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2 TTTt 'Tf A VTA UrfOWHAN AND VEWS. PROSPERITY FOR STATE The sun iH shining prosperity nil over Georgia to-day The Government report which « nt the price of *otton up $3 •" *• bale ehowe that the rop in this S’ute Is In much better condition that it wallas’ year, and that the harvest will yield Georgia more' than $5,00‘».'i"<' mote than m 1912. Cotton in Georgia did not • ri-rin- rate even one-tenth of a point from July 25 to August 25, according to tit- Census Bureau estimate of onditlon Xort’n Carolina and South Carolina gained 1 and 2 points, respectively; Flori a lost but 1 point in condition With these except lone, every State iii the cotton belt recorded serious de preciation in the condition of the grow in? staple the losses ranging fr< m J points for 'he relatively unin. p« ta it area in California to 36 poin.s tm Oklahoma. Texaa the creates cotton State, is 17 points off. The centnl belt show* insert ravages B. the \ '«■ st i~ ■ routh f/iii*. 'JCeking New Crop Spit ,ot ton rules now above 1- < lit? The world’s mills are supp led to have uved 75o.'»fiO more bales last year li. in thi^ world's field» grew. This must have reduced the cotton left over from 1911. the banner 16,000,- 000-bale crop year, to almost nothing. Th« se who .are keene st in watching tlie cotton trade already s<0* signs that the mills In America and abroad al ready are in the market for tlie new crop. .These are the arguments which point to sustained high prices for cot ton Georgia last year had a ahort eottor. i crop, while Texas produced an enor mous yield This year Texas banks are nv» ril wing w ith money. Many of them ire going through this au tumn without borrowing from New York, for the first time, they say, in tv < nty years. Many of them, in fact, have loaned funds in New York at this period of tight mon^y. That's what a big crop and high price® do for a favored State. That is w hat 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 iiat* to “pay out.” Kveryone realized tiiis, and the discouraging early spring brought general gloom. All this now is ( mged. Trade already reflect? 1 til*- optimism born of good crop pros pects. The crop never w as grown with less • xpense. Even 12-rent cotton will show good profits and just now it looks as if 13 and a fraction is a pric- 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 dlvom^l wife, Homer A. Whitaker, 19-year-old son of J. W Whitaker, general yardman!er of the Southern Railway, 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 jiot provided for prisoners. The sentence provides for ills con finement by the Sheriff until he “purges himself of the charge against him by the payment of $45,” and also provides tlint the original order pro viding of the payment of $30 per month alimony .shall stand. A divorce petition was filed against Whitaker by bis wife, 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 ill. Whitaker’s father, it was also al leged, had remarked that lie “would pay any line for contempt of court for his #on before lie would allow tlie alimony to be raid.” Mrs. Whitaker charged .that her husband was capable of earning $100 per month. In a cross-bill, he alleged that, as an extra switch man, he could not earn more than $35. Soon to Complete McDaniel Sewer Work on the connecting link of the McDaniel street sewer will ba com menced immediately, the County Com missioners deluding upon this Wednes day A contract for the use of a steam above! at a rent of 260 per month was approved and every effort will be ex- erted to get the work under way as QUiek as possible. The sewer to be constructed will ex tend for a distance of 3.GO 1 ' feet lls 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 sioner George Traylor called at Smoke In spector Poole's oUiee Wednesday and explained that he came at the chair man of a committee appointed at a meeting of apartment house owners who met in tiie office of Edward Du rant Tuesday. His request that they be given a hearing at the meeting of the board next Tin . day was granted. To Ask Another Year. Kroni Mr. Traylor's statement, it seems that the owners will urge that they be given another year’s time be fore tlie law making smoke a nuisance is enroivcd against them. Mi Durant mid Wednesday the apartment house owners wanted to do "'hut 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 lie had anticipated Just such a move and expected the commission to turn deaf « irs to the apartment house owners. Factories Have Complied. •'\Ye nave made the maimfaettiriftg plants, office building® and railroads go to great expense to endeavor to comply with t!:ls law,” lie said. ••Won derful results have been accomplished. About 2<» per cent of the apartment house furnaces have been remodeled mo as not to make excessive smoke. The other SO per cent has done noth ing. "Would it be fair to give them more time? Can Me ike Test of L aw. “W e no itifie< 11 them last Mi itch th it they mus t TH >t make over i n ce rta in atnou int o f Sill oke when their furnac Co were flrer i up this fall. “Di -spit e til u* fact that a part me nt house •s w ore among the gre ate St sourc es oi f the ■ smoke nuisam re. i; nju r- ing jj in.I i disci limiting homes . w» * e X- eusec; l th< ■m t from shutting off the *ir heat durii ilg c> old weather. T undi »r»ta nd that ife w e r efu se them an exto nsion of time they w ill emph :>y a law yer and attack the con- stltut Iona llty of the smoke la w. I think that will lie their only re course. They have wait'd too long to protest againrt the course of the smoke commission.” '‘Developer of Efficient' Executives Paid for Decisive Thoughts The efficient manager is the man who decides and directs. The man paid for decisive thoughts and plans—not for time and details. He ran have the better comforts and pleas ures in his home. You want to he this man. You can grow. Get the “de cide" HABIT. Decide now. Decide right. lake tair collegial* courses in C.nnuieree. Accounts, Finance and i oumierclal I.aw. Class hours don’t conflict with your work or pleasure. Numlier of students limited. Four future life and hap piness map 1m- in tlie balance. Decide right. Knroll note. Work l»e- gias Septeinlier 15th. Evening School of Commerce Georgia School of Technology 165 W. North Ave., Atlanta, Ga. Classes 6:15 to 8:15 Ivy 4775 Free booklet on request litterent grades ot Kice including ""Domino"were placed the magnifying gla«s and photographed. No. I repre- Domino while the others represent various inferior grades DOMINO RICE % m 1 Pound Size 10 cents | Paol “* e » 2^ “ Size 25 cents AT YOUR GROCER New Orleans I promise faithfully to give the best # Dental Service for the least money. wmmw NLESS DENTIST 73 1-2 WHITEHALL STREET. Opposite Vaudette Theater; Fourth Door South of J. M. I Store. Open Daily, 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.; Sundays, 10 to 5. Lady Attendant. Ladies’ Rest Room. Phone 1298. 