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'HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. STATE CHAMBER SITS FIGHT IS Whirlwind Campaign Thursday to Raise $10,000 in Atlanta. Leaders Pledge Support. Manager Charles D. McKinney, Vice I President Robert F. Maddox and Wll- ; mer I-. Moorf*. executive committee* I man, of Atlanta, will assist in ti e I campaign Definite nlana will be iatl I I at a meeting of the worker - at the I I 1'jedmoht Hotel at 12:30 o'clock. . Business Men Help. The following business men of tlrs j city have already iitgnlfh i their in-| tention of helping the State Chamber: K II. i'.irod, George .1 Auer, W. J, Lowenateln, George M Napier, J. A. Burdette, S O Vickers, R A. Ma- Kiil, 8. A. Kysor. .7. K. Meredith, <H. .TolTnson, M Nabors, Dan .v Hughes, Paul P # Henry VV Grady, Wil liam Wilson, S. E. Davidson, W. H. S. Hamilton, John Bratton, Sam M. Car. son. Fair Dodd, Asa G. handler, Jr, .1 R Riii’hman J. R. Smith. W. I The Georgia Chamber of Commerce will conduct a one-day membership .'tmpaign 1n Atlanta next Thursday, when It Is expected to raise $10,000, representing this citv's portion of the big fund which wll be used to op erate the State Chamber during the coming year H. G. Hastings, of the H G. Hast ings Company, seedsmen, trill he chairman of the executive committ-e in charge of the campaign, and will b# assisted by St. Elmo Massengaic, D Hicks, Harris G. White and Wil liam F Pa.rkhurst. Officials of tne State Chamber, Including Pregjdent Charles J. Haden, Acting Secretary SHAMPOO YOURSELF With CUTICURA SOAP Tonight ruh your scalp lightly with Cutitura Ointment. In the morning shampoo with Cut icura Soap. These emollients do much for dry, thin and falling hair, dandruff and itching scalps, and do it speedily, agreeably and economically. Cutteur* Ba»p »n<1 Ointment sold throughout fh« world Liberal of rarh mallod froo, with .12-p hook AddrOM" ■( ‘utleura,’ Oopf 70. Hon'on. •TMei who shave and shampoo with ('uttrura soap will And It boat for akin ami scalp. Dabney, <L T. R. Fraser, Craig Co- fleld. I T. Daves, c. G. Bradl«7, Charles 1> McKinney, < J. Haden, A \N M Keand. « R Caldwell, R M. Use, R. C Brusch and A. M. Smith. Tile city will be campaigned by committees of ‘ vm> All the manu facturing plants will be visited, to gether with hanks, wholesale houses, stockyards and other large business firms Fulton County now has a to la' membership of 12a 1n the Plate To Fight Boll Weevil. The fund now being raised will he us.-d during the < oming year to arouse all the agricultural interests of Geor gia to the danger of the boll weevil, which Is now preparing to enter the State near the Alabama line. The chamber will raise a fund of $.’>o,ft00 In the State before February 1 for operating expense*. Macon will frold it campaign this week simulta neously with Atlanta. It Is hoped to raise at least $3,500 1n Macon A meml>ership campaign will be started In Albany Immediately after the Christmas holidays, and after .he first of the year membership cam paigns will become general over the State Prisoners Unaware Of Fire at Station Prisoners at the police siation did not learn until Tuesday morning that the city prison had been afire Monday night /Jreat 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, r box filled with newspapers catching fire from a gas healer. 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 ac commodated with a sheltered place in which to remove currency from Its tra dlttonal hiding place was opened in this city to-day. Tho Citizens' Bank of I^keview, a North Shore suburb, lias a room fur nished for this purpose $50,000,000 Sought For Good Post Roads WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. A Federal appropriation of $25,000,000 to be spent for good post roads, with an equal ap propriation by the several States, is proposed In « bill introduced in the Sen ate by Senator Swanson, of Virginia. Twenty-sixth Convention Starts on Three-Day Session Monday. Social Features for Visitors. Attended by notable Burgeons and gynecologists from all parts of Amer ica, the Southern Surgical Associa tion opened Its twenty-sixth annual convention at the Georgian Terrace at H:3 f i o’clock Tuesday morning. I>r John Young Brown, of St. Douis. president of the organization, pre sided. The sesirion will last three days. A social feature, Including tneater par ties, has 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 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 Drs. J A. Dan hr, 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 Value, Sr. Louis, 1 Henry O. Marry, Boston; Arthur D. | Be van, Chicago; J. Wesley Bovee, Washington; Rudolph Matas, New j Orleans, 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 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. Raley, local representative of the Federal Department of Justice, on an indictment of white slavery ^fought bv 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 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 eloped In an automo- hile at night J. L. McCord Goes to Council From Second $100Down---and$26 Monthly This Bungalow Has