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TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SUFFRAGE GMZE'
Mrs. S. W. Whitner entertained at
an Informal afternoon party Tuesdiy
when she Invited sixteen guests o
meet Mrs. Thomas Daniel, who leaves
September 1 to naake her home in
Columbia, S. C.
Sunflowers and goldenglow deco
rated the rooms where the game was
played.
Mrs. Daniel will be the honor guest
at several parties before she leaves.
Mrs. Paul Baker. Mrs. Thomas Pat-
Ion. Mrs. Joseph (’amp and Mrs. Har-
vie Jordan have planned informal af
fairs for her.
Qirtman - Jeffries.
On Saturday last at the residence
of Mrs. Kate H. Orme on East Elev
enth street Miss Mae Girt man was
married to Mr. T. A. Jeffries, Dr. W.
W. Landrum officiating After a trip
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffries will be ut home
at No. 25 Bonaventure avenue.
Strickland - Powell.
Miss Daley Strickland and Mr. F.
Pasco Powell, of Quitman, were mar
ried Monday evening at the Aragon
Hotel, the Rev. G. R. Buford officiat
ing. Mise Strickland is a well-known
violinist in Atlanta and Mr. Powell is
prominent in business in Quitman.
Mr. and Mrs. Powell left immedi
ately for Hampton Springs. Fla., and
on their return they will make their
home in Quitman.
Mrs. Campbell Hostess.
Mrs. J. A. Campbell entertained at
bridge Tuesday afternoon for her
guest, Miss Nolle Thomason, of Bir
mingham. The house was decorated
with garden flowers.
Miss Thomason wore white crepe
with a sash of pink. The guests in
cluded Mrs. J. S. Furlong, Mrs. H. L.
Singer, Mrs. Brown, Mrs John Scott,
Mrs. Caspar Johnson, Mrs. D. I.
MacIntyre Jr, Mrs. C. V. Rainwa
ter. Mrs. V. V. Davis. Mrs. Ran
dolph West, Mrs. Frank Dabney,
Miss Julia MacIntyre, and her guest,
Miss Fraser Mitchell.
Williams-McMillan.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth
Ruth Williams and Mrs. J. C. McMil
lan. Jr., took place Saturday evening
at the residence of the Rev. L. O.
Bricker, who officiated at the cer
emony.
Miss Pagett Hostess.
Miss Annie Loll Pagett will enter
tain Friday evening for her guest,
Miss Carol Dean, of Gainesville and
Miss Mary Belle Hixon, of Amertcus,
the guest of Mrs. Russell Bridges.
To Miss Beatie.
Miss Josephine Smith entertained
at a spend-the-day party Tuesday for
Miss Eva Beatie of New York, who
is her guest. Invited to meet Miss
Beatie were Misses Julia Dunning
Leila Pondln, Katherine Law. Emily
Wimpy. Marie Norris, Edwina Har
per and Willis Smith.
Sawing Club.
Miss Mary Lucy Turner will enter
tain the Sewing Club Wednesday
morning at her home in Ponce De
Leon avenue.
PERSONALS
I mal evening party was give for h**r
and several other affairs are being
J planned.
Mrs. Cole E. Morgan and Master
• Ben Morgan are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Morgan in Knoxville.
Dr. E. C. Davis has gone to French
Lick Springs to spend some time.
Miss Elite Gheesling has returned
home after a stay of two weeks with
relatives and friends in Augusta and
Washington, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs Matthew E. Gheesling
left Atlanta Monday for a ten days’
stay at Cohutta Springs.
Miss Ruth Barry has as her guest
this week Miss Anna Laura Thiot,
from Savannah.
Misses Amelia and Elizabeth Smith
are guests of Miss Dorothy High on
Peachtree road.
Mr and Mrs R. T. Du Bose and
Miss Mettle Wilson DuBose have re
turned home after spending the sum
mer at the Majestic.
Mr Colley Haygood and Mr. Hill
Smith left Atlanta last Saturday for
Washington and New York
Misses Sammy D. Pittard and
Maude Abbott and Messrs. E. C. and
T. C. Pittard, who have been visiting
friends in Atlanta, have returned
home.
