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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1913
Page
14
The checker tournament for the southern state championship will be held at the Adaitorium Armory in Taft Hall on August 5 and 6. Prominent southern players plus local players Driscoll Hall Newman Bishop and Netherland will attend. Tickets on sale at all engine houses. Admission 35 cents. Tickets valid both days.
Grand Circuit races began at North Randall with ideal weather and thousands attending the first meeting. Del Rey won the Edwards stake as the heavily favored horse among 17 entries in the amateur drivers Tavern steak. The event featured three preliminaries with 1400 dollar purses each, continuing Friday with the remaining 5000 dollar purse.
William D. Upshaw editor of The Golden Age will speak at Central Baptist Church on Wednesday evening at 3 o clock. His exact topic is not announced but promises an interesting sermon and a pleasant time for attendees.
Southern Railway offers a mountain excursion from Land of the Sky and Sapphire Country running Thursday July 10. Round trip fare is 6.00 dollars with a return limit of July 20. The trip promotes a scenic Western North Carolina experience along with the Land of the Sky reference points.
Seven hydro aero planes will start from Chicago at noon to race 990 miles around Michigan’s lower peninsula to Detroit. Each craft carries two men and must average 40 miles an hour between controls with penalties for late arrivals. Participants include Janniis, Thompson, Cooke, Havens, Johnson, Vilas, and Franel. Glenn Martin’s wrecked craft halted today’s preparations.
The General Judiciary Committee No. 2 reported one bill for passage and killed another. House bill No. 119 by Rep Swift of Muscogee would regulate the motion practice and new trial procedures. The killed bill No. 198 by Rep Berry of Whitfield sought to outlaw intoxicated operators of auto cycles motorcycles and similar vehicles.
Macon Georgia July 7 Gus Brown the 11 year old negro boy whose murder conviction was set aside by the supreme court on grounds of lack of knowledge of right from wrong was found guilty of manslaughter this afternoon and sentenced to two years in the reform school. His previous sentence of ten years at the state farm carried with it. Attorney John R Cooper will appeal again arguing the same contention upheld by the high court. The boy is alleged to have stabbed Overware Smith another negro boy to death.
The Georgia House approved an appropriation to fund the clerk’s salary in the Insurance Commissioner’s department, a post created by the previous legislature but lacking funding. The session featured invitations to Augusta for a state college inspection and a barbecue with Augusta officials, observed as a legislative duty. Numerous new bills were introduced, including county and charter amendments, jury and suffrage measures, and orders on county creation and regulatory changes.
A list of proposed acts by various representatives includes creating Hansell County, allowing kitting of gray and fox squirrels for crop destruction, clarifying when judgments may be set aside or retried, amending Atlanta and Norwood charters, creating boards of equalizers, furnishing state officers with hooks, providing a great seal, banning a $1 indigent pensioners fee, funding new dormitory at Georgia Normal and Industrial College, apportioning school funds via county boards, repealing Abbeville city court act, revising health laws and appointing a state health commissioner, creating a drugs commissioner, and establishing a right of action for negligent injury and the slaying of a dog.
Out of one pound of compound nickel and copper, nosting bout 23 cents, the government coins 4.55 dollars worth of five cent pieces.
Nat Jones a 12 year old Atlanta newsboy drowned while swimming in a creek near the power house by Casey Station. Bystanders watched as he went under and county officer C C Heard and Jesse Tarrant recovered the body. Despite efforts to resuscitate, he died after about thirty minutes in the water. He lived with his parents on the Mayson and Turner road. Funeral services will be at Harry G Proles parlors at 2 this afternoon with interment in the Mayson churchyard.
Columbus Georgia July 7 Albert Williams fifteen, son of Mrs Maude Williams of Northwest street, attempted to board a Central of Georgia freight at Twentieth street. He fell beneath the wheels as the train passed through a leap cut and was dragged a block. The body was mutilated and rolled from the track as the train cleared the cut. he died twenty minutes later.
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