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TTRARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C.A., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, ID1B
Augusta Macon
Columbus Griffin
Middle and North Georgia News
Athens Gainesville
Rome Dalton
MACON. Sept 6.—With three can-
d dates 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 campaign
that has £ver interested the present
generation of voters.
Several times three men have run
for mayor in the same campaign,
but never before have there been
three full aldermanic 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 Moore administration. How
ever, Mr. Dasher has never been
aligned with the administration, and
early last December he made 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 "Wage
Karners" 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 us 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 also 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 Smith
and Dasher, but on August 18 Wallace
Miller suddenly entered the tight. 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
telegrams, and upon his 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
rssult font that afternoon Mr. Miller
msde a definite announcement. Three
days afterwards his aldermanic ticket
was named, having been organized
in record time. His candidacy got
under full swing 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
following candidates for council;
First ward: J. R. Bowdre, secretary
of County Board; T. O. Chestney re
tired hanker; F. M. Jones, merchant.
Second Ward: E. A Adamson, me
chanic; W. J. Garrity, mechanic;
John W. Ramsey, merchant. Third
Ward: R. K Hines, lawyer; Lee M.
Happ, manufacturer and banker;
Jesse W. Bates, traveling salesman.
Fourth Ward; P. C. Hazlehursit, cot
ton buyer; R. S. 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 aldermanic ticket is as
follows; First Ward -P. U Hay.
president of insurance company; H
A. Kennington, grocer; Charles
Schaefer, mechanic. Second Ward
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
Taylor, Jr. real estate and insurance;
F. Joe Bishop, contractor.
Record Registration.
Already all previous registration
records have been broken by a reg
istration of 3.400, and the books do
not close until September 12.
The executive committee will meet
BOOM to fix a date for tlie election,
which will probably be held during j
'the first week in October.
On September 17 there will be an i
election for Water Commissioner and i
for judge of the new Municipal Court. !
which will supplant the justice of the j
peace courts. Opposing Cliff T. Wil- !
flamson, a boilermaker, for re-elec- !
tion for the six-year term arc C. E
Brunner, a druggist; H. R Brown,
a retired plumber; J. W. Wilcox, u
Civil engineer; T E. Crlmmins. a
painter, and Howell Harris, a col
lector.
The candidates for judge are Au
gustin Daly, City Recorder; Lloyd
Moore and Henry Strohecker, both
veteran lawyers, and J. P. Burnett,
lawyer and justice of the peace.
STOCK COMPANY TAKES
OVER ATHENS BANNER
ATHENS, Sept. 6.—The Athens
Banner, publish. 1 here as a morning
paper by H J Rowe individually for
the past seventeen years, appeared
this week for the first time as .< stock
company, the Banner Publishing
Company.
H. J. Rowe is still the big stock
holder, but D. O. Bickers, managing
editor; Charles E. Martin, business
manager; T. W. Reed and E. C. Cox
ore now members of the company.
1 ELECTIONS FOR
COLUMBUS m
[Voters to Name Officials Just
Four Days After Charter Con
test in December.
OOLUMBU8, Sept. A—From an of-
fk’ial standpoint, Columbus faces
rather a peculiar situation, and one
that difficulty may bo experienced in
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, just 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 Aider-
man. with an election pending that
I will mean a change in the charter of I
the city government from the Mayor j
and aldermanic form to one of coin-!
mission government, until the elec
tion is over, means that there will
be only four days left in which can- |
j didates can qualify for Mayor and
| Aldermen.
Should the commission government
carry, the question could be easily
j solved as to disposition of the of
fices until the commissioners could
be elected, because the present city
charter provides that the incumbents
| shall hold offjee until their successors
are elected and qualified.
Usually there are a considerable
number of candidates for Mayor and
Aldermanic positions. Eight Aldcr-
! men hold over each year, and these
j eight will not have to be elected on
December 14. the time for the regular
city election, provided commission
j government does not carry, but there
are eight Aldermen who will have to
be elected, as will a successor to
Mayor Chappell, whose term expires
January 1.
No solution of the problem has beer
offered thu** far.
BOND OF BANK PRESIDENT
IS REDUCED TO $10,000
ATHENS. Sept. A—Judge C H
Brand set a b<md of $10,000 for J. W
Griffin, the bank president who is
being held under sentence in the
Clarke County jail. His 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 t $t«t,uG0, it is thought he will
make bor.jj shortly.
15-POUND CANTALOUPE
GROWN IN FLOYD COUNTY
ROME Sept « —-Considerable inter
est was created here by the exhibition
of a fifteen-pound cantaloupe grown by
Edgar Morton The cantaloupe is per
fect in shape and the grower says that
it is not much larger than dosens of
others in the same patch.
ATHENS PRESBYTERYT0
MEET AT JEFFERSON, GA.
—
ATHENS. Sept 6.—The Athens
j Presbytery, embracing fourteen coun
I ties, will meet with the Th.vatira
I Church, t ear Jefferson, on September
16. More titan 34 churches are in
I the Athens district, and the Rev. K
I I. Hill, x: the First Presbyterian
\ Church tiJe, is moderator.
Curfew Law To Be
Enforced at Athens
Arrests of Young Boys Leads
Mayor to Issue
Order.
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 :eam a prize of $35 will be
given, the second prize in this event
being a banner, now held by Spring
Place Lodge. The Murray County
lodge which shows greatest skill in
opening *md closing of lodge will be
awarded a prize of $10, offered by the
past division deputy gram! mo c ler,
Buell Staik, of Dalton.
