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VI LAVI A UhOtdJlAN AND NEWS.
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STURTS FIGHT
FUNDS
Whirlwind Campaign*Thursday to
Raise $10,000 in Atlanta.
Leaders Pledge Support.
The Georg,a Chamber of Cominet< *
will conduct a one-day memberah.p
ampitirri in Atlanta next Thursday,
when 1t 1* expected to raise* $10,000,
representing this city’s portion of the
big fund which will he used to op
erate the State Chambar during the
omtng year
H. G. Hasting* of the H. G Hast
ing* Company, seedsmen, will be
chairman of the executive committee
in charge of the campaign, and will
aa«fisted by St. Klino Massengale,
I* T>. Hldis. Harris G. White and Wil-
't*«n F. Parkhurst. officials of tne
Atatta Oluunber. Including President
GhjnSes .T. Haden, Acting Secretary
SHAMPOO
YOURSELF
With
CUTICURA
SOAP
Tonight rub your scalp lightly with
t 'uticura Ointment. In the morning
shampoo with t'uticura Soap. These
emollients do much for dry, thin and
falling hair, dandruff and itching
scalps, and do it speedily, agreeably
and economically.
Sosp aofl Olmwent mM throughoutth«
wnrtri. I Ibarai ttampli af aarh mailed frea. with
*** boafc AcMran* Ctiuaura." Dapt 7t». Boaton.
WW«* rtata and ahimiwo with t’uticura
fenapwill 11 heat for akin an<1 acalp
Manwger Uhsrle* I>. McKinoey. Vice
President Robert 1’ Maddox rid Wil-
mer la. Moore, executive committee -
man. of Atlanta, will assLt In tne
I campaign Definite plans w II be bill
at a meeting of the workers at the
Piedmont Hotel at 12:30 t lock.
Business Men Heip.
The following business men of tha
city have already signify I ihelr in
tention of helping the Sto e Uhambe.
K 11 Klrod, George .1. Auer, W. I
Lowensteln. George M Napier, I A.
Burdette. S O. Vickers R. A Ma-
gill, S. A. Kysor, .1. R Meredith. <H.
.Johnson, M. Nabors, Dan Hugh* >.
Paul P Reese. Jlenrv \v. Grady. Wil
liam Wilson, S K. Davidson, W. H. S
Hamilton, John Bratton. Sam M. <’ar
son. Pair Dodd. Asa G. Handler, Jr
j. R. Bachman. J R Smith, W. I.
Dabney. (5 T. R Fraser, Craig
field, J T. Daves, f\ G Bradle.,
Charles D. McKinney, <\ J I laden,
A. W. McKeand. H. B. Galdwell, R M.
Lee. R, G. Brus< h and A. M. Smith
The city will »campaigned bv
committees of wo All the manu
facturing plants will be visited, to
gether with banks, wholesale house*,
stockyard* and other large busines-
firms. Fulton t'ountv now has a t »-
tal membership «»f 125 in the Htaw
( hamper
To Fight Boll Weevil.
The fund now being raised will be
used during the. coming \ear to arouse
all the agricultural interests of Geor
gia to the danger of the hull weevil,
which Is m»w preparing to enter the
Stale near the Alabama line.
Tlie chamber will raise a futid
$50,000 in the State before Februarv
1 f..r operating expenses. Macon will
Isold a campaign this week slmult i
neouniv with Atlanta It i* hoped ' »
raise at leant $3,500 in Macon.
A membership campaign will be
started n Albany Immediately af «r
the Christmas holidays, and after the
first of the year membership cam
paigns will become genera! over the
State.
Prisoners Unaware
Of Fire at Station
Prisoners at the police station did not
learn until Tuesday morning that ihe
j city prison had been afire Monday
night Great excitement was caused by
the blaze and every downtown company
of the fire department responded to the
alarm, while a great crowd gathered.
