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PROSPERITY FOR STATE
16 MORE SEPTEMBER
MORNS AT PIEDMONT
MISS FRANCES SMITH.
The nun is Hhining prosperity all
over Georgia to-day.
The Government report, which *ent
the price of cotton up $3.BO a bale,
■hows that the crop in this State is .n
much better condition th.it it wallas*,
year, and that the harvest will yield
Georgia more than $5,000,000 more
than in 1912.
Cotton in Georgia did not deterio
rate even one-tenth of a point from
July 25 to August 25, according to tho
Census Bureau estimate of condition
North Carolina and South Carolina
gained 1 and 2 points, respectively;
Florida lost but 1 point In condition.
With these exception*, every State
In the cotton belt recorded serious de
preciation in the condition of the
growing staple, the losses ranging
from 4 points for the relatively unim
portant area in California to 36 points
for Oklahoma. Texas, the greater
cotton State, is 17 points off. The
central belt shows insect ravage*. Ir.
the West is drouth.
Mills Seeking New Crop.
Spot cotton rules now above 12
cents. The world’s mills are supposed
to have used 750,000 more bales la at
year than the world's fields grew.
This must have reduced the cotton
left over from 1911. the banner 16,000,-
000-bale crop year, to almost nothing.
Those who are keenest in watching
the cotton trade already see signs that
PRICES H
the mills in America and abroad al
ready are in the market for the new
crop. These are the arguments which
point to sustained high prices for cot
ton.
Georgia last year had a short oottor.
crop, while Texas produced an enor- I
mous yield. This year Texas banks
are overflowing with money. Many
of them are going through this au
tumn without borrowing from New
York, for the first time, they say, in
twenty years. Many of them, in fact
have loaned funds in New York at
this period of tight money.
That’s what a big crop and high
prices do for a favored State. That Is
what Georgia financiers look forward
to hopefully.
Crop Going to "Pay Out.”
What Georgia needed this year,
above all things, was a good crop at
fair prices. Obligations are hanging
over from the previous season. There
was tight money this year. This crop
has to "pay out.” Everyone realized
this, and the discouraging early spring
brought general gloom. All this now
Is changed. Trade already reflects
the optimism born of. good crop pros
pects.
The crop never was grown with less
expanse. Even 12-cent cotton will
show good profits, and just now it
looks as if 13 and a fraction Is a price
for middlings not beyond possibility.
Homer Whitaker, 19, Sentenced
for Contempt of Court for Not
Paying Alimony.
For failure to pay alimony of $30
a month to his divorced wife. Homer
A. Whitaker. 19-year-okl son of J.
AY. Whitaker, general yardmaster of
the Southern Hallway, was sent to
the Tower for contempt of court by
Judge Ellis Wednesday. The young
man expressed regret that moving
picture shows and baseball games are
not provided for prisoners.
The sentence provides for his con
finement by the Sheriff until he
"purges himself of the charge against
him by the payment of $45," and also
provides that the oroiginal order pro
viding of the payment of $30 per
month alimony shall stand.
A divorce petition was filed against
Whitaker by his wdfe, Eula C. Whita
ker, April 18, and a decree granting
the divorce and alimony rendered
May 30. The original petition stated
the pair were married September 20,
1912. and that Whitaker had aban
doned his wife in April, and had re
fused to provide for her, though she
was 1,11.
Whitaker’s father, it was also al
leged. had remarked that he "would
pay any fine for contempt of court
for his son before he would allow the
alimony to be i»aid.”
Mrs. Whitaker charged that her
husband was capable of earning $100
per month. In a cross-bill, he alleged
that, as an extra switchman, he could
riot earn more than $35.
Soon to Complete
McDaniel Sewer
Work on the connecting link of the
McDaniel street sewer will be com
menced immediately, the County Com
missioners deciding upon this Wednes
day A contract for the use of a steam
ahovel at a rent of 250 per month was
approved and every effort will »>.- ex
erted to get the work under way as
quick as possible.
The sewer to be constructed will ex
tend for a distance of 3.00'* feet Its
construction is a matter which has been
before the commission for some time.
Apartment house owners in Atlanta
have united in an effort to stay the
enforcement of the smoke laws
against them.
Given eighteen months In which to
repair their furnaces so as to stop
the smoke nuisance, they now de
clare they are uncertain as to the
proper course to pursue, and want a
conference with the smoke commis
sioners.
