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Being the News of Each Day of the Week in Condensed Form Specially For the Busy Man and the Farmer
VOL. V. NO. 50. ATLANTA, GA.. WEEK ENDING DEC. 2. 1913.
be A MONTH. 36c A YEAR Entered at the Atlanta. Ga . Postoffice as Second Class Mall Matter.
Published Weekly By
THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
20 E. Alsbama-st.. Atlanta. Ga
WILSOi
POLIGY
•PRETTY NURSE SMILES ON STAND
BUT JUST MUST CRY
Miss Emily Townsend who testified “Uncle Josh” Crawford was not poisoned.
AFTERWARD
SHERMAN TRUST
nounced by Chicago Firms.
Investigation Planned.
That an attractive woman who ap
peared composed upon the witness
stand and whose pleasant smile de
cidedly cheered those in the court
room should find it necessary to go
to .her home and have a big cry illus
trates that “a woman's a woman for
a’ that.”
This is true of Miss Emily Town
send. the trained nurse who attended
“Uncle Josh” Crawford during his
last illness, and who took the stand
Monday in behalf of Mr*. Mary Belle
Crawford, his widow, who is charged
with his death.
Miss Townsend is attractive and
her smile, which was caught un-
Rural Schools to
Have Mail Boxes
WASHINGTON. Deo. 2.^Schools
on rural routes are to be considered
patrons of these moutea, according to
au announcement by Postmaster
General Burleson. He has granted
permission for the placing of mall
boxes at these institutions.
awares by a Georgian photographer,
is of the kind that must serve as a
wonderful tonic for her patients.
“But I don’t like to go on the wit
ness stand; every time I do I have
to go home and have a cry, and it
upsets me for a day or two,” she said
when asked how she liked to be a
witness.
“No one relishes the idea of being
haled into court. Then the way the
lawyers look at you and ask you ques
tions is enough to run a body crazy.
Every time I am called as a witness
I have to go home afterwards and
shut myself up in my room and just
give way.”
Girl Drops 5 Stories
In Safety Device
NEW YORK. Dec. 2.—Miss Elsie
Sprague, 17< was twice Lowered from
the top of the Jamaica, E. L, post-
office building, a five-story structure,
to demonstrate the efficiency of a new
safety device.
CHICAGO. Dec. 2.—Egg prices wa
vered to-day as the 'boycott, started
more than a week ago in Chicago, con
tinued to spread to nearly every im- |
portant city in the country.
Two large firms here to-day an
nounced that markets would be opened
in various parts of the city, and eggs
wc^uld be offered for 31 cents a dozens
The retail price predominating in Chi
cago to-day was 48 cents.
Dispatches from Detroit. St. Paul.
Kansas City, Baltimore, Washington and
a dozen other large cities told of thou
sands of clubwomen voting to buy no
eggs until the price dropped to at least
32 cents a dozen.
Federal District Attorney Wilkerson
has begun plans for a sweeping Grand
Jury investigation of charges against
men who owned stored eggs in Chicago,
with a view to bringing criminal pros
ecution. The District Attorney has
promised to bring about prosecution of
the Chicago Butter and Egg Board as
members of a trust in restraint of trade
before the end of this week.
GRANDNEPHEWS PALLBEARERS.
RICHMOND, VA., Dec. 2 With her
eight grandnephews of this city acting
as pallbearers, Mrs. Annie Eliza Mc-
Gruder Waldron, mother of W. IS. Wal
dron, a real estate operator of Atlanta,
was burled here to-day in Holl> wood
Cemetery.
Mrs. Waldron became ill in Cincin
nati last week while visiting B McGru-
der Waldron, her other son. a railroad
official of that city. Realizing that the
end waa near, she asked to be brought
back to Richmond, her home city, to
A desire to inject the spice of ro
mance into a love affair that began in
childhood, coupled with a natural timid
ity that made a big church, rice and old
shoe wedding an utter impossibility,
caused Oscar C. Bngram and Miss Ethel
Hay to slip quietly from their homes at
Calhoun. Ga., at 4:53 o’clock Tuesday
morning, board the Western and Atlan
tic train and have the nuptial knot tied
at 8:15 o’clock in the waiting room of
the old Union Station.
The wedding attracted considerable*
attention about the station, and the
happy couple were forced to heed the
attentions of as large a crowd as they
probably would have encountered in a
church. A score of tourists bound for
Palm Beach hailed the wedding as a
welcome diversion in the monotony ,.f
1 travel, and were almost as joyous as the
bride and bridegroom.
Navy Officer in Jail
All Night for Attack
“I did not have any intention whatso
ever of kidnaping or trying to kidnap
my son Ernest,” declared Captain Er
nest West, United States Marine Corps,
In his cell at police headquarters Tuts
day. Captain West was arrested Mon
day at the Capital City Club following
the sensational charges of his mother-
| in-law. Mrs. John H. Jones, of assault
with intent to kill. A city case of drunk
j and disorderly conduct also is booked
| against him.
The city case against Captain West
J will be tried before Recorder Broyles,
i Bond was fixed at $200. No bond has
j been arranged on the assault and bat-
• tery charge and no date set for the trial.
I Captain West spent the night in police
1 headquarters.
President, in Message, Says It
Should Be Unaltered, but Clar
ified as Business Aid.
WASHINGTON, Deo J Asserting
that there can befr no peace in Amer
ica until President Huerta surren-
[EG PRICES FILL;
BOYCOTT IS CAUSE
Drop to 31 Cents Per Dozen An-
dors his usurped authority, President
Wilson, in an address to Congress
delivered in person to-day. declared
that despite that fact he did not be
lieve the United States would have
to ^!ter its policy of watchful wail
ing. The President said Huerta's
power .and prestige arc crumbling a
little day by day. and the collapse
is not far away. With the end of the
Huerta regime, he said, he hoped to
see constitutional order restored in
Mexico.
Besides pleading for the swift en
actment Into law of the adminis
tration currency bill, the President
told Congress that he believed the
Sherman anti-trust law should stand
unaltered, bat that Congress should
as rapidly, as possible enact legisla
tion which would clarify and make
explicit “that great act,” facilitate its
administration and make it fairer to
all concerned.
First Word on Trust Law.
This is the first expression of any
kind that has come from President
Wilson regarding the Sherman law.
Business men and financiers have
been waiting with a great deal of in
terest. not to say trepidation, to learn
what the policy of the Wilson admin
istration was to be with regard to
the Sherman law, about which has
arisen so much confusion. The Pres
ident to-day said it is of capital im
portance that the business men of tho
country should be relieved of all un
certainties of law with regard to their
enterprises and a clear path indicated
which they can travel without anx
iety.
Tt is as important that they should
be relieved of embarrassment and set
free to prosper as that private mo
nopoly should be destroyed,” the
President declared.
President Wilson broached a new
election reform plan during the
course of his address, which would
provide for the direct nomination of
Presidential candidates.
Instead of the present delegate sys
tem for the Presidential conventions,
the President asserted he would have
the conventions consist of the nomi
nees for Congress, the nominees for
vacant seats in the Senate, the Sen
ators whose terms have not yet end
ed, the national committees and the
Presidential candidates themselves, in
j order that the platforms • might be
drawn by those responsible to the
people for carrying them into effect.
■Elopers Wed at Depot;
Are Given an Ovation