The blaze started In an anteroom of
the detective department on the third
floor, a box filled with newspapers
catching Are from n gas heater. The
door to the room was closed, and when
it was opened by one of the attaches of
the department a great cloud of smoke
burst forth. The blaze was extinguished
before the arrival of the firemen.
Bank to Take Care of
‘Stocking Depositors'
CHICAGO, Dec. 16 The only bank
In Chicago possibly the only one in the
world where women depositors are a«
com modeled with a sheltered place in
which to remove currency from its tra
ditional hiding place was opened in this
city tn-dnv
Tho citizens Hank of l^akeview. a
North Shore suburb, has a room fur
nished for this purpose.
$50,000,000 Sought
For Good Post Roads
DISCUSS SURGERY
Twenty-sixth Convention Starts
on Three-Day Session Monday,
Social Features for Visitors.
Attended by notable surgeons and
gynecologists from all parts of Amer
ica, tlie Southern Surgical Associa
tion opened Its twenty-sixth annual
convention af the Georgian Terrace
at U: 30 o'clock Tuesday morning. Dr
John Young Brown, of St I»uis,
president of ihe organization, pre
sided
The session will
social feature, inch
ties, lias been a
evening, while an a
the points of I n I ere
ast three days A
iding theater par
rranged for each
utoinoblle tour to
st around Atlanta
New Taxicab Rate
Ordinance Is Ready
For Mayor to Sign
When Mayor Woodward approves'
the taxicab ordinance, Atlanta will
have a fixed scale of charges for auto
mobiles. The cost for the first half
mile Is 50 cents, with a graduated
scale running down for additional dis
tance. By the hour ••arse are to rent
for $3.50 and $4, according to the
size, for the first hour, and $3 and
$3.50 for each hour thereafter.
Council, however, had a much more
difficult time with tile new traffic or
dinance prohibiting the parking of
automobiles for more than 30 con*
aecullve minutes iri downtown sec
tions. Petitions by merchants repre
omen shoppers who drive
tin- post pone-
sent ing
their machines cause
rnent of this ordinance until after the
Christinas shopping period.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 A Federal
appropriation of $25,000,000 to bo spent
for good post roads, with an equal ap
propriation by the several States, is
proponed In a bill Introduced in the Sen
ate by Senator Swanson, of Virginia.
$100 Down---and$26 Monthly
This Bungalow Has
Electric Lights—City Water
—and Is on a Corner Lot!
: r5..».v - v. • >
ilir Aslv/Lr ‘
A Xmas Gift for Your Wife!
VITHAT a glorious Xmas gift. t<> \om w this new beautiful bun
▼ T k.
BI T it on our DIVIDED PAYMENT PDAN namely for S10<» down,
ami $26 a month No mortgage to assume
This splendid bungalow is on a CORNER Lt »T. 45x152 feet to alley
’t has EbECTIUC LIGHTS and cit\ wa:^*i Tile sidewalk.'* in front and
side street Also tile >ard walk
There are three cheerful bedrooms, a corny living room, nice dining
room with swinging doors to kitchen China closet In dining room.
I-argc front veranda Concrete block front wall and concrete block
veranda columns latticed back porch. Pretty electric- fixtures Hand
som* fumed oak mantels Solid plate glass front door
This is one f thr handsomest bungalows in CAPITOL VIEVA i in
side nf Mlanta s city Jimitsi it’s only an 18-minute street car ride
from the post office
Better g i in touch with us at one*-' Ph*»ne ns or rail at our of
fice -for full information'
W. D. BEATIE, 207 Equitable Building
Bell Main 352 Atlanta Phone 3520
also on the program. The women
members of the families of visiting
surgeons will be entertained at a
luncheon at the Piedmont Driving
Club Wednesday.
The sessions will be free from dis
cussions of other than important work
of the convention The president's
opening address was on a technical
subject. Dr Brown used a number
of interesting lantern slides in this
talk.
Addresses will be made by Dr* J
A Darina, formerly house surgeon a.
the Charity Hospital. New Orleans;
John B Murphy. Chicago; Charles
Mayer Rochester; J. M. 'J*. Finney.
