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Thomas' FriendsSure
He Will Get P. 0, Job
XBWBBRN, N. C\, Dec. 13.—'The
delegation of 21 prominent Newber-
nians who on Thursday went to
Washington to confer with Senator
! F. M. Simmons, urging that he ap
point John Thomas as postmaster
here, returned to-day.
While Senator Simmons made no
promises further than to say that the
appointment would be made next
week, the delegation is confident that
Thomas will be selected.
Dogs and Cats Will
Die by Electricity
Mayor of St, Louis
Forbids Cigarettes
ST. L,Ol T IS. Dec. 13.—Mayor Henry
W. Kiel, who enjoys a good cigar,
issued an order to his confidential
secretary to request all visitors to the
Mayor’s office to refrain from smok
ing cigarettes. Mayor Kiel recently
revealed his attitude toward ciga
rettes when a newspaper reporter
snfoked a cigarette in the Mayor's
office.
"Here, if you want to smoke, smoke
like a man.” said the Mayqr. as he
pushed a box of cigars toward the
scribe.
At
* Soda
Fountains
or Carbon
ated in Bottles.
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY, Atlanta, Ga.
BIRMINGHAM, Dec 13.—Dogs and
eats taken up by the dog catcher in I
Birmingham and impounded will here
after be electrocuted when their time
is up and they are ordered killed.
This plan of death for the dpgs and
cats was suggested by the Birmingham
Humane Society and a patented "elec-
trocuter" will be installed. Birmingham
makes way with several hundred dogs
per annum.
Steals Two Eggs and
Gets Year in Prison
KEELY CO.
DOLLS?
OBITUARY.
Mrs. Virginia Lenora Huie, of Forest
Park, died Saturday afternoon in
an Atlanta private sanitarium. Fu
neral services will be conducted
Sunday afternoon from the Phila
delphia Church, at Forest Park. Mrs.
Huie is survived bv her husband,
five sons, three daughters and two
brothers. Friends desiring to at
tend the funeral services may take
the Central of Georgia suburban
train, leaving the Terminal Station
at 1:15 p. m., and get off at Kimsey,
where private conveyances^ .will be
the T h
waiting to take them to
[lurch.
Mrs. M. E. Warner, of Stillmore. Ga.,
aged 65 years, died Saturday after
noon in an Atlanta private sanita
rium. She is survived by h**r hus
band.
Thomas R. Cumming, 2-year-old soil
of Mr. and Mrs. B. X. Cumming. No.
271 South Humphries, died Satur
day nigflit. The body will be sent
and interment.
HUNTINGTON. W. VA.. Dec. 13.
For the theft of two eggs Charles li
Thumel was sentenced, in the Crimi
nal Court here, to serve a year in * lie
penitentiary. It was his second con
viction of petty larceny, and the Stat*
statutes provide the second offense
amounts to a felony.
The theft occurred several weeks
ag</. when the defendant was paim-
ing a sign for a local meat market.
Girls Sell Candy to
Fight White Plague
SAVANNAH, Dec. 13.—Savannah so
ciety girls will invade the shopping dis
trict for four days before Christmas io
sell candy in the" principal stores for
the benefit of the Margaret But tome
fund to fight tuberculosis.
A number of the younger set is al
ready more than ordinarily active in
selling the Christmas seals and a new
supply was ordered from the general of
fice at Atlanta this week.
WEDS NURSE WHO SAVED HIM.
FULTON. MO., Dec. 13— Robert W.
Backer, a young farmer, near this city,
has ^married Miss Frances Genevieve
Howard. Two years ago Backer was
nursed back to health by the bride, who j
is a trained nurse.
•the HOMF
STORE’*
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McClure ten-cent co.
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for the Whole Family—Big Store With Little Prices
BASEMENT
-China Shop
Buy an Open-
Stoc k Dinner
Pattern — the
ideal Xmas gift.
Our selections'
are all good and
the prices are
reasonable. Buy
as many or as
few pieces as
ou like and match here any time.
25c
• ’hild’s Silver-plated Set.
Knife, Fork and aiooi
In Buster Brown or Cher
ub design: boxed 25c
i lad
iarg«
< bina
Herman China Tea Pot
Sugar and Cream Set, 50c
Fruit Bowls,
assortment. in
15 and 25c
Main Floor
Teeming With Christmas
Specials
For men Japonette Handkerchiefs,
with silk initials. 10c each, $1.00 dozen
.Men's Four-in-Hand Ties, fancy col
orings, in holly box; special. flOc
Ladies’ Handkerchiefs, sheer linen,
with imitation Armenian lace boi
ders; a big value 10c
Ladies’ Neckwear
• »ur specialty, the season's latest. al*- »
sample lines good values at 50c.
for . 25c
Christmas Post Cards 10c dozen
M’CLU RE’S XMAS CANDIES.
