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\ ODDITIES -—in the—■ BAY'S NEWS Further Rise Indicated—Dealers Deny Cost Outside of Chi cago Is Lower. • CHICAGO, May 1.—The j»ri« * s «-f j meal# in Chicago have le-ached i • it ( high mark for the li-t five ya» dictations to-dav were* that they v • r« going still higher. Dealers admitted to-dav that their prices were higher, hut denied that meat pri< • s were low- ei in other cities. The following prunes u**re in atTet t in Chicago to-day Kound steak, 17 and 1* < »*nts a pound. against 11* cents last year, sir- loin steak. 20 cents, against 16 cents u year ago: bacon. 23 cents, against 23 cents last year; rib roast. 21 cents, egainst 18 cents last year: pork . hops, IK cents, against 14 cents last year, hens, 18 and 20 cents, against 1.'. t ents last year. \\ HO W ANTS TO 131! A MAYOR Mctuchrn, N. f.. is in the market h r a good Mayor. So far nobody ap peal' to want the Job. The Mayoi receives no tees and no salary. OVERCOME BY OCTBIST ART W hile gazing at a cubist picture in Albion Hall, Boston, a woman fainted and broke a bust of Baudelaire. Th< "busted” bust will be sent back to Baris for reassembling. ti*:a«’h pupils how to milk DOWS.- So that the pupils might have a practical education aside from the ordinary studies, the art of mllk- ing cows and poultry raising will be taught in the schools of Plainfield, N. J. KINDS RICH ORE IN NEW YORK. — A claim has been filed with the* Sec retary of State by William H. Bur- l.ans, of Kingston, N V , who says he has discovered a valuable deposit of gold, silver, zinc, lead and copper near the Ashekan. The vein Is about 200 feet long and 300 feet wide. KIND SISTER AFTER 45 YEARS -Mrs. Joseph Kronneung, of Nyaek. N Y , and her brother, Joseph Good rich. have found their siMter, Mrs. So phie Marson, whom they had regard - . 1 as dead. Separated after the death ey wt re small, the three had not met for 45 years ESTABL p HED »3 YEARS DR.E.G. GRIFFIN’S CATE CITY DENTAL ROOMS BEST WORK AT LOWEST PRICES I Work Guaranteed. AI f l r Hour* i 8 to 6-Phone M. 1708-Sundayn 9 1 Whitehall St. Over Brown A Allen* STATE LEADERS IN EDUCATION MEET Governor Brown and Well Known Georgians Speak To-night at Opening Session. TITE ATLANTA CiEOROTAN AND NEWS.THURSDAY CABLI: NEWS Important Events From All Over the Old World Told in a Few Short Line*. FOREST PRESERVE Addr» Kset* on school work formed tiie feature of this morning's aeaai&on of the county school officials of Geor gia ;it Taft Hall. Prominent Georgia educators are gathered in Atlanta for the convention. The final session, similar in char acter to the on** this morning and the. three yesterday, is scheduled for this afternoon at H o’clock. Following the closing of the county officials’ convention, the meeting of the Georgia Educational Association will be held, with the first meeting this evening at 8 o’clock. Addresses will be made by Rev. Richard Orme Fllnn, Atlanta. Governor Joseph M. Brown, W alter H. Daly, president of the <‘ity Board of Education W. M, Slaton, Superintendent of the Atlanta public schools; Dr. K. H. Gaines, pres ident of Agnes Stott College Dr. Gaines will speak on "The Pitmen Trend In the Education of Women.” An address will be made by Philan der P. Claxton. National Commission er of Education, on the need of more public schools throughout the United States, and the question of the Na tional Government lending aid to the States in educational work Those who spoke yesterday at the officials* meeting were Superintendent E. T. Sn^ed, Carroll County; <\ H. Cox, Pickens County. J. O. Martin., Newton County: J. J. Nunnally, Wal ton County; J. O. O’Quinn. Lowndes County. H. G Hastings. Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; S. E. Jones. Chatooga County. Judge Krank Park. Worth County. Mrs. Z. I. Fitzpatrick, president of the Georgia Federation ol Women’s Clubs; Mrs. X. Peterson, and Miss C. S. Parrish. State School Supervisor. LONDON. May 1.—At Christ Church to-day $78,500 was paid for four r*anels of Berdundian tapestry representing the life history <>f Queen Isabella of Carlisle $10,000 Dog Poisoned. LONDON, May 1 -The champion Pekinese poodle, Chootai. valued at $10,000, which won many prizes in America, was mysteriously poisoned in its kennel at Kgham to-day. The police are Investigating. New Bidder for Canal Business. TOKIO, JAPAN. May I.—The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company is an other Diuder for around-the-world traffic via the Panama Canal. The Flint ship of that line began its trans pacific sendee when* it sailed from Yokohama to-day. New MisHaD to Imoerator CUXHAVEN, GERMANY. May 1. —The trial trips of the Hamburg- American liner Iraperator have been indefinitely postponed. The bearii\trs of one of her turbines ran hot dur ing i speed trial, necessitating the dismounting of the turbine. Nicaragua Biulds Forts. SAN JL’AN DEL SCR NICARA GUA. May J.