Mrs. Horace K. Cannon and Mrs.
Allie Gallaher have returned to At
lanta after a two weeks’ outing on
the Isle of Palms
Messrs. Bert Carmichael and Rob-
ert Stallworth motored to Indian
Springs Saturday afternoon for the
weekly dance at Hotel Wigwam.
Mrs. Earle E. Griggs and children
have returned from Nashville, where
they were in attendance on the In
ternational Typographical Union con
vention.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Debnam
have returned from North Carolina,
where they were guests of Mr. Deb-
nAin’s relatives.
Mrs J. A. Willingham and her
daughter, Miss Anna, have left Atlan
ta to spend the remainder of August
in the mountains of North Carolina,
visiting Hendersonville, Brevard and
Asheville.
Miss Wandsleigh West is the guest
of Mrs. Walter Wilson in Savannah.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jarvis are In
Savannah visiting Mr. and Mrs L.
B. Fowler, en route home from New
York.
Miss Florence Atwell is the guewt
of Dr. and Mrs. I. H. Goss in Athens.
Dr. DeLos I,. Hill continues 111 at
his home in Ponce DeLeon avenue.
Misses Elia and Ada Belle Quinlan
and Miss Jimmie Roberts 1 eft At
lanta Saturday for St. Simons, where
they will be for two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. John Ragsdale will
leave Atlanta Tuesday for Buffalo,
Texas, to visit Mr. Ragsdale’s mother,
Mrs. Mary Ragsdale.
South Carolina Senator Also De
plores “Swapping of Wives
Among the Rich Class.’”
WASHINGTON, Auk. 19.—“I, look-
ing at the growing craze for women
suffrage and the rapid Increase In
the number of divorces granted in
this country, sadly think, If I do not
say. 'America, thy race Is almost run
unless something 1* done to check
thy headlong speed,”’ declared Sena
tor Tillman, of South Carolina., in
the Senate to-day. while discussing
the woman’s suffrage question.
Senator Tillman declared he is
strongly opposed to grant!-- the bal
lot to women.
“The custom* of our people In
herited from our forefathers," said
the Senator, "make it dangerous to
’monkey’ with womankind. If the
California men had our customs.
Diggs and Caminetti would not be
allowed to go to trial now because
they would have been shot like dogs.
“Among our very rich people in
America the geenration has gone so
far that swapping wives is a com
mon practice. The women are just
as bad a* the men.”
Tamer Dying After
Battle With Lion
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 19.—Leconte, the
famous lion tamer, was perhaps mor
tally injured at the Magic City In
an encounter with a maddened jungle
king, while hundreds looked on.
Just as the lion was about to ad
minister the finishing blow, it was
shot and killed.
Troops Are Charged
With Insulting Girls
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Insults
to young girls, murder and attack
by the Michigan State militia are
charged In a telegram from J. H.
Walker, the Calumet. Mich., represen
tative of the American Federation
of Labor, given out here.
The dispatch was addressed to
Samuel Gompers and was received
here to-day.
Miss Jessie ('oogler, No. 37 Lang-
horn street, is spending a few' weeks
In the mountains at Clayton. Huber-
sham County, in company with a par
ty of friends of West End.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Davidson, of
Montgomery, Ala., are visiting their
daughter Mrs. Georg Fr. IJndner, at
No. 15 Barksdale drive, Ansiey Park.
Miss Lucy Sophia McKemle has re
turned home from a visit in Sewanee,
Tenn.
Miss Mamie Lee Bearden left Mon
day for a visit to friends in Madison
and Athens.
Miss Genevieve Capps left Tuesday
for a short stay in Gainesville.
Miss Nolle Thomason, of Birming
ham, who is visiting Mrs. J. A. Camp
bell in Decatur, will return home
Thursday.
Messrs. William F. Gann and Paul
Stratchen left Saturday to spend their
vacation in Jacksonivlle. Fla., and
New' Orleans.
Miss Sappho Thrash left Tuesday
for a camping trip with friends in the
mountains of North Georgia.
Mrs. J. H. Smith la ill at her home
in Marietta.