Fruit Department
( Basement.)
Buy now at these prices
Sweet Florida Oranges . . . .1c each
Pecans and Walnuty 15c tb
Layer Raisins 12'/2C tts
Dates . 5c and 10c package
Apples, fancy 15c dozon
Malaga Grapes * . . 15c it>
The Toyland of the South
Toy Pianos. Rose
wood Finish.
5-Key Piano.. 25c
8-Key Piano 50c
12 and 14-Key
Piano . $1.00
BaBrand. $10.00
Piano Stool
Brass Folding Doll
Beds.
Work Boxes.
For Dolly’s Little
Mother. Containing
Thread. Needles,
Buttons. Scissors.
Etc .25c
Mechanical Trains
Engine, two cars,
tender, stopping de
vice. signals, etc.;
28 - inch oblong
track $1.00
13-1 nc h Long
Chintz Covered
Pillow and Mat
tress Like Pie*-
ture 25c
Large Beds With
Canopy Top. $1.00
HEARST X SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, UA., SUNDAY. 'DECEMBER 14. M»1«.
LIBRARY HEAD PLEADS. +•+ SUIT" ^ ^ ^ ^
‘Better Control Voter Than Vote’
Girl Toasted as
Fiance Is Killed
ASHEVILLE. Dec. 1.T -While ad
dressing invitations to her wedding to
arranged by her many
take place on the night of December tial affi
30. Miss Elizabeth 'Williamson received friends
, . .. .... , f . Mr. Davis was killed in an a
a telegram telling of the death of her
fiance. Lane Davis, of Oak Park, Ala.
She had Just returned from a card
party, the first of a. series of prenup-
blle wrcck\ncar Mobile, and c
soph Indicate that at. the\ time
death Miss Williams was being
as one of the city’s most
brides- to-be
utomo -
>mpari-
of his
toasted
popular
I ntension of Reading Rooms for Children Who
, Now Are in Peril in Reaching Downtown Dis
trict Needed, DeclaresMissKatherine Wooten.
Pet Phrase,It Seems,Is Woman’s IN HOTEL FIRE Beautiful
The need of more library stations
il the increasing danger, owing to
ngested traffic conditions, to chil -
on who come to the main library is
i nphasized in tne annual report of
” liss Katherine Hinton Wooten, li-
rarian of the Carnegie Public Li
brary, which has been received by
Mayor James G Woodward.
Miss Wooten declares it will be only
few years until children can not be
permitted to come alone to the libra-
>. and urges “it is up to the city to
ake the library to the people."
The need for convenient librafy
- itions is becoming greater as the
Ae of the city increases." says the
• port, "and it is hoped that we can
-non have a library center within
alking distance of every home,
where books are supplied free with
out the expenditure of time and mon-
•v needed to come to the present sta-
lions. to the citizen whose taxes sup
port the public library, but who are
ften prevented by distance from us
ing the books himself or allowing hi*
children to use them.
Can Be Placed in Stores.
This will not necessarily mean the
erection of costly buildings." the re
port says, "for ideal library stations
. an be placed in a corner of the
store of a friendly shopmaji. who will
be willing to give the space free for
the trade it will bring to his store.
*hen when a neighborhood has
roved its need for a library, it will
e time to consider the erection of a
nilding.
The great increase during the past
> ear in both the membership of the
brary and the volume of work done
s shown by interesting figures con
fined in the report. The membership
*:n 1913 numbers 51,172. an increase
of 8,230 over 1912; the number of
books in the library is 62,060, an in
crease of 4.668, and the circulation for
1913 was 331,987 volumes. 8,o93 more
’ban in 1912. During the year 17,308
persons were serve t d in the reference
room. and 84,583 came to the read
ing room. ,
Branches Are Popular.
The books are issued now out of
the main library, one branch library
housed in its own building, two
branch libraries in loaned buildings,
and nine deposit stations.
The total appropriation for the
year was $28,469, of which $7,925 was
spent for books and periodicals, the
balance going for salaries, mainte
nance and incidental expenses. There
vas turned into the city treasury
arough fines and fees the sum of
n,967.07.
