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IV' » V THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. y PESTS STARTED BT SENATE Bill Passed Looking to Eradica tion of Weevil Through Regu lation of Cotton Traffic. The State Senate Friday morning passed House Bill No. 443 providing for an additional Judge of the Supe rior Court of the Atlanta Circuit. The Senate also passed, unanimous ly, Senator Ford's bill to eradicate the boll weevil by giving the State Board of Entomology the power to prescribe rules for the shipment of cotton and cotton articles. Mansion Question Up. The proposed disposition otf the Governor's Mansion provoked much discussion in the Senate when the bill of Senator Watts, providing for the appointment of a commission to in vestigate, was report**! unfavorably by the Committee on Public Prop erty. Senator Burts, chairman, declared the proposal to appoint « special com mission was contrary to the spirit for which the Public Property Commit tee was created. He, therefore, op posed this measure and others of sim ilar charatcer. Senator Harrell of the Twelfth raised the question as to the ad visability of disposing of the property. In reply, Senator Miller, who also .proposed a bill providing for a com mission to be appointed by the Gov ernor. replied that it was absolutely necessary. Adjourns Until Mondsy. To this Sentor McNeill of Macon objected on the grounds that the capital would soon be removed o Macon. The matter finally was sent hack to the Committee on Public Prop erty. Senator Harrell's bill requiring pelnt manufacturers to label their goods which was reported unfavor ably by the committee, was re-com mitted by unanimous vote of the Senate. The Senate passed a number of lo cal bills and adjourned until 11 o'clock Monday. OBITUARY The funeral of Hoy D. Tanrsll, 4- month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Terrell, of Moore’s Station. on the Marietta car line, who died ear- Thursday, wan hold from the home Friday morning. Interment was at Adumsvilie. Mrs. D. C. Collins, twenty-nine years old. died at the home in College Park Thursday night. She is sur vived by her husband three small children and her parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. P Holton, of College Park .Funeral services will be conducted yu Mount Zion Church at 4 o’clock tfday afternoon. Interment In the archyard. fun«»al services of Thomas A aith, who died Thursday at the home of his sister. Mrs. N. L. Moles, !No. 34 South Humphries street, will be held at the residence Friday ■pfternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Interment will follow at Greenwood. The body of Mrs. Emms E. Smith, Who died at the home, No. 138 Sooth Forsyth street, Wednesday ! : Bight, will rest in Atlanta Park | Cemetery, following funeral serv- at the chapel of Harry G Poole M 2 o’clock Friday afternoon. [Mrs. Fanni# Bobo, sixty-six years old. lied st her home in Riverside Thursday night. She is survived by K one daughter. Miss Bessie Bobo JJrThe body will be sent to Douglas- vilie for funeral and Interment f J. L. Reid. twenty-three years of age, IF No. 177 West Alexander street, died 1 Friday after an illness of sever <1 ^ weeks. He is survived by his par ents. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Reid, and four sisters and two brothers. Fu neral services will be conducted by Dr. L. O. Brieker Saturday after- ; noon at 3 o'clock at the residence. Interment will be at Temple. Ga. Funeral service* for R. L. Saxon will be held at the residence. No. 117 •South Gordon street. Wes* Err* Park. Saturday morning at 10:30 p o'clock. The pallbearers will be R. R. Nash. J. N. Danders. Harry Otis. Prince Coyne. Frank Schuler and H F. Whitmire. Interment at greenwood. JOHNSON IS PICKED TO WIN N. Y. TENNIS TITLE NEW YORK. Aug 1—William M Johnson, the youthful tennis player f om the Pacific Coast, was the center of at traction at the opening of the New Tork State Tennis Championship Tour nament on the courts of the Crescent Athletic Club, at Bay Ridge, yesterday. Of the ninety-seven aspirants to the honors held by Maurice E. McLoughlin, present holder of the championship. Johnaon is to-day pieke-d to finish at the top of the heap Johnaon gave a good account of him self in hia debut upon the local court by defeating G. 8. Nankivel, a racquet expert from Hackensack. N*. J.. in straight sets at 6-1. 7-5 STARTLED FRANK ON DAY OF GIRL'S DEATH i. 'i Mrs. Arthur White, first State witness on Friday at Frank trial. BickerstafF Says Present Statutes Discriminate in Favor of Foreign Competitors. "If the Legislature fails to pa«s the Me ad era bill allowing Georgia fire in surance companies the statutory right to invest in stocks it will have the effect of forcing several Georgia com panies out of existence,” said Charles A. Bickerstaff, of the Atlanta Home Insurance Company, Friday in com menting on some of the objections raised against the proposed measure. Mr. Bickerstaff declared several of the companies would be unable to pay dividends if their investments were hampered and restricted to an extent that would prevent them from purchasing securities that woufd yield them a sufficient IncorrA-. “The bill introduced by Mr. Mead- ers,” he asserted, "is copied practical ly verbatim after the New York law, and is intended to restore t«» the Geor- Moose Officers To Be Called in Probe Of Fatal Initiation BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 1.