Electric Lights—City Water —and Is on a Corner Lot! A Xmas Gift for Your Wife! 117HAT a glorious Xmas gift, to y • ur w :*> this new. beautiful bttn- galow will make' Oh. > vs lbs within vour reach' You can HI Y it <>n our DIVIDED PAYMENT PLAN namely for $100 down, and $26 a month No mortgage to assume. This splendid bungalow s on a CORNER LOT. 45xU>2 feet to alley. It has ELECTRIC LIGHTS and «• ity water. Tile sidewalks in front and <>n side street. Also tile \ard walk There are three cheerful bedrooms, a oozy living room, nice dining room with swinging doors to kitchen China closet In dining room lairge front veranda Concrete block front wall and concrete block \eranda columns, latticed back port'll. Pretty electric fixtures Hand some fumed oak mantels Solid plate glass front door This is one of the handsomest bungah-w side of Atlanta s city lirrtitar it’s only an from the postoffice. tn CAPITOL VIEW 18-minute street ear «in - ride Reiter r. bee for full information! th us at once.’ Phone us ♦•all at our of- W. D. BFAT1E, 207 Equitable Building Bell Main 3520 . Atlanta Phone 3520 J. I j. 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 J. Lynch, who has moved to another section of the city. Other vacancies filled were Marcellus M. Anderson to succeed J. N. McEach- 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 as a member of the Cemetery Commission. W. J Davis, Eighth Ward; Frank G Lake, T'ourth Ward, and W. K. Ward, Third Ward, were re-elected members of the Water Board. Mayor Woodward will All 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 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 new 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 ertr until 11 o'clock. Women Join Move * For New City Park Women cf the Fourth Ward are plan ning to support Councilman Claude L. Ashley's move to purchase the old Ponce DeLeon 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 of the purchase from Count'll 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 a purchase price W. A. Foster, of the tlrm of Foster & Robson, wgs named. M. E. Officials Named As Conference Ends! The Georgia Methodist Episcopal Church North has closed its confer- i enoe and to-day the delegates are de parting fer their homes. The confer ence service ut the concluding session ! was preached by Dr. Frederick D. la*ete, I resident bishop, who ordained three men as elders and Are as deacons. It was decided to hold the next conference at Tallapoosa. Bishop Leete left Tuesday for Wad ley. Ala., where the Alabama confer ence is to be held this week Gounod's ‘Faust’ and ‘Mignon' Planned by Channing Ellery. Free to School Children, Another free concert to the school children of Atlanta will he given this afternoon. It is expected that many thousand girls and boys will be at tracted by the special French pro gram. the feature number* of which will he Gounod's "Faust’' and “Mig non.” Tickets will be distributer] at the schools free to the children. Adults will he charged the regular admission price of 25 cents The free concert Monday afternoon to th< children filled the Auditorium wjtn five or six thousand boys and girls who were delighted with the band music. Preceding the concert Channing El lery, head of the band, made a short address on thp difference between the school children of Europe and those of America. The night program drew a large number of Atlanta’s music lovers. The Ellery Band* will render Tues day night a program made up entire ly of French compositions, among Idem heirtg the entire fifth act of Gounod’s "Faust,” the Mignon” over ture and the thrilling “Carmen” fan- tasle. This latter number was played last Saturday evening, bringing forth storms of applause from the enthusi astic audience. Carter, Promoter of Banks, Gets 2 Years News was received Tuesday In At lanta that John H. Carter, who near ly organized a million-dollar bank in Atlanta some years ago. had been sentenced to two years in the State penitentiary for the embezzlement of $6,F>00 in an Ellijay (Ga.) bank's stock Carter was indicted two months ago by a Grand Jury in Ellijay. He lives in Asheville, N. C. The prosecution resulted from the efforts of five banks, of which he at one time had control — the North Georgia Bank and the North Georgia Trust Company, of Blue Ridge; the Gilmer County Bank, of Ellijay; the Bank of Jasper, and the Bank of Dahlonega. 1 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. Seventh Ward for Move for City to Buy Mozley Tract Members of the Seventh Ward Im provement Club have renewed- Their campaign tor the purchase by the city of the Mozley property in that section for a city park, following an editorial ad vocating this project, which was printed In The Georgian The club drew up resolutions calling upon the members of the Council to give their support to this enterprise, and heartily indorsing The Georgian s action on the matter. The resolutions decUre that the city Is “woefully lacking in public parks, but on account of the historic Interest attached to the Mozley property, it by all means should be preserved for the generations to come." Thomas J Bishop Is secretary and treasurer of the Seventh Ward Club. DIES AFTER OPERATION. LUMPKIN, Dec 1*.