The popularity of the branch libra
ries is sfrown by the fact that during
i he 21 days the branch at the Uncle
Remus home has been open. 1.192 vol
umes have been issued from it. This
probably is the most successful of
i Lie branches, considering the short
time it has been in operation.
From the main, library 290.623 vol
umes were issued; from the Anne
Wallace branch, 33,463; from the Oak
land City branch, 8,709, and 2,000 vol
umes were sent to the various deposit
stations. No records were kept-of the
circulation of the latter.
New deposit stations have been
<*frtmed during the year at Die Wesie.v
House Settlement of the Fulton Bag
and Cotton Mills, the Stewart Ave
nue House of the Atlanta Woolen
Mills, the Atlanta Paper Company
and several schools.
Interesting Incidents Told.
The establishment of the latter- was
the result of a visit of a member of
the library staff to Die various play
grounds of the city, where it was
found that many children have never
been in the section of the city where
the main library is located, and live
at remote distances from the
bra nohes.
The report contains many Interest
ing tales of the benefits people have
derived from the library. There D
ihe story of the young man who ask
ed for "something on homesickness."
The ^report states that he later re
turned and told that the book lie got
-—letters to a young girl suffering her
first attack of homesickness —
strengthened his determination to
st^iy in Atlanta. The library is also
used extensively by students prepar
ing for debates.
The various uses the reference
room is put to are illustrated by the
stories of the two old men who play
ed chess in a corner, and of the
young sculptor who came there day
after day to model his clay.
Changes in Staff.
'Hie "story hours" at the main li
brary and the various branches are
alsonoted in the report, with an ac
count of the greatly increased inter
est shown by the children. The re r
ceipt of many valuable contributions
is acknowledged, most of them being
acfcfitions to the Atlanta History col
lection.
There have been a number of
c hanges in the library staff during the
year. One of them was due to the
invasion of Cupid. Miss Fanny Cook
resigned to become the bride of F
Graham Williams, while Miss Mabel
Jones and Miss Gertrude Ryan re
signed to accept positions in other
c ities. Thomas Galphin was added to
the staff for night duty in the circu
lation department.
Mrs. W. U. Shepherd, from whom CoiiKi-esamau, Heflin bor- Salesman Whose $1,000 Jewels I ■ ll 1»1 Cl f '3111 £1 Cl
les suspicions are correct. I 19 II fl. I Cll3
Were Burned in Macon Marvels '
' i I
at Guests' Escape.
Bell To Be Federal
Attorney January 1
BIRMINGHAM. Dec 13. —Robert N.
Bell, whose name was sent to the Sen
ate Wednesday by President Wilson for
the position of United .States District
Attorney for the Northern District of
Alabama, expects to take his seat short
ly after Januarv L
He says that O. D. Street, the Repub
lican officeholder, will be ready to turn
over the office then. Mr. Beli will not
relinquish his position with the firm of
Allen & Bell, in Birmingham.
COW BREAKS VvORLD RECORD.
EAST LANSING, MICH., Dec. 13.—
College Bravura II. a 9-year-old
brown Swiss cow, owned by he
Michigan Agricultural College, has
established a new world’s record for
milk production by her breed. In the
year just ended she yielded 19,304.6
pounds of milk, which tested 4.102 per
cent and made 1,000.5 pounds of but
ter.
-SOCIETY VAUDEVILLE
Given by the S. V. D. Fraternity, in co-operation with 150 Atlanta so
ciety people, for the benefit of the INDUSTRIAL HOMF FOR THE
BLIND. ATLANTA THEATER. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17 8:30
p. m. Latest dances by some of Atlanta's younger set
New Spanish Dances. Broadway's latest song hits-.
At the (labaret—Musical comedy, with 40 pretty society girls
Raffles, alias Warfield, Richard Mansfield's famous sketch.
What Happened at Silver Lake—Musical comedy, with 60 people, in
cluding the tango dancers.
For the Love of Marie—A new sketch, never seen on any stage before.
Tickets on sale Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the Atlanta The
ater. Tumlin's cigar stores. Medlock’s Pharmacy, and* all hotels.
Prices: 50c, 75c and $1.00. Reservations by phone.
Suffragettes, in Girt*. Point t<» Mrs. Shepherd's
Talk as < ■ongressman’s Possible Model.
♦
MONTGOMERY. Dec. 13. Alaba
ma suffiagists want to ask a ques
tion of Congressman J. Thomas Hef
lin. fearless firebrand of anti-suf
frage. They ale wondering whether
his latest attack on the women whe
want to vote, delivered last week in
Washington, was not adapted, con
sciously or unconsciously, from an in
terview given out by a mere woman,
Mrs. W. L. Shepherd, of this* city.