—When the probe into the deaths of Christopher Gust in and Donald Kenny, the two men killed during initiation into the local lolge of the LoyaJ Order of Moose last week, is resumed next Tuesday it is proposed to place on the stand officers of the lodge to as certain what they know of the work put on that night. The witnesses examined so far who were present at the fatal meeting told practically the same story as to the accident. Emil Feast, who was a candidate the same evening, told of receiving the "branding” stunt. He Raid he felt the shock, but was not afraid. While for a few minutes he left the sensation, he’got over it. Relatives of the deceased are get- I ting copies of the testimony being | taken before the Coroner. Zachry Child Torn From Mother’s Arms COLUMBIA, Aug. 1.—When Judge | Cary to-day awarded the elder I Zachry child, Frances, aged 3 years, to Julian J. Zachry, the father, it re- | quired four deputies to overpower | Mrs. Mary W. Zachry, the weeping ! mother w'ho refused to give up her I child. The scene in the courtroom was 1 pathetic as the child was torn from the mother's arms. Mrs. Zachry fled from Augusta to j South Carolina with the children after Judge Hammond had ruled that j under the Georgia law the children belonged to the father. Accuses Husband, In Jail, of Frauds ANNISTON, Aug. 1.—Mrs. W. C. Sites, chief wiWie-a against her hus band, w r ho is in Jail in Gadsden, un der a charge of getting money un der faise pretenses and using mails to defraud, has come here for se clusion pending the trial. Mrs. Sites alleges that Sites would send out letters to theatrical people with the ostensible purpose of se curing employment for her and when he would receive a favorable reply, would call for advance money, pocket the change and then address another manager under a different name. Atlanta Expects to Land Textile Meet Alonzo Iler, of Greenville, S. C., has arrived in Atlanta and will con fer with the committee on meetings of the Southern Textile Association, of which he is chairman, to determine the date for the annual meeting this year. It is expected that the meeting will be held in Atlanta and that fully 300 delegates will attend. j Whole Day of Adventure COMFORT BEFORE DIGNITY, SAYS COATLESS PREACHER r, *-■ + % \ * *«(► * *3. ; j-.-- •, * T ./ V .. , ' , y'. **'■*. .j u,. A •*.-Y y CARMEI, IND., Aug. 2.—The Rev. Arthur Hammond, pastor of the Friends’ Church, says he believes comfort should come before dignity or style, and recently appeared be fore an audience in his shirt sleeves. Men in the audience made themselves comfortable, and in a few minutes there were only five men wearing coats. One man removed his collar and tie. Since then the men have been attending in shirt sleeves, and appear to be enjoying the services more than formerly. New Month Picks Hot Day for Debut August picked a hot day to make its 1913 debut, the mercury standing at 75 at daybreak. Light breezes af forded the downtown section verv lit tle relief, for at 1 o’clock the Govern ment thermometer showed 90 degrees, while the heat mark on the streets was about 94. Relief is promised Friday night or Saturday by thundershowers. \t Fountains & Elsewhere Ask for \t FOUR WOMEN ON BODY TO FIX MINIMUM WAGE OLYMPIA, WASH., Aug. 1.—Four kns.J of the five members of the State In dustrial Welfare Commission, created by the State Legislature to carry into effect the minimum wage law for women and children, will be women. Under the new law the commission will hold hearings and set a fair min imum for women and children em- ! ployed in each industry in regard to I which complaint is made. Dynamite Plots Stir Copper Strike Zone CALUMET, MICH., Aug 1.—Gen eral Abbey, commanding the State troops in the Calumet copper district, where 18.000 miners are on strike, to day Issued a warning that three coun ties in the district will he declared under martial law is additional dyna mite plots arc discovered. The announcement followed the ar rest of three men accused of threat ening to blow up mine property unless the operators quickly come to terms with the strikers. SEEKS ALABAMA OFFICE. BIRMINGHAM. Aug. 1. -Charles H. Greer, of Marlon, editor of The Standard, a weekly newspaper, has announced his candidacy for Secre tary of State In the primaries next Spring. He has two opponents. He was defeated by Cyrus Brown, the present incumbent. •‘LET WILLARD GET A REP,” WIRES BURNS TO JONES LOS ANGELES, Aug 1. Tommy Burns, manager of Arthur Pelky, and Tom Jones, who looks after the inter ests of Jess Willard, are booked to hook up In an interesting battle of in vectives ami nenr-blows within a day or two. Jones wants to match. Willard against, Pelky, but Burns in a telegram to-day says that Willard must go get a reputa tion before presuming to challenge a champion "Gunboat Smith is the man Pelky wants to meet," said Burns. "Smith beat Willard, and then again. Charley Miller shaded the Kansas scrapper. Let him get a ‘rep’ for himself." This sort of language is the sort that makes .Tones glad he is alive, for he thrives on argument. When did Pelky whip Willard or any body of consequence until be landed a lucky punch on Luther McCarty?” asks Jones. "Willard can whip Pelky. ami Burns can name his own terms. Pelky took one beating from Willard and wants no more." gia companies the right which they had until the bill of 1912. "No such restrictions are thrown about any foreign company operating In Georgia, and the companies of this State have been placed at a decided disadvantage. The foreign compa nies have built up their tremendous assets and surpluses by making in vestments In staple stocks which yield a much larger percentage of Income than the Investment in bonds. "The insurance business in Georgia is in its infancy, although this State has some of the oldest companies in the union. If the present law' is not amended so that these companies will be fostered and encouraged, It will force them to take up their charters in this State and go to other fields. CASH GRO, CO., wMSS LEMONS [Extra 'Fine Lemons Ml DOZ. 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