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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1912
Page
8
An ad touts buying a small‑payment, low‑rent style home in Capitol View. Agent W. D. Beatie offers a new S‑room house on Elm Street corner, 150 by 130 feet, with two bedrooms, veranda, and shaded yard, inviting buyers to stop renting and view tomorrow morning.
In Dalton and Calhoun communities residents organize a union picnic at Union Springs midway between the cities to honor and comfort those injured in a recent Calhoun train wreck. Invites extend to all aboard the ill fated train and to helpers in Dalton once full recovery allows. The event aims to celebrate survival and communal support.
Athens Georgia hosts the fourth annual high school meet with winners from districts competing in essay spelling music declamation and recitation. Girls recitation and boys reclamation contests lead to final prize announcements tomorrow at Sanford Field and Brenau Conservatory scholarships are awarded. Practically every region of Georgia is represented and the event pledges to continue nationwide each Fourth of July.
Augusta Ga July 4 special report on the withdrawal of L G Hayne Acket from the city council race igniting a split with the white primary committee. Tensions rise as registry control clashes with the city board, with injunctions contemplated as July 10 primary plans face resistance.
Robert F Maddox hosted an old fashioned southern barbecue at Woodhaven attended by about seventy five associates from American National Bank Old Dominion Guano Company and Maddox Rucker Cotton Company. Guests dined on lamb pork and fried chicken then toured the estate and grounds before departing late.
Augusta reports that work on the Stevens Creek power development will start at once. The hydro-electric project aims for 30 000 horsepower to supply light and power as far as Savannah and costs about 200 000 dollars. General Manager E C Deal returned from the east and carried the remains of W X Cowr who drowned at Tybee two Sundays ago.
The Minor Masonic Lodge 603 plans a Lodge of Sorrow at East Alabama Temple on Sunday July 7 with a 2 38 PM meeting in the lodge room and a public ceremony at 3 PM at the Methodist church in East Atlanta. Grand Master irge M. Xapier will speak along with W H Terrell J L Kilpatrick and Horace Grant.
In Columbus Georgia on July 4 a city court trial addressed a suit by Mrs Lizzie Higston against Jo M Payne for 10000 dollars in personal damages alleging an unlawful vaccination The lawyers argued the vaccination issue at length and the jury returned a verdict for the defendant leaving the case unresolved.
A new 800-cell structure is under construction at the federal prison, mirroring the administration building completed on the prison reservation. The design features Italian Renaissance-inspired elements, six towers, heavy granite exterior, enamel faced brick interior, fireproof construction, and modern utilities. Prison labor largely handles the work, following solid performance on the nearby administration building.
Warden William W. Moyer of a federal prison will lecture on prison reform at the Social Service Conference to be held late July at the University of the South Sewanee Tenn. The event, under university extension, aims to showcase needed reforms and will feature speakers with direct experience. Moyer’s work near Atlanta highlights reforms such as ending striped salt marks, expanding prisoner conversations, allowing Saturday baseball, improving dining, and better meal grouping. Memorial to Butt Augusta Ga July 4 Special There will be a finance committee meeting of the city council tomorrow to discuss placing a concrete bridge over the Augusta canal ornamented by the Butt Memorial association. The memorial committee plans an arch or similar ornament on the bridge in memory of Archibald Butt.
The Trust Company of Georgia is open to depositors from 9 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. on weekdays and till 1 p.m. Saturdays, offering four percent interest on deposits.
Major W. Greene resigns as general manager of the Columbus Waterworks Company. He is now in Alexandria, Virginia recuperating from illness. G. T. Preer Hill is likely to succeed him as water works manager.
Savannah July 4 announcement of management changes at Western Union and Postal Telegraph in Savannah. W W Murphy to Birmingham division superintendent. W T Austin resigns to become local Western Union manager. Change expected July 15. Austin’s replacement not yet known. Western Union has leased two floors for new service preparations.
Dr. R. W. Lovett, a prominent Methodist preacher and practicing physician, died at his Mobley Georgia home after six weeks of illness. He was 94, Emory College’s oldest living alumnus. Survived by two Atlanta-based sons Rev. W. C. Lovett and H. O. Lovett. Funeral services held Thursday with attendees from Atlanta.
Augusta July 4 with federal orders forcing Augusta and the Southern railroad to add movable draws in their Savannah river bridges engineers survey the river and assess the cost of deepening the channel for a mile to enable freight boats to pass above the bridges benefiting local manufacturers and warehouses along the riverfront.
Glover H W B of Virginia Carolina Chemical Company in Atlanta is nephew of Augustus Van Cortlandt of New York who died recently. Augustus, linked to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, left van Cortlandt estate now Van Cortlandt Park. Funeral at Christchurch Pelham next Tuesday at 11. Harding named Columbus Railroad general superintendent in Georgia.
Thomasville, July 4 SpeciaL The Thomas county commissioners say pay of 15 dollars per day to court stenographers is too high and favor a bill to reduce per diem to 5 to 7.50 dollars. Hon. Buan Lott of Coffee county is expected to introduce the measure this session, with Thomas instructed to vote for it.
Keith Vaudeville at the Forsyth drew two large crowds who sang The Star Spangled Banner with Gus Edwards Song Revue yesterday. The theater offered a strong, high quality program with comfortable seating and a lively variety that pleased patrons.
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