Congressman Heflin’s valiant
speech against woman suffragists
bristled with epigrams, the most oft-
repeated of which was.
"It is better that a woman control
a voter than a vote."
The doughty gentleman from the
Fifth Alabama Distric t so proclaim
ed, over and over again. Right proud
he was, it seemed, of his bon mot.
Now. it happened that, a. day or
two before the Alabama Congress
man added to his fame by declaration
that the ballot belonged to men and
the home and kitchen and cradle to
women, Mrs. Shepherd, a young
woman popular in Montgomery so
ciety, returned home after a trip to
the East, where she was the guest of
friends in Boston, New Haven and
New York. Mrs. Shepherd is some
what of a thinker herself, and talked
to newspaper men both in the course
of her trip and at home. And this is
what she said:
"It is better that a woman control
a v*)U-r than a vote.’’
In spite of Die fact that Mrs. Shep
herd is opposed to the cause, suffra
gists of these parts rather welcome
her declaration, because it gives them
an opportunity to entertain the sus
picion that the oratorical gentleman
from the Fifth District, with all his
vigorous talking against their work,
has drawn something of his lire from
the despised weaker sex
Mrs. Shepherd, the young Mont
gomery woman of the incident, spoke
of her belief in the onhodox system
of government, much along the lines
of the Congressman's speech.
"It is the concern of every woman,
particularly every married woman,
that she be able to influence and con
trol her voter, rather than her vote,”
she said. “There is a very marked
sphere of usefulness in the home.”
Adolph Barondes, Hainjhflj to ba
; minus the *10,000 worth 0 f diamond*
| and jewelry with whioh he started
Mm." .New fork a few weeks a K o
I arrived in Atlanta Hatimbu nlirlii
I eon i Macon.
The eastU jewels, according to
>arondos, are lying in the ashes and
• uiriN- of the Williams Hotel in Ma -
• an. which burned to the ground early
Thursday morning and he already
retained Newman & Newman, of
Macon, to institute suit for the re
covery of their value.
Ba rondos said SaUirdax night i Ha t
he is a salesman for the wholesale
Jewelry, Arm of J H. Mils, No 54
Maiden Lane, New York, and that
he registered at the Williams Hotel
Wednesday night at 8 o’clock.
On If the fact that he throw Ills
windows wide open when he retired
and consequently was awakened by
the smoke blow-ing in saved his life,
he believes.
’"Tbf place was a veritable flre-
irap." the salesman exclaimed in tell
ing his story. ‘7 didn't see a fire es
cape in the whole place, although
there may have been one there. The
inside was simply a tinder box. If
there was any real steel or Iron used
in Die construction. I did not see it.
"Even.the meatus and girders were
wood. One of them fell not more
than a foot from me as l was making
my escape. As soon as I awakened
I rushed down stairs from the third
floor without stopping to dress. T
had\liardly reached the bottom before
the stairs fe!l wfith a crash.
“I don't see how all the people
escaped alive. I would be inclined
to believe that there nm t have been
’>eop!e burned to death In the fire, but
I understand there is no one miss
ing. The flames spread just as though
• he building had been saturated with
oil.
"I left the grip containing the dia
monds and Jewels with the night
clerk He gave me check No. 84 for
j it. The lawyers that 1 have consult-
i ed sav that the hotel is responsible
j and that I can recover. There were
*00 lavallieres. some of them set with
diamonds, and many gold cuff links,
j fancy buckles, gold combs, set with
j jewels: hat pins, diamond stick pins,
I fobs and so on.”
0
[of his cousin. Martin K. Berger, No.
145 East North avenue, until he gets
bis loss settled or receives instruc
tions from his firm.
Seaboard May Erect
Big Office Building
JACKSONVILLE. Dec. 13.—It is
reported here that the Seaboard Air
Line Railway has about completed
plans for a big general' office build
ing in Jacksonville. High officials
of the road while in this city are
said to have discussed plans for this
improvement to be begun next spring.
No one lias been appointed as yet to
succeed Traffic Manager Prince, who
goes to Norfolk January 1 as assist
ant to Vice President Capps
Flowers
PERMANENT XMAS TREE.
STAMFORD. CONN., Dec 13. ~
Stamford is to have a permanent mu
nicipal Christmas tree, to be located
in Central Park. It is of Norwegian
spruce.