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AMERICAN SINGER WHO WAS ARRESTED AS SPY - VuV^ru.-i.ru-i.r. otijVVV-ij-l-l^ Miss Mary King Entertains. The afternoon bridge which Miss Mary King gave Friday was a de* Ur: tful compliment to her sister, Miss Louise King, who is at home from ol in Washington, D. C.. for the and to Miss Louise de Ver- *r: <t Bainbrldge, the guest of Mrs jam A. Wimbish, and Miss Bon- christine Barnard, of San Fran- rhe guest of Mrs. B. M. Boykin. Holiday decorations were used i ughout the house, and the prizes ere a dainty piece of lingerie for of the three honor guests, and a siroiiar prize for top score. Following the game, tea was served the dining room, where a tall silver of American Beauties formed a retty decoration for the tea table. Mrs Lillian King LeConte, Mrs George E. King, Mrs. Irving Thomas in ■; Mrs William Akers assisted in . r. ertaining, and the guests were Misses Mary Hines and her guest, Mill Me Morton, of Tennessee; Lawson Hires. Grace LeCraw; Virginia. Hoff man. lane Walker, Grace Sims, Helen v ullough, Wyckliffe Warm, Mary Mun'hey, Helen Stewart, Kate Coop er, Aline Fielder, Bertha Moore, Jane ' -oper, Alice Parks, Anne Patterson, M>ra Glarke Scott, Lucy Roberts, Marie Dinkins, Louise Parker, Dolly 'V 'npr. Margaret Moore, Estelle Fort, Mdse Hansell, Dolly Blalock, Mrs. ..re Holliday, Mrs. Carl Florin New Baltimore, Mrs. Howard Lyon of Baltimore, Mrs. William A. Wimbish qnd Mrs. B. M. Boykin. Miss Dargan Entertains. Miss Helen Dargan was hostess at a beautiful bridge party Friday, after noon, complimenting Miss Margaret ;rant and Mias Katherine Ellis, tw’o debutantes. Twenty-four members of ;he debutante set were invited, and :e game was played in rooms bright p.nd fragrant with poinsettia blos- - ms. Christmas greenery and Christ mas bells. Handsome prizes were awarded for tor score at each table, and after the game tea was served in the dining room, where the table was decorated with poinsettia blossoms, red unshad ed tapers, and all minor details in red and white. Miss Dargan was a charming host ess in a handsome toilet of royal blue 'n rade, the draped skirt of black < harmeuse, having a tunic of cream- colored shadow lace. Mrs. Milton Dargan, Jr., assisted in entertaining. She wore a handsome afternoon toilet. At the Driving Club. The “dansant” arranged for Friday :K the Piedmont Driving Club will be a delightful event of the late after noon, and will be attended by hun dreds of club members and their Friends. The next “dansant” will be given Monday. The reservation^ for the dinner- : ir.ee Saturday evening include sev eral large parties and other parties •tr - still being arranged. Miss Helen Atkinson to Entertain. ■Miss Helen Atkinson will give a umcing party Tuesday evening, De rnier 30, in honor of Miss LaGrange ■ ohran. of Rome, the guest of Miss Louise Couper. Fifty members of the college set will be invited. Miss Jane Walker to Entertain. Miss Jane Walker will entertain at :ea on Tuesday afternoon, December 30, at the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Walker. The young girls who will assist her in the after- lied by an equal num ber of young men for an informal evening party. Miss Mallard to Entertain. Miss Mary Brock Mallard will give n tea Tuesday afternoon, December -L her guests to include members of the schoolgirl set. Miss Marion Fielder to Entertain. A.'iss Marion Fielder will give a ’ ncheon Tuesday for Miss Aline ‘•’der, who is at home from Win- ton-Salem for the holidays. Miss Virginia Farr to Entertain. Mass Virginia Farr will give a danc. ng party New Year Eve for mem >crs of the college set. Spelling Bee and Bazaar. The members of William Hurd Hill - ' rr * s Sunday school class of the Sec ond Baptist Church will give an old- iashioned spelling bee and bazaar Priday evening at 8 o’clock at the Lurch. Some of the city’s best spell- ' r ; s will be present. Dr. John E. White will conduct the match. Ad mission. 