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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1902
Page
6
The House plans rapid daily sessions to finish the appropriations bill including Soldiers Home and Common Schools funding. A strong fight looms on the state sanitarium unitary fund and a persistent push for the franchise tax appears as a major upcoming issue with committee and floor battles likely.
A fragmented note indicates a lecture or talk about wet conditions and their impact on a BT event. The readable text suggests a speaker or audience discussing how moisture affects preparation and outcomes. Further details are unclear due to damaged wording.
Professor E C Branson of State Worma college at Athens argues Georgia must raise revenue for higher education without higher taxes. He cites Alabama and Texas and urges a light privilege tax on a wide range of businesses that now pay nothing in Georgia. He names many taxed categories and asserts the measure would fund Milledgeville Industrial and Normal schools and other state institutions.
Amendments killed by the Ways and Means committee may be reintroduced in the House. Proposals include raising dispensary taxes to 1000 dollars and a fifty dollar county liquor tax on shipments to non dealers. The Steed convict bill favors a five year extension and a prison fund for post release work, while the Senate contemplates a similar five year extension without a fund. One of these bills will become law this session. Summer sessions will push most committee work to nights and a possible shift of state election date from October to November. Dr. Kelly’s Australian ballot bill undergoes Senate scrutiny for primaries definitions to preserve white primaries. The Senate committee on eight led by John W. Taylor favors a $20,000 building for Cave Spring School for the Deaf and higher annual appropriations, with House support to provide $11,500 for a new building.
Dr A R Holderby of Moore Memorial church spoke at a Junior Order meeting urging the Bible’s return to public schools. He warned that removing the Bible would produce infidels and a Godless country, calling it a cowardly act and urging restoration of the Bible to schools. A large, multi-council audience attended as music and sermon emphasized God’s loving kindness.
Wholesome reading gifts for youth featuring Alcott Polly Pepper and Henry from Jno M Miller Co 39 Marletta. The Iron Mountain Route advertises low rate colonist tickets one way to Arkansas Texas Oklahoma and Indian Territory on the first and third Tuesdays monthly to April 21 with home seekers excursions. For details contact L B Rehlander Trav Pass Agt 13 West Ninth St Chattanooga Tenn New phonographs all styles Atlanta Phone Co 103 Peach Road.
Dr. Len G. Broughton, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist, announced he will cancel outside engagements to devote all effort to Tabernacle work in Atlanta. He reported a successful Gaffney meeting with conversions and said a renewed, aggressive soul winning campaign would begin after Christmas, with focus on strengthening the church at home.
Fifteen year old Walter Elliott, a railroad news butcher, explains why selling books and gum on trains fails to pay. He recounts debt, poor goods quality, and long train rides leading to desolation after months of struggle. He plans to return home to Fort Madison. Captain Thompson helps him at the police barracks.
The Grand yesterday hosted a refined forty-member ensemble whose Beethoven first symphony performance impressed critics and audiences alike. Dr J Lewis Browne conducted with assured musicianship, while vocal solos by Mrs M M O’Brien and baritone Harry Haasan drew praise for sweetness and expressiveness.
The Grand presents Nathan Hale with Howard Kyle and Florence Smyth in Clyde Fitch’s patriot drama praised for vigor and pathos. The Bijou offers Laughter and Lies a farce comedy by Asa Steele with Otis Harlam as a lovable rake and Well’s musical numbers in A Stranger in a Strange Land at the Bijou this week.
President Roosevelt commutes Henry W Turner sentence ending August 29 1903 for mail robbery in the Western District of Arkansas. Convicted to 15 years in Kings County Penitentiary Brooklyn he was moved to Atlanta prison delaying release but will now be freed on the same date as if remained in Brooklyn.
A stranger visits the Haymarket box office at nine with a bold demand for seats in the orchestra. Treasurer Frank Rives notes the man is not bald and jokes about a plan to prove bald men prefer front rows. The visitor removes his hat, revealing a wig, and insists on buying a twentieth row seat to sustain his reputation.
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