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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1912
Page
9
Eileen Gee leads a list of directors including Clair Howell Robe Seren Albert Howell Jr ER Black and others in the ongoing organizational roster. The notice enumerates closely held positions and affiliated roles within the group.
Notices show subscription terms for the Tri-Weekly and Weekly and Sunday papers in Atlanta, plus advertising and distribution details. The page lampoons current politics with Lorimer, Champ Clark, a third party, and hot weather quips, ending with a jab at the Ancient order of Ananias clubs.
The Constitution reports Hon Harvie Jordan outlining three European rural credit plans to ease farm land financing by pooling land values or creating farm land backed banks. He notes such systems moved five billion dollars last year and urges the Maryland legislature to back rural credit reforms and broader bank collateral use.
An Atlanta editorial argues against leniency for drunkards claiming heredity as a defense. It urges Georgia to expand public care, praising probation under Officer S. J. Coogler as cheaper and more humane than punishment, and advocates reform over incarceration to curb addiction.
Hon J D Price of Oconee county argues for state support to help the one horse farmer acquire and farm land. He cites tenant toll on cotton, calls for loans to enable food crop growth, and warns the current system drains wealth from Georgia while trapping farmers in dependence. A beneficent agricultural reform would rotate profits back into the state.
A collection of regional verse and comments from rural papers. It includes satirical songs like Just From Georgia about disaster and fate, The Deluge in Billville on prayer for rain, Song of the Buckalider about spiritual doubts, The Harmless One praising a calm legislator, Just Living Along urging steady living, and How They'll Fix Him predicting political fate. The pieces invoke local tone and public figures with light humor.
Athens Ga July 16 Special With interest in fraternal circles centered on the first district convention of Knights of Pythias to assemble in Jefferson on Thursday July 18 More than forty lodges will be represented The Athens lodge helped spark district conventions across Georgia for the good of the order
Jackson County pursues initiative action with petitions circulating to demand two laws. One would elect the county board of education by qualified voters. the other would require the state to furnish books for public schools. The move targets rural education matters and reflects broader pro reform sentiment.
Hon Fermor Barrett of Stephens and former legislator declines to run for railroad commissioner citing busy business engagements. He says he hoped to succeed Paul Trammell, thanks supporters, but cannot pursue candidacy now while aiming to serve the state’s needs.
The Howell Mill Bridge over Peachtree Creek will be formally accepted by the board of county commissioners after inspection. The 140 foot structure replaces a washed away bridge and a flood destroyed a temporary one. Commissioner Shelby Smith found it safe, making today’s action largely formal for residents and motorists relieved by the bridge.
Thomas F E Watson of Thomason and J J Brown, candidate for commissioner of agriculture, were invited to address voters in Oglethorpe and Oconee counties at Wire Bridge on Saturday July 20. A petition from several hundred citizens prompted Brown to relay the request to Watson. The turnout is expected to include about 10 000 people amid a big barbecue in a progressive farming region seven miles from Maxeys.
Harvie Jordan, Georgia leader and chair of the Southern Commercial Congress agriculture committee, calls on the legislature to endorse national banking reforms. He cites European rural credit models to show how land bonds and local farmer banks can finance farms at low interest, reduce reliance on middlemen, and stabilize cotton pricing while enabling long term loans for homes and machinery.
Washington July 1 The Comptroller of the Currency Murray will raise the number of national bank examiners across the country due to recent bank failures. In New York today he named H S Pollard of the Mechanics and Metals National Bank as an additional examiner for that jurisdiction.
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