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ITEARST’R SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913.
Augusta Macon
Columbus Griffin
Middle and North Georgia News
Athens :-: Gainesville
Rome Dalton
SI VOTERS IN
W ALLACE MILLER on the left, A. L Dasher on the right, and Bridges Smith below, rival
candidates for Mayor of Macon. Mr. Smith, is a former Mayor arid now City CTerk. He
is the administration candidate. Mr. Miller, representative from Bibb County, and son of a for
mer Mayor, heads a young men’s ticket. Mr. Dasher, now an Alderman, is running as an in
dependent.
ELECTRIC LINE
FI
College Students
Flock to Athens to
Enter University
More Than 1,500, Repreaenting Every
State In Union,
Expected.
All Registration Records Broken.
Election To Be Held Early
Next Month.
MACON. Sept. 6.—With three can
didates for mayor, thirty-six for
council, four for Judge of the new
Municipal Court, and six for water
works commissioner In the field, the
citizens of Macon are now engaged
In the liveliest political < ampalgn
that has ever Interested the present
generation of voters.
Several time# three men have run
ft»r mayor In the same campaign,
but never before have there been
three full aJdermanic tickets, running
in support of the candidates, In the
Held.
The first candidate to announce
was Arthur L. Dasher, a lawyer, who
Is now serving in council, having
been elected with and as a member
of the Moor# administration. How
ever. Mr. Dasher has never been
aligned with the administration, and
early last December he mode the
parting of the ways more pronounced
by announcing for mayor. The ad
ministration did not line up behind
him. and the anti-administration fac
tion refused to come to his support.
So Mr. Dasher Is In the race abso
lutely as an Independent. Recently
he organized what he calls the “W r age
Earners" party and selected a ticket
composed mostly of salaried men This
ticket Is being revised and will not be
announced In Its complete shape until
next week.
Smith and Miller Enter.
About the first of August the an
nouncement was made that Bridges
Smith would run for Mayor as the
administration candidate. Mr. Smith
was City Clerk from 1888 to 1900,
and then he served as Mayor for
eight years. Since the first of 1910
he has been City Clerk and the right-
hand man of the Moore administra
tion. During practically all of the
time he has been in politics, Mr
Smith has alqo engaged in newspaper
work as a reporter or special writer
for The Macon Telegraph.
For a while it seemed that the con
test would be solely between Hmlth
and Dasher, but on August IS Wallace
Miller suddenly entered the fight. A
week before It was suggested to Mr.
Miller that he run for Mayor. He took
the suggestion under consideration,
returning In the meantime to Atlanta
for attendance upon the last week
of the Legislature. During the week
he was bombarded with letters and
t•■!• grams, u4 upon bUl arrival here
on Friday of that week he found him
self besieged by scores of friends. The
next day a meeting was held, with the
result teat that afternoon Mr. Miller
made a definite announcement. Three
days afterwards his aldermanic ticket
was named, having been organized
In record time. Ills candidacy got
under full Bwing at once, and now he
and his associates, backed by hun
dreds of voters, are making a vigor
ous and determined campaign.
Council Candidates.
On Bridges Smith's ticket are the j
following candidates for council:
First ward J. U. Bowdre, secretary j
of County Board; T. O. Chestney re- i
tired banksr; F. M Jones, merchant, j
Boa (»nd Ward: E A. Adamson, me
chanic; w. J. Garrlty, mechanic;
John W. Ramsey, merchant. Third
Ward: R. K. Hines, lawyer; I^ee M.
Happ, manufacturer and banker;
Jesse W. Bates, traveling salesman.
Fourth Ward; P. C, Hazlehursit, cot
ton buyer; U. 8. Thorpe, merchant,
and Jake T. Willis, mechanic. Of
these Bowdre, Chestney, Adamson,
Hines, Happ and Thorpe are members
of the present administration council.
Miller's al'tel DCtftniC tirLrt l| as
follows: First Wurd—P. L. Hay.
president of insurance company; H.
