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Good Roads Roosters Are Aroused.
Big Ovation for Pathfinders Is
Planned in Birmingham.
Good roads and highway boosters
of Atlanta and Georgia are watching
with interest the progress of Path
finder Ferguson, who is blazing a
trail from Atlanta to San Francisco
for Hearst’s Sunday American and
other papers.
The Ferguson party is speeding
through east Alabama toward Bir
mingham. Arriving there about noon
Thursday the party ^ r ill be escorted
into the city by a big delegation of
good roads boosters, city officials and
leading citizens, headed by a brass
band. Soon after the arrival a mon
ster meeting and reception will be
held in honor of the trail-blazers.
The tourists will resume the jour
ney to Montgomery Friday morning
and are scheduled to arrive in the
Alabama capital Saturday. From
Montgomery the party will proceed to
Mobile, thence-to New Orleans, Dal
las, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles
and San Francisco.
Enthusiasm Augurs Success.
If the enthusiasm manifested in the
big campaign all along the route from
Atlanta to Birmingham is an indica
tion of that which is to follow from
Mobile and New Orleans on to San
Francisco, the ultimate success of the
project is assured.
Seldom in either Georgia or Ala
bama have people been known to take
such interest in a campaigp of this
sort. Leaving Atlanta Monday morn
ing, the Ferguson party arrived at
Austell, where a big delegation of
Douglasville good roads boosters met
the tourists to escort them to Doug
lasville. Here Mayor Upshaw and
Editor Drake acted as hosts at a re
ception at the Douglasville Hotel. Not
to be outdone by their neighbors, the
Tallapoosa boosters took the tourists
in hand Tuesday morning and escort
ed them across the State line to Hef
lin, Ala., where another reception was
held, with Booster R. A. Perryman as
the host.
Contest Over Routes Develops.
From Heflin the tourists proceeded
direct to Anniston, where a new s«ort
of evidence of the immense interest in
the campaign was found in the form
of a contest between rival delegations
from Ashville and Riverside, who want
the highway between Anniston and
Birmingham.
Mr. Ferguson settled the contro
versy for the present by deciding to
go by way of Ashville on this trip and
via Riverside and Pell City on the
second trip to San Francisco. Al
though the Riverside enthusiasts were
keenly disappointed, they took their
medicine manfully and went back
home Tuesday afternoon to begin
work on the road in prepartion for
Mr. Ferguson’s trip several months
h*»nce The official route through this
section of the country will not be se
lected until both routes have been
checked over carefully.
Following arrival at Anniston Path
finder Ferguson declared the roads
between Atlanta and the Alabama
city were in good shape in most places
and highly capable of affording a
first-class trans-continental route. If
the citizens of Georgia and East Ala
bama do as much for the roads in
the next two years as they have done
in the last two. Mr. Ferguson declar
ed, the highway through this section
will be ideal.
The records Mr. Ferguson is making
show the road between Austell and
Douglasville to be one of the finest
stretches in East Georgia. The road
bed is built of fine granite soil which
is damaged very little by traffic.
From Douglasville to Tallapoosa the
road is not quite so good but is in
such shape that a small expenditure
would put it in excellent condition.
The entire route from Austell to Tal
lapoosa is over the old Tallapoosa
highway, which in former times was
the Tallapoosa Indian trail. The pres
ent road was constructed about 25
years ago.
The Ferguson party traveled over
a new route from Tallapoosa to Heflin,
Ala. A part of the road is in fairly
good shape, but other sections are
rough.
These bad conditions will soon be a
thing of the past, howevei, through
the mutual co-operation of the Ala
bama farmers who are giving a part
of their time to working the roads in
Cleburne County. Between Heflin and
Anniston the road is bad in spots.
Suffrage Speaker
Hit by Water ‘Bomb’
NEW YORK. Aug. 21.—Miss Mar
tha Klatschken, suffragette and a
veteran of the hikes to Albany and
Washington, was struck by a bomb
yesterday while making a speech
from a soan box.
The outer casing of the bomb was
a paper bag. The interior was filled
with water. Miss Klatschken was jo
badly drenched that she quit speaking
and went home to change her dress.
Slaton ’Stretches’ as
He Signs Last Bill
Governor Slaton completed the task
at 6 o’clock Wednesday afternoon
of signing the bills passed by the Leg
islature. As the last one was signed
the Chief Executive leaned back In
his chair, stretched his arms and
gave thanks.
Only one bill met with the disap
proval of the Governor, and this was
because the fact was revealed that it
had been read but twice in the Sen
ate This was the bill granting 6,000
acres of land in Chatham County to
the Chatham Academy. The bill came
too late tc receive a thorough investl
gation by the Governor. Two former
Attorney Generals have rendered
opinions declaring the grant could not
be legally made.