Baltimore: James K. Moore. Minne
apolis; A. Morgan Vance, St. Louis.
Henry <» Many, Boston. Arthur D.
Bevan, Chicago. .1 Wesley Bovee,
Washington, Rudolph Matas. New
fit leans; J. Garland Sherrill, Louis
ville. J Shelton Horsley, Richmond;
G. Edward Gavin. Mobile, A J. Ochs-
ner, Mobile: LeGrand Guerry, Co
lumbia; J M. Mason. Birmingham,
and l«ouis Frank. Louisville.
Banks County Man
Held Here as Slaver
John B. Sellers, a Banks County
Manner, is being held in Atlanta by
.7 L. Haley, local representative of
the Federal Department of Justice, on
an indictment of white slavery
brought by a Federal Grand Jury in
Columbus some time ago. Sellers was
arrested in Texas and brought to At
lanta Monday.
The charge is that he eloped with
Susie < 'oker, a 17-year-old gil l, w ho
resided with his parents in Banks
County, last October. Seilers was
married and had four children. He
lived on a farm adjoining his father's
plantation, and eloped in an automo
bile at night.
J. L, McCord Goes to
Council From Second
J. L. McCord, the Pryor street mer
chant, is the new Councilman from the
Second Ward, having been elected Mon
day afternoon by the general Council to
succeed Thomas I Lynch, who has
moved to another section of tho city
Other vacancies filled were Mar cell us
M. Anderson to succeed I N. MeKath
em hh Seventh Ward Police Commis
sioner; George P. Dixon to succeed
Graham P. Dozier as Tenth Ward Police
Commissioner; Forrest Green to succeed
H. M Patterson as a member of the
Cemeter.v Commission.
W J Davis, Eighth Ward; Frank (J.
i^ake. rourth Ward, and W. E. Ward,
Third Ward, were re-elected members
of the Water Board. Mayor Woodward
will fill the vacancy on the Smoke
Board caused by the retirement of R.
L. Corley.
Boy Jailed for Theft
Of New Pattillo Auto
Unable to make a $1,000 bond im
posed upon him by Recorder Nash R.
Broyles Monday afternoon. C. Frank
Corrv, a 17-yenr-old youth of 237 Ven
tral avenue. Is in the county jail on a
charge of larceny in connection with the
theft Saturday night of a new Hudson
automobile belonging to Howard \V.
Pattillo.
Corry was arrested In a drug store in
East Atlanta early Saturday night. He
had driven the machine there and when
arrested dented that he had stolen It.
j lie charged that another youth had told
him he might run the car until 11
o’clock.
| Women Join Move
For New City Park
Women of the Fourth Ward are plan
ning to support Councilman Claude L.
Ashley’s move to purchase the old i
Ponce DeLeon amusement park for a j
city park and playground. They will go
before the new Finance Committee to
urge that an appropriation for its
purchase be included in the It* 14 budget. !
Councilman Ashley secured at least \
I a nominal approval of the purchase from
Council Monday when a resolution of
his providing for the appointment of a
real estate* agent to negotiate with the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
for h purchase price W. A. Foster, of
ihe firm of Foster A- Robson, was named.
M. E. Officials Named
As Conference Ends
The Georgia Methodist Episcopal
Church North has closed its confer
ence and to-day the delegates are de
parting for their homes. The confer
ence service at the concluding session
j was preached by Dr. Frederick D. I«eete.
resident bishop, who ordained three
men as elders and five as deacons. It
was decided to hold the next conference
at Tallapoosa
Bishop I^eete left Tuesday for Wad-
’le\. Ala., where the Alabama confer
ence is to be held this week
CHENEYS
EXPECTORANT
Cures Croup. Whooping Cough
Flftr tfin on thf market an<l sold cTerrwhere J
for 2ic Bent medicine for croup, cold* and nore I
throat affections l>on't be 1-d a «av by new and j
untried remedies Slick to Cheney s Expectorant. |
j It is aure — iAdvt.)
