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SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915,
-THE ATLANTA GEORG! AN-
-ATLANTA, GX A
Mayor to Fight for
Bell Viaduct Repairs
A protest by Mayor Woodward
against the closing ol the Bell street
viaduct over the Georgia Railroad, on
account of the failure of the Finance
Committee to provide funds for its re
pair, will result in efforts by the
Stropts Committee to devise means to
repair the bridge and keep the street
open.
I can’t understand why the Finance
Committee should appropriate money
to pave various outlying streets and
leave an important thoroughfare like
Bell street with a collapsing bridge,”
said the Mayor. “I don’t believe the
people will stand for it.”
Union Printers to
Honor Their Dead
Exercises will be held in Oakland
Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, to
constitute a memorial for the dead of
the Atlanta Typographical Union, and
a sermon will be preached in the
evening by the Rev. John E. White at
the Second Baptist Church, which, Dr.
White announces, will be of special
interest to the 300 members of the
local union.
President R. L. Whites will direct
the exercises, in which the following
program will be carried out:
Prayer—Rev. Jere Moore, chaplain At
lanta Typographical Union.
Song, “Nearer, My God, to Thee”—
Audience.
Reading the Death Roll—N. H. Kirk
patrick, chaJrman Memorial Day com
mittee.
Address—R. L. Whites, president At
lanta Typographical Union.
Song, '‘Jesus, Lover of My Soul”—Au
dience.
Address—Rev. Jere Moore.
Song, “God Be With You Till We
Meet Again”—Audience.
Decoration of Graves—Woman's Aux
iliary.
Benediction.
$1.00-EVERY SUNDAY-$1.00,
Athens and return. Leaves Old
Depot 7.00 A. M. SEABOARD.
Novocain
Prevents All Pain
I am using this wonderful
|j medicine to prevent all pain
In all dental operations. Fill
ing, crowning and extracting
are made painless with the
use of Novocain.
Easy weekly payments can
be arranged. Good work
done painlessly on easy
weekly payments. You do
not have to pay extra for
painless work. My prices
are moderate.
C. C. NEEDHAM
23'/ 2 Whitehall Street.
Over Jacobs' Pharmacy.
Stomach Troubles
Make People Old
It is proven beyond a doubt that
the poison toxins from sour, decaying
food in the stomach and putrefying
wastes in the bowels cause nearly all
the diseases we have. Not only that,
but it Is the direct cause of "getting
old" and the wasting away of the
vital organs. The food we eat must
be digested—if not, It sours and de
cays and makes the poisons that de
stroy health and shorten life. A little
Digestit taken after every meal will
digest the food and keep it from sour-
l n g_it will turn the food into life-
giving nourishment and prevent the
formation of the poisons that come
from sour food. Then the wastes
. must be worked off—If they are al
lowed to accumulate In the bowels the
poisons form and wreck the whole
system. The best thing to keep the
bowels open and make the liver act
regularly Is a liquid called Digestit
Elixir—it Is made to be used with
the Digestit treatment, which is be
ing used so much to protect the
nealth and ward off old age The Gen
uine Digestit has the signature of IV.
,L. Brown on the package. You can
get both of these preparations from
your druggist or from W. L. Brown,
New Orleans, Da.—Advertisement.
WinnerofSeniorClassHonor
Cup at Girls’ High School
Mayor, as Usual, to Insist Too
Much Revenue Has Been An
ticipated in June Sheet.
A repetition of the old flght over
city finances is to be made in Coun
cil over the revised budget. Mayor
Woodward and those supporting his
views will oppose the new budget on
the grounds that too much revenue
has been anticipated. The others
will insist upon passing It despite
this opposition.
Chairman A. W. Farltnger, of the
Finance Committee, indicated what
the lineup would be at the last meet
ing of the Finance Committee Fri
day afternoon. He refused t£ agree
to stand by the budget as it has
been framed. Alderman C. C. Mc
Donald was the only other member
to join him In this refusal.
Copies of the budget as prepared
will be furnished to every member of
Council before it is presented to
Council the first Monday in June. It
carries appropriations totaling $5,134,-
703. As a result of the revision $172,-
000 was added to the income side. It
took $49,000 to make up a shortage
of appropriations; $83,000 was given
to schools, and the remainder went
to street improvements.
