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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1902
Page
12
A special council committee meeting in Temple Court yesterday discussed public utility company payments for street use. With secrecy to continue, the group plans a 3 PM session today and aims to draft a proposal for utility firms or take the issue to court.
Atlanta chamber of commerce board resolutions urge passage of Senator Gallinger’s bill to create a presidentially appointed commission to study commercial and industrial conditions in China and Japan. Georgia reps in Congress will be urged to back the measure. Fleeting note on a future reciprocity address by Hawes of Forsyth. Also docket items from the Oconee Circuit and a note of a new labor organ The Harbinger appearing in Raleigh.
A British Medical Institute branch operates at 104 North Pryor Street Lowndes Building rooms 207 203 209 212 213 offering three months of free services to all invalids who call before January 23. Includes consultation examination and minor surgeries with no charges. cures claimed for male and female weakness catarrh deafness rupture goitre cancer skin diseases and rectal illnesses. Chief associate surgeon in charge offers hours 9 am to 5 pm with Sunday hours. If unable to visit a question blank for home care is provided.
At the first meeting of the new water commissioners Judge George Hillyer was reelected president and George W. Harrison named vice president for the coming year. The board, chaired by Mayor Mims, also organized committees and discussed rising costs for laying large water mains due to congestion with gas pipes and conduits, noting bids and the need to notify Birmingham Pipe Company to pause shipments until finances are clarified.
Commissioner Lindsey announced pension payments start January 6 in Fulton County with indigents paid January 14 and others in Fulton and surrounding counties in a staged plan to finish by February. Total pensions about 840,500. Also notes on Judge A C Pate’s appointment to uniformity commission, Inspector General Osmer to Savannah for troop inspections, and political comments from Georgia newspapers.
The committee of council plans to ask Dr Jarnagin to reconsider severing ties with the board of health. It is believed he will be unanimously reelected president if he remains. A called meeting is set for tomorrow afternoon to elect the next president.
An advertisement claims Dr Kings New Discovery cures coughs colds and all throat and lung diseases without exile to a climate. It promises immediate relief on the first day and astounding cures from persistent use with trial bottles 10 cents and full bottles priced at 75 cents and one dollar.
Moore & Sons specialize in fine eyeglasses and have the most complete grinding plant in the area. Kellam & Moore successors at 42 North Broad Street Prudential building. Professor McDonald opens an office at 15 Marietta Street. The board considers bids as Ragland Coal Company wins at $2.20 a ton, about 10 cents less than Ferras, with the department using about $18 annually.
J B Roberts prominent Atlanta real estate man is critically ill at his Currier street home after over a month with pneumonia. Doctors Avary and Jarnagin call his case extremely desperate though he has shown brief signs of possible improvement. Roberts, active in business and charity, came to Atlanta from Elbert county and built a long successful career in real estate. He and Miss Munday of the Mun day family married fifteen years ago.
Mrs L Bickarts III, a well known city figure, lies in precarious condition at the family home 409 South Pryor Street following illness. Her age is given but not specified. Her heart is involved and family hope remains despite a bleak outlook. She is mother to several named children and has long been active in church and charitable work.
Whitehall street clothing firm Hirsch Bros. reports two interior arsons within days. Chief Ball assigns Officer Campbell to guard the store overnight as detectives probe an incendiary motive. The case remains mysterious with no trespassers found after hours.
In a court action J M Maguire as executor sues Attorney C J Haden for 10500 alleging Haden conveyed land in Wilcox county to J E Maguire without title and pledged to provide good titles later. The suit cites a 370 acre Gwinnett tract valued at 10009 and claims Haden falsely represented ownership of large southern lands and failed to deliver satisfactory titles after Maguire investigated.
The body of the late Mrs Mothe EB Johnson was interred at Oakland Cemetery after a Payne Memorial Methodist Church service. J Fowler Richardson, cathedral organist, mourns his English mother. Mrs Mary Jane Bower dies of pneumonia at 60. interment in Hollywood. Mrs J S Franklin dies at 93 Stonewall Street. funeral at home, interment in Sylvester church cemetery. Marie Rodgers buried in Westview. service at 362 Central Avenue. William L Fowler funeral held at his father Noah Fowler's Kirkwood home. interment Oakland Cemetery. Captain Charles K Maddox leaves for Florida winter home. away several weeks for recuperation. Police Matron Bohneffeld distributes children’s clothing at police barracks. Henry Brooks to hang for murder. Governor approval. Savannah case. Regular annual meeting of Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway directors. 1901–02 profits noted. officers reelected. Negro killed by Alabama officers near Gadsden. believed John Johnson who shot Whatley in Atlanta last summer. Pierch, Chicago builder, proud of Empire. Vaccination case ends with white woman consenting. clerk Moore vaccinates self in solidarity. Lillie and Mary Thompson held briefly on drugging/robbery suspicions. released. First meeting of new city aldermen. seven-member board. no mayoral break needed. Park commissioners to organize. Moyers likely reelected. Gordon Grocery Store burglary at 124 Whitehall. cash drawer emptied. Sergeant Beavers seizes house servant Minnie Bonham after porch rockings. to be tried for vandalism.
Governor Longino called out the guards to Oxford to prevent the murderers of the Montgomery Brothers from mob violence. The company marched to the train, then was recalled as their services were deemed unnecessary, a move seen as boosting chances for National Guard funding. Price of Cotton Seed Varies in state with mills offering 14 to 20 per ton. Northern mills supply Memphis, southern mills offer under 15. Furniture price info tied to a Chamberlin Johnson Du Bose Co sale.
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