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1 VI LAVI A UhOtdJlAN AND NEWS. m 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 ri 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 |