The largest bill to be signed was
Atlanta’s new city charter. It weigh
more than 20 pounds.
Clim TC LIFT
BAR TO CREEK
Suffrage Head Back
To Lead Campaign
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—Mrs. Carrie
Chanman Catt, president of the In
ternational Woman Suffrage Associa
tion, has arrived from Europe and
was greeted by a bevy of suffragists.
She will begin the fall campaign for
suffrage in New York.
The fact that the bill for the wo
man suffrage referendum has been
indorsed by all three political parties
and has once passed the Legislature,
is regarded as assurance that the
measure will pass when it comes up
again in 1915, but the leaders pro
pose to take no chances on a reversal.
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Dog and Calf Brought
Feud to Fatal Climax
LEESBURG. Aug. 21.—In a duel by
moonlight Claude McDonald was shot
and killed instantly by his halfbrother.
Hinton MeEfcnald, in the western part
of Lee County, as the result of Ill-
feeling that had existed for some time.
It is said that when Claude Mc
Donald’s dog chased Hinton McDon
ald's calf the feud reached a climax
and the pistol duel resulted. Both
were men with families.
Senate for Harrison
As Islands’ Governor
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—A fa
vorable report on the nomination of
Francis Burton Harrison, of New
York, to be Governor General of the
Philippine Islands was issued to-day
at a meeting of the Senate Committee
on the Philippines.
It is understood that the nomina
tion will be confirmed by the Senate
without delay.
Flyers Tow Disabled
Aircraft 14 Miles
Special Cable tc The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 21.—The British
army airship Eta established a prece
dent by taking in tow a disabled air-,
ship and pulling it fourteen miles 1
through the air.
By means of a cable 600 feet long
the Eta, which rode 200 fee* higher
than the other machine to avoid coi
lision, accomplished its task.
Will Make Official Request to
County Board So Peachtree
Work May Be Taken Up.
Denial that Captain Robert M. Clay-
ton, City Chief of Construction, had
made official request that the County
Board of Commissioners rush the
cleaning out of Peachtree Creek so as
to have the work completed before
the opening of the new sewage dis
posal plant has been made by Com-
misisoner Thomas Winn.
“The members of the board have
read In the newspapers interviews
from Captain Clayton in which he
urged the work,” said Commissioner
Winn, “but we have never been com
municated with officially. It occurs
to me that the proper way to go
about the work would be for the city
to officially Inform the board of the
work that is necessary.
“I am sure the Commissioners
would give the matter immediate con
sideration and.that it will be the very
best that possibly can be done to
give the new plant a rfiir trial, with
out the handicap that naturally
would result from a congested out
flow. The board can do nothing until
the matter Is properly presented.”
Captain Clayton in a statement said#
the matter of cleaning Peachtree
Creek so as to give a free outflow
for the sewage disposal plant never
had been presented to the board of
ficially, but declared he did not think
it necessary.
“In personal conversation with
every member of the board,’ he said,
“I have urged the importance of this
work, and personally went before the
board emphasizing the fact that the
removal of the accumulated driftwood
Senator Owen Denies
Opposing Money Bill
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Defend
ing his position in regard to the cur
rency measure now being debated in
Congress, Senator Owen, of Okla
homa, made the following statement
to-day:
“The inference of the press that T
was opposed to the bill which was
prepared by the chairman of the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency oi
the House and myself and simulta
neously introduced by us In both
Houses has no justification, a an*
strongly in favor of the bill.”
STEALS CYCLE TO
Woman’s Attempt to
Swim Channel Fails
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
DOVER. ENG., Aug. 21.—An un
successful attempt to swim the Eng
lish Channel was made to-day by
Miss Lilly Smith*, champion woman
swimmer of England. She started
from South Foreland, but gave out
after making five miles and had to
he taken on board a boat which was
following her. There was strong
wind.
South Foreland is a rocky promon
tory in Kentshire.
REGISTRATION AT VI DALI A.
VIDALIA.—The registration book*
for the mayoralty election, which
takes place here in December, have
been opened and will remain open un
til the middle of November.
from the bed of Peachtree Creek is
necessary to the successful operation
of the new sewage plant.
“However, In order to remove all
doubt and get the work started as
soon as possible, I will at once make
a written statement to the board of
the necessity of the work, and invite
its co-operation. I also will take the
matter up with the Bond Commis
sion.”
Chairman Quillian. of the- City
Bond Commission, said he will call a
meeting of the commission at once
and take formal action on the mat
ter. The Public Improvements Com
mittee of the Board of Commission
ers meets Saturday morning, and it
is probable the official requests «f
Captain Clayton and the Bond Com
mission will be laid before the board
then.