Miss Maggie Morrison, who is vis
iting in Savannah, in receiving charm
ing attentions. Last week an infor-
Good Food Secret of
100 Per Cent Baby
PASSAIC, N. J., Aug. 19.—"Good
substantial food, well cooked, Is what
I feed him," said Mrs. Thomas Wat-
terson, of Passaic, when anked how
she reared her son, Iveslle, the only
100 per cent baby in the “better
babies’’ contest.
He gets soups, fruits, vegetables,
pudding* and cereals.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
COLUMBUS. Aug. 19.—The Lee
County. Alabama, annual Sunday
School Convention begins Tuesday at
Waverly. Prominent Sunday school
workers from all sections of Alabama
will be in attendance.
OBITUARY.
The funeral of J. E. Davit, Jr., Infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Davis,
No. 20 Went End avenue, who died
Monday, will be held from the home
at 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
Interment at Greenwood.
The body of Joseph E. Fenn, No. 220
Gordon street, who died Monday,
will be taken Wednesday to Bir
mingham. for funeral and Inter
ment. Funeral services will he held
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock at
Barclay & Brandon’s chapel.
Mrs. Bessie Hairston, twenty-six
years old, died Monday afternoon
at a local sanitarium. She is sur
vived by her husband, three chil
dren. her father, James Peevy, and
one sister Mrs. Etta Stevens. The
body is at Barclay & Brandon’s,
and will be sent Wednesday morn
ing to Fayetteville, Ga., for funeral
and Interment.
The funeral of R. E. Henry, an At
lantan w'ho died Sunday night at
Milledgevllle, will he held at El-
lenville, Ga.. Tuesday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock. He is survived by a
w’ife and one child.
The funeral of Mrs. Lillie Adams, who
died at a local sanitarium Monday
morning, were held Tuesday morn
ing at the residence on the Howell
Mill road. She was twenty-seven
year* old, and is .survived by her
huMband, O. H. Adams, and three
children. Interment at Holiyw'ood.
The funeral of Benjamin E. D©ary-
bury, Jr., who died Monday, was
held Tuesday morning from Poole’s
chapel, followed by interment at
Green w’ood.
Mrs. E. E. Lyle, sixty years old, died
Monday morning At a local sani
tarium. Surviving her are four
children. Funeral services will be
held at 3:30 o’clock Tuesday after-
nnon at Bloomfield’s chapel, and
the body will be taken to Marietta
for interment.
Mrs. Grace R. Tyndall, thirty-one
years old. died Monday morning at
the residence, No. 83 Garden street.
She i» survived by four children,
her parents. Mr. and- Mrs. G. W.
Turner, one sister. Mrs A. V. Hinds,
and one brother, G. W. Turner. Jr.
The funeral will be held at 10:30
o’clock Wednesday morning from
Bloomfield’ chapel. Interment at
Westvlew'.
The funeral of Mrs. A. E. Benton,
grandmother of Mary Phagan, who
died Sunday night at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Coleman,
was held Tuesday morning at Sar
dis church. Interment was in the
churchyard.
Mary Payne, one of Atlanta’* oldest
negroes, and for more than a quar
ter of a century an em^’oyee about
the Federal Building, died Monday
morning at No. 68 Terry street
She was the wife of David Payne
and was over eighty y ear* old.
Both were old-time slave*. David
Payne fighting through the Civil
War by the side of his master. The
funeral w'lll be held Tuesday aft
ernoon from Allen Temple, church,
followed by Interment at South-
view.
JUDGE PELHAM AT HOME.
ANNISTON, ALA., Aug. 19.—Judge
John Pelham, of the Appellate Court,
Is In Anniston, where he still holds
his citizenship. He was in confer
ence with the Governor recently in
reference to the Senatorial situation
in this State. Personally, he says he
thinks that Clavton will be seated.
CHAGED WITH ARSON.
CHATTANOOGA, Aug 19.—Sam
Lovell, County Court Clerk in James
County, was bound over to the grand
Jury under bond of $1,000 at Oolte-
wah, charged with burning the
courthouse there last March.
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3 ATLANTA BILLS
With more than 200 bills on Gov
ernor Slaton’s desk which had to be
signed immediately, the doors of the
executive offices were closed to visi
tors Tuesday while the Governor
delved Into the mass of work In an
effort to get the bills signed and out
of the way before the next batch
came from the engrossing clerks of
the House and Senate.