The officials who insisted on in-
'creasing the estimates of the city’s
income, while they realize a hard
fight will be made against them, are
confident the budget will pass in its
present form.
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Miss Mildred Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. John
son, of No. 434 North Boulevard, who was awarded Friday the
Marsh prize, a silyer loving cup, for highest marks in the Senior
Class of the Girls’ High School this year.
2,001 VETS HERE
SUNDAY
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More than 2,000 Confederate vet
erans will pour into Atlanta Sunday
afternoon and night on special trains
over the Seaboard Air Line and
Southern Railway, en route to the an
nual reunion at Richmond. The dele
gations will come from all points west
of the Mississippi wheFe there are or
ganized camps of the U. C. V.
The Atlanta camps will leave Sun
day At midnight over the Southern,
and over the Seaboard Monday aft
ernoon at 12:30 o’clock. The Tennes
see delegations over the Seaboard will
arrive in Atlanta Sunday night at 7:30
o'clock (first section) and at 10:30
o’clock (second section). The Arkan
sas special, carrying veterans from
points in Oklahoma. North Texas and
Arkansas cities, will pass through
here Monday afternoon at 12:40
o’clock.
Over the Southern, the “Governor’s
Special,” bearing Governor-elect Nat
E. Harris and General Joseph VV.
Preston, commander of the Georgia
division, will leave Sunday night at
8:45 o’clock, and will be followed by
the Texas special at 11:45 o’clock.
Special representatives of the
Southern and Seaboard will.accompa
ny the special trains to Richmond.
Fred Geissler. assistant general pas
senger agent, and David VV. Morrah.
traveling passenger agent, will be in
charge, of the Seaboard trains, and J.
C. Beam, assistant general passen
ger agent, and R. L. Baylor, division
passenger agent, will accompany the
special trains over the Southern.
Opelika Veteran
To Open Reunion
RICHMOND, X'a May 29.—Unable
attend the reunion because of illness 1 .
General Bennett H. Young, comman
der-in-chief of Confederate veterans,
has designated Lieutenant General
George P. Harrison, of Opelika, Ala.,
to take his place here, it was an
nounced to-day.
Gen, Young Too Ill
To Attend Reunion
(By International News Service.)
LOUISVILLE, KY., May 29.—Gen
eral Bennett H. Young, commander
in chief of tne Confederate Veterans,
is ill at his home here and will not
be able to attend the coming re
union at Richmond, Va.
CAUSE DEATH DF
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Much Property Damage Is Re
ported—Arkansas Valley Swept
by Great Flood.
Dr. Nisbet to Preach
From His Old Pulpit
The many warm friends and
admirers of Dr. Charles R. Nisbet,
now of Kansas City, and formerly of
Atlanta, will be glad to learn that
be Is to occupy the pulpit Sunday
at the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, corner of Boulevard and For
rest avenue.
Dr. Nisbet was the first pastor of
that church and for several years
made his home in Atlanta, where he
is universally esteemed. He left
Westminster to go to Nashville, and
after a successful /pastorate there
accepted a call to one of the largest
churches in Kansas City.
Dr. Nisbet is returning from a
meeting of the General Assembly of
the Southern Presbyterian church,
held in Virginia.
Front Door of Drug Store Is
Smashed Open and Rear Door
of Pool Room Battered Down.
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, May 29.—Rain and
lightning storms, floods and high
winds which have swept over Kan
sas, Western Missouri, Oklahoma, Ar
kansas and sections of Illinois and the
Central States generally have caused
the loss of at least eighteen lives and
the destruction of an immense amount
of property. •
To-day, with the downpour ceasing
in most of this widespread area, flood
conditions vs ere serious, and the sub
merged area was increasing in pro
portions. Travel to the West out of
Kansas City is seriously handicapped,
and in many cases trains have been
annulled.
Levees on the Arkansas River con
tinued to break to-day with alarming
frequency along a wide reach of ter
ritory, and the worst flood in its his
tory was sweeping down the Arkansas
Valley.
Arkansas Worst Sufferer.
To the south, Arkansas was perhaps
the worst sufferer- There many
streams were out of their banks and
reported rising. People living in low
lands along many streams were forced
to flee.
At North Platte, Nebr., business has
been suspended because of flooded
streets. All along the Platte River
the water was the highest in years,
and the crest was not yet in sight.