Young Gotham Hobo Attempts to
Hasten His Homecoming Upon
Atlanta Man’s “Pop-Pop.”
W. E. Morton, 18 years old, of New
York City, is in a Tower cell Thurs
day lamenting his theft oT a motor
cycle, on which he hoped to more
quickly reach his Gotham home and
complete the last lap In a hobo tour
of the country that he began when lie
ran away last < )ctober
The youth had gone as far as Char
lotte, N. C., when he was apprenheoed
and brought back to, Atlanta by De
tective J. W. Hollingsworth. He hao
ridden from Atlanta on a motorcycle,
which he frankly confessed he stole
from Max Wright, sun of Seaborn
Wright, noted Georgia orator and
prohibition leader. Mr. Wright is a
merchant at No. 82 Marietta street,
and the motorcycle was taken froir
his place of business by > ung Morton
on the pretevt that he wished to “try
It out.”
The New York youth had just ar
rived in Atlanta from Los Angeles,
and noticed an ad in a newspaper, in
which Mr. Wright offered the ma
chine for sale. Morton protests that
he really didn’t intend to steal the
motorcycle, but that It rode so “easv'
and nice” he decided he would jue:
continue on to New York.
When he reached Charlotte, how
ever, he tired of the machine, and sod
it for $75. This was his undoing It
cost $250, and a wire was flashed to
Atlanta. Morton’® arrest was ordered
and he was taken into custody jus
after he had purchased a new outfit
of clothes and was nreparing to re
sume his trip by rail.
Hail Ruins $50,000
North Dakota Crops
MINOT, N. D.. Aug. 21.—Fifty to
seventy-five thousand dollars’ dam
age to crops of Renville County re
sulted from a terrific hailstorm. The
damage extends from Tolley across
the international boundary.
The path of the storm was five
miles wide and more than thirty miles
long
CHAMBERLIN-JOHNSON-DuBOSE CO.
ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS
A Wise
Man
will make more op
portunities than he
finds.
Ninety-nine per
c e n t of the great in
dustries and busi
nesses of to-day were
ereated and not found.
They were built by
men who had the vi
sion to see the needs
of their time, and the
brains and energy to
meet the demand.
But opportunities
rail for cash or credit.
Build up a eash re
serve in the bank,
and you will have the
former and can get
the latter.
$1.00 starts the ac
count, and 4 per cent
interest paid.
We are United
States depository for
g Postal Savings fund.
Georgia
Savings Bank
& Trust Co.
Atlanta’s Oldest
Savings Bank
Grant Bldg.
A Fine Day For You, Mr. Man
To-morrow we shall furnish you with furnishings, as
shirts, sox, ties, pajamas and the like are called, at such
very little prices that the sale might properly he called a
Harvest Sale.
Now lets analyze it—
To begin with, here are
Men’s $1.00 Shirts at 68c
And they are all fresh and fine, just out of their boxes (we drove
a good bargain). They are negligee coat styles, with attached cuffs,
soft, fine percale, white ground with black, tan, blue and lavender
stripes, neat, good-looking shirts, and white madras.
Sizes 14 to 17 to begin with.
Next comes
The Clearaway of “Onyx” Sox
Hardly any need of telling a man how fine “Onyx” sox are—
they are priced now in this fashion merely because of the well de
fined principle of merchandising at Chamberlin - Johnson - DiiBose
Co.’s, new stocks with the new season.
They are lisle hose, double sole, toe and high spliced heel.
Choose from black, tan, gray, navy and red.
35c Sox 23C 50c Sox 3 p ™ s $1.00
And then
Night Shirts and
The Night Shirts
V neck and low r military col
lars; of cambric, longcloth and
nainsooks. Trimmed with braids.
The scale of reductions—
50c Values 38c
75c Values 58c
$1.00 Values .'... 75c
$1.50 Values .. $1.10
Pajamas Are Priced
The Pajamas
Of nainsook and soisette in
white, cream, blue and tan, also
white striped in lavender, blue
and black. Trimmed with silk
and cotton frogs.
The scale of reductions—
$1.00 Values .
$1.50 Values .
$2.00 Values .
75c
.10
$1.35
Also—
50c Washable Silk and Madras Ties are marked
at half price, 25c; white with panel stripes of black,
blue, tan, lavender, green and red and solid white.
Salesman Found
Dead in His Room
George E. McTeer, a widely known
salesman, 29 years old. was found
dead In his room in the Hlght apart
ments. 167 Whitehall street, about 6
o’clock Wednesday afternoon.
He had left thq, store earlier than
usual, saying he did not feel well
About 5:30 o’clock he asked a negro
servant girl to get him a milkshake.