A. Ksnnington. grocer; Charles
Schaefer, mechanic. Second Want —
Will R. Evans, mechanic; B. Frank
Merritt, grocer; W. O. Stevens, drug
gist Third Ward—Dr W. G. Lee,
banker and capitalist; H. W. Pittman,
railroad agent; Steve M. Wright,
druggist. Fourth Ward—J. B. Riley,
vice president of drug company; Eden I
Taylor, Jr., real estate and Insurance;
F. Joe Bishop, contractor.
Record Registration.
Already all previous registration
records have bee* broken by a reg
istration of 3,400, and the books do
not close until September 12.
^ The executive committee will meet
£e«>n to tix a date for tho. election,
which will prqbably be held .during
the first week in October.
On September 17 there will be an
©lection for Water Commissioner and
for judge of the new Municipal Court,
which will supplant the justice of the
peace courts. Opposing Cliff T. Wil
liamson, a boilermaker, for re-elec
tion for the six-year term are C. E.
Brunner, a druggist; H. IL Brown,
a retired plumber; J. W. Wilcox, a
civil engineer. T. E Crlnnnina. a
painter, and Howell Harris, a col
lector.
The candidates for Judge are Au
gustin Daly. City Recorder; Lloyd
Moore and Henry Stroheoker. both
veteran lawyers, and J. P. Burnett,
lawyer and justice of the peace.
STOCK COMPANY TAKES
OVER ATHENS BANNER
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Construction to Begin in October.
Increase in Bonded Indebt
edness $3,000,000.
Indications Are That Field Will
Be Full of Candidates for
Bell’s Seat.
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AUGUSTA. Sept. What will the
Carolina and Georgia Railway mean
to Augusta and this section of Geor
gia and South Carolina? That is the
question which has been asked many
times since James U. Jackson an
nounced that he had planned to build
an electric railroad from this city to
Columbia.
The road will be started by the 1st
of October, according to an announce
ment from Mr. Jackson and Michael
P. McGrath, the contractor, who will
build the road. It was stated defi
nitely that the road would go via
Johnston, S. C., instead of Eureka,
thus taking in & very fertile section
of country. It was further announced
that a branch line would be con
structed from Johnston to Green
wood.
An Increase In the bonded Indebt
edness of the road from $2,000,000 to
$3,000,000 was authorized at the
meeting of the directors last week.
The connection of Johnston and
Greenwood will mean that Augusta
will be In direct tbuch with the great
interurban system of electric rail
ways built by the Dukes which runs
from Charlotte down through the
Piedmont section of South Carolina,
touching Greenville, Spartanburg.
AnnlRton and Greenwood. It will then
be possible to go all the way by elec
tric train from Augusta to Charlotte
and an arrangement may be made
whereby one may take through trains
from Augusta to Charlotte.
It is planned to build the Carolina
and Georgia road from Clearw*ater
Into Augusta along the level of the
Horse Creek Valley as far as possi
ble to prevent the grade both In go
ing up the hill to Belvedere and com
ing down the hill from North Au
gusta. From Oranlteville to Clear
water It will use the Augusta-Aiken
track. Both roads will connect again
at the North Augusta bridge and
come over the river and go out Thir
teenth street. The Carolina and Geor-«
gla may continue out Thirteenth and
connect with the Georgia near the
University Hospital and Medical Col
lege and the cars would then be shift
ed to any part of the city. The pas
sengers trains would, of course, run
Into the Union dopot.
Speakers for Good _
Roads Convention
Noted Men Will Attend Meeting
of Georgia Association
In Augusta.
GAINESVILLE. Sept. 8—There
promises to again be a lively rare for
Congress In the Ninth District next
year. It la likely to be a warmer
contest than ever before In this dis
trict. which has witnessed a number
of very heated Congressional con
tests.
It Is presumed that Congressman
Bell will again be a candidate to suc
ceed himself. He has served three
terms
It Is quite nrobable that John N.
Holder, of Jefferson, will announce as
a candidate. He made the race last
year against Congressman Bell and
received a handsome vote throughout
the district.
