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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1909
Page
8
A compact notice promises Caleter Meat ready to receive all meal suggestions for a grand banquet. It touts rare dishes and drinks including Merry Widow Pauneh and Hammon Heer, along with a dish named the Possum.
Caterer Charles W. Merritt of the Piedmont seeks recipes and ideas on cooking possum for a prominent banquet. He invites readers to send in their best methods and promises to test and prepare the marsupial in their own style for a future table. He cites past notable dinners for Cleveland and Tillman as context.
Readers in Georgia Alabama South Carolina Tennessee Florida North Carolina flood chamber of commerce with possum letters and tips for Taft dinner. Citizens describe ongoing supply hurdles and humorous anecdotes about harvesting and preparing possums for the constitutional call.
Judge Frank Park of Sylvester Ga says Worth County offers 100 possums for the Taft banquet and reports the largest possum yet captured, weighing about 24 pounds, secured in Sylvester for use as the centerpiece. He praises Georgia hospitality and notes the president will be impressed by a Georgia possum and taters supper.
Rome reports 1908 arrests fell 61 percent from 1907 with 372 drunkenness and 12 drunk and disorderly totaling 372. A firecracker accident in Valdosta injures a county boy. Bishop Kelley of Savannah to assist Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore consecration. Clarke's Pure Rye advertised. Gov Ansel issues earthquake relief appeal urging Red Cross contributions to South Carolina treasurer John B Reeves in Charleston.
President-Elect Taft spoke to Augusta Protestant ministers thanking them for prayers and urging a moral awakening. He argued church influence is essential to civilization and government, stressing secular education while preserving church rights, and praised unity of church and state in America.
North Carolina vacant federal judge ship Drought J Einead Cox from High Point to Augusta today. Besides the judgeship matter, general political conditions in the state were talked over. Mr Cox is a banker by profession. Senator Philander C Knox is expected here tomorrow, with Frank H Hitchock stopping in Atlanta. James M Markham, Chicago police secretary, traveled with Mr Taft during the campaign and called today on his way south.
Col Henry D Capers, Atlanta representative to the American Historical Association, reports the recent meeting yielded a proposed constitutional amendment. The plan would create an Academy of History with one member from each state, chaired by the AHA president. Members would compile state histories and report findings to the AHA for review at annual meetings.
Widow of Dr H P Cooper almost dies from asphyxiation after a broken gas jet vents gas. Mary Cooper detects the odor and finds her mother unconscious, aided by neighbor Joe Clarke and Tom Brown Consally who stop the leak and summon help.
Rome Ga January 5 Special four occupants of a touring car were pitched when the vehicle turned turtle on a long stretch of fine road near Coosa ten miles from Rome The car owned by Guvin McArver of Coosa carried Mr and Mrs Charles Daniel and Ike McArver all of Coosa The steering failure caused the crash Mr Daniel suffered a broken arm others unhurt aside from a severe shake up Dr Funkhouser treated the injured and the car was not badly damaged
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