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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1910
Page
9
Merchants urged to visit Atlanta as railroads offer reduced fares during a citywide Grand Opera week featuring top artists, a fifty thousand dollar organ, aviators, and fast auto racing. The notice advises buying seasonal fall bills early for profit, with a standing railroad fare offer for members who participate.
The Atlanta merchants and manufacturers urge local buyers to listen to a visiting Atlanta salesman. He emphasizes that doing business with Atlanta will benefit customers and invites them to consider the offer today.
Americus Georgia April 25 Copies of Manila papers announce the probable appointment of Major James W. Furlow of the Fourth Infantry U S A serving in the Philippines to civil governor of the district of Davao He is a Georgian who enlisted in the regular army during the Spanish American War and has risen from private to officer He has served in Cuba Porto Rico and is new in the Philippines for a second term of service there
Macon Ga April 25 Practically all arrangements are set for a Mercer Kappa Sigma celebration next Friday April 38 and 30 the reunion of living members of Alpha Beta chapter one of the oldest in the national fraternity founded at Mercer in 1874 by Dr W A Thomas of Bartow Ga with Seaborn Wright CC Richardson and Dr Richardson among founders All living founders are hoped to attend Ed L Sutton district grand master will address the banquet Railways Seek Mediation Washington April 25 Two railroads two telegraphers appealed to Dr Charles P Neill labor commissioner and Interstate Commerce Commission chairman for mediation under the Erdman act to settle wage and working condition disputes The lines involved are Seaboard Air Line and the Southern Pacific.
An Atlanta student, George Adair Eckford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Eckford of West End, is chosen banner bearer for West End school. His grandfathers served in the Confederate and Union forces. Eckford is a bright seventh grader and will lead color bearers Irwin Wilson and Chandler Harris, with Oble Johnston captain and Robert Reynolds lieutenant of the first platoon.
In Moultrie and Jesup on April 25 a drunken Barwick man George P. Wilson fatally shoots his four year old daughter Grace during a fight with a cousin. His wife buries the child in Abbeville as he and his neighbor Carson face trial, and ex-sheriff W. B. Lyons and son Archie Evens begin murder trial proceedings in Jesup with jurors being drawn amid strong public interest.
Three insurgent representatives Hayes of California Fish of New York and Woods of Iowa met President Taft at the White House and then visited the Capitol. Hayes said we are still with him on his legislative program and wanted to give renewed assurance.
The pope today received in private audience the Right Rev Mathias Lenihan bishop of Great Falls Minnesota. Afterward the pope welcomed the American pilgrims under the Spiritus direction of Bishop Lenihan in Vatican Rome on April 25.
Albert, Prince of Monaco, arrived in Rome and was welcomed at the station by officials of the king, foreign office, and the geological society. He will lecture on oceanography on Wednesday under the auspices of the society. The Vatican plans a circular note to nuncios warning against setting a precedent for visits to the king.
Memorial Day rituals unfold in Americus Georgia with 800 Confederate graves at Oak Grove cemetery to be adorned with roses and garlands. Local school groups and Cadets participate in services at First Methodist Church and Fulton High School pupils join the program. J N Haddock will deliver the annual oration prior to grave decoration.
Statesboro Ga April 26 special Hon E J Giles candidate for congress will deliver a noon address at court tomorrow This is expected to draw a large crowd as one of the biggest days of superior court and many townspeople plan to attend
The passage extols new corset models for women emphasizing fit and modern shape. It argues that newness means correct cut and up-to-dateness, asserting that no part of a dress matters if the corset does not fit well.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Woodruff mark their twenty fifth wedding anniversary with a grand gathering of about hundred guests in a festively decorated home. elegant floral arrangements, pink hydrangeas, and ornate centerpieces set a lush scene as aBrilliant musical program entertained in the upper hall. Several out of town guests from Columbus and Pittsburgh attended.
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