—The Nicaraguan Gov ernment is constructing modern for tifications on TIscapa Hill for the de fense of Managua. Heavy guns will be mounted and powerful search lights installed. Buys 17 German Theaters. LONDON. May 1.—A1 H. W oods, the New York theatrical manager, has arrived here from Berlin with a story of having bought seventeen vaude ville houses in Germany known as the Gold sail < ircuit. Mr. Woods ray: 1 he has $1,000,000 to back the enter prise and intends running houses on American lines, with pictures as a feature. New Members on the Commission Agree to Purchase of Large Tennesseee Timber Tract. WASHINGTON. May 1.—The set- ond purchase of lands in Tennessee by the Federal Government for for est purposes was recently approved by the National Forest Reservation Com mission. This area is in Polk County, in a lo- ality where forests were badly dam aged a number of years ago by sul phur fumes from copper smelters. More recently, however, sulphuric acid plants have been installed and these take care of the fumes. The tract contains 53,500 acres of timber and cut-over lands. This tract. In connection with one approved for purchase at the same time, on the we«t slope of Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina., has been'acquired to pro tect the upper waiersheds of the Ten nessee River. The total area now approved for purchase in the eastern mountains amounts to 500,000 acres, of which about 90,000 are in the White Moun tains. New Hampshire. The approval of this purchase by the National Forest Reservation com mission may be taken as evidence that the work of the commission will continue without change, though its membership is partly new. $196,000 OIL SUIT GOES TO UNITED STATES COURT A suit against the Texas Company, an oil corporation, for $196,002.16 damages, filed with the Superior court by T. E. Purcell, manager of an Atlanta garage, has been transferred to the United States Court for hearing. The suit alleges a breach of contract on the part of the oil company in fail ing to supply gasoline and lubricating oils at a contracted price Bible Inscribed by Ruskin Brings $1275 j Rare Volumes Under Hammer in London Fetch Total of $17,508. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. May 1.—The second day's sale of books at Sotheby's realized $10,153; total for the two da ye, $17,- 508. A Vulgate Bible, an illustrated manuscript of about the fourteenth century, fetched $1,275. On the fly leaf is the inscription: "Laurence Hilliard, with John Hus kin'.s hope that he will keep this book in memory of better times. April 7, 1875.” A well-decorated Anglo-Norman manuscript of the fourteenth century. "Hovae Beatae Virginia Mariae,” brought $1,025. It was presented by John Ruskin to "Lolly, with much love from J. R. Ascension Day. 1810.' "America, a Declaration of the State of the Colonie and Affaires in Vir ginia, Etc.,'' London, 1620, the earliest issue, sold for $462. Southern Puts Dairy Experts in Atlanta Headquarters Removed From Wash ington—Seven New Men Are Added to Staff. MBBBBBBSBBEa To lake advantage of interest ere ated in the dairy and poultry indus tries throughout the Southeast by the operation of its dairy instruction car, the Southern Railway has enlarged the scope of its work by appointing seven additional dairy and poultry ex perts to devote their entire time in the field, advising and helping dairy- jnen and farmers. Headquarters of the reorganized dairy division will be removed from Washington to Atlanta, with Dr. •'I* M. Morgan, dairy agent, in charge. Working under his direction will he the following assistant dairy apd poultry agents: F. H. Denniss, with headquarters at Columbus. Miss.; G. W. Humphrey. Birmingham, Ala.; O. A. Hutton, Knoxville. Term.: Walter \\ . Fitzpatrick, Atlanta; C. T. R . Greensboro. N. <*.; Carlton Ball. St. Louis, Mo.: J. P. Quinerly. Jr., vvh > will continue to travel with the dairy instruction car. 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Mar.agwt , MARCH IVT-DN’OAV EVEW-WG s ORCHESTRA \ * 'a m * 3S§ ‘ ONE. \ , o/f £5 / *U cu J3 C~3 r - / Co *1 <o UJ * *X T- *1*0' , o Uj * 1 CJ CD march _ & JlB0l U o S\H S- „., t e &?e. , * la *** r “ w ;;J°5h KW.mo.--w. *v soiS f s/l/ia ^ /sfi« , & iBi Si Theater u mSlHOvo FOR READERS OF £01 Q 3 sOSB^MMcan and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN FIRST COUPON TO-DAY / udlp ^ t’/x/C/ O/^r Y «* /*. ¥ Li Coupon No. 1 of the Free Theater Ticket Series wili be found on Page 1 of to-day’s % The remaining coupons of the series will appear in The Georgian to-morrow and Saturday and in Hearst’s Sunday American next Sunday. Cut out and send the four coupons, of consecutive numbers, to our office, by mail. Inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and we will send you a reserved seat ticket for one of the Miss Billy Long Stock Co./s plays at the Atlanta Theater. Thousands of tickets are ready for distribution under this unusual offer--- the most liberal ever made by a newspaper. 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