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4 1 ill*. AJliAAJA <XEAm< IIA.N A A IJ A hi \V C5. STATE CHAMBER FIGHT * Charles I>. MoKInnei i Hob. rt V M .ddox and Moore, executive mm mi Atlanta, will ae»iM in n. Deflnlti »>lan* will b* feting of the workers a' Business Men Help. The fir ate ! AAvrnit Burdott. J. ft Whirlwind Campaign Thursday to Raise $10,000 in Atlanta. Leaders Pledge Support. The Georgia Chamber of Uommer. • will conduct a one day membership < .ampaign In Atlanta next Thursdm when it is expected to rni*.> $10,000, representing this city's portion of th* big fund which will bo used t > op erate the State Chamber ir Mg u coming year H. G. Hastings, of th- H. G Hast ings Company, s.edwnen, will .>e chairman of the executive commit! •*» in charge of the campaign, and w II be assisted by St, Elmo Mass-nga. I#. D. Hicks, Harris G. White and \\ Ham F. Parkhurst. Officials of ’ ne State Chamber, including President Charles J. Haden, Acting Secretary- SHAMPOO YOURSELF .. K , M Nabors, D* Rees.*, Henry \\ Ison, S E Davit n, John Bratton, Fair Dodd, Asa G R. Bachman J. R. bney, G. T. R. Fhim ■ .1 T Daves, < jrles l» McKione rs, Mer Johnso Paul P B Bri W, I. r, J A. \. Mft- ; c. H. Hugh***, iy, Wil li: W if. s. i. S un M. Car. ; < .fuller. Jr, Smith, W. J -* L Craig Co- (, B radio /, ■ J. Haden, i:dwell. B M A M. Smith unpaigned by Ml the manu re visited, to - oleaak* houses, large business now' has a to- i n ^ t CUTICURA SOAP Tonight rub your scalp lightly with Cutioura Ointment. In the morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap. Those emollients do much for dry, thin and falling hair, dandruff and itching scalps, and do it speedily, agreeably and economically. CuUeura Roap and Olntmmit aolfl throughout tba world, liberal aainpke of each mailed fro* with S3-p hook AddrosH ( utlcura I>opt 7t;, Bo'tou • Hr Mon who stuvs and nbampoo with Cuticura r-oap will flud It beat for akin and acaip. A W. Me lA'O, R. G Th. <It> will b| committees <f two facturing plants w get her with banks flririK, Fulton Com t;i 1 m* mbership of Chamber. To Fight Boll Weevil. The fund now be ng raised will be used during the < oming year to arouse all th** agricultural interests of Geor gia to the thing* r of the boll weevil, which 1s now preparing to enter the State mar the Alabama line. The chamber will rulse a fund f $."•0,000 in the State before Februar 1 for operating expenses Macon will )#o!d a cjimpaign this week simulta neously with Atlanta. It Is hoped 'o raise at least $3,500 in Mficon. A membership campaign will be started In Albany Immediately aft^r the Christmas holidays, and after the first of the year membership cam paigns will become general over the State. Prisoners Unaware Of Fire at Station Prisoners at the police station did not learn until Tuesday morning that the city prison hod been afire Monday night. Great excitement was caused by the blaze and every downtown company of the fire department responded to the alarm, while u great crowd gathered. The blaze started In an anteroom of the detective department on the third floor, a box filled with newspapers catching fire from a gas heater. Th< 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 ac commodated with a sheltered place in which to remove currency from its tra dltlonal hiding place was opened in this city to-day. Thu Citizens' Bank of Lakevlew. a North Shore suburb, has a room fur nished for this purpose. $50,000,000 Sought For Good Post Roads WASHINGTON. IVo. 16 A Federal appropriation of $25,000,000 to »>«• spent for good post roads, with an equal ap propriation by tile several States, is proposed 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! E Seventh Ward for Move for City Buy Mozley Tract ■o Twenty-sixth Convention Starts on Three-Day Session Monday. Social Features for Visitors. Attended by notable Burgeons and $yn«i ologlatH from all parts of Amer ica, the Southern Surgical Aaaocia- tion opened it» twenty-sixth annual convention at the Georgian Terrace at 9:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. Dr John Young Brown, of St. LouIh president of the organization, pre sided The session will last three days. A social feature, including theater par ties, lias been arranged for each evening, while an automobile tour to the points of interest around Atlanta Is also on the program. The women members of the families of visiting surgeons will be entertained at a luncheon at the Piedmont Driving Flub Wednesday. The sessions will be free from dis- c usslons of other than important work of the convention. The president's opening address was on a technical wubject. Dr Brown used a number of interesting lantern slides in this talk. Addreiucs will be made by f)rs. .1 A. I i.inna, formerly house surgeon at the Charity Hospital. New Orleans; John B Murphy. Chicago; Charles Mayer Rochester; J. M. T Finney, Baltimore, James K Moore Minne apolis A Morgan Vance, St. Louis; Henry f>. Many, Boston; Arthur D Hev.'