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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1912
Page
8
Fragments describe a tribute to writer Futrelle at a public event in Dublin with a crowd, collection for his bereaved parents, and remarks linking Reuben Arnold of Atlanta to a planned debate at the Grand Opera House.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce advocates a sanitary bill to fund medical inspection of children in public schools. The measure would establish district inspectors and extend health rules to telegraph, railway, and public facilities, backed by the state health board and medical, teaching, and women’s groups.
William Wa shall Bullitt of Louisville Kentucky was sworn in today as solicitor general of the United States succeeding F Lehmann of St Louis who will retire to private practice The convention opened with a large attendance 203 editors answering roll call Papers were read by Rush Burton editor of The Lavonia Times and Frank Reagan editor of The Henrys County Weekly A Georgia barbecue and banquet in Dublin featured Mrs Mahoney with a miniature Washington hand press and copies of The Dublin Courier Dispatch as hosts praised by G M Martin E R Orr and others The next day delegates will travel to Tybee for the association outing.
Miss Regina Rambo of Marietta leads plans for the 1912 Georgia Confederate reunion set for late next month. Marietta residents offer 1000 plus free home hospitality and entertainment for veterans, plus opening night concert and martial music. The event includes business sessions, addresses by veterans, social affairs, and special railroad rates.
Augusta July 16 Special The executive committee of the tenth district met and outlined plans for the congressional primary on the state primary date. Entries close August 1 and the convention will be August 27. County unit system used partly. if no county nomination on first call, the candidate with the most votes in the primary becomes the party nominee.
Thomasville, Ga July 16 Special Hon Joe Hill Hall of Bibb spoke at the courthouse to avowed supporters He outlined policy to ease state financial woes and the measures he would take if elected He criticized Slaton the Legislature and Tom Watson The audience enjoyed the speech but Thomas County remains in Slaton’s column.
In Cologne Germany on July 16 authorities report seventy people drowned in two days while bathing in the Rhine near Hers. The fatalities are attributed to extreme heat driving crowds to river waters.
O T Hill a special officer for the Atlantic Coast Line was wounded at Dupont by two shots from a negro suspect after trying to arrest him. Clerk Grovenstein was shot in the wrist as he and Hill exchanged fire. Hill was taken to Belleview hospital. The assailant fled on a freight train after firing on Conductor Carroll, with no further details available.
Quitman Georgia July 26 Special The engineers strike on the South Georgia railway began as workers refused to take out their engines. Management prepared replacements and regular passenger trains ran today, though behind schedule. A brief disturbance occurred at Adel when a fireman was forced off his engine as Wibour Oglesby fired it to Quitman. No further developments reported. F. A Burgess, representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, remains in the area.
Santa Fe creates a safety bureau to reduce injuries among employees with Isaiah Ware as commissioner of safety based in Topeka. The program will focus on preventing personal injuries, urging employee cooperation, and will expand across eastern and western lines. Militia encampment and rail operations in Anniston and southeastern trains are noted as ongoing efforts.
Army worms appeared in Sumter county provoking farmer alarm in Americus. Local dealers order Paris green and plan spraying cotton fields after rain ends. Planter Lee Childers notes worms damage on corn sorghum and sugar cane, eating buds and tender tops. cotton crop prospects look very poor due to continued rainfall and sap.
Georgians pursue repayment from the United States for war era cotton confiscated by the Confederacy. An amendment to the statute of limitations, pushed by Congressman C L Bartlett, seeks to allow claims based on proof that proceeds from cotton sales benefited the government during the Civil War.
B J Fowler of Macon, attorney for the heirs of the late John Fitzpatrick of Twiggs county, has gone to Washington to plead before the court of claims for a claim to proceeds from the sale of eighteen bales of cotton totaling 1926 46 dollars. Other regional claims will follow before the court of claims.
In Omaha a baby, son of L R Fairbanks of Salt Lake City, fell from a moving Union Pacific passenger train early today. The train lurched on a curve, the brake man found the child on the track, he was uninjured aside from light injuries and sat chuckling as the train stopped.
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