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THE BUSIEST TOWN OF ITS SIZE IN THE WORLD-EAST POINT, GEORGIA’ EAST POINT IS MAGNET WHICH DRAWS MONEY Merchants Who Locate There Find Instant Success, Despite Many Live Competitors. The busiest town of its size in the '.orld —East Point, Ga.! Pulsating- with prosperity, humming with commerce, ablaze with industry, the western metropolis of Fulton ounty, this little city of commercial latisfaction is not only one of the vest centers, but also the most re markable from a standpoint of sub stantial resources. Dotted with industries of every de scription. it defies the approach of "hard times.” With such a varied outlay of manufactories, even the most stringent of financial troubles < ould hardly result in halting the wheels of industry there. Add to this its location in the midst of a rich agricultural section, and make it a perfect residential town, and the ideal of municipalities is presented. City Makes Everything. It is doybtful if any one city with :»n times the population has as va ried a line of industries as East Point. There are small plants and plants of large dimensions. There are manu factories of everything from a wagon to a spool of thread, horse collars to metal culverts, saws to building sup plies. The most noticeable fact of all is that every plant in East Point is run ning to its full capacity, while ex tensions are being planned. Rumors < f new plants are plentiful, and it is regarded as assured that before an other twelve months pass at least three or four new concerns will locate in the town. Within the past two COTTON DUCK HORSE COLLARS They are guaranteed to not only prevent galls and sore shoulders, but to actually heal those already existing, and do it while the animals work. A large Louisiana sugar planter says: “Before using the Lankford it was noth ing uncommon for me to have eight or ten head of stock laid up at one time, with galls and sore shoulders, during heavy plow time, but since adopting the Lankford Col lar such a thing now would be almost a curiosity/’ There are over three million in use. Write us for booklet, giving the history of the inventor and his unique mode of travel. ft MADE ONLY BY COUCH BROS. MANUFACTURING COMPANY ATLANTA, GA. MEMPHIS, TENN. CINCINNATI, OHIO FT. WORTH, TEX. WATERLOO, IOWA SANTA ANA, CAL. BEAUTIFUL CHURCH STREET, ONE OF THE SHOW RESIDENCE AVENUES OF EAST POINT % I® , J® ‘ _ - - .31 years half a dozen new industries have begun operation. AH Become Bosters. Every man who has located in East Point has developed Into a booster. A significant fact of the substantial foundation upon which the town rests is that a number of merchants locat ing here in the past three years have found instant success awaiting. Com petition has served to develop busi ness, and the "old-timers” and "new comers” alike have experienced the benefits of increased business. There is money to be made by the man who has money to Invest; there is a job for every able-bodied man. Ask any man in East Point what he thinks of his town. "The best and busiest town of it« size in the world,” is his Instant re ply. HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12. 1913 Alimony Dodger in Peril of Jail Again Sheriff in ‘Believe Me, Xantippe,’ Must Pay $1,750 —Spent Half Year in Jail. NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Theodore Roberts, who has been playing the part of the sheriff in “Believe Me, Xantippe,” must pay his wife $1,750 for alimony’ or go to Ludlow street jail for another six months. He spent six months there and con sidered himself alimony-proof until Justice Delaney informed him he had made himself immune only from col lection of alimony due prior to the trial of his wife’s separation action. THE CFNIUNEMMIKfOWI Are Humane, Durable and Economical Borrow Umbrella; Don’t Take Raincoat Washington Judge’s Decision Shows That Latter Offense Is More Serious. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Chief Justice Clabaugh. of the District Su preme Court, has handed down an opinion on the mooted question: "Which is the worse crime—to steal a raincoat or to borrow an umbrella while it is raining?” He thinks that the taking of a raincoat is a trifle more heinous than borrowing an umbrella, for to-day he sent John Nelson to the peniten tiary for two years for taking a rain coat without the owner's leave. Many Masons to Get Master Degree Henry Banks, of LaGrange, Past Master, Will Lecture Be fore Candidates. One of the most Interesting events In local Masonary’ will be the lecture of Henry Banks, of LaGrange, past grand master of the Masons of Geor gia, to be delivered next Tuesday evening to a large class of candidates who will receive the degree of mas ter mason at that communication. The ceremony will conclude at 9 o'clock and the lecture will be given at that hour. The Masons of the city and near-by towns have been invited to attend. 200 Trains Every 24 Hours Pass City at B=Mile Pace Every Freight Takes or Leaves Something, Every Local Has Fares for East Point. Two hundred trains pass through i East Point every 24 hours, and every i train either leaves or takes som"- 1 thing. The Central of Georgia anl ' the Atlanta and West Point Railroads i have immense trackage, the invest- ( meat in steel rails alone totaling sev- . eral hundred thousand dollars. i Every local train handles a large ' amount of travel for East Point. The ' travelers on the great ten and twelve coach through trains catch a wonder ful view of the prosperity of the town as they move through It at an eight mile-an-hour pace. The city fathers of the little city displayed sagacity m putting an eight-mile limit on trains, for it reali.v furnishes a sightseeing trip to East Point s industries. The traveler can not help but be forcibly’ struck with the prosperity of the place. Factories Line Tracks. The Central of Georgia sweeos around to Hapeville from East Point, while the Atlanta and West Point For the Season’s Latest Models in FALL AND WINTER MILLINERY and for all that is stylish in the best selected line of NOTIONS it will be to your interest to come to see OUR attractive display MISSES DIGGS Millinery and Notions Bell Phone 228-J. East Point, Ga. Atlanta Phone 68. road curves to College Park, thus making East Point a junction. Fac tory after factory is to be found along each line.' Within the past two years both roads have found it necessary to in crease the size of their depots as wail as of their yards. AU day and night sw’itch engines are kept busy snaking out long lines of cars filled with the manufactured product of the town’s finished products of the town's alive with railroad commercial agfAi.s fairly fighting for the handling of the many heavy shipments. Interurban Express. An interurban express furnishes ths merchants of the section with a quick means of transportation for their hurry-up orders from and to Atlanta and to each corner of "Prosperi-.y Triangle." A ten-minute schedule puts East Point in quick trolley connection with both Atlanta, College Park and Hape ville. The six miles to Atlanta is cov. ered in twenty minutes. JFjEp 3C