Flood warnings have been sent to
residents along the Des Moines River
and other streams in Iowa to be pre
pared to leave on a moment’s notice.
In Des Moines hundreds of people
moved to higher ground for the night,
and to-day awaited the passing of the
flood.
Throughout Illinois the rain of the
past three or four days has broken all
records. Approximately four inches
of rain has fallen in the vicinity of
Peoria, and train schedules in that
section of the State were only par
tially maintained. Railroad men to
day stated it might be necessary to
shut off all train service out of the
city before night.
Calls for Help Received.
Calls for help have been received
from many places in the lowlands
around Peoria. In Dry Run, near
Bradley Park, many persons took ref
uge in trees and on housetops, where
they remained for hours before res
cued early to-day.
Torrents of water poured down on
Averyville, Ill., Grandview drive, the
famous roadway, being damaged
many thousands of dollars.
In the vicinity of Bartonville. Ill.
the tracks of the Peoria Terminal
Railway between Peoria and Pekin
were under water to-day for nearly
five miles. The water in placeg is
ten feet deep Cars have not been
operated on the line for more than
twelve hours.
In Chicago the rain, which ceased
for a few hours during the night, re
sumed its demoralizing downpour this
morning. The weather bureau report
ed that the damp area was passing to
the east, and rain was reported as far
in that direction as the Allegheny
Mountains.
Twenty-one billion gallons of wa
ter has fallen in Chicago thus far
this month. It weighed nearly 85,-
000,000 tons, and the weather man
stated to-day there would be more of
it.
Advices from Central Illinois to
day stated that the rain there con
tinued, marking the fifth day of the
heavy precipitation. The Peoria line
of the Chicago and Alton Railroad
was abandoned to-day, the tracks
being under water for at least ten
miles.
The interlocking plant at Grove,
III., was washed from Its foundation.
Interurban traffic west of Blooming
ton was seriously affected by the
high water.
Sheltering Arms Day
Delayed One Week
The youngsters of the Sheltering
Arms, kindergarten department, are
not going to have their commence
ment exercises this Saturday after
noon, after all. The exercises have
been postponed until next Saturday
afternoon, when they are to be held
In Grant Park.
An entertaining program has been
prepared and tho public is Invited to
attend.
Phillips Held for
Trial as a Forger
E. D. Phillips, brought back from
Chattanooga to face .«even charges ot
forgery made by the E. L. Adams Com
pany, his former employers, was bound
over Friday to trial in the Criminal
Court In bond of $1,000.
Phillips, when arrested, gave his ad
dress as No. 40 Royston street. His
sister, who lives at that number, Sat
urday asked The Georgian to say for
her that Phillips does not live there and
has not for more than three years.
NEW PLANT ASKS CHARTER.
COLUMBUS, May 29.—A petition
for charter has been filed here by F.
C Reich, F. C. Reich. Jr.. W O.
Reich and J. H. Reich to be incor
porated as Reich Dry Goods Com
pany. for the purpose of manufactur
ing dry goods, notions, boots, hats,
shots, clothing and wearing apparel.
The robbery of a drug store at No.
26 Stovall street, owned by J. P. Wall,
in which the cash register was emp
tied of $6 in cash and a quantity of
merchandise stolen, was reported to
the police Saturday. The burglars
entered through the front door,
smashing two panels of glass.
A gas meter In a poolroom at No.
448 Decatur street was robbed of sev
eral dollars. The burglars broke down
the rear door of the poolroom in en
tering.
Andrew Sassen, of No. 18 Hubbard
street, reported that burglars broke
into hig residence and stole a watch,
shoes and several other articles.
Thieves Strip an Auto.
W. H. Cox, of the Empire Cotton Oil
Company, reported that thieves stole
from his automobile an auto tire, a
casing and a rim.
A five-passenger Ford automobile
was stolen from in front of the Hotel
Ansley, according to a report made to
the police by Mrs. H. F. Harris, of No.
52 Ponce DeLeon avenue, the owner.
A kit of surgical instruments was
stolen from the automobile of Dr. H.
G. Estes, whose office is in the At
lanta National Bank Building.
Garden Hose Taken.
Fifty feet of garden hose was stolen
from G. N. Morris, of No. 180 Ashby
street; 25 feet from Dr. W. A. Major,
of No. 437 Capitol avenue; 25 from T.
