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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1909
Page
10
A sale offers silk petticoats in browns blues and light colors with marked prices cut from 10 50 to 7 50 and 5 for lace trimmed and striped styles previously 10 50 7 50 5 50 while stocks last on the second floor displayed to aid selection.
Rumors of broad changes in the Southern Railway operating department were emphatically denied by Vice President C H Ackert. He stated no changes are contemplated and praised the unit as loyal and efficient. In Talbotton Ga on January 18 a Lee anniversary program featured poem and address by local Confederate veterans and officials.
Brigadier General Ramsay D Potts commander of the gulf department returns from Havana and begins inspections at Fort Dades and Fort De Soto in Florida. Mrs Potts returns to Atlanta and will be joined by Lt Potts who will replace Lt Campbell on the general staff in Washington later this week.
Lordela Georgia January 18 Special The aerial revival led by Rev Hob Jones of Alabama draws growing interest with nearly 100 joining several churches. Local stores and banks closed for the morning service.
A large crowd attended the formal dedication of Georgia's new Agricultural College hall, a $100000 project. Governor Smith, Chancellor Barrow, Dean Snelling, and Mr Candler addressed the assembly, praising agricultural development, and pledging continued state support for the college and station. The ceremony opened the Farmers' Conference with music from university cadets and remarks from state leaders.
Public schools in Atlanta hold exercises marking the birthday of Confederate General Robert E Lee. Pupils will be dismissed an hour early as programs unfold in classrooms and auditoriums beginning at noon. Boys High School program previews include talks on The Boyhood of Lee and The Moral Character of Lee with student speakers and faculty introductions.
This morning at 10 o'clock in Decatur court house a commemorative exercise marks the birth of Robert E Lee. Hosted by the Confederate Memorial Association of DeKalb county, the program features Dr. A J McKelway as speaker on Les the Patriot with participants from Donald Fraser School cadets Agnes Scott College Clement A Evans camp Confederate Veterans Becatur public school children and Agnes Lee chapter Daughters of the Confederacy.
In New Orleans on January 16, Pla cide Frigerla and RL M Sheffield were found guilty in the criminal district court of operating a betting book in violation of the Locke law. Convictions carry at least six months in jail and the case will be appealed to the state supreme court. Ed Corrigan, a principal owner of City Park track, testified as a witness. he faces charges for aiding the running of the book at the racetrack meet and will likely be tried later after others are resolved.
Mrs Hannah Barr Steiner wife of Ira Steiner of Albania was yesterday granted the second and final decree in her divorce suit on grounds of cruelty. Alimony settled at filing. amount reportedly large. Disabilities removed. both free to remarry. Steiner represented by Blaton & Philips. Steiner by Anderson Felder Rountree & Wilson. Steiner, a prominent Atlanta Brewing and Ice Company figure, is now reportedly dying in New York City.
Macon Georgia January 8 Special W i Young was made custodian in the Dublin Conperage Company bankruptcy case today An application was made Saturday by the Georgia Produce Company and other creditors A large amount of assets are involved Walter F Lewis a railway clerk today filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy Assets are small Japan Decorated missionary Kew Haven Conn January 18 Word has been received here that Rev Dr H f Forest missionary who had been working at Bonal Japan for many years had been decorated by the emperor of Japan with the fourth Order of the Rising Sun for de Forest was graduated from Yale in 1868
Two battalions of the Seventeenth Infantry United States Army will arrive at Fort McPherson today. The army transport Summer carried the troops from Cuba, with the band aboard. After transfer to trains in Savannah they will travel toward Atlanta, with the Atlantis Coast Line Railroad handling them to where they join the Southern road for the final leg.
At a Columbus road house in Macon on January 18 deputies Joe Wilson Waller Byrd and Dan Met uy surrounded the building when John Battle a Black man wanted on a burglary warrant at Ro J Taylor s Vineville home fled out fired at Byrd and was shot. He died of his wounds after being taken to the Macon hospital.
Chief of Police Henry Jennings orders Chief Eli Ett to clear railroad yards dive pools and pimcea amid idle unemployment. He asserts strict enforcement due to recent depredations by footpads and thieves, promising harsher action and urging vagrants to work or relocate.
J T Kimbrough, a well known Atlanta real estate expert, starts his own firm J T Kimbrough Co with offices in the Century Building. He has long been tied to Atlanta property markets and the new venture is expected to extend his influence in major transactions across the state.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a non alcoholic, root made remedy for women’s maladies claiming 40 years of cures. It urges buyers to avoid secret nostrums and request a free medical adviser by mail from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York.
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