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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1912
Page
9
Subscriptions advertise daily and weekly rates for the Constitution and Washington Herald. Mentions agents and delivery areas in Atlanta and outside. Included are political commentary and satirical notes on campaigns, conventions, and figures like Taft and Bryan.
The Georgia legislature is urged to enact an inheritance tax. Proponents note Congress has not passed a federal law allowing inheritance taxes, while many states already collect revenue from such taxes. Supporters argue the tax is fair and would boost state revenues without burdening heirs during life. They call for a bill to be introduced and advanced this session.
A compact extract of rural verses and quips reflecting winter longing, fiddling songs, and colloquial humor. It includes lines about winter joy, summer picnics, a joke about a legislator, a sermon on charity, and a dialect remark about avoiding a fight with a black man.
A Sandersville reader praises The Atlanta Constitution for urging party loyalty in the Wilson era. The writer argues against undermining the party platform while supporting its nominee, warning that open criticism weakens the ticket and aids the opposition.
The Atlanta area endures a six month rain spell described as the nation’s heaviest ongoing wet stretch by Forecaster von Herrmann. He raised the white flag for clear weather yesterday, but the forecast remains cautious as showers persisted. The narrative marks one of the city’s most unusual meteorological episodes and a rare national distinction in rainfall.
The piece critiques President Taft as misfortunes arise from cabinet tensions. It focuses on Secretary MacVeagh and assistant A P Andrew, noting MacVeagh plans to retire, Hitchcock and Wickersham as undoing factors, and claims their actions harmed civil liberty and the postal service while dragging Taft’s reelection bid.
The verse depicts longing and parting with vivid nature imagery. A speaker pleads to a beloved Deasie or Deartia about parting as roses fade, then hears a hopeful reply that they must not part. The scene shifts to dawn over purple hills, birds in silent woods, and renewed hope as the beloved answers they will not part.
Calhoun Ga July 16 Will Littlefield of this place died Monday in Rome from injuries suffered in the Calhoun picnic train wreck. He was buried at Faln cemetery after services at First Methodist. The funeral drew a large crowd as stores closed. He is the sixth victim, with the others still seriously hurt. Several damage suits are filed. one for 350000 and rumors of another for 400000. About thirty claims remain unsettled.
Rural letter carriers in Georgia fear unpaid fifteen day leaves when regulars are absent. Substitutes worry about reporting for work. Postmaster McKee says substitutes will be paid per Dr Granfield, but law blocks current year expenditures until congressional appropriation. Postmasters urged to restrict spending awaiting the bill.
A court of appeals decision holds that shooting at any game protected by state law violates the statute whether or not the shooter hits. In the James Robinson case of Worth county, Robinson fired on a covey of partridges in a cotton field, killing nothing. The court rejected the defense that no quail were hit.
Rumors said Henry S. Jackson of Atlanta, then in Washington with a subcommittee, was offered the Krendary post vacated by J. Pratt Andrew. Confirmation failed. Jackson had been invited to dine at the White House and has long friendship with President Taft, and with Jackson’s father.
Washington July 194-senator Tillman of South Carolina sought to move in the senate for the United States to build the finest battleship possible and then withdraw from the naval arms race. He prepared a resolution naming the ship Terra and urged maximum armor guns speed size and dry dock capacity to pass the Panama Canal. He urged the naval affairs committee to study the concept and report if such a vessel would be wiser than current taxation and spending on naval power. The plan paused to wait for the Lorimer case outcome.
Villa Rica business leader W B Candler asserts in a letter to The Constitution that Georgia's prohibition laws should not be repealed or weakened. He urges strengthening the law sensibly and placing enforcement responsibility with the people, arguing governors and legislators risk overreaching while the public supports clear prohibition.
Columbus Georgia June results show Beallwood Poultry Farm led by manager George B Young as its single comb White Leghorn pen won the June gold cup with 11 1/2 eggs in 30 days. The Beallwood entry ranks seventh for the year with a hen promising excellent progress toward the grand prize amid 131 pens competing.