1ft cents. Refreshments will served by the young women of the lass, and the public is invited. Sponsors for Basket Ball Game. Miss Mary Butler will be sponsor f ° r the Athletic Club and Miss May ’•^He Hlxon, of Gainesville, w r ho is ’ he ffuest of Mrs. Russell Bridges, will be the Augusta Y. M. C. A. sponsor at ■ ne basket ball game Saturday even- at the Athletic Club. An infor mal dance will follow the game. Cake Sale. Circle No. 10 of the Woman’s Mis- • ionary Society of Druid Hills Meth- ist Church will have a sale of home- r| 1e cakes Tuesday at J. P, Allen’s ; partment store on Whitehall street. ( rs ’ A. J. Paxton, Jr., is chairman of tnis circle, and has received a num- Girl Overcome by Heavy Perfume of Magnolia Bouquet SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.— Poisoned by the perfume of a large bouquet of fragrant magnolias, Miss Lovell Alice Taylor narrowly escaped suffocation in her apart ments in the Hotel Oakland. Miss Taylor is under the care of Dr. D. D. Crowley and is slowly recover ing. Missing her at the breakfast ta ble yesterday morning, Miss Tay lor's sister entered the room to find her in a stupor from the heavy fumes of the flowers. Dr. Crowley worked an hour before completely restoring her. ber of contributions already, besides a great many orders for cakes. Burge- Minor. Miss Annie Marie Burge and E. Welborn Minor were married Thurs day evening at 9 o’clock at the Meth odist parsonage in East Atlanta, the Rev. C. V. Weathers officiating. Those present were Miss Lillian Everett, Mrs. C. V. Weathers, George Lyle and H. Noble Weathers. The couple will reside at No. 88 Haas avenue. Children of Confederacy Sell Stamps. Miss Mary Butt Griffith will be chairman of the sale of Red Cross Christmas stamps Saturday, with Miss Lillian Mathis, Miss. Louise Massey and Mrs. W. C. Warfield as vice chair men. Other members of the Julia Jackson Chapter. Children of the Confederacy, will assist. Miss Louise Dobbs to Entertain. Miss Louise Dobbs will issue cards Saturday to a tea on Tuesday after noon. December 3ft, from 5 to 7, her guests to include members of the col lege set. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson Entertain. The dinner-dance at which Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Richardson entertained Thursday evening was one of a series of elaborate parties tendered Miss Margaret Grant since her debut in October. Twenty-six guests were in vited to the Richardson residence, and throughout the house there were Christmas decorations of brilliant red poinsettia* blossoms, red-shaded tapers, and handsome palms and ferns. Dinner was served at two tables, each having an artistic arrangement of poinsettia blossoms, with a border of ferns and narcissi. An orchestra played during dinner and for the dance that followed. Mrs. Richardson was charming in black charmeuse satin with corsage and tunic of gold-threaded lace over white. Miss Grant wore a dancing gown of pink silk chiffon with cor sage of lace and garniture of rose- colored velvet. Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Rich ardson will give a family dinner par ty in honor of the two grandsons of the Grant family, who are at home from school for the holidays. The honor guests are Hugh Inman Rich- Church Folk-Start Campaign for Prohibitive License—Deal ers Now Pay $6,000. GRIFFIN, Dec. 19.—If plans of the ministers and leading laymen of Grif fin churches go through, Griffin will next year have the highest near-beer saloon license probably In the United States—$15,000 per year for the city, $200 for the State and county, and the usual Government beer tax. A mass meeting, called by pastors of twenty churches and by Judge T. E. Patterson, State Prison Commis sioner and husband of the Georgia W. C. T. U. president, representing a congregation temporarily without a pastor, was held at the City Hall last night, when the high license cam paign was launc* ed and steps taken to organize a Law Enforcement League tc aid city, county and Fed eral officers in running down “wild cat” distilleries and “blind tigers.” The near-beer saloon license here this year is $6,000. Last year it was $8,000. There wa s one saloon *ast >ear and two this year. The pro posed $15,000 tax is believed to be high enough to be prohibitive. Officers have been active here in the last 30 days, eight or ten distil leries having been rakled and be tween 20 and 30 blind tigers arrested, i I’ll Drive Gambling Out/ Declares Chief BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 19.