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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1912
Page
4
The new weekly department Firing Line by Bose’s group will debut Sunday. Du Bose and assistants have prepared an engaging issue for travelers with business community support. Offices occupy the fourth floor of The Constitution building with a travel hall adjoining for 24 hour traveler use.
The legislature creates oil and fertilizer inspectors in the agricultural department with appointments by Commissioner J J Connor. Six general inspectors will earn $100 monthly and forty four month inspectors $89 23 monthly. Appointments are not immediate and names may be kept secret until December. Terms run two years and Connor holds control until June 1913 unless contested.
Discovery showed fidelity companies were omitted from section 27 of the general insurance bill passed and signed. The omission prompted questions but officials said no error occurred and the Senate and House amendments required fidelity firms to deposit 20 900 with the state treasurer for public official bonds.
Detroit in August 23 bound over to trial on charges of taking a $10 bribe for municipal favors tied to Wabash railroad influence. Detective Brennan, main witness, alleged bribery involving Brozo and seventeen aldermen. Subvester confession accused council members of graft. defense sought suppression of recorded conversations.
The thirty-fifth senatorial district will meet Monday at noon at the Kimball house. The successful candidate must appoint delegates to the senatorial convention, with Hon. G. M. Hute of Clayton named in compliance.
The article lists appointments submitted to the district meeting from Fulton Cobb and Clayton counties naming several individuals as delegates. It notes Senator Hale’s return to the legislature after four prior terms and highlights his banking role as Bank of Riverside president and his influence on state redistricting and progressive laws. It lauds Huie’s merit and clean campaign, citing broad district support.
In Macon on August 23 special dispatch reports all recount demands in the sixth district are off. Bibb county voters were recounted after discrepancies in the legislative race show Bartlett gaining 61 votes. Bartlett now leads Wise by 193 district votes, with Bibb totals 2628 for Bartlett and 228 for Wise. Hancock pursues a Bibb recount for the state senate race.
Judge Sterling B Toney a Kentucky circuit jurist dies at 63 in Louisville Alabama born and educated at the University of Virginia. Funeral services will be held today at Christchurch Cathedral with survivors including Mrs Toney and two sisters Mrs Willian C Oates and Mrs Joseph Fiourno.
Washington August 23 The figures showing the amount of excavation to be done on the Panama Canal indicate the work was five sixths finished on August 1 with 16 903 000 cubic yards more earth to remove than last year’s estimate. The slippage is explained by shale in the canal bed and by needed excavation for dry docks coaling stations and terminals at Balboa not in the original estimate.
In Macon on August 23 L I Waxelbaum returned to a home ransacked by burglars who used a mattress on the floor as a makeshift bed and played cards after consuming much of the beer. Several valuables were stolen, and authorities note the burglars stayed two or three nights.
Glenn Voliva, overseer of Zion City, announced plans to ban open-work stockings low necklines and form fitting skirts from the city after a chorus of amens from male auditors. He warned women must dress modestly or be dismissed from the church and community.
Paris August 23 The Suez Canal Company states it is a mistake to think any reduction in canal dues is connected with the Panama Canal. Directors emphasize they have not contemplated reprisals against the Panama Canal.
President Taft sent to the Senate the nomination of Major Beecher B Ray for deputy paymaster general with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Ray faces a congressional investigation into his alleged 1908 political activity and other army actions. The White House plans to submit the nomination, leaving Senate disposition to the body after committee hearing reports.
Washington August 23 The proposed plan by Acting Chairman Mic Adoo of the Democratic National Committee to have banks receive and transmit campaign contributions for Democrats Republicans and Progressives is not illegal for national banks if no extra expense is incurred and the work is voluntary This opinion was given to Secretary MacVeagh today Reeve acting solicitor of the treasury department says a national bank would not be justified in incurring expenses for clerk hire or services in the matter but any extra expenses should be borne by the committees and the agency must be voluntary and gratuitous for the contributions.
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