller Street and North
Side Schools, including a large num
ber of girls, also paraded.
Superintendent Heeter last night
was burned in effigy. Around the
flaming straw-stuffed figure of. the
pedagogue marched a hooting, jeer
ing crowd ol’ boys with red light
torches.
An unidentified boy striker was run
down and killed by a street car in
front of the Ralston School to-day
during a demonstration.
Un the South Side mothers stood
on the street-corners and urged their
children to strike and cheered other
children who made demonstrations
against the superintendent.
WOMAN RAPS SOCIETY.
Columbus,—Mrs. Harry Furiis,
wife of Secretary Harry Furtis. of
the Folumbus Y. M. O. A. created
much comment at the session of tno
"Woman’s Missionary Conference in
session at St. Luke Methodist Church,
when she discussed the “Fatal Hams
in Our Society,” appealing for a
standard of equal purity lor men anti
women.
43-45 Whitehall Street
Atlantans may wear their
and their silks, their plug hats and
their open-face coats to the opera
without toting an umbrella or rain
coat. for the weather man declared
this morning on his honor as a
prophet that there is not a drop of
rain in sight for the whole week.
No predictions as to what height
the mercury would climb during the
week would be made by the weather
man. but to-day, he said, will be al
most as balmy and beautiful as a
day in Italy. The thermometer reg
istered 47 degrees at «i o’clock this
morning, and three hours later had
climbed to 60.
By late afternoon it will be roam
ing around in the seventies, but at no
time will the mercury reach the
eighties of last week.
MAYSVILLE CAPITALIST
BREAKS TINNER’S SKULL
MAYSVILLE, GA April 22.—In a
dispute over an account. YY. F. Mor
ris*, Jr., a local capitalist, struck C.
L. Bradshaw, a tinner, with an iron
rod, fracturing the skull. Morris was
charged with assault with attempt to
murder. Bradshaw is in a precarious
condition.
Atlanta, 1914,” is the way Fred
atimi | Hourer, Secretary of the Atlanta
Convention Bureau, is endeavoring to
get every Atlanta traveling man to
register at hotels as a boost for the,
Shriners' convention Atlanta is at- j
tempting to land.
“We feel sun* \thmta will gel the
convention and we want to advertise
it as much as possible,” said Mr. I
Houser. "If every Atlantan will reg
ister ’Atlanta, 1914.’ it will arouse on-1
rioHty and start people to talking.
That is what we want.
“Requests will be made to trawl
ing men’s organizations to adopt this
style of registering.”
PLANTER BEATEN BY NEGRO
FARM TENANT HE HAD SHOT
TALBOTTON. GA April 22 S. S.
Spear, a prominent Talbot County
planter, i in a critical condition,
while Jim Steven on, a negro farm
tenant, is expected to die from two
pistol wounds as the result of an al
tercation over a labor contract. After
Spear had shot the negro. Stevenson
got him down and beat him over tlie
head with a large rock.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
The Kiinl Vow Hate Always Bought lias borne the
ture of Chas. II. Fletcher, and lias been made under hi*
personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no ono
to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and
•* Just-as-pood 99 are but Experiments, and endanger th#
health of Children—-Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA ■ *
Cast nria is a harmless substitute for Castor OH, Ptn* .
If or io. Drops and Soothing- Syrups. It is Pleasant. Ifc !
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotte /
substance. Its ape is its guarantee. It destroys Worm* .*
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diurrhcra and Winft ,
Colic. It. rclii vos Teeming- Troubles, cures Constipation
and flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates th. „
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy anil natural sleep,
Tlio Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. *' !l
The Kind You Me Always Bought-
Bears the Signature of
* V +*
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THC CCNTMUX COMPANY, 7T MURRAY $TRttT, NKW YOltR CITY.
use the parcel post order by mail.
;Hammocks Are
Ready to Swing.
. RICH & BROS. CO.
Long Gloves
For the Opera*']
feat Special Purchase Sale!?
a Beginning Tomorrow at o’Clock===Positive!y the Greatest Suit=Buying Opportunities of the Season I
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f $22,300 of Real Laces to Sell for $ 14,850
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■ 2 More Than 10 Times the Usual Stock of Real Laces Shown
2 at a Third to a Half Less the Prices You Expected to Pay
Now then! The most lavish sale of real laces Atlanta has ever experi-
enced.
The sale is belated. Though originally planned for early April, and post-
:5 poned, it has been well worth waiting for. it includes:
2 Our Own Special Importations:
2 Importers’ Surplus Stocks
S Laces that aggregate at retail twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars
J! ($22,300) are offered at about fourteen thousand eight hundred and fifty
2 dollars ($14,830).
5 Savings Are a Third to a Half
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%
Two Suit Offers
That Will Crowd Our Store To-morrow!
The greatest suit selling of tlie season is sched
uled to begin here to-morrow morning—and you'll
a want to Ire on hand!—asale made possible only by
si mighty purchasing poorer. Our always alert
|| New York connection secured these beautiful suits
W at a wonderful price concession—of course we’ll
make a profit on these Suits—hut SEE THEM !
Another big feature is the unusual assortments die sale provides —more than ten
tin left the stock usually shown by am local linn. It comprises the choicest of
real Filet, Duchess, Rose Point. Roll erne, Lierre, Princess, Real Point. Yonise
and Irish Laces.
All Offered to the Public at These Savings:
Irish Laces: Edges and Bands. to 3 1 „• inches,I Princess Laces -Bauds.