—"Don't say I am going to try to put out gam bling in Birmingham; say I am going to do it.” This is the admonition given to newspaper reporters by Sta- ven Wiggins, chief of the detective department of Birmingham, who has declared that he proposes to run gam bling out of Birmingham. He says he is satisfied that the big houses where gambling is conducted have not closed up their doors, and that every effort will be made to bring to justice the men who persist in vio lating the law. Miss Dorothy MacVane, daughter of Prof. Silas MacVane, of Harvard, was put under police surveillance at Taranto, Italy, where she was singing with an opera company, suspected of espi onage. It is expected she will be released to-day and an apology made to her. Ambassador Page took up her case. All Is Quiet After FearofLynching Well Now gpU p lies Charity Gets $25 for Hardaway Young Coupons Girl, 4, Saved Granted New Trial SAVANNAH, Dec. 19.—Margaret Naylor, 4, has originated an effective method of raising money for charity. She collected 5,000 cigarette coupons and donated them to the society that keeps up a fresh air home at Tybee. They were turned into $25 cash. The society was so pleased with the venture it will put boxes in all stores where cigarettes are sold in an effort to collect thousands of the coupons. MOBILE. ALA., Dec. 19.—The Court of Appeals to-day reversed the case of Hardaway Young, former presi dent of the Southern Hardware and Supply Company, which since has gone out of existence through bank ruptcy, the former official having been convicted in the Mobile City Court on June 29 of the embezzlement of notes, drafts and checks to the amount of $125, with a sentence of three years in the State penitentiary. IS SHE POINTS PISTIL Macon Chief of Police Knocks Mrs. W. P. Flahive Down Stairs in Whisky Raid. MACON, Dec. 19.—'When Mrs. Mar- garet P. Flahive, a stalwart widow of 35, pointed a pistol at Police Chief George 8. Riley to-day and threat ened to kill him if he entered her room, he struck her in the face with his fist and knocked her down a flight of steps. Mrs. Flahive conducts a grocery store on Cotton avenue, and also runs a saloon, though she has neither a city, State nor Federal license. She has been repeatedly indicted and once convicted. Accompanied by two detectives, Chief Riley raided her place and found a stock of whisky. She ran upstairs to a bedroom, the chief fol lowing her. Her children took one revolver from her, but she. procured another, and thrusting it into the chief's face, said: “If you enter this room I’ll kill you.” “Then you’ve got me to kill,” said the chief as he entered. He struggled with Mrs. Flahive and in the encounter struck her in the face. Mrs. Flahive will be prose cuted for pointing a pistol, as well as for violating the city blind tiger ordinance and the State prohibition law’. Macon Contractor Dies in Auto Crash MACON, Dec. 19.—W. T. Amerson, a Macon contractor, was killed last night when an automobile, was over turned near Smarrs Station, in Mon roe County. He left Macon after supper for Smarrs in Bob Bar-field’s machine, and just as they reached their destination the accident oc curred. Bob Barfield and George Atwood, w T ho also were in the car, escaped in jury. Amerson’s neck was broken. RALEIGH. N. C., Dec. 19.—Adju tant General Young telephoned act ing Governor Daughtridge from Lum ber Bridge to-day that everything was quiet there following the killing of Muck Brown, a prominent white man, by a negro named Dupree. It was feared a lynching would follow the capture of Dupree, and the Adjutant General hurried to the scene yesterday afternoon to take charge of f he militia, Dupree had not been captured at noon to-day. Soldiers Slip Up Gainesville Water On Charleston Folk Society Girls Sell Candy for Red Cross SAVANNAH, Dec. 19.