Amended Stovall Bill Passes State Senate
The Senate passed the amended Stovall bill by a 4 to 2 vote allowing counties to decide on compulsory education. It requires parents to send children ages 8 to 14 to school for at least twelve weeks yearly, with exemptions for poverty and distance. The measure aims at willful noncompliance, amid debate on its mild nature. The Senate meets today at 10 o clock, breaking with a Saturday adjournment pattern due to end-of-session pressure.
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Stovall
Boykin
Senate
Feacock
Dobbs
Buchanan
Model Convict Camp Plans Outlined for Fulton County
Government support outlined for a United States model convict camp in Fulton County after a county board letter from I W Page. The plan provides 80 percent of the warden salary, 50 percent of the deputy warden, 60 percent of the commissary clerk, plus a government supervised efficiency agent at government pay.
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Fulton County
Chatrman
Tom Winn
Public Works Committee
County Board
I. W Page
Good Ronda
Washington
AME conference ends with reports and talks in Redan
The district AM church conference at Redan Ga closed official work today with reports discussions and sermons deemed helpful Rev F R Sims of Big Bethel Atlanta and Rev 7 8 Downs of Turner Monumental provided full reports. Several members including Eliza Baldwin Atlanta probation officer gave a talk on saving colored girls from crime.
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Redan Ga
J A Hadley
Big Bethel
Atlanta
F R Sims
Cosmopolitan
Vine and
Foundry
Turner Monumental
Rey
Downs
Fountain
JH Addison
Yates E Rogers
Paul Ealy
Sager
HG Jackson
Ss Drake
Peacock
Turner
MC Morris
Eliza Baldwin
Colored Probation Officer
Finest cattle will be shown in Atlanta
Exhibitions of 200 of the finest cattle in the United States at the Lakewood fair grounds were assured yesterday when the Hereford Cattle association proposal was accepted by the executive council. The event will join the fifth annual corn show under the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce with a $5,000 purse from the Southern Fair association and the Hereford Cattle association. Attending were W. G Cooper acting chairman Moll R Wilkinson V Hl Kriegshaber Turman KR M B Striplin LOH Robinson and others.
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United States
Lakewood Fair Grounds
Executive Council
The
Fair Association
Chicago
Kansas City
Atlanta Chamber ‘of Commerce
Southern Fair Association
Hereford Cattle Association
W. G Cooper
Moll R .Wilkinson
Hl Kriegshaber
Turman
KR M B Striplin
Rain
Loh ‘Robinson
Savannah Battery B Artillery Passes Through Atlanta
Members of the Savannah feld artillery Battery B traveled through Atlanta on their way home from a ten day encampment in Anniston Alabama. The unit carried 125 men, the largest Georgia artillery encampment turnout. Officers included Captain ED Wells, First Lieutenant Spencer Conerat, and Captain Loyd B Taylor.
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Savannah Feld Artillery
Atlanta
Anniston
Ala
Georgia Battery of Field Artillery
Savannah
Hottie
ED Wells
Joe E Inglesby, Jr
Cecil Cheaves
Spencer Conerat
Loyd B Taylor
Medical Corps
Motorcycle accident damages suit filed by Grace Whaley
Miss Grace Whaley a telephone operator sues Smith Wing Rankin Health Co and MS Rankin seeking 6600 for injuries from a May 22 motorcycle crash on Decatur Street She alleges a Realty firm auto driven by Mr Rankin knocked her from the bike and caused damages
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Grace Whaley
Smith, Wing & Rankin Health Company
Ranken
Decatur Street
Rankin
Sentence warned for whisky sellers in county case
Judge J P Hignamith of the superior court sentenced two men who pleaded guilty to selling whisky. He stated no further fines would be imposed on anyone convicted in the county but they would serve twelve months on the chain gang.
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Brunswick
Auguss
J P Hignamith
Georgia Legislators Honor College Boost in Milledgeville
Georgia Normal and Industrial College secretary Dr H A Tigner reported that trustees feel highly complimented by the generous appropriation in the general appropriations bill. The House voted the full amount with no dissent, lauding administration economy and democracy. Knights of Berrien, Coweta’s Jones, and other leaders receive mention for debates and presiding ability as senators push education bills and public measures.
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H A Tigner
Georgia Normal and Industrial College
Milledgeville
Wohlwender
Muscogee
16 Month Old Eats Mercury Tablet in Hotel Hall
Little Charles Bhailoway, aged 16 months, was found by his mother in the hotel reception hall eating a mercury tablet. The mother retrieved the tablet and an ambulance was called to Grady Hospital. Doctors reported the child did not swallow much poison and is out of danger. The tablet was found in a breasty drawer nearby.