George Traylor called at Smoke In
spector Poole's office Wednesday and
explained that he came at the chair
man of a committee appointed at a
meeting of apartment house owners
who met in the office of Edward Du
rant Tuesday.
His request that they he given a
hearing at the meeting of the' board
next Tuesday was granted.
To Ask Another Year.
From Mr. Traylor’s statement, it
seems that the owners will urge that
they be given another year’s time be
fore the law making smoke a nuisance
is enforced against them.
Mr. Durant Maid Wednesday the
apartment house owners wanted to do
what was best, but they were uncer
tain just how to proceed, and their
conference with the smoke commis
sion would be in the spirit of co-oper
ation.
R. M Harwell, chairman of the
smoko commission, declared Wednes
day he had anticipated just such a
move and expected the commission to
turn deaf ears t-> the apartment house
owners.
Factories Have Complied.
“We nave made the manufacturing
plants, office buildings and railroads
go to great expense to endeavor to
comply with this law.” he said. “Won
derful results have been accomplished.
About 20 per cent of the apartment
house furnaces have been remodeled
so as not to make excessive smoke.
The other 80 per cent has done noth
ing.
"Would it be fair to give them more
time?
Can Make Test of Law.
"We notified them last March that
they must not make over a certain
amount of smoke when their furnaces
were fired up this fall.
“Despite the fact that apartment
houses were among the greatest
sources of the smoke nuisance, injur
ing and discomfiting homes, we ex
cused them from shutting off their
heat during cold weather.
"I understand that ife we refuse
them an extension of time they will
employ a lawyer and attack the con
stitutionality of the smoke law*.
"I think that will be their only re
course. They have waited too long to
protest against the course of the
smoke commission.”
GHEE SUIT IS
FOUND HER III
I DEFENSE
"—•
Attorneys for Divorcee Who Slew
Former Husband and Bride
Get Evidence Here.
“Developer of Efficient Executives”
Paid for Decisive Thoughts
The efficient manager is better comforts and pleas-
the man who decides and ures in his home. You
directs. The man paid for want to lx* this man. You
and can grow. Get the “de-
HABIT. Decide
Decide right.
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pleasure. Number of student* limited. Your future life and hap
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Georgia Schoo! of Technology
J65 W. North Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
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plans—not for time and eide’
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Fair Bathers Hail With Delight the
Postponement of Lake Closing.
There are a lot of people in At
lanta who were made happy by the
action of the Park Board in deciding
to keep Piedmont I-ake open until
September 19, but none of them is
any happier than Miss Frances
Smith, oi o of the most popular girls
at home in the lake.
Miss Smith is one of the best girl
swimmers in Atlanta, and has been
a familiar figure at the lake all sea
son. She was the first person to
dare the waters, and dived off the big
springboard into the chilly waters of
the lake within a few moments after
the lake was declared officially open,
and she says she is going to be the
last person to leave the lake when
the pow'ers that be shut It down on
the 19th.
Miss Smith has done a lot of un
usual things at Piedmont Lake. She
can swim faster and farther and
more gracefully than any of the hun
dreds of other young women who are
devotees of the currents, and on La
bor Day she proceeded to break a
few more records. Incidentally she
proved to the satisfaction of every
body who saw her that the water is
not too cold for bathing at this time
of year. She swam three miles with
out geting out of the water, break
ing all records, and then <*ame out of
the lake as fresh and as rosy as when
she went in.
Then she posed for a picture of
"September Morn!”
Not "September Mom” a la Paul
Uhabas, but "September Morn” a la
Piedmont
Old records of & suit for divorce
in April, 1907, by the late Judge W.
S. Godbee against his first wife, who
killed the Judge and his bride in
Millen recently, which Judge Saf-
fold, Mrs. Godbee's attorney, claims
is proof that Mrs. Godbee was not
the aggressor, were unearthed in the
Fulton County Superior Court Wed
nesday morning. The suit was en
tered April 29, 1907. and was later
withdrawn, Judge Saffold claims,
when Judge Godbee discovered that
his wife had considerable money.
Judge Saffold, w r ho Is in Atlanta
to get a pardon for Dr. W. J. Mc-
Naughton, the Emanuel County phy
sician, declared Wednesday the new
evidence in regard to the early mari
tal relations of Judge Godbee and his
first wife would be used in the trial
of Mrs. Godbee next week.