The Georgia experiment station board elected Arthur F. Rolf as chief of the new poultry department at Experiment. He comes from Connecticut college and the Mississippi station and will start within ten days. Two poultry houses were built, with White Wyandottes White Leghorns Black Minorcas and barred Rocks to be raised for practical farmer use. Director Martin V. Calvin selected the birds for the program assisting farmers and especially their wives.
Mrs. W. J. Vicks was instantly killed at her Adairsville home when lightning struck as she reached for clothing on a line during a storm. A nearby man was paralyzed by the shock. The incident marks the third local lightning death in recent days, with livestock losses reported including several mules and cows.
Americus Ga July 10 Special With 25 000 cash subscription raised in Americus toward the capital stock of the proposed Americus Tifton and Atlantic railway President George Il lis of the Americus Board of Tracts and W H Crook Ukewlae interested in the enterprise went this afternoon to Tiftan to attend the stockholders meeting tomorrow Directors will be elected and preparations made to begin survey and construction The proposed railway will extend from Americus northern terminus 290 miles to an Atlantic seaboard point and will develop a large agricultural and timbered region.
Dawson Georgia July 10. The ninth annual session of the Second District Masons began with G L Blalock of Tifton presiding. Savannah deputy grand master L Colden attended and participated in afternoon exercises. Delegates enjoyed a noon dinner by Eastern Star ladies and were toured around Terre County to view farms after the meeting.
An ordinance will be introduced in council next Monday afternoon prohibiting any city work in parks without park commission approval. The measure, urged by J O Cochran, president of the park commission, stems from a dispute over Joyner park excavations by the construction department done for a year without park department consent.
The Chamber of Commerce Realty Company will pay 30,000 today for the Y M C A property set to become a permanent chamber building. Authorized by the board yesterday, this is the first installment toward the total 104,000 subscribed with 7,000 paid in full and third installment already met on July 1.
Washington July 1 reports say Interior Commissioner Robert Valentine has resigned. Officials noted ongoing criticism, with speculation he might quit in the near future, though no final action was confirmed.
Tifton Ga July 10 Special The annual gathering of wool growers in this section is set for Thursday July 18. Wool growers will be met by buyers and the clip for 1912 disposed of by lump sale to the highest bidder. The cup is smaller due to bad weather and dog depredations. Tift county’s elk? clip estimated at 8000 pounds with adjoining counties joining, city expected to exceed 16000 pounds.
Athens Ga July 109 Special Postoffice receipts for the year ending June 30 1902 show 54371 98 dollars. Half year receipts amount to 28839 52 dollars. The numbers indicate a decrease from the prior annual total.
Robert Patterson, Georgia native, operates the citys leading cigar brokerage in Atlanta with the largest annual sales volume in the nation. He represents major brands from New Orleans Havana and Tampa and is noted as a hustler with affable manners and strong manufacturer relations.
The body of J W Rawlston was found in the Oostanaula River four miles below Calhoun. He reportedly committed suicide by jumping from the bridge on December 27 last. Eyewitnesses saw him call for help as he was pulled by the swift current. The body was recovered after several days of river search, ending a six month mystery surrounding his death. Rawlston was a farmer.
Mack Strickland, a Black man jailed in Lawrenceville, admits to assaulting and killing a 13-year-old Black girl near Duluth after she reportedly went into the woods with him. He says she cried and planned to tell her father, then he struck her with a plank and left the body. He awaits trial at the September term.
Washington July 10 Special The sundry civil appropriation bill has passed the house and was reported today from the senate appropriations committee. It provides 220 080 for the Atlanta penitentiary and funds for public building construction in Augusta 100 000 Carrolton 20 090 Cedartown 230 000 Ellerton 30 000 Tiftan 20 000. It also authorizes 57 060 for Chickamauga national park near Chattanooga and 10 000 for a monument to General James Screven and General Daniel Stewart at Midws in Liberty County.
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