The Governor expects to Rign all
the bills that reach him Tuesday be
fore the day Is over. In order to fore
stall any discussion as to whether
Sunday shall be counted as one of the
five days in which he is allowed to
Rlgn bills passed by the Legislature.
Up to Tuesday morning Governor
Slaton had signed only one of the
three local bills affecting Atlanta. This
Was the measure creating a new Judge
for the Atlanta Circuit, which he ap
proved Monday afternoon. The other
two, the bill creating a new charter
for the city and the bill creating mu
nicipal courts, probably will be signed
Tuesday.
It is understood the Governor will
defer appointing the new Atlanta
judge until he returns from the con
ference of Governors at Colorado
Springs, Colo., next week. Governor
Slaton will leave Saturday, to be gone
about ten days.
JUDGE MATTHEWS HOLDSCOURT
JACKSON.—Judge H. A. Mat 1
thews, of Macon, is holding court here
this week for Judge Robert T. Dan
iel, of the Flint Circuit, who Is ill.
The criminal calendar will be reached
about the middle of the week, civil
business having been taken up Mon
day.
CALL COAL FIRM BANKRUPT.
An Involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed against the Rock
Springs Coal Company Tuesday. Pe
titioners named are R. E. Miller and
Meredith Collier, of New York, an<^ j
Naley, of Atlanta, their total claims
exceeding $1,000.
BARACA-PHILATHEA PICNIC.
COLUMBUS.—To-night at Wild
wood Park more than 1,000 members
of the Baraca-Phllathea Union, com
posed of Sunday schools in Colum
bus, Phenix City and Girard, Ala.,
will have their first annual picnic.
SHAD0GRAPHS PLEASE
OLD AND YOUNG ALIKE
AT BONITA THEATER
Vaudeville, especially the Shado-
graph act. at the Bonita is a reve
lation to the patrons of this beau
tiful little theater.
A bill of four good, clean, amus
ing acts is given, and the older
ones, as well as the children, en
joy the fine Shadographs of gro
tesque and amusing subjects.
The bill is high class and pleas
ing.
Militants Destroy
Historic Altar Cloth
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LANBEIUS, WALES, Aug. *9.-
Suffragettes to-day destroyed a beau
tiful historic altar cloth in the Paris
Church at the foot of Mount Snow
don.
BEDFORD. ENGLAND. Aug. 19.—
A large lumber yard was burned here
to-day by militant suffragettes.
COLUMBUS CONCERN BANKRUPT
COLUMBUS. The Smlth-Gordy-
Boyd Furniture Company, one of the
oldest establishments of the kind in
Columbus, has filed a petition of
bankruptcy in the Federal Court,
placing assets at $10,685.48 and lia
bilities at $9,067.20. The manager of
the firm died recently.
100 Lite-Wate Suit Cases
So light you won’t feel them.
So cheap you can’t overlook them.
To close out this week at
95c
each
Sizes 14 to 26 inches.
LIEBERMAN’S
THE TRUNK STORE
92 WHITEHALL
DINING CARS
WITH A’LA CARTE SERVICE !pp
TO CINCINNATI & LOUISVILLE liw
Late Summer Opportunities
For Profitable Buying at Allen’s
Tho the waning season has diminished our Summer Stocks, as is
only natural, you will find here great unusual values in dresses of
fine voile, linen and other summer stuffs at such low prices that a
visit will profit you surprisingly, each dress being not more than
one-third its former selling price.
$ 8.50 to $10.00
Dresses .
$12.50 to $16.50
Dresses .
$18.50 to $22.50
Dresses .
$25.00 to $30.00
Dresses . .
$35.00 to $40.00
Dresses . .
$45.00 to $50.00
Dresses . .
. $7.75
$55.50 to $65.00 Dresses $22. 75
Any Linen Suit in the House
And There Are Values Up to $35.00
Tech Commercial
Course Endowment
Is Growing Rapidly
More than 25 of tne 100 required
guarantors for the new commercial
course at Tech, to be launched at the
opening of the 1913-14 term Septem
ber 15, have been obtained, and an ac
tive campaign is being waged to com
plete the list by Saturday.
