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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1915
Page
8
Chairman E H Inman announced an open session Friday at 3 pm of the general council tax committee to hear public claims against proposed increases in business licenses. The week saw revisions doubling many licenses while others remained unchanged and some lines were curtailed including pistols and patent medicines.
Last week marked the close of one of the most profitable cherry seasons in this section with high demand and unusually fine fruit. Prices were good and the season yielded strong returns for growers.
Recorder Johnson weighs whether a drunken man can be a reliable detective after J L Curh testified against four negroes accused of holding him up for 28.40 dollars. Curh admitted beer and whisky but insisted he correctly identified the suspects as officers eyed alibi delays and the bail cases were continued to Thursday.
Athens Ga June 9 Special There were only two graduates of the University of Georgia school of pharmacy this year Isadore Horovitz and Julius Edgar Jenkins of Savannah and Wrightsville respectively At the state board of pharmacy examination held yesterday they were the only two to win pharmacist licenses Fifty five applicants sought licenses and twenty one obtained any form of license as apothecaries or druggists The school of pharmacy set a record by producing the two highest places this year in the state.
The Nelms disappearance case links to Victor Innes and his wife with a Georgia brief filed by Hugh M. Dorsey arguing bonds should not be under ten thousand dollars. It portrays Ann Nelms’s costly nationwide search, Innes’s operations in Georgia, and alleged murders of Beatrice and Elois Nelms in Texas.
Athens Ga June 19 Special One of Georgia Commencement year features is the reunion of all Sphinx members the honorary club at the University About 200 selected men who have distinguished themselves in scholarship or literary and other campus activities form this club and alumni A banquet will be served and open house at the Sphinx headquarters for the S boys of former years Alumni Day plan includes appearances in initiation attire by former members and may be carried out as modified.
The annual meeting of the university trustees opens June 10 and runs daily until commencement with most members planning attendance. Simultaneously the State College of Agriculture board, led by James J. Connor, is in session. The visiting board headed by Professor J. M. Jones will report Saturday as nominations for honorary degrees are expected.
Rome Ga June 9 Contracts for erecting three bridges across the Elowah and Gostanaula rivers were awarded by the board of county commissioners. Two concrete bridges at Second Avenue and Broad Street will cost 61 500 each and the drawbridge at Fifth Avenue will be steel costing 87 060. Contractors are Hackedorn Contracting Co Indianapolis for the concrete spans and Hardaway Contracting Co Columbus Ga for the steel bridge. Total project about 210 000.
Athens Ga June 9 Special With larger attendance than ever the eighth annual Georgia High school conferences began here today The mathematics conference was held this morning with Professor Aubrey Mathews of Fitzgerald presiding the general conference on language with Andy Franklin of Fort Valley and Dr Sanford and Pond of the university reading was also a feature Professor W E F Jones of Rome led the science conference this afternoon Thursday's conferences will be on college and home economics and on sosignee and a tory
Prof S W McCallie announces a valuable bauxite deposit at Pine Mountain Meriwether county three miles west of Warm Springs on W Howard Smith property. Main exposure spans 200 by about 100 feet with drift ore on nearby knolls suggesting extension. findings imply ancient sea coverage of the Piedmont area and scientific interest.
On the final day of the Greeters meeting in Atlanta the Southeastern Greeters elected A. H. Chapman of Hotel Winecott as president of the national body and its auxiliary branches. Otto Roedel, S.A Hoffman, R. A. Diekelmann and R. A. Burs were named to top posts. A barn dance and a baseball game highlighted a 200 attendance barbecue at Kimballville Farm hosted by Harmer Bil Zimmer. Copper Corporation dissolved. Trenton, N. J. Jones reports the Amalgamated Copper Company, a New Jersey corporation formed in 1834, is dissolved.
Advertising copy urges thin people to eat the same meals and take Sargol tablets to gain 5 to 8 pounds in two weeks. It touts six “best flesh producing elements” and promises weight increase or money back, with distributors in Atlanta.
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