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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1914
Page
6
The trunk shown is sturdy with 3 ply veneer and vulcanized fiber construction. Sizes 30 and 40 inches, priced at 12.50. Sale features many trunks and leather goods, with reductions from 10 to 40 percent. Main Floor Right Annex.
A large clearance offers hundreds of yards of fabrics of the season in 1 to 6 yard lengths. Most items marked at one half the original selling price with few exceptions. None sold before 8 30 p m on the Main Floor Left.
The store offers linen remnants cut into 2 214 and 3 yard lengths at about one to twenty percent less than regular prices. Main Floor Left Aisle.
Hundreds of small and large rugs offered in the June sale with savings from 50 cents to 4 dollars per rug. Examples include Axminster pieces priced from 1.95 to 15.00, sizes ranging from 27 by 54 inches to 6 by 9 feet, plus many other rugs at June clearance prices.
Washington June 4 Lewis Cass Ledyard New York director for New Haven testified before the interstate commerce commission denying Charles S Mellen’s claim he allowed himself to be indicted to shield J P Morgan. Ledyard said Mellen wrote a defense letter to the district attorney declaring innocence, and that he opposed Mellen’s view on Grand Trunk talks while recounting details on Billard and Boston and Maine matters and Morgan’s anger over profits.
In Columbia South Carolina at the Interstate Association of Oil Mill Superintendents final session Atlanta was chosen as the next meeting place. H 113 of Enterprise Alabama was elected president Fred Strickland of Anderson Ohio became secretary and treasurer State vice presidents were J W Washington from South Dakota John Crabtree from North Carolina El S Albert of Georgia and J T Rhodes of Alabama The president to appoint vice presidents for Mississippi and Florida.
Seventy three high school seniors received diplomas at the Atlanta theater during graduation exercises for Boys and Tech high schools. George M Hope delivered diplomas. Major Robert J Guinn distributed scholarships including Harold Hirsch 150 to the University of Georgia. Two men died in a storm here when live wires sparked fatal shocks causing a city blackout.
Ww Burks, a 14 year old girl, left to walk to Caluum bus, Ga, says home. She rested at 366 Lee Street in West Rand, Willam Tracy’s residence. Tracy notified Chief E. J. Jett and the patrol was sent. At the station she ate, was cared for by matron Mrs. Bohnefeld, and said she would stay. Columbus contacts were advised. She claimed a railway ticket was provided in Aragon, Ga, to reach Atlanta for work, then walked Atlanta streets all Thursday, offering little else.
Raleigh June 4 The North Carolina Democratic state convention unanimously renominated Lee S Overman for the United States Senate and indorsed the President Wilson repeal of the exemption clause. The convention also supported the tariff policy amid praise for the House vote and urged Senate Democrats to uphold the president's anti trust, anti bounty stand. Secretary of Commerce Reynolds spoke on tariff value at the closing session.
Three black men robbed Harry W. Zehagan of 152 Courtland Street last night at about 1 am near Ivy Street and Auburn Avenue. They held a pistol to his face and took $2, some papers, a letter, and a valuable stick pin. The description matches recent reports of three robbers targeting lone pedestrians in the area.
Call officers Budd and Shumate with Harry Anderson arrested eight Negroes in a raid on a blind tiger at No 4 Wesley's alley. The location lay near the Baptist Tabernacle and the new Young Men's Christian Association building on Luchis street.
Mrs Shelby Smith wife of a prominent Atlanta real estate man was bitten by a dog at her Hemphill avenue home while shooing it away. She received the first hydrophobia treatment and the dog was killed with its head sent to the capitol to test for rabies. The animal showed a mild sense of hydrophobia.
An unknown Black man was struck and killed by a Southern Railroad train near Brookwood Bridge this morning around 12:80. A coroner’s inquest will be held today.
Pittsburg Virginia June 4 Amputation was made and Andrew Carnegie has given a further endowment of 4 900 000 to be divided equally between the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Carnegie library. Today s gifts to local institutions of learning total 24 000 000.
Wanted posters offer $25 for Walter Hat es a yellow tetra about 25 years old five feet ten inches tall weight 24 to 50 pounds and Henry Davis a black man about 23 or 90 years old six feet tall and 280 pounds both formerly brakemen on ABL & Tead out of Manchester Georgia. Gay, Ga. reward for return.
The senior class of Boys' High School held their annual banquet last night at the Winecoff hotel. Twenty present, the senior class business committee also hosted a banquet with twenty nine in attendance.
The body of Arthur Fowler, a British subject and convicted murderer of John Jeans, was found in his county jail cell in Dayton Ohio. He reportedly used a strap to hang himself from the bars in his cell early today.
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