While he has not publicly expressed
himself in reference to making the
race next time. It is presumed that
W. A. Charters, of this city, will be
prepared to shy his caster into the
ring at the next go-round for Con
gress. He secured a large and flat
tering vote In the race he made the
last election.
John O. Adams, a member from
Hall County In the General Assembly,
has publicly announced that he Is
willing to become a candidate, and
that In case his friend. Mr. Charters,
does not make the race he will likely
enter it.
Dr. E. W. Watkins, of Ellijay, has
already announced his candidacy. He
made the race four years ago
Colonel H. H. Perry, of this city,
has been spoken of in connection with
Congressional honors. He made the
race for the Senate against Senator
Bacon last election.
There are also others In the district
who have the matter of becoming
Congressman from the Ninth on thsir
minds, and there still may be other
candidates whose names have never
yet been published in connection
with Congress.
It is a foregone conclusion that
the race will be well filled with en
tries, and that the next election for
Congress in the Ninth District will be
a very lively one.
Mrs, Bellamy’s Plan
Opposed by Brother
Her Petition to Administer $20,000 j
Estate of Another Brother
Denied by Ordinary.
ATHENS, Sept. 6.—Monday will
see the opening of the State Normal
School here and In the next two
weeks there will be more than fifteen
hundred college students in Athens
for the opening of the three colleges
here, the University of Georgia, the
Normal School and Lucy Cobb.
The University of Georgia and the
State Agricultural College open on
September 17, and the indications
are that this year will be the big
gest in attendance that the Univer
sity has ever had.
Lucy Cobb Institute opens the
same day and the principals, Misses
Gerdlne and Brumby, have had the
buildings and grounds improved dur
ing the sumemr and are also antici
pating an Increase In attendance.
The city schools will begin their
fall session next week.
ALL CHOIRS JOIN CHORUS
FOR REVIVAL IN DALTON
DALTON, Sept. 6.—Prominent
singers from the choirs of. the va
rious churches here have volunteered
their services to the First Baptist
Church for the big revival to be con
ducted there by Rev. J. H. Dew, of
Missouri. The revival will begin
Sunday, September 14, and the large
chorus already Is practicing the mu
sic to be used.
Survey of River for
Levee at Augusta
Government to Aid In Work—Hard
wick Makes Good
Fight.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 6.—Nisbet Wing
field, Commissioner of Public Works,
has returned from Washington, D.
C., where he appeared before the riv
ers and harbors committee of Con
gress to secure permission to have
a survey ordered of the banks of thi
Savannah River a>t Augusta for the
purpose of securing Government al{*
to build the levee. Wingfield was
successful In Inducing the order to be
issued for the survey.
CHEAP EXCURSION TO
FLORIDA
Via G. S. & F. Railway.
Fare from Macon to
Jacksonville $4.00, Palatka
$4.50, St. Augustine $4.50,
and Tampa $6.00. Propor
tionately low rates from in
termediate stations. Spe
cial trains leave Macon
10:30 a. m. and 11:30 a. m.
September 9. Tickets lim
ited five days.
C. B. RHODES, Q. P. A.
Macon, Ga.
"Developer of Efficient Executives "
Salary Measures Capital Value
You have a capital value. It
Increases or decreases. Your
income is based on this value.
The average increase In sal
ary of men attending Schools
of Commerce varies from 6.4
per cent to 15 per cent each
year. Capitalize the gain at 5
per cent—It represents $1,320
to $3,360 a year increase
capital value while In school.
Has your capital value in
creased that much in the last
year? Work decisively THIS
year. Yon can grow. You can
increase it.
Take our collegiate courses in Commerce, Accounts, Finance and
Commercial Law. Class hours don’t conflict with your work or
pleasure. Number of students limited. Your future life and hap
piness may be In the balance. Decide right. Enroll note. Work be
gins September 15th.
Evening School of Commerce
Georgia School of Technology
165 W. North Ave., Atlanta, Ga.
Gasses 6:15 to 8:15 Ivy 4775 Free booklet on request
1 ELECTIONS FOR
COLUMBUS FOLK
Voters to Name Officials Just
Four Days After Charter Con
test in December.