•\THFNS. Sept. 6.—Athens now
has a curfew law. and all youngsters
under the age of 14. unless accom
panied by their parents or guardians,
must be off the s.reels 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 bo> s.
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.D(H> 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 j
after that date as possible the building I
will be rased to make way for the new I
hostelry. 1
CARBOLIC ACID BOTTLE
BURSTS; CHILD BURNED;
8»Bt- S -The slx-weeks-old j TO ENTER JOHNS HOPKINS.
infant of Mr and Mrs Cap Carpenter. ATHENS, Sept* 6.—Professor J. C.
f TJndale. was severely burned when Koch, who has been at the good roads
J 1 ’■ school of the University of Georgia
for two years, has tendered his resig-
BUSINESS COURSE FOR
DALTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DALTON. Sept. 6.—At a meeting
of the Board of Education the pur
chase of four standard-make type
writers was 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.
juart bottle of carbolic acid broke
and spattered on the child's head and
body The baby's mother was also
burned by the acid, but she rushed to a
drug store, where medical attention was
given both.
nation and will leave September 20
for Baltimore, where he will enter
, Johns Hopkins. *
STIR VOTERS IN
All Registration Records Broken.
Election To Be Held Early
Next Month.
W ALLACE MILLER on the left, A. L. Dasher on the right, and Brides Smith below, rival
candidates for Mayor of Macon. Mr. Smith, in a former Mayor and now City Clerk. He
J is the administration candidate. Mr. Miller, representative from Bibb County, and son of a for-
! trier Mayor, heads a young men’s ticket. Mr. Dasher, now an Alderman, is running as an in
dependent.
ELECTRIC LINE
Construction to Begin in October.
Increase in Bonded Indebt
edness $3,000,000.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 6.—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 a 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 touch with the great
interurban system of electric rail
ways built by the DukeR which runs
from Charlotte down through the
Piedmont section of South Carolina,
touching Greenville, Spartanburg,
Anniston 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 Clearwater
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 Grankeville 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
gia mav 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 derot.
Speakers for Good
Roads Convention
—
Noted Men Will Attend Meeting
of Georgia Association
In Augusta.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 6.—Judge W. F.
i 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 Gaorgia-Carollna 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 any county
or community which has bad roads
Is shunned by every automobiHst,"
‘ said Judge Eve.
Residents of Dalton
Like Sidewalk Law
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 eith
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 a*S blocked out by the
Council are completed, there will be
between five and ten miles more of
cement sidewalks here.
Candidates a Plenty
In Gainesville Race
Five Aspirants for Mayor Already in
Fleid, 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. Hardie, a present
Councilman.
Dr. P. E. B. Robertson is the pres
ent Mayor. He has not yet announc
ed whether he will be a candidate for
re-election.
YOUTHFUL SLAYER RELEASED.
PERRY. Sept. 6.—George McClus-
ter. a negro boy, who stabbed and
killed 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 hi3
youth.
SIX W ENTER
Indications Are That Field Will
Be Full of Candidates for
Bell's Seat.
GAINESVILLE. Sept. 6.—There
promises to again be a lively race for
Congress in the Ninth District next
year. It is 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
tl^e 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 tn 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 Kllijay, has
already announced his candidacy. He
made the race fo.ur 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 i« 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 $20,030
Estate of Another Brother
Denied by Ordinary.
College Students
Flock to Athens to
Enter University
More Than 1,500, Representing Every
State In Union,
Expected.
ATHENS, Sept. 6.—Monday will
see the opening of the State Normal
School here and in the next two
weeks tnere 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 :mproved dur
ing the sumemr and are also antici
pating an increase in attendance,
j The city schools will begin their
I 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.
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
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 hanks of th»
Savannah River at Augusta for the
purpose of securing Government aid
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, G. P. A.
Macon, Ga.
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. You 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 noiv. Work be
gins September 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
“Developer of Efficient Executives"
Salary Measures Capital Value
MACON, Sept. 6.—The Ordinary
has denied the application of Mrs. El- j
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.
The objection to her appointment
was made by her brother, 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
$150,000, all of which, he directed, j
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 Bird’s
Grave Was Directly in
Path of Railroad.
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 Red
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 burie.l
near the northern limits of what is
now Dalton, his grave being west of
where the Crown C tton Mills now
stand. When the Western and At
lantic Railroad was built, the right of
way was directly over the grave of
the Indian chief, his grave being
covered by the tracks.
SOUTHERN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY
SESSION 1913-14.
The Southern College of Medicine and Surgery will begin Ks 1913-14 ses
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 iri 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-Oradeate School Course (six weeks) is for the busy practi
tioner, who wishes to perfect himself in certain lines of work.
PHARMACY 8CHOOL.
The Pharmacy School consists of two sessions, of six months each, and
will continue throughout the year the same as the Post-Graduate School.
For catalogue and information apply to WM. BERNARD LINGO, M D.,
Dean. 52-64 McDaniel street, Atlanta, Ga.
MISS WOODBERRY’S 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 hoarding pupilS.
Professors in Plano, Voice, Expression, Violin, Art.
Well equipped Primary Department for the first four grades.
Large 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.
DAY
SCHOOL
OPENS
MONDAY
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 I
first sign of trouble you l
had better take
HOSTETTERS
STOMACH
BITTERS
It will help you con
tinue to be a “ winner. ’ ’
l
“YOU
WIN”
Every school child must have a sound set ot Teeth
as part equipment tor the year's work. Bring your
children to us tor FREE EXAMINATION; we will tell
you trankly 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
Gold Crowns $4 Amalgam Filling 50c . up
Bridge Work $4 Teeth Cleaned... $1 up