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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
8
Helena Giadys Aoki filed in district court for divorce from Gunjiro Aoki, deser tion and lack of support alleged. The couple married in March 1909 in Seattle after opposition from local residents and lived there with a child born to them.
Evanaville resident John Hays aged 26 of Mount Vernon Michigan attempted to enlist in the United States Navy yesterday. He needed one more pound to meet the required weight, drank a gallon of water, then returned to verify he had reached the recruiter's standard. He was accepted and reported no ill effects.
A Macon man attempted suicide by ingesting chloroform at a Bran ners drugstore. He was found by a passerby, placed in a hack, and taken to a hospital where doctors saved him. He will recover and gave no reason. In other news, Joseph K Moore named postmaster at Donald, Liberty County, Georgia.
Eatonton Ga June 7 Special A mass meeting of about five hundred Putnam and nearby county voters urged Judge Thomas Lawson former congressman to enter the gubernatorial race. Speakers included J B Park Emerson George E B Bs and others. A committee was named to press Lawson to allow his name.
Covington Georgia June 1 Special Yesterday afternoon a negro was arrested at this place who is believed to be wanted in Georgia. He is about 36 or 30 years old with a sparrow face, coal black skin, a pine on his forehead and over his left eye, a bullet scar on his right arm just below the elbow and another on the top of his left shoulder.
A 1910s opinion urges widening main highways to at least thirty feet and adopting a unified state auto registration. Advocates predict future traffic growth, note dangers of narrow roads, and push for state engineering help, uniform tags, and simplified regulations to replace county city distinctions.
The Constitution misreported a Morris Brown College board meeting. Bishop C. Smith says trustees lacked authority to sell college property and rejects the sale proposal. He notes H M Turner opposed city offer, Rev R D Stinson and Rev G A Wingfeld's roles, and identifies each speaker's residency and past positions. Signed by C S Smith, Chairman, Atlanta, Jan 6, 1910.
Montgomery Alabama June 7 indicating the increased use of fertilizers in the Alabama crop this year over last the department of cericultura has sold fertilizer tags to the value of 16691 in excess of the season of that year the figures from October to June 1908 10 being 1214150 compared to 10472250 the previous year a tag worth 8 cents is required on every ton of fertilizer sold while most of this weed under cotton there is no increase in the acreage the exception being for intensification rather than extent of land use
Special report from Montgomery on June 7 notes the Louisville and Nashville rate litigation pauses as clerks stenographers and lawyers catch up. Special Master A Gunter is at home. Work resumes next Monday and is expected to continue for at least two months.
Governor BB Comer arrived in Montgomery from his home Sunday night and left Monday for the Alabama Polytechnic Institute commencement. Superintendent RC Gunners and Chief Clerk WF Fea gin, both officals, joined the trip with General F. Roberts, Tagon and other board of trustees members. Also present were ND Denson former supreme court member and Reed Barnes of Lafayette and Onclus for the first of the express trains.
In Upton Wye on Friday, William Jenkins, a ranchman, killed Ona Toe the famed wolf known as One Too for years a scourge to stock growers. The animal raided herds, was wary of traps and poison, and had eluded capture despite large bounties. Jenkins earns a substantial reward besides the state bounty for destroying the four footed raider.
Montgomery Alabama June 7 Following an excess in offerings of stock in many insurance firms the Alabama department of insurance today ruled that no company may sell stock in the state until licensed as an insurance company and no company may do business in Alabama until licensed by its own state department. A number of offerings have failed to meet requirements and will be forced out at once.
John J. Pruitt of Clay county named clerk of the city and circuit courts by Judge John Pelham. Frank N Julian, secretary of state and insurance commissioner, in Birmingham on department business. Baker Creek Coal Company of Jasper reports capital 96 000 to the secretary of state. In Attorney General Garber’s absence, Thomas W Martin keeps the office in order while handling railroad matter before Special Master Thorington at Savannah.
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