.n, Chicago; .1 Wesley Bovee, Washington; Rudolph Matas, New Orleans; .1 Garland Sherrill, l^ouis- ville; .1 Shelton Horsley, Richmond; G Edward Gavin. Mobile; A. J. Ochs- ner Mobile; LeGrand Guerry, Co lumbia; J. M. Mason, Birmingham, and Louis Frank, Louisville Banks County Man Held Here as Slaver John B. Sellers, a Banks County farmer, Is being held in Atlanta by J. L. Baley. local representative of the^ Federal Department of Justice, on 4 hr ffght b\ a Federal Grand Jury In Columbus some time ago. Sellers was arrested in Texas and brought to At lanta Monday. The charge is that be eloped with Susie Coker, a 17-year-old girl, who resided with his parents in Banks County, last October. Sellers was married and had four children. He lived on a farm adjoining his father’s plantation, and elojn*d in an automo bile at night. J. L. McCord Goes to Council From Second .1 L McCord, the Pryor street mtr- < bant, 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 the city. Other vacancies filled were Marcellos \1. Anderson to succeed .1 N Me Each - ern as 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 an a member of the Cemetery Commission. \Y J Davis. Eighth Ward; Frank G. Lake, fourth Ward, and W. E. Ward, Third Ward, were re-elected members of the Water Board. Mayor Woodward will fill the vacancy on the Smok* Board caused by the retirement of it. L. Corley. Boy Jailed for Theft Of New Pattillo Auto Enable to make a $1,000 bond im posed upon him by Recorder Nash R. Broyles Monday afternoon, C. Frank I Corry. a 17-year-old youth of 237 Cen tral avenue. Is in the county Jail on a charge of larceny in connection with the theft Saturday night of a now Hudson automobile belonging to Howard W. Pattillo. Corry was arrested in a drug store in East Atlanta early Saturday night He had driven the machine there and when arrested denied that he had stolen it. He charged that another youth had told him he might run the car until 11 o'clock. Women Join Move For New City Park Women < f the Fourth Ward are plan ning to support Councilman Claude L Ashley’s move to purchase the old Ponce Del^eon amusement park for a city park and playground. They will go before the new Finance Committee to urge that an appropriation for its purchase be included in the 1914 budget. Councilman Ashley secured at least a nominal approval <>f the purchase from Council Monda> when a resolution of iiis providing for the appointment of a real estate agent to negotiate with the Georgia Railway and Power Company for a purchase price. W. A Foster, of the firm of Foster & Robson, was named M. E. Officials Named As Conference Ends 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 French 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, j Adults will be charged the regular admission price of 25 cents. The free concert Monday afternoon j to the children filled the Auditorium with five or six thousand boys and girls who were delighted with the i band music. Prec eding the concert Charming El-1 lory, head of the band, made a short address on the difference between the j school children of Europe and those of America. The night program drew a large j number of Atlanta’s music lovers. The Ellery Band will render Tues- f da\ night a program made up entire- I ly of French compositions, among j them being the entire fifth act of] Gounod’s "Faust,” the "Mignon" over-4 ture and the thrilling "Carmen” fan- , task* This latter number was played I last Saturday evening, bringing forth I storms of applause from the enthusi astic audience. Members of the Seventh Ward In>- ! provement Club have renewed ihelr j campaign for the purchase by the city of the Mozley property in that section for j a city park, following an editorial ad vocating this project, which was printed In The Georgian. The club drew up resolutious calling upon the members of the Council to give their support to this enterprise, a no ! heartily indorsing The Georgian’s action on the matter The resolutions declare that the city j is "woefully lacking in public parks, j but on account of the historic Interest 1 attached to the Mozley property, it by j all means should be preserved f*r the generations to come." Thomas J. Bishop is secretary and treasurer of the Seventh Ward Club. DIES AFTER OPERATION. LUMPKIN, Dec. 16.