—Society girls to-day took positions behind the can dy counters in a number of the down town stores to sell sweets. They will reap a percentage from the sales, which will be added to the fund raised by the sale of Red Cross stamps fight tuberculosis. GAINESVILLE, FLA., Dec. 19 — Although the city has not accepted the new municipal water plant from the contractors, the water mains have been supplied by the new plant from the 350-foot well furnishing 1,600 gallons per»minute. The change was made in order to remove the fire pump from tho old waterworks to the new plant. Deserter From Navy Gives Up to Police JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 19.—Albert M. Woltz, Jr., of Greensboro, N. O., walked into police station and de dared himself deserter United States Navy at the Norfolk navy yard. Woltz said that on sober after con sideration he had decided to go back like a man and asked the police to notify the proper officials. CHARLESTON, S. C„ Dec. 19- Stealing a march on Charleston, 325 Fort Moultrie artillerymen slipped across Ashley River from Yemassee and crossed to Sullivans Island when very few people knowing the “army” had pierced the city. The soldiers passed through here following maneuvers of a week. They marched back in half the going time. No Empty Stockings For Dalton's Xmas DALTON, Dec. 19.—Dalton Lodge. No. 1267. B. P. O. Elks, the Barnca class of the First Baptist Church and a special empty stocking fund com mittee will see that there are no empty stockings In Dalton on Christ mas. The work will be started by the Baracas Sunday, when each member will take something to the class with him, a special committee to distribute food and clothing Sunday afternoon. The others will wait until Christmas Day . Council Rejects Bond Board's Men JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 19.—P. H. Odom, for city attorney; Max Myer- son, for hack Inspector; J. W. Ingram, for license inspector; H. C. Sloan, for eleotrical inspector; Thomas Cahill, oil inspector, and R. E. Merritt, for inspector weights and measures, all failed of confL.natlon, when their nominations were presented to city council. The bond trustees must make new appointments, the present incumbents meanwhile holding over. Wilsons to Teach Schoolgirls How to Live on $9 a Week WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Girl pupils of the Washington public schools will be taught how to keep a family of father, mother and three children on $9 a week in the , new model house just arranged by ( the Neighborhood House Settle- - ) ment workers The Misses Margaret and Elea nor Wilson, Miss Genevieve Champ Clark, Mrs. Barney Hemmick, Mrs. Walter Tuckerman and Mrs. John ( Jay White are prominently inter- ( ested in this work. They attended a special reception at Neighbor hood House, when the Model House was opened to the public for the first time. Brantley New Head Of Alabama I.O.O.F. MOBILE, Dec. 19.—Announcement has been made of the result of the canvass of returns for the election of officers of the Alabama Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, as follows: R. L. Brantley, Vernon, grand mas ter; George Huddleston, Birmingham deputy grand master; George Ste : felmeyer, Uullman, grand warden; H C. Pollard, Huntsvill, grand secre tary; J. C. Dowie, Talladega, gram treasurer. Walter K. McAdory, Bir mIngham, and the Rev. George L Jenkins, Talladega, grand representa tives to the Sovereign Grand Lodge. New Trial Motion For Mrs. Godbee Rests With Judge AUGUSTA, Dec. 19.—Judge Henry C. Hammond, after hearing arguments on a motion asking for a new trial for Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee, re served his decision. The State’s attorneys answered tho attacks of the defense on three Ju rors who were alleged to have been biased when they entered the Jury box, and also the criticism of tho court’s charge to the jury. Affidavit** by Foreman S. W. Palmer, of the Godbee Jury, and Olin B. Brown, C. A. Matthews and C. A. Boston, of Stellaville, denied that Palmer said Mrs. Godbee ought to hang, as E. S. Alexander had declared. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of /\ RUTLEDGE ELECTS. RUTLEDGE. Dec. 19 —H. L. Vin- Ing, Mayor; VV P. Wallace, E. C Ponder, .1. M. Nunn and H. F. Bon ner, Councilmen. was the winning ticket for city officers for 1914. FATHER OF DISPENSARY DEAD. GREENVILLE, S. C.. Dec. 19.— David Henry Traxler, organiser of the South Carolina dispensary sys tem, died of Bright’s disease at a sanitarium In Virginia. Id. rfiifc- A CAREFULLY TREAT CHILDREN’S COLDS { Neglect of chi'dren's colds often J ) lays the foundation of serious lung > trouble in later life. On tile other j ( hand, it is harmful to continually j ! dose delicate little stomachs with in- ) \ ternal medicines or to keep the chil- i l dren always Indoors. The Ideal way J ' to avoid colds is to keep p'enty of i \ fresh air In the bedroom and at the < ' first sign of trouble apply Vick’s j j "Vap-O-Rub” Croup and Pneumonia ) > Salve over the throat and cheat, cov- i \ ering with a warm flannel cloth, j , The body heat releases antiseptic ) j vapors that are Inhaled all night / long, opening the air passages and ; healing the inflamed membrane. In ; ;> addition Vick's is absorbed through . the skin, taking out the soreness > ; and tightness. Vick’s contains no . f harmful drugs whatever. At drug- j . gists’—26c, 60c and $1.00. \ I Woman Died Here and Buried at Huntsville HUNTSVILLE. Dec. 19.—The fu neral of Mrs. Susan H. Hunt, wife of Ben P. Hunt, a prominent citizen of Huntsville, who died in the Grady Hospital in Atlanta where she had been under treatment for two weeks, was conducted here. Air8. Hunt was one of th leaders in the organization that maintained tho Huntsville Hospital and \ as an un tiring charity worker. Jailed Without Bail For Housebreaking RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 19.—Albert Phillips, a young white man, was ar- 'rested at Rocky Mount, N. C., on the charge of entering the home of Mrs. Martha Gay there for the purpose robbery. Burglary is a capital offense in this State, and Phillips is being held with out ball. Just: what I want! That’s what the chil dren say, every time they see it. It is tooth some, wholesome, healthful. The very sweet that’s best to eat— It’s the Little Things that tend to give one that well-groomed appearance. Your gloves if kept well cleaned will help you in finitely. The Trio Laundry / clean# gloves to get out the dirt and grease. They are returned to you in a spotless condition the kid being soft and pliable. E. H. WILSON. Phone 1099. W, H. HARRIS. Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co. ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS Personal Mention Nothing adds more to the enjoyment of waffles and battercakes than ALAGA. makes wonderful gingercakes, puddings ) and candies. It is Nature’s best sweet Sold in sealed tins by your grocer ALABAMA-GEORGIA SYRUP COMPANY MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA /hit the trail! jy F A 38 £*- Acoach alon£> Abe rim "UfoA Master and Miss Van Dusen=Doll, of Amsterdam. Holland Have arrived in Atlanta for the holidays. They are visit ing in Chamberlin-Johnson-DuBose Company’s Bazaar prior to taking up their permanent residence with the lovely Miss Atlanta. The above snapshot shows them as they were look ing about at the wonderful toys and the crowds of happy children that fill the Bazaar these days. ChamberIin=Johnson=DuBose Co. if The Grand Canyon is a m mile deep, miles wide and P painted in sunset hues. A short and inexpensive side trip from main California line of the Santa Fe. In a Pullman all the way. Cl Tovar Hotel, management Fred Harvey, provides high-class accom modations. All you would like to know about the Canyon is told in our booklet, “Titan of Chasms.’’ Ask for it is