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Charles Bhailoway
Grady Hospital
Charles
Advisory board named to tackle unemployment
An advisory board of twelve representing federal, state and municipal governments was named at the closing session of a labor department conference on employment. Secretary Wilson urged cooperation among the three branches to reduce unemployment and suggested creating a rotary fund from immigration head tax revenue to aid immigrants and support unemployed workers.
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San Francisco
United States Department of Labor
Yahor Wilson
Simea
Wilson
Flowers Heaped on Grave Of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
Rome Ga marks the first anniversary of Mrs Woodrow Wilsons death with flowers on her grave and services hosted by the Ken Axon Wilson Memorial association. A wreath reached from President Wilson and a box from the White House conservatories. Children and residents filled the hours 3 to 10 this morning with blossoms as hundreds attend the 2 pm service led by Rev Dr G G Synor. The mass of flowers covers Mrs Wilsons grave and the adjacent footstones of her parents.
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Rome
Woodrow Wilson
Ken Axon Wilson
Palma Wi
Wilson
White House
Mra Wilson
G G
First Presbyterian Church
Home
Syénor
Mra Eadwerd Axson
Many Mules Refused By Men Representing British Government
Atlanta stock dealers report British inspectors rejected 50 to 60 percent of mules offered for European war service. On Thursday 200 head at Miller Union Stock yards. only 90 passed. Similar results at I N Ragsdale yards. Inspectors require height 15 hands 1 inch to 16 hands 2 inches and weight over 1220 pounds. Passed mules branded U on right shoulder and left fore foot. Over 2000 mules in yards. fate of sale and shipment unknown.
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Atlanta
Miller Union
I N Ragsdale
H & Scott
R F Wall
England
George S Stroud
Kansas City
Gale
Reward Offered for Unknown Parties Who Dynamited Vats
The governor announces a 100 reward for information leading to the capture of those who dynamited cattle dipping vats in Lumpkin county within the last week. Two vats were blown up on July 31 and August, owned by state and county. Dr Peter I Bahnsen, state veterinarian, had offered 50 from private funds. citizens add 50 more, totaling 200.
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Lumpkin County
Peter I Bahnsen
Ctizens
Atlanta Credit Men Meet Tuesday Night
The Atlanta Association of Credit Men will hold its first quarterly meeting Tuesday evening August 10 at 7 at the Atlanta Athletic Club House East Lake. A dollar dinner will be served on the terrace. Attorney General Chifferal Walker will be the principal speaker on cooperation between credit men and country merchants and on collections and customer needs. The meeting will be informal and committee chairmen will present minutes and suggestions.
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Atlanta Association of Credit Men
Atlanta Athletic
East Lake
Chfferal Walker
Prohibition Issues Shape Kentucky Primary Contests
Louisville voters prepare for a general primary on Tuesday with Democrats locked in a heated governor nomination fight over the liquor question. Lt Gov Edward J McDermott and former Congressman A S Stanley back local option, while H McChesney favors statewide prohibition. Republicans nominate on a county unit platform with F J Dexter seeking the progressive line. many races unopposed.
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Louisville
Faust
Kentucky
Senate
Edward J McDermott
Coursville
A 3 Stanley
Henderson
H . McChesney
Frankfort
EP Morrow
Somerset
Latt McLaughlin
Madisonville
Fred J. Dexter
Germans Threatened by Crew of Liebenfels Mutiny
Charleston August 8 Police guarded the German steamship Liebenfels after a threatened mutiny by its Lascar crew of fifty two. Captain Kiattenhoff claimed Indian crew men threatened violence. a patrol squad quelled the unrest. The crew demanded to land or be sent back to Calcutta. Arrangements to repatriate the crew are being made with British payment.
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Charleston
Liebenfels
Lascar
Kiattenhoff
Calcutta
India
Conan
United States
le Aned
Old Veteran Dies in Rooming House Far From Friends
W J Freeman aged 72 an old Confederate veteran died late yesterday afternoon at 147% Decatur street from a stroke of paralysis. He had been missing from his home at 115 East Hunter street and entered a rooming house two days earlier. Freeman was unknown to the house residents until his roommate Dr W A Whitmire identified him. Freeman was connected in Nebatur Ga where nephews Roy Freeman and Robert Freeman serve as DeKalb county officials. He is said to have invented and sold a special herb medicine to DeKalb authorities. The body was moved to Harry G Poole's chapel and will be sent to Decatur Ga for burial.
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W J Freeman
East Hunter Street
Decatur Street
Freeman
W A Whitmire
East Hunter_ street
Dr Whitmire
Decatur
Whitmire
Necatur
Roy Freeman
Robert Freeman
DeKialb County
DeKalb County
Harry G. Poole
President Wilciam cotton policy praised by buyers
At a Friday morning North Georgia Cotton Buyers association meeting in the Chamber of Commerce building, resolutions endorsed President Woodrow Wilson’s efforts to improve cotton shipping. J Moss of Athens could not attend. G A Nicholson chaired. Annual officers were re-elected with Moss as president and 2B Howard as secretary and treasurer. no 1916 17 crop estimate was given due to unsettled season.