He declared further that he is in
vestigating a report that Judge God
bee took Mrs. Godbee to a question
able house on Piedmont avenue when
the couple came to live In Atlanta
several years ago.
Charged Cruelty to Wife.
The petition of Judge Godbee for
divorce in the Superior Court of
Fulton County was filed on April 29,
1907, and was attested by Clerk A.
B. Harrison and Paul S. Ethridge, the
plaintiff’s attorney. Deputy Sheriff
W. C, Tolbert served the defendant
with a copy of the petition.
According to the petition Judge
flodbee and the defendant were mar
ried on July 12, 1887, in Burke Coun
ty, Georgia, and lived together as
man and wife until 1907, with the
exception of the year 1897, when
they were separated for about two
months and from 1901 to the latter
part of 1904.
Judge Godbee asserts further that
each of the separations alluded to
were brought about by t' - cruel and
inhuman treatment of the petitioner
by the defendant.
"Your petitioner,” It is stated, "al
leges that practical’y during the en
tire period of his married life with
the defendant she has been harsh
and cruel in her treatment of him,
has been absolutely devoid of the af
fection due from a wife to her hus
band, that she has maae his lite
utterly unbearable; and that your
petitioner has been forced to J.epa-
rate himself from the defendant us
above alleged, fearing lest she would
take him unawares and do -ini bodi
ly harm.
Says She Humiliated Him.
"The petitioncr,” it Is asserted
further, "never fails to use every*op-
portunity to humiliate your defend
ant in the presence of friends, or in
the presence of strangers or oven in
the presence pf his own children. She
has time and again ordered him to
leave and threatened him if he did
not leave.
"Petitioner has borne this treat
ment in silence, and lias done all in
his pow r er to ameliorate matters, but
to no purpose. Defendant has be
come more and more violent in her
manner toward petitioner and her
threats have become so frequent and
so malignant that defendant can not
in safety be in her presence.”
It is stated further that petitioner
shows that defendant is well pro
vided for in worldly goods and hag an
abundance of property In her owi
name to support her.
Posse Searches for
Assailant of a Girl
WAYCROSS, Sept. 3.—A posse, led
by the Clinch County Sheriff, is to
day searching the woods around Cut
ting, a small mill and turpentine town
west of Waycross, for an unidentified
white man who attacked an 11-year-
old girl of a prominent family.
The girl was returning home from
a store, where she had been sent on
an errand by her mother.
Richmond Raises Tax
Rate to Pay Big Debt
AUGUSTA, Sept. 3.—The tax rate for
Richmond County for the year 1913 has
been fixed at $5.70 per $1,000. Last year
it was $4.60.
The increase is due 'to the fact that
the county is in debt $140,000 and rather
than issue bonds she will raise the rate
and liquidate the debt in four yearly
instalments of $35,000 each.
25 Killed When Old
Irish Tenements Fall
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
DUBLIN, Sept. 3.—The death toll in
the collapse of two antiquated tenant
houses in Church street last night,
when thirteen families were buried,
probably will exceed twenty-five. Up to
noon to-day fifteen bodies had been re
covered Of the thirty-five rescued, ten
were said to be fatally injured.
There were pitiful scenes about the
disaster While workmen oug through
the wreckage the faint cries of those
pinned beneath the debris could be
heard. 'Ine ruins fill the street.
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BIG I
SLATON’S
OLD BILL
DIES ST STATE
In Last Hours Picturesque Bandit
Bares Secret Passages in
His Life History.
Naming New Atlanta Judge and
Fish and Game Commissioner
Are Most Important.
When Governor John M. Slaton gets
back to his desk early Friday morn
ing after a ten-day trip through the
West, where he attended the Gov
ernors’ Conference, he will be con
fronted by a calendar embracing
problems as important as any he has
tackled since he succeeded Governor
Joe Brown. ^
According to the schedule, the Gov
ernor will take up first the matter of
naming a superior judge for the new'
court created for the Atlanta district
by the last Legislature. Scores of
applications have been filed and
delegations of Atlanta lawyers have
called on the Governor several times
to urge the appointment of an At
lanta attorney. Rumor had It at
first that Judge L. S. Roan, who pre
sided at the Frank trial, was to get
the plum.
Another matter of importance
w'hlch will be decided by the Gov
ernor within the next week or ten
days is the appointment pf a suc
cessor to Fish and Game Commis
sioner Mercer. Those w r no are in
close touch with the situation say
the Governor has already determined
to give the plum to Charles Davis,
and has given notification of the
change to Mr. Mercer, w r ho is in
Washington.