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent. I
’Wildcat' Insurance
Hit in $450,000 Suits
The 138 policy-holders of the Ameri
can Life and Annuity Company are to
be sued by Insurance Commissioner W.
A. Wright for the total indebtedness of
the defunct concern, which amounts to
$450,000. Out of the assets the sum of
$276 lias been set aside for the. eost
service of the suit- Most of the dc#
fendants reside outside of Fulton
County.
Attorney Burton Smith is handling
ttie prosecution, and lie declares that
each policy-holder fs responsible for the
entire amount of the indebtedness of.
0 50,000. "The outcome of these suits
will serve to rid Georgia of wild-at In
surance companies." said Mr. Smith.
Firm Under Fire to
Extend Indebtedness
NEW YORK, Dec. 16. The Assets
Realization Company, whose securities
on the Stock Exchange have been under
severe pressure, announced to-day it
had prepared the necessary legal papers
to provide an extension of its indebted
ness
Frantically all holders of obligations
against the company have agreed 10 the
extension ami no difficulty is expected.
The concern invests In the holdings of
defunct corporations.
Trial Marriage Next
For Women Teachers
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 16 Trial
marriages among the teachers of the
publiv schools is to have the Indorse
ment of the Board of Education, which
decided to allow all women contemplat
ing matrimony a year's leave of absence
without .pay. instead of having them re
sign.
Herrick Volplanes
2,000 Feet to Earth
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARJ8, Dsc Ifyrop t Hsrrick,
American Ambassador to France, while
watching Pegoud turn aerial somer
saults at Buc, expressed a wish to fly.
He was immediately accommodated by ;
Hidault.
Mr Herrick said the only time he felt
at all scared was when the engine was
stopped 2.000 feet in the air and the bi
plane volplaned to earth
21 Children to Go
With This Husband
Gounod’s ‘Faust’ and ‘Mignon’
Planned by Channing Ellery,
Free to School Children.
Another free concert to the school
children of Atlanta will be given this
afternoon, it is expected that many
thousand girls and boys will be at
tracted by the special FYench pro
gram. the feature numbers of which
will be Gounod’s "Faust” and ”Mig-
non.” Tickets will be distributed at
the schools free to the children.
Adults will be charged the regular
admission price or 25 cents.
The free concert Monday afternoon
to the children filled the Auditorium
with five or six thousand boys and
girls who were delighted w'Jth the
band music.
Preceding the concert Channing El
lery, head of the band, made a short
address on the difference between the
school children of Europe and those
of America.
The night program drew a large
number of Atlanta’s music lovers
Confesses Slaying
His Wife and Child
CASTLE WOOD, S. DAK.. Dec. 16-
August Justine, a farmer, has confessed
to the Sheriff and Prosecuting Attorney
that he killed his wife and 8-month-old
child Saturday night, those officials as
sert.
The bodies of the woman and child
were found on the floor of the Justine
home by neighbors Justine admitted
beating his wife with his fists and then
killing her with a washboard and tea
kettle.
Holland in Treaty
Framed by Bryan
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.— Secre- j
tary of State Bryan announces that I
Holland has agreed to enter into a
"peace treaty” with the United States
similar to the six already In force be
tween the United States and I.atin
American republics
Portugal. Switzerland and Denmark
also are considering signing like trea
ties.
Marshall to Expose
‘Truants’ in Senate;
^ ASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Absentee- I
ism in the Senate hereafter will he ex- |
posed in The Congressional Record, j
under a ruling by Vice President Mar
shall.
When a Senator is late for a session
or when he "plays hooky" at roll call,
the fact will be published
TWO AND A HALF
DOLLAR GOLD PIECE
FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT
Atlanta’s Oldest Savings
Will Supply You.
Bank
FLUSHING, N. Y . Dec. 16 .Mrs.
