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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1902
Page
4
W E Hurley of Birmingham is appointed soliciting freight agent for the Frisco with headquarters in Atlanta succeeding Sam C Porter who resigned to join the Big Four in Birmingham as traveling freight agent. Hurley, now chief clerk to Frisco Commercial Agent EK Wilcox in Birmingham, will move to Atlanta soon to assume duties. He is a respected railroad man with strong ties in Atlanta.
Miss Lillian Condra of Chattanooga narrowly escaped drowning while bathing at Tybee Island. A traveling drummer named Coleman, employed by the Georgia Soap Company, saw her sink a second time and swam to rescue her, placing her safely ashore. The party from Chattanooga included Nellie Bell and Anna Kavanuagh among others, and Condra returned to Atlanta the next day.
The Tabernacle church led by E H Peacock reports over 100 conversions from tent meetings across the city. Seventy five members have joined the church with many uniting elsewhere. Frank Strickland conducted a Saturday service with fifty professions of faith as the tent neared removal to Fulton bag and cotton works. Baptisms planned after tonight’s final rally at the Tabernacle.
A proposed cooperative association for haberdashers and furnishing goodsmen in the south draws strong opposition from Atlanta merchants. George R. Law and others say the plan is impracticable, arguing independence yields better buy options and that savings would not offset losses in other areas. No Atlanta haberdashers are expected to attend the New York meeting set for July 25.
Mrs H J Thornton died yesterday morning at 7 40 at her College Park home after a yearlong illness. She is survived by three sons and one daughter Chancellor A Thornton Nat Thornton Stacy Thornton and Milas Anna Thornton. The funeral will be held at the College Park home at 7 16 this morning with pallbearers Major R J Guinn Henry Harris Frank Hil R L Willingham W B Willingham W Woods White John Temple Graves and J C Wilson. The body will be moved to Atlanta for burial at Westview Cemetery.
Tickets priced 23.65 to Morehead City and return via Southern Railway. Sale daily, return by Oct 31, 1902. Trains depart Atlanta at 12 noon and 1 PM, reach Morehead City by 11:30 AM next day. For details visit the Southern Railway office at Kimball House corner or contact J C Beam Jr. in Griffin Georgia.
Market wrap includes cotton, stocks, grains, coffee and sugar with mixed signals. Liverpool cotton down slightly while U S stocks showed broad strength in rails. wheat and corn trend lower on ample receipts. copper steady domestically with gains abroad and June output records. coffee prices fluctuated and sugar rose with drought and demand factors noted.
On Courtland corner a new building hosts several rented stores with lofts above. One 40 by 60 foot shop remains for lease with a 20 foot alley, a larger loft, cement floor basement, and a fresh plate glass front. Described as the prettiest store on Trecat or street and ideal for wholesale or retail business in Decatur.
The London wool and metal markets show firm Cape of Good Hope and Natal wool, with merinos in demand and New Zealand supplies noted. In U S markets, lead and spelter hold steady while wheat, corn, and oats react to weather and large receipts. Chicago cen tral prices show mixed livestock and grain activity amid bear market signals.
The July forecast covers scattered showers and warm spells across many states including Louisiana Florida Alabama Mississippi and Kentucky with fair conditions in parts of Virginia North Carolina and Texas. It notes a Crescent hotel opening at Hureksa Springs July 3, a Seaboard excursion to Wrightsville Beach July 17 with round trip 3.00, and a Wrightsville Beach schedule via Southern Railway with trains from Atlanta and Carrollton daily except Sunday.
A history of low prices and diverse merchandise appears, noting 33.00 and 34.00 books at Miller's 39 Marietta, with stocker cattle prices and hog, sheep, and cotton seed oil market figures. Markets show various cattle prices in St Louis and Memphis, plus naval stores and turpentine quotes in Savannah and Charleston.
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