ATHENS, Sept. 6—The Athens
Banner, published here as a morning
paper by H J. Rowe individually for
the past seventeen years, appeared
this week for the first time as a stock
company, the Banner Publishing
Company.
H. J. Rowe is still the big stock
holder, but D. G. Bickers, managing
editor; Charles E. Martin, business
manager; T. W. Reed and E. C. Cox
are now members of the company.
BOND OF BANK PRESIDENT
IS REDUCED TO $10,000
ATHENS, Sept. Judge C. H
Brand set a bond of $10,000 for J. W
Griffin, the bank president who is
being held under sentence in the
Cla-ke County Jail. Ills lawyers have
been working for some time to get
him released under bond, pending the
motion for a new trial, and since the
amount has been reduced from $15.-
000 i<A $10,000, it is thought he will
tnake^ond shortly.
COLUMBUS. Sept. 6 -From an of
ficial standpoint, Columbus facts
rather a peculiar situation, and one
that difficulty may b* experienced Ip
unraveling. The situation is this:
The voters of the city will vote on
the question of adopting the com
mission form of government on De
cember 10, JuBt four days before the
annual election of a Mayor and eight
Aldermen. Owing to the fact that m
one will care to announce as a can
didate for either Mayor or Alder
man, with an election pending that I
will mean a change in the charter of
the city government from the Mayor
and aldermanic form to one of com
mission government, until the elec- I
tlon is over, means that there will
be only four days left in which can - I
didates can qualify for Mayor aud
Aldermen.
Should the commission government
carry, the question could be easily
solved ns to disposition of the of
fices until the commissioners could
be elected, because the present cltv
charter provides that the incumbents
shall hold office until their successors
are elected and qualified.
Usually there are a considerable
number of candidates for Mayor and
Aldermanic positions. Eight Alder
men hold over each year, and these
eight will not have to he elected on
December 14. the time for the regul ir
city election, provided commission
government does not carry, but thera
| are eight Aldermen who will have to
he elected, as will a successor to
i Mayor Chappell, whose term expires
j January 1.
No solution of the problem has beer
offered thus far.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 8.—Jufipe W. F.
Eve. president of the Good Roads As
sociation of Georgia, Is optimistic
over the coming good roads convention
to be held in Augusta in connection
with the Georgia-Carolina Fair in
November. Judge Eve expects hun
dreds of delegates from both States,
and talks will be made by distin
guished speakers on the road ques
tion.
"The people of the South are real
izing more and more the necessity of
having good roads, and anw county
or community which has bad roads
Is shunned by every automobilist,”
said Judge Eve.
Residents of Dalton
Like Sidewalk Law
15-POUND CANTALOUPE
GROWN IN FLOYD COUNTY
ROME. Sept 6. Considerable Inter
cut wa^ created her* by the exhibition
•f a fifteen-pound cantaloupe grown by
, Edgar Morton The cantaloupe Is per
fect in shape and the grower says that
, it la not much larger ihuu dozens of
j others In the same patch.
ATHENS PRESBYTERY TQ
MEET AT JEFFERSON, GA.
ATHENS, Sept 6.—The Athens
Presbytery, embracing fourteen coun
ties. will meet with the Thyatira
Uhurch. near Jefferaon, on September
I 16. More than 34 churches are in
• the Atftens district, and the Rev. E.
1 I.. Hf», of the First Presbyterian
^Church here, is moderator.
Curfew Law To Be
Enforced at Athens
Arrests of Young Boys Leads
Mayor to Issue
Order.
ATHENS. Sept. 6.—Athens now
has a curfew law, and all youngsters
under the age of 14, unless accom
panied by thtlr parents or guardians,
must be off the s.reets by 10 o’clock
at night.
The Mayor Issued this edict as a
result of several arrests of young
boys for breaking into several houses
and carrying on a regular, systematic
line of thievery. Four young boys,
ranging from 10 to 15 years of age.