—John T Patter son. a prominent citizen of Lumpkin, is dead at his home here, following an op eration MOVING PICTURE SHOWS A. L MYESS MYERS-MILLER Will Divide Your Payments Myers-Miller will give you the original of this $2.50 Check as a Xmas Gift—if you ’ll call for it at our store INTRODUCTORY OFFER wtlUa * lr«a data •' • «■< • W*#t Mltekcll Stmt. Ob* door f*os Whitehall ANDREW J. MILLER ■ 1 ArwNTfc GA._A^fc£^_^L-r x _iaA? rOOLLARS 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. 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 Clarks. Gilts lor Adults and Kiddies A1 the MYERS-MILLER Store Ou’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! ALAMO NO. 2 Wednesday. "Uncle Tom's Cabin,” a two- reel Kalem. You know the story. "Buster’s Little Game.” a Sellg 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 Stefnway Four. 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 This is «b exact picture of th* "cute" DOLLS BED and MATTRESS which we are selling. Four- Post Colonial—just 1! m the grown-ups. vsTIl made and fin ished of solid oak In D fT L L golden or fumed A big $2.00 ▼alne for you at our special price of....86o TWO AND A HALF DOLLAR GOLD PIECE FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT Atlanta’s Oldest Savings Bank Will Supply You. 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 Ravings Hank and Trust Company, the bank that makes saving easy by accepting deposits as small as $1. will give you a brand-new Two and a Half Dollar goldpiece 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 HliDWN. President, JOHN W. GRANT. V. President, JOSEPH E. BOSTON. Secretary ami Treasurer Advt. THE Wednesday. "Zuzu. the Band Leader,” a two- reel Keystone that is a corker. “The Law of Humanity,” an In teresting Princess drama. ALCAZAR THEATER To-day. "The Girl o' ^he 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 $6.00 Rocker $9.75 (Tii SAVOY THEATER To-day. "Time is Money.” This two-reel Universal will hold you from begin ning to end with the most Intense Interest. GRIFFIN Hours: Daily 8 to 7 Sun. 9 to 1 41ft» Teeth $1U, Filled Special Holiday Prices:- 50c up 50c Dr. E.G. Griffins' $15 Gold Dust Plates Crown and OO, Bridge Work tpOy Painless Extraction $8 Plates $5 Fit Guaran teed LADY'S DESK We have a splendid as sortment of Hadies* 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 Qak. at $7.50. Gate City Dental Rooms 24 1-2 Whitehall Over Brown «£ Allen’a EXAMINATION FREE Davenport or Davenette We offer an excellent DAVENETTE or DAV ENPORT. frame finished in Fumed. Golden or Ear ly English Oak or Ma hogany—at an attrac tive price $30 Cotton Maitress for $5 extra CHENEY’S EXPECTORANT Cures Croup, Whooping Cough Fiftv years on the market and sold everywhere I for 25c Best medicine for rrnup. colds and sore I throai affections Don't he led swsv by new and untried remedies. Stick to Cheney % Expectorant. It ts sure.— lAdtt.) XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R Apply any Agent, I. 5 »•“ Little Rock 3. 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, District Passenger Agent, e 18 North Pryor St., Atlanta, Ga. Cutting Table Buy the housewife one of these CUTTING TA BLES Yard measure is printed on top Made of white Maple \ O CT Priced, only This Rocker in DULL Mahogany tmish is ex cellently made—it’s a fine Xmas gift. It’s a SURE-ENOUGH $6 value—but our price is only $3.75. Id Library Table Here are elegant IJ- 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 ... $ 6.90 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 9x12 Rugs Rugs are Ideal as Xmas gift*. We have a great assortment of 9xl2-foot. rugs In beautiful de signs, richly colored. Brussels, Velvet. Axminster and Wilton. Priced from $9.50 to $50—A very special value is our CQ Cj» 9s:12-foot tug a 7»0*J $15.95 M-M Sleepwell The "M M SLEEPWELL" Out fit consists of a splendidly flnLsh- ed White Enamel or Vends Mar tin Bed. with two-Inch posis and ten Alters. Furthermore includes a FIRST QUALITY National Spring and a 35-lb. cotton mat tress. The entire outAt for only $15.95 90c Toy Wagons y.et I he child a M AGON. We hav best-made, painted and in four sizes i $2.00 ' $1 - 25 * $1 ' 75 TOY the red Prices and h Chifforobe $42.50 This beautiful Chifforobe shown here is | n Golden Oak. Height 5 ft. a inches. Width S ft 7 inches. Mirror is 16 bv is inches. Price Is very reasonable at $42 50 We have other Chlffo robes, in Circassian Wal- nut or Mahogany—some tf.V-Is $17.75 Card Table Why not a CARD TA BLE as a Christmas gift” This hlgh-grad« Card Table Js in Mahog any or Fumed Oak, with Pantasote top. I^ight weight. Has rubber tips on legs. Very $3 5Q special at. Oil Heater f home, gifts. TION’ store at “PERFECT TION" Oil Heaters are smoke less and odorless. Inasmuch as they are in d 1 s pensable • in every they are USEFUL Buy a "PERFEC Oil Heater at this $3.50 ts Costumer We have COST UM ERS in Gold en, Fumed or Early English Oak or Mahog any at $ ^OO Others, in wood or brass, up to J 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 Boors Irom Whitehall ■mm