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For Regular $29.50
lo $55.00 SLITS
There’s inimitable grace and
refined elegance in every line
of these Suits—featuring the
.tremendously popular Bal
kan Blouse models, draped
skirts, beautifully trimmed
styles and smart tailored
Suits — shepherd checks,
eponge. Bedford cords, etc.
—lovely spring colorings—
lined with peau de cygne.
Suits for which you would
cheerfully pay $29.50 to $35
in this Special Purchase Sale,
as long as d|1Q CA
they last .. *P I
For Regular $10.50
(o $22.50 SLITS
A collection of charming
Tailored Suits—absolutely
the latest styles—a variety
of handsome new materials
and lovely spring shades.
The quality of tailoring, the
pretty peau de cygne lin
ings, the refined grace and
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beauty of these Suits, which
are, of course, guaranteed
for two seasons' satisfactory
service, will captivate you.
Regular $19.50 to $22.50
values at,
choice . ..
15c up to $1.19; values 35c up to $3.50.
S Motifs f r Medallions
£ —| 5c. 20c, 25c, 98c; values 35c, 15c. 50c, $2.
45 Filet If ges and Bands, 1‘ j to 12 inches,
* $1 5 up to $18.50; values $2.50 up to $35.
J Real Duchess Edges and Bands. 2 to 12 inches,
-5 $2.50 up to $37.50; values $5 up to $75.
;»» Rose Point Edges and Bands. 2 to 12 inches.
; jj $15 to $45; values $25 up to $75.
™ Rruge Laces—Edges and Bands. 2 to 12 indies,
" $4.50 up to $21; values $8 up to $35.
5 Real Point Venise —Edges and Bands
» $10.50 up to $60; values $20 up to $100.
Real Lierre Edges and Bands. 1 to 18 indies.
$1.50 up to $9; values $2.50 up lo >!•>.
Edges and Galloons,
$1.50 up to $13.50; values $2.50 up to $25.
Boheme Laces—Edges and Insertings, 2 to 12 in.
$2.35 up to $10; values $1.50 up to $17.50.
Novelties i n V i 1 e t E d g e s a n d B a n d s,
$4.35 up to $15; values $8 up to $30.
Allovers ill Duchess, Rose Point. Princess, Bruge.
$11.75 to $17.50; values $20 up to $35.
Real Irish Neckwear in the Sale
Real haml-madc Irish Crochet Lace Collars, yokes and
cuff sets. All new, shown to-morrow for the first, time. Sav
ings a I bird : — —
$3.50 yokes $2.75.
$5.50 yokes $3.50.
$7 yokes $4.
$0, cuff sets $2.
Sale at 9 a. m.
(Laces, Main Floor, Right.)
85 cuff sets $3.50.
>5 collars $3.50.
$7 collars $4.95.
$8.50 collars $5.
813.50 collars $9.50.
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ALE of Sample Suits at $29.50
Values $39.50 to $45 M
$14.50
VISITORS to At
lanta will find a warm
welcome at this store.
MESSALINE
Silk. Petticoats
In all shndcs-
celleht $2.50
$3.00 values
mor
row
*1.98
Lovely Lingerie
SHIRTWAISTS
With medallions
and other lovely
trimmings, extra
ordinary
values at
Figured Crepe
KIMONOS
A rem a r k a b 1 e
Wednesday offer-
i n g,
choice •
His season over, one of our best makers for
wards his sample line. Duplicates of these very
suits have sold in stock at $39.->0 and $45, so we
are not guessing when we say these suits are
actually worth $39.50 and $45.
They are individual models that you won't
find everywhere; exclusive examples of the custoth
tailor's art: distinguished by clever style touches that
proclaim the artist-tailor. Models of merit that will at
tract favorable, attention in any fashionable gathering.
To this lot of samples we have 'added some suits from
regular stock—styles too fine for the popular taste, and the
"ones and twos" of broken lines. Some sixty suits In all In
failles, serges, eponge, Bedford cord, checks, suitings and
novelties. Bulgarian and Russian blouses, cutaway and straight
front coats, plain and dra ped skirts. Gray, navy. Copenhagen,
tan. white and black novelties, etc. Values $t!5 to $45; choice'
$23.50.
(Ready-to-Wear, Second Floor)
Silk Stockings
in Many Shades
New shipments just in. Worn-
mi who have found if difficult
to match certain shades will find
all the popular colors here, and
many of the odd shades. We
could have had the same liberal
color assortment before, bnt
only by waiting could we get
our regular qualities.
Navy, gray (3 shades), pink, light
blue, champagne, canary, gold, silver,
black and white. $1.00 and $1.50.
$1 to $1.50 Silk
Stockings 73c
Broken lines and odd lots from for
mer sales. All silk or with lisle feet
and lops. About all sites in the va
rious numbers.
(Hosiery, Main Floor, Right.)
Usual Credit Courtesies
extended to those desiring
goods charged.
Southern Suit & Skirt Co.
“Atlanta’s Exclusive Women’s Apparel Store,” 43-45 Whitehall Street
v
A Madame Grace Corset
Demonstration
by Miss Barrington, a woman who knows
corsets, because she designs them. If you
would know complete corset satisfaction be
fitted this week by Miss Barrington. (Sec()nd Floor .,
Dainty Neckfix-
ings for Fair
Feminine Throats
This has been a busy neckwear
season. Practically sold out two
•voeks ago. Buyer made a flying
trip to New York, and his pur
chases are just in. Every new
conceit is shown—the very neck
wear lhat fashionable New York
raves over is here at 50c to $15.
(Main Floor, Right.)
'% M. RICH & BROS. CO. W. RICH & BROS. CO.
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