L. Becknell, of No. 39 North Dargan
street, and 10 from D. W. Seymour, of
No. 103 Connally street.
Clothing was stolen from the fol
lowing: C. S. Morris, of No. 73 Au
burn avenue; W. F. Crumley, of No.
125 Washington street; A. T. Odum,
of No. 86 Luckle street, and from
John Dennis, of No. 107 Peachtree
street.
Chicken thieves looted the coops of
Mrs. R. E. Bradley, at No. 63 Venable
street, Friday night aad stole four
teen hens.
Grace Is Back
Again; More
Trouble!
And "Grace” came back—again.
“Grace” Is the French poodle that
fell into the hands of the Municipal
Court through ball trover proceedings
and which Marshal O. K. Puckett
frantically but vainly has sought to
give away. H« has in reality given
the dog away, it might be explained,
but the trouble all comes about
through the refuse! of the poodle to
stay given away.
The dog Is back again at the home
of Lillie Evans, a negTo living at No.
202 Old Wheat street, and she has
asked Marshal Puckett to come after
It again. This last time, Grace ran
away from Deputy Marshal Dave
Morgan in West End, who had agreed
to take her off of the marshal’s
hands and who tied a dainty
red ribbon about her neck. But even
this failed to acquire her affection.
Prior to this, the poodle had scorned
the hospitality of the home of Deputy
Marshal Tom Tomlinson and of still
another man living in Marietta street.
The dog is on the hands of the
marshal by reason of an agreement
between Lillie Evans and Lucy B.
Arter, another negro, that the mar
shal should dispose of It. The Arter
woman had taken out ball trover
proceedings against the Evans wo
man to get the dog out of her pos
session.
Marshal Pucket Saturday consider
ed a plan to ship the poodle to
Brunswick to a man, who noticing the
story in Th e Georgian of the mar
shal’s difficulties in getting rjd of it.
wrote to him that he “would be glad
to give Grace a home.’’
In the meantime should anyone else
desire the poodle they can communi
cate with Marshal Puckett.
Home for Incurables
Exercises Delayed
Threatening weather Friday caused
the postponement until next Tuesday
of the dedication of the pillars at the
entrance to the Home for Incurables.
At 5:30 o’clock next Tuesday after
noon the pillars are to be dedicated
to the memory of Mrs. 8. Y. Tupper.
Mrs Floyd McRae is to preside
over the dedicatory ceremonies, and
Bishop C. Kinloch Nelson and the
Rev. W. W. Memmlnger will be the
speakers of the occasion.
IT WIFE CUT
OFF III WILL OF
VANDERBILT
Widow Is Left Three Million Dol
lars—Estate Estimated To Be
Worth Thirty Million.
(By International New* Service.)
‘ XRW YORK, May 29.—The will of
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the
American multimillionaire who lost
his life in the destruction of the Lu
sitania, was filed for probate to-day.
To his second wife, Margaret Emer
son Vanderbilt, Mr. Vanderbilt be
queathed $2,000,000, in accordance
with an ante-nuptial agreement made
In London on December 15, 1911, and
an additional $1,000,000 not mentioned
In the marriage contract.
The will was drawn up on Decem
ber 16, 1913. It bequeaths to Mr.
Vanderbilt's children by his second
wife the Income from a trust fund
of $5,000,000, the principal of which
is to go to the. children upon the
death of their mother upon any terms
she may designate.
Another trust fund of $5,000,000
was established, the Income of which
will go to William H. Vanderbilt, the
deceased’s eldest son.
The first wife is not mentioned In
the will.
"Oakland Farm,” the show place
of A. G. Vanderbilt at Newport, .s
left In care of the executors of tho
will to be used by W. H. Vanderbilt.
“Sagamore Lodge,” the great coun
try -place owned by Mr. Vanderbilt in
the Adirondack Mountains, and the
Moose River tract, a piece of ground
2.000 acres in extent, as well as the
Vanderbilt property in England, goes
to Mr. Vanderbilt’s second wife.
Mr. Vanderbilt's great collection of
art works is left to his eldest son, as
well as the medal prranted to Commo
dore Vanderbilt at the close of the
Civil War by Congress.
The bulk of the residue of the estate
Is divided between A. G. Vanderbilt,
Jr., and George Vanderbilt, the chil
dren of the deceased by his second
wife.