Delia Nolan, a widow with no chil
dren, will wed Daniel Bulger, a wid
ower with 21 children.
Blooming Dandelions
Greet Skaters on Ice
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16 While dan
delions bloom along tlie banks, skaters
glided up and down tlie Morris canal.
Why puzzle your brain about what to
give* for a Christmas present? Some
people suffer a nervous breakdown and
almost go crazy in solving this problem
The Georgia Savings Bank and Trust
Company, the bank thftt makes saving
easy by accepting deposits as small as
$! will give you a brand-new Two an.;
a Half Dollar goldpieee of the 1913 coin 1
age for its equivalent in any other de- :
nomination. i
A passbook would also be a nice thing I
to put in the stocking
This bank pays 4 per cent interest and
would appreciate your savings account
GEORGE M. BROWN. President,
JOHN W. GRANT, V. President
JOSEPH E. BOSTON.
Secretary and Treasurer.
Advt.
GRIFFIN
Hours:
S10;Jmed 50c up
Painless
Special Holiday Prices>
$15 Gold
Dust Plates
Crown and (PQ* Painless TIL*
Bridge Work Extraction JUL
Dr. E.G. Griffins
Gate City Dental Rooms
24 1-2 Whitehall
Over Brown & Alien *
EXAMINATION FREE
Daily 8 to 7
Sun. 9 to 1
Phone
Main
1708
$8
Plates
$5
5 »™t« Little Rock
3 omfio Hot Springs
Leave Memphis
7:00 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 11:00 a. m , 2 30 p.m., 12:01 midnight
Modern equipment and polite employes make
the short trip one of pleasure and comfort.
Trains leaving Memphis at
11:00 a.m.. 12:01 midnight
run through to Oklahoma
and Texas.
Get all information from
H. H. Hunt. Dittrict Patipnirr Agent,
18 North Pryor St.,
Atlanta, Ga.
'■■•rtmii
A. I MYERS
MYERS-MILLER
Will Divide
Your Payments
ANDREW-J MILLER
Myers-Miller
will give you the
original of this
$2.50 Check
as a Xmas Gift--
you ’ll call for
it at our store a*
-if
INTRODUCTORY OFFER
*»4«aaMl»U whbia S aaaCba (roaa data ai
• ud 8 W©«t Mitchell Street. One door from Whitehall
Atlanta. Ga
No.jiy |
19/3
on ant evacMAtc or fowty oollapi on over
rDOLLARS
t. TWF GOOD VALUE BANK
•t ATUNTA. «R»M«IA
<, M/ERS-MIUJER furniture CO.
Gills tor Adults and Kiddies
At the MYERS-MILLER Store
Ol K store is now brimful of USEFUL Gift Articles for men, women and children! This
is a new firm—and, therefore, we are making an EXTRA effort to please you. On this
basis we have made SPECIAL prices on brand-new, highly desirable gifts! To make use
of an old but true saying: “The BEST ADVERTISEMENT IS A PLEASED CUSTOM
ER"—you will be so thoroughly pleased if you buy Xmas gifts at our store that you will
become a PERMANENT customer!
GO CARTS
AND SULKIES
Wt- are showing splendid
values in pretty GO-
CARTS and SULKIES al
prices ranging from
$2.50 to $20
f=TS
llSTl
Worth S2.00
DoPS Bed
With Mattress
XII
=3
This lc« an *»xRct
picture of the "cute"
DOLL’S BED and
MATTRESS which
we are pellinjr. Four-
rout Colonial—just
like the grown-up*.
Well marie and fin
isher! of soliri oak in
I) C L L golden or
fumeri. A big $2.00
value for you at our
special price of. . .95o
J!!
V > XilAr
90c
$6.00
Rocker
Myers-Miller
Kitchen Cabinet
A most gratifyins Christ
inas gift for the house
wife is a M M KITCHEN
CABINET It is better
and larger than any other
kind that's made—and it
saves hundreds of steps
and lots of valuable time.