16 MORE SEPTEMBER MORNS ATPIEDMONT MISS FRANCES SMITH. Attorneys for Divorcee Who Slew Former Husband and Bride Get Evidence Here. 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 Bfmrd In deciding to keei Piedmont I^ake open until September 19, but none of them is j any happier than' Miss Frances Smith, (». y 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 tlie 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 tlie powers that be shut it down on the 19th. Miss Smith has (lone 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 site 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 came 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 Morn” a la Paul ('babas, but “September Morn” a la Piedmont. 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 «>f 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. Lithonia in State Chamber. LITHONIA, 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 of 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 bv i he firm engaged to raze the landmark. 25 Killed When Old Irish Tenements Fall Old records of a suit for divorce in April, 1907, by the late Judge W. S. God bee against his first wife, who killed the Judge and hi® 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 20, 1807, and was later withdrawn. Judge Saffold claims, when Judge Godbee discovered that his wife had considerable money. Judge Saffold, who 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 th,e 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 Godbee and the defendant were mar ried on July 12, 1S87, 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 v ' cruel and inhuman treatment of the petitioner by the defendant. “Your petitioner,” it is stated, “al leges that practical 1 *' 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 sepa rate himself from the defendant as above alleged, fearing lest she would take him unawares and do -dm bodi ly harm. Says She Humiliated Him. “The petition'*",” 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 of 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 power to ameliorate matters, hut to no purpose. Defendant has be come more and more violent in liar 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 has an abundance of property In her ow.i name to support her. 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 <iuk through the wreckage the faint cries of those pinned beneath the debris could be iieard. 'ine ruins fill the street. 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 Mississippi. ; Davis said that he did not know how many of the negro prisoners escaped from the burning penitentiary. He jumped when the tire ate away the side wall near where he was lying 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,” and he has failed to locate the picture. It was in an appropriate frame. I 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 Estrada, President of Nicaragua, was operated upon here to-day for appendicitis. Physicians declared the operation was successful and that he was resting well. ‘My Own Beauty Secrets” ANNA' HELD The Most Instructive and Highly Inter esting Series of Its Kind Ever Pre sented to Beauty- Seeking Girts and Women, Superbly Illustrated by Spe cially Posed Photo graphs. BEGINS ON THE WOMAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE To-morrow BIG TUSKS AWAIT FRANK JURY GOST 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 which will be decided by the Gov ernor within the next week or ten days is the appointment of a suc cessor to Fish and Game Commis sioner Mercer. Those who 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, who 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. Woman Blind Tiger Given 39 Days in Jail MACON, Sept. 3.—Mrs. J. D. Nobles, owner of a grocery store on the Co lumbus road, ha3 been convicted in the City Court for violating the prohibition law and sentenced to serve 39 days in jail or pay a fine of J&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 give bond, which has been fixed at $2,500. She Is the second woman ever tried in the lo cal courts for breaking the prohibi tion law. She Is not more^than 35 years of age. PM“KNT The jury in the trial of Leo M. Frank cost Fulton County $974.71 for board and lodging alone. Bills for this amount were 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 $685.56 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 between $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 bo 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. DLO BiLL K ST STSTE In Last Hours Picturesque Bandit Bares Secret Passages in His Life History. "Old Bill” Miner, formerly of thrt 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 Mllledge- ville. Death Is supposed to have resulted from hardships suffered when he es caped from the farm last summer. For several days old Bill hid in a dense 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 ocn-» fldentlal talk with Warden J. El 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 will ar rive In Mllledgeville Wednesday to take charge of the body. Despite his lawless career, which he started at the age of fifteen years. “Old Bill” 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 Code 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 hie “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 fellow 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 Mllledge 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 was put in chains, but his health became so feeble that he was unshackled, and he escaped again last summer, this time with Wideneamp and Wiggins. Widen- camp was drowned in the Oconee River and Miner was recaptured. When he w'as 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 •'Iso 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 Eyrope. At Monte Carlo he gained note as a gambler, drop ping $5,000 in an evening’s play. $5 COME TO Mi I Examine YourTeeth Free! I point with pride to the fact that hundreds of patients have been treated successful ly and satisfactorily by me since the opening of my Atlanta office some months a go, 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 My prices are the lowest: Set of T eeiil $5 Gold Filling^ $1 up Platinum and Porcelain Fillings 50c to $1 Gold Crowns and Bridge Work $3, $4, $5 Teeth without Piates, $1 per tooth. 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