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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