—John T Patter- son, a prominent citizen of Lumpkin, is dead at his home here, following an op eration. MOVING PICTURE SHOWS A. 1. MYERS Myers-Miller $ will give you the original of this S2.50 Check as c Xmas Gift---if you'll call for it at our store MYERS-MILLER Will Divide Your Payments INTRODUCTORY OFFER wlffcU a BMlIi* tram 4a t* • Md & We«< Mitchell 9tr«et. On* door Iron* Whitehall P AY TO TH* onocn os- Atlanta. —} 4J&v 'SZ>r' - yve T. Tire GOOD VALUE BANK •I ATLANTA. SKonmA. on any euacHASt or roftfv DOiuifttt on oven S-MI ga Tuy-Lf-SJ rDOLLA fits' , MYERS-MILLER FURNITURE CO. GUIs lor Adults and Kiddies Carter, Promoter of Banks, Gets 2 Years THE MONTGOMERY Wednesday. "In the Jungle." This great three-reel Sellq will absolutely as tound you in its daring production This Is really a great feature. Lee's Hawaiian Trio and the full orchestra. News was received Tuesday in At lanta that John H. Carter, who near ly organized a million-dollar tank in Atlanta some years ago, had been . sentenced to two years in the Sta^e penitentiary for the embezzlomeuit of $6,500 in an Ellijay (Ga.) tnnk's j stock Carter was indicted two months ago I by a Grand Jury in Ellijay. He lives! in Asheville, N. C. The prosecution j resulted from the efforts of five banks. | of which he at one time had control— I the North Georgia Bank and the North Georgia Trust Company, of Blue Ridge; the Gilmer County Bank, of Ellijay; the Rank of Jasper, and the Bank of I>ahlonega. ALAMO NO 1. Wednesday "Falling in Love With Inez,” an Edison comedy that will make you forget dull care. "Hello Trouble," an Essanay comedy that is a scream. Eddy Clarke. j At the MYERS-MILLER Store O' R 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! TWO SKYSCRAPERS STARTED. AUGUSTA, Dec. 16. Work has been started by the Whitney Com pany, New York, contractors for the Empire Life Insurance Company’s seventeen-story office building, and the King Lumber Company, of Charlottesville, Va., which will build The Augusta Chronicle's ten-story structure. ALAMO NO. 2 Wednesday. "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a two- reel Kalem. Yoit know the story. "Buster's Little Game." a Selig comedy that is a laugh-provoking production. The Monarch Four, VAUDETTE Wednesday. "The Open Door." a two-reel Broncho that will hold you throughout. "The Lawyer, Dog and Baby." a Thannhauser that will please. The Steinway Four. TWO AND A HALF DOLLAR GOLD PIECE FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT THE ELITE Wednesday. "Zuzu. the Band Leader," a two- reel Keystone that is a corker. "The Law of Humanity," an in teresting Princess drama. Atlanta's Oldest Savings Will Supply You, Bank 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 hank that makes saving easy by accepting deposits as small as $1. will give you a brand-now Two and a Half Dollar gold piece of the 1913 coin age for Its equivalent in any other de nomination. A passbook would also be a nice thing 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 K BOSTON. Secretary and Treasurer. Ad vt GO CARTS AND SULKIES We are showing splendid values in pretty GO- CARTS and SULKIES at prices ranging from $2.50 to $20 Worth $2.00 Doll Bed With Mattress 95c This Is «n exact picture of tb«* "cute" DOLL'S BKD an«1 MATTRRSfl which we are welling. Four- Poat Coloolal—just like the grown-ups. Well made and fin ished of solid oak in DULL golden or fumed. A big $2.00 value for you at our special price of.. 95o ALCAZAR THEATER To-day. "The Girl o’ the Woods.” a two- reel Victor, featuring Florence Lawrence. This is one of the great productions and will delight you. Myers-Miller Kitchen Cabinet A most gratifying Christ mas 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 one! Priced from $15 to $65 SAVOY THEATER To-day. "Time is Money." This two-reel Universal will hold you from begin* nlng to end with the most intense interest. $15 Gold Dust Plates Crown and Bridge Work Special Holiday P.-icas:-- lOjFilledSOCUP $3; E.ticnon 50c Dr. E.G. Griffins Gate City Dental Rooms A Xmas Gift for Your Wife! XXfllAT a git ' out* N gift, to > w .