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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1906
Page
7
J Campbell City Clerk presents 1905 financials showing total receipts and taxes collected including licenses liquor and insurance, with comparative totals to 1904. He emphasizes need to expand office facilities to improve city business and public service.
Fred Miles submits the 1908 annual report for Atlanta detailing the severe storm that disrupted electric railway and light service. He notes increased underground capacity by several utilities, street light changes, rebates from Georgia Railway and Electric for outage losses, testing of street nets, and calls for separating high voltage wires from telephone lines.
In Macon Georgia on December 34 special report members of the Hazer Street mission under Tatnall Square Baptist Church sought establishment as an independent church. The congregation approved the plan this morning and mission members may organize freely. A new edifice is proposed at the earliest practical date as the mission has grown and prospered as an offshoot.
James W. Conway, popular superintendent of the special delivery department at the Atlanta postoffice, resigns to join Mathews & In in the Empire Building. He has served about ten years since starting at Consolidated Street Railway and advancing to inspector, then post office. He plans to pursue a career in fire insurance, and his departure is noted with best wishes for future success.
The annual waterworks report for 1905 to the Atlanta city council notes the department’s good condition with minimal friction and steady progress. It highlights plans for enlargements including a 36-inch main from the river station to a new reservoir at Hempill and a second coagulating basin. The report records 683 feet of pipe laid, 1 475 joins, total system miles of 72 2828 5280, and receipts of 270 377 18 from water rents sales and material. The city also supplied water to public institutions valued at 180 00. Respectfully submitted, A L Curtis Chair.
In Macon Georgia on December 31 Colonel Dan G Hughes is able to leave his home for the first time in months. He was warmly greeted on the streets yesterday and attended a board meeting. Though feeble he appears to have regained health after lingering illness.
Bob Meeks, lineman for the Southern Bell Telephone Company, was shot and seriously wounded by John Alien Crof. in Gadeden Alabama on a Saturday night aboard an electric car. The incident occurred December 31 as reported in a special dispatch.
The general council will convene at 7:30 PM to appoint standing committees for 1906 and administer oaths to new aldermen. John H. Harwell is expected to be elected mayor pro tem. Mayor Woodward will deliver the annual message and announce committee appointments. Several terms expire and new terms begin tonight with holdovers named. The afternoon session will wind up 1905 work before tonight’s reorganizational events.
In Valdosta Georgia, Mrs. Frank Moran of Cincinnati, wife of an inmate labeled an alleged pickpocket, tours authorities to sway outcomes. Moran, jailed for under fifteen years, seeks sympathy for her husband amid a pending new-trial motion. she also visited Mrs Roberta to press influence. Moran previously boasted of court corruption and hid on Christmas Day, later found atop a prisoner cage.
In Macon Georgia December 3 special report notes the federal court proceedings involving city officials led by City Attorney Winndeyty and others accused of contempt in the rearrest of Henry Jamison a Black man tied to famous chain gang cases. A hearing is set for Tuesday or Wednesday with a lively contest anticipated and more cases to be heard during the week. Judge presiding.
Officer James M. Gleer presents the 1905 juvenile court report noting 1,007 cakes tried before Probate Judge N. R. Broyles, 32,632.18 in fines, 388 dismissed cases, 47 on probation, and 44 dismissed from probation. Probits describe moved inmates, 250 calls for help, 900 inquiries, and numerous transports, with recommendations to restrict theater access for under sixteens unless with a parent or written permit. He emphasizes parental involvement and humane handling to reform boys, arguing for better home life and early intervention.
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