Were arrested this week and sen
tenced to the State Reformatory for
continued thievery. Last Sunday
they entered the Chi Phi Chapter
house and the residence of J. H Moss
and appropriated a number of arti
cles.
TO START WORK ON
ROME'S $60,000 HOTEL
ROME. Sept 6.—Work on Rome’s
new $60,000 hotel will begin about Oc
tober 1 The present tenants of the
old Choice House have been notified
to vacate by September 15 and as soon
after that date as possible the building
will be razed to make way for the new
hostelry.
CARBOLIC ACID BOTTLE
BURSTS; CHILD BURNED
ROME, Sept $ —The six-weeks-old
infant of Mr an,j Mrs Cap Carpenter,
of IJndale. was severely burned when
a quart bottle of carbolic acid broke
and spattered on the child’s head and
body. The baby's mother was also
burned by the acid, hut she rushed to a
drug store, where medical attention was i
given bvjih. « |
Odd Fellows Enter
Teams in Contest
Annual Convention of Eighteenth
Division To Be Held
at Eton.
DALTON. Sept. 6.—The Eighteenth
Division of Odd Fellows, embracing
the lodges of Whitfield, Murray. Bar
tow, Gordon and Catoosa Counties,
will hold the annual fall convention
in Eton, Murray County, next Fri
day and Saturday, an interesting pro
gram having been arranged for the
gathering.
Two different contests will feature
the meeting. For the best drilled
degree :oam a prize of $35 will be
given, tho second prize in this event
being a banner, now held by Spring
Place Lodge. Tl;e Murray County
lodge which shows greatest skill in
opening and closing of lodge will be
awarded a prize of $10, offered by the
past division deputy grand master,
Buell Stark, of Dalton.
BUSINESS COURSE FOR
DALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DALTON. Sept, fi.—At a meetlns
of the Hoard of Education the pur
chase of four standard-make type
writers w as authorized, and this year
the business course will be made an
Important feature in the public
schools. Typewriting, shorthand and
bookkeeping will be taught, the de
partment to be under the direction of
Professor J. A. Humphries.
TO ENTER JOHNS HOPKINS.
ATHENS. Sept. 6.—Professor J. C.
Koch, who has been at the good roads
school of the University of Georgia
for two years, has tendered hU resig
nation and will leave September 20
for Baltimore, where ho will enter
JoUux Hopkins.
Wholesale Contract Letting Cited as
Evidence of Popularity of
Pacing Ordinance.
DALTON, Sept. 6.—That property
owners are. for the most part, pleas
ed at City Council’s edict to have con
structed permanent sidewalks of etth-
er tile or concrete. Is evidenced by the
wholesale leting of contracts by prop
erty owners. The first work, start
ed on North Hamilton street/ em
braces a solid mile of concrete side
walks, and Chairman Hamilton of the
Street Committee has found none
complaining of the order.
At the last meeting of City Coun
cil, other residential streets were add
ed to the list passed up some time
ago. Depot, Crawford and Waugh
streets being among the number.
The work on North Hamilton is
rapidly progressing, and when all of
thestreets as blocked out by the
Council are completed, there will be
between five and ten miles more of
cement sidewalks here.
MACON, Sept. 6—The Ordinary
has denied the application of Mrs. El
len Washington Bellamy for appoint
ment as administratrix of the estate
of her brother, Henry Washington,
who died on June 8 at Milledgeville,
leaving an estate of about $20,000.
Tho objectidn to her appointment
was made by her brotner, James
Washington, of Forsyth, who Is also
the caveator to the will of the late
Hugh Vernon Washington who died
last year and made Mrs. Bellamy, his
sister, the executrix of his will. H.
V. Washington left an estate of over
$130,000, all of which, he directed,
should go to the Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion upon Mrs. Bellamy’s death.
Indian Chief Buried
Under W.& A. Tracks
History Searcher Shows Red Blrd’3
Grave Was Directly In
Path of Railroad.
SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY
SESSION 1913-14,
The Southern College of Medicine and Surgery wtH begin ftt 1910-44 eva
sion Monday. September 8. 1913 with a full staff of paid Professors. We have
added a Pharmacy. Post-graduate and Literary School to the Medical Depart
ment thus making the college (Complete in every sense for the matriculate
In Medicine Vast improvements have been made in the college building,
including the enlargement of the amphitheater, Chemical. Anatomical, Path
ological, Bacteriological and Histological laboratories; with the addition of
our new Hospital, the student will receive bedside training and have an op
portunity of studying different cases In their several phases.
POST-GRADUATE SCHOOL COURSE
Our Post-Graduate School Course (six weeks) Is for , M the buey practi
tioner. who wishes to perfect himself In oertaln Unee of work.
PHARMAGY SCHOOL.
The Pharmacy School consists of two sessions, of six months each, and
will oontlnue throughout the year the same as the Post-Grecuate School.
For catalogue and Information apply to WML BTSRNAfUO LINGO, 1ft. D.,
Dean 52-54 McDaniel street. Atlanta, Ga.
DALTON, Sept. 6.—In delving into
the early history of Whitfield County,
the interesting fact has been brought
to light that the grave of Chief ReJ
Bird is marked by one of the promi
nent factors in modern progress, a
railroad.
When the Indians occupied this
section, Red Bird was one of the big
leaders of the tribe. He was burle.l
near the northern limits of what Is
now Dalton, his grave being west of
where the Crown C t.ton Mills no-v
stand. When the Western and At
lantic Railroad was built, the right of
way was directly over the gTave of
the Indian chief, his grave being
covered by the tracks.
Candidates a Plenty
In Gainesville Race
Five Aspirants for Mayor Already In
Field, With Prospects of
Several New Entries.
GAINESVILLE, Sept. 6—It Is said
that the Mayoralty election this fall
in Gainesville gives promise of being
a live one. Among those mentioned
who may become candidates are Dr.
John B. Rudolph, who was Mayor one
term: R. D. Mitchell, formerly Mayor
for two terms; George W. Walker,
the present Mayor Pro Tern; H. N.
Merck, several terms a member of
Council, and J. D. Hardle, a present
Councilman.
Dr. P. E. B. Robertson Is the pres
ent Mayor. He has not yet announc
ed whether he w r ili be a candidate for
re-election.
YOUTHFUL SLAYER RELEASED.
PERRY, Sept. 6.—George McClus-
ter. a negro boy, who stabbed anJ
kiiled Coy Barrett, aged 13 years,
some time in August, has been re
leased from Jail by Judge A. C. Riley,
of the City Court, because of bis
youth.
when the appe
tite is normal and
you are able to eat'
without distress;
but how quickly
you go “down to de
feat” when the “inner
man” becomes weak.
Play safe, and at the
first sign of trouble you
had better take
HOSTETTERS
STOMACH
BITTERS
It will help you con
tinue to be a “winner.”
MISS WOODBERRYS SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
428 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga. Fall Session begins September 17.
Enrollment dally at the school for collegiate, high school and grammar
grades, and arrangements made for the boarding pupilfc.
Professors In Plano, Voice, Expression, Violin, Art.
Well equipped Primary Department for the first four grades.
I^arge grounds, opposite the Governor’s Home, with basket ball and ten
nis courts, open air classes in season, and the environment of a Chris
tian school.
MISS ROSA WOODBERRY, Principal.
SCHOOL
OPENS
MONDAY
Every school child must have a sound set ot Teeth
as part equipment tor the year’s work. Bring your
children io us tor FREE EXAMINATION; we will tell
you frankly whether they can stand the test.::::
DR. E. G. GRIFFIN’S
GATE CITY DENTAL ROOMS
241-2 Whitehall Street, Over Brown & Allen’s
Telephone Main 1708 Lady, Attendant
OUR PRICES WITH GUARANTEE:
Set ot Teeth $5 Gold Filling $1
$4
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Gold Crowns
Bridge Work $4
Amalgam Filling 50c . up
Teeth Cleaned... $1 up
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