The Governor must also appoint
delegates to several State conven
tions which convene during the next
few months.
Commissioners Estimate Total Ex
pense of Trial to Fulton County
at Nearly $5,000.
CHORUS MAN FOUND DEAD.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—Russell
Summerville, aged 22, a member of
the chorus of a musical show, was
found dead to-day in his apartments.
He was a son of Mrs. Amelia Sum
merville, the actress.
ESTRADA UNDER KNIFE.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 3.—General
Juan Jose Estradd. President of
Nicaragua, was operated upon here
to-day for appendicitis. Physicians
( declared the operation was successful
and that he was resting well.
Woman Blind Tiger
Given 39 Days in Jail
MACON, Sept. 3.— Mra. J. D. Nobles,
owner of a grocery store on the Co
lumbus road, has been convicted in the
City Court for violating the prohibition
law and sentenced to serve 39 days in
jail or pay a fine of $100. Deputies
found beer and whisky in the rear of
the store. A similar charge against Mr
Nobles will be heard later In the week.
Mrs. Nobles has been in jail 52 days,
owing to her inability to givp bond,
which has been fixed at $2,500. She is
t’'e second woman ever tried in the lo
cal courts for breaking the prohibi
tion law. She is not more than 35 years
of age.
The jury in the trial of Leo M.
Frank cost Fulton County $974.71 for
board and lodging alone.
Bills for this amount w r ere ap
proved by the county commissioners
Wednesday morning, there being two
accounts, one from the New’ Kimball
Hotel and the other from the Ger
man Cafe. Bills of the Kimball to
taled $685.66 for rooms and meals,
and that of the German Cafe $289.15
for meals.
It was estimated by the commis
sioners that the total cost of the
case to the county will be betw’een
$4,00 and $5,000.
A request that the commission pay
Newt Lee for the four months he was
held as a witness was filed with the
board by his attorneys, Graham and
Chappell. It was referred to the
County Attorney for an opinion.
Chairman Shelby Smith said he
though it was nothing but right that
the negro should be paid something;
that he had done the county a great
service. General Clifford L. Ander
son said he did not believe the board
had a legal right to make such a pay
ment. Commissioner Tull C. Waters
suggested that a payment of $75 or
$100 be authorized, and the matter
be gotten rid of at once.
FOUNDER OF TOWN DIES.
MACON. Sept. 3.—John W. Brad
ley, a prominent and wealthy middle
Georgia planter, who founded the
town of Bradleys, in Jones County,
died here yesterday afternoon from
appendicitis. He was 58 years of age.
Mr. Bradley retired several years ago
and has lived in Macon since.
King’s Chauffeur Driving.
Police investigating the acicdent
in which a boy on a bicycle was run
down by Dr. J. Chester King’s auto
mobile, have established the fact that
Tom Ridgeway, the physician’s ne
gro chauffeur, was at the wheel. The
case against Goodwin will be tried
soon.
"Old Bill” Miner, formerly of the
Jesse James bandit gang, and one of
the most picturesque highwaymen of
the past half century, has made his
peace with the world. "Old Bill” died
at 9:25 o’clock Tuesday night at the
State Prison farm near Milledge-
vllle.
Death is supposed to have resulted
from hardships suffered when he es
caped from the farm last summer. For
several days Old BUI hid in a dens®
swamp without food or water. Since
that time he had suffered from gas
tritis and his health had failed rapid
ly. He was 76 years old.
Before he died “Old Bill” had a con
fidential talk with Warden J. E. Smith
and gave him some of the secret his
tory of his life, which he asked to be
made public after his death. He also
gave the name of a sister in Kentucky
whom he wished notified of his death.
This has been done and she wrill ar
rive in Milledgeville Wednesday to
take charge of the body.
Despite his lawless career, which
he started at the age of fifteen years,
"Old BUI” boasted that he had never
harmed a woman or child or robbed
an individual. He terrorized express
trains, holding them up at times sin
gle-handed.
Had Cod® of Honor All His Own.
He held to a code of honor pecu
liarly his own. His victims were cor
porations, especially the express com
panies, against which he held a griev
ance. He claimed that never during
his many sensational holdups of ex
press trains did he demand mon
ey of passengers, but confined his
operations to the baggage and express
cars which he looted of thousands of
dollars.