The value of the entire estate was
not given in the will, but it was esti
mated to be worth more than $30,000,-
000.
Dr. Brewer Is
Delained by
Italians
News was received In Atlanta Satur
day from Genoa. Italy, of the detention
in that city of Dr. Walpole Brewer,
former house physician at the Hotel
Ansley. and member of the American
Red Cross party, by the Italian Gov
ernment.
Dr. Brewer and other physicians In
the party sailed from the United States
three weeks ago and were assigned to
medical work in the Austrian hospitals
In Vienna by the American Red Cross
Commission. According to dispatches,
they have been detained at the request
of the government at Rome until the
American commission can be asked to
permit them to change their assignment
and work with the Italian army, now in
vading Austrian territory.
It \m understood the American Red.
Cross Commission will refuse tha re
quest of the Italian Government,
Holmes Institute to
Close Year Monday
Monday night tho annual concert
and closing exorclsos of tho Holme*
Institute for negro children will b©
held in the chapel of the institute, the
Rev. J. A. Hadley delivering the ad
dress to the graduates, and B. B,
Holmes president of the institute,
making his annual report.
The special sermon to the students
will be preached Sunday at 8 o’clock
in the afternoon at the Fort Street
M. E. Church, by the Rev. L. H. King,
pastor of the Central Avenue M. UL
Church.
Negro Found Dead
On Railway Tracks
An unidentified negro man early
Saturday was found dead beside the
track of the Southern Railway near
the trestle over the Chattahoochee
River, on the Cobb County side of the
river. The negro apparently had
fallen from a passing train.
The Fulton County police were no
tified and they in turn communciated
with Sheriff Hicks, of Cobb County,
who is making an investigation.
UNDERWRITERS TO MEET.
COLUMBUS, May 29.—Plans are
being made for the entertainment of
the Georgia Local Underwriters' As
sociation. which will meet in Colum
bus June 4 and 5. President Fred Wr
Cole will preside, and there will be no
set speeches. t
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Typewriter Branch
Manager Resigns
The management of the Southeast
ern division of the L. C. Smith Bros.
Typewriter Company is in charge of
L. Schnider, of Providence, R. I., fol
lowing the resignation of A. M.
Sheets, who has been manager of the
company’s business In this territory
for the hast three years.
Mr. Sheets will leave next week for
a visit of several months to his home
in Salt Lake City.
Town Real Thirsty;
Bar Works 30 Men
BRIDGEPORT, OHIO, May 29.—
The long#»3t bar in Ohio has been in
stalled in the saloon of the Acorn
Liquor Company here for the benefit
not only of the thirsty of this city, but
also those of parched Wheeling, W.
Va.. just across the river.
It is 150 feet long and twenty bar
tenders work behind it. Allowing
two feet to a man, 75 persons can
line in front of it for a drink.
Rockefeller Gives
Baptists $100,000
LOS ANGELES. May 29.—John D.
Rockefeller has contributed $100,000 to
ward paying off the debts of the Bap
tist Missionary Societies, It was an
nounced to-day at the Northern Bap
tist Convention.
All debts of the Baptist Missionary So
cieties were cleared away to-day when
the last $14,000 was raised within an
hour.
A History of the War
Up to the Sinking of the “Lusitania”
A special section has been added to THE LITERARY DIGEST for the issue of May 29, which
Is devoted to a carefully prepared day-by-day history of the war and for which there, is no extra
charge. This history sets forth every important event of the great struggle, beginning with the
assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and relates in chronological order the various
episodes of the conflict up to the present. It gives a concise but authoritative account of the land,
naval and aerial engagements, losses, etc.; also a record of the various diplomatic documents that
have passed back and forth.
This valuable history, giving in a handy form as it does every event of importance, will be
preserved and referred to by hundreds of thousands of readers. It carries the reader through the
various mobilization declarations and invasions, autumn campaigns, winter deadlock in the west,
eastern maneuvers, and the entrance of Turkey, spring campaigns, submarine activities, etc. The
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Please remember this valuable feature is to be found only in THE LIT
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Italy’s Entrance Into the War
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Music of Shell Fire
The Bryce Report of German Atrocities
Cheap Food or Clean Food?
American Motor Trucks on the Warpath
Saving Belgium by Yankee Business Wizardry
German-American Loyalty
England’s Wavering With Drink
Using “Gangs” in Labor Wars
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