Each of the 100 guarantors is to
give the sum of $25, making an en
dowment of $2,500. The sum may be
Increased later.
Classes in practical accounting,
commercial law, business economics,
auditing, banking and similar sub
jects will be taught. Afternoon
classes from 4 to 6 o’clock will be
conducted to give business men of
Atlanta an opportunity to attend.
Professor E. C, Green, formerly of
New York City, but for the past year
an Instructor at Tech, will be at the
head of the department. Four other
Tech professors will assist him. Ed
gar Watkins will be counsel for the
law department, and Joel Hunter for
the accounting.
Former Atlantan to
Head Anniston Hotel
ANNISTON. Aug. 19—William E.
Maxwell, who came to Anniston from
Denver, where was connected with
the business office of a newspaper has
been appointed manager of the Ala
bama Hotel to succeed C. H. Mitchell,
manager of the Anniston hostelry for
several years.
Mr. Maxwell was connected with
the Piedmont in Atlanta for several
years and is said to have had an ex
tensive experience in the hotel busi
ness.
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The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa
ture of Clias. II. Fletcher, and has been made under hit
personal supervision for over 30 years. Ailow uo on*
to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Tndtations and
.Vust-as-g-ood ” are but Experiments, anti endanger tho
health of Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORSA
Onstoria is a harmless substitute for Castor OH, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is Us guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colie. It relit ves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates th*
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Sears the Signature of
r
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THI OCNTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY •TRKCT. N*W YORK CITY.
Grand opening with
SclTJOy CJ&f up - to - date quality
and service. All
NEW CONSUL AT MOBILE.
MOBILE, Aug. 19.—J. Nelson Pol-
hamus, Cuban Consul at Canton,
China, has been appointed Consul
for Cuba at this port, succeeding Leo
pold Dols, who goes to New York !
as Cuban Consul General.
welcomed. Under new manage-
ment. 34 Peachtree St.
Southern Suit & Skirt Co.—Atlanta, Neu) York—Southern Suit & Skirt Co.
To-morrow (Wednesday) Morning We Will Begin the
Final Outclearing
CHOICE
$2.95
Of Every Summer
Dress That Sold at
$7.50 to $12.50 . . .
Remodeling is well advanced—new goods are arriving daily
—to meet these UNUSUAL con litions, this store is prepared to
sacrifice every summer dress, suit, waist, skirt and motor coat in
stock at a MERE FRACTION of its ACTUAL value!
To-morrow, Wednesday, we will begin the FINAL WIND
UP of this, by far the most REMARKABLE SALE this store has
ever held.
A QUICK RIDDANCE is the slogan of this sale. Attend
to-morrow if possible!
takes choice, to-morrow and while they last, of any
$7.50 to $12.50 summer dress. This includes all
of those lovely striped and figured voiles, white lin
geries, ratines and linens.. At this price we can not fill any C.
(). D. orders, make any exchanges or send any on approval.
$5.00
DRESSES
Finest Lingerie Frocks
of the season—all that
sold at $25 to $35. 1
CHOICE
$12.50
500 WAISTS
Featuring every new color com
bination and style idea of
the season, in lovely
White Voile and
Marquisette Waists
that sold at $1.50
and $2.00. CHOICE
69c
1,000 Skirts Reduced
SUITS
Just 35 of those
charming Ratine and
Linen Suits — that
sold at $12.50 to
$16.50.
CHOICE
$3.95
New Colored Crepe Dresses $12.50
All the new Fall shades, green, wood brown, wistaria and raisin,
also black and.white, make up an attractive assortment of the new
silk crepe and crepe de chine dresses, $12.50.
J. P. ALLEN &
51-53 Whitehall St.
Quick
Disposal All
Ladies’ Motor Coats
Takes elioiee of all
All Ladies’ Auto /t* 4 i
$4.95
fine Linen Motor
Coats that sold at
Coats that sold at TL 1
$10 to $12.50.
$4 to $6, now go at. * • aU'
Southern Suit& Skirt Co.
“Atlanta's Exclusive Women's Apparel Store’’—43-45 Whitehall Street
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