•« this ».*-v\ beautiful bun ” gal"W will in.ike' < ■ yes ir within \<>ur iv;u ' Y -,i can BUY’ it <m our DIVIDED PAYMENT PLAN namely for $100 down, and $26 a month. No mortgage to assume. This splendid bungalow s on a CORNER LOT, 45x152 feet to alley. It has ELECTRIC LIGHTS and city water Tile sidewalks in front and on side street. Also tile yard walk There are three cheerful bedrooms, a cozy living room, nice dining room with swing g doors to kitchen China closet in dining room. Ianrge front veranda. Concrete block front wail and concrete block veranda co’uror >• latticed h.t, k do h. Ui. it> electric fixtures. Hand some fumed oak mantels. Solid plate glass front door. This is one <>f the lia?.esomest h .ngalows in CAPITOL VIEW on- side of Atlanta's city limits)- it's only an 16-minute street car ride front the j>ostofflce The Georgia Methodist Episcopal | Church North has closed its confer ence and to-day the delegates are de parting fer their homes. The confer- j ence service at the concluding session was preached by Dr, Frederick D. l»ete, resident bishop, who ordained three men as elders and five as deacons. It I was decided to hold the next conference at Tallapoosa. Bishop Leete left Tuesday for Wad- bo. Ala . where the Alabama confer ence is to be held this week 24 1-2 Whitehall Over Broum & Allen’s EXAMINATION FREE CHENEY’S EXPECTORANT Cures Croup, Whooping Cough Fifty year* on the mtrket and sold everywhere for 25o. Pent nudl.-lnr for croup, culds and sore throat affection*. l>.m‘t be led a«ay by new and untried remedies. Stick to Cheney s Expectorant. It I* sure —(Advt ) LADY S DESK We have a splendid as sortment of Ladies’ Desks, priced from $7.50 to $30— made of Fumed, Golden and Early Eng lish Oak or Circassian Walnut, Bird’s-eye Maple or Mahogany. A remark able value is the Lady’s Desk of Fumed Golden or Early English Oak, at $7.50. Davenport or Davenette We offer an excellent P A V E N ETTE or I > A V- ENPORT, frame finished in Fumed, Golden or Ear ly English Oak or Ma- hogarn at an attrac tive price $30 Cotton Mattress for $5 • > • ra 5 Little Rock 3 TRAINS DAILY TO 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, District Passenger Agent, 18 North Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. Cutting* Table Buv the housewife one of these CUTTING TA BLES. Yard measnre is printed on top. Made of w hite Maple. <S* \ O C Priced only 90c Toy Wagons Oet the child a TOY n AGON. We have the best-made, painted red and in four sizes. FYiees $2 00 9t>C ’ $ '' 25 ' $1 ' 75 ana Chifforobe $42.50 This beautiful Chifforob. shown here is in Goldet Oak. Height ,5 f, inches. Width 3 ft Inches. Mirror is 16 hi « inches. Price Is ven reasonable at $42.R0. \Vts have other Chlffo robes, in Circassian Wai nut or Mahoganv—som< little'as $17.75 This Rocker in DULL Mahogany brush is ex cellently made—it's a fine Xmas gift. It’s a SURE-ENOUGH $6 value—but our price is only $3.75. fin W M . * —■ — r - f: % 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 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 n'iTp4ry ; 5> , | g 9x12 Rugs Rugs are Ideal as Xmas gift*. We hare a great assortment of 9xl2-foot. rugs in lieaullful de signs. richly colored. Brussels. Velvet. Axmlnster and Wilton. Priced from $9 50 to $50 A very special value Is our CQ SA 9x12 foot rug at. $15.95 M-M Sleepwell The "M M SLEEPWELL” Out fit consists of a splendidly finish ed WMte Enamel or Vends Mar tin Bed, with two-inch posts and ten fillers. Furthermore Includes a FIRST QUALITY National Spring and a 35-lb. cotton mat tress. The entire outfit for only $15.95 Card Table Why not a CARD TA BLE a 3 a Christmas gift? This high-gradt Card Table is in Mahog any or Fumed Oak, with Pantasote top. Light weight. Has rubber tips on legs. Very <T O CfS special at. Oil Heater "PERFEC TION” Oil Heaters are smoke less and odorless. Inasmuch as they are in- rl 1 s pen sable in every home, they are USEFUL gifts. Buy a "PERFEC TION" Oil Heater at this ^ ore ... $3.50 Costumer We have COST UM ERS in Gold en. Fumed or Early English Oak or Mahog any at $ ejOO Others. in wood or brass, up to 12 50 There are many other desirable Xmas gifts for you to see in our assortment, including MUSIC CABINETS, SMOKING STANDS, CELLARETTES, etc. Myers-Miller FURNITURE COMPANY Successor to C. H. MASON. 6 and 8 West Mitchell St. 2 Doors trom Whitehall