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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1912
Page
14
A fragment lists financial figures and officers including FRANK HAWKINS and THOMAS C. ERWIN as President and Cashier JO. A. McCORD Vice-President, with JOHN W. GRANT and R. W. BYERS as Vice-President Assistant Cashier.
Macon Georgia June 15 special reports Carl W Jenkins of a local packing house wed a pretty manicurist Lenora Hawkins after regular barber shop nails and flirtation. Also notes upcoming Macon railway picnic and funeral of Charles F Bennett with despondency over ill wife and daughter. Curran R Ellis engaged to supervise new pumping station at low power plant in Macon waterworks.
Heavy rains in Atlanta Monday added 3.88 inches, pushing six month total to 42.66 inches, a record for the region. The city’s average yearly rainfall is 49.42 inches, with seven more inches needed to reach it and continue swelling the excess.
The Atlanta Automobile and Accessory Association marks its first anniversary with a barbecue next Saturday at 1 pm at the Cold Springs cue grounds near East Point. Ladies will be invited. members yet to reply should mail the attendance postal card to Secretary Ellerby indicating if they will attend and if they plan to bring guests.
A. Irwin Almand informs friends that he has joined the Rhodes Wood Furniture Co. He urges correspondence and mentions his new business association with the firm.
Macon reports note a plan for free water meters for residents. In Ash Street, tenant M Cook angered by eviction broke window panes. two patrolmen nabbed him after landlord secured a warrant. In Duncan Avenue, P H Coleman family smelled chloroform and police investigated burglar alarm but found no source.
The Fulton County grand jury is divided over enforcing Sunday blue laws with two reports expected today or tomorrow. One faction urges strict compliance while the other favors moderation, and the jurors remain silent on their stance. Some residents threaten to challenge any blue law push by the jury.
Western Union purchases 10,000 Underwood typewriters in a large equipment acquisition. The move signals expansion in office technology supply for the company.
Cleveland Ohio June 2 Mrs Rose Dworkin of Lawrence Mass was sentenced to serve five years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the shooting of Jacob Horwitz a contractor last November Dworkin said she killed Horwitz because he told her husband stories of their Poland acquaintance which led to her husband deserting her Society women urged her transfer from county jail to a hospital four months ago so her baby Joe would not be born in jail.
Athens June 25 Special A plan for a southern to northern highway from Jacksonville to Albany Athens Cornelia Habersham Tallulah Falls Clayton Highland and onward to North Carolina would form a crest of the Blue Ridge route. A second Georgia route to join the Sherman road titled Forrest highway would run Jacksonville Andersonville Fort Valley Atlanta Rome and Chattanooga with 45 miles already built through Floyd. The Georgia Federation of Road Authorities endorsed the proposals and named a legislative committee headed by Judge W F Ever to push a broad roads bill. A second committee urged closer federation among members. The gathering drew delegates from across Georgia including Tattnall, Decatur, Miller, and Augusta. Augusta won the 1913 meeting hosting duties. Macon and Dublin sought the 1934 session.
Robert L. Clay was convicted of murdering his wife and faces a sentence of hangings this morning in the Fulton Superior Court. The jury, after more than a day and a half trial and a two hour deliberation over a possible life sentence recommendation, found him guilty without recommendation. Clay’s behavior throughout the case drew notice, including his surrender after the crime and the physicians’ reports that questioned his sanity.
Delegates from various cities gathered at the president Jude W. F. Eve's home city to endorse a federation action. The federation's final act was a resolution calling for abolition with the American Association for Improvement of Highways.
Savannah reporters say the Chatham grand jury indicted four Tybee Island resort proprietors for failing to comply with life saving laws after the drowning of W. N. Coler Jr., a New York millionaire and Harvard graduate. Four Savannahians testified to inadequate life saving gear and undertow dangers, urging better lifeboat provision while noting some resort operators were not in compliance.
The passage notes defense of lunacy as the prisoner's main argument, with doctors Baird Elis and Green testifying to counter the claim. Judge Roan instructed the jury on the prisoner's present condition and the experts' testimony.
The judge declared a prisoner may be insane at the time of a murder and recover later, or vice versa. Defense speeches by S. L. McClelland and W. M. Smith and the state's by Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey and James L. Key filled most of yesterday morning. The judge's charge lasted fifteen minutes.
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