No kitchen is complete
without ona! i'riced from
$15 to $65
in. I
LADIES DESK
We have a pplen/iid as
sortment of Lacfie_s
Desks, priced from $7..>0
to $20—made of Fumed,
Golden and Early Eng
lish oak or Circassian
Walnut. Bird's-eye Maple
•• Mahog&rtt v remark
able value is the Lady’s
Desk of Fumed Golden or
Earl v English Oak, at
$7.50.
A Nice Gift
'/f
n
n v"
This Rocker in DULL Mahogany tjnisli is ex
cellently made—it's a fine Xmas gift. It's a
SURE-ENOUGH $6 value—but our price is
only $3.75.
0
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lit
Oil
Heater
Davenport or
Davenette
We offer an excellent
1 >A VENETTE or 1 >A V
KNPORT, frame finished
in Fumed, Golden or Ear
ly English Oak or Ma-
hogany —at an at true-
live price $30
Cotton Mattress for $5
extra.
Library Table
Here are elegant LI
BRARY TABLES, made
of Early English. Fumed
Oak and Mahogany. We
have a large assortment.
Special values from
$6 to $45
mw
LA ^
--TO;
9x12 Rugs
Hugs are Ideal as Xmas gifts.
We have a great assortment of
9xl2-foot rugs hi beautiful de
signs. richly colored. Brussels.
Velvet, Axminster and Wilton.
Priced from $!).50 to $50- A very
special value is our <l?Q CD
9xl2-foot rug a
515.95
Cutting Table
Buv the housewife one of
these GETTING T.
BLES. Yard measure is
printed on top. Made of
w hite Maple fl: •$ OC
Priced onl>
Mattress
Progress 35-lb. Cot
ton Mattress $ 5.50
Queen 40-lb. Felted
Mattress 7.50
M-M Leader 45-lb.
Felted Mattress . 8.75
Ideal 45-lb. Felted
Mattress 10.00
Restwell 50-lb. Felt
ed Mattress 12.50
Luxury 55-lb. Felted
Mattress ... 15.50
M-M Sleepwell
The M-M SLKKPWEl.L" out
fit consists of a splendidly finish
cci White Enamel or Vernls Mat
tin Beil, with two-Inch posts and
ten fillers. Furthermore includes
a FIRST QUALITY National
spring ami a 35-lb. cotton m it
cress. Tlie entire outfit for
only V $15.95
Costumer
We have
COST UM
ERS In Gold
en. Fumed
or Early
English Oak
Mahog
any at
$ *^OQ
Others,
wood <
brass, up
•0
There are many other desirable Xmas gifts for you to see in our assortment,
including MUSIC CABINETS, SMOKING STANDS, CELLARETTES, etc.
Myers
FURNITURE COMPANY
Successor to C. H. MASON.
6 and 8 Wes! Mitchell St.
Toy Wagons
'.if' O’ 1 ; child a TOY
WW.n.v Wo have (he
best-made, painted red
Rfio mi four sizes Prices
$2.C0 50C ' I1 - 25 - $, ' 7S
and
Chifforobe
$42.50
This beautiful Ghifforobe
Wiovrn here is in Golden
Dak. Height 5 ft
inches. Width 3 ft. 7
inches. Mirror is 16 by
18 inches. Price is verv
reasonable at $42.50.
W<* have other Chiffo
robes, in Circassian Wa!
nut or Mahoganv some
Cl 7 7P
little as. 4^ A / ■ / 3
Card Table
Why not a CARD TA-
B L E as a Christmas
gift? This high-grade
Card Table is in Mahog
any or Fumed Oak. with
Pantasote top. Light
weight, lias rubber tips
on legs. Very grnt
special at...
“PERFEC
TION” Oil
Heaters are
smoke less
and odorless.
Inasmuch as
they are in-
d i s pensable
in every
home, they are USEFUL
gifts. Buy a “PER PEI J
CION” Oil Heater at this
$3.50
2 Doors from Whitehall |