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North Georgia Cotton Buyers Associaton
Chamber of Commerce
Woodrow Wilciam
J . Moss
Athens
G A Nicholson
Mogs
Howard
Watermelons From South Georgia Delight Constitution Staff
The Constitution staff enjoyed a watermelon feast with 30 large melons from Thomas F Goodwyn company. Melons weighed 50 to 60 pounds each and impressed staff, as produce men claim Georgia watermelons boost sales in northern and eastern markets.
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The
Constitution
South Georgia
Atlanta
Thomas F Goodwyn Company
Georgia Peach
Georgia
Fire devastates RH A Perry store in Ochlocknee
Special report from Ochlocknee in Thomasville area describes a destructive fire this week that destroyed the large general store run by George W Reagan. The blaze spread to the ice house and beet market of J Prison and damaged adjacent properties. Insurance amount not stated, loss only partly covered.
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Thomasvile
Ochlocknee
RH A Perry
George W Reagan
J . Prison
Park Manager Cochran Seeks Sign to Avoid Jitney Mixups
Park Manager Joe Cochran complains his Ford is mistaken for a jitney, slowing rounds at the parks. He proposes a sign reading This is no jitney to curb constant stops during inspections and visits with officials.
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Cochray Way
Joe Cochran
Cochran
Train Kills Millionaire Banker in Stellavemile Ohio
A 69 year old millionaire banker and financier of Stellavemile Ohio was struck and instantly killed tonight by a Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad train. The victim, Dohr man Sinclair, was reported dead at the scene. No further details were provided.
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Stellavemile
Ohio
Dohrman
Sinclair
Cleveland and
Pittsburg
Capital punishment operates in Tennessee
Newport Tenn August circuit judge Xen Hicks ruled that capital punishment remains a penalty for murder in Tennessee. The legislature had moved to abolish it except in specific cases and recessed for a month. The governor then vetoed the bill after the recess in a habeas corpus case involving a prisoner charged with murder. Former Governor Ben W Hooper acted as attorney for the prisoner.
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Newport
Tenn
Xen Hicks
Tennesse
Woman Denies Complicity in Husband's Murder Trial
Winston Salem August 6 Ida Ball Warren, charged with murder along with Christy and Clifton Stone Street in the death of G J Warren a year ago, testified she did not write to Christy to lure him to North Carolina or participate in the killing. She claimed she feared her husband would kill Christy if he ever met him and described a tense morning when Warren and Christy argued before leaving the room.
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Winston Salem
Ida Ball Warren
Christy
Clifton Stone Street
G J Warren
Grand Saline
Texas
Warren
Eha
Recorder Pro Tem Uses Chair Bought for Mayor
Recorder Pro Tem Jimmie Meade will dispense justice from the chair formerly used by Atlanta mayors. City hall seating accommodations prompted the move as a chair bought for the former Mayor Courtland Wann Rew was purchased recently for the office at the police station.
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Jimmie Meade
Atlanta
Meade Weiriday
Courtland
Wann Rew
Americus Infantry Impresses at Annual Encampment
Americus Ga Aug Special The Americus Light Infantry company L second regiment completed nine successful outings at the rifle range near Americus during their annual encampment. Major Roe L Spence retired and Major Wilder, battalion commander, praised the excellent target work as fifty men under Captain James Fort prepared and scored well throughout the week.
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Americus
Americus Hght Infantry
Roe L Spence
Wilder
James Fort
Cordele Passes Anti Food-Toting Ordinance
Cordele on August 6 special report: the city fathers approve an anti banker ordinance prohibiting cooks and other servants from carrying food from employers residences without written permission. Violators and any cook found with a pan bucket or basket carrying food without a permit will be held amenable to the law.
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Cordele
Macon Girls Rescued From Surf At Tyee
Milan Cleo Gannon and Miss Laverne Howell of Macon had narrow escapes from drowning at Tyee Beach in Savannah this morning. Life savers at a hotel saw them struggle and pulled them from the surf.
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Macon
Tyee
Savannah
Milan Cleo Gannon
Laverne Howell
Fall term rush at Southern Business University opens
Enrollment for the fall term begins Monday August 1 at Southern Shorthand and Business University 19 West Mitchell Street. Call, write or phone to arrange entrance on opening day to avoid last minute rush. President A C Bria Gee and Vice President LW Arnold announce readiness for August 1 entry in Atlanta Georgia.
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Southern Shorthand and Business University
West Mitchell Street
WB Brooks
Southern
Temale Banking Company
Hinchs
Husnesa University
School of
Quanity
C Bria Gee
LW Arnold
Atlanta, Ga
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