When the girl returned he was ap
parently afleep, but when Frank
Frapp, in whose apartment McTeer
was staying, entered the room he was
found to be dead.
The body was removed to Bloom
field’s chapel where an inquest was
held Thursday morning. McTeer
came here from Greenville. S. C., and
is survived i*y his mother and tw’o
sisters of that place. His mother was
expected in Atlanta Thursday.
Advertises in London
For Daring Hunters
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Aug. 12.—The following
peculiar advertisement appeared in
the Times:
"A hunting expedition traveling
along the Mexican. Central and South
American coasts has a vacancy for
two young gentlemen possessed of a
spirit of adventure. Highest refer
ences are required. Possibility of big
fortune and certainty of thrilling ad
ventures. Must invest £500 each.
Apply Dr. Rattle, Santa Barbara.
Cal."
Says Kaiser’s ‘Bluff’
Averted French War
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Aug. 21.—A remarkable
letter written by Herr August Bebel,
the famous German Socialist, who
died recently, which declares that
Germany and France wefe on the
brink of war during the past year,
was published by The Pall Mall Ga
zette to-day.
In substance it said that Emperof
William, recognizing that the supe
rior French guns which won the war
in the Balkans against the German
Krupps probably would score a vic
tory over Germany in the event of
hostilities, bluffed France into the be
lief that Germany was making exten
sive military preparations to launch
war against the French.
Norman and Kelley
Quit Water Board
Water Commissioners H. H. Nor
man. of the Fifth Ward, and C. H.
Kelley, of the Second Ward, formally
resigned their positions at the meet
ing of the commission Wednesday
afternoon.
Mr. Kelley has been elected to th°
Aldermanic Board to succeed John E.
McClelland, resigned. Mr. Norman’s
re?ison was that he was moving out of
the Fifth Ward. Council will ele^t
their successors at the first meeting
in September.
GREENVILLE, Aug. 21.—Luk«
Larshtnan, a prominent farmer living
four miles north of Greenville, wa«
shot and killed by Walter Brewster, a
negro, whom he had under arrest and
vvas bringing to Greenville In a buggy.
As they drove past Brewster’s cabin
the negro sprang from the vehicle and
ran Into the house. Larshman fol
lowed him, but before he reached the
cabin the negro came out of the door
firmed wfcth a shotgun and fired at
Larshman. The first shot missed and
I>arshman started to run behind th*
house, but the negro fired again as he
reached the corner, the shot shatter
ing Larehman’s skull and killing him
instantly
Larshman Is survived by his wife,
five children and two sisters. He was
of middle age and from a prominent
family.
The negro fled, and dogs were put
on his trail, followed by an armed
posse. Feeling is high in Greenville
and surrounding country.
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
The Southern Railway an
nounces reduced round trip fare
of $16.00 from Atlanta to Cincin
nati. Ohio; tickets on sale August
22, 23 and 25, good for return un
til September 1. City Ticket Of
fice. No. 1 Peachtree street. Both
phenes Main 142.
Chamberlin = Johnson = Du Bose Co.
ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS
Remnant Day
In the Dress Goods and Silks
The Selling Starts at 9 o’clock
A remnant sale of woolens in late August is worth two in Feb
ruary.
With children starting to school within a few weeks, with the
fall season peeping around the corner of the month and all the needs
for woolen dress goods that this will bring, the skirts, the suits, the
coats—this remnant sale immediately takes on the appearance of a
fine opportunity. We have sifted stocks for this sale. Nothing that
was in a length from one to five yards escaped and the result is a fine
selection and a broad one, and a great saving on every yard.
Included are = ; i
Serges
Herringbone Stripes
Voiles
BasketWeaves
Whipcords Diagonals
Challis Checked Worsteds
Eoliennes Cheviots
Batistes Broadcloths
Many colors and combinations of colors and black.
Regular Prices Are Reduced
One=Third, One=HaIf and More
The Silks
Surprising quantities have accumulated within the last few
weeks. They must he disposed of. There is no room for them in all
this big store, particularly now that so much new merchandise is
coming in, and what worthy kinds these remnants are. *
Poplins Messalines Satins
Foulards Crepe de Chines Taffetas
Crepe Meteors Marquisettes Chiffons
Kimono Silks Wash Silks
Lengths from one-half yard to nine yards.
Regular Prices Are Reduced
One=Third, One=Half and More
None sent C. O. D. or on approval. None will be exchanged.
An ndied attraction to the Silk Remnants is
$1.00 Wish Silks at 69c a yard, 33 inches wide,
and you miy choose from white with black, blue,
gray or lilac stripes. No question about how
they will look after a tubbing.
Agents for Butterick Patterns and Publications.
Chamberlin=iohnson=DuBose Co .Chamberlin = Johnson = DuBose Co.