Among his "ten commandments”
which he held to was one which com
manded:
"Never take what belongs to an
other man. Rob only corporations."
Others were:
Never fail to help a woman.
Keep every man’s good will.
Give a feliow money when he needs
it.
Never say a bad thing about a man
when you can say a good one.
And don’t squeal.
"Old Bill” was sent to the Milledge
ville farm about two years ago for
train robbery near Gainesville. De
spite his years, he declared to the
prison officials that they could never
keep him. Soon afterwards he, with
Tom Moore and John Watts, made
the stockade.
Moore was killed while resisting
arrest, and Miner was captured in
South Georgia. "Old Bill" claimed
that he could have made his escape,
but would not desert his comrade,
who broke his leg while climbing over
the sockade.
Wouldn't Desert Comrade.
After being brought back to the
farm, Miner w r as put in chains, but
his health became so feeble that he
was unshackled, and he escaped
again last summer, this time with
Widencamp and Wiggins. Widen-
camp was drowned in the Oconee
River and Miner was recaptured.
When he was returned to the prison,
"Old Bill” declared that if his life
lasted he would escape again. Before
his first arrest in Georgia he had
escaped from a penitentiary in Can
ada.
Miner took an active part in guer
rilla warfare during the war between
the States. He also fought in Indian
campaigns in the West. He had
traveled throughout the world, going
from the California coast to South
America, and from there to Africa,
Alaska and Europe. At Monte Carlo
he gained note as a gambler, drop
ping $5,000 in an evening’s play.
Lithonia in State Chamber.
L1THONIA, Sept. 3.—The Lithonia
Board of Trade will join in the organ
ization of a State Chamber of Com
merce.
At a recent meeting the Board 6t
Trade voted to send a representative
to the meeting to be held in Macon
September 16 and elected J. K. David
son delegate.
, TOMBSTONES OF ASTOR HOUSE.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—The granite
blocks that have served as walls for
the old Astor House here will be sold
to a tombstone maker by the firm
engaged to raze the landmark.
Oakville Prison Fire
Laid to Incendiaries
MEMPHIS, TENN., Sept. 3.—That
three men set fire to the Oakville, Miss.,
prison, in which thirty-five negro pris
oners were supposed to have burned to |
death several weeks ago, was asserted
here to-day by Will Davis, a negro, who
was arrested as an escaped convict from
\! BSlSSippl
Davis said that he did not know how [
many of the negro prisoners escaped
from the burning penitentiary. He
jumped when the fire ate away the side j
wall near where he was lying.
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Police Chief Loses
His ‘September Morn’
WAYCROSS, Sept. 3.—Chief of Police
John W. Colley is on the warpath here
to-day.
This morning some one entered his
office at the City Hall and stole his
recent gift, a copy of "September Morn,” I
and he has failed to locate the picture. J
It was in an appropriate frame. I
I point with pride to the
fact that hundreds of patients
have been created successful
ly ar.d satisfactorily by
me since the opening of
my Atlanta office some
months ago, amply demon
strating that I do Dental
Work Painlessly and that my
service is strictly MODERN
and agreeable in every re
spect.
I want to thank the people
of Atlanta and vicinity for
their kind patronage so gen
erously extended to me and
I promise faithfully to give
the best Dental Service for
the least money.
My prices are the lowest:
Set of Teeth $5
Gold Fillings $1 up
Platinum and Porcelain
Fillings . .50c to $1
Gold Crowns and Bridge
Work $3, $4, $5
Teeth without Plates, $1 per
tooth.
Work guaranteed for 15
years.
Terms, Don’t worry: these
are arranged to suit.
Painless Extracting and
cleaning FREE, where
other work is being done.
Appointments can be made
by Phone 1298.
DR. WRITLAW, PAINLESS DENTIST
73 1-2 WHITEHALL STREET.
Opposite Vaudette Theater; Fourth Door South of J. M. High
Store. Open Daily, 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.; Sundays, 10 to 5.
Lady Attendant. Ladies’ Rest Room. Phone 1298.
Five different grade* of Rice including "Domino" were placed
under the magnifying glass and photographed. No. I repre
sents ‘Domino while the others represent various inferior grades.
DOMINO RICE
I> Sold Only
in Sanitary
Package*
l Pound Size 10 cents
2 l /i “ Size 25 cents
AT YOUR GROCER